Isolation and Characterization of Diesel-Degrading Bacteria from Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Sites, Flower Farms, and Soda Lakes by Gessesse Kebede Bekele, Solomon Abera Gebrie, Eshetu Mekonen, Tekle Tafese Fida, Adugna Abdi Woldesemayat, Ebrahim M. Abda, Mesfin Tafesse, Fasil Assefa

“…Thus, there is a need to investigate and develop innovative, low-cost, eco-friendly, and fast techniques to reduce and/or eliminate pollutants using biological agents. …”
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Equilibrium Studies of Fluoride Adsorption onto a Ferric Poly−mineral from Kenya by EW Wambu, CO Onindo, W Ambusso, GK Muthakia

“…The adsorption of F onto FPM was found to be a fast process and, at 1000 mg/L initial F concentration at pH 3.32 and 293 K and using 0.2 g/mL adsorbent dosage, over 90% F removal from solution could be achieved in 30 min. …”
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Optimization of Aerodynamic Power of Three Wind Turbines in Turbulent Wind Farm by Kang CHEN, Weiyuan WANG, Jiahuang TU

“…In order to reduce the influence of the wake effect between wind turbines on the output power of wind farms and improve the efficiency of wind farms, it is necessary to carry out a reasonable layout of wind turbines. [Method] Using Fast Farm simulation technology, the effects of changing the wind turbine spacing on the power and its improvement rate of three NREL 5 MW turbines in a turbulent wind farm under tandem and staggered arrangements were studied. …”
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Cross-Modality 2D-3D Face Recognition via Multiview Smooth Discriminant Analysis Based on ELM by Yi Jin, Jiuwen Cao, Qiuqi Ruan, Xueqiao Wang

“…Simulations show that our new proposed method generally outperforms several recent approaches with a fast training speed.…”
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Welcome Note by Faisal Masud Faisal Masud

“…Still, on the other hand, clinicians have been forced to stay abreast with up-to-date information in their respective fields. Fast-changing paradigms of each sub-specialty of Medicine, the ever-increasing role of Artificial-Intelligence (AI), the importance of data mining, and complex misinformation (infodemic) call for a further refined approach to curriculum. …”
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Cortical and subcortical activities during food rewards versus social interaction in rats by Florbela Rocha-Almeida, Ana R. Conde-Moro, Antonio Fernández-Ruiz, José M. Delgado-García, Agnès Gruart

“…Cross-frequency coupling analysis provided further insights, demonstrating dynamic changes in theta-to-gamma coupling during both food and social rewards, with distinct roles for slow- and fast-gamma frequencies. These findings shed light on the intricate neural processes underlying reward preferences and/or decision-making choices, highlighting the NAc’s potential role in social reward processing, and the mPFC’s involvement in modulating theta–gamma rhythms during reward-related decision-making.…”
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The Metabolism of Creatinine and Its Usefulness to Evaluate Kidney Function and Body Composition in Clinical Practice by Marcela Ávila, Mariana G. Mora Sánchez, Alma Sofía Bernal Amador, Ramón Paniagua

“…Serum creatinine levels are the most used clinical marker to estimate renal function as the glomerular function rate because it is simple, fast, and inexpensive. However, creatinine has limitations, as its levels can be influenced by factors such as advanced age, physical activity, protein-rich diets, male gender, medications, and ethnicity. …”
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South African indigenous chickens' genetic diversity, and the adoption of ecological niche modelling and landscape genomics as strategic conservation techniques by Reneilwe Rose Mogano, Takalani Judas Mpofu, Bohani Mtileni, Khanyisile Hadebe

“…However, they are threatened by predators, emerging diseases, and market demand for ideal breeds and fast production which causes loss of their valuable traits. …”
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Advances in Surface Plasmon Resonance-Based Biosensor Technologies for Cancer Cell Detection by Bhishma Karki, Arun Uniyal, Amrindra Pal, Vivek Srivastava

“…This biosensor executes better over a wide range of refractive index variations, including biological cell distribution in individual blood. It may become a fast method of detecting cancerous cells and the several variants of corona and other viruses that become pandemic. …”
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Efficacy of Topical Hydrocortisone in Combination with Topical Ciclosporin A for the Treatment of Dry Eye Disease in Patients with Sjögren Syndrome by Klemens Fondi, Kata Miháltz, Pia Veronika Vécsei-Marlovits

“…This study indicates that hydrocortisone combined with ciclosporin A therapy may provide fast improvement of clinical symptoms and could have long-term positive effects on the optical image quality in severe DED patients with Sjögren syndrome.…”
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Variable Torque Control of Offshore Wind Turbine on Spar Floating Platform Using Advanced RBF Neural Network by Lei Wang, Shan Zuo, Y. D. Song, Zheng Zhou

“…The proposed control approach is tested and compared with the NREL baseline controller using the “NREL offshore 5 MW wind turbine” model mounted on a Spar floating platform run on FAST and Matlab/Simulink, operating in the below-rated wind speed condition. …”
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Investigation of sodium fire aerosol diffusiophoresis deposition in concrete gaps during the processes within nuclear power plants by Yichen Li, Tiancai Liu, Huanjun Zhu, Xiangyu Yan

“…Sodium fire accidents are among the high-risk incidents that nuclear power plants with sodium-cooled fast reactors pay close attention to. Sodium fire reactions can generate a considerable amount of heat and aerosols within a short period. …”
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Improving Energy Adaptivity of Constructive Interference-Based Flooding for WSN-AF by Dapeng Cheng, Yanyan Mao, Yin Wang, Xiangrong Wang

“…Constructive interference (CI) is a synchronous transmission technique for multiple senders transmitting the same packet simultaneously in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). CI enables fast and reliable network flooding in order to reduce the scheduling overhead of MAC protocols, to achieve accurate time synchronization, to improve link quality of lossy links, and to realize efficient data collection. …”
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Differences in and relationship between digital access, use, connectivity, skill, engagement, and motivation: implications for digital inequality in online learning among first-gen... by Minas Michikyan, Kaveri Subrahmanyam, Pamela Regan, Miguel Ángel Cano, Linda G. Castillo, Audrey Harkness, Seth J. Schwartz

“…First-generation students reported less frequent access to fast and reliable internet and using multiple devices for online learning. …”
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Analysis of KRAS Mutations of Exon 2 Codons 12 and 13 by SNaPshot Analysis in Comparison to Common DNA Sequencing by Rica Zinsky, Servet Bölükbas, Holger Bartsch, Joachim Schirren, Annette Fisseler-Eckhoff

“…Due to the call for fast KRAS mutation status analysis for treatment of patients with monoclonal antibodies for metastatic colorectal cancer, sensitive, economic, and easily feasible methods are required. …”
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Multiple Spacecraft Formation Flying Control around Artificial Equilibrium Point Using Propellantless Approach by Lei Zhao, Changqing Yuan, Xiaoming Li, Jingjiu He

“…Thirdly, based on a new double power combination function reaching law, a fast integral terminal sliding mode control methodology (MFITSM) is ameliorated to achieve orbital tracking rapidly, which has better robustness against external disturbances and the buffeting effect during spacecraft propulsion simultaneously. …”
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Quantum complexity of time evolution with chaotic Hamiltonians by Vijay Balasubramanian, Matthew DeCross, Arjun Kar, Onkar Parrikar

“…Our analysis relates complexity to familiar properties of physical theories like their spectra and the structure of energy eigenstates and has implications for the hypothesized computational complexity class separations PSPACE BQP/poly and PSPACE BQSUBEXP/subexp, and the “fast-forwarding” of quantum Hamiltonians.…”
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Design Study for a Quasisynchronous CDMA Sensor Data Collection System: An LEO Satellite Uplink Access Technique Based on GPS by Yijun Chen, Sheng Ding, Zhouchen Xie, Zhuangping Qi, Xuwen Liang

“…The satellite system is expected to have the following features: rapid production, low cost, and fast construction of the satellite network. In this paper, a QS-CDMA uplink access technique in the LEO satellite is presented and discussed, which is focused on the local clocks using GPS 1PPS timing signals and the Doppler compensation for terminal uplink. …”
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Uncertainties Analysis on the Prediction of Flow and Heat Transfer of Liquid Sodium with CFD Technology by Zhanwei Liu, Xinyu Li, Tenglong Cong, Rui Zhang, Lingyun Zheng, Hang Deng, Yuning Cui

“…The prediction of flow and heat transfer characteristics of liquid sodium with CFD technology is of significant importance for the design and safety analysis of sodium-cooled fast reactor. The accuracies and uncertainties of the CFD models should be evaluated to improve the confidence of the numerical results. …”
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Statistical Recognition of OAM States in Free-Space Optical System by Qinnan Zhu, Guowei Yang, Zhiyu Yuan, Meihua Bi, Xuefang Zhou, Miao Hu

“…Although a few impactful methods had been developed to measure static OAM states, the fast and accurate recognition of dynamic OAM states in FSO communications remains a challenge due to the OAM crosstalk easily induced by the atmospheric turbulence. …”
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