Development of a benthic macroinvertebrate-based multimetric index to quantify riverbed substrate condition in Swedish streams by Peter E. Carlson

“…Despite increasing recognition of the importance of substrate quality in river ecosystems, our ability to assess substrate condition effects on biodiversity and functioning of river ecosystems is at present inadequate resulting in discrepancies between the needs of conservation, restoration, and mitigation of running waters, and water management practice. …”
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Exploring Usability of a Clinical Decision Support System for Cancer Care: A User‐Centered Study by Darya Chyzhyk, Maddi Arregi, Maria Errazquin, Ainhoa Ariceta, Macarena Sevilla, Roberto Álvarez, Maider Alberich Inchausti

“…Based on the received constructive feedback, minor improvements were identified for further refinement of the application that do not affect either its intended functionality or the overall functioning of the tool. …”
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Assessment of Ecosystem Vulnerability in the Tropic of Cancer (Yunnan Section) by Hui Ye, Die Bai, Jinliang Wang, Shucheng Tan, Shiyin Liu

“…Ecosystem vulnerability is determined by structural and functional sensitivity, coupled with insufficient adaptability to external stressors. …”
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Significance of PPARA as a Treatment Target for Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia by Xixi Xiang, Fu Li, Sha Zhou, Yunjing Zeng, Xiaojuan Deng, Hongyang Zhang, Jiali Li, Hongyun Liu, Jun Rao, Lei Gao, Cheng Zhang, Qin Wen, Li Gao, Xi Zhang

“…Additionally, PPARA co-functions with 70 out of 92 in-network genes in various functional pathways/gene groups related to CLL pathology, such as regulation of cell adhesion, inflammation, reactive oxygen species, and cell differentiation. …”
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Genetic and vascular risk factors for ischemic stroke and cortical morphometry in individuals without a history of stroke: A UK Biobank observational cohort study by Jiawei Liu, Yingying Xie, Feng Liu, Wen Qin, Chunshui Yu

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Explainable modeling for wind power forecasting: A Glass-Box model with high accuracy by Wenlong Liao, Jiannong Fang, Birgitte Bak-Jensen, Guangchun Ruan, Zhe Yang, Fernando Porté-Agel

“…Specifically, the core is to sum up the feature effects by constructing shape functions, which effectively map the intricate non-linear relationships between wind power output and input features. …”
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Zn-URJC-12 Material Constituted of Two Different Organic Ligands for CO₂ Valorization into Cyclic Carbonates by Jesús Tapiador, Pedro Leo, Pablo Salcedo-Abraira, Antonio Rodríguez-Diéguez, Gisela Orcajo

“…The framework features –NH₂ functional groups coordinated to Zn(II) centers, as confirmed by single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis. …”
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Hierarchical Artificial Bee Colony Algorithm for RFID Network Planning Optimization by Lianbo Ma, Hanning Chen, Kunyuan Hu, Yunlong Zhu

“…The results demonstrate that the proposed HABC obtains remarkable performance on most chosen benchmark functions when compared to several successful swarm intelligence and evolutionary algorithms. …”
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Fluorescence sensor array for highly sensitive pattern recognition of biothiols in food based on tricolor upconversion luminescence metal-organic frameworks by Mingyuan Yin, Dongfang Qiu, Meiqi Wang, Zedan Wang, Lirong Han, Linsen Li, Jie Tong, Hailiang Nie, Yun Wu, Xiaoqiang Qiao

“…The fluorescence sensor arrays constructed from upconversion luminescence metal-organic frameworks nanocomposites (LMOFs) can provide impressive discrimination and exquisite fingerprinting capabilities for extremely similar analytes. …”
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Insight on the complete process of photoacoustic generation and propagation of cerebrovascular in brain via multi-physics coupling method by Shangkun Hou, Anzhi Lv, Jiabin Lin, Bokang You, Shuaixin Huang, Xianlin Song

“…This visualization study provides theoretical guidance for the research and application of photoacoustic imaging in brain structural and functional imaging.…”
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The CLIP - GPT Image Captioning Model Integrated with Global Semantics by TAO Rui, REN Honge, CAO Haiyan

“…It combines the two loss functions of masked language modeling and image-text matching, selects highly difficult negative samples to train the cross-modal hop network to extract consistent global semantics, improving the accuracy of distinguishing highly similar image and text feature points within the neighborhood of the subspace. …”
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Catalog and distribution atlas of the Scarabaeoidea (Insecta: Coleoptera) of El Salvador by José D. Pablo Cea, Ronald D. Cave, Francisco A. Serrano-Peraza, Raquel Alvarado-Larios, Cuauhtémoc Deloya, Katerin A. Serrano-Chicas, Elizabeth Alfaro, Abizai C. Chinchilla-Rodríguez, Daniel Girón-Segovia, Jorge Ari Noriega

“…Scarabaeoidea are megadiverse in multiple ecosystems and perform many functions. This work aims to catalog the Scarabaeoidea in El Salvador. …”
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Unsupervised Contrastive Graph Kolmogorov–Arnold Networks Enhanced Cross-Modal Retrieval Hashing by Hongyu Lin, Shaofeng Shen, Yuchen Zhang, Renwei Xia

“…To preserve high-order semantic relations, we construct a hypergraph-based information propagation mechanism, refining hash codes by enforcing global consistency. …”
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Mechanical Design and Testing of Mobile Monitoring Units for Security Systems by Karol Semrád, Martin Fiľko, Katarína Draganová, Jozef Novotňák, Jaroslav Kessler

“…During the design, emphasis was also placed on the vibrations of the mobile monitoring units and their temperature dependence, because vibrations can significantly affect the correct functioning of the mobile monitoring security system and cause false alarm situations. …”
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Sizing Single Gold Nanoparticles with Bright-Field Microscopy by Antonio Sotelo-López, Salvador Mendoza-Acevedo, José Abraham Balderas-López, Braulio Gutiérrez-Medina

“…We achieved high-contrast imaging by constructing a bright-field microscopy system with ultrabright LEDs (incorporating low-cost components), employing Köhler illumination near the coherence limit, and using digital processing to perform image averaging and background subtraction. …”
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Improved WASPAS method for determining criteria priority and weights in solving MADM problems: a case study to determine leadership style in Covid-19 pandemic by Mehdi Soltanifar, Seyyed Mohammad Zargar, Maryamsadat Aman

“…Purpose: The purpose of this research is to provide a hybrid and improved version of one of the Multi-Attribute Decision-Making (MADM) methods, which is a more useful tool for decision support due to the constructive interaction with the decision-maker.Methodology: For this purpose, a linear programming problem with weight restriction and discrimination intensity functions was used to present the improved WASPAS method, and thus, when the explicit weight for the indicators was not taken from the decision maker, it was possible to rank the options.Findings: The results of comparing the use of the proposed method with the WASPAS method showed that this method has a good capability for use in multi-criteria decision making problems and in this particular issue, the results of using this method showed that in the context of the Covid-19 epidemic, the supportive leadership style had the highest rank among the leadership styles, followed by the transactional leadership, participatory, transformational and was placed authoritative.Originality/Value: In this study, the improved WASPAS method was presented to determine the priority and weight of criteria in solving MADM problems and to determine the organizational leadership style in the Covid-19 pandemic.…”
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On-surface synthesis of triangulene trimers via dehydration reaction by Suqin Cheng, Zhijie Xue, Can Li, Yufeng Liu, Longjun Xiang, Youqi Ke, Kaking Yan, Shiyong Wang, Ping Yu

“…Combined with spin-polarized density functional theory calculations, scanning tunneling spectroscopy measurements identify the septuple (S = 3) high-spin ground state and quantify the collective ferromagnetic interaction among three triangulene units. …”
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Unscented Particle Filter Algorithm Towards Data Quality Improvement in Sustainable Distribution Power Systems by Wanxing Sheng, Huaitian Zhang, Keyan Liu, Xiaoli Meng

“…In order to realize data quality improvement and further support flexible choice of operating mode, safe and efficient coordinated control, dynamic and orderly fault recovery of sustainable PES, this paper proposes an unscented particle filter algorithm, adopting unscented Kalman filter to construct importance density functions and KLD resampling to dynamically adjust the particle number. …”
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Axial-Compressive Behavior, Including Kink-Band Formation and Propagation, of Single p-Phenylene Terephthalamide (PPTA) Fibers by M. Grujicic, S. Ramaswami, J. S. Snipes, R. Yavari, C.-F. Yen, B. A. Cheeseman

“…The mechanical response of p-phenylene terephthalamide (PPTA) single fibers when subjected to uniaxial compression is investigated computationally using coarse-grained molecular statics/dynamics methods. In order to construct the coarse-grained PPTA model (specifically, in order to define the nature of the coarse-grained particles/beads and to parameterize various components of the bead/bead force-field functions), the results of an all-atom molecular-level computational investigation are used. …”
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A Review of On-Surface Synthesis and Characterization of Macrocycles by Chao Yan, Yiwen Wang, Jiahui Li, Xiaorui Chen, Xin Zhang, Jianzhi Gao, Minghu Pan

“…Macrocyclic organic nanostructures have emerged as crucial components of functional supramolecular materials owing to their unique structural and chemical features, such as their distinctive “infinite” cyclic topology and tunable topology-dependent properties, attracting significant recent attention. …”
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