Effect of Curing Methods on the Mechanical Properties of Cement Mortar Contaminated with Heavy Crude Oil by Rajab Abousnina, Fahad Aljuaydi

“… Crude oil contamination poses significant environmental issues, particularly in regions where oil spills affect soil and groundwater. …”
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Assessment of Caffeine Content in Tea and Coffee Brands Within the Palestinian Market Using HPLC Method by Waad Hisham, Haneen Nur, Hanadi Sinokort, Duha Haslamon, Alaa Khraiwesh, Abdel Qawasmeh

“…Caffeine quantity in tea and coffee samples imported into Palestine has never been assessed. …”
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Hybrid oversampling technique for imbalanced pattern recognition: Enhancing performance with Borderline Synthetic Minority oversampling and Generative Adversarial Networks by Md Manjurul Ahsan, Shivakumar Raman, Yingtao Liu, Zahed Siddique

“…CIP occurs when data samples are not equally distributed between two or multiple classes. …”
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Effect on the Process of Biomethanogenesis of Pre-Treatment of Wheat Straw by the High Intensity High-Frequency Electromagnetic Field by Zablodsky N., Klendiy P., Dudar O.

“…The purpose of the researches is the experimental determination of the effect of pre-treatment with the high-frequency electromagnetic field of high intensity on the appearance of deformations and structural rearrangements in the cells of wheat straw and on the intensity of biogas output.The set goal is achieved by the way of solving the following issues: obtaining chopped straw when it is grinding on a laboratory grinder to the fraction with average sizes of 5.2 mm x 1.5 mm and soaking in tap water for 15 minutes; measurement of distribution of the specific power of the electromagnetic field in the area where the samples of crushed wheat straw are located; comparison of images of the structure of straw under a light microscope for samples after influence by the high-frequency electromagnetic field of high intensity and control samples that were not exposed to such influence; carrying out fermentation experiments and researches of the process of biogas output within 20 days of a mixture of straw and inoculum for options with pre-treatment of wheat straw by the electromagnetic field of a Tesla’s transformer and without treatment by field. …”
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New Record of Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Bashagard District, Southern Iran, with the Report of a Medically Important Species by Amin Hosseinpour, Seyed Aghil Jaberhashemi, Mozaffar Vahedi, Aboozar Soltani

“…Considering that no comprehensive research has been conducted on the fauna and distribution of Araneae in Bashagard County (Hormozgan Province) so far, the present investigation has been carried out on these essential issues in this deprived tropical region. Fifteen sampling locations were selected based on the extent of each area and considering climatic characteristics. …”
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Detection of Adulteration of Extra Virgin Olive Oil via Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy and Ultraviolet-Visible-Near-Infrared Absorption Spectroscopy: A Comparative Study by Eleni Nanou, Marios Bekogianni, Theodoros Stamatoukos, Stelios Couris

“…In this work, two optical spectroscopic techniques, namely, Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) and UV-Vis-NIR absorption spectroscopy, are employed and are assessed for EVOO adulteration detection, using the same set of olive oil samples. In total, 184 samples were studied, including 40 EVOOs and 144 binary mixtures with pomace, soybean, corn, and sunflower oils, at various concentrations (ranging from 10 to 90% <i>w</i>/<i>w</i>). …”
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Unpaired image to image translation for source free domain adaptation in semantic segmentation by Juan An, Zhaoshui He, Jing Guo, Jing Wang, Zhijie Lin, Hao Liang, Ji Tan, Wenqing Su

“…Furthermore, these synthetic samples foster rare-class patches and key-region patches. …”
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Designing a fuzzy system for lung disease diagnosis based on spirometry by firuze ebrahimpoor, vali derhami, mehrdad mostaghaci, mohammad javad zare, Raziyeh Soltani Gerdefaramarzi

“…Result: Among the used classification methods, the fuzzy method was achieved acceptable results because of the samples awarded degree in each cluster.According to the developed model in this study for predicting obstructive and restrictive pulmonary syndrome based on the analyzed test samples related to information of workers in 1394, the achieved accuracy was 0.71and 0.79, respectively. …”
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Data leakage detection in machine learning code: transfer learning, active learning, or low-shot prompting? by Nouf Alturayeif, Jameleddine Hassine

“…Additionally, we introduced an automated approached to handle the imbalance issues of code data. Our results show that active learning outperformed the other approaches with an F-2 score of 0.72 and reduced the number of needed annotated samples from 1,523 to 698. …”
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Measuring Mental Health Literacy: Development of the Mental Health Awareness and Advocacy Assessment Tool by Ty B. Aller, Elizabeth B. Fauth, Joshua R. Novak, Sarah Schwartz

“…Research Design: A national sample of 296 college attending participants were recruited from Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. …”
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The Relationship between Environmental Knowledge and Sport Event Organizers' Support for Sustainable Management in Sport by Leila Nazari, Keivan Shabani Moghaddam

“…These results indicate a low level of awareness of environmental issues in the sample under study. In the present study, it seems that there is little awareness of environmental issues that may be effective in shaping people's attitudes toward the intention to support environmental issues in sporting events. …”
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Endothelial monolayer disruption in bioprosthetic heart valve as a trigger of primary tissue failure by R. A. Mukhamadiyarov, N. V. Rutkovskaya, A. G. Kutikhin, I. V. Milto, O. D. Sidorova, L. S. Barbarash

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Role of Ti3AlC2 MAX phase in regulating biodegradation and improving electrical properties of calcium silicate ceramic for bone repair applications by Rasha A. Youness, Mohammed A. Taha

“…For example, the calculated values for compressive strength of all examined samples were 131, 115, 105, 147, and 135 MPa. Based on the results, the prepared samples can be used in orthopaedic and dental applications.…”
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Hyperspectral Image Few-Shot Classification Based on Spatial&#x2013;Spectral Information Complementation and Multilatent Domain Generalization by Qianhao Yu, Yong Wang

“…Hyperspectral image (HSI) few-shot classification aims to classify HSI samples of novel categories with limited training HSI samples of base categories. …”
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Leveraging generative adversarial networks for data augmentation to improve fault detection in wind turbines with imbalanced data by Subhajit Chatterjee, Yung-Cheol Byun

“…Nevertheless, a formidable challenge arises from the need for more fault information gleaned from small fault data samples, resulting in data insufficiency and imbalance issues. …”
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Hydrochemical assessment of groundwater for drinking and irrigation suitability in Vaniyambadi region, Tamil Nadu, Southern India: A sustainable approach by Ramachandran A, Richard Abishek S, Stephen Pitchaimani V, Suresh Gandhi M, Prakash V

“…Results show slightly alkaline conditions (pH 7.4–8.4), and 88 % of samples exceeding recommended TDS levels (460–2220 mg/L), indicating salinity issues from natural mineral dissolution and human activities like agricultural runoff. …”
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Environmental Demonstration between the constant and the variable in the works of the ceramists Sajida AL-Mashakhi by Sara Jassim Khazal

“…The third chapter explained the presentation of research procedures with the research community and its sample, determining the descriptive approach and analyzing the selected research sample with three ceramic models ((Arabic letter, heritage, horses)), The analysis tool is based on observation. …”
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Eternal-MAML: a meta-learning framework for cross-domain defect recognition by Jipeng Feng, Haigang Zhang, Zhifeng Wang

“…Defect recognition tasks for industrial product suffer from a serious lack of samples, greatly limiting the generalizability of deep learning models. …”
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Quality Measurement and Optimization Prediction of Urban Waterfront Fitness Space Based on Behavior Simulation by Chunxia YANG, Ruoyao MIN

“…Initially, the current quality is measured, showing that its overall quality is only superior to the Y2 sample among the nine samples selected along the Huangpu River. …”
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Association of serotonin 2c receptor gene polymorphism with depression and quality of life indicators in patients before coronary artery bypass grafting by A. A. Inozemtseva, S. A. Pomeshkinay, Yu. A. Argunova, O. L. Barbarash

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