Beyond Finance: Enhancing Support for New Technology Start-Up Founders by Pawel Ziemianski, Katarzyna Stankiewicz, Jan Wyrwinski, Sylwiusz Retowski, Bartosz Lipnicki

“…Using a qualitative research design, the conducted study involved semi-structured interviews with 22 technology start-up founders across Europe to explore their unique challenges, demands, and support needs. …”
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Advances in the biosynthesis of naturally occurring benzylisoquinoline alkaloids by Wanli Zhao, Jihua Liu, Yu Chen

“…Certain BIAs are present in trace amounts in medicinal plants; moreover, they have complex chemical structures and unstable properties. Designing chemical synthesis routes and processes is challenging. …”
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Statistical Analysis of Flame Oscillation Characterization of Oxy-Fuel in Heavy Oil Boiler Using OH Planar Laser-Induced Fluorescence by Xin Yu, Zhen Cao, JiangBo Peng, Yang Yu, Guang Chang, Yufei Ma, XiaoHui Li, Chaobo Yang, ZhiQiang Wang

“…Compared with traditional measurement methods, PLIF technology has great advantages in evaluating burner performance and optimizing the design of the combustion chamber.…”
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Usability Assessment of Technologies for Remote Monitoring of Knee Osteoarthritis by Andrea Cafarelli, Angela Sorriento, Giorgia Marola, Denise Amram, Fabien Rabusseau, Herve Locteau, Paolo Cabras, Erik Dumont, Sam Nakhaei, Ake Jernberger, Par Bergsten, Paolo Spinnato, Alessandro Russo, Leonardo Ricotti

“…<italic>Goal</italic>: To evaluate the usability of different technologies designed for a remote assessment of knee osteoarthritis. …”
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MERS-CoV spike vaccine-induced N-terminal domain-specific antibodies are more protective than receptor binding domain-specific antibodies by Olubukola M. Abiona, Nianshuang Wang, Sarah R. Leist, Alexandra Schäfer, Adam S. Cockrell, Lingshu Wang, Sandhya Bangaru, Laura Stevens, Rachel L. Graham, Jacob F. Kocher, Yaroslav Tsybovsky, Masaru Kanekiyo, Azad Kumar, Kaitlyn M. Morabito, Osnat Rosen, Wei Shi, Anne Werner, Yi Zhang, Cynthia Ziwawo, Christian K.O. Dzuvor, Charis Palandjian, Connor Eastman, Hannah R. Matthews, Jeswin Joseph, James D. Chappell, Wing-Pui Kong, John R. Mascola, Andrew B. Ward, Mark R. Denison, Ralph Baric, Jason S. McLellan, Barney S. Graham, Kizzmekia S. Corbett-Helaire

“…Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic underscores the need to prepare for future emerging coronavriuses (CoVs) by understanding the principles behind effective CoV vaccine design such as protective immunity and antibody responses. …”
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Local Stress Field Correction Method Based on a Genetic Algorithm and a BP Neural Network for In Situ Stress Field Inversion by Tianzhi Yao, Zuguo Mo, Li Qian, Jianhua He, Jianhai Zhang

“…Therefore, the LSFC method can be used for the inversion of in situ stress in complex geological regions and provide a reference for engineering design and construction.…”
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PDGPT: A large language model for acquiring phase diagram information in magnesium alloys by Zini Yan, Hongyu Liang, Jingya Wang, Hongbin Zhang, Alisson Kwiatkowski da Silva, Shiyu Liang, Ziyuan Rao, Xiaoqin Zeng

“…Phase diagrams play a crucial role in guiding the magnesium alloy design by providing key insights into phase stability, composition, and temperature ranges, enabling the optimization of alloy properties and processing conditions. …”
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Parametric Study and Experimental Validation of Acoustic Leaky Wave Antenna in Spatial Localization by Alejandro Fernandez-Garrido, Maria Campo-Valera, Elena Abdo-Sanchez, Ruben Pico, Antonio-Javier Garcia-Sanchez, Rafael Asorey-Cacheda

“…Conventional arrays offer cost-effectiveness and simplicity of design, but ALWAs have the advantage of operating on the principle of energy leakage, which is achieved by various mechanisms, such as uniform apertures or slits periodic along the waveguide. …”
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Semantic Image Synthesis via Class-Adaptive Cross-Attention by Tomaso Fontanini, Claudio Ferrari, Giuseppe Lisanti, Massimo Bertozzi, Andrea Prati

“…In semantic image synthesis the state of the art is dominated by methods that use customized variants of the SPatially-Adaptive DE-normalization (SPADE) layers, which allow for good visual generation quality and editing versatility. By design, such layers learn pixel-wise modulation parameters to de-normalize the generator activations based on the semantic class each pixel belongs to. …”
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MILP Modeling and Optimization of Multi-Objective Three-Stage Flexible Job Shop Scheduling Problem With Assembly and AGV Transportation by Shiming Yang, Leilei Meng, Saif Ullah, Biao Zhang, Hongyan Sang, Peng Duan

“…FJSP-T-A is NP-hard, and an efficient multi-population co-evolutionary algorithm (MPCEA) is proposed to efficiently solve large-scale instances. In the MPCEA, we design a strategy to select relatively high-quality individuals to enhance the algorithm&#x2019;s convergence speed, and design a multi-objective variable-neighborhood search (MOVNS) method to improve the local search ability. …”
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Optimal Learning Behavior Prediction System Based on Cognitive Style Using Adaptive Optimization-Based Neural Network by Ghada Aldabbagh, Daniyal M. Alghazzawi, Syed Hamid Hasan, Mohammed Alhaddad, Areej Malibari, Li Cheng

“…The learning styles of teachers have different kinds of content designs to enhance their learning. In this learning environment, teachers can work together with the students, but the learning materials are designed by the teachers. …”
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The Development of a Large-Area Microchannel Plate Photomultiplier Tube with a Gate Function by Ziyu Liu, Hulin Liu, Ping Chen, Kuinian Li, Yonglin Wei, Luanxuan He, Xinnan Zhao, Wei Zhao, Jinshou Tian

“…A kind of regular hexagonal mesh electrode as the gated electrode was designed to achieve excellent gating functions for target pulse signals. …”
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Does Probability Guided Hysteroscopy Reduce Costs in Women Investigated for Postmenopausal Bleeding? by M. C. Breijer, N. van Hanegem, N. C. M. Visser, R. H. M. Verheijen, B. W. J. Mol, J. M. A. Pijnenborg, B. C. Opmeer, A. Timmermans

“…To evaluate whether a model to predict a failed endometrial biopsy in women with postmenopausal bleeding (PMB) and a thickened endometrium can reduce costs without compromising diagnostic accuracy. Design, Setting, and Population. Model based cost-minimization analysis. …”
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Robust Impedance Emulation for Transmission Line Interface in Power-Hardware-in-the-Loop Applications: Optimal Filter Approach by Dmitry Rimorov, James Richard Forbes, Olivier Tremblay, Richard Gagnon

“…As such, PHIL closed-loop stability is a crucial factor to consider when designing its numerical interface. Recent work has shown that the transmission line method provides a robust solution to the PHIL interface stability problem while achieving a high level of PHIL closed-loop performance. …”
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Validation of the Official Slovak Version of the Unified Dyskinesia Rating Scale (UDysRS) by Matej Skorvanek, Michal Minar, Milan Grofik, Katarina Kracunova, Vladimir Han, Frantisek Cibulcik, Jan Necpal, Ladislav Gurcik, Peter Valkovic

“…The Slovak version of the UDysRS was designated as an official non-English translation and can be downloaded from the website of the International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society.…”
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Conjugation of Triterpenic Acids with 3-Aminoquinuclidine Moiety: An Approach to Acetylcholinesterase Mixed or Uncompetitive Type Inhibitors by Anastasiya V. Petrova, Ha T. T. Nguyen, Irina V. Zueva, Konstantin A. Petrov, Alexander N. Lobov, Oxana B. Kazakova

“…Despite the fact that today there are several methods of maintenance therapy, one of the most widely used methods is designed to correct the deficiency of acetylcholine. …”
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Experimental Testing Results on Critical Components for Molten Salt-Based CSP Systems by Valeria Russo, Giuseppe Petroni, Francesco Rovense, Mauro Giorgetti, Giuseppe Napoli, Gianremo Giorgi, Walter Gaggioli

“…The findings provide essential insights for improving component design and maintenance to minimize unplanned plant downtime. …”
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Coupling Beams’ Shear Capacity Prediction by Hybrid Support Vector Regression and Particle Swarm Optimization by Emad A. Abood, Mustafa Kamal Al-Kamal, Sabih Hashim Muhodir, Nadia Moneem Al-Abdaly, Luís Filipe Almeida Bernardo, Dario De Domenico, Hamza Imran

“…Analytical results indicate that the new optimized prediction model can assist civil engineers in designing RC coupling beam structures more effectively and outperforms existing models in predicting the shear strength of such beams.…”
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Layered energy equalization structure for series battery pack based on multiple optimal matching by Jianfang Jiao, Hongwei Wang, Feng Gao, Serdar Coskun, Guang Wang, Jiale Xie, Fei Feng

“…Firstly, to achieve energy equalization under complex conditions, a two-layer equalization circuit topology is designed, and the efficiency and loss of energy transfer in the equalization process are studied. …”
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Newton Raphson based optimizer for optimal integration of FAS and RIS in wireless systems by Ahmed S. Alwakeel, Ali M. El-Rifaie, Ghareeb Moustafa, Abdullah M. Shaheen

“…Multiple objective models are designed and addressed using the NRBO: maximizing the average attainable rate for each participant, minimizing the average number of FAS in all Users, and jointly optimizing both objectives with weighted considerations. …”
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