Design Improvements and Best Practices in Small-Scale Biodigesters for Sustainable Biogas Production: A Case Study in the Chillon Valley, Perú by Yoisdel Castillo Alvarez, Reinier Jiménez Borges, Carlos Diego Patiño Vidal, Fanny Mabel Carhuancho Leon, José Santos Pinares Buendia, Jose Alberto Samaniego Nolasco

“…In this context, anaerobic digestion is an innovative solution that converts waste into biogas and biofertilizers, promoting a sustainable and circular approach. …”
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Promoting cross-culture research on moral decision-making with standardized, culturally-equivalent dilemmas: The 4CONFiDe set by Cinzia Cecchetto, Raffaella Ida Rumiati, Valentina Parma

“…Here, we propose a methodology to adapt, convert and test moral dilemmas in languages different from English, by outlining the process followed for the creation of the comprehensive 4CONFiDe set. …”
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Effect of Isopropanol on Microstructure and Activity of TiO2 Films with Dominant {001} Facets for Photocatalytic Degradation of Bezafibrate by Murtaza Sayed, Fu Pingfeng, Hasan M. Khan, Pengyi Zhang

“…The presence of isopropanol obviously influenced the microstructure of as-synthesized TiO2 films, which was converted from microspheres into irregular close stack of truncated tetrahedrons. …”
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Endothermic and exothermic reactions and stagnation point nanofluid flow over a porous stretched surface with a revised Buongiorno model by R.P. Ashrith, K.V. Nagaraja, P. Nimmy, Pinank Patel, Ankur Kulshreshta, J.K. Madhukesh, Chander Prakash

“…The fourth fifth-order scheme of the Runge Kutta Fehlberg method approach was used to solve the PDEs after they were converted into ODEs using similarity variables. According to the study, the velocity profile increases with velocity ratio parameter values. …”
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Large-Scale Plantlet Conversion and Ex Vitro Transplantation Efficiency of Siberian Ginseng by Bioreactor Culture by Jingli Yang, Shicheng Zhao, Changyeon Yu, Chenghao Li

“…TS2 (culture of torpedo-shaped SEs in a bioreactor with a 2-week subculture interval) plantlets had a higher root number and leaf number and larger leaf area than did HS3 (culture of heart-shaped SEs in a bioreactor with a 3-week subculture interval) and HS2 (culture of heart-shaped SEs in a bioreactor with a 2-week subculture interval) plantlets. Of these converted plants, TS2 plantlets had higher survival rate (83.7%) and growth characteristics after transplantation in a simple shed covered with a 50% sunshade net only for 6 months. …”
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Heterochromatic gene silencing controls CD4+ T cell susceptibility to regulatory T cell-mediated suppression in a murine allograft model by Julie Noguerol, Karl Laviolette, Margot Zahm, Adeline Chaubet, Ambrine Sahal, Claire Détraves, Romain Torres, Clothilde Demont, Véronique Adoue, Carine Joffre, Florence Cammas, Joost PM van Meerwijk, Olivier P. Joffre

“…In conclusion, we identify HP1 variants as rheostats that finely tune the balance between tolerance and immunity. While HP1α converts immunosuppressive signals into heterochromatin-dependent gene silencing mechanisms, HP1γ adjusts Tconv sensitivity to inhibitory environmental signals.…”
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Dynamics of Cropland Non-Agriculturalization in Shaanxi Province of China and Its Attribution Using a Machine Learning Approach by Huiting Yan, Hao Chen, Fei Wang, Linjing Qiu

“…The results showed that, between 2001 and 2020, approximately 17,200.8 km² of cropland (8.4% of the total area) was converted to non-cropland, with a pronounced spatial clustering pattern. …”
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Coloring hot-dip galvanization of steel samples in industrial zinc-manganese baths by Godzsák M., Lévai G., Vad K., Csik A., Hakl J., Kulcsár T., Kaptay G.

“…The minimum Mn-content of liquid Zn is found as 0.025 ± 0.010 m/m% to ensure that the original outer ZnO layer on Zn is converted into the MnO layer. This minimum critical Mn-content is in agreement with chemical thermodynamics.…”
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Simulation of a Reverse Electrodialysis–Absorption Refrigeration Integration System for the Efficient Recovery of Low-Grade Waste Heat by Xi Wu, Linjing Yan, Xiaojing Zhu, Mingjun Liu

“…The absorption refrigeration system (ARS) stands as a remarkable device that is capable of efficiently harnessing low-grade thermal energy and converting it into cooling capacity. The reverse electrodialysis (RED) system harvests the salinity gradient energy embedded in two solutions of different concentrations into electricity. …”
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Assessment of groundwater potential zones using geospatial techniques in Mangalore Taluk, Dakshina Kannada District, Karnataka, India by Eka Putri Elsa, Hamidi Masyhuri, M Shet Suraj, S A Swapna

“…Satellite imageries are used for preparing various thematic maps, viz. slope, drainage density, lineament, land use/cover, soil, rainfall, geology and geomorphology map, which were transformed to raster class data using the feature to raster converter tool in ArcGIS. All the raster maps were allocated a fixed percentage of influence, after which a weighted overlay tool or technique was used. …”
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Passive and active suppression of transduced noise in silicon spin qubits by Jaemin Park, Hyeongyu Jang, Hanseo Sohn, Jonginn Yun, Younguk Song, Byungwoo Kang, Lucas E. A. Stehouwer, Davide Degli Esposti, Giordano Scappucci, Dohun Kim

“…While nuclear spin-free materials, such as isotopically purified silicon, exhibit intrinsically promising coherence properties for electron spin qubits, the omnipresent charge noise, when converted to magnetic noise under a strong magnetic field gradient, often hinders stable qubit operation within a time frame comparable to the data acquisition time. …”
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Determination of the Analytical Solutions of the Radio Emission Geometry and Polar Cap Structure of Pulsars Having Perturbed Dipole by Tridib Roy, Mageshwaran Tamilan, Ramkrishna Das

“…In general, polar caps show a quasi-elliptical shape, but in the presence of higher-order plasma current our results show that they can be converted into an elliptical structure with a monotonically reduced dimension. …”
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Evolution and Attribution Analysis of Habitat Quality in China’s First Batch of National Parks by Pengyue Dai, Yanfang Wang, Jinhong Ye, Jing Chen, Runze Li, Xiping Cheng

“…Results showed that grassland and cultivated land were predominantly converted into forestland, leading to improvements in habitat quality in some parks. …”
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Single-Phase Voltage-Doubler High-Power-Factor Ćuk Rectifier Operating in Discontinuous Conduction Mode by Mateus Nava Mezaroba, Carlos Henrique Illa Font, Telles Brunelli Lazzarin

“…These features make the Ćuk converter suitable for higher voltage applications. …”
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Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 spike trimers towards optimized heparan sulfate cross-linking and inter-chain mobility by Jurij Froese, Marco Mandalari, Monica Civera, Stefano Elli, Isabel Pagani, Elisa Vicenzi, Itzel Garcia-Monge, Daniele Di Iorio, Saskia Frank, Antonella Bisio, Dominik Lenhart, Rudolf Gruber, Edwin A. Yates, Ralf P. Richter, Marco Guerrini, Seraphine V. Wegner, Kay Grobe

“…Abstract The heparan sulfate (HS)-rich extracellular matrix (ECM) serves as an initial interaction site for the homotrimeric spike (S) protein of SARS-CoV-2 to facilitate subsequent docking to angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) receptors and cellular infection. …”
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W-Band Vector Millimeter Wave Signal Generation Based on Intensity Modulators Without DAC by Yitong Li, Jianguo Yu, Naibo Zhang, Kun Deng, Guangyao Yang, Ruiliang Song

“…We proposed and experimentally demonstrated a novel method to generate an adaptive <italic>N</italic>²-quadrature amplitude modulation (<italic>N</italic>²-QAM) W-band vector millimeter wave (mm-wave) signal based on intensity modulators without digital to analog converter (DAC). Two N-amplitude shift keying (N-ASK) signals are synthesized into <italic>N</italic>²-QAM W-band mm-wave vector signals by employing two Mach-Zehnder modulators, paralleling phase shifters, attenuators and a single optical mixer. …”
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Modeling and Reduction of Nox Production in Submerged Combustion Vaporizer Using Fuzzy Inference System by Hanieh Fani Maleki, Amir Ehsan Pheili Monfared, Mahmoud Rahmati

“…These equipments are actually heat exchangers that are used in liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals to evaporate liquefied natural gas and convert it into gas. Since previous studies have shown that the operating conditions of this equipment are effective on the amount of NOx production in it, artificial intelligence tools were used in this research to model and then optimize NOx emission in this equipment. …”
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Deep Convolutional Neural Network Model for the Differential Diagnosis of Schizophrenia Using EEG Signals by Filiz Demirdöğen, Çağla Danacı, Seda Arslan Tuncer, Mustafa Akkuş, Sevler Yıldız

“…This study aimed to diagnose schizophrenia using the transfer learning method by including the EEGs of 73 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia, and 67 patients from the healthy group.Material and Method: In the first step of the study, digital electroencephalography signal data was converted into spectrograms to make them usable. In the classification phase, ResNet18, ResNet50 and EfficientNet models, which are FastAI, and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) based deep learning models, were used. …”
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Marker-assisted identification of maize genotypes with improved protein quality by O. A. Orlovskaya, S. V. Kubrak, S. I. Vakula, L. V. Khotyleva, A. V. Kilchevsky

“…In addition to the mutant o2 allele, QPM contains genetic modifiers that convert starchy endosperm of o2 mutant to the hard vitreous phenotype. …”
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Monitoring Sea Surface Temperature and Sea Surface Salinity Around the Maltese Islands Using Sentinel-2 Imagery and the Random Forest Algorithm by Gareth Craig Darmanin, Adam Gauci, Monica Giona Bucci, Alan Deidun

“…Subsequently, the numerical data generated by the random forest algorithm were validated with different error metrics and converted into visual representations to illustrate the sea surface salinity and sea surface temperature variations across the Maltese Islands. …”
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