Gas analysis system for studying sand mold’s atmosphere during steel casting by Jakub Wielgosz, Alexis Vaucheret, Philippe Jacquet, Jean-François Carton

“…. • The paper presents the design, fabrication, operation and validation of an in-house foundry gas analyzer. • Issues regarding gas sampling from a sand mold are discussed. • The measurements with the analyzer were confronted with a reference gas mixture as well as with the foundry gas samples analyzed by µGC method.…”
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Stroke Lesion Prediction by Bille-Viper-Segmentation with Tandem-MU-net Model by Beevi Fathima, N Santhi Dr, N Ramasamy Dr

“…This novel method effectively samples pixel data and analyzes fogging phases related to stroke lesions by utilizing a Deep Luxe Gauging Tree. …”
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Plasmonic coffee-ring biosensing for AI-assisted point-of-care diagnostics by Kamyar Behrouzi, Zahra Khodabakhshi Fard, Chun-Ming Chen, Peisheng He, Megan Teng, Liwei Lin

“…Abstract A major challenge in addressing global health issues is developing simple, affordable biosensors with high sensitivity and specificity. …”
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Axial-UNet++ Power Line Detection Network Based on Gated Axial Attention Mechanism by Ding Hu, Zihao Zheng, Yafei Liu, Chengkang Liu, Xiaoguo Zhang

“…The segmentation and recognition of power lines are crucial for the UAV-based inspection of overhead power lines. To address the issues of class imbalance, low sample quantity, and long-range dependency in images, a specialized semantic segmentation network for power line segmentation called Axial-UNet++ is proposed. …”
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Synergistic effect of innovative bentonite and poly aluminum chloride (PAC) combination for excess and digested sludge thickening and dewatering by Afshin Hatamifar, Gagik Badalians Gholikandi

“…Urban wastewater sludge dewatering is one of the challenging issues that wastewater treatment plants face today and needs sustainable solutions. …”
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Facial Expression Recognition using Convolutional Neural Networks with Transfer Learning Resnet-50 by Annisa Ayu Istiqomah, Christy Atika Sari, Ajib Susanto, Eko Hari Rachmawanto

“…This study addresses these issues by employing transfer learning with ResNet-50 and effective pre-processing techniques. …”
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INRNet: Neighborhood Re-Ranking-Based Method for Pedestrian Text-Image Retrieval by Kehao Wang, Yuhui Wang, Lian Xue, Qifeng Li

“…In order to address the issues arising from the above methods, we introduce Implicit Neighbourhood Reranking Network (INRNet) which utilizes a bilateral feature extractor to learn global image-text matching knowledge and leverages nearest neighbors as prior knowledge to mine positive samples. …”
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Comprehensive Evaluation of Soil Quality Reconstruction in Agroforestry Ecosystems of High-Altitude Areas: A Case Study of the Jiangcang Mining Area, Qinghai–Tibet Plateau by Liya Yang, Shaohua Feng, Xusheng Shao, Jinde Zhang, Tianxiang Wang, Shuisheng Xiong

“…The study selected the Jiangcang mining area and analyzed the physical, chemical, and carbon characteristics and heavy metal content of soil samples from the slag platforms and slopes (0–20 cm), which were restored in 2015 and 2020 to explore the effects of different soil reconstruction methods on soil function and ecological resilience. …”
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Domain-Invariant Few-Shot Contrastive Learning for Hyperspectral Image Classification by Wenchen Chen, Yanmei Zhang, Jianping Chu, Xingbo Wang

“…In Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification, acquiring large quantities of high-quality labeled samples is typically costly and impractical. Traditional deep learning methods are limited in such scenarios due to their dependence on sample quantities. …”
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Birth Cohort, Age, and Sex Strongly Modulate Effects of Lipid Risk Alleles Identified in Genome-Wide Association Studies. by Alexander M Kulminski, Irina Culminskaya, Konstantin G Arbeev, Liubov Arbeeva, Svetlana V Ukraintseva, Eric Stallard, Deqing Wu, Anatoliy I Yashin

“…We show that the effects of all ten directly-genotyped SNPs were clustered in different FHS generations and/or birth cohorts in a sex-specific or sex-unspecific manner. The sample size and procedure-therapeutic issues play, at most, a minor role in this clustering. …”
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Effect of Low-Temperature Preheating on the Physicochemical Properties and Energy Quality of Pine Sawdust by Tingzhou Lei, Yang Mei, Yuanna Li, Yunbo Wang, Suyang Liu, Yantao Yang

“…The advantages of torrefaction preheating, including the production of a hydrophobic solid product, improved particle size distribution, enhanced fuel properties with fewer environmental issues, decreased moisture content, and reduced volatile content. …”
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Genre Classification and the Current State of Turkmen Musical Folklore by Джаміля Курбанова

“…The multi-layered expressive means of folklore heritage requires an integrated approach to its study, taking into account the analysis of timbre and intonation, words and rhythm, melody and general compositional structure, as well as the technique of performing folk art samples. …”
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A Bibliographic Review on the Qualification of Articles about Values Education in Turkey by Hasan MEYDAN, Recep KAYMAKCAN, Fatma AKTAŞ

“…As a result of the examinations, it is carried out that the highest number of articles (113) was reached in 2015; while most of the articles (70.7%) are written by researchers working in the field of education, researchers from the fields of theology (11.6%), science-literature (6.1%) and other fields (4.5%) have also contributed extensively to the articles; the rate of articles scanned in high-level indexes (SSCI, SCI and AHCI) and articles in foreign languages was low; the studies which samples are from primary and higher education are more intense; the most addressed issues were the value preferences, and attitudes and evaluations regarding the values education; in 22.7% of the articles, a clear, understandable and independently followed and repeatable method was not specified; while the explanation of academic contribution of the article was found to be incompatible with the subject, problem and method, and scientifically problematic in 4.2% of the articles, no explanation about the academic contribution was specified in half of the articles.…”
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Using Autoencoders to Classify EMC Problems in Electronic System Development by J. Maalouly, D. Hemker, C. Hedayat, M. Olbrich, S. Lange, H. Mathis, H. Mathis

“…However, since PCA only encodes linear relations from the samples, autoencoder (AE) models are now used to encode the data into a latent vector that better represents the data. …”
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Assessment of Water Quality in Euphrates River: Haditha Dam Reservoir as a Case Study, Anbar Province, Iraq by Sari Aymen Alrawi, Arkan Dhari Jalal, Uday Hatem Abdulhameed

“…Two years' worth of data was gathered from 46 samples, and parameters were evaluated using accepted methods. …”
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A Comprehensive Analysis and Detection Methodology Using Near-Infrared (NIR) Spectroscopy to Unveil the Deceptive Practice of Milk Adulteration by Geetika Porwal, Kusumlata Jain, Smaranika Mohapatra, Veena Dhayal, Ishita Chopra

“…The NIR spectroscopy used in the study was used as a tool to identify the difference between an unadulterated and adulterated milk samples.…”
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Bullying, cyberbullying, and sexual orientation minority youths: increased prevalence and mental health implications by Alicia Pérez-Albéniz, Beatriz Lucas-Molina, Andrea Gutiérrez, Laura Berges, Javier Ortuño-Sierra, Eduardo Fonseca-Pedrero

“…This study addresses these issues by investigating whether non-heteronormative sexual orientation is associated with higher risks of bullying and cyberbullying, and analysing the relationship between being a victim or perpetrator and several mental health indicators (depression, suicidal behaviour, emotional and behavioural problems) in a representative adolescent sample. …”
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Geophysical Characterization of São José do Vale do Rio Preto to Identify Uranium Occurrences in Groundwater, Southeast of Brazil by JUAREZ LOURENÇO, FELIPE FRAIFELD, NICOLAS R. HISPAGNOL, GIOVANNI C. STAEL

“…This understanding can guide strategies to mitigate water quality issues and provide insights for more effective groundwater management practices in the region.…”
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On the experimental characterization of the fluid volume influence on the friction between rough surfaces by Lukas Stahl, Michael Müller, Georg-Peter Ostermeyer

“…With a deeper understanding of this problem, various practical issues such as idling or the run-up process in bearings can also be studied in a more focused manner.…”
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Morphological features and composition of noble metal minerals in disseminated and massive ores of the central part of the Oktyabrskoe deposit, Norilsk region by L. S. Canhimbue, N. D. Tolstykh, N. А. Krivolutskaya, I. V. Talovina

“…The composition and morphology of NNM samples were analyzed by scanning electron microscopy.Results. …”
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