Performance Assessment of a Piezoelectric Vibration Energy Harvester for Hybrid Excitation with Varying Cross Sections by Bartłomiej Ambrożkiewicz, Zbigniew Czyż, Vikram Pakrashi, Jakub Anczarski, Paweł Stączek, Andrzej Koszewnik, Mirosław Wendeker, Grzegorz Litak

“…A combination of vibrational excitation from a shaker and airflow is considered the source from which energy is harvested. Varied excitation frequencies and airflow velocities across five different masses were considered, each defining the natural frequency of the system. …”
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Zero-Shot Learning for Accurate Project Duration Prediction in Crowdsourcing Software Development by Tahir Rashid, Inam Illahi, Qasim Umer, Muhammad Arfan Jaffar, Waheed Yousuf Ramay, Hanadi Hakami

“…Crowdsourcing Software Development (CSD) platforms, i.e., TopCoder, function as intermediaries connecting clients with developers. …”
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ICP Enhancement Algorithm for 6D Pose Tracking of Household Objects by Hyunho Hwang, Hyunsoo Shin, Ji-Hun Bae, Sungon Lee

“…We estimate the initial pose using RGB keypoints and fine-tune the weights of the loss function to achieve an accurate pose by considering the flat and rotational symmetric properties of the object. …”
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Significantly enhanced electrocaloric effect by composition modulation in lead-free BaTiO3-based ceramics by Yingzhi Meng, Silin Tang, Zhaojie Wang, Xiang Niu, Hongfang Zhang, Dingyuan Wang, Yisong Bai, Biaolin Peng, Sheng-Guo Lu, Qingqing Ke, Laijun Liu

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A Practical Approach to Malaria Diagnosis in Non-Endemic Regions: Evaluating Simple Clinical and Laboratory Predictors in Travelers Returning from Endemic Regions by Amal A. El-Moamly

“…The detailed clinical information and laboratory parameters, including complete blood count, liver function tests, cholesterol, and lactate dehydrogenase, were collected. …”
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A mighty small heart: the cardiac proteome of adult Drosophila melanogaster. by Anthony Cammarato, Christian H Ahrens, Nakissa N Alayari, Ermir Qeli, Jasma Rucker, Mary C Reedy, Christian M Zmasek, Marjan Gucek, Robert N Cole, Jennifer E Van Eyk, Rolf Bodmer, Brian O'Rourke, Sanford I Bernstein, D Brian Foster

“…Comparison with a mouse heart proteome revealed conservation at the level of molecular function, biological processes and cellular components. …”
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Key Generation in Cryptography Using Elliptic-Curve Cryptography and Genetic Algorithm by Sanjay Kumar, Deepmala Sharma

“…Chromosomes representing points on an elliptic curve are initialized randomly, evaluated for their proximity to a predefined target point using a fitness function, and subjected to tournament selection to determine parents for the next generation. …”
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MDA-DETR: Enhancing Offending Animal Detection with Multi-Channel Attention and Multi-Scale Feature Aggregation by Haiyan Zhang, Huiqi Li, Guodong Sun, Feng Yang

“…Additionally, the VariFocal Loss function is utilized to assign pixel weights, enhancing detail focus and maintaining accuracy. …”
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Rice disease detection method based on multi-scale dynamic feature fusion by Qian Fan, Runhao Chen, Bin Li

“…The bounding box regression loss function, inner-WIoU, utilizes auxiliary bounding boxes and scale factors. …”
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Attapulgite/oyster shell composite reduces cadmium and lead bioavailability in acidic agricultural soils through synergistic adsorption and pH regulation by Hongyan Zhu, Yangping Wen, Qingyin Shang, Xinyu Chen, Yuzhen Huang, Peiyue Liu, Chengcheng Wang, Xiuxia Yang

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Docosahexaenoic Acid-Driven Metabolic Reprogramming as an Attractive Anti-Infection Strategy to Potentiate β-Lactam Antibiotic Efficacy by Lei Xu, Sangyu Hu, Yuzhu Pei, Yutong Zhou, Xiuli Zhang, Linlin Ding, Minhe Cui, Yonglin Zhou, Xuming Deng, Zihao Teng, Jianfeng Wang

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Identifying Disinformation on the Extended Impacts of COVID-19: Methodological Investigation Using a Fuzzy Ranking Ensemble of Natural Language Processing Models by Jian-An Chen, Wu-Chun Chung, Che-Lun Hung, Chun-Ying Wu

“…MethodsA comprehensive dataset comprising 566 genuine and 2361 fake samples was curated from reliable open sources and processed using advanced techniques. The dataset was randomly split using the scikit-learn package to facilitate both training and evaluation. …”
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Characterizing cell-type spatial relationships across length scales in spatially resolved omics data by Rafael dos Santos Peixoto, Brendan F. Miller, Maigan A. Brusko, Gohta Aihara, Lyla Atta, Manjari Anant, Mark A. Atkinson, Todd M. Brusko, Clive H. Wasserfall, Jean Fan

“…Application of such technologies offers the opportunity to delineate cell-type spatial relationships, particularly across different length scales, and enhance our understanding of tissue organization and function. To quantify such multi-scale cell-type spatial relationships, we present CRAWDAD, Cell-type Relationship Analysis Workflow Done Across Distances, as an open-source R package. …”
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A Robust InSAR-DEM Block Adjustment Method Based on Affine and Polynomial Models for Geometric Distortion by Zhonghua Hong, Ziyuan He, Haiyan Pan, Zhihao Tang, Ruyan Zhou, Yun Zhang, Yanling Han, Jiang Tao

“…To mitigate this problem, this study employs affine models and polynomial function models to refine the relative planar precision and elevation accuracy of the DEM. …”
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Diagnosis and management of a giant retroperitoneal hematoma compressing the femoral nerve, following an ultrasound-guided lumbar sympathetic block: a case report by Yan Bai, Xinqiao Zhou, Lingqing Zeng, Xiaokai Zhou, Zhuqing Rao, Cunming Liu, Yinbing Pan, Xiaodi Sun

“…Once imaging supports the diagnosis, immediate digital subtraction angiography (DSA) could be utilized to identify the bleeding source and conduct embolization.…”
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Control of Clostridioides difficile virulence and physiology by the flagellin homeostasis checkpoint FliC-FliW-CsrA in the absence of motility by Duolong Zhu, Katherine J. Wozniak, Firas Midani, Shaohui Wang, Xingmin Sun, Robert A. Britton

“…Furthermore, disruption of the fliC-fliW-csrA network results in significant changes in carbon source utilization and sporulation. This work highlights that key proteins involved in flagellar biosynthesis retain their regulatory roles in C. difficile pathogenesis and physiology independent of their functions in motility.IMPORTANCEClostridioides difficile is a leading cause of nosocomial antibiotic-associated diarrhea in developed countries with many known virulence factors. …”
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Inoculation of the fungi-static C. iranensis ZJW-6 accelerates compost maturation, enhances fertilizer efficiency, and increases the abundance of target microbes in spring and autu... by Dongchao Wang, Jingqi He, Liangdong Li, Gaoyuan Wu, Zixian Jiang, Baifeng Cang, Meikang Wu, Min Nuo, Zichen Liu, Jiaxuan Li, Shengbo Xu, Xintong Ma, Zhihai Wu, Meiying Yang

“…IntroductionStraw composting is an effective way of straw resource utilization, and inoculation of microorganisms can accelerate straw decomposition. …”
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Versatile graceful degradation framework for bio-inspired proprioception with redundant soft sensors by Taku Sugiyama, Kyo Kutsuzawa, Dai Owaki, Elijah Almanzor, Fumiya Iida, Mitsuhiro Hayashibe

“…Nevertheless, soft sensors are fragile and are susceptible to various damage sources in such environments. Some researchers have utilized redundant configuration, where healthy sensors compensate instantaneously for lost ones to maintain proprioception accuracy. …”
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Multi-omics analysis uncovers the transcriptional regulatory mechanism of magnesium Ions in the synthesis of active ingredients in Sophora tonkinensis by Zhu Qiao, Peng-Cheng Zhou, Zhan-Tao Fan, Fan Wei, Shuang-Shuang Qin, Jing Wang, Ying Liang, Ling-Yun Chen, Kun-Hua Wei

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Design and Implementation of a Low-Cost Controlled-Environment Growth Chamber for Vegetative Propagation of Mother Plants by Jacqueline Guerrero-Sánchez, Carlos Alberto Olvera-Olvera, Luis Octavio Solis-Sánchez, Ma. Del Rosario Martínez-Blanco, Manuel de Jesús López-Martínez, Celina Lizeth Castañeda-Miranda, Genaro Martin Soto-Zarazúa, Germán Díaz-Flórez

“…The design features a removable tray that serves as a support for the mother plant, an observation window covered by a movable dark acrylic that prevents the passage of external light, and a vertical structure that facilitates optimal space utilization and ergonomic access. Functionality was conducted using a <i>Stevia rebaudiana</i> Bertoni mother plant maintained for 30 days under monitored conditions. …”
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