Structural Characterizations and Biological Evaluation of a Natural Polysaccharide from Branches of <i>Camellia oleifera</i> Abel by Shengjia Lu, Yali Zhang, Yanghui Ou, Jianghui Xin, Hongliang Yao, Litao Guan

“…Objectives: In this work, we obtain a natural polysaccharide from the branches of <i>C. oleifera</i> and optimize its extraction using Box–Behnken design (BBD), which is a statistical method commonly used in response surface methodology. …”
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FedITD: A Federated Parameter-Efficient Tuning With Pre-Trained Large Language Models and Transfer Learning Framework for Insider Threat Detection by Zhi Qiang Wang, Haopeng Wang, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

“…Extensive experiment results show FedITD&#x2019;s superior performance, adaptability to varied data, and reduction of resource costs, achieving an optimal balance in detection capabilities across source data, unlabeled local data, and global data. …”
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Roles of Foliar Fertilization on Growth, Yield and Quality of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Cultivars (Review) by Daniel Munda, Fanuel Laekemariam, Yitbarek Abrham

“…Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is one of the most important vegetable crops, and it is a source of daily diet and cash crop in Ethiopia. However, its production is affected by nutrient application methods of which foliar fertilization is a popular method. …”
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SDDGRNets: Level–Level Semantically Decomposed Dynamic Graph Reasoning Network for Remote Sensing Semantic Change Detection by Zhuli Xie, Gang Wan, Yunxia Yin, Guangde Sun, Dongdong Bu

“…Finally, experimental results on three open-source datasets, such as SECOND, HIUSD, and Landsat-SCD, show that the proposed method achieves good performance, with an SCD score reaching 35.65%, 98.33%, and 67.29%, respectively.…”
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Roles of Foliar Fertilization on Growth, Yield and Quality of Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) Cultivars (Review) by Daniel Munda, Fanuel Laekemariam, Yitbarek Abrham

“…Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is one of the most important vegetable crops, and it is a source of daily diet and cash crop in Ethiopia. However, its production is affected by nutrient application methods of which foliar fertilization is a popular method. …”
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High-Performance Time-to-Digital Conversion on a 16-nm Ultrascale+ FPGA by Lorenzo Castelvero, Ignacio H. Lopez Grande, Valerio Pruneri

“…Buffer redundancy subdivides the bins of the code density histogram, whose linearity is further enhanced by bin decimation. The optimal placement of the TDL elements is considered, together with the sampling clock frequency and source. …”
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Pemanfaatan sumber daya lokal biji karet sebagai amplifikasi protein es krim mellorine dengan pengemulsi CMC by Jefri Pandu Hidayat, Memik Dian Pusfitasari, Ryan Ananda Dwi Gunawan, Riza Fahlevi

“…A modification method is needed to release HCN but does not cause excessive protein denaturation.…”
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Advances in Coking Wastewater Treatment and Zero Discharge Technology by Huaqiang CHU, GLADYS Chimfwembe, Pengyuan WEI, Jie XU, Guihong SHUI, Jiaying MA, Xuefei ZHOU, Yalei ZHANG

“…In recent years, considerable attention has been directed towards developing more efficient methods for treating coking wastewater. This review provides a comprehensive overview of current advancements in coking wastewater treatment technologies, focusing on their sources, characteristics, pretreatment technologies, biochemical treatments, and advanced treatment technologies. …”
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Utilization of plastic and glass waste mixed with sand as an alternative brick materials by Badiea A. Mahyoub, Amer H. Abdu, Adel A. Ahmed, Ibtisam M. Kamal

“…TGA and DSC analysis showed that the plastic brick prepared has a good thermal stability and the decomposition is in the limited and acceptable range. Optimization of the two effective variables (plastic/sand and galas ratios) has been made and correlating the results obtained using Box-Wilson statistical method to create a model for describing the predictable properties of a new product.…”
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Deep Reinforcement Learning-Based Energy Management Strategy for Green Ships Considering Photovoltaic Uncertainty by Yunxiang Zhao, Shuli Wen, Qiang Zhao, Bing Zhang, Yuqing Huang

“…To verify the effectiveness of the proposed method, real-world data for a hybrid hydrogen- and PV-driven ship are selected for conducting case studies under various sailing conditions. …”
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Intermittent control and retinal optic flow when maintaining a curvilinear path by Björnborg Nguyen, Ola Benderius

“…In addition, a novel method of identifying constituent ballistic correction using particle swarm optimization was demonstrated to analyze the incremental correction-based behavior. …”
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Comprehensive benefits evaluation of low impact development using scenario analysis and fuzzy decision approach by Ting Ni, Xiaohong Zhang, Peng Leng, Mark Pelling, Jiuping Xu

“…Abstract The comprehensive benefit evaluation of LID based on multi-criteria decision-making methods faces technical issues such as the uncertainties and vagueness in hybrid information sources, which can affect the overall evaluation results and ranking of alternatives. …”
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Mobile Mapping System for Urban Infrastructure Monitoring: Digital Twin Implementation in Road Asset Management by Vittorio Scolamiero, Piero Boccardo, Luigi La Riccia

“…To meet this new goal, one must be able to understand the urban system through the integrated use of different methods in a multi-level approach. In this context, mobile surveying is a consolidated method for data collection in urban environments. …”
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Construction and Overall Protection of Ecological and Marine Cultural Composite Landscape Network in Quanzhou, Fujian by Dongfang LU, Yaru ZHENG, Tianteng HAN, Shunhe CHEN

“…An evaluation indicator system for the coupling degree of ecological and cultural functions is constructed, and the entropy weight method is used to calculate index weights and the coupling coordination degree. …”
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Automating the quantification of coastal change using historical aerial photography: A case study along the coastline of county Cork, Ireland by Emma Chalençon, Fiona Cawkwell, Michael O’Shea, Jimmy Murphy

“…This robust and repeatable method provides a valuable alternative to time-consuming and subjective manual digitisation.…”
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Development and study of mucoadhesive microcapsules for the nasal levodopa delivery by D. S. Gordeeva, V. V. Khutoryanskiy, R. I. Moustafine

“…The amount of released drug was determined using an Evolution™ 220 UV spectrophotometer (Thermo Fisher Scientific, USA) at a wavelength of 202 nm.Results and discussion. A method for MC preparation was developed, the device parameters and the optimal composition of microparticles were selected. …”
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Safety Threshold Determination for Blasting Vibration of the Lining in Existing Tunnels under Adjacent Tunnel Blasting by Fei Xue, Caichu Xia, Guoliang Li, Baocheng Jin, Yongwang He, Yapeng Fu

“…By using regression analysis of the measured vibration data, the calculation method of maximum charge per delay for optimizing blasting excavation under different surrounding rock grades is obtained. …”
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Recent progress on the solid-state materials for photocatalysis by Laku Dorjee Tamang, Shivraj Gurung, Zosiamliana Renthlei, Celestine Lalengmawia, Bhanu Chettri, Jitendra Pal Singh, Amel Laref, Mukhriddin E. Tursunov, Avazbek T. Dekhkonov, D. P. Rai

“…Among these methods, photocatalysis is considered one of the best ways to produce hydrogen because of carbon-free and uses renewable sources of energy. …”
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Response characteristics of the orthogonal antennas of electromagnetic azimuthal resistivity measurement while drilling (MWD) tool for coal mining by Gang CHEN

“…This allowed for determining the optimal asymmetric arrangement of coils, as well as the optimal working parameters of frequency, source-detector separation distance, and coil pitch suitable for high-resistivity coal seams. …”
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A Progressive Spectral Correction and Spatial Compensation Network for Pansharpening by Rixian Liu, Hangyuan Lu, Biwei Chi, Yong Yang, Shuying Huang

“…Current pansharpening methods often overlook the significant modality differences between source images and lack interaction between them, resulting in spatial-spectral distortions. …”
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