GENERATION AND COLLECTION OF TOBACCO AEROSOL FOR SHISHA by N. N. Bubnova, M. V. Shkidyuk

“…Qualitative characteristics of tobacco aerosol for shisha are determined by the functional purpose and depend on the component composition of the tobacco mixture and the coal used.The purpose of the research is to develop a methodology for the comprehensive assessment of tobacco for shisha based on modern methods of product quality control and includes the following steps:- monitoring of the studies to determine the component composition of the hookah mixture and the aerosol produced;- analysis of hookah mixture testing modes and development of an aerosol generation protocol;- development of a method for collecting aerosol on a laboratory smoking machine; - quantitative analysis of toxic analytes by HPLC MS / MS method.Methods have been developed for the machine generation and collection of tobacco aerosol for hookah, taking into account low concentrations of the analyzed toxic substances.The expediency of using the HPLC MS / MS method to determine the quantity of the following substances in tobacco aerosol for shisha has been substantiated:- carbonyl compounds (formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acrolein) by detection on an electrospray source in the negative polarity mode- tobacco specific nitrosoamines (NNN and NNK) by detection on an electrospray source in the positive polarity mode.During the research laboratory and analytical equipment was used: a five-channel linear CERULEAN SM 405 smoking machine; Thermo Scientific Dionex UltiMate 3000 liquid chromatograph and TSQ Quantiva mass spectrometer.Obtaining experimental data on the quantitative determination of the component composition of the aerosol produced by tobacco for shisha using hookah systems is relevant for assessing toxic characteristics of the product.…”
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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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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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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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Design of Smart Plant Electrical Signal Monitoring System for Indoor Farming by Afif Saifuddin, Wiratmoko Ardan, Nugroho Andri Prima, Okayasu Takashi, Sutiarso Lilik

“…Calibration for this system needs a function generator. The calibration result is analyzed using statistical methods such as MAPE. …”
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Microparticles That Form Immune Complexes as Modulatory Structures in Autoimmune Responses by Catalina Burbano, Mauricio Rojas, Gloria Vásquez, Diana Castaño

“…Initially MPs were considered to be inert cellular products with no biological function. However, an extensive research and functional characterization have shown that the molecular composition and the effects of MPs depend upon the cellular background and the mechanism inducing them. …”
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A directed greybox fuzzer for windows applications by Xin Ren, Peng-fei Wang, Xu Zhou, Kai Lu

“…Abstract Directed greybox fuzzing (DGF) has proven effective in vulnerability discovery, but most efforts focus on the Linux platform, with substantially less attention devoted to Windows platform due to its closed-source and GUI software nature. This paper proposes WinDGF, a novel directed greybox fuzzer for Windows applications that addresses challenges including target function localization in persistent testing, GUI bypassing, and fitness metric calculation. …”
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Performance Analysis of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Underwater Wireless Optical Communication Systems by Qi Zhang, Dian-Wu Yue, Xian-Ying Xu

“…In the RIS-assisted UWOC systems with intensity modulation and direct detection (IM-DD), we apply the approximate distribution of the sum of Gamma-Gamma random variables to derive the probability density function (PDF) of the instantaneous received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the first time. …”
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Retracted: Wuju Opera Cultural Creative Products and Research on Visual Image Under VR Technology by Yahong Wang, Xiaobing Hu

“…The VR-Platform platform is used to establish a virtual three-dimensional landscape planning scene, and the roaming function can be realized by making cameras and adding collision detection. …”
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Identification of hypertension gene expression biomarkers based on the DeepGCFS algorithm. by Zongjin Li, Liqin Tian, Libing Bai, Zeyu Jia, Xiaoming Wu, Changxin Song

“…Gene expression data is an important source for obtaining hypertension biomarkers. However, this data has a small sample size and high feature dimensionality, posing challenges to biomarker identification. …”
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The Propagation Properties of a Longitudinal Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexing System in Atmospheric Turbulence by Qinghua Tian, Lei Zhu, Yongjun Wang, Qi Zhang, Bo Liu, Xiangjun Xin

“…The influences of system parameters on the average OAM mode probability densities are analyzed and discussed, such as propagation distance, strength of turbulence, sizes of finite aperture function, OAM mode numbers, and source parameters. …”
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Phase reconstruction via metasurface-integrated quantum analog operation by Qiuying Li, Minggui Liang, Shuoqing Liu, Jiawei Liu, Shizhen Chen, Shuangchun Wen, Hailu Luo

“…Besides, the consistency of entangled photon pairs in time domain makes it possible to achieve a high SNR imaging by trigger detection. The results may potentially empower the application of metasurfaces in optical chip, wave function reconstruction, and label-free biology imaging.…”
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Human disturbance influences occupancy of red deer in Mongolia by Rhiannon R. Henderson, Brittany A. Mosher, Rebecca Watters, Tumursukh Jal, James D. Murdoch

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Design of the Field Protection and Signal Priority at Intersection System for Autonomous-rail Rapid Transit by SHI Yangyang, LIU Guangyong, WU Jinyong

“…It provides auxiliary driving information for the driver through automation equipment, realizes the functions of route protection, virtual section occupied/unoccupied detection, signal control, entering/leaving station detection, platform door linkage control, berth status detection and management in deport and so on, which improves system security and reduces driver working intensity. …”
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Urinary Exosomes by Irena Dimov, Ljubinka Jankovic Velickovic, Vladisav Stefanovic

“…Thus, UE have valuable potential as a source of biomarkers for early detection of various types of diseases, monitoring the disease evolution and/or response to therapy. …”
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Comparing the Transcriptomes of Two Different Tissues in Helicoverpa assulta (Guenée) by Hailing Zhang, Kuiyin Li, Yubo Zhang

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Testing infrared camera surveys and distance analyses to estimate feral horse abundance in a known population by Kathryn A. Schoenecker, Paul F. Doherty Jr., Jacob S. Hourt, John P. Romero

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Development of an Efficient and Generalized MTSCAM Model to Predict Liquid Chromatography Retention Times of Organic Compounds by Mengdie Fan, Chenhui Sang, Hua Li, Yue Wei, Bin Zhang, Yang Xing, Jing Zhang, Jie Yin, Wei An, Bing Shao

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Feature Extraction and Classification of Power Quality Disturbances Using Optimized Tunable-Q Wavelet Transform and Incremental Support Vector Machine by Indu Sekhar Samanta, Pravat Kumar Rout, Kunjabihari Swain, Satyasis Mishra, Murthy Cherukuri

“…The widespread integration of renewable energy sources (RESs) into power systems using power electronics-based interface devices has led to a substantial rise in power quality (PQ) issues. …”
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On the usage of artificial intelligence in leprosy care: A systematic literature review. by Hilson Gomes Vilar de Andrade, Elisson da Silva Rocha, Kayo H de Carvalho Monteiro, Cleber Matos de Morais, Danielle Christine Moura Dos Santos, Dimas Cassimiro Nascimento, Raphael A Dourado, Theo Lynn, Patricia Takako Endo

“…The persistent stigma and social exclusion associated with leprosy complicate eradication efforts exacerbate the wider challenges faced by NTDs in sourcing the necessary resources and attention for control and elimination. …”
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