Preparation of Bioactive Titanium Surfaces via Fluoride and Fibronectin Retention by Carlos Nelson Elias, Patricia Abdo Gravina, Costa e Silva Filho, Pedro Augusto de Paula Nascente

“…The preparation of bioactive titanium surfaces via fluoride and FN retention proved to be a useful treatment to optimize and to accelerate the osseointegration process for dental implants.…”
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The effectiveness of non-invasive brain stimulation in enhancing lower extremity function in children with spastic cerebral palsy: Protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysi... by Clàudia Arumí-Trujillo, Francisco José Verdejo-Amengual, Oriol Martínez-Navarro, Jord J.T. Vink, Fran Valenzuela-Pascual

“…Although some studies have examined NIBS using various stimulation parameters, there is limited evidence regarding its effects on the lower extremities and optimal administration protocols. This review aims to evaluate the effectiveness of NIBS techniques, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS33 Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation.) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS44 Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation.), for the treatment of motor function in spastic cerebral palsy, specifically in the lower extremity. …”
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A comprehensive evaluation of ai techniques for air quality index prediction: RNNs and transformers by Pablo Andrés Buestán Andrade, Pedro Esteban Carrión Zamora, Anthony Eduardo Chamba Lara, Juan Pablo Pazmiño Piedra

“…These results position the LSTM model as the most reliable approach for AQI prediction, offering an optimal balance between predictive accuracy and computational efficiency. …”
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Formulation of Hydrogel Beads to Improve the Bioaccessibility of Bioactive Compounds from Goldenberry and Purple Passion Fruit and Evaluation of Their Antiproliferative Effects on... by Ana María Naranjo-Durán, Diego Miedes, Juan Manuel Patiño-Osorio, Antonio Cilla, Amparo Alegría, Catalina Marín-Echeverri, Julián Quintero-Quiroz, Gelmy Luz Ciro-Gómez

“…Through a mixture experimental design with sodium alginate (SA), hydroxypropylmethylcellulose (HPMC) and arabic gum (AG) as components, the following response variables were optimized: polyphenol bioaccessibility and encapsulation efficiency. …”
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Studies on the Loading and Release of Metformin HCl Using Hydrogels with EGDMA and MBA as Crosslinkers by Ariyaldi Ariyaldi, Noverra Mardhatillah Nizardo, Maria Lucia Ardhani Dwi Lestari

“…However, additional optimizations are necessary to improve the efficiency of the hydrogels as a carrier.…”
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Application of an Improved Ensemble Local Mean Decomposition Method for Gearbox Composite Fault Diagnosis by Zhijian Wang, Junyuan Wang, Wenan Cai, Jie Zhou, Wenhua Du, Jingtai Wang, Gaofeng He, Huihui He

“…The idea is to add white noise in pairs to optimize ELMD, defined as CELMD (Complementary Ensemble Local Mean Decomposition) then remove the decomposed high noise component by PE (Permutation Entropy) while applying the SG (Savitzky-Golay) filter to smooth out the low noise in PFs. …”
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The Correlation Analysis between Corneal Biomechanical Properties and the Surgically Induced Corneal High-Order Aberrations after Small Incision Lenticule Extraction and Femtosecon... by Wenjing Wu, Yan Wang

“…The corneal biomechanics affect the surgically induced corneal HOAs after SMILE and FS-LASIK surgery, which may be meaningful for screening the patients preoperatively and optimizing the visual qualities postoperatively.…”
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Heat transfer characterization of a new collector design featuring ribs, petals, and helical twisted tapes: Experimental study by Banw Omer Ahmed, Adnan Ibrahim, Hariam Luqman Azeez, Sharul Sham Dol, Ali H.A. Al-Waeli, Mahmoud Jaber

“…The new design of this study records a maximum Thermohydraulic Performance enhancement of 1.5 times compared to a smooth tube and an optimal thermal efficiency enhancement of 20.4 % in comparison to a smooth tube collector. …”
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OPTIMASI EKSTRAKSI SENYAWA FENOLIK DAUN SIRIH MERAH (Piper Crocatum Ruitz & Pav) MENGGUNAKAN METODE MICROWAVE ASSISTED EXTRACTION (MAE) by Helda Wika Amini, Yeremia Prasetya Nugroho, Agus Rahman, Meta Fitri Rizkiana, Istiqomah Rahmawati, Bekti Palupi, Boy Arief Fachri

“…Penelitian ini bertujuan mengetahui kondisi optimal untuk mengekstraksi senyawa fenolik daun sirih merah dengan menggunakan metode Microwave Assisted Extraction (MAE). …”
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Investigating the performance parameters of solar cell for efficiency enhancement by Muhammad Muneeb Khan, Sadiq Ahmad, Jahangeer Faiz, Rubab Nazeer, Muhammad Amir Shafi, Ahmad Bin Ishtiaq

“…Copper Zinc Tin Selenide (CuZnTSe) cells have unique physical characteristics that make them incredibly well-suited to serve as a solar material for power absorption in contemporary optimized Thin Film Solar cells (TFSC). The goal of the proposed study is to model novel hetero-structures for CuZnTSe solar cells with and without a NiO hole transport layer (HTL), namely AlZno2/Cds/CuZnTSe/Mb and Al-Zno2/Cds/CuZnTSe/Nio2/Mb. …”
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Best practices for cryopreserving sperm in Nonhuman Primates: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Niloofar Sadeghi, Ndifereke Uboh, Corinna N. Ross, John R. McCarrey, Brian P. Hermann

“…This analysis provides critical insights into future research directions to enhance and optimize cryopreservation protocols in NHPs.…”
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Micro-Expression Recognition Using Convolutional Variational Attention Transformer (ConVAT) With Multihead Attention Mechanism by Hafiz Khizer Bin Talib, Kaiwei Xu, Yanlong Cao, Yuan Ping Xu, Zhijie Xu, Muhammad Zaman, Adnan Akhunzada

“…To address these limitations, we propose the Convolutional Variational Attention Transformer (ConVAT), a novel model that leverages a multi-head attention mechanism integrated with convolutional networks, optimized specifically for detailed micro-expression analysis. …”
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A Multi-Scale Convolutional Residual Time-Frequency Calibration Method for Low-Accuracy Air Pollution Data by Jiahao Liu, Fei Shi, Zhenhong Jia, Jiwei Qin

“…Experimental results demonstrate that MCRTF-CM outperforms optimal Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks, reducing RMSE, MAE, MSE, and MAPE by 13.59%, 14.04%, 25.33%, and 8.22%, respectively, indicating its better performance.…”
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Exploring the potential of aerial drone imagery to distinguish breeding Adélie (Pygoscelis adeliae), chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarcticus) and gentoo (Pygoscelis papua) penguins in An... by Christian Pfeifer, Stefan Knetsch, Jakob Maercker, Osama Mustafa, Marie-Charlott Rümmler, Alexander Brenning

“…Consequently, these results enable specific flight planning for optimal species discrimination under the given conditions and serve as the basis for future automated mapping of penguin species using machine learning, facilitating early detection of changes.…”
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Prediction of Poor Outcome Using the Urea to Albumin Ratio in Thoracic Empyema by Evgeni Dimitrov, Daniel Valchev, Georgi Minkov, Emil Enchev, Yovcho Yovtchev

“…We established a sensitivity of 87.5% and specificity of 74.2% at optimal cut-off value UAR > 51.1 for prediction of adverse outcome. …”
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Lowering the affinity of single-chain monovalent BBB shuttle scFc-scFv8D3 prolongs its half-life and increases brain concentration by Andrés de la Rosa, Nicole G. Metzendorf, Jonathan Efverström, Ana Godec, Dag Sehlin, Jamie Morrison, Greta Hultqvist

“…As monovalent BBB shuttles are seemingly superior for delivering antibodies at therapeutically relevant doses, our findings and approach may be relevant for optimizing brain delivery.…”
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Lattice-inspired NiTi-based metamaterials with widely tunable mechanical-superelastic synergy by Zhi Zhang, Jianbao Gao, Shuaishuai Wei, Bo Song, Yonggang Yao, Xu Zheng, Yuanjie Zhang, Lei Zhang, Qiaojiao Li, Jiafeng Wu, Yusheng Shi

“…The relation between different parameters with mechanical and superelastic properties was established through machine learning, and multiple performance optimizations were carried out with vascular stents as typical application objectives. …”
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A Review of Ranking Models in Data Envelopment Analysis by F. Hosseinzadeh Lotfi, G. R. Jahanshahloo, M. Khodabakhshi, M. Rostamy-Malkhlifeh, Z. Moghaddas, M. Vaez-Ghasemi

“…In the second one, the ranking units are based on the optimal weights obtained from multiplier model of DEA technique. …”
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Application of Google Earth Engine to Monitor Greenhouse Gases: A Review by Damar David Wilson, Gebrekidan Worku Tefera, Ram L. Ray

“…It discusses the integration of GEE with different machine learning methods and the challenges and opportunities in optimizing algorithms and ensuring data interoperability. …”
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Cyclic Peak Extraction from a Spatial Likelihood Map for Multi-Array Multi-Target Bearing-Only Localization by Chuanxing Hu, Bo Zhang, Xishan Yang, Zhaokai Zhai, Dai Liu

“…Moreover, compared to the position non-linear least squares multi-target localization method, the proposed method has lower optimal sub-pattern assignment distance and lower localization error under the condition of interference and missing detection.…”
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