Digestibility and Quality Characteristics of Noodles with Added Malic-Acid-Modified Wheat Starch by Gyeong A Jeong, Inae Lee, Chang Joo Lee

“…The quality and digestibility characteristics of these MAS-added noodles were evaluated to determine the optimal formulation. MAS was prepared by physicochemically modifying native wheat starch by adding 4 M malic acid and heating at 130 °C for 7 h. …”
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Adaptive Fuzzy Logic-Based Control and Management of Photovoltaic Systems with Battery Storage by Houria Assem, Toufik Azib, Farid Bouchafaa, Cherif Laarouci, Nasreddine Belhaouas, Amar Hadj Arab

“…Renewable energy sources (RESs) such as solar photovoltaic (PV) systems are increasingly used as distributed generation for replacing the conventional energy. At the same time, energy storage systems like battery (BAT) must be applied for maintaining the balance between fluctuating energy production and load consumption. …”
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YOLOv8n-SMMP: A Lightweight YOLO Forest Fire Detection Model by Nianzu Zhou, Demin Gao, Zhengli Zhu

“…Key innovations include the following: introducing the SlimNeck solution to streamline the neck network by replacing conventional convolutions with Group Shuffling Convolution (GSConv) and substituting the Cross-convolution with 2 filters (C2f) module with the lightweight VoV-based Group Shuffling Cross-Stage Partial Network (VoV-GSCSP) feature extraction module; integrating the Multi-dimensional Collaborative Attention (MCA) mechanism between the neck and head networks to enhance focus on fire-related regions; adopting the Minimum Point Distance Intersection over Union (MPDIoU) loss function to optimize bounding box regression during training; and implementing selective channel pruning tailored to the modified network architecture. …”
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The Study of Waste Heat Recovery of the Thermal Management System of Electric Vehicle Based on Simulation and Experimental Analyses by Weiwei Lu, Qingxia Yang, Liyou Xu, Xiuqing Li

“…Simulation analyses and experimental results demonstrated that the optimized system could reduce the battery pack heating time by approximately 300 s compared to the pre-optimized configuration. …”
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COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS IMAGE RESULTS OF PANCREAS IN PORTAL VEIN PHASE ON CT SCAN ABDOMEN CONTRAST WITHOUT AND WITH MINIMUM INTENSITY PROJECTION IN CT SCAN 64 SLICE by Maria Ramandita, Lailatul Muqmiroh, Pramono Pramono

“…Result: From this research obtained the result that MinIP reformat able to produce pancreas image more optimal than image without MinIP reformat on CT scan 64 slice and shows a significant difference. …”
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Dietary feeding techniques for body weight control in horses with equine metabolic syndrome by Sharaskina O.G.

“…In order to evaluate the effectiveness of various feeding methods for sport horses with EMS and to determine the optimal energy level in the diet for weight control, the results of using three diet options were analyzed in horses with excess (n = 4) and normal body condition score (n = 1) and confirmed EMS. …”
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DP-YOLO: A Lightweight Real-Time Detection Algorithm for Rail Fastener Defects by Lihua Chen, Qi Sun, Ziyang Han, Fengwen Zhai

“…Fourth, to improve multi-scale adaptability, we replace the standard loss function with Alpha-IoU, enhancing model robustness. …”
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Territorial Public Self-Government as an Element of Political Infrastructure for Secure Development of Municipal Sections in the Conditions of Digitalization by E. N. Shchegolev

“…Keane.The main results of this study are the following:1) the author’s definition of the concept of “digitalization” was introduced — this is a process of radical transformation of the interaction of people in all spheres of social life, the implementation of which became possible on the basis of replacing analog (physical) data collection and processing systems with new technological systems that generate, transmit and process a digital signal about your condition. …”
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SC-CoSF: Self-Correcting Collaborative and Co-Training for Image Fusion and Semantic Segmentation by Dongrui Yang, Lihong Qiao, Yucheng Shu

“…To address this gap and overcome performance bottlenecks, we propose SC-CoSF, a novel coupled framework that jointly optimizes these tasks through synergistic learning. …”
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Application status and prospect of hydrogen under low carbon background by XU Jiangrong*, SONG Ao, HONG Jiaxuan, LI Yunchao, LIU Maosheng, ZHANG Guangxue

“…The massive consumption of fossil fuels has caused the excessive emission of greenhouse gases and caused serious environmental issues. It is urgent to optimize the energy structure, develop clean energy and achieve "low-carbon" development. …”
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Efficiency of Bacteriophage-Based Detection Methods for Non-Typhoidal <i>Salmonella</i> in Foods: A Systematic Review by Preeda Phothaworn, Chatruthai Meethai, Wanchat Sirisarn, Janet Yakubu Nale

“…This organic phage/bacterial interaction provides an invaluable tool that can potentially replace or complement existing <i>S. enterica</i> detection methods. …”
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Rationing as a Normative Principle of Ecosystem Interaction’s Financing by N. M. Abdikeev, I. M. Stepnov, J. A. Kovalchuk

“…It is concluded that when implementing the idea of rationing, the search for the optimal strategy for participants can be simplified to considering only pair interaction (instead of optimizing the entire set of relationships). …”
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Effect of Silicate Fume -Based Activating Solution on Mechanical Properties of Fly Ash/Silica Fume Geopolymer Concrete by Yasmin Abdel Aziz, Abeer El Malky

“…Test results indicated that higher SF replacements diminished workability and strength, with a 25% substitution yielding optimal results. …”
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The Lift Enhancement Effect of a New Fluidic Oscillator on High-Lift Wings by Tong Zhao, Yalei Bai

“…Notably, this optimal frequency is unaffected by variations in the momentum coefficient. …”
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FRPNet: A Lightweight Multi-Altitude Field Rice Panicle Detection and Counting Network Based on Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Images by Yuheng Guo, Wei Zhan, Zhiliang Zhang, Yu Zhang, Hongshen Guo

“…The architecture integrates three core innovations: a CSP-ScConv backbone with self-calibrating convolutions for efficient multi-scale feature extraction; a Feature Pyramid Shared Convolution (FPSC) module that replaces pooling with multi-branch dilated convolutions to preserve fine-grained spatial information; and a Dynamic Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network (DynamicBiFPN) employing input-adaptive kernels to optimize cross-scale feature fusion. …”
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CHDPL-Net: a lightweight network for Chinese herbal decoction pieces detection by Chuhe Lin, Zhijun Xie, Xing Jin, Hangjuan Lin, Renguang Shan

“…Based on YOLOv8, this model introduces a new network scaling factor to reduce redundant channels in deep feature maps and optimizes the Neck and Head structures to better accommodate CHDP detection, which primarily involves medium and large targets. …”
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Rice disease detection method based on multi-scale dynamic feature fusion by Qian Fan, Runhao Chen, Bin Li

“…The model adopts the concept of ParameterNet to design the FlexiC3k2Net module, which replaces the neck feature extraction network, thereby bolstering the model's feature learning capabilities without significantly increasing computational complexity. …”
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Centrifuge-free cell radiolabeling using acoustophoresis by Stephen S. Adler, Emma Stevenson, Julia Alsveds, Peter L. Choyke, Noriko Sato

“…Traditional radiolabeling requires a centrifuge in multiple steps to optimize labeling and remove unbound radiotracers. …”
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An anthropomorphic phantom for atrial transseptal puncture simulation training by Aya Mutaz Zeidan, Zhouyang Xu, Lisa Leung, Calum Byrne, Sachin Sabu, Yijia Zhou, Christopher Aldo Rinaldi, John Whitaker, Steven E. Williams, Jonathan Behar, Aruna Arujuna, R. James Housden, Kawal Rhode

“…Methods The TSP phantom was developed using additive manufacturing techniques and features a replaceable fossa ovalis (FO) component to allow for multiple punctures without replacing the entire model. …”
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Effects of scrap rubber waste on the mechanical performance of mortar made of crushed sand and sediment by Adda Hadj Mostefa, Benamar Balegh, Hamid Sellaf, Mohamed Elamine Dahamni

“…Methods: Experimental work was carried out to study the impact of partially and fully replacing sediments with crushed sand particles in mortar mixes. …”
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