Identification of Environmental Determinants Involved in the Distribution of Burkholderia pseudomallei in Southeast Asia using MaxEnt software. by Jose Francis V Abrantes, Zenn Ashley P Cariño, Hozeo Luis S Mercado, Fatima N Vicencio, Gio Ray S Sosa, Miguel Angelo M Habaña, Nikki Heherson A Dagamac

“…The potential map showing the environmental layers was processed by ArcGIS, and the prediction for the probability of habitat suitability using MaxEnt software (version 3·4·4) and ENMeval R-based modeling tools was utilized to generate the distribution map with the best-fit model. …”
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Functional Modification Effect of Epoxy Oligomers on the Structure and Properties of Epoxy Hydroxyurethane Polymers by Victor Stroganov, Oleg Stoyanov, Ilya Stroganov, Eduard Kraus

“…Formation of internal and intermolecular hydrogen bonds was established on hydroxycarbonates (HA) and linear polyhydroxyurethanes (PHU) model compounds by IR and NMR spectroscopy. The results of the hydrogen bond system formation processes explain the change in the relaxation and physicomechanical properties of hard polymers modified by the epoxy-amine compositions (OECC), containing aromatic and aliphatic links. …”
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Femtosecond Laser Transmission Joining of Fused Silica and Polymethyl Methacrylate by Felice Alberto Sfregola, Raffaele De Palo, Caterina Gaudiuso, Pietro Patimisco, Antonio Ancona, Annalisa Volpe

“…The ATR‐FTIR spectroscopic analysis has proven that mechanical interlocking is the primary mechanism of joint formation between the two materials. An analytical model based on heat accumulation is developed to describe the joining process, with a good predictive quality confirmed by comparison with the experimental results. …”
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AI-based defect detection and self-healing in metal additive manufacturing by Jan Akmal, Kevin Minet-Lallemand, Jukka Kuva, Tatu Syvänen, Pilvi Ylander, Tuomas Puttonen, Roy Björkstrand, Jouni Partanen, Olli Nyrhilä, Mika Salmi

“…This pilot study develops a process to evaluate in-situ defect detection and self-healing in Ti-6Al-4V fabricated using laser-based powder bed fusion. …”
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Towards Transparent AI in Medicine: ECG-Based Arrhythmia Detection with Explainable Deep Learning by Oleksii Kovalchuk, Oleksandr Barmak, Pavlo Radiuk, Liliana Klymenko, Iurii Krak

“…Second, we proposed an arrhythmia classification method utilizing a modified convolutional neural network (CNN) architecture with additional convolutional and batch normalization layers. This model processes a triad of cardio cycles—the preceding, current, and following cycles—to capture temporal dependencies and hidden features related to arrhythmias. …”
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NPI-WGNN: A Weighted Graph Neural Network Leveraging Centrality Measures and High-Order Common Neighbor Similarity for Accurate ncRNA–Protein Interaction Prediction by Fatemeh Khoushehgir, Zahra Noshad, Morteza Noshad, Sadegh Sulaimany

“…In this study, we propose NPI-WGNN, a novel weighted graph neural network model designed to enhance NPI prediction by incorporating topological insights from graph structures. …”
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Securing Healthy Circular Material Flows In The Built Environment by Bob Geldermans

“… • The differentiation of building layers and parts, in combination with differentiated reutilisation routes, provides leverage for more advanced approaches to circular building strategies, anticipating multiple handling and treatment processes…”
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AIF: Infrared and Visible Image Fusion Based on Ascending–Descending Mechanism and Illumination Perception Subnetwork by Ying Liu, Xinyue Mi, Zhaofu Liu, Yu Yao

“…However, the existing image fusion algorithms rarely consider light factor in the modeling process. The study presents a novel image fusion approach (AIF) that can adaptively fuse infrared and visible images under various lighting conditions. …”
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Field Measurement and Numerical Simulation of Train-Induced Vibration from a Metro Tunnel in Soft Deposits by Qiang Huang, Pan Li, Dongming Zhang, Hongwei Huang, Feng Zhang

“…Measurement results indicate that high-frequency contents (>500 Hz) attenuate rapidly in the propagation process; the dominant frequency of the rail concentrates in the middle- and high-frequency bands, about 25–400 Hz and 1000–1500 Hz, while the frequencies of the track bed, soil layers, and ground surface drop to below 400, 200, and 100 Hz, respectively. …”
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Dynamic Simulation of Nano-Gel Microspheres for Plugging Preferential Flow Channels and Enhancing Oil Recovery in Waterflooded Reservoirs by Long Ren, Cong Zhao, Jian Sun, Cheng Jing, Haitao Bai, Qingqing Li, Xin Ma

“…This study addresses the unclear mechanisms by which preferential flow channels (PFCs), formed during long-term waterflooding, affect nano-gel microsphere (NGM) flooding efficiency, utilizing CMG reservoir numerical simulation software. A dynamic evolution model of PFCs was established by coupling CROCKTAB (stress–porosity hysteresis) and CROCKTABW (water saturation-driven permeability evolution), and the deep flooding mechanism of NGMs (based on their gel properties such as swelling, elastic deformation, and adsorption, and characterized by a “plugging-migration-replugging” process) was integrated. …”
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Drying by worming: deciphering how earthworms dry tundra soil by J. Klaminder, L. Hedström, H. Jonsson, J. Lee, L. Lizana

“…Deep-burrowing earthworms (anecic and endogeic species) can dry soils by reworking mineral soil layers. Although this ‘drying effect’ has been reported across many ecosystems, including the Fennoscandian tundra, little is known about the driving processes. …”
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The Effects of Climate Change on Human Behavior and Stress by Mitra Sadat Fathifard, Fateme Javid, Abbas Rahdan

“…The data from meteorological stations in Gilan Province were used to classify the physiological stress index, and the final output was calculated using the Heat Comfort Coefficient in GIS environment. All processes and data analysis in GIS environment were assessed using the Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) statistical model, which predicts the spatial structure of unknown points based on the correlation between measured points. …”
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Double Diffusion Mixed Convection in a Porous Cylindrical Cavity Filled with a Casson Nanofluid Driven by a Lid, Taking Into Account the Soret and Dufour Effects by Mustapha El Hamma, Lebna Elattari, Soufiane Nouari

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The Establishment of Religious Landscapes and Local Social Life in Nanshan and Beishan, Dazu District, in the Song Dynasty by Jie Zhou

“…In particular, the transformation of Beishan and Nanshan from the merit caves of military generals in the late Tang Dynasty to the cultural spaces of the gentry class in the Song Dynasty vividly demonstrates the local practice model in the secularization process of Chinese religious art from the 10th to the 13th century.…”
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Landslide Susceptibility Mapping in Darjeeling Himalayas, India by Amit Chawla, Sowmiya Chawla, Srinivas Pasupuleti, A. C. S. Rao, Kripamoy Sarkar, Rajesh Dwivedi

“…These factors were evaluated for the generation of thematic data layers. Numerical weight and rating for each factor was assigned using the overlay analysis method for the generation of landslide susceptibility map in the Geographic Information System environment. …”
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SMA-YOLO: An Improved YOLOv8 Algorithm Based on Parameter-Free Attention Mechanism and Multi-Scale Feature Fusion for Small Object Detection in UAV Images by Shenming Qu, Chaoxu Dang, Wangyou Chen, Yanhong Liu

“…Subsequently, to enhance the information exchange between upper and lower layers, we design a special multi-cross-scale feature pyramid network (M-FPN). …”
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Enhanced Conditional GAN for High-Quality Synthetic Tabular Data Generation in Mobile-Based Cardiovascular Healthcare by Malak Alqulaity, Po Yang

“…The proposed architecture employs specialized sub-networks to process continuous and categorical variables separately, leveraging metadata such as Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) parameters for continuous attributes and embedding layers for categorical features. …”
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Tipping cascades between conflict and cooperation in climate change by J. Scheffran, W. Guo, F. Krampe, U. Okpara

“…System and agent models of conflict and cooperation are considered to analyse dynamic trajectories, equilibria, stability, and chaos, along with adaptive decision rules in multi-agent interaction and related tipping, cascading, networking, and transformation processes. …”
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Fusing Events and Frames with Coordinate Attention Gated Recurrent Unit for Monocular Depth Estimation by Huimei Duan, Chenggang Guo, Yuan Ou

“…Coordinate attention explicitly models inter-channel dependencies and coordinate information in space. …”
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A Climate Simulation Dataset From 11 Overriding Experiments for Analysing Cloud and Air–Sea Feedbacks by Xiao Guo, Biao Feng, Zhiying Zhao, Jian Ma

“…We apply this to the Community Earth System Model version 2 (CESM2) and perform a series of 150‐year simulations with 1% CO2 increase per year (1pctCO2). …”
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