LHB-YOLOv8: An Optimized YOLOv8 Network for Complex Background Drop Stone Detection by Anjun Yu, Hongrui Fan, Yonghua Xiong, Longsheng Wei, Jinhua She

“…However, the complex geologic environment of slopes, special climatic conditions, and human factors pose significant challenges to this research. In this paper, we propose an enhanced high-speed slope rockfall detection method based on YOLOv8n. …”
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Assessment of Air Quality and Noise around Okrika Communities, Rivers State, Nigeria by AE Gobo, TJK Ideriah, TE Francis, HO Stanley

“… The quality of air and noise levels around Okirika communities in River State were determined using portable hand held air monitors for air pollutants and anemometer for meteorological parameters. The parameters measured were suspended particulate matter, nitrogen dioxide, sulphur dioxide, hydrogen sulphide, ammonia, carbon monoxide, methane and volatile organic carbon, temperature, wind speed, wind direction and relative humidity. …”
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An Easily Scalable Docker-Based Privacy-Preserving Malicious Traffic Detection Architecture for IoT Environments by Tong Niu, Yaqiu Liu, Qingfeng Li, Qichi Bao

“…As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to evolve, its inherent diversity and rapid iteration pose challenges for the development and deployment of malicious traffic detection systems. …”
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Performance evaluation of rotor shears machine with bottom sieves for comminution of waste PCB by Radon Dhelika, Daniel Meino Soedira

“…Abstract The rapid expansion of the electrical and electronic equipment sector has led to an alarming increase in Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE), particularly waste printed circuit boards (PCBs), which pose significant environmental and health risks due to their hazardous metal content. …”
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StrawberryNet: Fast and Precise Recognition of Strawberry Disease Based on Channel and Spatial Information Reconstruction by Xiang Li, Lin Jiao, Kang Liu, Qihuang Liu, Ziyan Wang

“…Nevertheless, various types of strawberry diseases with high similarity pose a great challenge to the accuracy of strawberry diseases, and the recent module with high parameter counts is not suitable for real-time identification and monitoring. …”
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Trajectory optimization of ultra-short sidetrack horizontal wells in marginal reservoirs by Yanjiao Jiang, Yanjiao Jiang, Jian Zhou, Jian Zhou, Jiaqi Zhang, Zhihua Guo, Zhihua Guo, Dan Liu, Xueying Li, Xueying Li, Jinbiao Gao, Jinbiao Gao

“…The thin thickness of the sand body and the low oil recovery in the marginal reservoirs of the X area in D oilfield pose significant challenges. Using ultra-short radius horizontal wells is effective for substantially increasing production and designing reasonable well trajectory parameters is crucial for realizing the potential of oil reservoirs. …”
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A model for Managing the Competitive Activitiesof Top-Level Teams Based on Computer Vision Online by Sergei L. Goldstein, Andrey A. Polozov, Natalia V. Papulovskaya, Natalya A. Maltseva, Maxim V. Kraev

“…The resulting sequence of actions for the development of PIRSonline includes image acquisition, a block for initializing game parameters, ball detection, determining the 3D coordinates of the ball, detecting players, tracking, classifying players and referees, determining the player’s pose. …”
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Mitigating Selection Bias in Local Optima: A Meta-Analysis of Niching Methods in Continuous Optimization by Junchen Wang, Changhe Li, Yiya Diao

“…On the other hand, convergence biases induced by differences in size and average fitness, both of which equate to the difference in size of superior region, pose a challenge to any EC method driven by objective functions. …”
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Visual Detection on Aircraft Wing Icing Process Using a Lightweight Deep Learning Model by Yang Yan, Chao Tang, Jirong Huang, Zhixiong Cen, Zonghong Xie

“…High transparency and blurred edges of icing areas in wing images pose challenges to wing icing detection by machine vision. …”
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“The hard problem” of consciousness in the light of phenomenology of аrtificial intelligence by Oleksandr Bilokobylskyi

“…“The basis of universal law” will then consist (including for AI), on the one hand, of preserving the parameters of material processes that are necessary for human existence, and on the other, of maintaining the integrity of that semantic universe, in relation to which certain senses only exist.…”
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Ecological Responses of Microbially Activated Water Flooding in Ultra-Low-Permeability Reservoirs: A Case Study of the B9 Reservoir in the Triassic Yanchang Formation by Lei Li, Chunhui Zhang, Peidong Su, Hongmei Mu

“…The 183-day microbially activated water flooding, while causing detectable impacts on the reservoir environment and microorganisms, did not pose a threat to its ecological stability and contributed to enhanced oil production. …”
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Cross-Modal Data Fusion via Vision-Language Model for Crop Disease Recognition by Wenjie Liu, Guoqing Wu, Han Wang, Fuji Ren

“…Crop diseases pose a significant threat to agricultural productivity and global food security. …”
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TLDDM: An Enhanced Tea Leaf Pest and Disease Detection Model Based on YOLOv8 by Jun Song, Youcheng Zhang, Shuo Lin, Huijie Han, Xinjian Yu

“…However, the high similarity between different tea leaf diseases and the difficulty of balancing model accuracy and complexity pose significant challenges during the detection process. …”
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Effects of Karst Cave on the Stability of Diaphragm Walls During Ultra-Deep Excavation by Jiaer Mai, Zongtao Lin, Yanhong Wang, Ren Tang, Muyu Li, Benhai Lin, Wuzhang Luo

“…Ultra-deep excavations in karst areas pose a substantial risk due to the presence of unknown karst caves. …”
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Single antibiotics and their mixture at environmentally relevant concentrations may disrupt the physiology of A. obliquus by Marta Galas, Marta Grabska, Maksymilian Zienkiewicz, María Eugenia Valdés, Malgorzata Grzesiuk

“…Abstract Antibiotics are common pollutants in freshwater ecosystems that can pose a threat to non-target organisms. This represents a serious risk, as antibiotics may affect primary producers, including green algae. …”
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Prediction of super-large diameter shield attitude based on LSTM-Transformer by Linfabao Dai, Wenming Chen, Mingqing Xiao, Wenhao Sun, Zhengzheng Wang

“…However, the high precision requirements for attitude control and the complex dynamic responses during construction pose significant challenges, which traditional prediction methods struggle to address. …”
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A semi-analytical analysis on transfer behaviour of heat and mass on the viscous dissipated MHD UCM fluid flow between squeezing plates by Pareekshith G. Bhat, Ali J. Chamkha, Nityanand P. Pai, Sampath Kumar V.S.

“…Various graphs concerning the velocity, temporal, and concentration profiles are plotted against distinct pertinent parameters that pose a physical impact on the model. …”
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Optimized YOLOv8 framework for intelligent rockfall detection on mountain roads by Peng Peng, Langchao Gao, Jiachun Li, Hongzhen Zhang

“…Abstract Rockfalls on mountainous roads pose significant safety risks to pedestrians and vehicles, particularly in remote areas with underdeveloped communication infrastructure. …”
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Odor impact assessment in the plume – A validation using tracer gases in two spatial farm configurations by Margret Keck, Kerstin Zeyer, Joachim Mohn, Sabine Schrade

“…Livestock facilities and biogas plants pose major challenges for odor assessment due to their spatial extent and the heterogeneity of areal sources. …”
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Modeling of the three-dimensional structure of open cell foam and analysis of the model quality using the example of pressure drop calculation by O.V. Soloveva, S.A. Solovev, O.S. Popkova

“…Interdependent partitions located in three-dimensional porous structures pose a problem for understanding the flow field, which differs significantly from the flow in traditional porous media. …”
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