Near-source wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2, norovirus, influenza virus and RSV across five different sites in the UK. by Jay C Bullen, Mina Mohaghegh, Fatima Tahir, Charlotte Hammer, Jacob Sims, Frederico Myers, Lucas Eisinger, Ali Reza Kasmati, Claire F Trant

“…To address this, we conducted wastewater surveillance at five sites for SARS-CoV-2 and two sites for norovirus GI, norovirus GII, influenza A virus, influenza B virus, and human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV A and RSV B). Sites were selected for contrasting functions: an office, charity centre, museum, university, and care home. …”
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Metagenomic and phylogenetic analyses reveal gene-level selection constrained by bacterial phylogeny, surrounding oxalate metabolism in the gut microbiota by Sromona D. Mukherjee, Mangesh Suryavanshi, John Knight, Dirk Lange, Aaron W. Miller

“…The frc gene was primarily allocated to the Pseudomonodota phylum, particularly the Bradyrhizobium genus, which is a species capable of utilizing oxalate as a sole carbon and energy source. Collectively evidence provides strong support that, for oxalate metabolism, evolutionary selection occurs at the gene level, through horizontal gene transfer, rather than at the species level.IMPORTANCEA critical function of the gut microbiota is to neutralize dietary toxins, such as oxalate, which is highly prevalent in plant-based foods and is not degraded by host enzymes. …”
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Tomato Pomace as a Valuable Resource: Characterization of Sunflower and Rapeseed Oil Extracts from Ox Heart Tomato (<i>Lycopersicon esculentum</i>) by Dumitriţa Flaiş, Mariana Spinei, Mircea Oroian

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Detecting and routing of dust event using remote sensing and numerical modeling in Isfahan Province by Mehdii Jafari, Gholamreza Zehtabian, Hasan Ahmadi, Tayebeh Mesbahzadeh, Ali Akbar Norouzi

“…The purpose of this research was to analyze the statistical data and identify the days with dust, the source of dust entering the Isfahan area, and identify the route of its movement. …”
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Classification of SERS spectra for agrochemical detection using a neural network with engineered features by Mateo Frausto-Avila, Monserrat Ochoa-Elias, Jose Pablo Manriquez-Amavizca, María del Carmen González-López, Gonzalo Ramírez-García, Mario Alan Quiroz-Juárez

“…Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) substrates offer a promising solution for the sensitive and specific detection of agrochemicals, enabling timely interventions to mitigate their harmful effects on humans and ecosystems. …”
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Effectiveness of canine‐assisted surveillance and human searches for early detection of invasive spotted lanternfly by Angela K. Fuller, Ben C. Augustine, Eric H. Clifton, Ann E. Hajek, Arden Blumenthal, Josh Beese, Aimee Hurt, Carrie J. Brown‐Lima

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Serum albumin nanoparticles: Ligand functionalization for enhanced targeted therapeutics in precision medicine by Sakshi Shahapurmath, Bhuvaneshwari R. Sharannavar, Rahul Koli

“…This review provides a comprehensive analysis of recent advancements in the functionalization of albumin nanoparticles with diverse ligands to enhance targeting specificity and therapeutic efficacy. …”
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Effectiveness of Robotics in Stroke Rehabilitation to Accelerate Upper Extremity Function: Systematic Review by Cora Carrillo, Devyn Tilley, Kaitlyn Horn, Michelle Gonzalez, Cassidy Coffman, Claudia Hilton, Karthik Mani

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Hybrid Capsule Network for precise and interpretable detection of malaria parasites in blood smear images by Bader Alawfi

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DP-YOLO: A Lightweight Real-Time Detection Algorithm for Rail Fastener Defects by Lihua Chen, Qi Sun, Ziyang Han, Fengwen Zhai

“…To enable accurate and efficient real-time detection of rail fastener defects under resource-constrained environments, we propose DP-YOLO, an advanced lightweight algorithm based on YOLOv5s with four key optimizations. …”
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Leveraging large language models for automated detection of velopharyngeal dysfunction in patients with cleft palate by Myranda Uselton Shirk, Catherine Dang, Jaewoo Cho, Hanlin Chen, Lily Hofstetter, Jack Bijur, Claiborne Lucas, Andrew James, Ricardo-Torres Guzman, Andrea Hiller, Noah Alter, Amy Stone, Maria Powell, Matthew E. Pontell, Matthew E. Pontell

“…BackgroundHypernasality, a hallmark of velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI), is a speech disorder with significant psychosocial and functional implications. Conventional diagnostic methods rely heavily on specialized expertise and equipment, posing challenges in resource-limited settings. …”
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Employing SAE-GRU deep learning for scalable botnet detection in smart city infrastructure by Usman Tariq, Tariq Ahamed Ahanger

“…These findings enhance the understanding of IoT security by offering a scalable and resource-efficient solution for botnet detection. The functional investigation establishes a foundation for future research into adaptive security mechanisms that address emerging threats and highlights the practical potential of advanced deep learning techniques in safeguarding next-generation smart city ecosystems.…”
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Soil Moisture Time Series Using Gamma‐Ray Spectrometry Detection Representing a Scale of Tens‐of‐Meters by Mie Andreasen, Steven Van derVeeke, Han Limburg, Ronald Koomans, Majken Caroline Looms

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GESC-YOLO: Improved Lightweight Printed Circuit Board Defect Detection Based Algorithm by Xiangqiang Kong, Guangmin Liu, Yanchen Gao

“…Simultaneously, the model size is reduced by 25.4%, the parameter count is cut down by 28.6%, and the computational resource consumption is reduced by 26.8%. This successfully achieves the harmonization of detection precision and model lightweighting.…”
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A lightweight algorithm for steel surface defect detection using improved YOLOv8 by Shuangbao Ma, Xin Zhao, Li Wan, Yapeng Zhang, Hongliang Gao

“…Finally, the SIoU (Simplified IoU ) is used to replace the traditional CIoU loss function, which can make the anchor frame more fast and accurate in the regression process, to improve the stability and the robustness of detection. …”
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SurfaceVision: An Automated Module for Surface Fault Detection in 3D Printed Products by Laukesh Kumar, Manoj Kumar Satyarthi

“…The traditional method currently requires visual information processing devices or continuous monitoring of the process via a camera, which is very resource consuming and costly. Machine learning techniques being used for automatic detection of the faults suffer in real time conditions with inefficient fault detection due to the inability of adaptation to real time changes in the printing process. …”
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CMCD: A Consistency Model-Based Change Detection Method for Remote Sensing Images by Xiongjie Li, Weiying Xie, Jiaqing Zhang, Yunsong Li

“…While denoising diffusion probabilistic models have shown preliminary success in this area, the quality of the generated change maps remains unsatisfactory. …”
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Deep learning vulnerability detection method based on optimized inter-procedural semantics of programs by Yan LI, Weizhong QIANG, Zhen LI, Deqing ZOU, Hai JIN

“…In recent years, software vulnerabilities have been causing a multitude of security incidents, and the early discovery and patching of vulnerabilities can effectively reduce losses.Traditional rule-based vulnerability detection methods, relying upon rules defined by experts, suffer from a high false negative rate.Deep learning-based methods have the capability to automatically learn potential features of vulnerable programs.However, as software complexity increases, the precision of these methods decreases.On one hand, current methods mostly operate at the function level, thus unable to handle inter-procedural vulnerability samples.On the other hand, models such as BGRU and BLSTM exhibit performance degradation when confronted with long input sequences, and are not adept at capturing long-term dependencies in program statements.To address the aforementioned issues, the existing program slicing method has been optimized, enabling a comprehensive contextual analysis of vulnerabilities triggered across functions through the combination of intra-procedural and inter-procedural slicing.This facilitated the capture of the complete causal relationship of vulnerability triggers.Furthermore, a vulnerability detection task was conducted using a Transformer neural network architecture equipped with a multi-head attention mechanism.This architecture collectively focused on information from different representation subspaces, allowing for the extraction of deep features from nodes.Unlike recurrent neural networks, this approach resolved the issue of information decay and effectively learned the syntax and semantic information of the source program.Experimental results demonstrate that this method achieves an F1 score of 73.4% on a real software dataset.Compared to the comparative methods, it shows an improvement of 13.6% to 40.8%.Furthermore, it successfully detects several vulnerabilities in open-source software, confirming its effectiveness and applicability.…”
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Design of Ultrasonic Flaw Detection Data Processing System Based on LabVIEW and FPGA by TAN Qunlin, ZHANG Dongfang, XIA Lang, HU Liang, ZHONG Sheng

“…LabVIEW FPGA is an embedded graphical development environment suitable for measurement and control field with high development efficiency, good code readability and rich library functions. Nevertheless,it mainly supports the FPGA board of national instrument company. …”
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Bio-Inspired Object Detection and Tracking in Aerial Images: Harnessing Northern Goshawk Optimization by Agnivesh Pandey, Rohit Raja, Sumit Srivastava, Krishna Kumar, Manoj Gupta, Chanyanan Somthawinpongsai, Aziz Nanthaamornphong

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