Legal Challenges of Marine Insurance Laws in the Use of Unmanned Ships by Mahsa Bahadoran- Baghbaderani, Masoud Shirani, Reza Soltani

“…Current legal frameworks are inadequate to address the unique risks posed by these vessels, including design and programming flaws, cyber threats, and hardware failures. …”
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Mid- and High-Frequency Oscillation Suppression Strategy for MMC-HVDC System Based on DC Current Feedback by Yechun XIN, Shangxuan LI, Yanxu WANG, Yihua ZHU, Jiawei YU, Dongxu CHANG

“…The serious mid-and high- frequency oscillation issue in modular multilevel convertor based high voltage direct current (MMC-HVDC) systems poses a significant threat to the normal operation of power systems. …”
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Pine Rhizosphere Soil Microorganisms Enhance the Growth and Resistance of <i>Pinus massoniana</i> Against Nematode Infection by Jiacheng Zhu, Chenxi Deng, Yichi Zhang, Manman Liu, Guoying Zhou, Junang Liu

“…Pine wilt disease, caused by <i>Bursaphelenchus xylophilus</i>, poses severe ecological and economic threats to coniferous forests. …”
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The Number and Size of Invasion Areas in Mixed-Type Carcinoma in Female Dogs Are Associated with Regional Metastases by Fernanda Freitas Miranda, Ana Paula Vargas Garcia, Marina Possa dos Reys, Erica Almeida Viscone, Mayra Cunha Flecher, Michele Angela Rodrigues, Geovanni Dantas Cassali

“…Mixed-type carcinoma (MTC) accounts for 44% of mammary neoplasms in bitches and poses challenges in histological grading due to the heterogeneity of invasive areas. …”
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A systematic improvement of the high-quality temperature field reconstruction for acoustic pyrometry by Jingkao Tan, Na Li, Qulan Zhou, Yanyuan Hu, Lehang Chen, Zhongquan Gao, Jie Zhou

“…However, due to the harsh working environment and the engineering limitations, the number of installed acoustic transducers is restricted, which in turn results in sparse valid data and an ill-posed AP problem. We used multiple means of improvement to improve the reconstruction performance of AP in a gradual and systematic manner. …”
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Potassium Dichromate Detection: Carbon Quantum Dot-based Fluorescent “Turn-Off” Nanoprobe Design by Priti Sharma, Sopan Nangare, Rahul Tade, Pravin Patil, Sanjkumar Bari, Dipak Patil

“…The occurrence of potassium dichromate in food poses serious health risks, including cancer and skin-related issues. …”
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Assessing Sustainable Development Goal Alignment in Local Food Systems: Insights from an Automated Text Analysis of the Organizational Literature by Coralie Gaudreau, Arbi Chouikh, Laurence Guillaumie, Daniel Forget, Stéphane Roche

“…However, the complexity of portraying local food systems poses numerous challenges for local communities, and automated text analysis and artificial intelligence (AI) offer promising solutions. …”
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Using MaxEnt modeling to analyze climate change impacts on Pseudomonas syringae van Hall, 1904 distribution on the global scale by Sameh M.H. Khalaf, Monerah S.M. Alqahtani, Mohamed R.M. Ali, Ibrahim T.I. Abdelalim, Mohamed S. Hodhod

“…Pseudomonas syringae is a pathogenic bacterium that poses a significant threat to global agriculture, necessitating a deeper understanding of its ecological dynamics in the context of global warming. …”
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Characterization and Quantification of Heavy Metals in Oued Sebou Sediments by Abdelaiz Dra, Abdelali El Gaidoumi, Karim Tanji, Aziz Chaouni Benabdallah, Abdeslem Taleb, Abdelhak Kherbeche

“…In this study, we have assessed the quality of sediments of Sebou river studying the physicochemical parameters, percentage of organic matter, mineralogy, and trace levels of metal elements trapped in the sample sediments of Sebou river. …”
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A Co‐Produced Workflow for Addressing Inequities in Cooling Center Access by Lance Watkins, Heidi E. Brown, Ladd Keith, Erika Austhof, Hsini Lin, Samuel N. Chambers, Joseph Tabor, Aaron Gettel, Melissa Guardaro

“…Abstract Increasing extreme heat poses challenges to metropolitan areas, such as those areas already experiencing extreme heat in Arizona. …”
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Low-Energy High-Current Pulsed Electron Beam Surface Treatment on the Tribological Behavior of 17-4PH Steel Produced via Binder Jetting by Lorenza Fabiocchi, Marco Mariani, Andrea Lucchini Huspek, Matteo Pozzi, Massimiliano Bestetti, Nora Lecis

“…Stainless steel 17-4PH is valued for its high strength and corrosion resistance but poses machining challenges due to rapid tool wear. …”
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Enhancing long-term corrosion resistance of Zn modified high-Mg aluminum alloys through optimized stabilization treatment by Hongbin Wang, Zhen Zhang, Wang Liu, Tianxu Ji, Hongxiang Li, Di Zhang

“…However, achieving long-term corrosion resistance of such high-Mg (>6 wt%) aluminum alloys still poses a serious challenge. In this study to solve the trade-off between strength and long-term corrosion resistance, a synergistic approach combining Zn microalloying with optimized stabilization treatment parameters is employed to improve the comprehensive performance of Al-7wt.…”
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Improving Vulnerability Management for Security-by-Design of Medical Devices by Emanuele Raso, Francesca Nanni, Francesco Lestini, Lorenzo Bracciale, Giorgia Panico, Giuseppe Bianchi, Giancarlo Orengo, Gaetano Marrocco, Pierpaolo Loreti

“…These devices are increasingly used to enable real-time monitoring of physiological parameters, allowing for faster diagnosis and more personalized care plans. …”
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Facial Feature Extraction Algorithm Based on Improved YOLOv7-Tiny by Yining Yao, Yawen Wang, Changyuan Wang, Yibo Zhang, Tingting Liu, Gaofeng Wang

“…An attention module is integrated between the backbone and neck networks to enhance contextual understanding and filter out irrelevant information, enabling precise extraction of detailed and distinguishable features, even under varying lighting conditions and driver poses. Additionally, a feature fusion module is introduced to merge features from different receptive fields, improving multi-scale feature extraction and reducing the miss rate for small objects. …”
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Situation Awareness and Tracking Algorithm for Countering Low-Altitude Swarm Target Threats by Nannan Zhu, Fuli Zhong, Xueyue Lei, Guo Niu, Hongtu Xie, Yue Zhang

“…The escalating threat posed by low-altitude swarm targets underscores the critical need for precise tracking and situation awareness to secure key areas. …”
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A Wind Power Forecasting Method Based on Lightweight Representation Learning and Multivariate Feature Mixing by Chudong Shan, Shuai Liu, Shuangjian Peng, Zhihong Huang, Yuanjun Zuo, Wenjing Zhang, Jian Xiao

“…However, the forecasting of wind power is subject to the complex influence of multiple variable features and their interrelationships, which poses challenges to traditional forecasting methods. …”
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Multi-modal integration of MRI and global chamber charge density mapping for the evaluation of atrial fibrillation by Alexander J. Sharp, Michael T. B. Pope, Andre Briosa e Gala, Richard Varini, Timothy R. Betts, Abhirup Banerjee

“…Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most prevalent clinical arrhythmia, posing significant mortality and morbidity challenges. …”
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Giant strain tunability in polycrystalline ceramic films via helium implantation by A. Blázquez Martínez, S. Glinšek, T. Granzow, J.-N. Audinot, P. Fertey, J. Kreisel, M. Guennou, C. Toulouse

“…Epitaxial strain in thin films allows manipulation of in-plane lattice parameters, achieving strain values generally up to 4%, and even above in some specific cases. …”
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Evaluating soiling effects to optimize solar photovoltaic performance using machine learning algorithms by Muhammad Faizan Tahir, Anthony Tzes, Tarek H.M. El-Fouly, Mohamed Shawky El Moursi, Nauman Ali Larik

“…Dust accumulation is prevalent in arid regions like the United Arab Emirates, posing a significant challenge to solar photovoltaic performance. …”
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Fracture Propagation and Hydraulic Properties of a Coal Floor Subjected to Thick-Seam Longwalling above a Highly Confined Aquifer by Shaodong Li, Gangwei Fan, Dongsheng Zhang, Shizhong Zhang, Liang Chen, Shang Ren, Yibo Fan

“…The high-pressure and water-rich confined aquifer occurring in the Ordovician limestone sequence poses great threats to the routine production of underground longwall mining. …”
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