Design Improvements and Best Practices in Small-Scale Biodigesters for Sustainable Biogas Production: A Case Study in the Chillon Valley, Perú by Yoisdel Castillo Alvarez, Reinier Jiménez Borges, Carlos Diego Patiño Vidal, Fanny Mabel Carhuancho Leon, José Santos Pinares Buendia, Jose Alberto Samaniego Nolasco

“…However, its implementation faces significant barriers due to inadequate designs and poor operational practices, which makes its adoption difficult in rural areas. …”
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Textile Defect Detection Algorithm Based on the Improved YOLOv8 by Wenfei Song, Du Lang, Jiahui Zhang, Meilian Zheng, Xiaoming Li

“…Automatic detection of textile defects is a crucial factor in improving textile quality. Fast and accurate detection of these defects is key to achieving automation in the textile industry. …”
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4D-Printed Magnetic Responsive Bilayer Hydrogel by Yangyang Li, Yuanyi Li, Jiawei Cao, Peng Luo, Jianpeng Liu, Lina Ma, Guo-Lin Gao, Zaixing Jiang

“…Despite its widespread application in targeted drug delivery, soft robotics, and smart screens, magnetic hydrogel still faces challenges from lagging mechanical performance to sluggish response times. …”
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Development of Entrepreneurial Activity Using the Integration of Human Capital and Green Technologies to Optimize the Sustainable Development of the Territories by Alma Karshalova, Aidos Akpanov, Santay Tleubayeva, Anuar Belgibayev, Askar Makhmudov, Aigul Atchabarova, Margarita Zholayeva

“… The development of the tourism sector faces serious challenges, which are related to its environmental transformation, digitalization, and integration of new technologies, as well as competitiveness. …”
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Energy efficiency as a driver of the circular economy and carbon neutrality in selected countries of Southern Europe: a soft computing approach by Alma Ramčilović Jesih, Goran Šimić, Ljubiša Konatar, Zoran Brljak, Polona Šprajc

“…A more precise understanding of a carbon-neutral future can be achieved through the incorporation of qualitative data to a greater extent, a realistic evaluation of historical facts and their repercussions, as well as projections of the effects that reality and global developments after 2022 will have on each country.…”
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FBATCNet: A Temporal Convolutional Network With Frequency Band Attention for Decoding Motor Imagery EEG by Shuaishuai Ma, Jidong Lv, Wenjie Li, Yan Liu, Ling Zou, Yakang Dai

“…In addition, compared to decoding MI-EEG signals from different limbs, decoding MI-EEG signals from same limb faces more challenges. We introduced a novel tri-class fine motor imagery (FMI) paradigm and collected electroencephalogram (EEG) data from 20 healthy subjects for decoding research. …”
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SACWOM: Synergistic Adaptive Congestion Window Optimization Mechanism for Self-Clocked Algorithm by Haider Dhia Zubaydi, Ahmed Samir Jagmagji, Sandor Molnar

“…While CC algorithms like Self-Clocked Rate Adaptation for Multimedia (SCReAM) and Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time (BBR) have shown progress, each faces limitations: BBR encounters difficulty in balancing responsiveness and fairness when rapid fluctuations in network conditions arise, which can lead to inefficient performance in shared environments. …”
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A Multiscale Structural Analysis of Soft and Hard Coal Deposits in Deep High-Gas Coal Seams by Anying Yuan, Guangsheng Fu, Junling Hou

“…Consequently, the instantaneous released gases will be decelerated, and the occurrences of coal and gas outburst events in mine working faces can be prevented.…”
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Optimizing Project-Based Learning in Developing 21st Century Skills: A Future Education Perspective by Adam Mudinillah, Dedi Kuswandi, Erwin Erwin, Sugiarni Sugiarni, Winarno Winarno, Annajmi Annajmi, Sam Hermansah

“…This can be a support to solve any problems faced by students in learning. Therefore, it is important for students to improve 21st century skills as a guide to equip themselves to prepare for the life to come. …”
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Modeling of Small DC Magnetic Field Response in Trilayer Magnetoelectric Laminate Composites by B. Zadov, A. Elmalem, E. Paperno, I. Gluzman, A. Nudelman, D. Levron, A. Grosz, S. Lineykin, E. Liverts

“…Using the finite-element method-based software COMSOL, we numerically calculate the induced voltage between the two faces of the PZT piezoelectric layer, by an external homogeneous small-signal magnetic field threading the three-layer Ni/PZT/Ni laminate structure. …”
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Prediction of Bench Blasting Vibration on Slope and Safety Threshold of Blasting Vibration Velocity to Undercrossing Tunnel by Li He, Dongwang Zhong, Yihe Liu, Kun Song

“…The reconstruction and expansion project of oil reserve base often faces the excavation and blasting of the slope and undercrossing tunnel at the same time. …”
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Signal Game Analysis on the Effectiveness of Coal Mine Safety Supervision Based on the Affective Events Theory by Xue Yang, Yang Tian, Kai Feng, Juan Yang, Shu-hui Zhang, Shengnan Wang

“…Under the separating equilibrium state, the emotional supervision system faces “the paradox of almost totally safe systems” and will be broken; the emotion-driven miners disguising any negative emotions will be permitted to work in the coal mine, creating a safety risk. …”
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International Aspects of Investment Liberalization in the PRC: A Case of EU-China Cooperation by D. A. Potapov

“…The paper examines the role of investment cooperation and national foreign investment regime as a means to promote China’s economic and political interests and to respond to new global challenges that the country faces nowadays. To this end, the author examines the main stages of China’s liberalization of the legal regime for foreign investment from the end of the 1970s with a special focus on a new foreign investment law. …”
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Acetylation and Evaluation of Taro Boloso-I Starch as Directly Compressible Excipient in Tablet Formulation by Afewerk Getachew, Zewdu Yilma, Solomon Abrha

“…Therefore, taking all the facts into consideration, the SAs could be potential DC excipients in tablet formulations.…”
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Innovative circular economy approaches in e-waste management: a case study of telkomcel Timor Leste by Graciano Andre Damiao Maia, Ratna Lindawati Lubis, Irni Yunita

“…The findings reveal that while Telkomcel has taken significant steps toward adopting a circular economy model, challenges remain, including limited infrastructure, low public awareness, and insufficient recycling facilities. Notably, Telkomcel has initiated internal policies promoting e-waste collection, repair, and reuse of devices, yet the company faces barriers in scaling these efforts. …”
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OW-YOLO: An Improved YOLOv8s Lightweight Detection Method for Obstructed Walnuts by Haoyu Wang, Lijun Yun, Chenggui Yang, Mingjie Wu, Yansong Wang, Zaiqing Chen

“…Walnut detection in mountainous and hilly regions often faces significant challenges due to obstructions, which adversely affect model performance. …”
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The interplay of trophic interactions and game dynamics gives rise to life-history trade-offs, consistent personalities, and predator–prey and aggression power laws by Mohammad Salahshour

“…Aggressive individuals tend to live faster, more reproduction-focused lives, whereas nonaggressive individuals favor slower, longer-lived strategies. …”
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An explanatory model of suicidal ideation based on family functionality and mental health problems: A cross-sectional study of medical students by Leslie Aguilar-Sigueñas, David Villarreal-Zegarra

“…We used Family Cohesion and Adaptability Evaluation Scale (FACES-III), Family Communication Scale, Family Satisfaction Scale, Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21), and the Scale for Suicide Ideation – Worst (SSI-W). …”
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Satisfaction with Nighttime Outdoor Activity Environment Among Elderly Residents in Old Gated Communities by Fang Wen, Liang Peng, Bo Zhang, Yan Zhang, Yuyang Zhang

“…China, like many other countries around the world, faces a rapidly aging population. “Aging in place” is the most popular choice for older people in China, with more than 90% of urban older people living in the same residential areas they did in middle age. …”
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Determination of Public Goals in Times of Volatility and Complexity by Mirko Pečarič

“…This interdisciplinary approach offers a more comprehensive understanding of the intricate interplay between nature, technology, and law, a perspective often neglected in more narrowly focused studies. The originality of the paper lies in challenging existing forms of regulation and proposing new regulatory approaches grounded in the evolving nature of facts and associated rights and obligations of individuals and groups. …”
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