Preventing chronic malnutrition in children under 2 years in rural Angola (MuCCUA trial): protocol for the economic evaluation of a three-arm community cluster randomised controlle... by Rocio Martin-Canavate, Estefania Custodio, Elena Trigo, María Romay-Barja, Israel Molina, Zaida Herrador, Isabel Aguado, Ferran Ramirez, Lourdes Maria Faria, Ana Silva-Gerardo, Jose Carlos Lima, Eva Iráizoz, Tayná Marques, Antonio Vargas, Amador Gomez, Chloe Puett

“…We will estimate costs not included in accounting records by the ingredients approach, and indirect costs incurred by beneficiaries through interviews, household surveys and focus group discussions. Cost-efficiency will be estimated as cost per output achieved by combining activity-specific cost data with routine data on programme outputs. …”
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Energy-Accuracy Trade-Offs for Resistive In-Memory Computing Architectures by Saion K. Roy, Naresh R. Shanbhag

“…Resistive in-memory computing (IMC) architectures currently lag behind SRAM IMCs and digital accelerators in both energy efficiency and compute density due to their low compute accuracy. …”
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Discrete Phase Shift IRS-Assisted Energy Harvesting in Cognitive Radio Networks With Spectrum Sensing by Lilian Chiru Kawala, Guoquan Li, Mihertie Habtamu Demeke, Junzhou Xiong, Hao Xiong, Hang Hu

“…These results highlight the transformative potential of IRS with discrete phase shifts in enhancing EH-CRN efficiency, particularly in improving energy harvesting and SU throughput under practical constraints.…”
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Analysis and Suppression of Pump Beam Alignment Error in SERF Co-Magnetometer by Qi Yuan, Wenfeng Fan, Haoying Pang, Xue Han, Zhuo Wang, Wei Quan

“…The influence of PBAE on the scale factor, bandwidth, and magnetic noise response of the inertial output is analyzed. Theoretical results show that PBAE increases the internal magnetic field gradient, reduces the efficiency of nuclear spin hyperpolarization, and increases the nuclear spin relaxation rate, ultimately degrading the system’s scale factor, bandwidth, and magnetic noise suppression capability. …”
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Hysteresis Parameter Identification of J-A Model Current Transformer Based on Improved Whale Algorithm by Yilun LI, Yishu ZHANG, Guang SONG

“…With regard to the difficulties in measuring the input and output of the existing J-A model parameters in addition to the slow convergence speed and low accuracy of the extraction method, a parameter extraction method of the ψ-i JA hysteresis model based on the improved whale algorithm is proposed in this paper. …”
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Study on intelligent diagnosis and early warning system for traction drive and auxiliary power systems of urban rail transit trains by CAO Xuejie, HE Ye, SHAN Sheng, ZHOU Moling, ZHAN Yanhao, CHEN Lingquan

“…Consisting of an onboard network system, onboard data processing center and ground big data platform, this online system can automatically generate fault data, push early warnings, fault diagnosis results output and troubleshooting suggestions, obviously improving train availability and maintenance efficiency. …”
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Coupling coordination and obstacle factors of cultivated land system resilience and new urbanization by Weijuan Li, Weijuan Li, Jinyong Guo

“…The global food crisis is becoming increasingly severe, highlighting the need to enhance cultivated land system resilience to improve utilization efficiency and strengthen its ability to withstand external shocks, ensuring food security. …”
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The analysis of sculpture image classification in utilization of 3D reconstruction under K-means++ by Xuhui Wang

“…ResNet50 includes residual blocks, each containing multiple convolutional layers and a skip connection, enabling the network to learn differences between inputs and outputs rather than directly learning outputs, thus improving performance. …”
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Circuit-Specific and Technology-Independent Criterion for Selection of Power MOSFETs That Minimize Energy Dissipation by Vikas Joshi, Utkarsh Jadli, Peyush Pande, Mayank Chaturvedi, Daniel Haasmann, Sima Dimitrijev

“…We investigate the impact of power MOSFET channel width on the power efficiency of a switch-mode power supply. With this analysis, we derive a circuit-specific criterion that minimizes the power dissipated by a power MOSFET, which is based on the ratio between on resistance and output capacitance of the MOSFET and is independent of its technological parameters. …”
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Impact Assessment of the Real Sector and Non-Productive Spheres on the Dynamics of the Business Activity Index by A. A. Frenkel, B. I. Tikhomirov, N. N. Volkova, A. A. Surkov

“…The authors have used the design method for integral estimates of macroeconomic dynamics, regression analysis, and a probabilistic approach (the method of pairwise preferences) to determine the weighing coefficients of the basic indicators. …”
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Supply chain management and optimization in transportation logistics by Saoussen Krichen

“…In the class of approximate methods, we point out heuristic and meta-heuristic approaches. …”
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Application of Machine Learning and Emerging Health Technologies in the Uptake of HIV Testing: Bibliometric Analysis of Studies Published From 2000 to 2024 by Musa Jaiteh, Edith Phalane, Yegnanew A Shiferaw, Lateef Babatunde Amusa, Hossana Twinomurinzi, Refilwe Nancy Phaswana-Mafuya

“…Machine learning and health technologies can precisely predict high-risk individuals and facilitate more effective and efficient HIV testing methods. Despite this advancement, there exists a research gap regarding the extent to which such technologies are integrated into HIV testing strategies worldwide. …”
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Effects of fermented bamboo fiber on intestinal health and fecal pollutants in weaned piglets by Yubiao Jia, Yubiao Jia, Qiuming Huang, Qiuming Huang, Rui Song, Rui Song, Yanling Tang, Yanling Tang, Mengxin Feng, Mengxin Feng, Jianjun Lu, Jianjun Lu

“…IntroductionWeaning stress adversely affects piglet growth and development, thereby reducing the economic efficiency of pig farming operations. Furthermore, pig feces are a major source of environmental pollution, underscoring the need for effective strategies to mitigate fecal output at its source.MethodsThis study investigated the effects of dietary supplementation with fermented bamboo fiber (FBF) on growth performance, intestinal barrier integrity, gut microbiota composition, and fecal pollutant levels in weaned piglets. …”
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Prediction model for oil seal performance parameters based on PSO-MLP-KAN by Weixing Yan, Mingshuo Shi, Pengbo Xiao, Kui Zhang, Xin Wu

“…Oil seals are critical sealing components in mechanical systems, and their sealing performance directly impacts the operational reliability of the entire system. To accurately, efficiently, and stably predict the sealing performance of oil seals, this study proposes a prediction method based on a combination of the Kolmogorov–Arnold network (KAN) and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) optimized by particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. …”
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Diversified Cropping Modulates Microbial Communities and Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Enhancing Soil Nutrients by Zhongyan Wang, Huaqiang Xuan, Bei Liu, Hongfeng Zhang, Tongyan Zheng, Yunxia Liu, Luping Dai, Yi Xie, Xianchao Shang, Li Zhang, Long Yang, Sitakanta Pattanaik, Ling Yuan, Xin Hou

“…In order to maximize the effective production methods of crop rotation and intercropping, and to increase the efficiency of resource usage, this paper examines the development of research and practice on two cropping patterns worldwide.…”
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Wide-Range Variable Cycle Engine Control Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning by Yaoyao Ding, Fengming Wang, Yuanwei Mu, Hongfei Sun

“…The PID controller is subject to limitations, including single-input single-output limitations, low regulation efficiency, and poor adaptability when confronted with contemporary variable cycle engines that exhibit complex and multi-variable operating conditions. …”
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The possibility of applying measuers of throughput accounting in enhancing the competitive advantage in economic units Applied to the factory "Rikan" for the production of concrete... by Hazim Hashim Mohammed, Ghazi Othman Mahmood

“…The research arrieved several recommendations, the most important, economic units are urged, including laboratory research sample to benefit from the information provided by the method of throughput accounting of what this tool role in providing information that will help to raise the efficiency of the economic performance of the unit and improve its profitability. …”
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Removing Stripe Noise From Infrared Cloud Images via Deep Convolutional Networks by Pengfei Xiao, Yecai Guo, Peixian Zhuang

“…Final extensive experiments demonstrate that the proposed method can achieve both comparable restoration quality and computational efficiency with several state-of-the-art approaches.…”
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Miniaturized Antenna Solution Based on Lossy Planar Microresonators to Conjointly Control Radiation and Selectivity by Biyun Ma, Anne Chousseaud, Serge Toutain

“…We propose a new method to design miniaturized compact antennas, in which it is possible to control conjointly the radiation efficiency and the bandwidth selectivity of the antenna. …”
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Bibliometric analysis of researches on traditional Chinese medicine for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) by Ke-Lu Yang, Xin-Yao Jin, Ya Gao, Jin Xie, Ming Liu, Jun-Hua Zhang, Jin-Hui Tian

“…To improve the quality and efficiency of research output, the integration of scientific research and resources, as well as scientific collaboration are needed.…”
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