Refined prognostication of pathological complete response in breast cancer using radiomic features and optimized InceptionV3 with DCE-MRI by Satyabrata Pattanayak, Tripty Singh, Rishabh Kumar

“…To optimize the model’s performance, we experimented with different combinations of loss functions, optimizer functions, and activation functions. …”
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Geocoding and Development of a Web-Based Water Distribution Geospatial Information System for Ilorin Metropolitan City, Kwara State Nigeria by Oseni Taiwo Amoo, Habib Adedayo Salami, Olayinka Gafar Okeola, Abayomi Sunday, Taofeeq Sholagberu Abdulkadir, Adebayo Wahab Salami

“…Moreso, the proper functioning of water supply systems (WSS) relies on the expertise and experience of field workers who rely on information from maps or field surveys, whose processes and mapping methods are labour-intensive, time-consuming, and are done relatively infrequently. …”
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Plant Diversity and Microbial Community Drive Ecosystem Multifunctionality in <i>Castanopsis hystrix</i> Plantations by Han Sheng, Babar Shahzad, Fengling Long, Fasih Ullah Haider, Xu Li, Lihua Xian, Cheng Huang, Yuhua Ma, Hui Li

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The physicochemical and antioxidant activity of Realfood’ hydrolysed bird nest (RHBN) by Muhamad Nur Ghoyatul Amin, Gatot Soegiarto, Laksmi Wulandari

“…The protein content and sialic acid contents are reliant on the species of the swiftlet Due to the composition of the edible bird nest, this natural product is widely utilized as functional food and nutraceuticals. Our present study aims to characterize the edible bird nest obtained from Indonesia as well as characterize the value-added product Realfood’ hydrolysed bird nest (RHBN). …”
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Comparative Analysis of Nature-Inspired Algorithms for Optimal Power Flow Problem: A Focus on Penalty-Vanishing Terms and Algorithm Performance by Gerardo Castanon, Alberto F. Martinez-Herrera, Ana Maria Sarmiento, Alejandro Aragon-Zavala, Fernando Lezama

“…Through numerical evaluations, we assess their performance across diverse objective functions, addressing complexities such as multi-fuel sources, valve point effects, and prohibited zones. …”
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Research Progress on Land Use and Analysis of Green Transformation in China Since the New Century by Wei He, Jianzhou Gong, Xiaobin Zeng

“…Building on this review and incorporating practical needs, theoretical innovation, interdisciplinary integration, and expansion across multiple fields, we aim to propose a framework for future land resource research. This framework includes: (i) Establishing a Multi-functional Land Use System: This approach promotes the coordinated development of ecological and social benefits of land use. …”
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Facile Synthesis of Fluorescent Carbon Quantum Dots with High Product Yield Using a Solid-Phase Strategy by Haitao Ren, Fan Qi, Xiangbo Feng, Jiaxiang Liu, Yuzhen Zhao

“…The liquid-phase method is the most commonly utilized strategy for synthesizing fluorescent carbon quantum dots (CQDs). …”
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Widely Targeted Metabolomics Reveal the Distribution of Metabolites in Shatian Pomelo Fruit by Jing Wen, Haocheng Liu, Huining Lai, Yujuan Xu, Jijun Wu, Yuanshan Yu, Wenqian Huang, Manqin Fu, Haiyang Liu

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Population dynamics and monitoring applied to decision-making by M. J. Conroy, D. C. Lee

“…Second, certain outcomes are assigned value, via an objective or utility function. Both of these features involve factors beyond the usual consideration of ecological modeling; the first implies the presence of one or more “decision makers”, and the second characterizes the societal preferences of each possible outcome resulting from a prospective decision. …”
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Defining the role of Hmu and Hus systems in Porphyromonas gingivalis heme and iron homeostasis and virulence by Michał Śmiga, Paulina Ślęzak, Michał Tracz, Patryk Cierpisz, Mateusz Wagner, Teresa Olczak

“…It utilizes Hmu and Hus systems for heme uptake, including HmuY and HusA hemophore-like proteins and their cognate HmuR and HusB TonB-dependent outer membrane heme receptors. …”
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Leveraging prior mean models for faster Bayesian optimization of particle accelerators by Tobias Boltz, Jose L. Martinez, Connie Xu, Kathryn R. L. Baker, Zihan Zhu, Jenny Morgan, Ryan Roussel, Daniel Ratner, Brahim Mustapha, Auralee L. Edelen

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Automatic Filling Optimization Design of Filler Bodies in Umbilical Cross-Section Based on Quasi-Physical Algorithm by YIN Xu, CAO Donghui, TIAN Geng, YANG Zhixun, FAN Zhirui, WANG Gang, LU Yucheng, WANG Hui

“…Due to the mutual constraints between functional components, the optimized cross-section will have large gap. …”
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Genome-Wide Identification and Comprehensive Characterization of Luffa Sucrose Phosphate Synthase Gene Family and Revealing <i>LaSPS3/4</i>’s Role in Drought Resistance by Xiaocheng Tian, Jianting Liu, Guoliang He, Fei Yan, Hanyi Wang, Liujing Huang, Yeqiu Yin, Shaolong Sun, Chongjian Ma, Guoping Wang, Haisheng Zhu, Hongbo Zhao

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OGC API: Ldproxy, an Updated and Contemporary Approach to Geodata Provision in Disaster Mapping by L. F. P. Sulaeman, F.-J. Behr

“…The functionalities of the webGIS enable users to retrieve OSM and GEE data and examine the impact of the disasters. …”
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A deep learning based intrusion detection system for CAN vehicle based on combination of triple attention mechanism and GGO algorithm by Hongwei Yang, Mehdi Effatparvar

“…Within the initial phase, the major features have been extracted, and TAN functions as a descriptor of feature. Then, the discriminating categorizer classifies the current features. …”
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RTide: Automating the Tidal Response Method by Thomas Monahan, Tianning Tang, Stephen Roberts, Thomas A. A. Adcock

“…Moreover, specialized approaches impose problem‐specific functional forms and rely on auxiliary data, limiting their applicability across different nonstationary tidal processes. …”
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Quasi-synchronous thermocompensation for ISFET-based ionometric devices. Part 2: Implementation by Alexey Pavluchenko, Aleksandr Kukla

“…Combination of the two functions (ionometric and thermometric) in a single sensor is achieved by separating the sensor operation modes in time, and dynamically switching between them by controlling the ISFET bias voltage. …”
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Systematic characterization of plant-associated bacteria that can degrade indole-3-acetic acid. by Lanxiang Wang, Yue Liu, Haoran Ni, Wenlong Zuo, Haimei Shi, Weixin Liao, Hongbin Liu, Jiajia Chen, Yang Bai, Hong Yue, Ancheng Huang, Jonathan Friedman, Tong Si, Yinggao Liu, Moxian Chen, Lei Dai

“…Some of the IAA degraders could utilize IAA as their carbon and energy source. In planta, most of the IAA degrading strains mitigated Arabidopsis and rice seedling root growth inhibition (RGI) triggered by exogenous IAA. …”
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MaskMyPy: python tools for performing and analyzing geographic masks by David Swanlund, Nadine Schuurman

“…Results MaskMyPy is an open-source Python package that includes functions for performing geographic masks, including donut, street, location swapping, and Voronoi masks. …”
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Pricing strategy of supply chain considering response time of extended warranty service by Xingjian Zhou, Yan Feng, Hongming Chen, Lihua Cai, Vladimir Bashkarev

“…Extended warranty services (EWS) offers avenues for new profit sources and growth opportunities. In a time-sensitive market, the response time has an important impact on the pricing of EWS and satisfying consumer utility. …”
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