Mineral identification in thin sections using a lightweight and attention mechanism by Xin Zhang, Wei Dang, Jun Liu, Zijuan Yin, Guichao Du, Yawen He, Yankai Xue

“…Mineral identification is foundational to geological survey research, mineral resource exploration, and mining engineering. Considering the diversity of mineral types and the challenge of achieving high recognition accuracy for similar features, this study introduces a mineral detection method based on YOLOv8-SBI. …”
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Surface protonation amplifies carbon nitride nanosheet-induced phospholipid extraction: Mechanistic insights into enhanced cytotoxicity by Yiping Feng, Jiayong Lao, Jingchuan Xue

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IT: An interpretable transformer model for Alzheimer's disease prediction based on PET/MR images by Zhaomin Yao, Weiming Xie, Jiaming Chen, Ying Zhan, Xiaodan Wu, Yingxin Dai, Yusong Pei, Zhiguo Wang, Guoxu Zhang

“…These insights significantly bolster the arsenal of tools available for AD diagnostics and contribute to the broader narrative of deciphering brain functionality through state-of-the-art imaging modalities.…”
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Glucosylceramides containing very long-acyl-chain fatty acid are critical for cotton fiber elongation by influencing brassinosteroid synthesis and signaling by Qiaoling Wang, Xingying Yan, Qi Niu, Hongju Zhang, Huidan Tian, Zheng Chen, Fan Xu, Yu You, Yinghui Gao, Zhiqing Qiao, Ming Luo

“…Cotton fiber is one of the longest plant cells and sphingolipids are closely associated with the development of cotton fiber cells. However, their function in cotton fiber cell development and its action mechanism is unclear. …”
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Pathogenicity and virulence of Aeromonas schubertii in farmed Asian seabass (Lates calcarifer) in Thailand by Clara Trullàs, Sirikorn Kitiyodom, Komkiew Pinpimai, Putita Chokmangmeepisarn, Manoj Tukaram Kamble, Channarong Rodkhum, Nopadon Pirarat

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Spectral domain optical coherence tomography: a better OCT imaging strategy by Zahid Yaqoob, Jigang Wu, Changhuei Yang

“…There are two approaches to SDOCT—one that uses a broadband source and a spectrometer to measure the interference pattern as a function of wavelength and the other that utilizes a narrowband tunable laser that is swept linearly in k ∼ 1/λ space during spectral fringe data acquisition. …”
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U-Net-based VGG19 model for improved facial expression recognition by Xiaohu ZHAO, Jingyi ZHANG, Mingzhi JIAO, Lixun XIE, Lanfei WANG, Weiqing SUN, Di ZHANG

“…The innovation of the SEAttention module lies in replacing the original activation function with the Mish activation function, which can dynamically adjust the weights of different channels to enhance performance. …”
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In Situ Analysis of Jupiter's Broadband Kilometric Auroral Radio Emissions With Juno by B. Collet, L. Lamy, C. K. Louis, V. Hue, T. K. Kim

“…Taking advantage of Juno in situ measurements within the auroral regions, we surveyed the Juno/Waves radio observations over the 60 first orbits to identify 7 bKOM source candidates. These were mostly detected during dawn storm auroral episodes (4/7) and three were found to be colocated with auroral cavities. …”
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Secrecy Outage Analysis of Mixed RF-FSO Systems With Channel Imperfection by Hongjiang Lei, Haolun Luo, Ki-Hong Park, Zhi Ren, Gaofeng Pan, Mohamed-Slim Alouini

“…First, the cumulative distribution function and probability density function of FSO links with pointing error and two different detection technologies are derived. …”
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Safety and Probiotic Evaluation of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum CHEN1 and Its Metabolic Analysis of Soymilk Oligosaccharides by Zhina CHEN, Shiyi CAO, Linlin YIN, Mengyuan SHAO, Tao YE, Zhangrui XU, Xiaochen HUANG

“…The genetic characteristics of the strain were analyzed through genome sequencing and functional annotation. Phenotypic experiments, including hemolytic activity assays, detection of harmful metabolites, antibiotic susceptibility testing, tolerance experiments, hydrophobicity, and autoaggregation assays were conducted to evaluate its safety and probiotic potential. …”
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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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Investigation of the Application of Machine Learning Algorithms in Credit Risk Assessment of Medium and Micro Enterprises by Yujie Zhao

“…Thus, this proposed method achieves 14.65% high-risk detection with 5.56% financial revisions for the industry considered by the data source.…”
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Non-synaptic interactions between olfactory receptor neurons, a possible key feature of odor processing in flies. by Mario Pannunzi, Thomas Nowotny

“…To navigate a plume and, for example, find food, they must solve several challenges, including reliably identifying mixtures of odorants and their intensities, and discriminating odorant mixtures emanating from a single source from odorants emitted from separate sources and just mixing in the air. …”
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Spontaneous blinking and brain health in aging: Large-scale evaluation of blink-related oscillations across the lifespan by Sujoy Ghosh Hajra, Jed A. Meltzer, Prerana Keerthi, Chloe Pappas, Allison B. Sekuler, Cam-CAN Group, Careesa Chang Liu

“…Crucially, these age-related differences were not observed in the behavioral measures of task performance such as reaction time and accuracy, suggesting that blink-related neural responses during the target detection task are more sensitive in capturing aging-related brain function changes compared to behavioral measures alone. …”
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Biochemical, nutritional, and nutraceutical properties of cactus pear accessions by Yazgan Tunç, Mehmet Yaman, Kadir Uğurtan Yılmaz, Ali Khadivi, Daya Shankar Mishra

“…These findings contribute valuable insights for the conservation and utilization of wild cactus pear genetic resources, supporting the development of functional food products and sustainable cultivation strategies in Mediterranean climates.…”
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Dietary compositions and their seasonal shifts in Japanese resident birds, estimated from the analysis of volunteer monitoring data. by Tetsuro Yoshikawa, Yutaka Osada

“…In this study, we examined the possibility of using long-term volunteer monitoring data as the source of dietary information for 15 resident bird species in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. …”
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Real-time monitoring of tea volatiles using soft ionization by chemical reaction in transfer with an online sampling interface by Tiange Gu, Jingyi Sun, Saiting Wang, Xiaokun Duan, Hongli Li, Charles Liu, David Da Yong Chen

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Combining dopamine and glucose sensings on paper devices for the metabolic study of neurosecretion by Rémi F. Dutheil, Dabeaurard Tho, Iman Pitroipa, Raphaël Trouillon

“…Glucose, the main source of energy of the human body, and dopamine, a major neurotransmitter, are two analytes widely investigated in the study of the brain. …”
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Experimental study on solution possibilities of multiextremal optimization problems through heuristic methods by Rudolf A. Neydorf, Ivan V. Chernogorov, Orkhan Takhir Yarakhmedov, Victor V. Polyakh

“…Each method can provide any desired accuracy of the extremum problem solution, and it utilizes an acceptable time resource.…”
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Special Issue on Contemporary Research Studies in Operations Research, Business Analytics, and Business Intelligence by Viswanath Kumar Ganesan, S. Vinodh, Malolan Sundararaman, M. Vimala Rani, M. Mathirajan

“…The global market's increasing demand, diverse resource supply options, global competition, and environmental protection needs are driving organizations to adopt sustainable strategies. …”
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