Estimating the spatial and model uncertainties in yielding extreme rainfall return levels across India by Poornima Chandra Lekha Posa, Rajarshi Das Bhowmik

“…Study focus: Extreme rainfall events, shaped by anthropogenic climate change and natural variability, pose a threat to ecosystems and infrastructure. Though Generalized Extreme Value distributions are standard to model extreme rainfall, spatial and model uncertainties remain inadequately explored. …”
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Exploring the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Urban Design by Rania Shokry

“…TestFit supports urban design by producing site-specific solutions that align with cost parameters and regulatory requirements, empowering planners and developers to make data-driven decisions. …”
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Intelligent rockburst level prediction model based on swarm intelligence optimization and multi-strategy learner soft voting hybrid ensemble by Qinghong Wang, Tianxing Ma, Shengqi Yang, Fei Yan, Jiang Zhao

“…Abstract Rockbursts are highly destructive geological events that pose serious risks to the safety of underground engineering projects, including tunnels, mines, and other subterranean structures. …”
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Climate Change Risk, Performance, and Value Added in Agricultural Sector by Ramin Amani, Zanko Ghorbani, Zana Mozaffari

“…He considers invisible fixed effects as parameters that are jointly estimated with the effects of auxiliary variables for different quantiles. …”
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Rock and machine interaction law during TBM crossing fault and prevention and control technology of jamming disaster in Shoushan No.1 Mine by Jianguo ZHANG, Tongtong MU, Yiqiang LU, Jiawei LIU, Zhanbiao YANG, Sheng ZHANG, Longfei WANG

“…These problems not only affect the efficiency of TBM excavation, but also pose a serious threat to its structural stability, which eventually leads to the occurrence of jamming disaster. …”
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Bioprospection for antiviral compounds from selected medicinal plants against RNA polymerase of rotavirus A using molecular modelling and density functional theory by Adedayo Ayodeji Lanrewaju, Abimbola Motunrayo Folami, Saheed Sabiu, Feroz Mahomed Swalaha

“…The binding free energy and thermodynamic parameters of the top-hit compounds could be attributed to their respective bond interactions and molecular orbital properties except chrysoeriol 7-glucuronide, with a need for additional structural adjustment to enhance its thermodynamic properties. …”
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Novel Deep Learning Framework for Evaporator Tube Leakage Estimation in Supercharged Boiler by Yulong Xue, Dongliang Li, Yu Song, Shaojun Xia, Jingxing Wu

“…However, leakage faults of evaporation tubes feature high time dependency, strong coupling among monitoring parameters, and interference from noise. Additionally, the large number of monitoring parameters (approximately 140) poses a challenge for spatiotemporal feature extraction, feature decoupling, and establishing a mapping relationship between high-dimensional monitoring parameters and leakage, rendering the precise quantitative estimation of evaporation tube leakage extremely difficult. …”
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A lightweight weed detection model for cotton fields based on an improved YOLOv8n by Jun Wang, Zhengyuan Qi, Yanlong Wang, Yanyang Liu

“…Abstract In modern agriculture, the proliferation of weeds in cotton fields poses a significant threat to the healthy growth and yield of crops. …”
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Analysis of Vibration Characteristics of Steam Generator Heat Transfer Tubes in Reactor Steam Generator Under Swaying Conditions by Jianjun ZHOU, Jingjun LIN, Wenxiang CHEN, Hanlin JIANG

“…[Method] Taking the straight tube segments in steam generators as the research objects, the stress, strain, and flow field characteristics under varying swaying conditions were numerically simulated using a one-way fluid-structure coupling approach. The results were compared with those under no oscillation conditions to study the influence mechanism of oscillation conditions on the flow induced vibration parameters of the heat exchange tube. …”
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N-body simulation of spinning particle pairs in a complex plasma crystal by Zachary Watson, Parker Adamson, Jorge Martinez-Ortiz, Katrina Vermillion, Calvin Carmichael, Samuel Garcia-Rodriguez, Lorin Matthews, Truell Hyde, Bryant Wyatt

“…These disparities result in non-Hamiltonian dynamics that pose significant challenges for numerical modeling. …”
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Fracture evolution in steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) of tunnel under static and dynamic loading based on DEM-FDM coupling model by Yu Chen, Dongfeng Yu, Yixian Wang, Yanlin Zhao, Hang Lin, Jingjing Meng, Haoliang Wu

“…Abstract The frequent or occasional impact loads pose serious threats to the service safety of conventional concrete structures in tunnel. …”
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An AI-based nutrition recommendation system: technical validation with insights from Mediterranean cuisine by Kyriakos Kalpakoglou, Lorena Calderón-Pérez, Noemi Boqué, Metin Guldas, Çağla Erdoğan Demir, Lazaros P. Gymnopoulos, Kosmas Dimitropoulos

“…The proposed method retrieves dishes and meals from an expert-validated database featuring Mediterranean foods, following a structured four-step process to recommend a weekly Nutrition Plan (NP).ResultsThe system’s performance is evaluated across 4,000 generated user profiles in three key areas: (a) dish/meal filtering accuracy based on user-specific parameters (e.g., allergies), (b) diversity of meals and food group balance, and (c) accuracy in caloric and macronutrient recommendations. …”
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Spatial dispersal of environmental DNA particles in lentic and marine ecosystems: An overview and synthesis by Toshiaki S. Jo, Hiroaki Murakami, Ryosuke Nakadai

“…The literature review and analysis suggested that the level of eDNA dispersal influenced the resolution of eDNA signals to reflect the spatial community structures, which could further pose positive and negative impacts on the eDNA sampling strategy. …”
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Does one model fit all mAbs? An evaluation of population pharmacokinetic models by Stefan P. H. van den Berg, Philine E. A. Adolfsen, Thomas P.C. Dorlo, Theo Rispens

“…However, sparse datasets with limited PK information pose challenges in deriving accurate parameter estimates. …”
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Three-dimensional bioprinted materials in alginate-hyaluronic acid complex based hydrogel based bio-ink as absorbents for heavy metal ions removal by A.E. Swathe Sriee, Vijayalakshmi Shankar

“…Major environmental and health effects arise from the presence of heavy metals in water, including lead (Pb²⁺), mercury (Hg²⁺), chromium (Cr⁶⁺), cadmium (Cd²⁺), and arsenic (As³⁺), which contribute significantly to water pollution and pose severe risks to ecosystems and human health. …”
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Organic UV-filters and freshwater organisms: data gaps impede a robust retrospective environmental risk assessment by Alexandra Kroll, Cornelia Kienle, Marion Junghans

“…As expected from the heterogeneity of molecular structures, ecotoxicity data and environmental fate parameters vary considerably between the different substances. …”
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Genotypic Diversity Is Associated with Clinical Outcome and Phenotype in Cryptococcal Meningitis across Southern Africa. by Mathew A Beale, Wilber Sabiiti, Emma J Robertson, Karen M Fuentes-Cabrejo, Simon J O'Hanlon, Joseph N Jarvis, Angela Loyse, Graeme Meintjes, Thomas S Harrison, Robin C May, Matthew C Fisher, Tihana Bicanic

“…Furthermore, a detailed understanding of the genetic diversity in Southern Africa will support further investigation into how genetic diversity is structured across African environments, allowing assessment of the risks different ecotypes pose to infection.…”
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Advanced Computational Methods for Mitigating Shock and Vibration Hazards in Deep Mines Gas Outburst Prediction Using SVM Optimized by Grey Relational Analysis and APSO Algorithm by Xiang Wu, Zhen Yang, Dongdong Wu

“…Grey relational analysis was used to extract the four most relevant ones from nine gas outburst prediction parameters (geological structure zone distance, coal seam gas content, gas release initial velocity, gas desorption index-K1, drill cuttings volume, coal seam depth, coal seam thickness, coal destruction type, and coal firmness coefficient) to give the needed parameters for SVM model. …”
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TOP: A Combined Logical and Physical Obfuscation Method for Securing Networks-on-Chip Against Reverse Engineering Attacks by Mona Hashemi, Siamak Mohammadi, Trevor E. Carlson

“…However, the NoC topology can be extracted through reverse engineering attacks with the goal of making illegal copies or unauthorized access to interconnect structure and system parameters, including routing protocols and data traffic patterns, thereby posing a threat to the security of the entire system. …”
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Efficient Small Object Detection You Only Look Once: A Small Object Detection Algorithm for Aerial Images by Jie Luo, Zhicheng Liu, Yibo Wang, Ao Tang, Huahong Zuo, Ping Han

“…Moreover, existing object detection algorithms have a large number of parameters, posing a challenge for deployment on drones with limited hardware resources. …”
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