High-Speed Penetration Test and Numerical Simulation of Ceramic-Reactive Powder Concrete Composite Target by Xuezhi Wu, Huihui Zou, Gan Li, Yihao Cheng, Chunming Song

“…To study the protective performance of ceramic materials against the high-speed penetration of projectiles, seven ceramic-reactive powder concrete (C-RPC) composite targets were designed. Using a 100/30 mm two-stage light-gas gun, penetration tests were performed at 1.4–2.0 km/s. …”
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Synchronous Stability of Four Homodromy Vibrators in a Vibrating System with Double Resonant Types by Xueliang Zhang, Chao Li, Zhihui Wang, Shiju Cui

“…This paper can provide a theoretical reference for designing a type of new high-frequency vibrating mill.…”
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Modeling Femtosecond Beam Propagation in Dielectric Hollow-Core Waveguides by Valer Tosa, Ana Maria Mihaela Gherman, Katalin Kovacs, István Tóth

“…Our results contribute to the description of the main features of beam propagation in HCWs and provide guiding directions for designing efficient configurations for HHG.…”
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Antimicrobial Evaluation of Bacterial Isolates from Urine Specimen of Patients with Complaints of Urinary Tract Infections in Awka, Nigeria by Perpetua A. Ekwealor, Malachy C. Ugwu, Ifeanyi Ezeobi, George Amalukwe, Belinda C. Ugwu, Ugochukwu Okezie, Catherine Stanley, Charles Esimone

“…Urinary tract infections (UTIs) account for one of the major reasons for most hospital visits and the determination of the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of uropathogens will help to guide physicians on the best choice of antibiotics to recommend to affected patients. This study is designed to isolate, characterize, and determine the antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of the pathogens associated with UTI in Anambra State Teaching Hospital, Amaku, Anambra State, Nigeria. …”
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Thermal and Environmental Analysis Solar Water Heater System for Residential Buildings by Reza Alayi, Nima Khalilpoor, Saeid Heshmati, Atabak Najafi, Alibek Issakhov

“…Therefore, using solar water heaters annually can provide 70% of the energy needed for water heating. The system designed in this research is able to provide 75% of the hot water consumption needs. …”
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Liver-innervating vagal sensory neurons are indispensable for the development of hepatic steatosis and anxiety-like behavior in diet-induced obese mice by Jiyeon Hwang, Sangbhin Lee, Junichi Okada, Li Liu, Jeffrey E. Pessin, Streamson C. Chua, Gary J. Schwartz, Young-Hwan Jo

“…Modulation of the liver-brain axis may aid in designing effective treatments for both psychiatric and metabolic disorders associated with obesity and MAFLD.…”
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Role of stem cells on motor function recovery in stroke patients: systematic review by Babita Raghuwanshi, Suresh K. Thanneeru, Roshan Chanchalani, Sumit Raj, Pradeep Chouksey, Md Yunus, Amit Agrawal

“…Conclusions Although some studies suggest the potential efficacy of stem cell therapy for motor recovery in stroke patients, the evidence lacks consistency. Future well-designed, robust randomized controlled trials are necessary to evaluate the efficacy, safety, and ethical implications of stem cell therapy for motor recovery in stroke patients.…”
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Study of the Influence of Clay Minerals on the Mechanical and Percolation Properties of Weakly Cemented Rocks by Shiru Guo, Hai Pu, Mengsen Yang, Ding Liu, Ziheng Sha, Junce Xu

“…This paper uses the self-designed weakly cemented remodeling mechanism to prepare weakly cemented rock samples with clay minerals accounting for 20%, 30%, 40%, 50%, and 60% of the total. …”
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Advancing forensic investigations based on TiO2/Bi2O3 electrochemical sensor for precise potassium estimation in vitreous humor by Zulfiqar Ali Buzdar, Hamza Ali, Maria Munir, Naveed A. Shad, Allah Rakha, Anam Munawar

“…This study focuses on leveraging the synergistic potential of a bimetallic TiO2/Bi2O3 nano-composite to meticulously evaluate vitreous potassium levels in human cadavers. The designed TiO2/Bi2O3 nano-composite exhibits a finely structured morphology, characterized by diminutive sheet-like formations spanning the nano-scale dimension of 20–250 nm. …”
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A portable gas sensor based on In2O3@CuO P–N heterojunction connected via Wi-Fi to a smartphone for real-time carbon monoxide determination by Sina Khalili, Mohsen Majidi, Morteza Bahrami, Majid Roshanaei, Tayyebeh Madrakian, Abbas Afkhami

“…In order to verify the system’s functionality, it underwent testing with various levels of CO concentrations (10–900 ppm), including particular tests designed to examine the device’s performance in different humidity and temperature circumstances. …”
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Experimental and Theoretical Research on Shear Strength of Seismic-Damaged SRC Frame Columns Strengthened with Enveloped Steel Jackets by Chengxiang C. X. Xu, Peng S. Sheng, Chong C. Wan

“…Four 1/2-scale SRC columns were designed and manufactured and the postearthquake damage, enveloped steel jacket-confined, and destructive tests were carried out under lateral cyclic loading. …”
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Oligonucleotides as a Novel Therapeutic Approach: An Innovative Area for Drug Delivery in Neurological Disorders by Yasir Qasim Almajidi, Rana Kadum Muslim, Yaseen T. khalf

“…These strategies are designed to overcome these barriers by different pathways and mechanisms of transport across the blood−brain barrier. …”
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Assessment of Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale in Emergency Department in Iraq by Hanan N Najaf, Rusul F Hasan, Nidhal H Hammod, Samer A Hasan

“…The workers in an emergency department in hospitals of middle and south of Iraq who deal with a lot of stress and under pressure most of day are sample of this study which designs to assess anxiety and depression in these workers, surely who accepted to participate in this study between Jan to May 2023 by using Hospital anxiety and depression scale (HADs) in Arabic was employed. …”
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All-fiber delivery of 100 W single-frequency laser through 100 m anti-resonant hollow-core fiber without stimulated Brillouin scattering by Shoufei Gao, Wenxiang Zha, Yujun Feng, Zhixi Liang, Yizhi Sun, Xiaobo Yang, Yingying Wang

“…By employing a custom-designed AR-HCF with a mode-field diameter matching that of a large-mode-area panda fiber, the system achieves high coupling efficiency without the need for free-space components or fiber post-processing. …”
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Dual-Channel Deepfake Audio Detection: Leveraging Direct and Reverberant Waveforms by Gunwoo Lee, Jungmin Lee, Minkyo Jung, Joseph Lee, Kihun Hong, Souhwan Jung, Yoseob Han

“…Deepfake content-including audio, video, images, and text-synthesized or modified using artificial intelligence is designed to convincingly mimic real content. As deepfake generation technology advances, detecting deepfake content presents significant challenges. …”
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Tracking Control of Wave-Adaptive Modular Unmanned Surface Vehicle Using Time-Delay Zeroing Neural Network by Pengfei Guo, Wenyue Zhang, Zheng Li, Zheng Zheng

“…The advancement of artificial intelligence has significantly enhanced the role of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in various ocean engineering applications. Designing a controller for USV systems that ensures stability, high precision, and rapid convergence remains a complex challenge in intelligent control. …”
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Dominance-Partitioned Subgraph Matching on Large RDF Graph by Bo Ning, Yunhao Sun, Deji Zhao, Weikang Xing, Guanyu Li

“…Thirdly, the dominance-partitioned subgraph matching algorithm is designed to conduct all isomorphic subgraphs on a cluster-partitioned RDF graph. …”
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The effectiveness of TRIS and ammonium buffers in glass dissolution studies: a comparative analysis by Ramya Ravikumar, Clare L. Thorpe, Claire L. Corkhill, Sam A. Walling, James J. Neeway, Carolyn I. Pearce, Albert A. Kruger, David S. Kosson, Jose Marcial, Russell J. Hand

“…Abstract Selecting appropriate buffers is crucial for evaluating the chemical durability of glass under controlled conditions such as in the EPA 1313 test designed to measure elemental release as a function of pH. …”
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Five-Axis Printing of Continuous Fibers on the Mold by Paweł Michalec, Marius Laux, Gidugu Lakshmi Srinivas, Robert Weidner, Mathias Brandstötter

“…This paper explores a five-axis printing method designed to improve the fabrication of continuous fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites (CFRTPCs), essential for producing lightweight, complex structures in advanced manufacturing. …”
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Effect Improved for High-Dimensional and Unbalanced Data Anomaly Detection Model Based on KNN-SMOTE-LSTM by Fuguang Bao, Yongqiang Wu, Zhaogang Li, Yongzhao Li, Lili Liu, Guanyu Chen

“…This paper uses long short-term memory networks (LSTMs) combined with historical sequence data; also, it integrates the synthetic minority oversampling technique (SMOTE) algorithm and K-nearest neighbors (kNN), and it designs and constructs an anomaly detection network model based on kNN-SMOTE-LSTM in accordance with the data characteristic of being unbalanced. …”
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