Immediate Patient Satisfaction with Dental Esthetics After Endodontic and Prosthodontic Treatment of Dental Dyschromia by Adrian Jantea, Sorin Gheorghe Mihali, Dan Lolos, Anca Tudor, Roxana Oancea, Liliana Porojan

“…<b>Methods:</b> A total of 104 patients, including 43 men and 61 women, underwent treatment using lithium disilicate restorations for esthetic zones and zirconium oxide restorations for regions with higher occlusal demands. Patient satisfaction was evaluated through a post-treatment questionnaire, classifying responses as either “satisfied” or “dissatisfied”. …”
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STEPNet: A Spatial and Temporal Encoding Pipeline to Handle Temporal Heterogeneity in Climate Modeling Using AI: A Use Case of Sea Ice Forecasting by Sizhe Wang, Wenwen Li, Chia-Yu Hsu

“…The learning pipeline is designed for flexibility and extendibility, enabling easy integration of different encoders to process diverse data characteristics and meet computational demands. A series of ablation studies and comparative experiments were conducted to validate the effectiveness of our architecture design and the superior performance of the proposed STEPNet model compared to other AI solutions and numerical models.…”
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Starting from Scratch: Experiences from Developing the First Vascular Anastomotic Training Program in North Macedonia Using the Porcine Thigh as a Simulation Model by Eleonora O.F. Dimovska, Gordana Georgieva, Blagoja Srbov, Boro Dzonov, Goran Stevanovski, Sofija Pejkova

“…Microsurgical reconstruction constitutes a fundamental part of plastic and reconstructive surgery. It demands high dexterity and intricate technical skills. …”
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Manufacturing high-performance flexible sensors via advanced patterning techniques by Xiaokun Qin, Bowen Zhong, Hao Xu, Joshua A Jackman, Kaichen Xu, Nam-Joon Cho, Zheng Lou, Lili Wang

“…Sensors play an important role in information perception during the age of intelligence, particularly in areas such as environmental monitoring and human perception. To meet the huge demands for information acquisition in the whole society, the development of elaborated sensor structures using patterned manufacturing technology is important to improve the performance of sensors. …”
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Reproducibility of BiliCare™ Transcutaneus Bilirrubin Meter in Mexican Newborns by David Oldak, Gabriela García, Estela E. Gonzalez, Enver Aillon, Juan C. Falcon, Ernesto Ayala, Bernardo Oldak

“…Newborn hyperbilirubinemia is considered a worldwide health problem that demands medical evaluation. Noninvasive transcutaneous bilirubin (TcB) has been used as a screening method with different devices but there has not been any evaluation of reproducibility of the same brand devices. …”
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Interactions of N- and C-terminal parts of Ana1 permitting centriole duplication but not elongation by Agota Nagy, Levente Kovacs, Helene Rangone, Jingyan Fu, Mark Ladinsky, David M. Glover

“…Our findings point to differing demands upon the physical organization of Ana1 for the distinct processes of radial expansion and elongation of centrioles.…”
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Mitochondrial Fusion Proteins and Human Diseases by Michela Ranieri, Simona Brajkovic, Giulietta Riboldi, Dario Ronchi, Federica Rizzo, Nereo Bresolin, Stefania Corti, Giacomo P. Comi

“…Mitochondria are highly dynamic, complex organelles that continuously alter their shape, ranging between two opposite processes, fission and fusion, in response to several stimuli and the metabolic demands of the cell. Alterations in mitochondrial dynamics due to mutations in proteins involved in the fusion-fission machinery represent an important pathogenic mechanism of human diseases. …”
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Decoupling and Collaboration: An Intelligent Gateway-Based Internet of Things System Architecture for Meat Processing by Jun Liu, Chenggang Zhou, Haoyuan Wei, Jie Pi, Daoying Wang

“…To address the major challenges in the meat processing industry, including device heterogeneity, model deficiencies, rapidly increasing demands for data analysis, and limitations of cloud computing, this study proposes an Internet of Things (IoT) architecture. …”
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Essential Oils as Bioinsecticides Against <i>Blattella germanica</i> (Linnaeus, 1767): Evaluating Its Efficacy Under a Practical Framework by Ana Manzanares-Sierra, Eduard Monsonís-Güell, Crisanto Gómez, Sílvia Abril, Mara Moreno-Gómez

“…Future research should adopt practical, application-driven approaches to ensure bioinsecticides balance performance and safety, meeting both regulatory and consumer demands.…”
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Medical students’ motivational profile. Sancti Spíritus Medical Sciences University by Eduardo Veloso Pérez, Arturo Puga García, Ariadna Veloso Rodríguez, Liyipsi Abreu Martín, Rosa María Ramos Palmero, Gloria María Puga Madiedo

“…Knowing the motivational profile of students allows us to accurately project psycho-pedagogical actions in order to modify it with a view to satisfy the social demands of the corresponding group.<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to characterize the new students’ motivational profile to the Medicine career.…”
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Analog Sequential Hippocampal Memory Model for Trajectory Learning and Recalling: A Robustness Analysis Overview by Daniel Casanueva‐Morato, Alvaro Ayuso‐Martinez, Giacomo Indiveri, Juan P. Dominguez‐Morales, Gabriel Jimenez‐Moreno

“…The rapid expansion of information systems in all areas of society demands more powerful, efficient, and low‐energy consumption computing systems. …”
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ANFIS-optimized control for resilient and efficient supply chain performance in smart manufacturing by Mona A. AbouElaz, Bilal Naji Alhasnawi, Bishoy E. Sedhom, Vladimír Bureš

“…Due to the dramatic revolution in global trade, competition, and the epidemic of COVID-19, the Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's) production paradigm has been evolving and gaining traction to meet its dynamic demands and challenges for industrial process adaptability and standards. …”
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All-Optical VCSEL-to-VCSEL Injection Based on Cross Gain Modulation for Routing in Multinode Flexible Spectrum Optimization in Optical Fibre Transmission Links by P. P. Dlamini, G. M. Isoe, D. Kiboi Boiyo, A. W. R. Leitch, T. B. Gibbon

“…Exploiting all optical VCSEL-to-VCSEL injection to attain cross gain modulation, the optical transmitter is optimized for optical transmission paths to assure quality of service by overcoming blockage for differentiated bandwidth demands during network congestion incidences. A 10 Gbps directly modulated 1549 nm master VCSEL is optically injected into the 1549 nm side modes of a 1550 nm slave VCSEL. …”
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Paving the Way for Speech: Voice-Training-Induced Plasticity in Chronic Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech—Three Single Cases by Monika Jungblut, Walter Huber, Christiane Mais, Ralph Schnitker

“…In this context, a training that focuses on rhythmic singing with differently demanding complexity levels as concerns motor and cognitive capabilities seems to support paving the way for speech.…”
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Understanding the psychological pathways to translation technology competence: emotional intelligence, self-esteem, and innovation capability among EFL students by Junfeng Zhao, Xiang Li, Jin Wei, Xinyuan Long, Zhaoyang Gao

“…By emphasizing emotional intelligence, fostering self-esteem, and cultivating innovation capability, educators and institutions can prepare students to meet the demands of the technology-driven language service market.…”
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A Data Quality Control Program for Computer-Assisted Personal Interviews by Janet E. Squires, Alison M. Hutchinson, Anne-Marie Bostrom, Kelly Deis, Peter G. Norton, Greta G. Cummings, Carole A. Estabrooks

“…While this data quality control program was demanding in terms of time and resources, we found that the benefits clearly outweighed the effort required to achieve high-quality data.…”
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Local feature encoding for unknown presentation attack detection: An analysis of different local feature descriptors by Lázaro J. González‐Soler, Marta Gomez‐Barrero, Jascha Kolberg, Leonardo Chang, Airel Pérez‐Suárez, Christoph Busch

“…The experimental results over unknown scenarios taken from LivDet 2011 to LivDet 2017 show that our proposal reduces the top state‐of‐the‐art average classification error rates by up to four times, thereby making it suitable in real applications demanding high security. In addition, the best single configuration achieved the best results in the LivDet 2019 competition, with an overall accuracy of 96.17%.…”
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Automatic Detection of Railway Faults Using Neural Networks: A Comparative Study of Transfer Learning Models and YOLOv11 by Omar Rodríguez-Abreo, Mario A. Quiroz-Juárez, Idalberto Macías-Socarras, Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz, Juan M. Camacho-Pérez, Gabriel Carcedo-Rodríguez, Enrique Camacho-Pérez

“…However, YOLOv11 surpassed all models, achieving a test accuracy of 92.64% while maintaining significantly lower computational demands. These findings underscore the versatility of deep learning models and highlight the potential of YOLOv11 as an efficient and accurate solution for railway fault classification tasks.…”
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Optimizing woodcutting with zirconia-toughened alumina: Processing, performance, and industrial insights by Tamanna Thakur, Stefan Heinen, Bruno Ehrle, Gurdial Blugan

“…Since the 1950s, the woodcutting industry has relied heavily on tungsten carbide (WC) cutting tools to overcome the challenges posed by the complex structure of wood, including hard knots and abrasive elements such as sand and tannic acids. These demands require cutting tools with superior thermal conductivity and mechanical properties. …”
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Study on the mechanics and self-sensing properties of ultrahigh-performance shotcrete containing waste glass aggregates by Jing Wang, Songze Wu, Yunlong Zhang, Xuesong Qian

“…Abstract To promote the recycling of waste glass and satisfy the demands of environmental sustainability for ultrahigh performance concrete (UHPC), in this study, glass sand was employed to partially or entirely replace machine-made sand, and steel fibres were incorporated to fabricate ultrahigh performance shotcrete (UHPS). …”
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