Parliamentary Elections in Bulgaria. «Deja vu»? by Kandel, P.E.

“…As predicted, the coalition government formed on the third attempt and led by Kiril Petkov, a leader of the new movement «We Continue the Change» did not last long. It fell victim to a no-confidence vote initiated by its main opponent, the GERB party of ex-premier Boyko Borisov. …”
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FIFTH PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS IN BULGARIA by Pavel E. Kandel

“…The leaders of the warring majority camps (GERB-SDS vs «We Continue the changes» – «Democratic Bulgaria») already fear of being branded as the culprits of a new failure leading to appointment of one more temporary technocratic government by the president and the next snap elections. …”
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Weed detection in soybean fields using improved YOLOv7 and evaluating herbicide reduction efficacy by Jinyang Li, Wei Zhang, Wei Zhang, Hong Zhou, Chuntao Yu, Qingda Li

“…We proposed a weed detection model—YOLOv7-FWeed—based on improved YOLOv7, adopted F-ReLU as the activation function of the convolution module, and added the MaxPool multihead self-attention (M-MHSA) module to enhance the recognition accuracy of weeds. We continuously monitored changes in soybean leaf area and dry matter weight after herbicide reduction as a reflection of soybean growth at optimal herbicide application levels. …”
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