Achieving inter- and transdisciplinarity in Ecohealth: insights from a rodent-borne disease project in a polycrisis era by Isabelle Arpin, Clémence Massart, Vincent Bourret, Guillaume Castel, Valeria Carolina Colombo, Jana Eccard, Jasmin Firozpoor, Maciej Grzybek, Heikki A. Henttonen, Herwig Leirs, Andrew McManus, Ben Roche, Tarja Sironen, Vincent Sluydts, Peter Stuart, Annetta Zintl, Nathalie Charbonnel

“…Addressing rodent-borne diseases, a less wicked problem, limited engagement potential but enabled constructive dialog with local actors. These insights are vital for addressing variably wicked problems in a polycrisis era. …”
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Smoke Simulation with Detail Enhancement in Ship Fires by Rui Tao, Hongxiang Ren, Xiao Yang, Delong Wang, Jian Sun

“…Smoke simulation is a crucial yet challenging aspect of constructing ship fire scenarios. For the Eulerian smoke simulation method, the low-resolution grid results in a loss of smoke detail, while the high-resolution grid faces significant computational costs. …”
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Simulation of the Compressive Strength of Cemented Tailing Backfill through the Use of Firefly Algorithm and Random Forest Model by Qi-Ang Wang, Jia Zhang, Jiandong Huang

“…Experimental tests to measure the compressive strength of cemented tailing backfill were conducted to construct the dataset for the machine learning. Five input parameters (tailing to cement ratio, percentage of fine tailings, cement type, curing time, and solid to water ratio) were considered for the design of the laboratory tests. …”
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Graph Convolutional Network for Word Sense Disambiguation by Chun-Xiang Zhang, Rui Liu, Xue-Yao Gao, Bo Yu

“…Discriminative features and sentence containing the ambiguous word are used as nodes to construct the WSD graph. Word2Vec tool, Doc2Vec tool, pointwise mutual information (PMI), and TF-IDF are applied to compute embeddings of nodes and edge weights. …”
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Machine Learning Enabled High‐Throughput Screening of 2D Ultrawide Bandgap Semiconductors for Flexible Resistive Materials by Chi Chen, Hao Wang, Houzhao Wan, Dan Sun

“…Here, a high‐throughput workflow is constructed to screen 2D UWBG semiconductors assisted by machine learning, and 507 potential candidates are obtained. …”
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An affordable and adaptable Faraday isolator design for research by Nicholas L. Wong, Ben Delaney, Takanori Miyazaki, Emma Sokell, Fergal O’Reilly

“…Measurements of the extinction ratio and a Stokes parameter analysis from different points within the isolator validated and characterized the constructed Faraday isolator. The final design had a measured minimum extinction ratio of 31.5±0.3 dB and a maximum of 39.9±0.2 dB depending on the polarization of back reflected light.…”
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Experimental and thermodynamic description of ternary Bi-Cu-Ga system by Minić D., Du Y., Premović M., Manasijević D., Talijan N., Milisavljević D., Marković A., Đorđević A., Tomović M.

“…Based on the experimental result and by using Calphad method, ternary phase diagrams were constructed with a new description of liquidus phase. …”
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Combinatorial co-expression of xanthine dehydrogenase and chaperone XdhC from Acinetobacter baumannii and Rhodobacter capsulatus and their applications in decreasing purine content... by Chenghua Wang, Ran Zhang, Yu Sun, You Wen, Xiaoling Liu, Xinhui Xing

“…Naturally occurring xdhABC gene clusters of A. baumannii CICC 10254 and R. capsulatus CGMCC 1.3366 as well as two refactored clusters constructed by exchanging their xdhC genes were overexpressed in Escherichia coli and purified to near homogeneity. …”
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Efficient ternary organic solar cells with suppressed nonradiative recombination via B‒N based polymer donor by Shuting Pang, Wanyuan Deng, Langheng Pan, Xinyuan Liu, Zhibang Shen, Hongxiang Li, Pei Cheng, Jiayuan Zhu, Wensheng Yan, Chunhui Duan

“…Herin, B‒N-based polymer donor PBNT-BDD was incorporated into the state-of-the-art PM6:L8-BO binary to construct ternary OSCs. Together with the optimal morphology, the ternary device affords an impressive power conversion efficiency of 18.95% with an improved open-circuit voltage (Voc), short-circuit density (Jsc), and reduced Eloss in comparison to the binary ones, which is the highest PCE for B‒N materials-based ternary device. …”
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Computer-Assisted Optimization of the Acetabular Rotation in Periacetabular Osteotomy Using Patient’s Anatomy-Specific Finite Element Analysis by Sung-Jae Park, Sung-Jae Lee, Wen-Ming Chen, Jung-Hong Park, Yong-Soo Cho, Taejin Shin, Soon-Yong Kwon

“…Anatomy-specific finite element (FE) models of the hip were constructed based on clinical CT images. The calculated acetabular rotation during PAO were 9.7°, 18°, and 4.3° in sagittal, coronal, and transverse planes, respectively. …”
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Biaxial Loading Capacity of H-Type Reinforced Concrete Electric Poles by Abolfazl Eslami, Moein Ramezanpour, Ehsan Hematpoury Farokhy, Mohammad Dehghani Sanij

“…., 9 and 12 m ones with a normal strength of 400 kgF) were constructed, cured, and loaded at angles of 0, 30, 60, and 90 degrees with respect to their minor principal axes. …”
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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

“…In this study, we address this challenge by leveraging DNA-barcoded high-throughput screening. We construct a nanocapsule library via in-situ polymerization, incorporating various monomers to create nanocapsules with unique surface properties. …”
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Chromosome-scale assembly and annotation of the wild wheat relative Aegilops comosa by Hongna Li, Shams ur Rehman, Rui Song, Liang Qiao, Xiaohua Hao, Jing Zhang, Kairong Li, Lifeng Hou, Wanyi Hu, Le Wang, Shisheng Chen

“…Comparative genome analysis revealed a terminal intrachromosomal translocation on chromosome 2 M in Ae. comosa. This newly constructed reference genome of Ae. comosa will serve as an important genomic resource for comparative genomic studies and the cloning of agriculturally important genes.…”
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Modelling a Coupled Thermoelectromechanical Behaviour of Contact Elements via Fractal Surfaces by G. Mazzucco, F. Moro, M. Guarnieri

“…Such an algorithm is subsequently implemented to construct a global model for performing transient thermoelectromechanical analyses without the need of simulating roughness asperities of contact surfaces, so reducing the computational cost. …”
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3D Road Scene Monitoring Based on Real-Time Panorama by Yuezhou Wu, Changjiang Liu, Shiyong Lan, Menglong Yang

“…Firstly, land-points were extracted followed by motion detection, then comotion algorithm was applied to land-points from adjacent cameras, and homography matrix was constructed. Secondly, reference camera was chosen and transformed to overhead viewpoint; subsequently multiviews were morphed to the same viewpoint and stitched to panorama. …”
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The Δ33-35 Mutant α-Domain Containing β-Domain-Like M3S9 Cluster Exhibits the Function of α-Domain with M4S11 Cluster in Human Growth Inhibitory Factor by Qingui Bao, Zhichun Ding, Zhong-Xian Huang, Xiangshi Tan

“…Herein, the β(MT3)-β(MT3) mutant and the hGIF-truncated Δ33-35 mutant were constructed, and their biochemical properties were characterized by pH titration, EDTA, and DTNB reactions. …”
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General (hetero)polyaryl amine synthesis via multicomponent cycloaromatization of amines by Lebin Su, Jianyu Dong, Yang Shen, Shimin Xie, Shaofeng Wu, Neng Pan, Feng Liu, Qian Shang, Fangfang Cai, Tian-Bing Ren, Lin Yuan, Shuang-Feng Yin, Li-Biao Han, Yongbo Zhou

“…This strategy directly constructs a remarkable range of amino group-functionalized (hetero)polyaryl frameworks (194 examples), including naphthalene, binaphthalene, phenanthren, benzothiophene, dibenzothiophene, benzofuran, dibenzofuran, quinoline, isoquinoline, quinazoline, and others, which are challenging or impossible to obtain using alternative methods. …”
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Adaptive Variable Parameter Impedance Control for Apple Harvesting Robot Compliant Picking by Ji Wei, Ding Yi, Xu Bo, Chen Guangyu, Zhao Dean

“…On this basis, aiming at the influence of impedance controller parameters on contact force, three impedance parameters self-tuning functions are constructed to complete the design of an improved force-based impedance control system based on the hyperbolic secant function. …”
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Empirical Study of Multi-Objective Risk Portfolio Optimization Based on NSGA-II by Qian Gao, Aleš Kresta

“…The approach involves constructing portfolios, initializing the population using the Non-Dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm II (NSGA-II), and employing crossover and mutation steps to achieve Pareto optimality. …”
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Boosting bulk photovoltaic effect in transition metal dichalcogenide by edge semimetal contact by Shuang Qiao, Jihong Liu, Chengdong Yao, Ni Yang, Fangyuan Zheng, Wanqing Meng, Yi Wan, Philip C. Y. Chow, Dong-Keun Ki, Lijie Zhang, Yumeng Shi, Lain-Jong Li

“…We further design a 3R-MoS2/WSe2 heterojunction to demonstrate constructive coupling of BPVE with the conventional photovoltaic effect, indicating their potential in photodetectors and photovoltaic devices.…”
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