The Fruit Recognition and Evaluation Method Based on Multi-Model Collaboration by Mingzheng Huang, Dejin Chen, Dewang Feng

“…Precision agriculture technology based on computer vision is of great significance in fruit recognition and evaluation. …”
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Genetic Algorithm-Based Particle Swarm Optimization Approach to Reschedule High-Speed Railway Timetables: A Case Study in China by Mingming Wang, Li Wang, Xinyue Xu, Yong Qin, Lingqiao Qin

“…The primary delays occur in high-density period (scheduled headway closes to the minimum headway), which results in a great delay propagation.…”
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A comprehensive numerical study exploring the significance of thermally reactive bioconvection in Falkner-Skan flow of Williamson nanomaterials influenced by activation energy and... by M. Israr Ur Rehman, Haibo Chen, Aamir Hamid, Wu Qian, Refka Ghodhbani, Mohamed Hussien

“…Heat and mass transport performance is greatly improved in a variety of industrial, engineering, and technological applications by the advanced thermal properties of nanomaterials, which are enhanced by chemical reactions, nonlinear thermal radiation, nonuniform heat sources/sinks, Arrhenius kinetic energy, and induced electromagnetic forces. …”
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Morinda citrifolia (Noni) Fruit Juice Reduces Inflammatory Cytokines Expression and Contributes to the Maintenance of Intestinal Mucosal Integrity in DSS Experimental Colitis by Beatriz Coutinho de Sousa, Juliana Reis Machado, Marcos Vinicius da Silva, Thiago Alvares da Costa, Javier Emilio Lazo-Chica, Thatiane do Prado Degasperi, Virmondes Rodrigues Junior, Helioswilton Sales-Campos, Elizabeth Uber Bucek, Carlo José Freire Oliveira

“…These results may point to noni fruit as an important source of anti-inflammatory molecules with a great potential to inhibit the progression of inflammatory diseases, such as inflammatory bowel disease.…”
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Hedgehog Pathway Inhibition Hampers Sphere and Holoclone Formation in Rhabdomyosarcoma by Ana Almazán-Moga, Patricia Zarzosa, Isaac Vidal, Carla Molist, Irina Giralt, Natalia Navarro, Aroa Soriano, Miguel F. Segura, Arantza Alfranca, Javier Garcia-Castro, José Sánchez de Toledo, Josep Roma, Soledad Gallego

“…Our findings point to a crucial role of this pathway in the maintenance of these structures and suggest that Hedgehog pathway targeting in CSC may have great potential in preventing local relapses and metastases.…”
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Evolutionary modeling and robustness analysis of multi-domain cooperative communication network under the environment of Internet of things by Jianrong Wang, Pan Zhang, Wei Bai, Guoyuan Yang, Yunyun Yang

“…The simulation results show that the relay node selection strategy based on the combination of maximum degree and minimum clustering coefficient has significant advantages in selection steps and selection time, which greatly enhanced the performance of relay selection in multi-domain cooperative communication networks. …”
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RESPONSE OF WHEAT TO DIFFERENT ABIOTIC STRESS CONDITIONS: A REVIEW by Harikala Paudel, Radhakrishna Bhandari, Anjali Dhakal, Shivalal Nyaupane, Binod Panthi, Mukti Ram Poudel

“…The production and productivity of wheat have been greatly influenced by global warming and climate change which have created environments such as drought, heat stress, and saline conditions. …”
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Morphological Evolution and Extinction of Eodiscids and Agnostoid Arthropods by Huarui Li, Tao Dai, Yanlong Chen, Chunling Xue, Luke C. Strotz

“…Subsequent reductions in agnostid morphospace occupation coincide not only with significant abiotic changes and associated extinction events, such as the Botoman–Toyonian Extinctions (BTEs), the Redlichiid–Olenellid Extinction Carbon Isotope Excursion (ROECE), the Drumian Carbon Isotope Excursion (DICE), and the Steptoean Positive Carbon Isotope Excursion event (SPICE), but also with major evolutionary episodes, such as the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event (GOBE). …”
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A Cone-Beam Computed Tomography Scanning of the Root Canal System of Permanent Teeth among the Moscow Population by Svetlana Razumova, Anzhela Brago, Lamara Khaskhanova, Ammar Howijieh, Haydar Barakat, Ashot Manvelyan

“…The root canal system varies greatly among populations and even in different individuals within the same population; thus, using CBCT scanning is an effective technique in investigating the root canal system.…”
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The Takeda Three Colors Combination Test: A Screening Test for Detection of Very Mild Alzheimer’s Disease by Shinya Takeda, Kayo Tajime, Toshiatsu Taniguchi

“…Thus, we believe the TTCC shows great potential for use as an AD screening test by a general practitioner in communities worldwide.…”
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Resilience and Adaptation: Yukon River Watershed Contaminant Risk Indicators by Lawrence Duffy, La’Ona De Wilde, Katie Spellman, Kriya Dunlap, Bonita Dainowski, Susan McCullough, Bret Luick, Mary van Muelken

“…Despite a long history of human activity, the Yukon River has not received the holistic and interdisciplinary attention given to the other great American river systems. By using hypothesis-based monitoring of key watershed functions, we can gain insight to regime-shifting stresses such as fire, toxins, and invasive species development. …”
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Desalted duck egg white nanogels as Pickering stabilizers for food-grade oil-in-water emulsion by Jingyun Zhao, Xiaohan Guo, Ze Chen, Yalei Dai, Hongshan Liang, Qianchun Deng, Shugang Li, Bin Zhou

“…Our study demonstrated DEPN had great potential as a stabilizer for food-grade Pickering emulsions.…”
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Efficient voltammetric platform combining a molecularly imprinted polymer and silver-nanoparticle-decorated black phosphorus nanosheets for selective determination of Gatifloxacin by Jingtao Wu, Yonghui Xia, Tianyu Wang, Yafeng Zhang, Guangli Li

“…The resulting MIP/BPNS-AgNP-modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE) greatly enhanced voltammetric responses for GAT. The MIP/BPNS-AgNP/GCE exhibited admirable GAT determination performance, with two linear responses (0.001–1 and 1–50 μM), high sensitivity (9.965 and 0.5378 μA μM−1), and a low detection limit of 0.2 nM. …”
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Geological Sites Supporting the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda: A Survey on the North Coast of São Paulo, Brazil by Laíza Lauriano, Debora Queiroz, Maria Garcia

“…We show that geodiversity plays a fundamental role in contributing to sustainable development and has great potential to influence public policies. In addition, our work can serve as an inspiration for studies involving ecosystem services and encourage greater participation of the local community in nature conservation actions with the sustainable use of geodiversity.…”
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A Novel Efficient Passive Spatial Orientation Detection Method of UMT Enabled by ISB by Zhengqiang Xiong, Tao Sun, Zhengxing Wang, Yuhao Wu, Jie Yin

“…The passive detection and direction-of-arrival (DOA) estimation problem is of great importance in many underwater applications such as target reconnaissance and data collection. …”
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A Numerical Investigation of the Precipitation over Lake Victoria Basin Using a Coupled Atmosphere-Lake Limited-Area Model by Xia Sun, Lian Xie, Fredrick H. M. Semazzi, Bin Liu

“…The WRF-POM coupled system made a great performance on simulating the expected LST, which is featured with eastward temperature gradient as in the real bathymetry of the lake. …”
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Design and Simulation of a Damper with Negative Stiffness for Vibration Mitigation from Drilling Equipment to a Semi-Submersible Platform by Yuan Zhang, Shuqing Wang, Hui Fang, Huawei Han, Yihua Xu

“…The investigations performed in this paper not only provide the design principle of the new damper, but also prove the great potential of the proposed damper in vibration mitigation from drilling equipment to the hull of the platform.…”
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Room temperature ferroelectricity in monolayer graphene sandwiched between hexagonal boron nitride by Fanrong Lin, Xiaoyu Xuan, Zhonghan Cao, Zhuhua Zhang, Ying Liu, Minmin Xue, Yang Hang, Xin Liu, Yizhou Zhao, Libo Gao, Wanlin Guo, Yanpeng Liu

“…Abstract The ferroelectricity in stacked van der Waals multilayers through interlayer sliding holds great promise for ultrathin high-density memory devices, yet mostly subject to weak polarization and cryogenic operating condition. …”
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Water Management Practices Affect Arsenic and Cadmium Accumulation in Rice Grains by Liming Sun, Manman Zheng, Hongyan Liu, Shaobing Peng, Jianliang Huang, Kehui Cui, Lixiao Nie

“…Cadmium (Cd) and arsenic (As) accumulation in rice grains is a great threat to its productivity, grain quality, and thus human health. …”
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Discrimination of Effects between Directional and Nondirectional Information of Auditory Warning on Driving Behavior by Yuting Zhang, Xuedong Yan, Zhuo Yang

“…In terms of deceleration, a directional information warning was shown to greatly help drivers react to critical events at signalized intersections with more moderate braking. …”
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