Self-Adaptive Artificial Bee Colony for Function Optimization by Mingzhu Tang, Wen Long, Huawei Wu, Kang Zhang, Yuri A. W. Shardt

“…In addition, good-point-set approach is introduced to produce the initial population and scout bees. The proposed SABC is tested on 12 well-known problems. …”
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Managing Scale Insects on Ornamental Plants by Eileen A. Buss, Adam Dale

“…This revised 6-page fact sheet differentiates between armored and soft-scale insect pests and lists common types of each, provides information about the biology of scale insects and how to identify them and the damage they cause, describes how to scout and monitor for scale insects, and lists several methods for prevention and control of scale insect invasions. …”
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Thistle Control in Pastures by Brent Sellers, Pratap Devkota, Jason Ferrell

“…Even if thistles have not infested your pasture in the past, it is ideal that your pastures are scouted in late fall through mid-spring to ensure that thistles do not get out of control. …”
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Managing Scale Insects on Ornamental Plants by Eileen A. Buss, Adam Dale

“…This revised 6-page fact sheet differentiates between armored and soft-scale insect pests and lists common types of each, provides information about the biology of scale insects and how to identify them and the damage they cause, describes how to scout and monitor for scale insects, and lists several methods for prevention and control of scale insect invasions. …”
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Strawberries: Main Pests and Beneficials in Florida by Silvia I. Rondon, James F. Price, Daniel J. Cantliffe

“…This is the time growers must begin to scout their fields at least once a week to assess the status of pests, such as spider mites, cyclamen mites, lepidopterous larvae, aphids, thrips, and sap beetles. …”
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Strawberries: Main Pests and Beneficials in Florida by Silvia I. Rondon, James F. Price, Daniel J. Cantliffe

“…This is the time growers must begin to scout their fields at least once a week to assess the status of pests, such as spider mites, cyclamen mites, lepidopterous larvae, aphids, thrips, and sap beetles. …”
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A Modified Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm with Firefly Algorithm Strategy for Continuous Optimization Problems by Amnat Panniem, Pikul Puphasuk

“…Moreover, we use the Firefly algorithm strategy to generate a new position replacing an unupdated position in scout bee phase. Its performance is tested on selected benchmark functions. …”
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A Tristage Adaptive Biased Learning for Artificial Bee Colony by Qiaoyong Jiang, Yueqi Ma, Yanyan Lin, Jianan Cui, Xinjia Liu, Yali Wu, Lei Wang

“…Moreover, a deletion-restart learning strategy is designed in scout bee stage to prevent the potential risk of population stagnation. …”
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Stochastic black-box optimization using multi-fidelity score function estimator by Atul Agrawal, Kislaya Ravi, Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis, Hans-Joachim Bungartz

“…To address these challenges, we present SCOUT-Nd ( S tochastic C onstrained O p t imization for N dimensions), a gradient-based algorithm that can be used on non-differentiable objectives. …”
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Zero-echo time imaging achieves whole brain activity mapping without ventral signal loss in mice by Ayako Imamura, Rikita Araki, Yukari Takahashi, Koichi Miyatake, Fusao Kato, Sakiko Honjoh, Tomokazu Tsurugizawa

“…However, the widely used fMRI with T2*-weighted imaging in rodents has the problem of signal lack in the lateral ventral area of forebrain including the amygdala, which is essential for not only emotion but also noxious pain. Here, we scouted the zero-echo time (ZTE) sequence, which is robust to magnetic susceptibility and motion-derived artifacts, to image activation in the whole brain including the amygdala following the noxious stimulation to the hind paw. …”
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Gauguin, Buffalo Bill, and the Cowboy Hat by Nancy Mowll Mathews

“…In Gauguin’s interpretation of both Buffalo Bill’s gender performativity and of the avant-garde scout, we gain a new appreciation of Cody’s daring embrace of androgyny and rejection of the narrowness of western civilization, all of which makes him more “modernist” than the twentieth-century cowboy mythology has previously led us to believe.…”
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Factors affecting the effectiveness of the pick and roll offense at the 2017 European Men's Championship by Spiros D. Angelou, Nikos Stavropoulos, Vasiliki Manou, Christos Galazoulas

“…The instrument used for the analysis of the matches was the SportScout STA Version 3.2. Analysis with ꭓ2 (Chi-square) was used. …”
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Self-Stabilising Quadrupedal Running by Mechanical Design by Panagiotis Chatzakos, Evangelos Papadopoulos

“…As an example, specific design changes for the Scout II quadruped robot that might improve its performance are proposed.…”
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Pharmacophore modeling and QSAR analysis of anti-HBV flavonols. by Basireh Baei, Parnia Askari, Fatemeh Sana Askari, Seyed Jalal Kiani, Alireza Mohebbi

“…A flavonol-based pharmacophore model was established using LigandScout v4.4. Screening was performed using the PharmIt server. …”
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Iron deficiency and common neurodevelopmental disorders-A scoping review. by Scout McWilliams, Ishmeet Singh, Wayne Leung, Sylvia Stockler, Osman S Ipsiroglu

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The Prevalence of Star-forming Clumps as a Function of Environmental Overdensity in Local Galaxies by Dominic Adams, Hugh Dickinson, Lucy Fortson, Kameswara Mantha, Vihang Mehta, Jürgen Popp, Claudia Scarlata, Chris Lintott, Brooke Simmons, Mike Walmsley

“…To obtain our clump sample, we use a Faster R-CNN object detection network trained on the catalog of clump labels provided by the Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout project, then apply this network to detect clumps in approximately 240,000 Sloan Digital Sky Survey galaxies (originally selected for Galaxy Zoo 2). …”
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Savi’s pipistrelle (Hypsugo savii) in Ukraine: analysis of records and evidence of expansion by Igor Polischuk, Igor Zagorodniuk

“…The authors consider registrations of signals of Hypsugo savii as the actual appearance of this bat species, but not in the form of new populations, but as individuals appearing as scouts exploring new territories. Actually, the latter explains the lack of actual findings of this species.…”
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Beneficial Effects of Prebiotic Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mannan on Allergic Asthma Mouse Models by D. Betty Lew, Christie F. Michael, Tracie Overbeck, W. Scout Robinson, Erin L. Rohman, Jeffrey M. Lehman, Jennifer K. Patel, Brandi Eiseman, Kim S. LeMessurier, Amali E. Samarasinghe, M. Waleed Gaber

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