Seasonal forecasts of crop yield are important components for agricultural policy decisions and farmer planning. A wide range of input data are often needed to forecast crop yield in a region where sophisticated approaches such as machine learning an...
The evaluation and enhancement of image aesthetics play a pivotal role in the development of visual media, impacting fields including photography, design, and computer vision. Composition, a key factor shaping visual aesthetics, significantly influen...
Finding the correlation between stocks is an effective method for screening and adjusting investment portfolios for investors. One single temporal feature or static nontemporal features are generally used in most studies to measure the similarity bet...
Fabrication of self-reinforced polyethylene terephthalate (PET) has been achieved through the in situ generation of PET fibrils via a spun bond process. The reinforcement fibrils created from the PET with higher Tm are made from a unique in situ proc...
Measuring total porosity in shale gas reservoir samples remains a challenge because of the fine-grained texture, low porosity, ultra-low permeability, and high content of organic matter (OM) and clay mineral. The composition content porosimetry metho...
This paper studies the effective dielectric properties of heterogeneous materials of the type particle inclusions in a host medium, using the Maxwell Garnet and the Bruggeman theory. The results of the theories are applied at polymer-dispersed liquid...
The elastic properties of polypropylene (PP) and ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) textile composites were predicted using finite element analysis (FEA). A three-dimensional (3D) model of composites was generated by introducing a clot...
The aim of this study was to predict urinary creatinine excretion (UCr), creatinine clearance (CCr) and the glomerular filtration rate (GFR) from body composition analysis. Body cell mass (BCM) is the compartment which contains muscle mass, which is...
After the long period of mandatory distance learning, either synchronous or asynchronous, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the existence of learning tools to support students in similar scenarios is welcomed in many curriculum subjects. Geometric tra...
The production of synthetic materials generally uses non-renewable forms of energy, which are highly polluting. This is driving the search for natural materials that offer properties similar to synthetic ones. In particular, the use of natural lignoc...
The differentiation of personality by intelligence hypothesis suggests that there will be greater individual differences in personality traits for those individuals who are more intelligent. Conversely, less intelligent individuals will be more simil...
Composite laminates were produced by RTM using similar glass and flax fabrics and both vitrimer epoxy and aerospace-grade epoxy, both formulated for liquid molding. Tensile and flexural properties were measured and compared, revealing that the vitrim...
Large Language Models have shown considerable potential for academic document understanding, but their use in information extraction remains limited by hallucination and incomplete evidence grounding. This study presents an end-to-end Retrieval-Augme...
This paper proposes a novel method for measuring music similarity. Existing music similarity measurements have often been used for music appreciation, but this paper proposes a method for measuring the similarity between music samples which are used...
Geographic knowledge bases (GKBs) with multiple sources and forms are of obvious heterogeneity, which hinders the integration of geographic knowledge. Entity alignment provides an effective way to find correspondences of entities by measuring the mul...
It is well known that the curing residual stress induced during a fabrication process has a great influence on the performance of piezoelectric composite devices. The purpose of this work was to evaluate the residual thermal stress of lead zirconate...
The cross-section of various substrate–deposit metal pairs obtained with a laser-assisted additive manufacturing process has been studied by observing the composition profile with energy-dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). The EDS composition profil...
In this study, to fabricate neutron shielding material, boron carbide (B4C)-reinforced aluminum (Al) alloy composites were successfully fabricated by stir casting followed by a hot rolling process. Microstructural analysis of B4C/Al6061 composites wi...
Lightweight aeronautical structures and power generation structures such as wind turbines are fitted with protected external layers designed and certified to withstand severe climatic events such as lightning strikes. During these events, high curren...
Live coral cover is a key indicator of coral reef composition, health, and functioning. Airborne imaging spectroscopy provides verifiably accurate estimates of live coral cover to seawater depths of 25 m, yet satellite-based approaches have not achie...
Background: It was previously established that Multiple sclerosis (MS) generates energy alterations at the mitochondrial level related to the loss of muscle mass. Ketone bodies, mainly beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB), re-establish this energy alteration c...
The current research is focused on the mutual comparison (mechanical properties, response to humidity) of agro-waste composite materials. The purpose of this work is directed at the valorization of agro-waste biomass products and to investigate their...
This study introduced an experimental bioactive glass (BG) with a lower Na2O content than conventional BG 45S5 (10.5 wt% vs. 24.5 wt%), additionally containing CaF2 (12 wt%) and a network connectivity similar to that of BG 45S5. A series of experimen...
This study assessed the bleaching and abrasiveness levels of different kinds of toothpaste with various RDA values on nanohybrid and microhybrid composite samples using a novel Press-on Force-Guided brushing simulator. One hundred and forty disc-shap...
Quaternary perovskite solar cells are being extensively studied, with the goal of increasing solar cell efficiency and securing stability by changing the ratios of methylammonium, formamidinium, I3, and Br3. However, when the stoichiometric ratio is...
Background: Surgical indication of ascending thoracic aortic aneurysms (ATAA) is generally performed in prevention. Guidelines use aortic diameter as a predictor of rupture and dissection; however, this single parameter alone has a limited value in p...
Rural areas cool off by night but built-up urban areas lack similar relief and may threaten vulnerable people’s health during heat waves. Temperature varies within a city due to the heterogenous nature of urban environments, but official measurement...
The assessment of the degree to which biological communities in streams impaired by acid mine drainage (AMD) are restored by passive treatment has focused primarily on eukaryotic-cell organisms and microbial processes. The responses of microbial comm...
Background/Objectives: Assessing artificial intelligence (AI) acceptance may help identify questions for nursing education, but similar overall scores need not reflect similar response patterns. We compared general AI acceptance in healthcare profess...
Landscape patterns along highways vary with the spatial extent examined, and similar responses may conceal differences in land cover and patch structure. We analyzed 14 nested cumulative buffer widths (0.05–10 km) across three sections of China...
General derivation of the well-known Ren–Otsuka relationship,
Spatial information on forest functional composition is needed to inform management and conservation efforts, yet this information is lacking, particularly in tropical regions. Canopy foliar traits underpin the functional biodiversity of forests, and...
Low carbon and digitalization are the general trends of manufacturing upgrading and transformation. Digital technology enables the whole process of green manufacturing and breaks down the spatial barrier. To achieve the dual carbon goals, the pressur...
Photocatalytic oxidation of propane using hydrothermally synthesized TiO2 samples with similar primary crystal size containing different ratios of anatase, brookite and rutile phases has been studied by measuring light-induced propane conversion and...
16 March 2020
In some countries, obesity rates among police officers are higher than the general public, despite physically demanding jobs. Obesity rates based on body mass index (BMI) may lack accuracy as BMI does not directly address body composition. Since data...
Even with considerable attention in recent decades, measuring and working with patterns remains a complex task due to the underlying dynamic processes that form these patterns, the influence of scales, and the many further implications stemming from...
Class imbalance in tabular datasets poses a challenge for machine learning classification tasks, often leading to biased models that underperform in predicting minority class instances. This study presents a comparative analysis of synthetic data gen...
Background: Knowledge distillation (KD) compresses deep neural networks by transferring knowledge from a high-capacity teacher model to a lightweight student model. However, conventional evaluation metrics such as accuracy, mAP, IoU, or RMSE focus ma...
The fault detection of steam turbine blades faces severe engineering challenges, such as insufficient fault data, imbalanced class distribution, and difficulty in extracting weak damage signal features, which seriously restrict the accuracy and gener...
Enamel demineralization, known as dental caries, is instigated by the bacterium Streptococcus mutans, which generates acid during carbohydrate metabolism. Among carbohydrates, sucrose is the most cariogenic and capable of biofilm formation. This stud...
7 April 2023
An emerging area of research extends work on couple functioning and physical health to gut health, a critical marker of general health and known to diminish with age. As a foray into this area, we conducted a pilot study to (1) determine the feasibil...
Domain generation algorithms (DGAs) play an important role in network attacks and can be mainly divided into two types: dictionary-based and character-based. Dictionary-based algorithmically generated domains (AGDs) are similar in composition to norm...
Machinability testing of ordinary wood-based panels can be useful, but testing prototypical (not produced industrially) panels is even more useful. So, the innovative (made only on a laboratory scale) flat-pressed WPCs were the subject of this study....
This paper aims to study interface shear performance between porous polyurethane mixture (PPM) and asphalt mixture with different adhesive materials. Polyurethane, epoxy resin, and SBS (styrene–butadiene–styrene) modified asphalt were sel...
Neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs) are web-like structures composed of chromatin and proteins from neutrophil granules. Several studies highlight the heterogeneity of NETs, underscoring the challenges associated with their detection. In patients w...
Feed chemical composition is associated with methane (CH4) formation in the rumen, and thus CH4 yields (Ym; CH4 emitted from per unit of dry matter intake) could be predicted using near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS) of feeds fed to ruminan...
In this study, the temperature–frequency dependencies of the pressboard–bio-oil–water nanoparticle composite’s fundamental parameters—phase shift angle and admittance—were examined using the Frequency Domain Spectr...
The regression model has higher requirements for the quality and balance of data to ensure the accuracy of predictions. However, there is a common problem of imbalanced distribution in real datasets, which directly affects the prediction accuracy of...
Industrially cured, high-translucent computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM) resin-based composites (RBC) are the most recently launched dental restoratives. Clinical treatments and laboratory tests are based on a homogeneous dis...
Improving the productivity of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.) plants subjected to combined salinity and heat stresses is a significant challenge, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. Gianco F1 cucumbers were grafted onto five cucurbit rootstocks...
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