Close-Proximity Operations Design, Analysis, and Validation for Non-Cooperative Targets with an Application to the ClearSpace-1 Mission by José Vasconcelos, Serena Gaggi, Tiago Amaral, Charles Bakouche, Adina Cotuna, Ana Friaças

“…The relevance of the concepts, of the GNC solutions, and their validation is demonstrated for the case study of CS-1, a reference mission for the rendezvous, capture, and de-orbiting of an uncooperative target (i.e., the VESPA payload adapter). …”
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First Detection of <i>Alphacoronavirus</i> in Bats from the World’s Largest Wetland, the Pantanal, Brazil by Tayane B. S. Magalhães, Amanda de O. Viana, Thiago B. F. Semedo, Juliane S. Saldanha, Nicole A. dos Reis, Nathalia de A. Pereira, Rachel V. P. de Barros, Hannah R. Miranda, Gabriella C. Almeida, Desyrée Y. S. R. Ozaki, Giovana S. Caleiro, Gustavo O. Fenner, Fernanda P. Vizu, Theo Kraiser, Thais P. Carvalho, Luciano M. Thomazelli, Erick G. Dorlass, Clarice W. Arns, Helena L. Ferreira, Erika Hingst-Zaher, Rogério Vieira Rossi, Guilherme S. T. Garbino, Edison L. Durigon, Jansen de Araujo, Daniel M. de Aguiar

“…Bats (order Chiroptera) are one of the natural hosts of the Coronaviridae family. They represent 40% of the total number of mammal species in the Pantanal, a biodiversity hotspot in South America. …”
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Impact of standard and long-lasting ivermectin formulations in cattle and buffalo on wild Anopheles survival on Sumba Island, Indonesia by Kevin C. Kobylinski, Tri B. T. Satoto, Wisnu Nurcahyo, Yudi Ratna Nugraheni, Vincentius A. Testamenti, I Putu B. A. Winata, Yosua L. Pono, Diana Timoria, Piyanan Assawasuwannakit, Mary Chambers, J. Kevin Baird, Joel Tarning, Lorenz von Seidlein, Claus Bøgh

“…In total, nine Anopheles species were captured to assess the mosquito-lethal effects of ivermectin with susceptibility ranked from lowest to highest: An. flavirostris < An. aconitus < An. annularis < An. tessellatus < An. maculatus < An. sundaicus < An. vagus < An. kochi < An. barbirostris. …”
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Enhancing the Transformer Model with a Convolutional Feature Extractor Block and Vector-Based Relative Position Embedding for Human Activity Recognition by Xin Guo, Young Kim, Xueli Ning, Se Dong Min

“…The Transformer model has received significant attention in Human Activity Recognition (HAR) due to its self-attention mechanism that captures long dependencies in time series. However, for Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensor time-series signals, the Transformer model does not effectively utilize the a priori information of strong complex temporal correlations. …”
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Optimizing survey conditions for Burmese python detection and removal using community science data by Kelly R. McCaffrey, Melissa A. Miller, Sergio A. Balaguera-Reina, Alexander S. Romer, Michael Kirkland, Amy Peters, Edward F. Metzger, LeRoy Rodgers, Frank J. Mazzotti

“…While surveying, contractors collect data on search effort and python captures. We examined data from South Florida Water Management District’s Python Elimination Program to determine the effect of operational and environmental covariates on two measures of survey outcome: success (i.e., probability of removing at least one python) and efficiency (i.e., the number of pythons removed per survey hour). …”
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Impinging Performance of High-Pressure Water Jets Emitting from Different Nozzle Orifice Shapes by Fei Huang, Jianyu Mi, Dan Li, Rongrong Wang

“…The flowing regimes captured by the high-speed camera together with the CFD simulation results indicate that the discrepancy in the peak pressure may be a combined action of the liquid velocities and jet head shapes.…”
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Easterly Wave Disturbances over Northeast Brazil: An Observational Analysis by Helber Barros Gomes, Tércio Ambrizzi, Dirceu Luís Herdies, Kevin Hodges, Bruce Francisco Pontes da Silva

“…The EWDs tracks are seen over all ENEB and their lysis occurs between the ENEB and marginally inside the continent. The tracking captured 71% of EWDs in all periods, indicating that an objective analysis is a promising method for EWDs detection.…”
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Spatial statistical analysis for the design of indoor particle-filter-based localization mechanisms by Jesus Martínez-Gómez, Miguel Martínez del Horno, Manuel Castillo-Cara, Víctor Manuel Brea Luján, Luis Orozco Barbosa, Ismael García-Varea

“…However, the accuracy and robustness of such mechanisms can be severely compromised due to the random and unpredictable nature of radio channels. In this article, we develop a methodology incorporating various algorithms capable of coping with the unpredictable nature of radio channels. …”
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Morphometric Analysis of Nonsclerosed Glomeruli Size and Connective Tissue Content during the Aging Process by Vesna R. Stojanović, Ivan D. Jovanović, Sladjana Z. Ugrenović, Ljiljana P. Vasović, Vladimir S. Živković, Miodrag V. Jocić, Braca K. Kundalić, Miljana N. Pavlović

“…Images of the histological slices were analyzed and captured under 400x magnification with digital camera. …”
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Research on Typhoon Prediction by Integrating Numerical Simulation and Deep Learning Methods by Tianyi Lv, Huaming Yu, Liangshi Lin, Yijun Tao, Xin Qi

“…Typhoons rank among the most destructive natural disasters, significantly affecting human activities and daily life. …”
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Motivações para a prática e não prática desportiva by Edith Martins, Diana Borges, Marco Ferreira, Miriam Mano

“…Os motivos mais importantes para a prática foram “estar em boa condição física”, “fazer exercício” e “manter a forma” e os menos importantes foram “ser conhecido”, “ter a sensação de ser importante” e “ pretexto para sair de casa”. …”
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Effects of Land Use Change and Seasonality of Precipitation on Soil Nitrogen in a Dry Tropical Forest Area in the Western Llanos of Venezuela by Ana Francisca González-Pedraza, Nelda Dezzeo

“…We evaluated changes of different soil nitrogen forms (total N, available ammonium and nitrate, total N in microbial biomass, and soil N mineralization) after conversion of semideciduous dry tropical forest in 5- and 18-year-old pastures (YP and OP, resp.) in the western Llanos of Venezuela. …”
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Photocatalytic Degradation of 2,4-Dichlorophenol by TiO2 Intercalated Talc Nanocomposite by Manqing Ai, Wenli Qin, Tian Xia, Ying Ye, Xuegang Chen, Pingping Zhang

“…As the strong adsorption ability of talc can intensify the power of photon absorption and capture-recombination carriers, more than 99.5% of 2,4-dichlorophenol can be degraded in 1 h by the nanocomposite under an ultraviolet lamp in neutral solution and room temperature after reaching adsorption equilibrium, and the result of adsorbance is in accord with the first-order kinetic. …”
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Effect of eDNA metabarcoding temporal sampling strategies on detection of coastal biodiversity by Maelle Sevellec, Anaïs Lacoursière-Roussel, Eric Normandeau, Louis Bernatchez, Kimberly Lynn Howland

“…However, monthly sampling was the most efficient for capturing holistic biodiversity.DiscussionWe provide recommendations for optimal eDNA metabarcoding sampling design based on our observations. …”
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Mobilidade urbana, transporte e saúde na cidade do Rio de Janeiro by Daniele Batista Brandt

“…Além disso, é necessário manter viva a utopia do direito à cidade evocada pelas “Jornadas de Junho” (ROLNIK, 2013), que colocou na ordem do dia o debate sobre mobilidade urbana enquanto direito fundamental para a efetivação de outros tantos direitos. …”
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Exploring the Complex Heliotail Boundary by an Extended Level Set Approach by C. Onubogu, M. Opher, M. Kornbleuth, G. Tóth, V. Florinski

“…Some previous works defined the heliopause using magnetohydrodynamic variables, which only serve as an approximation to capture the heliopause in all directions. Here we use a level set method in our heliospheric model to constrain the location of the heliopause. …”
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Optical Visualization of Stretchable Serpentine Interconnects using Chiral Liquid Crystal Elastomers by Sang Hyun Han, Jun Hyuk Shin, Hak Jun Yang, Seungmin Nam, Ji Yoon Park, Su Seok Choi

“…Beyond the uniform color change of simple CLCE, by further engineering the modulus and shape geometry of the serpentine CLCE, an intuitive strain capturing visualization of dynamically changing serpentine structures is performed. …”
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Local-Global and Multi-Scale (LG-MS) Mixer Architecture for Long-Term Time Series Forecasting by Zhennan Peng, Boyong Gao, Ziqi Xia, Jie Liu

“…Specifically, we first conduct multi-scale dual decomposition of the long input sequence to derive a seasonal-trend component combination. To capture a more comprehensive effective information within the components, we then utilize a customized patch-based triple attention local-global information extractor that models both temporal feature information and variable dependencies, alongside an MLP-based feature interaction iterator facilitating interactions among multi-scale information to guide macro-level predictions. …”
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The upper Neretva River discontinuum: gradients of taxonomic and functional diversity of benthic invertebrates in a wild Balkan river by Edurne Estévez, Davina Dietrich, Simone Sahler, Fabian Vassanelli, Sara Widera, Jan Martini, Wolfgang Wanek, Gabriel Singer

“…These results highlight the uniqueness of this section of the Neretva, where natural discontinuities structure macroinvertebrate communities in ways and by mechanisms not captured by smooth ecological concepts. …”
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Dynamic Metabolic Footprinting Reveals the Key Components of Metabolic Network in Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae by Pramote Chumnanpuen, Michael Adsetts Edberg Hansen, Jørn Smedsgaard, Jens Nielsen

“…Metabolic footprinting offers a relatively easy approach to exploit the potentials of metabolomics for phenotypic characterization of microbial cells. To capture the highly dynamic nature of metabolites, we propose the use of dynamic metabolic footprinting instead of the traditional method which relies on analysis at a single time point. …”
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