Physicochemical and Bacteriological Characterization of Industrial Wastewater Being Discharged to Surface Water Bodies: Significant Threat to Environmental Pollution and Human Heal... by Muhammad Tariq, Alia Anayat, Muhammad Waseem, Muhammad Hidayat Rasool, Muhammad Asif Zahoor, Shafaqat Ali, Muhammad Rizwan, Mohamed M. Abdel-Daim, Saad Alkahtani

“…Increasing population and water shortage are the main driving forces for the reuse of untreated wastewater for irrigation and other uses in many poor countries, posing a significant threat to global food security. …”
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A Comparison Between Multilayer Perceptrons and Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks for Multi-Task Classification in Sitting Posture Recognition by David Carneros-Prado, Luis Cabanero-Gomez, Esperanza Johnson, Ivan Gonzalez, Jesus Fontecha, Ramon Hervas

“…Results indicated that the KAN model achieved higher accuracy (97.03% for upper body and 92.11% for lower body) with fewer parameters (4,320) compared to the MLP (93.87% and 91.47% respectively, with 7,662 parameters). …”
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Influence of surface quality on corrosion resistance of stainless steel and aluminum alloy butt welds after innovative finishing by Olga Łastowska, Wojciech Jurczak, Robert Starosta

“…Abstract The maintenance properties of machine parts rely on a system of surface quality parameters, including geometrical, mechanical properties, and surface structure. …”
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A Novel Radiology-Adapted Logistic Model for Non-Invasive Risk Stratification of Pigmented Superficial Skin Lesions: A Methodological Pilot Study by Betül Tiryaki Baştuğ, Hatice Gencer Başol, Buket Dursun Çoban, Sinan Topuz, Özlem Türelik

“…<b>Background:</b> Pigmented superficial skin lesions pose a persistent diagnostic challenge due to overlapping clinical and dermoscopic appearances between benign and malignant entities. …”
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Synergizing Heat Pump and Solar photovoltaic-thermal Systems for Efficient Drying of Onion Slices: Kinetics, Energy, and Quality Analysis by Leyla Amirseyedi, Barat Ghobadian, Mortaza Aghbashlo, Hamid Mortezapour

“…Despite their popularity and high consumption, significant post-harvest losses occur due to their limited shelf life and high production levels, which pose challenges to economic stability and food security. …”
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Assessing the Application Effects and Operating Conditions on Three Different Insulation Capacity Walls Using Internal Quantitative Infrared Thermography in China by Huanyu Li, Guohui Feng, Yi Pu, Han Wang

“…For buildings with high insulation performance, high temperature-difference environments pose higher demands on the testing procedures and data collection using the QIRT method. …”
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Pressure Control in the Pump-Controlled Hydraulic Die Cushion Pressure-Building Phase Using Enhanced Model Predictive Control with Extended State Observer-Genetic Algorithm Optimiz... by Zhikui Dong, Song He, Yi Liao, Heng Wang, Mingxing Song, Jinpei Jiang, Gexin Chen

“…However, during the pressure-building phase of pump-controlled hydraulic die cushion systems, the combined effects of high-order dynamics, system uncertainties, and strong nonlinearities pose significant challenges to maintaining precise control and dynamic response performance of the blank holder force (BHF). …”
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Calibration and Uncertainty Analysis of Freundlich and Langmuir Isotherms Using the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) Approach by Haniyeh Sharifi Moghadam, Saeed Alimohammadi

“…Organic pollutants, such as dyes, widely used in textile, dyeing, and chemical industries, pose significant risks to human health and the environment if introduced into water resources. …”
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Recapitulation and Prospect of Research on Flow Field in Coal Mine Gob by Rui Zhang, Jianwei Cheng, Zui Wang, Zhenlu Shao

“…Coal mine gob, mined-out areas in underground coal mines, often accumulates explosive methane-air mixtures that pose a deadly hazard to miners. A good understanding of the flow field in a sealed coal mine area is crucial in preventing and minimizing accidents associated with mine combustible gases and also for planning and implementing a mine rescue strategy. …”
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Solar Geometry in Performance of the Built Environment by Miktha Farid Alkadri

“…However, the state-of-the-art computational solar envelopes pose a great challenge in understanding site characteristics from a given context. …”
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Unsupervised delineation of chicken eggs based on the universal avian egg model by Paramate Horkaew, Sajeera Kupittayanant, Pakanit Kupittayanant

“…Accordingly, only a few model and pose parameters were required, discarding the need for large, annotated training dataset or excessive priors. …”
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Experience with Combined Vaccination against Pertussis, Diphtheria, Tetanus and Influenza in Workers with Occupational Respiratory Disease Hazard by N. A. Roslaya, N. A. Lugovskaya, I. O. Kholopov

“…Minor side effects do not pose a health threat, and can be completely prevented.…”
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Effect of fiber orientation on the kinematical behaviors of a braided continuum manipulator by X. Hu, L. Yin, J. Chen, Z. Zhou, Z. Shang

“…<p>Soft continuum manipulators show great promise in minimal invasive surgery (MIS) due to their excellent adaptability and contact safety, but their large volume and nonlinear actuation behavior pose significant challenges. In our recent work, a novel braided manipulator based on fibrous materials has been developed. …”
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Enhanced SOC estimation method for lithium-ion batteries using Bayesian-optimized TCN–LSTM neural networks by Taotao Hu, Xiting Zhu, Maokai Tian

“…However, the nonlinear dynamics of battery charging and discharging processes pose significant challenges for achieving accurate SOC estimation. …”
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Hybrid neural network method for damage localization in structural health monitoring by Fatahlla Moreh, Yusuf Hasan, Zarghaam Haider Rizvi, Sven Tomforde, Frank Wuttke

“…Abstract The detection of cracks in large structures is of critical importance, as such damage can result not only in significant financial costs but also pose serious risks to public safety. Many existing methods for crack detection rely on deep learning algorithms or traditional approaches that typically use image data. …”
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Elevated temperatures increase chlorpyrifos toxicity in nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) larvae by Badratun Nafis, Firdus Firdus, Muhammad Nasir, Ilham Zulfahmi

“…Global warming and the extensive use of chlorpyrifos pose serious threats to the hatching success, growth, and survival of Nile tilapia larvae (Oreochromis niloticus). …”
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Research on related factors of hyperuricemia in high altitude area migrant population by Dong-Dong Meng, Yin-Dong Kang, De-Hui Chang

“…The gout it triggers and its link to other chronic diseases pose a severe threat to human health. The unique natural environment of high-altitude regions, characterized by low oxygen partial pressure and cold climate, may exert a distinctive influence on human metabolism, thereby impacting the onset and progression of hyperuricemia.MethodsThis study recruited 284 plateau migrants undergoing physical examinations at Ritu County Hospital from June to December 2024. …”
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Transient Pressure Analysis for Multifractured Horizontal Well with the Use of Multilinear Flow Model in Shale Gas Reservoir by Guangdong Wang, Ailin Jia, Yunsheng Wei, Cong Xiao

“…The flow regimes are identified, and the sensitivity analysis of critical parameters is conducted to further understand the transient pressure behaviors. …”
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Comparative Performance of Textured Yarn Drawn through Apron and Godet in Draw Texturing Machine by Subhankar Maity, Bibekananda Basu, Abhishek Mishra

“…The drawing godets, where the yarn can be considered an elastic coupling element between two consecutive godets, pose a new challenge for consistency in velocity control. …”
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The Influence of Hydrogen Concentration on the Hazards Associated with the Use of Coke Oven Gas by Mateusz Klejnowski, Katarzyna Stolecka-Antczak

“…However, it is important not to forget that all processes for the utilization of this gas may pose a potential hazard to humans and the environment. …”
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