Covert Network Analysis for Key Player Detection and Event Prediction Using a Hybrid Classifier by Wasi Haider Butt, M. Usman Akram, Shoab A. Khan, Muhammad Younus Javed

“…In this paper, we present a novel method to predict key players from a covert network by applying a hybrid framework. …”
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Normal wiggly probabilistic hesitant fuzzy-based TODIM approach for optimal solid waste disposal method selection by Jawad Ali, Dragan Pamucar

“…Initially, two novel basic operations over NWPHFSs—the subtraction and division operations—are defined. …”
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Applications and challenges of capacitive deionization technology in selective separation by YANG Qun, XU Ziyang, ZHANG Changyong*

“…Capacitive deionization (CDI) has emerged as a novel electro-driven desalination process that is gradually being applied in the selective separation of target ions from multicomponent solutions. …”
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The role of oxidative stress, glucocorticoid receptor and ARMC5 in lipid metabolism by Yosuke Okuno, Atsunori Fukuhara, Iichiro Shimomura

“…We identified ARMC5 as a novel ubiquitin E3 ligase of full-length SREBF, a master regulator of lipid metabolism. …”
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Origin of Visible Light Photocatalytic Activity of Ag3AsO4 from First-Principles Calculation by Yan Gong, Hongtao Yu, Xie Quan

“…Recently a novel sliver oxide Ag3AsO4 has been found to be an excellent photocatalyst with strong oxidation capability for pollutant degradation under visible light. …”
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Acefylline Derivatives as a New Class of Anticancer Agents: Synthesis, Molecular Docking, and Anticancer, Hemolytic, and Thrombolytic Activities of Acefylline-Triazole Hybrids by Irum Shahzadi, Ameer Fawad Zahoor, Bushra Parveen, Azhar Rasul, Zohaib Raza, Sajjad Ahmad, Ali Irfan, Gamal A. El-Hiti

“…The synthesis of novel acefyllines and exploring their biological activities attract researchers due to their medicinal applications. …”
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Emerging Therapeutic Strategies for Limbal Stem Cell Deficiency by Ying Dong, Han Peng, Robert M. Lavker

“…These novel therapeutic approaches have demonstrated efficacy for ocular surface reconstruction and restoration of vision in patients with LSCD. …”
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Haunted Houses, Haunted Bodies: Spectral Presence in Arlington Park by Claire WROBEL

“…There is only one spectral apparition (that of Amanda’s grandmother), but the novel as a whole shows women that are haunted by their former selves – their childhood, who they were before marriage –, by the way others perceive them, by who they might have been, by who they might still be. …”
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A Gothic heterotopia: four Anglophone responses to Venice by John Thieme

“…It pursues this line of thinking in relation to four Anglophone representations of Venice: the recent film A Haunting in Venice (2023), directed by Kenneth Branagh and scripted by Michael Green, which is very loosely adapted from Agatha Christie’s Hallowe’en Party (1969), and which subjects the whodunnit genre to a Gothic makeover, Daphne du Maurier’s short story ‘Don’t Look Now’ (1971) and Nicolas Roeg’s film adaptation (1973) of it, in which the Gothic particularly manifests itself in the form of psychic precognition, and Amitav Ghosh’s novel Gun Island (2019), in which an ostensibly realistic novel is infiltrated by recurrent paranormal elements, several of which are occasioned by the ‘unnaturalness’ of climate change. …”
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Computational Swarming: A Cultural Technique for Generative Architecture by Sebastian Vehlken

“…This article seeks to conceptualise SI and ABM as a fundamental and novel cultural technique for governing dynamic processes, taking their employment in generative architectural design as a concrete example. …”
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How Hippo Signaling Pathway Modulates Cardiovascular Development and Diseases by Wenyi Zhou, Mingyi Zhao

“…Recent research has demonstrated a novel role of Hippo signaling in cardiovascular disease in the context of development, hypertrophy, angiogenesis, regeneration, apoptosis, and autophagy. …”
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A New Decision Support Framework with Picture Fuzzy Information: Comparison of Video Conferencing Platforms for Higher Education in India by Sanjib Biswas, Dragan Pamucar, Paramita Chowdhury, Samarjit Kar

“…The purpose of this paper is to present a novel extension of a very recently developed multicriteria decision making (MCDM) algorithm known as the preference ranking on the basis of ideal-average distance (PROBID) method in a picture fuzzy (PF) environment. …”
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Gradient Enhancement Techniques and Motion Consistency Constraints for Moving Object Segmentation in 3D LiDAR Point Clouds by Fangzhou Tang, Bocheng Zhu, Junren Sun

“…To handle the issue of uneven object scales in range images, we develop a novel edge-aware loss function and use a progressive training strategy to further boost performance. …”
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Mini-review on the antimicrobial potential of actinobacteria associated with seagrasses by Galana Siro, Atanas Pipite

“…The search for novel therapeutic agents to combat the crisis of antimicrobial resistance has spanned from terrestrial to unique, marine environments. …”
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Adult Onset Still’s Disease: A Case Report with a Rare Clinical Manifestation and Pathophysiological Correlations by Katerina M. Antoniou, George A. Margaritopoulos, Ioannis Giannarakis, Christianna Choulaki, Nikos Fountoulakis, Nikos M. Siafakas, Prodromos Sidiropoulos

“…We report a case of an eosinophilic pleural effusion as a novel and hitherto unrecognized manifestation of active adult-onset Still’s disease. …”
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Révision de Jane Eyre comme métacommentaire philosophique dans les romans d’Anita Brookner by Eileen Williams-Wanquet

“…Although none of Brookner’s twenty-three novels to date actually re-write Jane Eyre as hypotext, Brontë’s novel is part of the pervasive intertextuality of Brookner’s text, addressed here as a monolithic fiction. …”
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Designs of Biomaterials and Microenvironments for Neuroengineering by Yanru Yang, Yuhua Zhang, Renjie Chai, Zhongze Gu

“…Photonic crystal materials, known as a novel concept in nerve substrates, have provided a new avenue for neuroengineering research because of their unique ordered structure and spectral attributes. …”
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Lightweight attention-based SAR ship detector by YU Nanjing, FENG Daquan, ZHU Ying, ZHANG Hengjia, LU Ping

“…Therefore, a lightweight attention-based ship detector (LASD) was proposed. A novel linear hybrid attention module was designed which extracted potential ship features from deep-level space by using global channel attention and local spatial attention. …”
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A parallel CNN architecture for sport activity recognition based on minimal movement data by Huipeng Zhao

“…Abstract Novel Human Activity Recognition (HAR) methodologies, which are built upon learning algorithms and employ ubiquitous sensors, have achieved remarkable precision in the identification of sports activities. …”
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Mechanical properties of honeycomb structure with zero Poisson’s ratio for flexible trailing edge by ZHOU Yue, LI Bo, XU Weiwei, WEN Youyi

“…This study can provide references for the design and analysis of novel flexible trailing edge structures.…”
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