ESTIMATING THE DEMAND FOR RAILWAY FREIGHT TRANSPORTATION: A CASE STUDY IN KAZAKHSTAN by Madiyar SULTANBEK, Nazdana ADILOVA, Aleksander SŁADKOWSKI, Arnur KARIBAYEV

“…In the context of transportation services, accurate demand forecasting is essential for successful operational planning and management of functional areas such as transportation operations, marketing, and finance. …”
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Descriptive – Analytical Investigation of the Phenomenon of the Psyche from the View of Origin, Roots and Essence (Before and After the Renaissance of Neuroscience) by Mir Mahmoud Seyyedvalilou, Marziye Alivandi Vafa, Seyed Mahmoud Tabatabaei

“…Methods: The research methodology utilized Grounded Theory for fundamental concept formation and content analysis. …”
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Country-Level Bibliometric Analysis of Edible Insect Research: Geographic Distribution and Contributions to Advancing Sustainable Alternatives for Food and Feed by Budi Wardiman, Asmuddin Natsir, Syahriani Syahrir, Ulva Dianasari, null Ardianto

“…Emerging themes include bioactive compounds, functional foods, circular economy practices, and sustainable feed for livestock and aquaculture, aligning with global sustainability goals. …”
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visPIG--a web tool for producing multi-region, multi-track, multi-scale plots of genetic data. by Matthew Scales, Roland Jäger, Gabriele Migliorini, Richard S Houlston, Marc Y R Henrion

“…., to integrate data from multiple sources for interpretation and to easily create publication-ready figures. …”
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Maximizing Bifunctionality for Overall Water Splitting by Integrating H2 Spillover and Oxygen Vacancies in CoPBO/Co3O4 Composite Catalyst by Rinkoo Bhabal, Aniruddha Bhide, Suraj Gupta, Rohan Fernandes, Nainesh Patel

“…In the pursuit of utilizing renewable energy sources for green hydrogen (H2) production, alkaline water electrolysis has emerged as a key technology. …”
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MINN: A metabolic-informed neural network for integrating omics data into genome-scale metabolic modeling by Gabriele Tazza, Francesco Moro, Dario Ruggeri, Bas Teusink, László Vidács

“…Recently, a new framework to embed GEMs in a neural network has been introduced: these hybrid models combine the strengths of mechanistic and data-driven approaches, offering a promising platform for integrating different data sources with mechanistic knowledge. In this study, we present a Metabolic-Informed Neural Network (MINN) that utilizes multi-omics data to predict metabolic fluxes in Escherichia coli, under different growth rates and gene knockouts. …”
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A powerful molecular marker to detect mutations at sorghum LOW GERMINATION STIMULANT 1 by Adedayo O. Adeyanju, Patrick J. Rich, Gebisa Ejeta

“…LOW GERMINATION STIMULANT 1 remains the only known sorghum locus affecting resistance to Striga. Functional loss (lgs1) alleles at this locus result in low Striga germination stimulant activity. …”
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Optimizing agricultural biomass selection for biochar production using multicriteria decision-making by Ayodeji Raphael Ige, Grażyna Łaska, Grzegorz Świderski, Grzegorz Zając

“…FTIR analysis confirmed the presence of functional groups in Fraxinus excelsior that enhances biochar stability. …”
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Istihsan in Determination of the Lunar Month: Jurisprudential Flexibility for Harmonizing the Ummah by Geubrina Rizky Ananda Sy, Nur Mahmudi Qiromi, Mahsun Mahsun, Amir Tajrid

“…Istihsan, which etymologically means "considering something better," remains a debated method of ijtihad among Islamic jurisprudence scholars (ushuliyyin), although still practically utilized. This study aims to explore how Istihsan functions as a jurisprudential catalyst in the application of astronomical science (Ilmu Falak), especially concerning the determination of lunar months, offering potential solutions for harmonizing differences among the Muslim community. …”
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Cost‐effective upgrade of the Dutch traction power network: Moving to Bi‐directional and controllable 3 kV DC substations for improved performance by Nanda Kishor Panda, Michail Poikilidis, Phuong H. Nguyen

“…Furthermore, the study investigates additional use cases for the VSCs, including improving DC TS's reliability during faults, reducing harmonics through active power filtering, compensating for reactive power, and supporting the integration of renewable energy sources into the DC grid. A comprehensive control strategy for the VSCs is also proposed based on a thorough analysis of their working methodology and functional modes. …”
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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

“…Firstly, GhostNet is utilized as the backbone network in order to reduce the number of model parameters and computational complexity. …”
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Technical progress of construction and safe operation of underground gas storage under complex geological conditions by Qiqi WANYAN, Yun WANG, Dongxu LI, Hongcheng XU, Chun LI, Kang LI, Jingcui LI, Lifeng LI

“…Further, efforts should be made to form an optimal design method of intensive injection and production, and to develop a domestic microseismic monitoring system. Moreover, new functional fields of gas storage should be continuously expanded, so as to achieve high quality and sustainable development of gas storage.…”
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SurfaceVision: An Automated Module for Surface Fault Detection in 3D Printed Products by Laukesh Kumar, Manoj Kumar Satyarthi

“…This paper introduces SurfaceVision, an automated system for surface fault detection in 3D printed products, leveraging the ResNet-18 architecture as the backbone. Our framework utilizes a combination of contrastive learning and multi domain loss function to identify and classify defects with high accuracy. …”
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Atmospheric Turbulence-Controlled Cryptosystems by Ivan B. Djordjevic

“…The proposed encryption scheme employs the traditional scheme to utilize the atmospheric turbulence as the common source of randomness only in the initialization stage to determine the common parameters to be used in the proposed encryption scheme. …”
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Design of high frequency LLC resonant circuit based on double loop control by Liu Aohui, Wang Shaoning, Xu Tinghao

“…Simultaneously, a double loop voltage-current control technique was developed that could function at constant voltage throughout the load and voltage change range. …”
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TIPdb: A Database of Anticancer, Antiplatelet, and Antituberculosis Phytochemicals from Indigenous Plants in Taiwan by Ying-Chi Lin, Chia-Chi Wang, Ih-Sheng Chen, Jhao-Liang Jheng, Jih-Heng Li, Chun-Wei Tung

“…Search functions can be utilized to filter records of interest by botanical name, part, chemical class, or compound name. …”
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Chiral Amine Covalent Organic Cage Lingated with Copper for Asymmetric Decarboxylative Mannich Reaction by Kaihong Liu, Chunxia Tan, Lingli Yuan

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Cooperative Networking towards Maritime Cyber Physical Systems by Tingting Yang, Hailong Feng, Chengming Yang, Zhonghua Sun, Jiadong Yang, Fan Sun, Ruilong Deng, Zhou Su

“…The game theoretic procedure that converges to Nash equilibrium based on the utility and payoff function is illustrated. Simulation results demonstrate that our proposed strategy could effectively increase the throughput as well as the payoffs of the system.…”
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Extreme Warming Coordinately Shifts Root and Leaf Traits of Alpine Plants toward Conservatism by Jingya Zhang, Jianghui Chen, Yixuan Huang, Luhang Jiang, Ziyi Zheng, Huimin Zhou, Hao Wang, Huiying Liu

“…Trait network analysis further supported this view, showing that extreme warming increased root edge density and decreased leaf modularity, indicating a more integrated network of leaf and root traits to enhance resource utilization efficiency. Our findings suggest that extreme warming may drive a coupled shift toward more conservative traits in both leaves and roots within alpine grasslands, with significant implications for predicting future ecosystem dynamics under escalating climate extremes.…”
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Trait-mediated responses and co-occurrence patterns of breeding steppe birds under human footprint in Inner Mongolia by Wenyu Xu, Chunlu Wang, Yanqi Wang, Xi Yang, Lishi Zhang, Piotr Tryjanowski, Frédéric Jiguet, Zheng Han, Haitao Wang

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