Functional and Genomic Evidence of L-Arginine-Dependent Bacterial Nitric Oxide Synthase Activity in <i>Paenibacillus nitricinens</i> sp. nov. by Diego Saavedra-Tralma, Alexis Gaete, Carolina Merino-Guzmán, Maribel Parada-Ibáñez, Francisco Nájera-de Ferrari, Ignacio Jofré-Fernández

“…Although nitric oxide (NO) production in bacteria has traditionally been associated with denitrification or stress responses in model or symbiotic organisms, functionally validated L-arginine-dependent nitric oxide synthase (bNOS) activity has not been documented in free-living, non-denitrifying soil bacteria. …”
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Non-Line-of-Sight Location With Gauss Filtering Algorithm Based on a Model of Photon Flight by Yu Ren, Zongliang Xie, Yihan Luo, Shaoxiong Xu, Haotong Ma, Yi Tan

“…Recently, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) detection based on time of flight (TOF) has been investigated. …”
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Using an ensemble approach to predict habitat of Dusky Grouse ( Dendragapus obscurus ) in Montana, USA by Elizabeth A Leipold, Claire N Gower, Lance McNew

“…Consensus between the resource selection function and random forest models was high (93%) and the ensemble map had higher predictive accuracy when classifying the independent dataset than the other two models. …”
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Enhancing deep learning-based landslide detection from open satellite imagery via multisource data fusion of spectral, textural, and topographical features: a case study of old lan... by Zhiyuan Ren, Junwei Ma, Jiayu Liu, Xin Deng, Guangcheng Zhang, Haixiang Guo

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Analysis of Facial Cues for Cognitive Decline Detection Using In-the-Wild Data by Fatimah Alzahrani, Steve Maddock, Heidi Christensen

“…Video-based analysis offers a promising, low-cost alternative to resource-intensive clinical assessments. This paper investigates visual features (eye blink rate (EBR), head turn rate (HTR), and head movement statistical features (HMSFs)) for distinguishing between neurodegenerative disorders (NDs), mild cognitive impairment (MCI), functional memory disorders (FMDs), and healthy controls (HCs). …”
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A Novel Chiral Molecularly Imprinted Electrochemical Sensor Based on β-CD Functionalized Graphene Quantum Dots for Enantioselective Detection of D-Carnitine by Feng Yang, Xin Qi, Yan Chen, Kai Tang, Mengyang Fang, Yanwei Song, Jiufen Liu, Lianming Zhang

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SDES-YOLO: A high-precision and lightweight model for fall detection in complex environments by Xiangqian Huang, Xiaoming Li, Limengzi Yuan, Zhao Jiang, Hongwei Jin, Wanghao Wu, Ru Cai, Meilian Zheng, Hongpeng Bai

“…These results indicate that SDES-YOLO successfully combines efficiency and precision in fall detection. Through these innovations, SDES-YOLO not only improves detection accuracy but also optimizes computational efficiency, making it effective even in resource-constrained environments.…”
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Remote Sensing Image Detection Method Combining Dynamic Convolution and Attention Mechanism by Yunfei Zhang, Ming Chen, Cong Chen

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Spin-dependent edge detection and imaging enabled by optical circularly polarised states by Jiale Chen, Zhao-xian Chen, Zi-xin Zhou, Yan-qing Lu, Jun-long Kou

“…Furthermore, these two independent functions can be easily switched by altering the circular polarisation state of the light source.…”
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Image Deconvolution to Resolve Astronomical X-Ray Sources in Close Proximity: The <i>NuSTAR</i> Images of SXP 15.3 and SXP 305 by Sayantan Bhattacharya, Dimitris M. Christodoulou, Silas G. T. Laycock

“…The broad point spread function of the <i>NuSTAR</i> telescope makes resolving astronomical X-ray sources a challenging task, especially for off-axis observations. …”
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Evaluation of Intrusion Detection Systems in Cyber Security using Fuzzy OffLogic and MCDM Approach by Zhengrui Yang

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Loss Function Optimization Method and Unsupervised Extraction Approach D-DBSCAN for Improving the Moving Target Perception of 3D Imaging Sonar by Jingfeng Yu, Aigen Huang, Zhongju Sun, Rui Huang, Gao Huang, Qianchuan Zhao

“…Compared to 2D sonar images, 3D sonar images offer superior spatial positioning capabilities, although the data acquisition cost is higher and lacks open source references for data annotation, target detection, and semantic segmentation. …”
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Varying Activity and the Burst Properties of FRB 20240114A Probed with GMRT Down to 300 MHz by Ajay Kumar, Yogesh Maan, Yash Bhusare

“…All of the bursts we detect are faint (<10 Jy ms) and thus probe the lower end of the energy distribution. …”
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Lysozyme functionalized zinc-oxide nanoparticles: Synthesis, characterization, and antibacterial assessment against Staphylococcus aureus with futuristic application in wastewater... by Suneeti Singh, Pavni Rekhi, Jewel Mary Saju

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Nanotechnologies associated to floral resources in agri-food sector by Ahmad S Ammar

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QPPLab: A generally applicable software package for detecting, analyzing, and visualizing large-scale quasiperiodic spatiotemporal patterns (QPPs) of brain activity by Nan Xu, Behnaz Yousefi, Nmachi Anumba, Theodore J. LaGrow, Xiaodi Zhang, Shella Keilholz

“…To address these challenges, we present QPPLab, an open-source MATLAB-based toolbox for detecting, analyzing, and visualizing QPPs from fMRI time series. …”
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Anisotropic Diffusion of e± in Pulsar Halos over Multiple Coherence of Magnetic Fields by Kai Yan, Sha Wu, Ruo-Yu Liu

“…Also, the halo’s morphology may appear less asymmetric, especially after being smoothed by the point-spread function of instruments. This largely relaxes the tension between the asymmetric morphology of halos predicted by the model and the lack of apparent asymmetric halos detected so far. …”
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Neural network for step anomaly detection in head motion during fMRI using meta-learning adaptation by N.S. Davydov, V.V. Evdokimova, P.G. Serafimovich, V.I. Protsenko, A.G. Khramov, A.V. Nikonorov

“…Quality assessment and artifact detection in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is essential for clinical applications and brain research. …”
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Reusable and robust fuzzy extractor for CRS-dependent sources by Yucheng Ma, Peisong Shen, Xue Tian, Kewei Lv, Chi Chen

“…Abstract Fuzzy extractors allow for the extraction and reproduction of a nearly uniform string from a noisy and non-uniform source. Reusable and robust fuzzy extractors further require that the output string should remain pseudorandom under multiple extractions and any modification of public value should be detectable. …”
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Reinforcement Q-Learning-Based Adaptive Encryption Model for Cyberthreat Mitigation in Wireless Sensor Networks by Sreeja Balachandran Nair Premakumari, Gopikrishnan Sundaram, Marco Rivera, Patrick Wheeler, Ricardo E. Pérez Guzmán

“…The proposed system is formulated as a Markov Decision Process (MDP), where encryption level selection is driven by a reward function that optimizes the trade-off between energy efficiency and security robustness. …”
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