Off-grid hydroacoustic signal orientation estimation based on interpolation and subspace fitting in coprime arrays. by Chuanxi Xing, Guangzhi Tan, Qiang Meng, Yanling Ran, Mao Lu

“…This letter presents a novel approach to sparse Bayesian underwater acoustic signal direction estimation. The proposed method incorporates interpolation of the coprime array and signal subspace fitting. …”
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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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Developing an Educational-career guidance Curriculum Framework in the Iran's Education system by Behrooz Rahimi, Rezvan Hakimzadeh, Mohammad Javadipour, Keyvan Salehi, Mohammad KHademi Koleh lou

“…In the first step, in order to identify and explain the elements and components of the educational-career guidance curriculum framework, using the systematic review method, 81 international study sources from among all the books, articles, research reports, reliable documents in the field of academic guidance curriculum between 20001- 2022 were selected as sample. …”
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Impact on induced magnetic field over a second-grade hybrid nanofluid in unsteady thermal systems by Nagaraju Gajjela, Arun Seeralan Balakrishnan, Mahesh Garvandha, H. Niranjan, Adigoppula Raju, Sivakumar S

“…This study investigates unsteady flow and heat transfer using the Cattaneo-Christov model, considering thermal relaxation, viscous dissipation, radiation, and heat sources. The study derives governing equations from momentum, magnetic induction, and energy principles, transforms them into nonlinear ODEs, and solves using the Chebyshev spectral collocation method with quasi-linearization. …”
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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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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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Verification of the Dose Reduction Effect via Diluted Injection in Dual-Energy Computed Tomography Using a Human Blood Flow Phantom by Hironobu Tomita, Koichi Shibata

“…We sought to examine the possibility of reducing the contrast medium dosage in dual-energy imaging using a saline-mixed injection with a virtual monochromatic energy method of dual-source computed tomography (CT). Methods. …”
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Multi-Channel Optical Coherence Elastography Using Relative and Absolute Shear-Wave Time of Flight. by Eli Elyas, Alex Grimwood, Janine T Erler, Simon P Robinson, Thomas R Cox, Daniel Woods, Peter Clowes, Ramona De Luca, Franco Marinozzi, Jérémie Fromageau, Jeffrey C Bamber

“…A needle, embedded in the gel, was excited to vibrate along its long axis and the displacement as a function of time and distance from the needle associated with the resulting shear waves was detected using four M-mode images acquired simultaneously using a commercial four-channel swept-source OCT system. Shear-wave time of arrival (TOA) was detected by tracking the axial OCT-speckle motion using cross-correlation methods. …”
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Research on Multi-Channel Spectral Prediction Model for Printed Matter Based on HMSSA-BP Neural Network by Dandan Fan, Hongwu Zhan, Fang Xu, Yifei Zou, Yankang Zhang

“…To overcome it, this paper proposes a multi-channel spectral prediction model for printed matter and the adaptive evaluation method based on multi-index fusion. First, BPNN prediction model utilizes multi-light sources multi-spectral imaging technology, mapping the dot area ratio of C, M, Y, K to the multi-channel spectral images. …”
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Intelligent Data Reduction for IoT: A Context-Driven Framework by Laercio Pioli, Douglas D. J. De Macedo, Daniel G. Costa, Mario A. R. Dantas

“…It is technique-agnostic, scalable, and adaptable to any DR method with available training data, acting as an open decision-support solution. …”
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Study on ultrasonic-assisted deep eutectic solvent extraction process and in vitro antioxidant of Anchusa italica Retz. Flowers by Linyang Wang, Pin Chen, Ainiwaer Aikemu, Haiyan Zhang, Shuge Tian

“…The comprehensive evaluation value (CEV), derived from the total polyphenol content (TPC) and RA, was optimized under the aforementioned conditions, yielding a CEV of 222.452.The optimized extraction method presents a sustainable and efficient protocol for the isolation of bioactive compounds from natural sources, thereby underscoring the significance of this research in the field of natural product chemistry and ultrasonics Sonochemistry.…”
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Electrochemical Storage and Flexibility in Transfer Capacities: Strategies and Uses for Vulnerable Power Grids by Gustavo Adolfo Gómez-Ramírez, Luis García-Santander, José Rodrigo Rojas-Morales, Markel Lazkano-Zubiaga, Carlos Meza

“…The integration of renewable energy sources into electrical power systems presents enormous challenges in technical terms, especially with energy storage. …”
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Water Level Variation Monitoring in East Lake, Wuhan Based on Satellite Altimetry by LIU Huo-sheng, WANG Hai-hong, YU Qian-hui, LU Liang, QIN Peng-cheng, LIU Yi-bing

“…[Results] (1) Statistical analysis of pulse peakiness and waveform width from the lake surface altimetry echoes revealed that approximately 50% of East Lake’s waveforms exhibited specular reflections with distinct sharp peaks, while about 30% displayed complex shapes containing two or more peaks. (2) The results of accuracy validation using the on-site measured data of water levels showed that the 50% threshold retracking method achieved optimal performance, with a root mean square error (RMSE) of 0.108 m and a correlation coefficient of 0.87. (3) Based on the 50% threshold retracking method, and using Jason-3 data, the water level time series of East Lake from September 2017 to February 2022 was established. …”
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Impacts of spatial variability in urban hydrological modelling: a case study of the Canal do Mangue Basin in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by James de Melo Sampaio Júnior, Marcelo de Miranda Reis, Igor da Silva Rocha Paz

“…ABSTRACT This study analyzes spatial and rainfall variability of an urban basin using the Stormwater Management Model (SWMM), a semi-distributed and open-source hydrological tool. The Canal do Mangue Basin (CMB) in the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, was modelled with three map resolutions, varying the numbers of sub-basins, and three rainfall spatialization methods: arithmetic mean, Thiessen polygons, and Inverse Distance Weighted (IDW). …”
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Analysis of the spatiotemporal dynamics of grassland carbon sinks in Xinjiang via the improved CASA model by Xuewei Liu, Renping Zhang, Jing Guo, Haoen Xu, Yuhao Miao, Feifei Niu, Zhengjie Gao, Xiaming Yang, Fengqin Xiong, Jianli Zhang

“…The analysis revealed that (1) the R2 value of the optimal CASA model was 0.70, and the RMSE was 22.30 gC·m−2. (2) The 23-year average NEP in Xinjiang grassland was 113.00 gC·m−2·a−1, with 82.20 % carbon sink areas and 17.80 % carbon source areas. (3) NEPs of meadows, steppes, and desert grasslands in the Xinjiang region tended to increase during spring, summer, and autumn. (4) During the 23-year period, 15.77 % of the Xinjiang grassland area transitioned from carbon sources to carbon sinks. (5) Relative humidity and soil pH strongly influenced the NEP of Xinjiang grassland. …”
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Synthesis and Properties of Amphoteric Etherified Starch Flocculant CMSG by Li Haihua, Gao Yuhua, Zhang Yaze, Li Na

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A medium-throughput protease assay for screening green plant material by Christina Stonoha-Arther, Andrew Molodchenko, Andrew Molodchenko, Kevin Panke-Buisse

“…This method will allow higher-throughput phenotyping of plant protease activity than is currently feasible: one person can process approximately 120 samples per day, compared to approximately 25 with previous methods. …”
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Performance and Improvement Analysis of the Underwater WSN Using a Diverse Routing Protocol Approach by K. Sathish, C. V. Ravikumar, Asadi Srinivasulu, A. Rajesh, Olutayo Oyeyemi Oyerinde

“…The routing protocols ad-hoc on-demand distance vector (AODV), dynamic source routing (DSR), dynamic manet on demand routing protocol (DYMO), location-aided routing 1 (LAR 1), optimized link state routing (OLSR), source-tree adaptive routing optimum routing approach (STAR-ORA), zone routing protocol (ZRP), and STAR-least overhead routing approach (STAR-LORA) are a few models of routing techniques. …”
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Education on Garden Land Utilization in Efforts to Prevent Stunting in Padang City by Rahmi Awalina, Yeffi Masnarivan, Resmiati Resmiati

“…The method employed involves educating local volunteers about the benefits of family backyard spaces as an alternative source of family food, followed by the distribution of plant seeds and planting media. …”
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Application of open domain adaptive models in image annotation and classification. by Sheng Li, Zhousheng Chang, Haizhen Liu

“…In the field of computer vision, the task of image annotation and classification has attracted much attention due to its wide demand in applications such as medical image analysis, intelligent surveillance, and image retrieval. However, existing methods have significant limitations in dealing with unknown target domain data, which are manifested in the problems of reduced classification accuracy and insufficient generalization ability. …”
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