Eeg-based detection of epileptic seizures in patients with disabilities using a novel attention-driven deep learning framework with SHAP interpretability by Tawfeeq Shawly, Ahmed A. Alsheikhy

“…The model underwent training, validation, and testing with three publicly accessible EEG datasets sourced from PhysioNet and ResearchGate, thereby ensuring strong generalization across various datasets. …”
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Mapping, Modeling and Designing a Marble Quarry Using Integrated Electric Resistivity Tomography and Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: A Study of Adaptive Decision-Making by Zahid Hussain, Hanan ud Din Haider, Jiajie Li, Zhengxing Yu, Jianxin Fu, Siqi Zhang, Sitao Zhu, Wen Ni, Michael Hitch

“…The integrated outputs of photogrammetry and subsurface imaging were used to design an optimized quarry with bench heights of 30 feet and widths of 50 feet, utilizing open-source 3D software (Blender, BIM, and InfraWorks). …”
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Costing of the breeding operations for the national maize programs in Eastern and Southern Africa by Biswanath Das, Biswanath Das, Samuel K. Mutiga, Samuel K. Mutiga, Olivia Odiyo, Olivia Odiyo, Sammy Madahana, Sammy Madahana, Dragan Milic, Dragan Milic, Lubasi Sinyinda, Kabamba Mwansa, Ronica Mukaro, Davison Chaingeni, Godfrey Asea, Daniel B. Kwemoi, Lennin Musundire, Lennin Musundire

“…Breeding programs are being guided in using the University of Queensland’s open-source breeding costing tool (UQ-BPCT). This paper outlines the costing strategy and demonstrates the tool’s utility using data from national breeding programs in Uganda (NARO), Zambia (ZARI), and Zimbabwe (DR&SS). …”
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Enhanced recovery pathway for older people with hip fracture and cognitive impairment in acute hospitals: the PERFECTED research programme including an RCT by Chris Fox, Simon P Hammond, Lee Shepstone, Fiona Poland, Catherine Henderson, Tamara Backhouse, Bridget Penhale, Simon Donell, Martin Knapp, Douglas Lewins, Alasdair MacLullich, Martyn Patel, Opinder Sahota, Toby O Smith, Justin Waring, Jane L Cross

“…We would not recommend comparing SIR and hospital records sources in a larger study. Trial registration This trial is registered as Current Controlled Trials ISRCTN 99336264. …”
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DA+BMAC: Distance-Aware Bidirectional Medium Access Control for Mesh Wireless Network-on-Chip by Mohd Shahrizal Rusli, Asrani Lit, Muhammad Nadzir Marsono, Ab Al-Hadi Ab Rahman, Shahidatul Sadiah, Michael Loong Peng Tan, Suhaila Isaak, Norlina Paraman

“…DA+BMAC implements distance-aware routing to reserve single-hop wireless transmission exclusively for source-destination pairs beyond a specific distance threshold, while dedicating wired interconnects with higher aggregate bandwidth to short-range communication. …”
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A novel lightweight 3D CNN for accurate deformation time series retrieval in MT-InSAR by Mahmoud Abdallah, Xiaoli Ding, Samaa Younis, Songbo Wu

“…Notably, the computation cost is reduced by up to 80% through separable convolution, establishing the proposed model as both lightweight and efficient. Furthermore, a comprehensive analysis of performance factors was conducted to assess the robustness of UNet-3D, facilitating its open-source usability. …”
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AI-based carbon peak prediction and energy transition optimization for thermal power industry in energy-intensive regions of China by Chenhao Huang, Zhongyang Lin, Jian Wu, Penghan Li, Chaofeng Zhang, Yanzhao Liu, Weirong Chen, Xin Xu, Jinsong Deng

“…The results showed that, compared to the baseline, the carbon peak under the Economic Development Scenario will be delayed by three years, with an additional 92.74 Mt CO2; while under the Environmental Protection and Energy Transition Scenarios, the peak will be advanced by five and three years, with 106.48 and 73.86 Mt CO2 reductions, respectively. Leveraging multi-source data-driven AI models, this study efficiently provided reliable quantitative support for measuring policies with various priorities, emphasizing the necessity of implementing balanced energy transition strategies. …”
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varVAMP: degenerate primer design for tiled full genome sequencing and qPCR by Jonas Fuchs, Johanna Kleine, Mathias Schemmerer, Julian Kreibich, Wolfgang Maier, Namuun Battur, Thomas Krannich, Somayyeh Sedaghatjoo, Lena Jaki, Anastasija Maks, Christina Boehm, Carina Wilhelm, Jessica Schulze, Christin Mache, Elischa Berger, Jessica Panajotov, Lisa Arnold, Björn Grüning, Markus Bauswein, Sindy Böttcher, Reimar Johne, Jürgen Wenzel, Martin Hölzer, Marcus Panning

“…Importantly, we also designed primers on the same input data using the software packages PrimalScheme and Olivar and showed that varVAMP minimizes primer mismatches most efficiently. Finally, we established highly sensitive and specific Poliovirus qPCR assays that could potentially simplify current Poliovirus surveillance. varVAMP is open-source and available through PyPI, UseGalaxy, Bioconda, and https://github.com/jonas-fuchs/varVAMP .…”
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A Comprehensive Framework for Parkinson's Disease Detection Using Spiral Drawings and Advanced Machine Learning Techniques by Mohamed J. Saadh, Waleed K. Abdulsahib, Hardik Doshi, Anupam Yadav, J. Gowrishankar, Mayank Kundlas, Nargiza Mansurova, Kamal Kant Joshi, Fadhil Feez Sead, Bagher Farhood

“…Future research should focus on integrating multiple data sources and exploring real‐time applications to enhance scalability and clinical utility.…”
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BASIL DB: bioactive semantic integration and linking database by David Jackson, Paul Groth, Hazar Harmouch

“…Data on bioactives and foods are sourced from structured databases. The relevant randomized controlled trials (RCTs) were extracted from PubMed. …”
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Inducible engineering precursor metabolic flux for synthesizing hyaluronic acid of customized molecular weight in Streptococcus zooepidemicus by Rui Zhao, Jun Li, Yingtian Li, Xujuan Pei, Jingyi Di, Zhoujie Xie, Hao Liu, Weixia Gao

“…Results In this study, the type and concentration of carbon sources were manipulated to disrupt the balance of precursor supply. …”
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Development and multicentric external validation of a prognostic COVID-19 severity model based on thoracic CT by Ine Dirks, Matías Nicolás Bossa, Abel Díaz Berenguer, Tanmoy Mukherjee, Hichem Sahli, Nikos Deligiannis, Emma Verelst, Bart Ilsen, Simon Van Eyndhoven, Lucie Seyler, Arne Witdouck, Gilles Darcis, Julien Guiot, Athanasios Giannakis, Jef Vandemeulebroucke

“…In times of high incidence, a prognostic model based on data efficiently retrieved from one source can enable fast decision support. …”
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Machine learning enables legal risk assessment in internet healthcare using HIPAA data by Shixian Liu, Hailing Liu, Siyu Fan, Leming Song, Zeyu Wang

“…Firstly, the data are sourced from the HIPAA database, encompassing various data types, such as medical records, patient personal information, and treatment costs. …”
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Harnessing Deep Learning for Enhanced MPPT in Solar PV Systems: An LSTM Approach Using Real-World Data by Bappa Roy, Shuma Adhikari, Subir Datta, Kharibam Jilenkumari Devi, Aribam Deleena Devi, Taha Selim Ustun

“…The data used for this study were sourced from NASA/POWER’s Native Resolution Daily Data of solar irradiation and temperature specific to Imphal, Manipur, India. …”
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Microwave-assisted extraction of essential oils from basil leaves (Ocimum basilicum L.) and coriander seeds (Coriandrum sativum L.): A comparative study on chemical composition, an... by G.M. Masud Rana, Subarna Sandhani Dey, Bijoy Chandra Ghos, Md. Jasim Uddin, Tahmina Akter Chowdhury, Md. Tariqul Islam, Toufikur Rahman, Md. Jobayear Hossain, Jaytirmoy Barmon, Mst. Sarmina Yeasmin

“…Essential oils (EOs), known for their aromatic and bioactive properties, are widely utilized in the cosmetic and food industries. Microwave-assisted extraction (MAE) has emerged as a green, efficient and rapid technique for extracting EOs from plant sources. …”
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Nanomaterials-assisted photothermal therapy for breast cancer: State-of-the-art advances and future perspectives by Sagnik Nag, Oishi Mitra, Garima Tripathi, Israrahmed Adur, Sourav Mohanto, Muskan Nama, Souvik Samanta, B.H. Jaswanth Gowda, Vetriselvan Subramaniyan, Vino Sundararajan, Vinoth Kumarasamy

“…Due to its spatial specificity and nominal invasive therapeutic regime, photothermal therapy (PTT) has attracted much scientific attention down the lane. PTT utilizes a near-infrared (NIR) light source to irradiate the tumor target intravenously or non-invasively, which is converted into heat energy over an optical fibre. …”
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Self-DSNet: A Novel Self-ONNs Based Deep Learning Framework for Multimodal Driving Distraction Detection by Mamun Or Rashid, Md. Mosarrof Hossen, Mohammad Nashbat, Mazhar Hasan-Zia, Ali K. Ansaruddin Kunju, Amith Khandakar, Azad Ashraf, Molla Ehsanul Majid, Saad Bin Abul Kashem, Muhammad E. H. Chowdhury

“…To address these challenges, we propose a novel model, Self-DSNet, for efficient driving distraction detection. The proposed Self-DSNet model utilizes Self-Organizing Neural Network (Self-ONN) layers to enhance complex pattern learning within the data. …”
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PhyloFunc: phylogeny-informed functional distance as a new ecological metric for metaproteomic data analysis by Luman Wang, Caitlin M. A. Simopoulos, Joeselle M. Serrana, Zhibin Ning, Yutong Li, Boyan Sun, Jinhui Yuan, Daniel Figeys, Leyuan Li

“…We provide PhyloFunc as an open-source Python package (available at https://pypi.org/project/phylofunc/ ), enabling efficient calculation of functional beta-diversity distances between a pair of samples or the generation of a distance matrix for all samples within a dataset. …”
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Grid-connected PV inverter system control optimization using Grey Wolf optimized PID controller by Monika Gupta, P. M. Tiwari, R. K. Viral, Ashish Shrivastava, Basem Abu Zneid, Iryna Hunko

“…The system architecture, simulated in MATLAB/Simulink, comprises a 50 kW PV array with a boost converter employing an Incremental Conductance (INC) Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) algorithm, a three-phase voltage source inverter, RLC filters, and a dual-loop (voltage and current) control system synchronized with the utility grid through a Phase-Locked Loop (PLL). …”
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Isolation and characterization of diphenyl ether degrading bacterium Sphingomonas sp. DZ-3 by Feng Zhuo, Wang Sheng, Bai Naling, Zhao Yuhua

“…A few works of biological degradation of PBDEs have been done in recent years.An efficient diphenyl ether degrading bacterium strain DZ-3, which was able to utilize diphenyl ether as a sole source of carbon and energy under aerobic condition, was isolated from activated sludge of a wastewater treatment plant. …”
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