Seasonal Trends and Sociodemographic Influences on Long-Distance Trips - A Full Year of GPS Tracking Data from Munich by Nico Nachtigall, Miriam Magdolen, Markus Lienkamp

“…Long-distance trips are further analyzed in terms of their occurrence rate and modal share throughout the year. Furthermore, the influence of various sociodemographic characteristics and car ownership on long-distance travel is explored. …”
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Spatiotemporal vegetation dynamics in response to precipitation and land surface temperature in the Welmel watershed, southeastern Ethiopia by Tesfaye Bogale, Sileshi Degefa, Gemedo Dalle, Gebeyehu Abebe

“…The results showed a statistically significant increase in the NDVI at an annual scale, with a rate of 0.0028 (p = 0.003) across the entire watershed. …”
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Flexi-YOLO: A lightweight method for road crack detection in complex environments. by Jiexiang Yang, Renjie Tian, Zexing Zhou, Xingyue Tan, Pingyang He

“…Experimental results show that Flexi-YOLO achieves an accuracy increase of 2.7% over YOLOv8n, a recall rate rise of 4.7%, a mAP improvement of 5.3%, a mAP@0.5-0.95 increase of 3.9%, a decrease of 0.5 in GFLOPS, and an F1 score improvement from 0.80 to 0.84. …”
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Anthropogenic Landscape Alteration, but Not Urbanization, Influences Non‐Adaptive Evolution in Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca L.) by Sophie T. Breitbart, Marc T. J. Johnson, Helene H. Wagner

“…To better understand how urbanization influences non‐adaptive evolution in a native plant of conservation importance, we analyzed patterns of neutral genetic variation in common milkweed (Asclepias syriaca). …”
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Effect of Load Carriage Lifestyle on Kinematics and Kinetics of Gait by Hsin-Huan Wang, Wei-Chi Tsai, Chi-Yao Chang, Min-Hao Hung, Jui-Hung Tu, Ti Wu, Chia-Hsiang Chen

“…The results indicated that active force, breaking force, impact peak, loading rate, active peak, maximum braking, hip flexion, and hip range of motion were substantially higher under load carriage conditions than under walking condition, however, time to peak was lower. …”
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SIMULATION OF COOLING TOWER AND INFLUENCE OF AERODYNAMIC ELEMENTS ON ITS WORK UNDER CONDITIONS OF WIND by K. V. Dobrego, M. M. Hemmasian Kashani, E. E. Lasko

“…Heat transfer coefficient of irrigator and its hydrodynamic resistance were established according to experimental data on total air rate in cooling tower. Numerical model is tested and verified with experimental data.Nonlinear dependence of CT thermal performance on wind velocity is demonstrated with the minimum (critical wind velocity) at ucr ~ 8 m/s for simulated system. …”
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Effect of the Sampling of a Dataset in the Hyperparameter Optimization Phase over the Efficiency of a Machine Learning Algorithm by Noemí DeCastro-García, Ángel Luis Muñoz Castañeda, David Escudero García, Miguel V. Carriegos

“…Nonparametric inference has been used to measure the rate of different behaviors of the accuracy, time, and spatial complexity that are obtained among the partitions and the whole dataset. …”
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Heat transfer test method development: Consideration for design and safety of household oven mitts by Adriana Petrova, Semra Peksoz, Aditya Jayadas

“… The purpose of this study was to develop a test method – an apparatus and a protocol for evaluating the rate of heat transfer across a sample of layered materials commonly used in oven mitts. …”
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Effect of Lamination on Shale Reservoir Properties: Case Study of the Montney Formation, Canada by Juhwan Woo, Hyun Suk Lee, Carl Ozyer, Chul Woo Rhee

“…Typically, the degree of lamination is controlled by the sedimentation rate and flow regime. Herein, we developed a mudstone classification scheme in terms of lamination because lamination-based shale facies are related to differing features in mineral composition, porosity, and Young’s modulus. …”
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Analysis of Consumer Behavioral Factors Between Online Shopping and Physical Store Experience in the M-Commerce Era by Ovidiu-Aurel Ghiuță, Andreea Nistor

“…In recent decades, people have used resources at a rate that exceeds the total consumed throughout history. …”
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Utilizing Footstep Sound Event Detection by Using CNN Techniques for Assuring Property Security by Furkan Y. Yavuz, Nejat Yumusak

“…The strategic incorporation of diverse open-source data fosters transparency and reproducibility, enhancing the model’s adaptability and reliability in handling real-world audio patterns, as evidenced by its commendable 1% error rate in precise identification.…”
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Enhancing Restoration in Urban Waterfront Spaces: Environmental Features, Visual Behavior, and Design Implications by Shiqin Zhou, Chang Lin, Quanle Huang

“…Key findings revealed the following: (1) The element visibility rate and visual characteristics of plant and building elements significantly influence restorative benefits. (2) Spatial configuration attributes (degree of enclosure, spatial hierarchy, and depth perception) regulate restorative benefits. (3) Visual behavior patterns (attributes of fixation points, fixation duration, and moderate dispersion of fixations) are significantly associated with restoration benefits. …”
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Transcriptome Classification Reveals Molecular Subgroups in Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis by Yuxia Liu, Chang Xu, Wenxin Gao, Huaqiong Liu, Chenglong Li, Mingwei Chen

“…Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a disease of progressive lung fibrosis with a high mortality rate. This study aimed to uncover the underlying molecular features for different types of IPF. …”
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The Caddisfly Collective: Methods of assessing Trichoptera diversity on a continental scale with community scientists by Kelly M. Murray-Stoker, Shannon J. McCauley

“…Amidst a global biodiversity crisis, collecting data at large spatial scales can illuminate patterns. Community science can be an avenue to reduce costs, broaden the scope of sampling, and, most importantly, connect with members of the public who are interested in and impacted by long-term ecological change. …”
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Analyzing RNA Localization Using the RNA Proximity Labeling Method OINC-seq by Megan Pockalny, Hei-Yong Lo, Raeann Goering, J. Taliaferro

“…Thousands of RNAs are localized to specific subcellular locations, and these localization patterns are often required for optimal cell function. …”
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Heartbeat detection and personal authentication using a 60 GHz Doppler sensor by Takuma Asano, Shintaro Izumi, Hiroshi Kawaguchi

“…BackgroundMicrowave Doppler sensors, capable of detecting minute physiological movements, enable the measurement of biometric information, such as walking patterns, heart rate, and respiration. Unlike fingerprint and facial recognition systems, they offer authentication without physical contact or privacy concerns. …”
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CyclicAugment: Optimized Medical Image Analysis via Adaptive Augmentation Intensity by Min-Jun Kim, Jung-Woo Chae, Hyun-Chong Cho

“…However, there are many challenges, such as data scarcity and complex structural patterns, limiting the performance of deep-learning models. …”
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Actoprotective activity of 5-(2-bromophenyl)-4-amino-4H-1,2,4-triazole-3-thione and its S-derivatives by Ye. S. Pruglo

“…We have revealed some patterns regarding to the chemical structure and pharmacological action of the test substances. …”
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Clutter Mitigation in Indoor Radar Sensors Using Sensor Fusion Technology by Srishti Singh, Ha-Neul Lee, Yuna Park, Sungho Kim, Si-Hyun Park, Jong-Ryul Yang

“…The results show that our approach improves the signal-to-noise ratio by 2 dB and increases the target detection rate by 8.6% within the critical 4–6 m range, with additional gains observed under constrained velocity conditions.…”
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Underwater acoustic classification across diverse sea environments using adaptive regularization and knowledge encoding by Muhammad Azeem Aslam, Muhammad Irfan, Xu Wei, Wang Jun, Hu Hongfei, Wang Shiyu, Xin Liu, Shahid Ali

“…Our method introduces an adaptive regularization technique for stable weight and learning rate updates. In addition, a robust knowledge encoding scheme is introduced to preserve and reuse learned features effectively. …”
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