Marine Nature Reserve: The Starting Point of Marine Ecological Environment Protection in China? by Quansheng Wang, Guoqing Han, Qi Zhang

“…A marine nature reserve is an area designated by law for the special protection and management of sea areas, coasts, estuarine wetlands, islands, and other sea areas needing special protection, including objects of exceptional conservation value. …”
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Monitoring air quality in residential areas with low-cost sensors: Santa Cecilia case by Oscar Arnulfo Fajardo-Montaña, Yeimy Alejandra Salinas, Carlos Reyes, Daniel Santiago Becerra-Casas

“…This study evaluates the behaviour of particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter below 2.5 micrometres (PM2.5) in indoor environments of the Santa Cecilia neighbourhood, relative to outdoor atmospheric concentrations, using custom-designed low-cost sensors. In situ PM2.5 concentrations were compared with meteorological data and PM2.5 reports from the Bogotá Air Quality Monitoring Network (RMCAB). …”
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On the power of Gini index-based goodness-of-fit test for the Inverse Gaussian distribution by Hadi Alizadeh Noughabi, Mohammad Shafaei Noughabi

“…In this paper, we present a goodness-of-fit test specifically designed for the Inverse Gaussian distribution. Our test uses an estimate of the Gini index, a statistical measure of inequality. …”
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Bioengineering in Solid-State Fermentation for next sustainable food bioprocessing by Muyideen Olaitan Bamidele, Micheal Bola Bamikale, Eliseo Cárdenas-Hernández, Motolani Adepeju Bamidele, Guillermo Castillo-Olvera, José Sandoval-Cortes, Cristóbal Noe Aguilar

“…A review of bioengineering strategies that optimize microbial growth and metabolite production in SSF systems is presented in this chapter, including novel bioreactor designs and genetic engineering of microorganisms combined with metabolic engineering. …”
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Donor Lungs’ Procurement Implementation with Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion in a Low-Volume Lung Transplant Center by Matteo Petroncini, Elena Salvaterra, Leonardo Valentini, Silvia Bonucchi, Niccolò Daddi, Saverio Pastore, Pietro Bertoglio, Piergiorgio Solli, Filippo Antonacci

“…(1) Background: Ex Vivo Lung Perfusion (EVLP) is a technique designed to assess and recondition marginal lungs, potentially expanding the donor pool and improving transplant outcomes (2) Methods: This retrospective study evaluated lung transplantation outcomes after EVLP. …”
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A Hybrid Ant Colony Optimization for Dynamic Multidepot Vehicle Routing Problem by Haitao Xu, Pan Pu, Feng Duan

“…In addition, in order to deal with dynamic problem of DMDVRP quickly, a real-time addition and optimization approach is designed to handle the new customer requests. Finally, the t-test is applied to evaluate the proposed algorithm; meanwhile the relations between degrees of dynamism (dod) and HACO are discussed minutely. …”
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Analysis of RF Front-End Performance of Reconfigurable Antennas with RF Switches in the Far Field by Insu Yeom, Junghan Choi, Sung-su Kwoun, Byungje Lee, Changwon Jung

“…For the switching operation of the antennas, a biasing circuit was designed and embedded in the same antenna board, which included a battery to emphasize the antenna’s adaptability to mobile devices. …”
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Mutagenicity and Acute Oral Toxicity Test for Herbal Poultry Feed Supplements by Boddapati Srinivasa Rao, C. V. Chandrasekaran, H. S. Srikanth, Murugan Sasikumar, R. Edwin Jothie, Begum Haseena, Bethapudi Bharathi, Ramasamy Selvam, D’Souza Prashanth

“…The present study was designed to investigate five poultry feed supplements (PFS), EGMAX® (to revitalize ovarian activity), FEED-X™ (feed efficiency enhancer), KOLIN PLUS™ (natural replacer of synthetic choline chloride), PHYTOCEE® (natural defence enhancer), and STODI® (to prevent and control loose droppings), for their possible mutagenicity and toxicity. …”
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A systematic evaluation of GPT-4V's multimodal capability for chest X-ray image analysis by Yunyi Liu, Yingshu Li, Zhanyu Wang, Xinyu Liang, Lingqiao Liu, Lei Wang, Leyang Cui, Zhaopeng Tu, Longyue Wang, Luping Zhou

“…For the evaluation, a set of prompts is designed for each task to induce the corresponding capability of GPT-4V to produce sufficiently good outputs. …”
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A Second Harmonic Current Suppression Strategy Based on a Digital Band-Stop Filter With Center Frequency Tracking Grid Frequency by Jun-Hyeong Kwon, Guangxu Zhou, Chun-Sung Kim, Sung-Jun Park, Yipei Wang

“…Based on this, the digital BSF is combined with a phase-locked loop, and the center frequency is further designed to track the acquired grid frequency in real-time. …”
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Investigation of the effect of eccentricity and shell diameter on the charging performance of erythritol for thermal energy storage by Amr Rabiea, Taher Halawa

“…These findings provide valuable insights for optimizing latent heat thermal energy storage designs, particularly for larger-scale applications.…”
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Application of IoT and blockchain technology in the integration of innovation and industrial chains in high-tech manufacturing by Zepei Li, Peng Zheng, Yanjia Tian

“…This study introduces BD-IoTQNet, a novel framework designed to address these challenges by integrating data fusion, anomaly detection using the Isolation Forest algorithm, and blockchain-enabled DQM (Data Quality Management). …”
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Barcoded screening identifies nanocarriers for protein delivery to kidney by Luyao Wang, Wen Zhou, Hang Chen, Xiangqian Jia, Peiyuan Zheng, Haolin Jiang, Mengling Wu, Yaning Zhang, Yanchao Ding, Yexi Peng, Rui Zhu, Tiantian Li, Boxue Tian, Bujie Du, Juanjuan Du

“…However, the complex interactions between nanocarriers and the biological environment pose considerable challenges in designing effective targeted delivery vehicles. In this study, we address this challenge by leveraging DNA-barcoded high-throughput screening. …”
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3D Road Scene Monitoring Based on Real-Time Panorama by Yuezhou Wu, Changjiang Liu, Shiyong Lan, Menglong Yang

“…Real-time panorama is conducive to timely treat traffic accidents and to greatly improve traffic capacity. This paper designs a 3D road scene monitoring framework based on real-time panorama. …”
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Sex Differences in the Implementation of Character Education in Senior High Schools by Ipenas Amran Malin Mudo, Asmah Ahmad, Md. Rosli Ismail

“…In order to answer the problems in the study, descriptive qualitative approach study is designed by using several methods namely interview, observation and documentation. …”

High-Efficiency Partial Power Converter for Integration of Second-Life Battery Energy Storage Systems in DC Microgrids by Naser Hassanpour, Andrii Chub, Neelesh Yadav, Andrei Blinov, Dmitri Vinnikov

“…The article shows how the converter and its control system should be designed to operate in a droop-controlled dc microgrid. …”
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Antibacterial evaluation of antibiotic-coated titanium and stainless steel implants in orthopaedic application: a dip-coating approach by Mesut Kariksiz, Duygu Kirkik

“…Methods The study was designed as an experimental in vitro study, and it was conducted at the Department of Immunology of the University of Health Sciences, Istanbul/ Turkiye in January and February 2024. …”
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Investigation on energy absorption characteristics of thin-walled structures fabricated by bound metal deposition without using debinding chemical reagents by Y.F. Zhu, F.C. Liu, Y.D. Wang, H. Zhang, P. Xue, Z. Zhang, L.H. Wu, D.R. Ni, B.L. Xiao, Z.Y. Ma

“…This study investigated the influence of the processing parameters and structure designs on the energy absorption characteristics of the thin-walled metal structures that were fabricated by the bound metal deposition (BMD) without using debinding chemical reagents. …”
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Operation monitoring platform of relay protection equipment at distribution network side under the background of new power system by Qingsheng Li, Yu Zhang, Zhaofeng Zhang, Zhen Li

“…Therefore, this paper designs a monitoring platform for the operation of relay protection equipment at distribution network side under the background of new power system. …”
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Novel and Efficient Randomized Algorithms for Feature Selection by Zigeng Wang, Xia Xiao, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran

“…To enhance their efficiency, many randomized algorithms have been designed. In this paper, we propose automatic breadth searching and attention searching adjustment approaches to further speedup randomized wrapper based feature selection. …”
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