An effective multi-step feature selection framework for clinical outcome prediction using electronic medical records by Hongnian Wang, Mingyang Zhang, Liyi Mai, Xin Li, Abdelouahab Bellou, Lijuan Wu

“…As the number of top-ranking features increased, the models’ accuracy began to stabilize, while feature subset stability (considering sample variations) and inter-method feature similarity reached optimal levels, confirming the validity of the FS framework. …”
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Advances in Non-Thermal Processing of Meat and Monitoring Meat Protein Gels Through Vibrational Spectroscopy by Huanhuan Li, Chenhui Li, Muhammad Shoaib, Wei Zhang, Arul Murugesan

“…Meat is a vital source of high-quality proteins, amino acids, vitamins, and minerals essential for human health. …”
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Adaptive hydrogen fuel cell vehicle scheduling strategy based on traffic state assessment in power-transportation coupled networks by Yizhen Huang, Haiteng Han, Zhinong Wei, Bei Yang, Chuanshen Wu, Yizhou Zhou, Guoqiang Sun

“…An adaptive hydrogen energy management method is employed for fuel cell vehicles to optimize the coupling between the transportation network and the power system. …”
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A decision support system for integration of decarbonization strategies in the oil refining industry by Abdolvahhab Fetanat, Mohsen Tayebi

“…Therefore, this work aims at developing an intelligent decision support system (DSS) for choosing and implementing a sustainable and optimal combination of decarbonization strategies in the studied industry.The proposed DSS involves the weights by envelope and slope (WENSLO) and Bernardo methods under the m-polar fuzzy N-soft (mFNS) information. …”
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Evaluating energy efficiency in Turkish electric distribution using network DEA and GA models by Serpil Aydin, Talat Şenel

“…This shows that Sakarya EDC operates optimally and is a benchmark for other companies in the sector. …”
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Structural Characterizations and Biological Evaluation of a Natural Polysaccharide from Branches of <i>Camellia oleifera</i> Abel by Shengjia Lu, Yali Zhang, Yanghui Ou, Jianghui Xin, Hongliang Yao, Litao Guan

“…Objectives: In this work, we obtain a natural polysaccharide from the branches of <i>C. oleifera</i> and optimize its extraction using Box–Behnken design (BBD), which is a statistical method commonly used in response surface methodology. …”
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SDDGRNets: Level–Level Semantically Decomposed Dynamic Graph Reasoning Network for Remote Sensing Semantic Change Detection by Zhuli Xie, Gang Wan, Yunxia Yin, Guangde Sun, Dongdong Bu

“…Finally, experimental results on three open-source datasets, such as SECOND, HIUSD, and Landsat-SCD, show that the proposed method achieves good performance, with an SCD score reaching 35.65%, 98.33%, and 67.29%, respectively.…”
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High-Performance Time-to-Digital Conversion on a 16-nm Ultrascale+ FPGA by Lorenzo Castelvero, Ignacio H. Lopez Grande, Valerio Pruneri

“…Buffer redundancy subdivides the bins of the code density histogram, whose linearity is further enhanced by bin decimation. The optimal placement of the TDL elements is considered, together with the sampling clock frequency and source. …”
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Pemanfaatan sumber daya lokal biji karet sebagai amplifikasi protein es krim mellorine dengan pengemulsi CMC by Jefri Pandu Hidayat, Memik Dian Pusfitasari, Ryan Ananda Dwi Gunawan, Riza Fahlevi

“…A modification method is needed to release HCN but does not cause excessive protein denaturation.…”
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Pioneering innovations in biodegradable packaging for meat products: Exploring intelligent pH indicator films by Sana Mohammadi, Sajad Pirsa, Farzad Mirab toupchi

“…The aim of this article is to thoroughly examine the characteristics of various packaging methods, detailing the properties and advantages of each within the meat and meat product industry. …”
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Development of technological equipment for restoration of rolled wheeled pairs of railway wagons by V. V. Savinkin, I. V. Shagaev, S. V. Savinkin, V. N. Kuznetsova, A. V. Sandu

“…This approach is not technically and economically feasible.Materials and methods. This article presents the results of the strength calculation of the main moments of forces and dynamic loads per wheel pair. …”
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Cutting-edge developments in plastic biodegradation and upcycling via engineering approaches by Zeinab Rezaei, Amir Soleimani Dinani, Hamid Moghimi

“…This review focuses on engineering approaches for enhancing plastic removal and the methods of depolymerization and upcycling processes of various microplastics. …”
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Research on the promotion of clinical practice guidelines implementation (V): evalua-tion of clinical guidelines implementation and expert consensus on Traditional Chinese Medicine... by Hong-Yan LI, Xiu-Qing SHI, Jing GUO, Rong ZHANG, Jie ZHOU, Ying-Hui JIN, Hong-Cai SHANG

“…Incorporating implementation science into the guideline formulation process, managing and guiding formulation from the source, and optimizing the presentation and dis-semination strategies of the guidelines can promote the implementation of guidelines/consensus appli-cation.…”
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From plant biomass to biofuels and bio-based chemicals with microbial cell factories by Maša VODOVNIK, Matevž ZLATNAR

“…Waste plant biomass represent abundant source of renewable energy that can be transformed to biofuels and other value-added products, which is currently limited due to the lack of cost-effective biocatalysts. …”
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Road Detection, Monitoring, and Maintenance Using Remotely Sensed Data by Nicholas Fiorentini, Massimo Losa

“…This Special Issue on “Road Detection, Monitoring, and Maintenance Using Remotely Sensed Data” presents innovative strategies leveraging remote sensing technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), and non-destructive testing (NDT) to optimize road infrastructure assessment. The ten papers published in this issue explore diverse methodologies, including novel deep learning algorithms for road inventory, novel methods for pavement crack detection, AI-enhanced ground-penetrating radar (GPR) imaging for subsurface assessment, high-resolution optical satellite imagery for unpaved road assessment, and aerial orthophotography for road mapping. …”
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IP-Enabled C/C++ Based High Level Synthesis: A Step towards Better Designer Productivity and Design Performance by Sharad Sinha, Thambipillai Srikanthan

“…We discuss our proposed methodology in the context of supporting efficient hardware synthesis of a class of mathematical functions without altering original C/C++ source code. Additionally, we also discuss and propose methods to integrate legacy IP cores in existing HLS flows. …”
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KNOWLEDGE AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS COVID- 19 AMONG THE ROMA COMMUNITY IN BULGARIA by V. Rangelova, A. Kevorkyan, K. Krasimirova, P. Stoyanova, E. Mitkov, M. Aleksandrova

“…Aim: To study the knowledge and attitudes of people from the Roma ethnic community about the coronavirus infection. Methods: In July-August 2020 in Parvomay, Sliven, and Plovdiv through individual interviews "face to face" 105 respondents with Roma background were interviewed. …”
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Abnormality-aware multimodal learning for WSI classification by Thao M. Dang, Qifeng Zhou, Yuzhi Guo, Hehuan Ma, Saiyang Na, Thao Bich Dang, Jean Gao, Junzhou Huang

“…Furthermore, these methods frequently rely on feature extractors pretrained on natural images, which are not optimized for pathology tasks, and overlook multimodal data sources such as cellular and textual information that can provide critical insights. …”
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Predictions of Multilevel Linguistic Features to Readability of Hong Kong Primary School Textbooks: A Machine Learning Based Exploration by Zhengye Xu, Yixun Li, Duo Liu

“…It is also the first readability formula developed in Hong Kong. Method: The corpus comprised 723 texts from 72 Chinese language arts textbooks used in public primary schools. …”
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The Future of Pathogen Detection in Aquaculture: Miniature Labs, Field‐Compatible Assays, environmental DNA and RNA, CRISPR and Metatranscriptomics by Jessica Rieder, Anastasiia Berezenko, Alexandra Meziti, Irene Adrian‐Kalchhauser

“…ABSTRACT Inland recirculating aquaculture is a thriving food industry providing sustainable and locally sourced high‐quality protein. However, its expansion is accompanied by emerging challenges regarding the spread of pathogens and diseases. …”
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