Sustainable conversion of agricultural waste into solid fuel (Charcoal) via gasification and pyrolysis treatment by Kantapong Khaeso, Bunyawat Sukhuna, Somporn Katekaew, Chaiyan Junsiri, Wiroon Monatrakul, Aphichat Srichat, Kritsadang Senawong, Kittipong Laloon

“…The study tested three types of agricultural waste materials, including coconut shells (CS), cassava rhizome (CR), and acacia wood (AW), to examine the differences in charcoal produced by the two heating methods. …”
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Intra-Technology Enhancements for Multi-Service Multi-Priority Short-Range V2X Communication by Ihtisham Khalid, Vasilis Maglogiannis, Dries Naudts, Adnan Shahid, Ingrid Moerman

“…Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITSs) are emerging as transformative technologies, paving the way for safe and fully automated driving solutions. …”
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LSTM-based Prediction of Short-term Water Level for Three Gorges and Gezhouba Cascade Powerplants by WANG Tao, XU Yang, CAO Hui, LIU Ya-xin, MA Hao-yu, ZHANG Zheng, XIE Shuai, CHANG Xin-yu

“…Nevertheless, due to the combined effects of multiple factors, such as the complex transformation between dynamic and static storage-capacity calculations and the unsteady flow downstream of the stations, traditional methods struggle to accurately predict short-term water levels. …”
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Web-based digital twin online laboratories: Methodologies and implementation [version 3; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by Zhongcheng Lei, Wenshan Hu, Hong Zhou, Guo-Ping Liu

“…Background: Online laboratories that provide online experimentation are crucial for education and research in all fields of engineering. As a transformative technology, the digital twin can be potentially applied into online laboratories to enable physical-digital twin interactions and enhance user experience. …”
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Study of a Two-Step Centrifugation Protocol for Concentrating Cells and Growth Factors in Bovine Platelet-Rich Plasma by Claudia M. Gutiérrez, Catalina López, Carlos E. Giraldo, Jorge U. Carmona

“…The aims of this study were to compare and to correlate the PLT, WBC, transforming growth factor beta-1 (TGF-β1), and platelet-derived growth factor BB (PDGF-BB) concentrations in bovine whole blood, plasma, and four PRP layers and their respective PRG supernatants: A and B (obtained by a single centrifugation tube method at 720g/5 min) and C and D (obtained by a double centrifugation tube method, by using two centrifugation episodes at 720g/5 min). …”
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Web-based digital twin online laboratories: Methodologies and implementation [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Zhongcheng Lei, Wenshan Hu, Hong Zhou, Guo-Ping Liu

“…Background: Online laboratories that provide online experimentation are crucial for education and research in all fields of engineering. As a transformative technology, the digital twin can be potentially applied into online laboratories to enable physical-digital twin interactions and enhance user experience. …”
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The MacqD deep-learning-based model for automatic detection of socially housed laboratory macaques by Genevieve Jiawei Moat, Maxime Gaudet-Trafit, Julian Paul, Jaume Bacardit, Suliann Ben Hamed, Colline Poirier

“…To address this gap, we present MacqD, a modified Mask R-CNN model incorporating a SWIN transformer backbone for enhanced attention-based feature extraction. …”
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Research on Gating Fusion Algorithm for Power Grid Survey Data Based on Enhanced Mamba Spatial Neighborhood Relationship by Aiyuan Zhang, Jinguo Lv, Yu Geng, Xiaolei Wang, Xianhu Li

“…Both qualitative and quantitative analyses indicate that our method outperforms 11 existing methods in terms of fusion effectiveness, particularly in reducing spectral distortion and spatial detail loss. …”
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The study on dynamic modeling and path planning of a manta ray-inspired underwater glider by Yi Zhang, Jianing Zhang, Zhiyang Guo, Lei Zhang, Yuchen Shang, Weimin Chen

“…The path planning problem is transformed into a multi-objective optimization problem by incorporating the performance evaluation model into the research and solved using the Non-dominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm-III (NSGA-III) algorithm for different motion strategies. …”
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Conversion of alkanes under single pulse of hydrodynamic cavitation. I. Behavior of C₁₃–C₁₅ alkanes by V. N. Torhovsky, S. I. Vorobyev, E. V. Egorova, S. V. Ivanov, S. N. Gorodsky

“…There are many different methods of petrochemical raw materials activation. …”
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Study of the prevalence of morphological varieties of cleft lip and palate in a tertiary medical center by José Fernando Polanski, Bruno Saty Kliemann, Emanuelly Freyhardt, Rita de Cassia Tonocchi, Renato da silva freitas

“…Introduction: To verify the prevalence, in a specialized medical center, of the different morphological varieties of orofacial clefts and classify them with details of the affected anatomical structures. …”
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MFGC-Net: Bridging and Fusing Multiscale Features and Global Contexts for Multitask Sea Ice Fine Segmentation by Tianen Ma, Xinwei Chen, Linlin Xu, Pengfei Ma, Peilin Yu

“…Initially, a cross-scale interaction module was constructed in the encoder that utilizes cross attention to seamlessly capture multiscale features, effectively bridging the semantic information gap between different layers. Subsequently, a context transformer block based on efficient multihead self-attention was developed to model remote dependencies across spatial and channel dimensions, thereby enhancing the extraction of multiscale global contextual information. …”
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Learning from Two Early Brownfield Redevelopment Projects in Italy: Soil Desealing, Cooling Effects, and Implementation of Nature-Based Solutions Through Traditional Planning Tools by Enzo Falco, Emanuele Garda, Linda Zardo, Chiara Cortinovis

“…The results therefore allow us to emphasize the fundamental importance of the philosophy and basic principles of a transformation process, even guided by traditional planning tools, for the improvement of the environmental conditions of an urban context and the successful implementation of nature-based solutions.…”
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Role of Non-Black earth swamps in Russia's ecosystem by Avramenko M. V., Ivanova T. G., Dolganova M. V., Nozdracheva E. V., Chigrai O. N., Isaev R. I.

“…The relevance of researching wetland communities in anthropogenically transformed landscapes stems from the establishment and maintenance of a biomonitoring database for vulnerable and ecologically significant native ecosystems within the ecological-biological framework. …”
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Development of a data-driven urban immunity assessment model: providing a new benchmark for urban governance under public health emergencies by Peng Cui, Peng Cui, Saiya Cao, Ruize Qin, Fan Zhang

“…It refines the theoretical framework of urban immunity, analyzes urban immune response mechanisms, develops an immunity indicator system, assesses the spatiotemporal patterns of urban immunity, and builds a decision-making model using intelligent optimization methods to generate optimized solutions for different scenarios. …”
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Water Carcinogenicity and Prevalence of HPV Infection in Esophageal Cancer Patients in Huaihe River Basin, China by Maliha Ghaffar, Jintao Li, Lei Zhang, Sara Khodahemmati, Minglian Wang, Yangjunqi Wang, Lijiao Zhao, Runqing Jia, Su Chen, Yi Zeng

“…Methods. Two-step cell transformation was used to study different sources of water in the malignant cell transformation, and the existence of 3-methylcholanthrene (3-MC) in water was analyzed from the river and shallow and deep wells. …”
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Sustainable AI for plant disease classification using ResNet18 in few-shot learning by Fareeha Naveed, Adven Masih, Jabar Mahmood, Moeez Ahmed, Aitizaz Ali, Aysha Saddiqa, Mohamed Shabbir Hamza Abdulnabi, Ebenezer Agbozo

“…The study evaluates the effectiveness of the proposed approach on the PlantVillage as well as rice disease datasets, performing comparative analyses among different transfer learning models such as ResNet18, ResNet50, and Vision Transformers in combination with Prototypical Networks under various N-way classification tasks (3-way, 5-way, and 10-way) and support sample (K-shot) settings (K =1, K =5, K =10). …”
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Antibacterial activity of selenium nanoparticles/copper oxide (SeNPs/CuO) nanocomposite against some multi-drug resistant clinical pathogens by Ahmed Morad Asaad, Sara A. Saied, Mohammad M. Torayah, N. I. Abu-Elsaad, Samah Mohammed Awad.

“…Methods The Se-NPs/Cu2O nanocomposite was fabricated using the chemical deposition method. …”
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Happiness at work in small and medium-sized enterprises: an analysis of innovation and creativity by Orlando Josué Martínez-Arvizu, Mario Alberto Salazar-Altamirano, Esthela Galván-Vela, Rosa Anaya-Aguilar, Carmen Anaya-Aguilar

“…Methods The research adopted a non-experimental quantitative approach using a cross-sectional design. …”
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FD²-YOLO: A Frequency-Domain Dual-Stream Network Based on YOLO for Crack Detection by Junwen Zhu, Jinbao Sheng, Qian Cai

“…Furthermore, the Dynamic Inter-Domain Feature Fusion module (DIFF) is introduced, which uses large-kernel deep convolution and Hadamard to enable the adaptive fusion of features from different domains, thus addressing the problem of difficult feature fusion due to domain differences. …”
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