Chemical composition and mosquitocidal activity of methanolic leaf extracts from Ziziphus mauritiana L. against Aedes aegypti L. and Culex quinquefasciatus Say by Ganesan Sumathi, Thambusamy Pushpanathan, Muthukumar Abhirami

“…Methods: In the current investigation, the chemical properties of Z. mauritiana leaf extract were examined through UV-Vis Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infra-Red Spectroscopy (FTIR), and GC-MS Analysis. …”
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Improving the combat capability of small police tactical groups by I. V. Vlasenko, I. P. Lykhyi, Ya. O. Slatin

“…The article analyses the methods of enhancing the combat capability of small police tactical groups, in particular, with regard to their participation in hostilities during martial law in Ukraine. …”
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Research on Online Monitoring of Partial Discharge of Insulation Defects in Air Switchgear Based on Characteristic Gases by Yi Tian, Haotian Niu, Shuai Wang, Guixin Zhu

“…Air switchgear is an important power equipment in the transmission, transformation, and distribution process of the power system. …”
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Biochar-compost-based controlled-release nitrogen fertilizer intended for an active microbial community by Robiul Islam RUBEL, Lin WEI, Salman ALANAZI, Abdulkarim ALDEKHAIL, Anne C. M. CIDREIRA, Xufei YANG, Sanjita WASTI, Samarthya BHAGIA, Xianhui ZHAO

“…Controlled-release nitrogen fertilizers (CRNFs) can control the release of N nutrients to NUE in crop production. Different methods were used to develop new CRNFs. However, different CRNF technologies are still underdeveloped due to inadequate controlling on N releasing time and/or unsustainable diffusion. …”
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Intelligent Online Multiconstrained Reentry Guidance Based on Hindsight Experience Replay by Qingji Jiang, Xiaogang Wang, Yuliang Bai, Yu Li

“…To address the sparse reward issue caused by multiconstraints, the improved Hindsight Experience Replay (HER) method is adaptively combined with Deep Deterministic Policy Gradient (DDPG) algorithm by transforming multiconstraints into multigoals. …”
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Identifying Non-Functional Requirements From Unconstrained Documents Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning Approaches by Qais A. Shreda, Abualsoud A. Hanani

“…We used A dataset of public requirements documents (PURE) that consists of 79 unconstrained requirements documents in different forms. In our approach, features were extracted from the requirement sentences using four different natural language processing methods including statistical and state-of-the-art semantic analysis presented by Google word2vec and bidirectional encoder representations from transformers models. …”
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Creep constitutive model of logarithmic fractal structure derivative of deep hard brittle rock by LIU Yipin, LIU Wenbo, ZHANG Shuguang, HUANG Xiang, LI Yingbo, ZHAO Shutian

“…ObjectiveIn the field of geotechnical engineering, it has always been a key issue to deeply explore the deformation law of surrounding rock under long-term load and accurately reveal its creep deformation mechanism.MethodsIn order to achieve this goal, in the rigorous derivation of the creep model, the mathematical tool of Hausdorff derivative is innovatively introduced. …”
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Macro- and Microelement Composition, Antioxidant Activity, and Biological Effect of Cold-Pressed Edible Oils from Commercial and Amateur Companies by Jolanta Marciniuk, Beata Sadowska, Marzena Więckowska-Szakiel, Mateusz Borkowski, Jacek Zebrowski, Bronisław K. Głód, Kacper Marciniuk, Paweł Marciniuk

“…The content of macro- and micronutrients was assessed using ICP-OES, the level of fatty acid unsaturation was examined using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), and total antioxidant potential (TAP) was assessed using the DPPH method. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Hydroxyapatite Assisted by Microwave-Ultrasound from Eggshells for Use as a Carrier of Forchlorfenuron and In Silico and In Vitro Evaluation by Benjamín I. Romero-De La Rosa, Silvia P. Paredes-Carrera, Jorge A. Mendoza-Pérez, Dulce E. Nicolás-Álvarez, Vicente Garibay-Febles, Carlos A. Camacho-Olguin

“…Comprehensive characterization was conducted using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), specific surface area analysis (BET method), zeta potential (ZP), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and bright-field transmission electron microscopy (BFTEM), ensuring reliable and robust data. …”
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A Safety Evaluation Model of Intersections under Mixed Traffic Conditions Using Traffic Conflicts and Cloud Model by Xuan Can Vuong, Rui-Fang Mou, Trong Thuat Vu, Van Hung Tran, Chi Trung Nguyen

“…And then, as regards the fuzziness and randomness of the evaluation indicators, the qualitative concept has to be converted into a quantitative one utilizing cloud model, which implements the natural transformation between the qualitative concept of the safety level of traffic conflict and the membership degree of the evaluation indicators corresponding to the different safety levels. …”
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Research on Classification and Identification of Crack Faults in Steam Turbine Blades Based on Supervised Contrastive Learning by Qinglei Zhang, Laifeng Tang, Jiyun Qin, Jianguo Duan, Ying Zhou

“…Finally, through the optimization of a supervised contrastive learning (SCL) strategy, the model can better capture the subtle differences between different fault types. Experimental results show that the proposed method has an accuracy of 99.61%, 97.48%, and 96.22% in the classification task of multiple crack fault types at three speeds, which is significantly better than Multilayer Perceptron (MLP), Residual Network (ResNet), Momentum Contrast (MoCo), and Transformer methods.…”
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Assessing processes and results of living labs: toward a general framework by Julien Forbat, Marlyne Sahakian, Jasmin Annaheim, Anton Sentic

“…Through a systematic literature review, we uncover how different LLs—focused on transformative environmental outcomes such as achieving a low-carbon society—are assessed. …”
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Study on infrasonic leakage monitoring and signal processing for product oil pipeline by Yuanbo YIN, Yuxing LI, Wen YANG, Shu LU, Chen ZHANG, Cuiwei LIU, Kai YANG, Wuchang WANG

“…Furthermore, the experimental data were processed and classified, utilizing the method based on Wavelet Transform-Random Forest (WT-RF). …”
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Antioxidant activities of sea buckthorn polysaccharides and their potential application in cosmetic industry by Hao Wang, Na Cheng, Qingyuan Wu, Danjiao Fang, Faiz-Ur Rahman, Huifang Hao, Yongmin Zhang

“…Then, we used the anion exchange method to separate and purify it to get three different polysaccharides: SPA (polysaccharide eluted from deionized water), which is a neutral polysaccharide, and SPB (polysaccharides eluted from 0.1 M NaCl) and SPC (polysaccharide eluted from 0.2 M NaCl), which are acidic polysaccharides. …”
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QLAW: An Improved Quantization-Based Local Audio Watermarking Scheme Using Inter-Frame Correlation by Qiutong Li, Zheng Xing, Ju Wang, Guoheng Huang, Xiaochen Yuan

“…To address this problem, this paper proposes a quantization-based local audio watermarking scheme using inter-frame correlation, integrating machine learning techniques and traditional methods. To obtain the time-frequency spectrogram of the audio signal, a Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) is first applied to the audio signal. …”
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A General Analytical Solution for Axisymmetric Consolidation of Unsaturated Soil with Impeded Drainage Boundaries by Ming-hua Huang, Chang Lv, Zheng-lin Zhou

“…A general analytical solution is developed to predict the excess pore-air and pore-water pressures as well as the average degree of consolidation in an unsaturated soil stratum using the common methods of eigenfunction expansion and Laplace transform. …”
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Remote Calibration Technology in Target RCS Time Domain Outfield Measurement by Ming-Hao Gong, Yi-Wen Li, Bing Wei, Xiao-Long Wei

“…In this paper, a new method of remote calibration in time domain measurement of outfield RCS is proposed. …”
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Grape Value Chain Analysis with Emphasis on Raisin Crop in Hamedan Province by S.M. Seyedan, M. Motaghed

“…This method was utilized in the study and will be briefly explained in relation to the SWOT matrix analysis process. …”
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Extraction and Coordination Chemistry of Mo(Ⅵ)/U(Ⅵ) With Unilateral Derivatized Phenanthroline Amide Ligands by Tao-yuan XIU, Yue-kun LIU, Meng ZHANG, Yi HONG, Guo-an YE, Cai-shan JIAO, Li-yong YUAN, Wei-qun SHI

“…Medical radioactive isotopes play a very important role in disease diagnosis and treatment, with 99Tcm drugs being widely used in disease diagnosis. 99Tcm is primarily obtained from its parent nuclide, 99Mo, through a 99Mo/99Tcm generator. Currently, the main methods of producing 99Mo include reactor production, accelerator-based production, and neutron generator production. …”
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Some Approaches for Light and Color on the Surface of Mars by Manuel Melgosa, Javier Hernández-Andrés, Manuel Sánchez-Marañón, Javier Cuadros, Álvaro Vicente-Retortillo

“…The average accuracy of 3139 reconstructed total spectral irradiances using the proposed method was 0.9999558 using GFC (J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 14, 1007–1014, 1997) and 0.0009 Δ<i>E</i>_u^′v^′ units, a value just below noticeable chromaticity differences perceptible by human observers at 50% probability. …”
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