Magnetohydrodynamics of nanofluid internal forced convection: A review and outlook for practical applications by Victor O. Adogbeji, Emmanuel O. Atofarati, Mohsen Sharifpur, Josua P. Meyer

“…Leveraging a comprehensive bibliographic analysis of 100 experimental studies from 2010 to the 2024, along with data from the Scopus® database, this work highlights how optimized nanofluid volume concentrations, magnetic field intensities, and frequencies significantly enhance heat transfer coefficients. …”
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Dendritic growth and synaptic organization from activity-independent cues and local activity-dependent plasticity by Jan H Kirchner, Lucas Euler, Ingo Fritz, André Ferreira Castro, Julijana Gjorgjieva

“…Model-generated dendrites have approximately optimal wiring length consistent with experimental measurements. …”
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Boosting the thermal efficiency of a flat-tube parabolic trough solar collector with the introduction of innovative slashed triangular prism turbulators by Sultan Alshehery, Qasem Al Mdallal, Ahmed A. Altohamy, Lotfi Ben Said, Mohamed Bouzidi, Turki Alkathiri, Lioua Kolsi

“…Ultimately, the alteration of the clearance between the turbulator and the tube wall facilitated the selection of 0.75 mm as the most optimal design. This adjustment resulted in a pressure drop and heat transfer enhancement of 360 % and 464 %, respectively, yielding the highest PEC of 3.37 documented in this study.…”
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Husband involvement in antenatal care moderates the link between vitamin D status and depressive symptoms in pregnant women by Rosa S. Wong, Keith T. S. Tung, Hing Wai Tsang, Jennifer K. Y. Ko, Wing-cheong Leung, Patrick Ip

“…Specifically, when their husbands were not regularly present for antenatal care appointments, mothers with suboptimal vitamin D levels experienced more depressive symptoms than those with optimal levels. However, there were no noticeable differences in depressive symptoms between vitamin D groups for mothers whose husbands attended all antenatal care appointments. …”
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Epigenetic drug screening identifies enzyme inhibitors A-196 and TMP-269 as novel regulators of sprouting angiogenesis by M. Beter, H. H. Pulkkinen, T. Örd, A. Sormunen, L. Kilpeläinen, J. E. Dunford, M. U. Kaikkonen, E. Aavik, N. Laham-Karam, U. Oppermann, J. P. Laakkonen, S. Ylä-Herttuala

“…Compared to the established model using primary human umbilical vein endothelial cells, TeloHAECs needed a higher-density fibrin gel for optimal sprouting, successfully forming sprouts under both normoxic and hypoxic cell culture conditions. …”
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Intermediate pyrolysis of Ficus nitida wood in a fixed-bed reactor: effect of pyrolysis parameters on bio-oil and bio-char yields and properties by Tabal, Amine, Belyazid, Oumayma, Dahman, Hicham, Berrich, Emna, Jeguirim, Mejdi, El Achaby, Mounir, El Harfi, Khalifa, Aboulkas, Adil

“…The oil yield of 41.85% was found maximum at the following optimal conditions: a temperature of 500 °C, a heating rate of $100~\mathrm{C}{\cdot }\mathrm{min}^{-1}$ and a N$_2$ flow rate of $100~\mathrm{mL}{\cdot }\mathrm{min}^{-1}$. …”
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Developing a GIS Model for Identifying Bear Corridors with Open-Source Data: The Romanian Context by Sanda Roșca, Alexandru Chira, Iuliu Vescan, Ștefan Bilașco, Ioan Fodorean, András-István Barta, Vasile Ceuca, Paul Sestraș

“…The analysis of these habitats, where the bear population has exceeded the optimal level that they can support, highlighted that to allow the passage of bear specimens from one habitat to another, it is necessary to create ecological corridors in several key areas deducted on the basis of mathematical models.…”
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Efficient Spectral-Spatial Fusion With Multiscale and Adaptive Attention for Hyperspectral Image Classification by Xiaoqing Wan, Feng Chen, Weizhe Gao, Yupeng He, Hui Liu, Zhize Li

“…Second, the EASSFEM dynamically adjusts the feature extraction process to optimize the fusion and representation of spectral-spatial features. …”
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Automated Quantification of Neuropad Improves Its Diagnostic Ability in Patients with Diabetic Neuropathy by Georgios Ponirakis, Hassan Fadavi, Ioannis N. Petropoulos, Shazli Azmi, Maryam Ferdousi, Mohammad A. Dabbah, Ahmad Kheyami, Uazman Alam, Omar Asghar, Andrew Marshall, Mitra Tavakoli, Ahmed Al-Ahmar, Saad Javed, Maria Jeziorska, Rayaz A. Malik

“…The continuous output displayed high sensitivity and specificity for DB-HRV (91%, 83%), CNFD (88%, 78%), and SNAP (88%, 83%), whereas the categorical output showed high sensitivity but low specificity. The optimal cut-off points were 90% for the detection of autonomic dysfunction (DB-HRV) and 80% for small fibre neuropathy (CNFD). …”
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Phosphorus Fertilization and Chemical Root Pruning: Effects on Root Traits During the Nursery Stage in Two Mediterranean Species from Central Chile by Fiorella Calderón-Ureña, Carolina Álvarez-Maldini, Manuel Acevedo, Manuel E. Sánchez-Olate, R. Kasten Dumroese, Antay Sierra-Olea, Juan F. Ovalle, Edwin Esquivel-Segura

“…Thus, P fertilization enhances root development more consistently than root pruning, highlighting the need for further testing under water deficit conditions to optimize nursery practices.…”
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Improving fatigue life and toughness in electron beam welded Ti–6Al–4V achieved through beta heat treatment for microstructure uniformity by Seongji Seo, A Ra Jo, Hyun Wook Lee, Sun Kwang Hwang, Jeongho Han, Jiyong Park

“…Therefore, this study suggests that BA is the optimal heat treatment for Ti64 weld joint, significantly improving fatigue cycle and impact toughness, and is recommened for aerospace structural applications.…”
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Benefit Evaluation of Different Allocation Modes of Soil and Water Conservation Measures in Ta-pieh Mountains Area by ZHOU Jie, TIAN Pei, WU Yijin, JIA Tinghui, SHEN Chenzhu

“…[Objective] In order to reveal the effect of different soil and water conservation measures on reducing runoff and sediment in Ta-pieh Mountains, optimize the allocation mode of soil and water conservation measures in Ta-pieh Mountains. …”
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Clinical features and risk factors of HIV-infected patients with intracerebral hemorrhage: a retrospective study with propensity score matching analysis by Qiuhui Huang, Shengri Chen, Hua Huang, Xuhui Deng, Gengyu Cen, Miao Wang, Zhijian Liang

“…The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was configured to calculate the optimal predictors of ICH in HIV-infected patients.ResultsA total of 59 HIV-infected patients with ICH and 180 HIV-infected patients without ICH were included. …”
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Compound-Specific Chlorine Isotope Analysis of Organochlorine Pesticides by Gas Chromatography-Negative Chemical Ionization Mass Spectrometry by Jing Zhang, Shenghua Liu, Jianye Gui, Xiaoya Li, Guochen Qi

“…The instrument parameters, acquisition mode, and required injection amounts were optimized in terms of the precision of GC-NCI-qMS. …”
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Ditch rotation irrigation coupled with multi-scale ecological reservoir operation by Linhui Mu, Tao Bai, Dong Liu, Hongwei Ji, Mingjiang Deng, LiangPeng Hong

“…Then, by establishing a coupling model of DRI and reservoir operation, the optimal operating scheme is proposed. Finally, the minimum limited water level suitable for DRI is proposed by irrigation effect. …”
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Genetic parameter analysis and evaluation of maize hybrids under local climatic condition of Mymensingh, Bangladesh by Nahid Hasan, Md. Jahid Hasan Jone, Biswajit Das, Md. Nure Adil Siddique, Yousuf Islam, Md. Abul Kashem

“…Hybridization is a strategic approach for developing high-yielding and stress-tolerant maize varieties and evaluating these hybrids in specific environmental conditions is vital for optimizing yield and adaptability. With this objective, a field experiment was conducted to evaluate the growth and yield performance of ten hybrid maize varieties under the local climatic conditions of Mymensingh. …”
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Red Blood Cell Distribution Width Predicts Pulmonary Hypertension Secondary to Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Jie Yang, Chuanmei Liu, Lingling Li, Xiongwen Tu, Zhiwei Lu

“…The AUC of the RDW in patients with PH was 0.749 ± 0.054 (p<0.001). The optimal cutoff value of RDW for predicting PH was 14.65, with a sensitivity and a specificity value of 69.2% and 82.8%, respectively. …”
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Performance evaluation of biomass-derived hydrothermal carbonaceous material in cement based composites by Monika Sharma, İrfan Şehrullah Öztürk, Mehmet Emiroğlu, Aliye Suna Erses Yay

“…Overall, HCN has the potential to significantly affect the properties of cement composites even at very low doses, however, it should be properly optimized to enhance the properties of the cement composite as well as contribute to sustainability.…”
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Dye sensitized photocatalytic degradation of congo red and rhodamine B by 1,3,5-Benzenetricarboxylic acid based metal organic frameworks Ni3(BTC)2.12H2O, (Ni0.8Co0.2)3(BTC)2.12H2O... by Kavitha Karuppiah, Anushree Raju, Anuradha Natarajan, Swedha Mohan, Dhinakaran Subramani, Kumaran Rajendran, Vanjinathan Mahalingam, Gopalakrishnan Arumugam, Samikannu Prabu, Kung-Yuh Chiang, Vasanthi Rajaraman

“…Among the MOFs, Cu₃(BTC)₂ exhibited the highest degradation efficiency, achieving 99.99 % Congo Red degradation in 20 min and 5 % Rhodamine B degradation in 25 min. Optimal degradation for both dyes occurred at pH 5. …”
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Preparation and evaluation of Brucella T4SS recombinant proteins in serodiagnosis of human brucellosis based on TMT-based proteomics technology by Qi Wu, Chen Sun, Liping Guo, Yujia Xie, Jinpeng Zhang, Jinpeng Zhang, Dehui Yin, Dehui Yin

“…Future research can further optimize the use of VirB proteins in diagnostic assays and explore their applications in vaccine development.…”
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