Characteristics and Source-specific Health Risks of Ambient PM2.5-bound PAHs in an Urban City of Northern Taiwan by Yu-Chieh Ting, Chun-Hung Ku, Yu-Xuan Zou, Kai-Hsien Chi, Jhy-Charm Soo, Chin-Yu Hsu, Yu-Cheng Chen

“…We utilized a positive matrix factorization (PMF) model, diagnostic ratios, and potential source contribution function (PSCF) to identify the origins of PM2.5-bound PAHs. …”
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Assessment of the capacity of health facilities in preventing and managing non-communicable diseases in selected regions of Somaliland by Opeolu O. Ojo, Omar O Hersi, Ayodele A Falobi, Nura Ali, Lawrence Tan, Yusuf A. Ali

“…The survey focused on assessing the capacity of selected hospitals in detecting and managing NCDs by collecting data on the availability of health workers, equipment, screening and management services, medications, and laboratory tests. …”
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Performance Analysis of Diabetes Detection Using Machine Learning Classifiers by Hung Huynh, Liu Hui, Ngoc Han Nguyen, Ruixuan Qiao

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A Lightweight Transformer Model for Defect Detection in Electroluminescence Images of Photovoltaic Cells by Yang Yang, Jing Zhang, Xin Shu, Lei Pan, Ming Zhang

“…To ensure solar panels function well, efficient and accurate defect detection of PV modules is essential. …”
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Toward global rooftop PV detection with Deep Active Learning by Matthias Zech, Hendrik-Pieter Tetens, Joseph Ranalli

“…It is crucial to know the location of rooftop PV systems to monitor the regional progress toward sustainable societies and to ensure the integration of decentralized energy resources into the electricity grid. However, locations of PV are often unknown, which is why a large number of studies have proposed variants of Deep Learning to detect PV panels in remote sensing data using supervised Deep Learning. …”
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A Lightweight Citrus Object Detection Method in Complex Environments by Qiurong Lv, Fuchun Sun, Yuechao Bian, Haorong Wu, Xiaoxiao Li, Xin Li, Jie Zhou

“…Aiming at the limitations of current citrus detection methods in complex orchard environments, especially the problems of poor model adaptability and high computational complexity under different lighting, multiple occlusions, and dense fruit conditions, this study proposes an improved citrus detection model, YOLO-PBGM, based on You Only Look Once v7 (YOLOv7). …”
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Radar Detection Simulation by Digital Twins of Target and Antenna System by A. S. Grigoriev, A. A. Kazantsev, A. M. Terentyev, B. S. Stavtsev

“…The signal-to-noise dynamic dependence of the given radar system, space object, and observation scenario, presented by their digital models, was calculated. The function of detection probability density was calculated, which demonstrated an insufficient detection capacity of a radar system in the case of observation of such type of objects.Conclusion. …”
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Improved CSW-YOLO Model for Bitter Melon Phenotype Detection by Haobin Xu, Xianhua Zhang, Weilin Shen, Zhiqiang Lin, Shuang Liu, Qi Jia, Honglong Li, Jingyuan Zheng, Fenglin Zhong

“…The diversity of bitter melon shapes has a direct impact on its market acceptance and consumer preferences, making precise identification of bitter melon germplasm resources crucial for breeding work. To address the limitations of time-consuming and less accurate traditional manual identification methods, there is a need to enhance the automation and intelligence of bitter melon phenotype detection. …”
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Distribution and functional significance of KLF15 in mouse cerebellum by Dan Li, Shuijing Cao, Yanrong Chen, Yueyan Liu, Kugeng Huo, Zhuangqi Shi, Shuxin Han, Liecheng Wang

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The functional mechanisms of phosphite and its applications in crop plants by Zhenyi Li, Xiangjiu Kong, Zhiqiang Zhang, Fang Tang, Mingjiu Wang, Mingjiu Wang, Yan Zhao, Fengling Shi

“…Notably, ptxD also acts as an ideal selectable marker because its resistant is specific to Phi, thereby eliminating the risk of false positive clones. …”
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Development of curd semi-finished product with functional properties by L. Yu. Lavrova, E. L. Bortsova, S. A. Ermakov

“…The article is devoted to the development of a curd semifinished product with a high content of dietary fiber. The food fibre source is represented by the use of natural apple pectin introduced in various dosages into curd cheesecakes instead of prime grade wheat flour. …”
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A METHOD FOR INVESTIGATING MACHINE LEARNING ATTACKS ON ARBITER-TYPE PHYSICALLY UNCLONABLE FUNCTIONS by Yuri A. Korotaev

“…This approach allows for a preliminary evaluation of the effectiveness of different algorithms for attacking APUFs without access to challenge-response datasets from real instances of physically unclonable functions. Attacks were conducted on models of basic and modified variants of APUFs from the open-source library "pypuf", using classical logistic regression and artificial neural networks (ANNs). …”
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A lightweight object detection approach based on edge computing for mining industry by Muhammad Wahab Hanif, Zhanli Li, Zhenhua Yu, Rehmat Bashir

“…These enhancements enable more accurate and efficient detection in resource‐constrained edge environments, contributing to safer and more reliable monitoring in coal mining operations.…”
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Rapid urban health security assessment tool: a new resource for evaluating local-level public health preparedness by Rebecca Katz, Matthew R Boyce

“…Plans and policies for responding to public health emergencies are generally framed at higher levels of governance, but developing, improving and sustaining the capacities necessary for implementing these policies is a direct function of local-level authorities. Evaluating local-level public health capacities is an important process for identifying strengths and weaknesses that can impact the preparedness for, detection of and response to health security threats. …”
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MeStanG—Resource for High-Throughput Sequencing Standard Data Sets Generation for Bioinformatic Methods Evaluation and Validation by Daniel Ramos Lopez, Francisco J. Flores, Andres S. Espindola

“…Metagenomics analysis has enabled the measurement of the microbiome diversity in environmental samples without prior targeted enrichment. Functional and phylogenetic studies based on microbial diversity retrieved using HTS platforms have advanced from detecting known organisms and discovering unknown species to applications in disease diagnostics. …”
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Macroeconomic Effects of Oil Price Shocks in the Context of Geopolitical Events: Evidence from Selected European Countries by Mariola Piłatowska, Andrzej Geise

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Determining role of thymus in immune pathogenesis of autoimmune, oncological and infectious diseases by V. A. Kozlov

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Optimization of the defense forces personnel under mobilization conditions: The role of occupational selection as a personnel allocator by V. V. Kalnysh, A. V. Shvets

“…The proposed conceptual model of optimization of the occupational selection system in the defense forces reflects 4 main elements and functions of it. …”
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Identification of resistance sources and genomic regions regulating Septoria tritici blotch resistance in South Asian bread wheat germplasm by Manjeet Kumar, Xinyao He, Sudhir Navathe, Umesh Kamble, Madhu Patial, Pawan Kumar Singh

“…Therefore, dissection of the genetic architecture of adult‐plant resistance with genome‐wide association mapping and selection of resistant sources for adult plant STB resistance were carried out on a panel of South Asian germplasm. …”
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TEDVIL: Leveraging Transformer-Based Embeddings for Vulnerability Detection in Lifted Code by Gary A. McCully, John D. Hastings, Shengjie Xu

“…Notably, these results are achieved when the embedding model is trained with a dataset of just 48,000 functions, demonstrating effectiveness in resource-constrained settings. …”
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