Detection of Veterinary Drugs in Food Using a Portable Mass Spectrometer Coupled with Solid-Phase Microextraction Arrow by Hangzhen Lan, Xueying Li, Zhen Wu, Daodong Pan, Ning Gan, Luhong Wen

“…A portable mass spectrometer (PMS) was combined with a mesoporous silica material (SBA-15) coated solid-phase microextraction (SPME) Arrow to develop a rapid, easy-to-operate and sensitive method for detecting five veterinary drugs—amantadine, thiabendazole, sulfamethazine, clenbuterol, and ractopamine—in milk and chicken samples. …”
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Reducing contrast media and radiation dose in CT angiography at low tube voltage: animal study with photon-counting detector CT by Konstantin Klambauer, Thomas Flohr, Lukas Jakob Moser, Victor Mergen, Matthias Eberhard, Andreas Prokein, Hatem Alkadhi, Hubertus Pietsch, Gregor Jost

“…Methods Six minipigs (median weight: 32.5 kg; IQR: 29.8–34.6 kg) underwent thoracoabdominal CTA using a clinical dual-source PCD-CT at 70 kVp with three scan protocols: (A) reference (100% CM and radiation dose), (B) increased radiation (233%) and reduced CM (56%) dose, and (C) reduced radiation (50%) and increased CM (141%) dose. …”
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Evaluating chain-of-thought prompting in a GPT chatbot for BCID2 interpretation and stewardship: how does AI compare to human experts? by Daniel M. Tassone, Matthew M. Hitchcock, Connor J. Rossier, Douglas Fletcher, Julia Ye, Ian Langford, Julie Boatman, J. Daniel Markley

“…However, accurate interpretation and antimicrobial optimization require Infectious Disease (ID) expertise, which may not always be readily available. …”
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Energy Characteristics of Seismic Waves on Cardox Blasting Tube by Xuejiao Cui, Bo Ke, Songtao Yu, Ping Li, Mingsheng Zhao

“…In order to study the energy characteristics of seismic waves on the liquid CO2 blasting system, the blasting seismic wave signal of liquid CO2 blasting was obtained by on-site microseismic monitoring tests. The adaptive optimal kernel time-frequency analysis method was used to study the basic time-frequency properties of the seismic wave signal. …”
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Spicy Food Ingredient from Red Habanero By-Product Obtained by Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction by António Toscano, Andreia F. R. Silva, Maria P. Ramos, Norton Komora, Filipa V. M. Silva, Patrícia Fradinho

“…., capsaicinoids, carotenoids, phenolics, etc.) and can serve as a source of <i>Capsicum</i> oleoresins, providing spice and color ingredients for food products. …”
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Production and characterization of nervous necrosis virus vaccine antigens in wild type and CRISPR/Cas9 genome edited Nicotiana benthamiana and edible crop lettuce Lactuca sativa by Iva Andrasevic, Hang Su, Espen Rimstad, Jihong Liu Clarke

“…Plant platforms have several advantages and have been proposed as an alternative biomanufacturing method for vaccine antigens. In the present study, we report: (1) selection and design of recombinant plasmids encoding the capsid proteins (CPs) of two genotypes of NNV, red-spotted grouper nervous necrosis virus (RGNNV) and striped jack nervous necrosis virus (SJNNV); (2) design and optimization of plasmids for transient expression of NNV vaccine antigens in wild type Nicotiana benthamiana, CRISPR/Cas9 genome edited Nicotiana benthamiana and Lactuca sativa; (3) test of different Agrobacterium strains (LBA4404 and AGL1) for effective production of NNVCPs; (4) the expression patterns of NNVCPs over time post infiltration for different plants and cultivars; (5) successful production of NNV antigens in N. benthamiana lines and lettuce cultivars, indicating the potential of the plants as antigen producers in the development of a plant-based vaccine against VNN.…”
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Systemic approach in the development of functional foods for various noncommunicable diseases by I. M. Chernukha, M. A. Nikitina, M. A. Aslanova, A. T. Qusay

“…As a result, we receive a modified Muhammara recipe with optimized protein: fat ratio. Mathematical simulation was carried out using the R Studio software with open-source lpSolve and lpSolveAPI libraries.…”
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Enabling High-Level Worker-Centric Semantic Understanding of Onsite Images Using Visual Language Models with Attention Mechanism and Beam Search Strategy by Hui Deng, Kejie Fu, Binglin Yu, Huimin Li, Rui Duan, Yichuan Deng, Jia-rui Lin

“…Moreover, the absence of large-scale, high-quality open-source datasets remains a major obstacle, hindering further research progress and algorithmic optimization in this field. …”
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Risk-communication issues in radiation safety: еvaluation of public awareness in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region on the activities of the nuclear industry and public unders... by G. V. Arkhangelskaya, S. A. Zelentsova, N. M. Vishnyakova, E. V. Khramtsov, K. V. Varfolomeeva, N. V. Sokolov, V. S. Repin

“…According to the results of the study, it can be concluded that the population of the studied region is poorly informed about the existing radiation situation and the nuclear industry projects. It requires an optimization of the choice of methods for risk communication.…”
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Analysis of the Efficiency of Technologies for Extraction Carbon Dioxide from Combustion Products by V. A. Sednin, R. S. Ignatovich

“…Therefore, for practical use in the deep utilization of combustion products of mini-CHP plants operating on local fuels, to obtain carbon dioxide with a low content of impurities, it is necessary to apply the method of chemical absorption. The use of physical absorption technology in a fixed bed can be used to reduce energy source emissions or in cases where the degree of purity of carbon dioxide does not matter.…”
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Cross-Domain Facial Expression Recognition Based on Transductive Deep Transfer Learning by Keyu Yan, Wenming Zheng, Tong Zhang, Yuan Zong, Chuangao Tang, Cheng Lu, Zhen Cui

“…As part of the network parameters, the labels of the target samples are also optimized when optimizing the parameters of TDTLN, such that the cross-entropy loss of source domain data and the regression loss of target domain data can be simultaneously calculated. …”
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Outage probability for cooperative communication system with asymmetric channel by CHUAI Gang1, LIU Sheng1, WEN Xiao-jun1

“…Firstly, a mathematical model of cooperative system in asymmetric channel considering the link diversity gain between the source and destination was presented. An analytical expression of the average outage probability which was proved accurate by simulation was derived by using the method of characteristic function. …”
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Selection of the End-Expiratory Pressure for Mechanical Respiratory Support (Review) by R. Y. Ovsiannikov, K. M. Lebedinskii

“…The absence of «gold standard» for end-expiratory pressure optimization together with its obvious significant contribution to the efficiency and safety of respiratory support has driven the search for the optimal method of choosing its values for several decades.Aim of the review: to identify the optimal methods for determining the values of end-expiratory pressure based on the analysis of its positive and negative effects in the used strategies of mechanical respiratory support.Material and methods. …”
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Optimisation of Water Distribution Networks Design by Minimizing the Total Length by Y. LAHIOUEL, K. CHAOUI, L. KHEZZAR, A. HADDAD, Z. AZARI

“…The aim of the present work is to establish a new algorithm for the optimization of the design of water distribution networks. …”
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An enhanced approach for automatic annotation of error codes based on Seq2edit by Jian Wang, Tao Lin, Rongsen Zhao, Huiling Zhao

“…Recently, a code error automatic annotation method based on Seq2edit has been proposed to optimize the dataset. …”
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Outage probability for cooperative communication system with asymmetric channel by CHUAI Gang1, LIU Sheng1, WEN Xiao-jun1

“…Firstly, a mathematical model of cooperative system in asymmetric channel considering the link diversity gain between the source and destination was presented. An analytical expression of the average outage probability which was proved accurate by simulation was derived by using the method of characteristic function. …”
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Simulation of extreme flood events for risk assessment for flood control of a reservoir-lake-river system under spatially dependent uncertainties by Huili Wang, Bin Xu, Jianyun Zhang, Guoqing Wang, Ping-an Zhong, Xinman Qin, Xuesong Yang, Ran Mo, Jinshu Li, William W.-G. Yeh

“…New hydrological insights for the region: The results show that the proposed method can effectively simulate the spatial interdependencies of risk source variables based on limited historical data. …”
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Machine learning for defect condition rating of wall wooden columns in ancient buildings by Yufeng Li, Wu Ouyang, Zhenbo Xin, Houjiang Zhang, Shuqi Sun, Dian Zhang, Wenbo Zhang

“…This study proposes a Machine Learning-based classification method for rating the defect conditions of wooden columns in ancient building walls using Nondestructive Testing data, including defect images, micro-drilling resistance data, and material loss depths. …”
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Noise characteristics of semiconductor lasers with narrow linewidth by Hua Wang, Yuxin Lei, Qiang Cui, Siqi Li, Xin Song, Yongyi Chen, Lei Liang, Peng Jia, Cheng Qiu, Yue Song, Yubing Wang, Yiran Hu, Li Qin, Lijun Wang

“…This paper presents noise measurement methods, analyses of the mechanisms for noise suppression, and recent research progress in low-noise semiconductor lasers, focusing on material optimization, structural design, and feedback control. …”
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Optimasi Ekstraksi Fikobiliprotein Rumput Laut Gracilaria salicornia Sebagai Sumber Antioksidan Alami by ali maksum, ike sitoresmi mulyo purbowati, kunandar prasetyo, hety handayani hidayat, furqon furqon, Riyan anggriawan, Rifani Ajeng Kartika Dewi

“…The purpose of this study was to carry out the optimization process, obtain the optimum formula and obtain the physicochemical characteristics of the extraction results of Gracilaria salicornia phycobiliprotein with the Freeze Thaw method using Response Surface Methodology (RSM). …”
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