Pre-Treatment Effects on Chemico-Physical Characteristics of Argan Press Cake Used for Bread Production by Asma El Kaourat, Hasnae Choukri, Badr Eddine Kartah, Ahmed Snoussi, Giuseppe Zeppa, Aouatif Benali, Mouna Taghouti, Hanae El Monfalouti

“…However, the extraction process produces 40–50% of argan press cake (APC), which is rich in protein, fiber, and minerals. …”
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Enhancing impact toughness in 904L stainless steel welded joints using ultrasound-assisted laser welding without sacrificing the strength and ductility by Li Li, Ping Deng, Yuanbiao Tan, Wei Shi, Hao Fu, Shuang Hu, Xuanming Ji, Siyuan Wei, Fei Liu, Song Xiang

“…However, the primary limitation for welded components is the low impact toughness of welds, caused by microstructural inhomogeneity during welding process. This study introduces ultrasound-assisted laser welding as a strategy to address this issue, significantly enhancing the impact toughness of the weld seam while preserving high strength and ductility. …”
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Spatial-temporal analysis of agricultural drought risk: insights from a Vietnam case study by Tien Le, Qian (Chayn) Sun, Trinh Duc Tran, Suelynn Choy, Yuriy Kuleshov, Yuriy Kuleshov

“…A challenge in agricultural drought risk assessment is the lack of standardization for selecting indicators and aggregation methods, leading to inconsistent and less reliable outcomes. This issue is particularly evident in Vietnam, where diverse agricultural practices and regional climates add complexity to the assessment process. …”
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Advanced Handover Optimization (AHO) using deep reinforcement learning in 5G Networks by T. Senthil Kumar, Mardeni Roslee, J. Jayapradha, Yasir Ullah, Chilakala Sudhamani, Sufian Mousa Ibrahim Mitani, Anwar Faizd Osman, Fatimah Zaharah Ali

“…In this model, out of three paramount parameters, namely Handover Probability (HOP), Outage Probability (OP) and Ping Pong Handover Probability (PPHP), the main issue is to minimize signal degradation and service interruption via simultaneous optimization of these three parameters. …”
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Electromigration failure induced by interdiffusion between Al trace and Cu seed layer in the immortal microbump in three-dimensional integrated circuit by Yifan Yao, Yuxuan An, K.N. Tu, Yingxia Liu

“…Owing to ultrahigh current density and severe Joule heating, electromigration (EM) in the microbump is a crucial reliability issue in three-dimensional integrated circuit. In this study, we investigated a novel EM weak link in our 13 μm microbump after all of the solder transformed into intermetallic compound (IMC). …”
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Optimizing quantum convolutional neural network architectures for arbitrary data dimension by Changwon Lee, Israel F. Araujo, Dongha Kim, Junghan Lee, Siheon Park, Ju-Young Ryu, Ju-Young Ryu, Daniel K. Park, Daniel K. Park

“…., the number of features) of the input data that can be processed, restricting the applicability of QCNN algorithms to real-world data. …”
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Evaluation of Honey as a Rooting Adjuvant for Cutting Propagation of Three Common Nursery Crops by Anthony T. Bowden, Patricia R. Knight, Jenny B. Ryals, Christine E. H. Coker, Scott A. Langlois, Shaun R. Broderick, Eugene K. Blythe, Hamidou F. Sakhanokho

“…Plant propagation is a labor-intensive process in the nursery and greenhouse industry, with labor accounting for 41.4% of expenditures in 2019—$4.8 billion of the $11.6 billion total. …”
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A Multi-Objective Gray Consistency Correction Method for Mosaicking Regional SAR Intensity Images with Brightness Anomalies by Jiaying Wang, Xin Shen, Deren Li, Litao Li, Yonghua Jiang, Jun Pan, Zezhong Lu, Wei Yao

“…Applying traditional color harmonization methods increases this issue, causing a loss of brightness information. …”
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Differences in parameter estimates derived from various methods for the ORYZA (v3) Model by Jun-wei TAN, Qing-yun DUAN, Wei GONG, Zhen-hua DI

“…Parameter estimation is always a difficult issue for crop model users, and inaccurate parameter values will result in deceptive model predictions. …”
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Tackling the Problem of Distributional Shifts: Correcting Misspecified, High-dimensional Data-driven Priors for Inverse Problems by Gabriel Missael Barco, Alexandre Adam, Connor Stone, Yashar Hezaveh, Laurence Perreault-Levasseur

“…However, in many astrophysical applications it is often difficult or even impossible to acquire independent and identically distributed samples from the underlying data-generating process of interest to train these models. In these cases, corrupted data or a surrogate, e.g., a simulator, is often used to produce training samples, meaning that there is a risk of obtaining misspecified priors. …”
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X-ray Computed Microtomography for the Inspection of Flexible Risers by Adriana José da Penha Moreira, O. M. O. Araújo, A. S. Machado, R. T. Lopes, D. F. Oliveira

“…The marine environment, with its bending loads, radial forces, and internal and external pressures, intensifies this process, requiring continuous monitoring and maintenance to prevent the degradation of the metallic layers. …”
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Host-dependence of in vitro reassortment dynamics among the Sathuperi and Shamonda Simbuviruses by Damien Coupeau, Calixte Bayrou, Pierre Baillieux, Axel Marichal, Anne-Cécile Lenaerts, Céline Caty, Laetitia Wiggers, Nathalie Kirschvink, Daniel Desmecht, Benoît Muylkens

“…Retrospective studies based on phylogenetical analysis are able to evaluate these mechanisms at the end of the selection process but fail to address the dynamics of emergence. …”
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Geographic Information Systems and Cartography for a Sustainable World by Andriani Skopeliti, Anastasia Stratigea, Vassilios Krassanakis, Apostolos Lagarias

“…This article summarizes the scope and content of the Special Issue (SI) entitled “Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Cartography for a Sustainable World” and its contribution to the global discourse regarding sustainability concerns. …”
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An Improved Sparse Bayesian Learning SAR Tomography Method and its Application for Forest Vertical Structure Inversion by Jie Wan, Changcheng Wang, Peng Shen, Yonghui Wei

“…Second, an adaptive singular value decomposition method is employed to address the instability issue caused by ill-conditioned inversion in Bayesian inference. …”
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Monte Carlo Simulation and Experimental Validation for Radiation Protection with Multiple Complex Source Terms and Deep Penetration for a Radioactive Liquid Waste Cementation Facil... by Wenqian Li, Xuegang Liu, Sheng Fang, Xueliang Fu, Kaiqiang Guo

“…A new radioactive liquid waste cementation facility was under commissioning recently in the Institute of Nuclear and New Energy Technology of Tsinghua University, which is designed to simultaneously process multiple intermediate-level radioactive waste drums. …”
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Rapid screening and optimization of CO2 enhanced oil recovery operations in unconventional reservoirs: A case study by Shuqin Wen, Bing Wei, Junyu You, Yujiao He, Qihang Ye, Jun Lu

“…This work developed a new interpretable machine learning (ML) framework to specifically address this issue. Three different methods, namely random forest (RF), support vector regression (SVR), and artificial neural network (ANN), were used to establish proxy models using the data from a specific unconventional reservoir, and the RF model demonstrated a preferable performance. …”
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Optimization of a Bayesian game for Peer-to-Peer trading among prosumers under incomplete information via a CNN-LSTM-ATT by Hongjie Jia, Wanxin Tang, Xiaolong Jin, Yunfei Mu, Dengxin Ai, Xiaodan Yu, Wei Wei

“…However, within the current market mechanism, each prosumer retains private information that is not disclosed on the network. To address the issue of incomplete information among multiple prosumers during the decision-making process, we develop a Bayesian game model based on the CNN-LSTM-ATT prediction method for P2P electricity transactions among multiple prosumers. …”
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Trichomoniasis – are we giving the deserved attention to the most common non-viral sexually transmitted disease worldwide? by Camila Braz Menezes, Amanda Piccoli Frasson, Tiana Tasca

“…Importantly, the main issue concerning trichomoniasis is its relationship with serious health consequences such as cancer, adverse pregnancy outcomes, infertility, and HIV acquisition. …”
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Stacked Encapsulation Structure for Discretely Distributed Quantum Dot Array by Jing Cai, Jianyao Lin, Yu Chen, Sheng Xu, Yun Ye, Enguo Chen, Tailiang Guo

“…This method also has potential to widely used for discrete structures in other device applications due to its easy fabrication process, high reliability, and low manufacturing costs.…”
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Intestinal microbiota shifts by dietary intervention during extreme heat summer episodes in farmed gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) by R. Domingo-Bretón, S. Cools, F. Moroni, A. Belenguer, J.A. Calduch-Giner, E. Croes, P.G. Holhorea, F. Naya-Català, H. Boon, J. Pérez-Sánchez

“…Climate change and its associated extreme events alter a number of physiological processes that also affect the homeostatic relationship of the host with their microbial communities. …”
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