Optimizing infrared drying of black soldier fly larvae for sustainable cricket feed production by Nuntawat Butwong, Sarawut Saenkham, Adisak Pattiya, Anuwat Saenpong, Chinnapat Turakarn, Aphichon Mungchu, Shenghua Hu, Sopa Cansee

“…The optimal specific energy consumption was 1.58 MJ/kg water evaporated at 60 °C. …”
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Optimal resection rate for lung cancer in the UK: how high should we go? by Najib Rahman, Elizabeth Belcher, Dionisios Stavroulias, Jenny Mitchell, Francesco Di Chiara

“…We investigated the outcomes of patients with early-stage lung cancer who were considered for surgical management.Methods We reviewed the outcomes of consecutive patients who were considered for resection of early-stage primary lung cancer at Oxford University Hospitals National Health Service Foundation Trust between 2012 and 2017.Results Between 29 November 2012 and 31 March 2017, 467 consecutive patients underwent resection with curative intent for primary lung cancer (operative group), while 81 patients were deemed resectable but either inoperable or did not wish to proceed to operation (non-operative group). …”
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Optimizing role assignment for scaling innovations through AI in agricultural frameworks: An effective approach by Sonia Bisht, Ranjana, Swapnila Roy

“…The proposed approach serves as a blueprint for agricultural enterprises aiming to adopt AI technologies while ensuring optimal utilization of human and technological resources. …”
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Delivering data: A real-world dataset for last-mile delivery optimizationZenodo by Anna Vrani, Savvas D. Apostolidis, Athanasios Ch. Kapoutsis, Elias B. Kosmatopoulos

“…Each day’s problem involved 60-85 delivery stops that needed to be serviced. While the actual delivery routes covered only specific paths taken on the road, the generated matrices provide a complete view of travel distances and times between all locations, information essential for optimizing the routing process. …”
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Covert communication method based on tripartite generative adversarial network by Jihong YU, Ziyan LIN, Neng YE, Kai YANG, Jianping AN

“…A novel tripartite generative adversarial network (TripartiteGAN) and a covert communication method based on TripartiteGAN were designed for jointly optimizing the transmission covertness and the demodulation accuracy of the covert message.The performance of the method was analyzed.Specifically, TripartiteGAN was used to manipulate the amplitude and phase of an input modulated covert data so that the distribution of the generated covert signal superposing the overt signal approximates to that of the overt signal for the public user.The proposed method could work with an optimum warden that needs neither to set the detection threshold manually nor to know the transmit power characteristics of the sender.Simulation results show that under the additive white Gaussian noise channel, the proposed TripartiteGAN improved the demodulation accuracy at the covert receiver end while keeping the probability of regarding the detected signal as the covert one or the overt one at the warden around 0.5.Moreover, the proposed method outperforms the existing covert communication scheme based on generative adversarial network (GAN).…”
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Semi-quantitative Safety Assessment Method for Liquid Rocket Body Structure by ZHAOLihua, CHENGXiaoyu, GAOLu, WANGGuangze

“… Aiming at the safety problem of liquid rocket body structure , this paper presents a method to evaluate the safety state by using belief rule base ( BRB) and whale optimization algorithm ( WOA) model. …”
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Desalination and Sterilization of Sea Water Using Active Optimized Optical Heat Concentration System by Hifsa Shahid, Umar Rashid, Haris Anwaar, Muhammad Salim Butt, Fahim Gohar Awan, Farhan Ahmad Butt, Frederic Nzanywayingoma

“…Most of the global desalination methods require a lot of electrical energy that mostly comes from non-renewable energy resources, including coal, natural gas, and oil. …”
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Optimizing Strategies in Patients Affected by Tumors Infiltrating the Skull: A Single Center Experience by Giuseppe Emmanuele Umana, Sruthi Ranganathan, Salvatore Marrone, Jessica Naimo, Matteo Giunta, Angelo Spitaleri, Marco Fricia, Gianluca Ferini, Gianluca Scalia

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Analysis of optimizing Bicon short implant placement in posterior mandible with type II bone by Mingyi Ji, Xinyi Ji, Junfeng Xu

“…For the Bicon short implant utilized in type II bone within the mandibular posterior region, the optimal dimensions were determined to be 6 mm by 5 mm. …”
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CBID: A Scalable Method for Distributed Data Aggregation in WSNs by Aristides Mpitziopoulos, Damianos Gavalas, Charalampos Konstantopoulos, Grammati Pantziou

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The optimal timing of breast cancer surgery after COVID-19 infection: an observational study by Zhao Bi, Wei-Hao Cheng, Wen-Hao Zheng, Tong-Yue Ren, Peng Chen, Yan-Bing Liu, Peng-Fei Qiu, Wei-Li Wang, Yong-Sheng Wang

“…Purpose was to assess the risk of postoperative complication in breast cancer patients with COVID-19 infection, in order to select optimal surgery timing after COVID-19 infection. Methods Breast cancer patients infected with COVID-19 and performed surgery between December 20th, 2022 to March 20th, 2023 were included in this prospective study (n = 577). …”
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Multi-Objective Optimization of Distributed Generation Placement in Electric Bus Transit Systems Integrated with Flash Charging Station Using Enhanced Multi-Objective Grey Wolf Opt... by Yuttana Kongjeen, Pongsuk Pilalum, Saksit Deeum, Kittiwong Suthamno, Thongchai Klayklueng, Supapradit Marsong, Ritthichai Ratchapan, Krittidet Buayai, Kaan Kerdchuen, Wutthichai Sa-nga-ngam, Krischonme Bhumkittipich

“…In the three-DG configuration, MOGWO achieved minimum power losses of 0.0279 MW and 0.0179 MW, and voltage deviations of 0.1313 and 0.1362 in the 33-bus and 69-bus systems, respectively, while eliminating voltage violations. The proposed method also demonstrated superior solution quality with low variance and faster convergence, requiring under 7 h of computation on average. …”
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DCFE-YOLO: A novel fabric defect detection method. by Lei Zhou, Bingya Ma, Yanyan Dong, Zhewen Yin, Fan Lu

“…Finally, the feature fusion network integrates Partial Convolution and Efficient Multi-scale Attention, optimizing the fusion of information across different feature levels and spatial scales, which enhances the richness and accuracy of feature representations while reducing computational complexity. …”
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A Trusted Federated Learning Method Based on Consortium Blockchain by Xiaojun Yin, Xijun Wu, Xinming Zhang

“…Federated learning (FL) has gained significant attention in distributed machine learning due to its ability to protect data privacy while enabling model training across decentralized data sources. …”
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A Method for Polyp Segmentation Through U-Net Network by Antonella Santone, Mario Cesarelli, Francesco Mercaldo

“…Early detection of colorectal polyps through endoscopic colonoscopy is crucial in reducing colorectal cancer mortality. While automated polyp segmentation has been explored to enhance detection accuracy and efficiency, challenges remain in achieving precise boundary delineation, particularly for small or flat polyps. …”
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An Efficient Method for Offset Mitigation in Free-Space Optical Systems by Omar A. Saraereh, Imran Khan, Jeong Woo Lee

“…The proposed algorithm effectively mitigates the dc offset impact on the system and the BER is significantly improved while the MSE is reduced to 50% of the traditional state-of-the-art method. …”
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RP-HPLC Method Developed for the Determination of Metformin in Human Saliva by Nasir Ibrahim, Musa Aminu, Abdullahi Musa Ismail, Yusuf Amina Jega, Awwalu Salisu

“… Several extraction steps involved while analyzing metformin in plasma necessitates the need to develop a simple less tedious RP-HPLC method for metformin analysis in human saliva.Blank saliva (2 mL) was spiked with 2 mL solution (12.5 µg mL-1) of metformin and 1 mL solution (0.5 µg mL-1) of caffeine as internal standard (IS). …”
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Optimal Treatment of Magnetic Seizure Therapy (MST) in Patients with Clozapine-Resistant Schizophrenia (CRS) by Xiang Q, Xu P, Zhai Z, Jia Y, Li C, Liu D

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Optimization design of an acoustic cover layer for a cylindrical cavity based on porous materials by Bohan ZHANG, Jili RONG, Xiuyan CHENG

“…The findings indicate that the optimal placement and coverage design of porous materials are essential for achieving the desired protective effects while minimizing material usage and overall mass. …”
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Optimization of IMU-based bending strain solving algorithm and full-scale experimental validation by Tong SHI, Xiaoben LIU, Lin ZHANG, Jun WANG, Rui LI, Ting Xie, Qingshan FENG, Qiyu HUANG

“…The mean square error, error covariance and error standard deviation of the bending strain data derived from the optimized solving process decreased from 0.007 0, 0.004 9, 0.070 2 to 0.001 2, 0.001 6, 0.012 6 respectively, while the coefficient of determination, indicating correlation, rose from 0.443 to 0.981. …”
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