Robust assessment of railway vehicle safety risks in operation using a proposed data-driven wheel profile generation approach: Design of computer experiments and surrogate models by Braga, Joaquim A.P., Costa, João N., Ambrósio, Jorge, Frey, Daniel, Andrade, António R.

“…Worldwide objectives for railway vehicles are increased capacity, faster travels and higher levels of safety. In the vehicle-track complex system, assessing and controlling the interactions between the wheels and the rail track is crucial to these goals. …”
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Image processing and machine learning techniques for Chagas disease detection and identification by Rada, Lavdie, Azzawi, Inass, Kumar, Preet, Brito-Loeza, Carlos Francisco, Karabağ, Cefa, Reyes-Aldasoro, Constantino C.

“…Advanced deep learning architectures like Faster RCNN, RetinaNet, YOLOv8, and FCOS have been adapted, trained, and compared with each other in terms of the detection accuracy of each image. …”
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Evaluating the socio-environmental impacts of monoculture cashew expansion in the Northern Western Ghats, India by Anushka Rege

“…Farmers preferred cultivar cashew varieties since they produced higher yields faster, although they required more agrochemical inputs and were susceptible to pests and wildlife depredation. …”
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