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Denoising of CT and MRI Images Using Decomposition-Based Curvelet Thresholding and Classical Filtering Techniques

Applied Sciences
Medical image denoising is crucial for enhancing the diagnostic accuracy of CT and MRI images. This paper presents a modular hybrid framework that combines multiscale decomposition techniques (Empirical Mode Decomposition, Variational Mode Decomposition,
Mahmoud Nasr, Krzysztof Brzostowski, Rafał Obuchowicz, Adam Piórkowski   +3 more
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Do Banks in the Middle East and North Africa Region Price Carbon Exposure?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether carbon exposure is incorporated into corporate borrowing costs within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Using a panel of 771 firm‐year observations from publicly listed non‐financial firms between 2016 and 2023, the analysis investigates the relationship between carbon intensity and firms' cost of debt
Yara Ibrahim, Khaled Hussainey, Taghred Mokhtar Sayed Moawad   +2 more
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Prediction of Sea Level Using Double Data Decomposition and Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Northern Territory, Australia

Mathematics
Sea level rise (SLR) attributed to the melting of ice caps and thermal expansion of seawater is of great global significance to vast populations of people residing along the world’s coastlines.
Nawin Raj, Jaishukh Murali, Lila Singh-Peterson, Nathan Downs   +3 more
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Corporate Governance and Environmental Performance: Does Contingency Theory Affect the Explanatory Power of Theoretical Frameworks?

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT There is extensive literature on the relationship between corporate governance (CG) and firms' environmental performance (EP). However, the empirical findings remain somewhat equivocal. A variety of theoretical approaches have been utilised to provide a suitable basis for explaining the causal relationship, including legitimacy theory ...
Lukas Horner, Michael Grüning
wiley   +1 more source

Multiscale Functional Connectivity analysis of episodic memory reconstruction

Frontiers in Cognition
Our ability to share memories constitutes a social foundation of our world. When exposed to another person's memory, individuals can mentally reconstruct the events described, even if they were not present during the related events.
Manuel Morante, Kristian Frølich, Muhammad Shahzaib, Sadia Shakil, Naveed ur Rehman   +4 more
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Drivers of Scope 3 Emissions Disclosure Quality—CDP Analysis

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Scope 3 emissions account for a significant portion of a supply chain's carbon footprint, yet very little research explores the key drivers of high‐quality Scope 3 disclosures. Additionally, while climate governance is a vital part of both improving carbon performance and ensuring corporate accountability, its broader impact on disclosure ...
Xintao Li, Binh Bui, Thanh Phan
wiley   +1 more source

Innovative daily runoff prediction model integrating black-winged kite algorithm and Mamba2–Transformer architecture

Ecological Informatics
The accurate prediction of daily runoff is crucial for effective water resource management, flood prevention, and disaster mitigation. However, current runoff prediction models face dual challenges in extracting discriminative features from random and ...
Dong-mei Xu, Xiao-xue Hu, Wen-chuan Wang, Jun Wang, Can-can Shi, Hong-fei Zang   +5 more
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Hybrid Empirical and Variational Mode Decomposition of Vibratory Signals

Signal analysis is a fundamental field in engineering and data science, focused on the study of signal representation, transformation, and manipulation. The accurate estimation of harmonic vibration components and their associated parameters in vibrating
José Humberto Arroyo-Núñez, Eduardo Esquivel-Cruz, Francisco Beltran-Carbajal, Daniel Guillen, Ivan Rivas-Cambero, Ruben Tapia-Olvera   +5 more
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Structure or Composition? Explaining the ESG Premium in Firm Profitability With Oaxaca and Pseudo‐Panel Evidence

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines whether ESG‐related profitability differences arise from observable firm characteristics or from structural differences in how firms convert those characteristics into performance outcomes. Using an unbalanced panel data design, the final sample comprises 727 firm‐year observations from 178 publicly listed non‐financial ...
Yara Ibrahim, Khaled Hussainey, Taghred Mokhtar Sayed Moawad   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Do Energy Prices, Financial Conditions, and ESG‐Related Uncertainty Shape Energy Efficiency in the United States? Evidence From Wavelet Quantile Regression

Business Strategy and the Environment, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Improving energy efficiency is a central pillar of climate mitigation strategies, energy security, and sustainable economic growth, particularly in energy‐intensive economies such as the United States. This study investigates the nonlinear and distribution‐dependent effects of energy prices, financial conditions, economic policy uncertainty ...
Busra Agan Celik
wiley   +1 more source