Diagnóstico de la maricultura en Ecuador: oportunidades y desafíos by Jorge Roberto Jiménez Velastegui, Gladys Torres

“…El objeto del presente estudio es emitir un diagnóstico del potencial de la maricultura y describir las oportunidades y desafíos mediante un análisis sobre la investigación y desarrollo realizado sobre los cultivos marinos, vinculado a las normativas de regularización y ordenamiento actuales. Los resultados indican que el país cuenta con las condiciones apropiadas para ampliar la diversificación de la acuicultura con especies marinas de peces, moluscos, equinodermos, y macroalgas; pero con mayor enfoque sobre los cultivos de bivalvos y macroalgas, realizados, hasta ahora, prácticamente solo en la provincia de Santa Elena. …”
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Detecting Fish Diversity in Urban‐Impacted Ecosystems: A Comparative Approach of eDNA Metabarcoding and UVC by Arthur Chung, Y. C. Kam, Stanley K. H. Shea, Celia Schunter

“…UVC on the other hand was more efficient in documenting reef‐associated species. Both methods captured similar patterns of community spatial structure along the habitat transitions while only eDNA detected more large fish species in offshore compared to sheltered inshore environments, This may suggest inshore overfishing and incapability of UVC in surveying large mobile species in turbid environments. …”
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AdaMoR-DDMOEA: Adaptive Model Selection with a Reliable Individual-Based Model Management Framework for Offline Data-Driven Multi-Objective Optimization by Subhadip Pramanik, Abdalla Alameen, Hitesh Mohapatra, Debanjan Pathak, Adrijit Goswami

“…The proposed algorithm dynamically selects between DNN and XGBoost by comparing their k-fold cross-validation MAE error, which can capture the true generalization ability of the surrogates on unseen data. …”
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Association of the newly proposed dietary index for gut microbiota and constipation: a cross-sectional study from NHANES by Zhuhui Zhang, Chunlu Bi, Runsheng Wu, Muwen Qu

“…DI-GM is an innovative metric designed to capture the diversity of the gut microbiome, yet its association with constipation remains unstudied.MethodsIn this cross-sectional study, 11,405 adults aged 20 and older were selected from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 2005–2010 for the sample. …”
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A generalist vector-transmitted parasite exhibits population genetic structure among host genera by Vincenzo A. Ellis, Mélanie Duc, Arif Ciloglu, Olof Hellgren, Staffan Bensch

“…We designed a sequence capture protocol to isolate 1.13 Mbp (ca. 5%) of the parasite genome and identified 1399 variable sites among the sequenced infections. …”
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Historical biogeography and systematics of yellow-bellied toads (Bombina variegata), with the description of a new subspecies from the Balkans by Christophe Dufresnes, Simeon Lukanov, Sven Gippner, Johanna Ambu, Ilias Strachinis, Dragan Arsovski, Benjamin Monod-Broca, Hugo Cayuela, Petros Lymberakis, Daniele Canestrelli, Dan Cogălniceanu, Nikolay A. Poyarkov, Spartak N. Litvinchuk, Tomasz Suchan, Mathieu Denoël, Daniel Jablonski

“…As it reached the Dinarides during the Late Pleistocene, B. v. variegata potentially hybridized with B. v. scabra and captured its mitochondrial DNA, which resulted in a massive cyto-nuclear discordance across all northwestern European populations. …”
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Supply Chain Practices and Performance of Institutions: A Case Study of Hotloaf Bakery in Kabale Municipality. by Asiimwe, Elias

“…The study results on the roles of efficient planning on timely production in hotloaf bakery was; efficient planning helps in setting the priorities, efficient planning allows managers to evaluate, control, budget and improve different aspects of an organization, efficient planning helps in defining the organizational levels and standards, planning of bakery provides essential feedback to employees and the organization on areas they need to improve and efficient planning helps organization to establish an evaluative frameworks that captures overall organizational goals. The study results on the relationship between efficient sourcing and quality product output in hot loaf bakery where; outsourcing can be used to economize on production cost, outsourcing help bakeries to stay competitive, outsourcing allows bakeries to expand efficiency, outsourcing minimizes business expenditure for quality production, outsourcing helps to improve on bakery productivity and outsourcing helps in not giving attention other aspects of the business that do not deal with the core business functions. …”
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Billing Systems and Customer Satisfaction in the Ministry of Water and Environment Uganda: A Case of Kabale South Western Umbrella of Water and Sanitation. by Ayebare, Ivan

“…A sample size of 136 respondents was selected from a population of 210 determined using the statistical table of Krejcie & Morgan (1970), of which 132 actually participated in the study giving a response rate of 97.1%. …”
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Investigating the Efficiency of Coffee Husks in Bio-Retention Model for Storm Water Treatment. by Musasizi, Joseph

“…A bio-retention is the storm water Best Management Practices (BMP) designed to capture and treat the runoff using the natural properties of soil and plants to remove contaminants. …”
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Experiences and Challenges of the Integrated Development Model on Job Creation in Rwanda’s Gasabo District. by Rutarindwa, Alphonse, Ocan, Johnson, Adyanga, Francis Akena

“…Limitations: the limitations of the study include potential biases in self-reported data and the geographical limitation to Gasabo District, which may not fully capture the national context. Contribution: The findings of this study contribute to the understanding of integrated development program models in job creation and provide policy recommendations for enhancing these interventions. …”
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The Climate Change Impact on Agriculture Productivity in Karama Sector, Nyagatare District, Rwanda. by Odile, Twagiramariya

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Contribution of NGO’s and Private Sector to Natural Forest Conservation of Nyugwe National Park Rwanda. by Sabbas, Duhayimana .A.

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Deep Learning-Based Speech Emotion Recognition Using Multi-Level Fusion of Concurrent Features by Samuel, Kakuba, Alwin, Poulose, Dong, Seog Han, Senior Member, Ieee

“…Acoustic and lexical features were extracted from the interactive emotional dyadic motion capture (IEMOCAP) dataset. The proposed model achieves 75.50% and 75.82% of weighted and unweighted accuracy, 75.32% and 75.57% of recall and F1 score respectively. …”
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The development and maintenance of immunity against visceral leishmaniasis by Rahul Tiwari, Awnish Kumar, Vishal Kumar Singh, Rajneesh, Shashi Bhushan Chauhan, Shyam Sundar, Susanne Nylén, Christian Engwerda, Rajiv Kumar

“…CD4+ T helper (Th) cells orchestrate immune responses in leishmaniasis and IFNγ+ Tbet+ CD4+ T (Th1) cells are required for the activation of phagocytes to kill captured or resident parasites, while other Th cell subset, including FoxP3+ natural regulatory T cells and Th2 cells can promote disease progression by suppressing the activities of Th1 cells. …”
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Relativistic Electron Model in the Outer Radiation Belt Using a Neural Network Approach by Xiangning Chu, Donglai Ma, Jacob Bortnik, W. Kent Tobiska, Alfredo Cruz, S. Dave Bouwer, Hong Zhao, Qianli Ma, Kun Zhang, Daniel N. Baker, Xinlin Li, Harlan Spence, Geoff Reeves

“…Furthermore, ORIENT‐R captured the trend in the electron fluxes from low‐earth‐orbit (LEO) SAMPEX, which is a completely out‐of‐sample data set both temporally and spatially. …”
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Using a multi-layer snow model for transient paleo-studies: surface mass balance evolution during the Last Interglacial by T.-K.-D. Hoang, A. Quiquet, C. Dumas, A. Born, D. M. Roche, D. M. Roche

“…This suggests that the physics embedded in BESSI allows better capture of SMB changes across varying climate conditions, while ITM displays a much stronger sensitivity to its tunable parameters. …”
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Fluid structure Interaction analysis for rupture risk assessment in patients with middle cerebral artery aneurysms by Jozsef Nagy, Wolfgang Fenz, Stefan Thumfart, Julia Maier, Zoltan Major, Harald Stefanits, Maria Gollwitzer, Johannes Oberndorfer, Nico Stroh, Michael Giretzlehner, Michael Sonnberger, Andreas Gruber, Philip-Rudolf Rauch, Matthias Gmeiner

“…Multivariate analysis identified two significant rupture predictors: High Equivalent Stress Area (HESA; p = 0.049), which quantifies stress distribution relative to the aneurysm surface, and Gaussian curvature (GLN; p = 0.031), which captures geometric complexity. We also introduce the HGD index, a novel composite metric combining HESA, GLN, and Maximum Wall Displacement, designed to enhance predictive accuracy. …”
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Rapid diversification of St-genome-sharing species in wheat grasses (Triticeae: Poaceae) accompanied by diversifying selection of chloroplast genes by Li-Na Sha, Ning Chen, Shi-Yong Chen, Yue Zhang, Yi-Ran Cheng, Dan-Dan Wu, Yi Wang, Hou-Yang Kang, Hai-Qin Zhang, Xiao Ma, Yong-Hong Zhou, Xing Fan

“…Phylogenomic analysis confirmed previous phylogenetic relationships, with the St/E/V lineages (Pseudoroegneria/Lophopyrum + Thinopyrum/Dasypyrum) being suffered from a chloroplast capture event prior to polyploidization events. Analyses of diversification rates detected a significant acceleration approximately five million years ago in the St-genome-sharing taxa. …”
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Biomechanics Parameters of Gait Analysis to Characterize Parkinson’s Disease: A Scoping Review by Michela Russo, Marianna Amboni, Noemi Pisani, Antonio Volzone, Danilo Calderone, Paolo Barone, Francesco Amato, Carlo Ricciardi, Maria Romano

“…Most gait analyses in PD patients have been conducted at self-selected walking speeds to capture natural movement, although studies have also examined gait under various conditions. …”
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ViT-Based Face Diagnosis Images Analysis for Schizophrenia Detection by Huilin Liu, Runmin Cao, Songze Li, Yifan Wang, Xiaohan Zhang, Hua Xu, Xirong Sun, Lijuan Wang, Peng Qian, Zhumei Sun, Kai Gao, Fufeng Li

“…Objectives: Computer-aided schizophrenia (SZ) detection methods mainly depend on electroencephalogram and brain magnetic resonance images, which both capture physical signals from patients’ brains. These inspection techniques take too much time and affect patients’ compliance and cooperation, while difficult for clinicians to comprehend the principle of detection decisions. …”
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