Population FBA predicts metabolic phenotypes in yeast. by Piyush Labhsetwar, Marcelo C R Melo, John A Cole, Zaida Luthey-Schulten

“…The minor secretion fluxes for glycerol and acetate are underestimated by our method, which indicate a need for further refinements to the metabolic model. …”
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Detecting LNAPL migration in real time using electrical resistivity and statistical models by Ola Tareq al-Hussain, Harris Ramli, Mohammed J. Al-Haidarey, Hayder Yasir Naser

“…Abstract To address the issue of detecting immediate Light Non-Aqueous Phase Liquid (LNAPL) spillage in subsurface soils, a refined method of Electrical Resistivity (ER) measurement was developed and evaluated in this study. …”
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Open-World Semi-Supervised Learning for fMRI Analysis to Diagnose Psychiatric Disease by Chang Hu, Yihong Dong, Shoubo Peng, Yuehan Wu

“…Experiments conducted on public datasets validate the superior performance of this method in the open-world psychiatric disease diagnosis domain.…”
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Exploring idiosyncratic deal arrangements in a technology-based organisation by Sibongile Tshabalala, Nelesh Dhanpat

“…Research approach/design and method: A qualitative design was employed, using a convenience sample of 12 mid-to-senior level employees from a large information communication and technology organisation in Johannesburg. …”
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How do people in Ga-Rankuwa Township understand high blood pressure? by R.J. Henbest, N.H.B. Malete, E. McLeod, M. Tau

“…In recognition of the importance of the subjective aspects of patient care, this study sought to determine how people in Ga-Rankuwa Township understand high blood pressure. Method: The study was conducted in Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa, a large black township, Northwest of Pretoria. …”
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Changes and challenges in artisanal fishery: unpacking the impact of a mining waste disaster by Mayra Jankowsky, Jocemar Tomasino Mendonça, Rodrigo Randow de Freitas

“…From 2021 to 2022, 441 semi-structured interviews were conducted with fishers in Espírito Santo municipalities, using the snowball method to sample 20% of total fishers. The interviews focused on socioeconomic aspects and post-disaster changes. …”
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Translanguaging and Pedagogical Dynamics in Cross-Cultural and Multilingual English Language Teaching in Zimbabwe and South Africa: Ethnolinguistic Assassin? by Beatrice Taringa, Manyike Tintswalo Vivian

“…The open and axial coding scheme and method of grounded theory were employed. Sub-themes, themes and global themes are built and woven into a reportable story about the study phenomenon. …”
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A Literature Review of Virtual Reality Exergames for Older Adults: Enhancing Physical, Cognitive, and Social Health by Xiacheng Song, Nazlena Mohamad Ali, Mohamad Hidir Mhd Salim, Muhammad Yudhi Rezaldi

“…This literature review employs the PRISMA method to assess the latest research findings on the impact of VR sports games in improving cognitive and physical functions in older adults. …”
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Social representations of interdisciplinary work from the perspectives of students and clinical tutors on a cardiovascular rehabilitation program in Chile by Raúl Ahumada, Marcela Aravena-Winkler, Cinara Sacomori

“…Objective: To understand and compare the social representations of students and clinical tutors regarding their interdisciplinary work in the CR program at Hospital Padre Hurtado. Method: The study drew on Moscovici's theory of social representations and employed a grounded theory methodology. …”
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‘I Feel Comfortable Enough and Trust the People Around Me to Be Able to Open Up’: Exploring How Mental Health Community Support Groups Help Older Men Navigate Mental He... by Alex Vickery

“…Method: Using a qualitative approach, 21 in-depth semi-structured interviews with older men (65+) who attended a community support group for their mental health and wellbeing were conducted during 2022. …”
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Determination of Dynamic Stresses and Displacements under the Action of an Impact Load on a Two-Layer Structure during the Indentation Process by N. E. Babushkina, A. A. Lyapin

“…The advantages of dynamic indentation methods and the distribution of stress intensity on the surface and inside the sample are investigated. …”
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Pollutants impact bioassay from waters and soils in Banat region by Crina Laura Mosneang, Alexandra Gruia, Valentin L. Ordodi, Alexandru Baloi, Romeo T. Cristina

“…Analyses of water and soil samples by chemical methods identified the quantities of chlorides, nitrates and phosphates by comparison with the maximum limits of law. …”
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Optimization in Finite Elements to Define the Friction Factor Through Ring Compression Tests by Thomas G. Santos, André Rosiak, Diego R. Alba, Diego P. Wermuth, Lirio Schaeffer

“…The results showed a good relationship between experiments and numerical analysis. After the optimization was performed, the value of the friction factor m varied between 0.001078 and 0.0873, depending on the dimensional measurement method used.…”
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Quantitative analysis of curcumin compounds in ginger by ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry by Yixuan Jiang, Xiuhua Liu, Yinfeng Zhao, Jiguang Zhang, Jing Qiu, Yongzhong Qian, Rui Weng

“…The extraction solvent, volume of extraction solvent, sonication time, and oscillation time were optimized by a single factor experiment. The method validation results showed that the regression coefficients were higher than 0.9990, and the linearity was satisfactory. …”
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Photocatalytic Properties of Office-Paper-Waste-Derived Activated Carbon for Efficient Degradation of Organic Pollutants by Ana Varadi, Adriana Popa, Dana Toloman, Cristian Leostean, Ioana Perhaiţă, Monica Dan, Arpad Mihai Rostas, Septimiu Tripon, Sergiu Macavei, Maria Stefan

“…The obtaining of AC from office paper waste was carried out with the help of the chemical activation method using ZnCl₂ as an activation agent, followed by heating the samples in adequate conditions. …”
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Biodegradation potential of Gordonia spp. on polypropylene and polystyrene: enhanced degradation through pretreatment by Yan Zhu, Hongzhe Wang, Hongzhe Wang, Jing Bai, Yanjie Qi, Dongfei Han

“…Through a systematic 50-day incubation experiment with single-strain cultures of five Gordonia strains (Gordonia polyisoprenivorans B251, Gordonia polyisoprenivorans B253, Gordonia hydrophobica 4.134, Gordonia humi 4.135, and Gordonia sihwensis LQ21), we quantitatively evaluated the degradation performance using four complementary analytical methods: mass loss quantification, attenuated total reflectance Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR), and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and surface water contact angle.ResultsNotably, Gordonia polyisoprenivorans B253 demonstrated remarkable degradation capabilities, as evidenced by: (1) characteristic chemical modifications including hydroxyl group formation (3,280 cm−1), carbon-carbon double bond generation (1,640 cm−1), and ether group appearance (1,100 cm−1) in ATR-FTIR spectra; (2) pronounced surface erosion patterns observed via SEM; and (3) significant mass reduction (1.927% ± 0.038% of PS) compared to controls. …”
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Diffractogram data processing module for electronic journal. Finding diffraction maximum by Roman D. Gerasimov, Arseny D. Starikov

“…In this regard, it seems relevant to create a module for collecting and storing data on experiments and results of analysis by various methods. …”
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Advances in research on lithium in coal-bearing strata and its isotopes by Yun ZHANG, Yingchun WEI, Daiyong CAO, Xin LI, Liangliang JIN, Bo DONG, Xin WANG

“…Prospects Current studies on lithium in coal-bearing strata suffer from several limitations, including a limited understanding of the isotopic fractionation mechanisms, the presence of mass discrimination effects of test methods, a lack of standard samples for in-situ analysis, and limited validation through simulation experiments. …”
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Optimised knowledge distillation for efficient social media emotion recognition using DistilBERT and ALBERT by Muhammad Hussain, Caikou Chen, Muzammil Hussain, Muhammad Anwar, Mohammed Abaker, Abdelzahir Abdelmaboud, Iqra Yamin

“…Our approach integrates a hybrid loss function combining focal loss and Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence to enhance minority class recognition, attention-head alignment for effective contextual knowledge transfer, and semantic-preserving data augmentation to mitigate class imbalance. Experiments on two datasets, Twitter Emotions 416 K samples, six classes, and Social Media Emotion 75 K samples, five classes, show that our distilled models achieve near-teacher performance 97.35% and 73.86% accuracy, respectively. with only a < 1% and < 6% accuracy drop, while reducing model size by 40% and inference latency by 3.2×. …”
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LLD-YOLO: A Low-Light Object Detection Algorithm Based on Dynamic Weighted Fusion of Shallow and Deep Features by Wenhao Cai, Yajun Chen, Xiaoyang Qiu, Meiqi Niu, Jianying Li

“…Ultimately, LLD-YOLO achieves an mAP50 of 70.0% on the ExDark dataset, outperforming the baseline by 2.7 percentage points. Extensive experiments on three public datasets, ExDark, NOD, and RTTS, further validate the superior performance of the proposed method in low-light conditions and its strong adaptability to foggy environments.…”
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