Thermal performance enhancement in a solar air heater fitted with flapped V-baffles: Numerical study by Chinnapat Turakarn, Pitak Promthaisong, Teerapat Chompookham

“…The energy costs can be effectively managed by VG as well as improving thermal performance if the VG was optimally designed.The effect of flapped V-baffles (FVB) on thermal performance enhancement in a solar air heater in the turbulent flow regime was numerically investigated. …”
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Digital mapping of peat thickness and extent in Finland using remote sensing and machine learning by Jonne Pohjankukka, Timo A. Räsänen, Timo P. Pitkänen, Arttu Kivimäki, Ville Mäkinen, Tapio Väänänen, Jouni Lerssi, Aura Salmivaara, Maarit Middleton

“…Compared to existing superficial deposit maps, our peat predictions significantly improve the spatial detail of peatlands at the national level, offering new opportunities for land use planning and emission mitigation. …”
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Feasibility of Implementing Motion-Compensated Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reconstruction on Graphics Processing Units Using Compute Unified Device Architecture by Mohamed Aziz Zeroual, Natalia Dudysheva, Vincent Gras, Franck Mauconduit, Karyna Isaieva, Pierre-André Vuissoz, Freddy Odille

“…Motion correction in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become increasingly complex due to the high computational demands of iterative reconstruction algorithms and the heterogeneity of emerging computing platforms. …”
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Belief in building a full-fledged distance learning course in athletic training by Andrii Yefremenko, Illia Shutieiev

“…In particular, the experts mostly agreed with the logic and completeness of the course structure, the expediency of centralised content placement in the cloud environment, the optimality of the selected communication channels (email and cloud services), the clarity of the motor learning algorithm for remote performance by students, the adequacy of the proposed evaluation system and the presence of significant advantages in the use of tablets/smartphones in the educational process. …”
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Privacy-preserving federated learning framework with dynamic weight aggregation by Zuobin YING, Yichen FANG, Yiwen ZHANG

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Landslide Segmentation in High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images: The Van–UPerAttnSeg Framework with Multi-Scale Feature Enhancement by Chang Li, Quan Zou, Guoqing Li, Wenyang Yu

“…In addition, this study introduces a sliding window algorithm based on Gaussian fusion as a post-processing method, which optimizes the prediction of landslide edge in high-resolution remote sensing images and ensures the context reasoning ability of the model. …”
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Distributed Beamforming for Relay Assisted Multiuser Machine-to-Machine Networks by Chen Chen, Lin Bai, Meiping Feng, Minhua Huang, Tian Tian

“…Numerical simulations for the proposed algorithms are presented showing the performance of the proposed schemes is close to that of the optimal scheme with global CSI in terms of bit error rate (BER) criterion.…”
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Acute Appendicitis Remains a Great Mimicker – The Pitfalls in the Differential Diagnosis and Tactics - A Case Report by Georgi Popivanov, Marina Konaktchieva, Vladimir Vasilev, Kirien Kjossev, Marin Penkov, Dimitar Penchev

“…Acute appendicitis (AA) is the most common non-traumatic abdominal emergency. Despite the improved knowledge, experience, and technological advance, its diagnosis remains a challenge. …”
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A Novel Temperature Reconstruction Method for Acoustic Pyrometry Under Strong Temperature Gradients and Limited Measurement Points by Jingkao Tan, Lehang Chen, Na Li, Qulan Zhou, Zhongquan Gao, Jie Zhou

“…Acoustic pyrometry (AP) is a promising methodology for high-quality temperature field reconstruction, which is widely used in the monitoring of atmosphere, room, and furnace. However, most of the existing acoustic reconstruction algorithms are developed and utilized in relatively uniform temperature distributions. …”
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In vitro machine learning-based CAR T immunological synapse quality measurements correlate with patient clinical outcomes. by Alireza Naghizadeh, Wei-Chung Tsao, Jong Hyun Cho, Hongye Xu, Mohab Mohamed, Dali Li, Wei Xiong, Dimitri Metaxas, Carlos A Ramos, Dongfang Liu

“…Specifically, one such therapy involves engineering immune cells to express chimeric antigen receptors (CAR), which combine tumor antigen specificity with immune cell activation in a single receptor. To improve their efficacy and expand their applicability to solid tumors, scientists optimize different CARs with different modifications. …”
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An Interpretable Method for Asphalt Pavement Skid Resistance Performance Evaluation Under Sand-Accumulated Conditions Based on Multi-Scale Fractals by Yuhan Weng, Zhaoyun Sun, Huiying Liu, Yingbin Gu

“…The performance of mainstream machine learning models is compared, and the eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model is optimized using the Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES) algorithm. …”
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Cardiac Computed Tomography Measurements in Pulmonary Embolism Associated with Clinical Deterioration by Anthony J. Weekes, Angela M. Pikus, Parker L. Hambright, Kelly L. Goonan, Nathaniel O’Connell

“…Introduction: Most pulmonary embolism response teams (PERT) use a radiologist-determined right ventricle to left ventricle ratio (RV:LV) cut-off of 1.0 to risk-stratify pulmonary embolism (PE) patients. …”
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Comparative Assessment of Several Effective Machine Learning Classification Methods for Maternal Health Risk by Md Nurul Raihen, Sultana Akter

“…Maternal risk analysis can improve prenatal care, improve mother and baby health, and optimize healthcare resources by identifying misclassified observations using machine learning algorithms such as LDA, QDA, KNN, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Bagging, and Support Vector Machine, all of which have a significant impact on maternity health risk assessment. …”
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Site-specific prediction of O-GlcNAc modification in proteins using evolutionary scale model. by Ayesha Khalid, Afshan Kaleem, Wajahat Qazi, Roheena Abdullah, Mehwish Iqtedar, Shagufta Naz

“…Protein glycosylation, a vital post-translational modification, is pivotal in various biological processes and disease pathogenesis. …”
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Tribological Performance Enhancement in FDM and SLA Additive Manufacturing: Materials, Mechanisms, Surface Engineering, and Hybrid Strategies—A Holistic Review by Raja Subramani, Ronit Rosario Leon, Rajeswari Nageswaren, Maher Ali Rusho, Karthik Venkitaraman Shankar

“…Through material-level innovations, process optimization, and surface treatment techniques integration, the article provides actionable guidelines for researchers and engineers aiming at performance improvement of FDM and SLA-manufactured parts. …”
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On Flood Detection Using Dual-Polarimetric SAR Observation by Su-Young Kim, Yeji Lee, Sang-Eun Park

“…This study aims to elucidate the optimal exploitation of polarimetric scattering information in dual-pol SAR data. …”
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Dose prediction of CyberKnife Monte Carlo plan for lung cancer patients based on deep learning: robust learning of variable beam configurations by Yuchao Miao, Jiwei Li, Ruigang Ge, Chuanbin Xie, Yaoying Liu, Gaolong Zhang, Mingchang Miao, Shouping Xu

“…Abstract Background Accurate calculation of lung cancer dose using the Monte Carlo (MC) algorithm in CyberKnife (CK) is essential for precise planning. …”
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Real-Time Common Rust Maize Leaf Disease Severity Identification and Pesticide Dose Recommendation Using Deep Neural Network by Zemzem Mohammed Megersa, Abebe Belay Adege, Faizur Rashid

“…We applied image preprocessing techniques such as image equalization, noise removal, and enhancement to improve model performance. Additionally, during training, we utilized batch normalization, dropout, and early stopping to reduce overfitting, improve accuracy, and improve execution time. …”
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Comprehensive Analysis of Phenotypic Traits in Chinese Cabbage Using 3D Point Cloud Technology by Chongchong Yang, Lei Sun, Jun Zhang, Xiaofei Fan, Dongfang Zhang, Tianyi Ren, Minggeng Liu, Zhiming Zhang, Wei Ma

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Development and validation of a quick screening tool for predicting neck pain patients benefiting from spinal manipulation: a machine learning study by Changxiao Han, Guangyi Yang, Haibao Wen, Minrui Fu, Bochen Peng, Bo Xu, Xunlu Yin, Ping Wang, Liguo Zhu, Minshan Feng

“…Results The combined LASSO and Boruta algorithms identified nine optimal predictors, with the union feature set achieving superior performance. …”
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