Evaluation of Two-Stage Backwashing on Membrane Bioreactor Biofouling Using <i>cis</i>-2-Decenoic Acid and Sodium Hypochlorite by Sungjin Park, Wonjung Song, Chehyeun Kim, Zikang Jiang, Jiwon Han, Jihyang Kweon

“…An increase in biofilm removal efficiency with higher concentrations of NaOCl was not observed. Instead, the fouling rate increased at a 200 mg/L NaOCl condition compared to the control condition (i.e., DW washing). …”
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Associations between Scattering Screens and Interstellar Medium Filaments by Ashley M. Stock, Marten H. van Kerkwijk

“…Comparisons with tracers of ionized media did not find any new associations. Instead, for seven of the pulsars analyzed, aligned H  i filaments are seen for at least one of their screens, for a total of 12 out of 22 screens. …”
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Measurement of Degree of Compaction of Fine-Grained Soil Subgrade Using Light Dynamic Penetrometer by Junhui Zhang, Yongsheng Yao, Jianlong Zheng, Xiangqun Huang, Tian Lan

“…Then, the degree of compaction of fine-grained soil subgrades can be calculated according to the predicting equation, which involves the penetration ratio (PR) and the numerically calculated water content as input instead of the measured value in the field.…”
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A Cost-benefit Analysis of Using Polyethylene Glycol Hydrogel Sealant versus Fibrin Glue as a Dural Sealant for Posterior Fossa Surgery in the United States by Marissa J. Carter

“…Sensitivity analysis showed that using lumbar drainage instead of operative repair for a CSF leak reduced cost savings to $680. …”
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Rectal cancer with severe distal spreading by A. A. Nevolskikh, T. P. Berezovskaya, N. A. Gorban, L. M. Kondrashova, L. N. Titova

“…At repeated investigation after chemoradiotherapy course on a background of significant regression of tumor, development of metastasis in rectovaginal septum was revealed, located 5 cm from the lower pole of neoplasm, that required abdominal-perineal extirpation of rectum instead of initially planned organ-preserving resection. …”
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Mobility Crowdsourcing: Toward Zero-Effort Carpooling on Individual Smartphone by Nianbo Liu, Yong Feng, Feng Wang, Bang Liu, Jinchuan Tang

“…Our scheme generates daily trips and mobility models for each user, and then makes carpooling zero-effort by enabling travel data to be crowdsourced instead of tracking vehicles or asking users to input their trips. …”
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Forecasting Optimal Solar Energy Supply in Jiangsu Province (China): A Systematic Approach Using Hybrid of Weather and Energy Forecast Models by Xiuli Zhao, Henry Asante Antwi, Ethel Yiranbon

“…The future demand for energy and need to use solar energy in order to avoid future energy crisis in Jiangsu province in China require energy planners in the province to abandon their reliance on traditional, “least-cost,” and stand-alone technology cost estimates and instead evaluate conventional and renewable energy supply on the basis of a hybrid of optimization models in order to ensure effective and reliable supply. …”
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A New Approach for the Utilization of Technical Egg Albumen Based on Acid–Thermal Coagulation by Plamen Saraliev, Desislav Balev, Desislava Vlahova-Vangelova, Nikolay Kolev, Stefan Dragoev

“…A better yield was obtained when using citric acid 97.79% instead of phosphoric acid. The final dried egg product from TA has a protein content of 46% and a fat content of 33%. …”
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Whole Blood Metabolomic Profiling of Mice with Tacrolimus-Induced Chronic Nephrotoxicity: NAD⁺ Depletion with Salvage Pathway Impairment by Sho Nishida, Tamaki Ishima, Daiki Iwami, Ryozo Nagai, Kenichi Aizawa

“…The TAC group received TAC subcutaneously (1 mg/kg/day for 28 days), while the control group received normal saline instead. After the administration period, whole blood was collected and metabolomic analysis was performed, revealing significant changes in 56 metabolites. …”
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Prompting Large Language Models with Knowledge-Injection for Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering by Zhongjian Hu, Peng Yang, Fengyuan Liu, Yuan Meng, Xingyu Liu

“…Unlike earlier approaches, we adopt the LLM for knowledge enhancement instead of relying on knowledge graphs. Furthermore, we leverage open LLMs, incurring no additional costs. …”
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Using UAV-Based Systems to Monitor Air Pollution in Areas with Poor Accessibility by Oscar Alvear, Nicola Roberto Zema, Enrico Natalizio, Carlos T. Calafate

“…Despite the fact that crowdsensing approaches could be an adequate solution for urban areas, they cannot be implemented in rural environments. Instead, deploying a fleet of UAVs could be considered an acceptable alternative. …”
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Lugares amados, lugares sombra: éticas y estéticas en tiempos de transición by María Cecilia Roa García, Alejandro Quecedo del Val, Nils Lagrève, Ana Manuela Amaya Morales

“…These communities resist being reduced to mere suppliers of renewable or fossil energy for distant regions, becoming instead shadow places. The extraction of coal from Cañaverales symbolizes the erasure and forced disappearance of these deep-rooted relationships with energy, transforming their ethics and aesthetics into memory and haunting specters of what once was.…”
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An ensemble method for improving robustness against the electrode contact problems in automated sleep stage scoring by Kazumasa Horie, Ryusuke Miyamoto, Leo Ota, Takashi Abe, Yoko Suzuki, Fusae Kawana, Toshio Kokubo, Masashi Yanagisawa, Hiroyuki Kitagawa

“…Additionally, we confirmed that assigning different input sets to small models did not diminish the advantages of the ensemble but instead increased its efficacy. The proposed model can improve overall scoring accuracy and minimize the effect of problematic signals simultaneously, making in-home sleep stage scoring systems more suitable for clinical practice.…”
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Applying the Concept of Peptide Uniqueness to Anti-Polio Vaccination by Darja Kanduc, Candida Fasano, Giovanni Capone, Antonella Pesce Delfino, Michele Calabrò, Lorenzo Polimeno

“…As an additional advantage, using a peptide-based vaccine instead of current anti-polio DNA vaccines would eliminate the rare post-polio poliomyelitis cases and other disabling symptoms that may appear following vaccination.…”
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The Discriminative Lexicon: A Unified Computational Model for the Lexicon and Lexical Processing in Comprehension and Production Grounded Not in (De)Composition but in Linear Discr... by R. Harald Baayen, Yu-Ying Chuang, Elnaz Shafaei-Bajestan, James P. Blevins

“…It embraces the discriminative perspective on language, rejecting the idea that words’ meanings are compositional in the sense of Frege and Russell and arguing instead that the relation between form and meaning is fundamentally discriminative. …”
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Cloud and IoT based smart agent-driven simulation of human gait for detecting muscles disorder by Sina Saadati, Abdolah Sepahvand, Mohammadreza Razzazi

“…First, an IoT-based approach is proposed to digitize human motion using smartphones instead of hardly accessible wearable sensors and markers. …”
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Dual Control of Host Actin Polymerization by a Legionella Effector Pair by M. Pillon, C. Michard, N. Baïlo, J. Bougnon, K. Picq, O. Dubois, C. Andrea, L. Attaiech, V. Daubin, S. Jarraud, E. Kay, P. Doublet

“…We demonstrated that LegK2 and VipA do not modulate each other’s activity in a “metaeffector” relationship. Instead, the antagonistic activities of the LegK2/VipA effector pair would target different substrates, Arp2/3 for LegK2 and G-actin for VipA, to temporally control actin polymerization at the LCV and interfere with phagosome maturation and endosome recycling, thus contributing to the intracellular life cycle of the bacterium. …”
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A Three-Component Model Based on Macropropagation Phenomena Approach for Complex Building Scattering by Mehdi Ait-Ighil, Fernando Perez-Fontan, Joel Lemorton, Frederic Lacoste, Christophe Bourga, Michel Bousquet

“…The actual trend in propagation channel modelling is to improve the multipath characterisation and representation by using semideterministic and hybrid physical-statistical models into channel simulators instead of narrow-band empirical approaches. In this context, this paper presents a new simplified model, called 3CM (3-Component Model) to reproduce building scattering in an efficient way which strongly improves computation performances. …”
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Analisis rantai nilai dalam aspek lingkungan dan ekonomi menggunakan VCOR pada petani kopi di Malang by Imam Santoso, Miftahus Sa'adah, Izzum Wafi'uddin, Naila Maulidina Lu'ayya, Dodyk Pranowo, Retno Astuti

“…Suggested approaches for enhancing the value chain for coffee farmers in Karangploso encompass the installation of a smart GPS system in vehicles for route optimization and fuel efficiency, and using organic fertilizers instead of chemical fertilizers to prevent water pollution, along with the adoption of an organic farming system to enhance the economic value of the harvest. …”
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Ditched and walled enclosures in Prehistoric Iberia (4th-3rd millennia cal. BCE): Like oil and water by Víctor Jiménez-Jáimez, Marcos García-García, Adara López-López, David W. Wheatley

“…There are good reasons to question whether the aforementioned dichotomy is real, or if, instead, it is largely an artifact of research, resulting from a combination of poorly preserved archaeological contexts and inadequate survey strategies and methods which missed the potential integration of both building techniques at the same sites. …”
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