An agent-based model facilitating stakeholder engagement in management of estuaries along the Texas Gulf Coast (USA) by Hsiao-Hsuan Wang, Paulami Banerjee, Chara J. Ragland, William E. Grant, Tarla R. Peterson

“…We describe an agent-based model purposed for social learning, which was developed by stakeholders, with the technical assistance of professional modelers, to facilitate stakeholder involvement in modeling issues related to the development of an adaptive environmental management plan for the Texas Gulf Coast (USA) estuaries. …”
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Predicting global educational inequality with a hierarchical belief rule base model by Aosen Gong, Wei He, Gaixia Ge, Cuiping Yang, Shaohua Li

“…In addition, parameters in optimization processes are often influenced by randomness, causing them to deviate from expert knowledge, which reduces interpretability. …”
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TOD Zoning Planning: Floor Area Ratio Attenuation Rate and Center Migration Trajectory by Tiefeng Chai, Feng Lu, Jing Gao, Xin Deng, Rui Gao, Qingsong He

“…Studies have confirmed, however, that the current land structure between zones displays a high degree of homogeneity. There are several issues shown here, such as blurred station boundaries, spatial confusion, and a deviation of the TOD center. …”
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A Review of Cutting-Edge Sensor Technologies for Improved Flood Monitoring and Damage Assessment by Yixin Tao, Bingwei Tian, Basanta Raj Adhikari, Qi Zuo, Xiaolong Luo, Baofeng Di

“…These monitoring processes evolved from early ground-based observations relying on in situ sensors to high-precision, high-resolution, and high-coverage monitoring by airborne and remote sensing sensors. …”
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Online Algebraic Estimation of Parameters and Disturbances in Brushless DC Motors by David Marcos-Andrade, Francisco Beltran-Carbajal, Alexis Castelan-Perez, Ivan Rivas-Cambero, Jesús C. Hernández

“…Additionally, to address potential peaks in the estimation process, a modification involving an exponent is introduced to mitigate these issues.…”
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Knowledge spillovers and diffusion of innovations as a driving force of economic development on the example of labor migration of researchers by L. S. Spankulova, A. R. Kerimbayev, E. Nuruly, D. R. Korgasbekov, Z. A. Lakhbaeva

“…The review of existing literature on the research issues is given, which contains the main ideas and results of research works, refracted into known facts. …”
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Overcoming challenges to access ecological function: a marine soft-bottom perspective by A. Martins, M. Di Domenico, Y. Costa, F. Barros

“…To achieve this, we review recent articles on functional ecology on marine sediments and identified two main issues. First, the absence of a clear definition of terms. …”
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Terminal Passivation–Induced Interface Decoupling for High‐Stability Two‐Dimensional Semiconductors by Jinbo He, Jinjian Yan, Tao Xue, Liqian Yuan, Yongxu Hu, Zhongwu Wang, Xiaosong Chen, Yinan Huang, Cheng Han, Liqiang Li, Wenping Hu

“…This work provides a new avenue to solve reliability issues of 2D materials and devices, laying a foundation for their applications in the electronic industry.…”
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Mining and Visualization of Tourism Cultural Image Based on the Information Transmission Model of Tourism Cultural Map—Taking Nanjing Xuanwu Lake Tourist Attraction as an Example by Haoyu Yang, Jie Shen, Shuai Hong, Fengzhen Zhu

“…Finally, we give an implementation process of a tourism cultural map of tourist attractions based on mining and visualization of tourism cultural image. …”
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Coordinated low-carbon economic dispatch of multi-regional rural energy systems based on Nash bargaining by ZHU Aihua, SUN Zhiquan, LU Wei, CHEN Wanqin, SUN Ziyi, SONG Zhixing, LIANG Rui

“…Next， the thermal load in the anaerobic fermentation process is accurately modeled， and a variable-temperature fermentation model is constructed. …”
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Enhanced ammonia electro-oxidation reaction on platinum‑iron oxide catalyst assisted by MagnetoElectroCatalysis by Caio Machado Fernandes, Eduardo M. Rodrigues, Odivaldo C. Alves, Flavio Garcia, Yutao Xing, Mauro C. dos Santos, Júlio César M. Silva

“…Ammonia poses significant environmental challenges due to its role in water pollution, contributing to eutrophication and several detrimental environmental and ecological issues. Addressing the efficient removal or conversion of ammonia is, therefore, critical. …”
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Breaking New Ground in Monocular Depth Estimation with Dynamic Iterative Refinement and Scale Consistency by Akmalbek Abdusalomov, Sabina Umirzakova, Makhkamov Bakhtiyor Shukhratovich, Azamat Kakhorov, Young-Im Cho

“…In this paper, we propose the Dynamic Iterative Monocular Depth Estimation (DI-MDE) framework, which integrates an iterative refinement process with a novel scale-alignment module to address these issues. …”
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Research on the Improvement of BEM Method for Ultra-Large Wind Turbine Blades Based on CFD and Artificial Intelligence Technologies by Shiyu Yang, Mingming Zhang, Yu Feng, Haikun Jia, Na Zhao, Qingwei Chen

“…To tackle this challenge, this research focuses on the low accuracy issues of the traditional Blade Element Momentum theory (BEM) in predicting the aerodynamic performance of wind turbine blades. …”
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An efficient anonymous authentication and key agreement scheme with privacy-preserving for smart cities by Xueya Xia, Sai Ji, Pandi Vijayakumar, Jian Shen, Joel J. P. C. Rodrigues

“…As Internet of Things devices are increasingly connected to smart cities, security and privacy have gradually become important issues. Recently, research works on mitigating security challenges of Internet of Things devices in smart cities mainly focused on authentication. …”
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Symptomatic Therapy and Rehabilitation in Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis by Fary Khan, Bhasker Amatya, Lynne Turner-Stokes

“…Restoration and maintenance of functional independence and societal reintegration, and issues relating to quality of life are addressed in rehabilitation processes.…”
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Biocompatible low-voltage electrothermal actuators with biological operational temperature range by Adéla Slavíková, Benjamin C. Baker, Marcos Villeda-Hernandez, Annabel Coekin, Julia Kwasniewska, Tim Good, Mina Aleemardani, Heidi Snethen, James P. K. Armstrong, Charl F. J. Faul

“…Bio35 is synthesized using a one-pot, solvent-free process with Epikote 828, poly(propyleneglycol) bis (2-amino-propyl-ether) (PPG), and 1,4-diamino-diphenyl-sulfone (DDS). …”
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Factors Affecting Occupational Safety Employee Organizations (Meta-Analysis of Available Research) by Masoud Hajizadeh Maymandi, Leili Bonyad

“…Occupational safety is one of the issues that have been considered by organizations, especially in recent decades. …”
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Real-time cooperative voltage regulation strategy of distribution network based on approximate dynamic programming by Jingjing Gu, Mingyu Guo, Ruijie Li, Jihe Xu, Yanyi Ye, Zhizhong Hu, Shichang Cui

“…Large-scale distributed renewable energy in the distribution network can result in reliability issues such as exceeding voltage limits and overloading power lines. …”
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Kernel-FastICA-Based Nonlinear Blind Source Separation for Anti-Jamming Satellite Communications by Xiya Sun, Changqing Li, Jiong Li, Qi Su

“…Furthermore, we introduce a regularized pre-whitening strategy to mitigate potential ill-conditioned issues arising from dimensional expansion, thereby enhancing numerical stability and separation performance. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Different Efficient Machine Learning Methods for Fetal Health Classification by Md Takbir Alam, Md Ashibul Islam Khan, Nahian Nakiba Dola, Tahia Tazin, Mohammad Monirujjaman Khan, Amani Abdulrahman Albraikan, Faris A. Almalki

“…As a result, creating a fetal health classification model is essential, as it may save not only time but also medical resources in the diagnosis process. Machine learning (ML) is currently extensively used in fields such as biology and medicine to address a variety of issues, due to its fast advancement. …”
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