Investigating the tripartite interaction among teachers, students, and generative AI in EFL education: A mixed-methods study by Lihang Guan, John Chi-Kin Lee, Yue Zhang, Mingyue Michelle Gu

“…The study concludes that the holistic approach of AI integration in EFL education can optimize EFL learning by leveraging AI's technological benefits and maintaining essential human interaction, indicating a collaborative, instead of a replacing, view of the AI-induced educational reformation. …”
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Strength characteristics and prediction model of solidified municipal sludge reinforced by dredged silt combined with sodium silicate and polyurethane by Yupeng Cao, Hui Lin, Tong Zong, Xiangbo Xu, Mingdong Li, Xia Bian, Zhiqiang Li

“…SP materials can partially replace cement, the appropriate proportion of SP and cement can synergistically improve the strength of solidified municipal sludge, and the optimal SP mixing ratio is 50%. …”
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Utilizing fly ash from municipal solid waste and polypropylene fiber to improve the flexural properties of compacted cement sand by Chalermpon Wungsumpow, Sakol Pochalard, Keeratikan Piriyakul

“…A series of experiments were conducted using a fixed cement content of 5% by weight, with MSWIFA replacing OPC at ratios of 0–100%, and polypropylene fiber added in varying contents from 0 to 2.0% by volume. …”
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A growth posture identification method of immature peaches in natural environments by Jidong Lv, Liangliang Niu, Ying Han, Xiaoqin Sun, Lingyun Wang, Hailong Rong, Ling Zou

“…The CIOU loss function was ultimately substituted with the SIOU loss function to further optimize the boundary frame loss and target detection accuracy. …”
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SPDC-YOLO: An Efficient Small Target Detection Network Based on Improved YOLOv8 for Drone Aerial Image by Jingxin Bi, Keda Li, Xiangyue Zheng, Gang Zhang, Tao Lei

“…In the head, the P5 detection head is eliminated, and a new detection head, Dyhead-DCNv4, is proposed, replacing DCNv2 in the original Dyhead with DCNv4 and utilizing three attention mechanisms for dynamic feature weighting. …”
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Hand–Eye Separation-Based First-Frame Positioning and Follower Tracking Method for Perforating Robotic Arm by Handuo Zhang, Jun Guo, Chunyan Xu, Bin Zhang

“…Additionally, the GIoU loss function is introduced to replace the traditional IoU, further optimizing bounding box regression through the calculation of the minimum enclosing box. …”
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Advanced Production Technology of Flour-Based Foods with Chlorella Concentrate by Bochkareva Zenfira A., Volshenkova Ekaterina S.

“…The research featured laboratory and industrial samples of precooked pancakes. 3%, 6%, and 10% of the milk were replaced with chlorella concentrate. The quantitative ratio of the components was determined empirically to obtain pancakes of the optimal quality. …”
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Renewable diesel for road transport: evaporation modelling by R.V. Kolodnytska

“…But a good solution for Ukraine may be to replace diesel fuels with other alternative fuels, such as renewable fuels. …”
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How Reducing Fossil-Based Plastic Use Can Help the Overall Sustainability of Oyster Farming: The Case of the Gulf of La Spezia by Daniela Summa, Elena Tamisari, Mattia Lanzoni, Giuseppe Castaldelli, Elena Tamburini

“…Among the scenarios analyzed, the sole effective strategy to reduce the impact of plastics on the process is to replace them with PHA. In the other cases, the high energy consumption of their non-optimized production renders them disadvantageous options. …”
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Police Fitness: An International Perspective on Current and Future Challenges by Robin Orr, Elisa F. D. Canetti, Suzanne Gough, Kirstin Macdonald, Joe Dulla, Robert G. Lockie, J. Jay Dawes, Sam D. Blacker, Gemma S. Milligan, Ben Schram

“…Poor officer fitness can lead to decreased occupational task performance, injuries, increased absenteeism, and a variety of negative health sequalae further adding to the challenges of staffing law enforcement agencies. Optimizing the physical fitness for both serving officers and new recruits is critical as their loss is, and will increasingly be, difficult to replace. …”
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A Study on the Electrochemical Performance of SLMed Al6061/TiB2 Composite Anodes Caused by Laser Power by Jitai Han, Kui Zhu, Chenglong Li, Yin Li, Sida Tang, Peng Li

“…In this work, laser power was optimized via a selective laser melting process to increase the electrochemical and discharge performance of an Al composite anode. …”
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Hydraulic and electrical regulations of pumps as turbines for energy recovery in water distribution networks: Energy and economic analysis by Lucrezia Manservigi, Valentina Marsili, Filippo Mazzoni, Giulia Anna Maria Castorino, Saverio Farsoni, Enzo Losi, Stefano Alvisi, Marcello Bonfè, Marco Franchini, Pier Ruggero Spina, Mauro Venturini

“…For more sustainable management of water systems within a circular economy framework, PRVs can be replaced with energy-producing devices, such as pumps as turbines (PATs). …”
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Enhancing temperature uniformity and recirculation in MILD combustion furnace: A study on angle of Burner's bluff body by Mahdi Zourazmai, Mohammad Zabetian Targhi, Ali Ashouri

“…Results show that optimizing α significantly enhances performance, with α = 15° yielding the best results. …”
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Lightweight wavelet-CNN tea leaf disease detection. by Jing Yang, GaoJian Xu, MengDao Yang, ZhengPei Lin

“…The extracted frequency-domain features are fused with depth features from the Bneck structure, enabling a more comprehensive representation of disease characteristics. To further optimize feature extraction, a convolutional block attention module (CBAM) is incorporated within the Bneck structure, refining the network's ability to assign optimal weights to feature channels. …”
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Research on anomaly detection model for traffic time series data integrating multiple mechanisms by Peipei ZHANG, Jiaqi LIU

“…Fourthly, the modules and training strategy were combined with LSTM, while the result of the self-attention mechanism replaced the LSTM input gate, so as to optimize long sequence memory ability and reduce computing complexity. …”
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Age hardening heat treatment behavior of as-cast Mg–Zn–Al alloys by Hiralal S. Patil, D. C. Patel

“…From the peak hardness values, the ageing conditions have been optimized.…”
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Assessments and investigation of process parameter impacts on surface roughness, microstructure, tensile strength, and porosity of 3D printed polyetherether ketone (PEEK) materials by Shimelis Tamene Gobena, Abraham Debebe Woldeyohannes

“…Overall, the findings provide valuable insights into optimizing the AM process for PEEK in dental applications and suggest that further biological and chemical studies are necessary to fully realize the material's potential in replacing traditional dental restoration materials.…”
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A Hybrid Adaptive Fusion Deep Learning Model for Fault Diagnosis of Rotating Machinery Under Noisy Conditions by Junyu Ren, Soo Siang Teoh

“…Additionally, the traditional Multilayer Perceptron in the classification layer is replaced with Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks to improve diagnostic accuracy. …”
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Influence of Starch on the Rheological, Textural, and Microstructural Properties of Processed and Analogue Cheeses by FNU Akshit, Vaishali Poswal, Rakesh Kaushik, Gaurav Kr Deshwal, Thom Huppertz

“…Our key findings indicate that starch serves as a cost-effective ingredient that can replace or supplement dairy components, improving texture and water-binding capacity while reducing formulation costs. …”
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Efficient non-Hermitian wave-modulation protocol with a rapid parametric jump by Shin Seung Han, Choi Yu Sung, Kim Yae Jun, Yoon Jae Woong

“…Here, we demonstrate a principle for efficient wave modulation through optimized parametric trajectories around an EP. By employing rapid encirclement or parametric jump over the EP, we achieve an extinction ratio of 43 dB within a total device length of 15 coupling-length unit. …”
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