Meta-analysis of the studies of seventy years of development planning, in order to be used in compiling the seventh development plan by Morteza Mehralitabar Firoozjaei, Gholamreza Garainejad

“…The main issue of the present study is one of the most important steps in the development of the development plan, which is called the "Development Plan System". …”
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Study of cylindrical brush wear effect on its elastic characteristics, on required pressing force and on pressure at the outlet of hydraulic pneumatic accumulator for controlling p... by S. I. Tsekhosh, B. V. Zhuravsky, P. I. Tsekhosh

“…The article is devoted to a current issue of improving the quality of road surface cleaning and increasing the resource of brush working equipment. …”
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Rendre visible les impacts des pesticides du soja : contributions et limites d’un observatoire de science citoyenne à Santarém, Amazonie brésilienne by Emilie Coudel, Stéphanie Nasuti, Danielle Wagner Silva, Marie-Paule Bonnet, Mariana Piva, Beatriz Abreu dos Santos, Ricardo Folhes, Vincent Bonnal, Valéria Fechine, Denise Lima, Carlos José Sousa Passos, Txai Mitt Schwamborn, Ione Nakamura, Gracivane Rodrigues de Moura

“…We conduct a reflection based on a citizen science process we conducted in the region of Santarem, in the Brazilian Amazon, where soybean has been expanding significantly for the past 20 years. …”
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Editors’ Note. Building Modern Rural Development Policies for Poland by Dominika Milczarek-Andrzejewska, Adam Czarnecki

“…This special issue was inspired by the release of the Rural Policy Review of Poland published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in 2018 (OECD 2018). …”
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An Efficient Evolutionary Neural Architecture Search Algorithm Without Training by Yang An, Changsheng Zhang, Jintao Shao, Yuxiao Yan, Baiqing Sun

“…Furthermore, to accelerate the evaluation process and minimize computational resource consumption, a multi-metric training-free evaluator is introduced to assess network performance, bypassing the resource-intensive training phase, and the adopted multi-metric combination method further solves the ranking offset problem. …”
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Assessing the realization rate of effectiveness components in the faculty member of civil engineering department at Imam Khomeini International University (IKIU) by Roohollah Taherkhani, Amirhossein Hajibabaei

“…The university as responsible of education for future generations is bound to commit its professional effectiveness as an important process in the performance of the education system. …”
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Simulation and Optimization of Automated Guided Vehicle Charging Strategy for U-Shaped Automated Container Terminal Based on Improved Proximal Policy Optimization by Yongsheng Yang, Jianyi Liang, Junkai Feng

“…Secondly, a simulation model is established by mimicking the operational process of the U-shaped ACTs. Lastly, iterative training of the proposed method is conducted based on the simulation model. …”
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A systematic review of privacy-preserving techniques for synthetic tabular health data by Tobias Hyrup, Anton D. Lautrup, Arthur Zimek, Peter Schneider-Kamp

“…Synthetic Data Generation (SDG) aims to solve that issue by generating data that mimics the statistical properties of real data without privacy concerns. …”
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CyclicAugment: Optimized Medical Image Analysis via Adaptive Augmentation Intensity by Min-Jun Kim, Jung-Woo Chae, Hyun-Chong Cho

“…The method gradually transitions from using original data as weak augmentation, subsequently applying strong augmentation before reverting to weak augmentation again, reintroducing the original data. This process ensures stable training through an adaptive learning rate. …”
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An ensemble Kalman filter with rescaling disaggregation for assimilating terrestrial water storage into hydrological models by Leire Retegui-Schiettekatte, Maike Schumacher, Fan Yang, Henrik Madsen, Ehsan Forootan

“…However, it can degrade individual storage compartments or hydrological fluxes, limiting the applicability of TWS Data Assimilation (DA) for water management and flood monitoring. This issue arises from the ensemble-based TWS update disaggregation approach used by DA techniques like the Ensemble Kalman Filter (EnKF). …”
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Islamic Religious Education Learning Strategies for Inclusion Students at Muhammadiyah High School by Fadhilla Nangroe Anggraini, Triono Ali Mustofa, Abil Fida Muhammad Qois Al Hadi

“… The issue of educational integration is a significant concern in meeting the special needs of regular school students, including Islamic Religious Education (PAI) subjects. …”
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Performance and Effectiveness of the Passive-Compliant Citrus-Picking Manipulator by Daode Zhang, Haibing Yang, Zhiyong Yang, Wei Zhang

“…The application of citrus-picking robotic hands in orchard environments is constrained by the diversity in fruit size and shape, as well as the need to control fruit damage during harvesting. To address this issue, this study proposes a passively compliant citrus-picking robotic hand and experimentally evaluates its performance. …”
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Investigating the Performance of an Ultrasound-Assisted Rotating Packed Bed Reactor for the Enhancement of the Micromixing Efficiency by Mahdi Hefzi Lotfabadi, Mahdieh Abolhasani

“…The Micromixing plays a key role in the most of industrial processes; enhancing its efficiency is a very important issue. …”
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Research on thermal resistance network model of concentric annular heat pipe heat for the sensor thermal protection by Jiazhi Sun, Lixin Yang, Jianjun Zhou

“…A key to thermal protection is the rapid analysis of the heat pipe's heat transfer characteristics, particularly in calculating thermal resistance and temperature, which remains challenging. To address this issue, a network model considering various structural and operational conditions is developed based on the CAHP heat transfer process and network theory. …”
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Assessing the driving forces of landscape change in the perspective of Polish residents by Piotr Krajewski, Monika Lebiedzińska

“…Over past 20 years analysis of driving forces of landscape change have become a popular research topic, but there is still insufficient amount of research on this issue in the countries of Eastern Europe. This is all the more important as a number of factors have accelerated changes in the landscape in the countries that have joined the European Union in recent years. …”
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Research on the Relationship Between Structural Characteristics of Corporate Social Networks and Risk-Taking Levels: Evidence from China by Yubin Huangfu, Tianchi Feng, Jinyu He, Zuoji Dong

“…The complex market environment places unprecedented pressure on business decision-making processes. Effectively utilizing existing social resources to establish risk prevention mechanisms and accurately assess an enterprise’s risk-taking capacity has become a core issue for corporate survival and development. …”
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Enhanced Isolation Forest-Based Algorithm for Unsupervised Anomaly Detection in Lidar SLAM Localization by Guoqing Geng, Peining Wang, Liqin Sun, Han Wen

“…Identifying such anomalies currently relies on post-trajectory analysis with subjective parameter thresholds. To address this issue, we propose an unsupervised real-time localization anomaly detection model based on the isolation forest algorithm. …”
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On Fostering Predictions in Data-Driven Reduced Order Model for Eulerian–Lagrangian Simulations: Decision of Sufficient Training Data by Kai-en Yang, Shuo Li, Guangtao Duan, Mikio Sakai

“…This necessitates a trial-and-error process and hinders its industrial applications. To address this issue, this study newly reveals a finding that data density is a key to sufficient training, and we propose a novel technique for deciding the sufficient training data of SM. …”
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How Do National Innovation Factors Affect the Planning Knowledge Flow? by Bin Wu, Weifeng Qi, Xing Gao, Kang Cao

“…The efficacy of planning as a collaborative process is contingent upon the active flow and effective utilization of diverse knowledge, particularly that which pertains to planning. …”
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Hierarchical reinforcement learning based on macro actions by Hao Jiang, Gongju Wang, Shengze Li, Jieyuan Zhang, Long Yan, Xinhai Xu

“…Although hierarchical methods have been proven to be effective in addressing this issue, they are not fully explored. This paper combines domain knowledge with hierarchical concepts to propose a novel Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning framework based on macro actions (HRL-MA). …”
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