Amine-functionalized cellulose-silica composites for the remediation of hexavalent chromium (Cr IV) in contaminated water by Mayenzeke Trueman Mazibuko, Stanley Chibuzor Onwubu, Phumlane Selby Mdluli, Vimla Paul, Mokhena Clement Teboho, Mokhothu Thabang

“…We employed the in-situ sol–gel method to create cellulose-silica silane functionalized composites, analyzing them through different characterization techniques such as Attenuated total reflectance- Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), X-ray Diffraction Analysis (XRD), Thermo gravimetric analysis (TGA)/differential thermogravimetric (DTG), Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), and Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) techniques. …”
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Submicron infrared spectroscopy assessment of single-cell phenotypic diversity in microbial lipid production by Uladzislau Blazhko, Dana Byrtusová, Volha Shapaval, Achim Kohler, Christophe Sandt, Boris Zimmermann

“…Cell sizes were estimated from the corresponding microscopy images, while reference bulk infrared measurements of yeast biomass and pure compounds were obtained by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopies. Within the population, most of the cells have similar chemical composition, though several cells have quite different composition from the population average. …”
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Recognition of Sheep Feeding Behavior in Sheepfolds Using Fusion Spectrogram Depth Features and Acoustic Features by Youxin Yu, Wenbo Zhu, Xiaoli Ma, Jialei Du, Yu Liu, Linhui Gan, Xiaoping An, Honghui Li, Buyu Wang, Xueliang Fu

“…We conducted the task of collecting sound data in actual production environments, considering noise and complex surroundings. The method included evaluating and filtering the optimal acoustic features, utilizing a customized convolutional neural network (SheepVGG-Lite) to extract Short-Time Fourier Transform (STFT) spectrograms and Constant Q Transform (CQT) spectrograms’ deep features, employing cross-spectrogram feature fusion and assessing classification performance through a support vector machine (SVM). …”
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Biofabrication of copper oxide nanoparticles using Dalbergia sisso leaf extract for antibacterial, antibiofilm and antioxidant activities by Muhammad Hussnain Siddique, Maimona Sadia, Saima Muzammil, Muhammad Saqalein, Asma Ashraf, Sumreen Hayat, Saba Saba, Arif Muhammad Khan, Abeer Hashem, Graciela Dolores Avila-Qezada, Elsayed Fathi Abd-Allah

“…In the current investigation, copper oxide nanoparticles (CuO NPs) were fabricated by green method using Dalbergia sissoo leaf extract. The fabricated nanoparticles were characterized through various techniques like UV–visible spectroscopy, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction (XRD). …”
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Agronomic performance of curly lettuce seedlings from mill compost substrate under organic cropping system by Luiz Fernando de Sousa Antunes, Adelson Paulo Araújo, Maria Elizabeth Fernandes Correia, Norma Gouvêa Rumjanek, José Guilherme Marinho Guerra

“…Conclusion: The millicompost provided seedlings of improved quality that increased the growth and yield of lettuce plants in the field at different levels of N fertilization. Highlights ·       Diplopods transform plant residues into organic compost, showcasing millicompost's potential. ·       Millicompost serves as an excellent substrate for lettuce seedling production. ·       N fertilization with 200 kg N ha-1 through the castor bean cake enhances lettuce growth and nutrient accumulation. ·       Lettuce plants from millicompost present superior characteristics to those observed in commercial substrates.…”
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Thermal and Hydrochloric Acid‐Treated Montmorillonite Clay/TiO2 Nanoparticles as Potential Degrading Agent for PAHs in Solution: Adsorbent Characterization by Lekan Taofeek Popoola, Moses Oshiomah Osibuamhe, Usman Taura, Yuli Panca Asmara, Paul C. Okonkwo, Saheed Olalekan Alawode

“…In this study, the characterization of thermally treated and hydrochloric acid‐modified montmorillonite nanoparticles (TAMC) supported with TiO2 as a potential degrading agent for PAHs in solution was conducted using scanning electron microscope (SEM), energy‐dispersive spectroscopy (EDX), Fourier‐transform infrared (FTIR) spectrophotometer, x‐ray fluorescence (XRF), thermogravimetric analysis (TGA), powder x‐ray diffractometer (XRD), and Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) method. …”
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Health Monitoring of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Building Materials Based on Phase Unwrapping Algorithm by Min Yan, Jianjun Zhou, Shuai Guo, Yanlong Li

“…The experimental results showed that the hybrid algorithm had higher computational accuracy and smaller errors compared with the discrete cosine transform algorithm, fast Fourier transform algorithm, and quality map guided method. …”
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Unified Description of the Mechanical Properties of Typical Marine Soil and Its Application by Yongqiang Li, Gang Wang, Liping Jing, Lei Zhang, Xinjun Cheng

“…This model can describe the unified behaviour of unsaturated soil and saturated soil using independent state variables and can uniquely describe the multiple mechanical properties of soils under general stress states, without changing the parameter values using the transform stress method. An effective stress-based, fully coupled, explicit finite element–finite difference method was established based on this model and three-phase field theory. …”
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Research on emotion recognition using sparse EEG channels and cross-subject modeling based on CNN-KAN-[Formula: see text] model. by Fan Xiong, Mengzhao Fan, Xu Yang, Chenxiao Wang, Jinli Zhou

“…Extensive experiments on the SEED and DEAP datasets demonstrate the proposed method's superior performance in emotion classification tasks. …”
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Application of FTIR and NIR Spectroscopy Coupled with Chemometrics for Determination of Monosodium Glutamate Level in Balado Seasoning by Lestyo Wulandari, Linda Devitasari, Indah Purnama Sary

“…This study aims to determine MSG in Balado seasoning using near-infrared (NIR) and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy methods combined with chemometrics. …”
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Influence of Electromagnetic Generalized Thermoelasticity Interactions with Nonlocal Effects under Temperature-Dependent Properties in a Solid Cylinder by shaaban khader, ayman marrouf, mona khedr

“…Techniques are employed to determine the answer in the Laplace transform domain. A numerical method based on Fourier series expansions is used to carry out the inversion operation. …”
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Marine motor fault diagnosis based on CEEMDAN and BRECAN under strong noise conditions by Renjie ZHU, Enzhe SONG, Chong YAO, Yun KE

“…MethodsFirst, the noisy motor fault signal is decomposed into multiple intrinsic mode components （IMFs） through adaptive noise CEEMDAN, the noise dominant signal and information dominant signal in the IMF are divided on the basis of detrended fluctuation analysis, and empirical wavelet transform （EWT） is used to de-noise the noise dominant signal. …”
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Studies on the inhibition of mild steel corrosion in hydrochloric acid solution by atenolol drug by G. Karthik, M. Sundaravadivelu

“…The results obtained from the different methods are in good agreement. The surface morphologies of mild steel were examined by Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy, scanning electron microscope (SEM). …”
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The Synthesis of Magnetic Nitrogen-Doped Graphene Oxide Nanocomposite for the Removal of Reactive Orange 12 Dye by Norah Salem Alsaiari, Abdelfattah Amari, Khadijah Mohammedsaleh Katubi, Fatimah Mohammed Alzahrani, Faouzi Ben Rebah, Mohamed A. Tahoon

“…The successful construction of the nanocomposite was confirmed using different characterization techniques including scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), Fourier transform-infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). …”
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3-Bromopyridine-Heterogenized Phosphotungstic Acid for Efficient Trimerization of Biomass-Derived 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural with 2-Methylfuran to C21 Fuel Precursor by Yufei Xu, Zhaozhuo Yu, Hu Li, Song Yang

“…The heterogeneous acidic catalyst could be reused for four consecutive cycles without obvious loss of activity, and different characterization techniques (e.g., XRD (X-ray diffraction), TG (thermogravimetric analysis), SEM (scanning electron microscope), FT-IR (Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy), and BET (Brunauer-Emmet-Teller)) were utilized to investigate the performance of the catalyst. …”
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Rapid Classification of Milk Using a Cost-Effective Near Infrared Spectroscopy Device and Variable Cluster–Support Vector Machine (VC-SVM) Hybrid Models by Eleonora Buoio, Valentina Colombo, Elena Ighina, Francesco Tangorra

“…The aim of this study was to develop and implement a method based on the combination of a compact and low-cost Fourier Transform near infrared (FT-NIR) spectrometer and variable cluster–support vector machine (VC-SVM) hybrid model for the rapid classification of milk in accordance with EU Regulation EC No. 1308/2013 without any pre-treatment. …”
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Oil spill cleanup using EDTA-coated magnetite magnetic nanoparticles by Maha J. Awda, Basma A. Abdulmajeed, Zaid Nidhal Shareef

“…This study adopted a straightforward and economical method utilizing iron oxide magnetic nanoparticles for oil spills cleanup.  …”
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SSTMNet: Spectral-Spatio-Temporal and Multiscale Deep Network for EEG-Based Motor Imagery Classification by Albandari Alotaibi, Muhammad Hussain, Hatim Aboalsamh

“…There has been a lot of work on detecting two or four different MI movements, which include bilateral, contralateral, and unilateral upper limb movements. …”
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Nonlinear oscillations of a lumped system with series spring, piezoelectric device, and feedback controller by M. K. Abohamer, T. S. Amer, A. A. Galal, Mona A. Darweesh, A. Arab, Taher A. Bahnasy

“…In addition, bifurcation diagrams and Poincaré maps (PMs) are graphed to illustrate the different behavioral modes of the system. Conversely, piezoelectric transducers are linked to the dynamic model to transform vibrational motion into electrical energy. …”
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VERBAL NEOLEXEMS OF INDIVIDUAL AUTHOR’S IN THE NEWSPAPER LANGUAGE OF THE LATE 20th CENTURY: SEMANTICS AND WORD FORMATION by Olena M. Turchak

“…This goal requires the use of appropriate research methods: structural, the internal organization of language is analyzed, where the elements are related to a certain system of relations; descriptive, it gives the opportunity to consider the features of the neolexems semantics; method of contextual analysis, the functioning of neolexemes is examined in context and their functions, stylistics and context are identified. …”
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