Detection of mixed infection from bacterial whole genome sequence data allows assessment of its role in Clostridium difficile transmission. by David W Eyre, Madeleine L Cule, David Griffiths, Derrick W Crook, Tim E A Peto, A Sarah Walker, Daniel J Wilson

“…We therefore use a two-step maximum likelihood-based approach, assuming each sample contains up to two infecting strains. …”
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Application of Internet marketing tools for management decision-making by logistics enterprises by O.A., T.O., O.P., H.Yu.

“…It was determined that the share of the number of enterprises having a website in 2018 was 35,6 %, in 2019 – 35,2 %, and in 2021 – 35,3 %. This indicates a low level of digitalization of business entities and limited opportunities in finding new sales channels for products (services). …”
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Improvement of methods for estimation of catchability for trawl survey systems with use of hydroacoustic means (on example of walleye pollock in the Okhotsk Sea) by Mikhail Yu. Kuznetsov, Vladimir I. Poljanichko, Igor A. Ubarchuk

“…Influence of the noise field of vessel on selectivity of survey trawls is modeled and there is shown that the depths of the maximum concentration of small-sized and large-sized pollock do not coincide. …”
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Methodology for Occupant Head-Neck Injury Testing in Under-Body Blast Impact Based on Virtual-Real Fusion by Xinge Si, Changan Di, Peng Peng, Cong Xu

“…The parameters of the mapping test model are then optimized using these simulated experimental datasets based on non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II). Validation through blast experiments demonstrates that the proposed method achieves high accuracy, with errors of 10.9% for the Head Injury Criterion (HIC₁₅) and 2.4% for upper neck maximum axial compression force compared to the Hybrid III 50th numerical model calculations. …”
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NUTRI-ONCOCARE: New integral nutrition care model to prevent and treat malnutrition in cancer patients by Mariola Sirvent-Ochando, Ana Murcia-Lopez, Cristina Sangrador-Pelluz, Sara Espla, Margarita Garrido-Siles, Jimena Abiles

“…Their discussion and analysis allowed us to design a performance algorithm.</p><p><strong>Results:</strong> The algorithm differentiates two groups of patients according to the location of the tumor and its impact on nutritional status: high-risk tumors (group 1) include cancers of the head and neck, upper digestive tract and colorectal and low-risk tumors (group 2) include the rest of the neoplasms. …”
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Genetic structure and dispersal patterns in Limnoria nagatai (Limnoriidae, Isopoda) dwelling in non-buoyant kelps, Eisenia bicyclis and E. arborea, in Japan. by Hiroki Yoshino, Futa Yamaji, Takeshi A Ohsawa

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Automatic target spraying and field evaluation of unstructured orchard based on millimeter-wave radar by Xing Xu, Jianying Li, Dongying Shen, Jieli Duan, Zhou Yang, Yinlong Jiang

“…Based on the improved self-adaptive DBSCAN clustering algorithm, the improved self-adaptive Alpha_Shape algorithm (a surface reconstruction algorithm) and the least squares circle fitting, the three-dimensional reconstruction and parameter extraction of the target canopy were realized. …”
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Evaluation method of hydrophobicity of composite insulators based on improved Mask R-CNN by SHENG Fei, CAO Liu, LIU Yulong, HUANG Jie, HUANG Yaqian, ZHU Yanqing

“…Especially, combined with the characteristics of each level of hydrophobicity image, we introduce the soft non-maximum suppression (Soft-NMS) structure to reduced the missed target detection because of the scale problem of water droplets and the irregular distribution in high level hydrophobicity images, and introduce generalized intersection over union loss (GIOU) to accelerate the convergence rate of the model with small and multi-temporal objects in low level images. …”
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Determination of First Arrival Wave Type of Microseismic Signals and Approach to Wave Velocity Correction by GuangDong Song, JiuLong Cheng, BinXin Hu, Feng Zhu, Hua Zhang, TongYu Liu, Tong Sun, Kenneth T. V. Grattan

“…Thus, the key conclusions can be drawn from the experiments carried out: when the signal-to-noise ratio of the original signal is low, the time difference can still be determined with high accuracy. …”
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Water depth inversion based on ICESat-2 and Sentinel-2—A case study of Qiagui Co and Ayakekumu Lake on the Tibetan Plateau by Baojin Qiao, Tianjiao Du, Jianting Ju, Liping Zhu

“…New hydrological insights: The extracted maximum depth of Qiagui Co and Ayakekumu Lake was 14.14 m and 15.96 m, respectively, and the accuracy was high with low RMSE (0.356–0.369 m) by comparing with in-situ bathymetric data. …”
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Hybrid Inverter Zeta-&#x0106;uk for Grid-Tied Photovoltaic Applications by Anderson A. Dionizio, Leonardo P. Sampaio, Sergio A. O. da Silva, Vitor Monteiro, Joao L. Afonso

“…The HIZC can boost the voltage of the PV array and perform the DC-AC conversion at the same time. The maximum power available at the PV array is harvested using a multi-loop control in conjunction with the perturb-and-observe algorithm, while an AF-&#x03B1;&#x03B2;-PLL system guarantees synchronism with the power grid. …”
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Investigation of the Earliest Ozone Pollution Events in Hangzhou Bay, China Based on Observations and ERA5 Reanalysis Data by Tianen Yao, Xinhao Li, Zhi Li, Xinyu Yang, Jinjia Zhang, Yaqi Wang, Jianhui Guo, Jing Li

“…Early ozone pollution has been detected recently, such as the maximum daily 8 h average (MDA8) ozone concentration in Jiaxing achieving 171.0 μg/m³ on 7 March 2023. …”
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Optimizing net-zero energy strategies in airports through a hybrid multi-method framework by Filiz Mizrak, Kagan Cenk Mizrak, Turhan Karakaya

“…The framework was applied to a representative mid-sized international airport scenario, constrained by a maximum budget of $1 million, implementation timelines of up to 18 months, and an operational disruption threshold of 3 on a 5-point scale. …”
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18 F sodium fluoride PET/CT in patients with prostate cancer: Quantification of normal tissues, benign degenerative lesions, and malignant lesions by Jorge Oldan, A Hawkins, Bennett Chin

“…For normal soft tissues, paraspinal muscles showed very low SUV mean (0.70 ± 0.11) and also showed the lowest variability (cv = 16%). …”
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Bone Mineral Density and Fracture Risk Assessment in Patients of Systemic Sclerosis by Piyush Jain, Satyajt Parihari, Anil Taneja

“…The mean FRAX score value for major osteoporotic fracture in cases, was 1.46± 0.61% with maximum value of 3% and minimum value of 0.9%. Whereas, for the hip fracture mean FRAX was 0.83± 0.07% with range of 0.7% to 1.9%. …”
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Design and control of a permanent magnet-based robotic system for navigating tetherless magnetic devices in viscous environments by Zhengya Zhang, Anke Klingner, Sarthak Misra, Islam S. M. Khalil

“…The nonlinear inverse kinematic problem is solved using an optimization algorithm. The experimental results of this level of control demonstrate that the mean absolute error and the maximum tracking error of three-dimensional motion control are 1.18 mm and 2.64 mm, respectively. …”
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Advancing In Vivo Molecular Bioimaging With Optimal Frequency Offset Selection and Deep Learning Reconstruction for CEST MRI by Adarsha Bhattarai, Chathumi Samaraweera, Mariano Uberti, Aditya N. Bade, Yutong Liu, Dongming Peng

“…Secondly, we apply a deep learning algorithm to reconstruct the high-resolution CEST MRI Z-spectra from the low-resolution Z-spectra. …”
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Integration of a novel Vernier-DSPM generator in a grid connected hybrid renewable energy system with battery storage by Abderrahmane Redouane, Rachid Saou, Youcef Belkhier, Amrane Oukaour

“…An efficient Tip Speed Ratio (TSR) based sliding mode control (SMC) maximum power point tracking (MPPT) algorithm based on constant plus proportional rate reaching law is utilized to extract the optimal power from the wind turbine. …”
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Analysis the Variability of Agroclimatic Feasibility of Aloe Vera Cultivation in Hormozgan Province under four CO2 Representative Concentration Pathways by Shahrbanoo Qanbari Adivi, Amir Gandomkar, Morteza Khodagholi

“…First type of the data includes climatic data that contain minimum and maximum temperature and also long term mean annual rainfall. …”
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Use of light response curve parameters to estimate gross primary production capacity from chlorophyll indices of global observation satellite and flux data by Kanako Muramatsu, Emi Yoneda, Noriko Soyama, Ana López-Ballesteros, Juthasinee Thanyapraneedkul

“…We previously developed an algorithm for estimating GPP capacity, which is defined GPP under low-stress condition, using light response curves (LRCs). …”
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