Design and Development of an EMG Upper Limb Controlled Prosthesis: A Preliminary Approach by Ricardo Rodrigues, Daniel Miranda, Vitor Carvalho, Demétrio Matos

“…Preliminary results demonstrate reliable detection of muscle contractions (threshold = 7 ADC units, ~34 mV) and motor actuation with a response time of ~150 ms, offering a cost-effective alternative to commercial systems. …”
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Biomimicry as a decision-making methodology in condition monitoring by Hariom Dhungana

“…However, traditional condition monitoring techniques face several limitations: they rely heavily on high-quality, continuous sensor input, struggle with adaptability to new fault scenarios, require significant computational resources, and often provide limited decision support beyond fault detection. …”
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Accuracy of Vegetation Height and Terrain Elevation Derived from Terrestrial Ecosystem Carbon Inventory Satellite in Forested Areas by Zhao Chen, Sijie He, Anmin Fu

“…Forest ecosystems serve as pivotal components of the global carbon cycle, with canopy height representing a critical biophysical parameter for quantifying ecosystem functionality, thereby holding substantial implications for forest resource management and carbon sequestration assessments. …”
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Logistical constraints lead to an intermediate optimum in outbreak response vaccination. by Yun Tao, Katriona Shea, Matthew Ferrari

“…The latter may also result in significantly larger outbreaks, thus suggesting a benefit of allocating resources to timely outbreak detection and response.…”
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RDM-YOLO: A Lightweight Multi-Scale Model for Real-Time Behavior Recognition of Fourth Instar Silkworms in Sericulture by Jinye Gao, Jun Sun, Xiaohong Wu, Chunxia Dai

“…Specifically designed for deployment on resource-constrained devices, the model ensures real-time monitoring capabilities in practical sericulture environments.…”
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A novel approach to field data augmentation with remote sensing and machine learning in rangelands by Hailey E. Schmidt, Javier Osorio Leyton, Efrain Noa Yarasca, Sorin C. Popescu, Justinn J. Jones, Justin P. Wied, Xinyuan Wu

“…However, these ecosystems are increasingly threatened by woody plant encroachment (WPE), which impacts forage availability, habitat quality, and other ecosystem functions. Despite advances in remote sensing and machine learning (ML) for monitoring and managing WPE, a significant gap persists in providing effective, scalable, and high-quality training data to support early detection efforts. …”
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State of the art in remote sensing monitoring of carbon dynamics in African tropical forests by Thomas Bossy, Thomas Bossy, Thomas Bossy, Philippe Ciais, Philippe Ciais, Solène Renaudineau, Liang Wan, Bertrand Ygorra, Elhadi Adam, Nicolas Barbier, Marijn Bauters, Nicolas Delbart, Nicolas Delbart, Frédéric Frappart, Tawanda Winmore Gara, Eliakim Hamunyela, Suspense Averti Ifo, Gabriel Jaffrain, Philippe Maisongrande, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Maurice Mugabowindekwe, Theodomir Mugiraneza, Theodomir Mugiraneza, Cassandra Normandin, Conan Vassily Obame, Marc Peaucelle, Camille Pinet, Pierre Ploton, Le Bienfaiteur Sagang, Martin Schwartz, Valentine Sollier, Bonaventure Sonké, Bonaventure Sonké, Paul Tresson, Aurélien De Truchis, An Vo Quang, Jean-Pierre Wigneron

“…Future developments in remote sensing should examine how multi-sensor integration of high-resolution data from instruments such as Planet, Tandem-X, SPOT and improved AI methods can refine forest composition, carbon storage and function maps, enhance large-scale monitoring of tree height and biomass dynamics, and improve forest degradation and deforestation detection down to tree level. …”
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Exploring the Complexities of Seafood: From Benefits to Contaminants by Bettina Taylor, Kelvin Fynn Ofori, Ali Parsaeimehr, Gulsun Akdemir Evrendilek, Tahera Attarwala, Gulnihal Ozbay

“…Seafood plays a vital role in human diets worldwide, serving as an important source of high-quality protein, omega-3 fatty acids, and essential vitamins and minerals that promote health and prevent various chronic conditions. …”
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Soil lipid analysis by chromatography: A critical review of the current state in sample preparation by Gladys Arteaga-Clemente, María Araceli García-González, Mónica González-González

“…Despite its minor component in soils, the lipid fraction is of particular importance. Its functional diversity offers an inherent diagnostic value regarding soil organic matter, microbial biodiversity and the pedological processes to which the soil is subjected. …”
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Utilizing a Transient Electromagnetic Inversion Method with Lateral Constraints in the Goaf of Xiaolong Coal Mine, Xinjiang by Yingying Zhang, Bin Xie, Xinyu Wu

“…The abandoned goaf resulting from coal resource integration in China poses a significant threat to coal mine safety. …”
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Comparative metabolomic profiling of Lupinus albus and L. angustifolius harvest residues: exploring chemical diversity and valorization potential by Salma Halime, Salma Halime, Jenny Renaut, Stéphanie Zimmer, Hanna Heidt, Cédric Jacquard, Kjell Sergeant

“…Lupin species are a rich source of bioactive compounds with diverse industrial applications, yet their harvest residues remain underutilized. …”
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Discovery of a new subgroup of sulfur dioxygenases and characterization of sulfur dioxygenases in the sulfur metabolic network of Acidithiobacillus caldus. by Wei Wu, Xin Pang, Jianqiang Lin, Xiangmei Liu, Rui Wang, Jianqun Lin, Linxu Chen

“…We cloned and expressed these genes, and detected the SDO activity of recombinant protein A5904_0421 by a GSH-dependent in vitro assay. …”
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CMOS-integrated organic neuromorphic imagers for high-resolution dual-modal imaging by Salihuojia Talanti, Kerui Fu, Xiaolong Zheng, Youzhi Shi, Yimei Tan, Chenxi Liu, Yanfei Liu, Ge Mu, Qun Hao, Kangkang Weng, Xin Tang

“…The fabricated imager allows in-sensor memorization (>18 min) and real-world spatiotemporal imaging with reduced computation resource, demonstrating its potential for industrial monitoring and motion detection.…”
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Design of Smart Plant Electrical Signal Monitoring System for Indoor Farming by Afif Saifuddin, Wiratmoko Ardan, Nugroho Andri Prima, Okayasu Takashi, Sutiarso Lilik

“…Precision agriculture is widely applied in indoor farming to optimize resource use and improve sustainability. Spectral technology has limitations in operation in plant health monitoring in indoor farming. …”
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Boundary-enhanced dual-stream network for semantic segmentation of high-resolution remote sensing images by Xinghua Li, Linglin Xie, Caifeng Wang, Jianhao Miao, Huanfeng Shen, Liangpei Zhang

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Three-Dimensional Zeolitic Imidazolate Framework-8 as Sorbent Integrated with Active Capillary Plasma Mass Spectrometry for Rapid Assessment of Low-Level Wine and Grape Quality-Rel... by Morphy C. Dumlao, Liang Jiang, Saroj Kumar Bhattacharyya, William A. Donald, Christopher C. Steel, Leigh M. Schmidtke

“…The most commonly used methods to chemically assess grape and wine quality with high sensitivity and selectivity require lengthy analysis time and can be resource intensive. Here, we developed a rapid and non-destructive method that would help in grading and decision support. …”
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Habitat and Predator Influences on the Spatial Ecology of Nine-Banded Armadillos by Robert C. Lonsinger, Ben P. Murley, Daniel T. McDonald, Christine E. Fallon, Kara M. White

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The whole set of constitutive promoters recognized by RNA polymerase RpoD holoenzyme of Escherichia coli. by Tomohiro Shimada, Yukiko Yamazaki, Kan Tanaka, Akira Ishihama

“…Concomitant with the increase in detection of promoters functioning in vivo under various stressful conditions, the variation is expanding in the consensus sequence of RpoD promoters. …”
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Lightweight deep learning system for automated bone age assessment in Chinese children: enhancing clinical efficiency and diagnostic accuracy by Pang Hai, Zhang Bin, Liu Kesheng, Li Cong, Xu Fei

“…In the first stage, the YOLOv8 algorithm precisely localizes 13 key epiphyses in hand radiographs, achieving a mean Average Precision (mAP) of 99.5% at Intersection over Union (IoU) = 0.5 and 94.0% within IoU 0.5–0.95, demonstrating robust detection performance. The second stage employs a modified EfficientNetB3 architecture for fine-grained epiphyseal grade classification, enhanced by the Rectified Adam (RAdam) optimizer and a composite loss function combining center loss and weighted cross-entropy to mitigate class imbalance. …”
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Learning Transferable Convolutional Proxy by SMI-Based Matching Technique by Wei Jin, Nan Jia

“…The classification responses are also smoothened by manifolds of both the source domain and proxy space. By minimizing an objective function of SMI, classification error, and manifold regularization, we learn the convolutional networks of both source and target domains. …”
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