Advancements in Integrated Thermoelectric Power Generation and Water Desalination Technologies: A Comprehensive Review by Oranit Traisak, Pranjal Kumar, Sara Vahaji, Yihe Zhang, Abhijit Date

“…The findings underscore the importance of optimizing material properties, system configurations, and operating conditions to maximize efficiency and output while reducing economic and environmental costs.…”
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Exploring Built Environment Visual Interactions: A SoftBIM Data-Driven Approach for a Database About the Outdoor View by Matteo Cavaglià, Alberto Speroni, Juan Diego Blanco Cadena, Andrea Giovanni Mainini, Tiziana Poli

“…Windows and glazed facades provide outdoor views, serving as vital sources of visual information that aid navigation and interaction within buildings. …”
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Study of different thermal management systems for traction batteries to obtain vehicle lightweighting by Giulia Sandrini, Daniel Chindamo, Marco Gadola, Andrea Candela, Paolo Magri

“…Three tools were used for the study: VI-CarRealTime and another consolidate vehicle model to obtain the power demand on a standard driving cycle; and an ad-hoc battery system model, configurable according to the cooling system. The simulations showed that the air-cooled system leads to greater lightweighting, but it makes the battery cells work far from 20 °C (optimal operating temperature) and therefore it could lead to greater battery cell degradation and its field of application must be limited to vehicles operating in fleets, with predictable mission; this can be overcome by using an appropriate PCM-based cooling system, stearyl alcohol. …”
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Proof of Concept for Enhanced Sugar Yields and Inhibitors Reduction from Aspen Biomass via Novel, Single-Step Nitrogen Explosive Decompression (NED 3.0) Pretreatment Method by Damaris Okafor, Lisandra Rocha-Meneses, Vahur Rooni, Timo Kikas

“…Compared with earlier NED configurations, the optimized system improved sugar recovery and ethanol production. …”
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Wellcounter: Automated high‐throughput phenotyping for aquatic microinvertebrates by Claus‐Peter Stelzer, Dominique Groffman

“…Image analysis parameters were optimized to minimize false negatives and false positives. …”
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Performance enhancement of grid-forming inverter-controlled PV systems: A comparative study with and without battery energy storage under intermittent and unbalanced load condition... by Muhammad Akbar Syahbani, Makbul Anwari Muhammad Ramli, Prisma Megantoro, Alfananda Ardiansyah, Intan Dwi Cahyani, Noer Fadzri Perdana Dinata, Rifqi Firmansyah, Muhammad Zohri, Firmansyah Nur Budiman

“…It also compares PV integration with and without Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) to determine optimal performance. Solar intermittency data were obtained from real weather station measurements and imported into MATLAB Simulink, while unbalanced loads were configured with a high Voltage Unbalance Factor (VUF) of 73,6 % and a Current Unbalance Factor (CUF) of 73,6 %. …”
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Advanced Microgrid Protection Utilizing Zero Sequence Components With Hard-Ware-in-the-Loop Testing by Zahra Ghanem, Feras Alasali, Naser El-Naily, Hassen Loukil, Haytham Y. Mustafa, Saad M. Saad, Abdelaziz Salah Saidi, William Holderbaum

“…It includes a detailed methodology and validation process, offering practical guidance for operators to implement and optimize microgrid protection systems.…”
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Disinfection Performance Improvement of UV Reactor by Baffle Design by Nakwon Jo, Woochul Hwang

“…This study provides essential design guidelines for optimizing baffle shape and arrangement in multi-lamp UV reactors. …”
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High-Performance O-Band Angled Multimode Interference Splitter with Buried Silicon Nitride Waveguide for Advanced Data Center Optical Networks by Eduard Ioudashkin, Dror Malka

“…The dimensions of the splitter were optimized using full vectorial beam propagation method (FV-BPM), finite-difference time domain (FDTD), and multivariable optimization scanning tool (MOST) simulations to support transmission across the O-band. …”
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Inherent Trade-Offs Between the Conflicting Aspects of Designing the Compact Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Anti-Interference Array by Xiangjun Li, Xiaoyu Zhao, Xiaozhou Ye, Zukun Lu, Feixue Wang, Peiguo Liu

“…However, traditional GNSS antenna arrays, typically configured with the antenna spacing of half a wavelength, are constrained by the spatial limitations of remote sensing platforms. …”
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Design and Numerical Simulation of the Performance of Acoustic Plenum Chamber of a Marine Gas Turbine Air Supply System by Mehrdad RASOULIMOGHADAM, Saeid KHERADMAND

“…Six different cases of marine gas turbine air supply system configurations have been presented, in which the limitation of the battleship space is considered. …”
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Real-world utilization of Cenobamate as adjunct therapy in office-based neurology: practical tips and insights for titration by Patrick M. House, Lars Wiese

“…All patients had a history of refractory epilepsy despite optimal treatment with existing ASMs. Patients were initiated on CNB from the month of approval (June 2021) to March 2023. …”
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The performance of a 100 kW proton exchange membrane fuel cell designed for truck applications by Aakash Collin, Vijay Bhooshan Kumar, S. Karthikeyan, M. Gopi Sankar

“…However, selection of optimized configurations for truck applications is a challenging task due to cost-sensitivity and competitiveness in the Indian market. …”
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Analysis of the spatiotemporal dynamics of grassland carbon sinks in Xinjiang via the improved CASA model by Xuewei Liu, Renping Zhang, Jing Guo, Haoen Xu, Yuhao Miao, Feifei Niu, Zhengjie Gao, Xiaming Yang, Fengqin Xiong, Jianli Zhang

“…Currently, methods for precisely calculating NPP (net primary productivity) and NEP (net ecosystem productivity) in arid grasslands are limited, and the changes in NEP and their driving mechanisms remain unclear. This study optimized LUEmax (maximum light use efficiency) and Wε (water stress coefficient) in the CASA (Carnegie–Ames–Stanford Approach) model and developed eight improved CASA model configurations. …”
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Research on Thermal Environment Influencing Mechanism and Cooling Model Based on Local Climate Zones: A Case Study of the Changsha–Zhuzhou–Xiangtan Urban Agglomeration by Mengyu Ge, Zhongzhao Xiong, Yuanjin Li, Li Li, Fei Xie, Yuanfu Gong, Yufeng Sun

“…Our study investigated the Changsha–Zhuzhou–Xiangtan urban agglomeration (CZXA) as a case study and systematically examined spatiotemporal patterns of LCZs and land surface temperature (LST) from 2002 to 2019, while elucidating mechanisms influencing urban thermal environments and proposing optimized cooling strategies. Key findings demonstrated that through multi-source remote sensing data integration, long-term LCZ classification was achieved with 1,592 training samples, maintaining an overall accuracy exceeding 70%. …”
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Ultra-transparent β-Ga2O3:Cr3+ glass-ceramics enabling high-efficiency true-transmission near-infrared light-emitting diodes by Shaoan Zhang, Yi Long, Penghui Zhang, Zaijin Fang, Zhenzhang Li, Huacong Ye, Guojun Zheng, Hong Jia, Jianrong Qiu, Yang Li

“…Near-infrared phosphor-converted light-emitting diodes (NIR pc-LEDs), one of the most promising NIR light sources, have garnered significant attention owing to their compact structure, long lifetime and energy conservation. …”
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Predicting Index Trend Using Hybrid Neural Networks with a Focus on Multi-Scale Temporal Feature Extraction in the Tehran Stock Exchange by Mohammad Osoolian, Ali Nikmaram, Mahdi Karimi

“…Additionally, incorporating additional market indicators and exploring intraday data sources could further enhance prediction accuracy and robustness. …”
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WiPy-RT: A Fast Ray Tracing Modeling Platform for RIS-Assisted Wireless Channels by Mohammadreza Farashahi, Boon-Chong Seet, Xue Jun Li

“…WiPy-RT features an interactive interface that leverages highly configurable and open-source Python libraries for 3D structures, including PyVista, Trimesh, and PyTorch3D. …”
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Solar-thermoelectric mobile storage system integrated with electric vehicles for reducing postharvest and microbial losses in agro produce transportation by Lalith Pankaj Raj Nadimuthu, Kirubakaran Victor, Mohit Bajaj, Vojtech Blazek, Lukas Prokop

“…The system comprises a 100 Wp polycrystalline solar photovoltaic (PV) module, which supplies power to a 12 V/6A shunt-configured thermoelectric cooler with a 12 L storage capacity via a 12 V/8A solar charge controller. …”
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Benchmarking <i>K</i>_DP in rainfall: a quantitative assessment of estimation algorithms using C-band weather radar observations by M. Aldana, M. Aldana, S. Pulkkinen, A. von Lerber, M. R. Kumjian, D. Moisseev, D. Moisseev

“…</p> <p>Using the proposed evaluation framework, we were able to define optimized parameter settings for the methods that have user-configurable parameters. …”
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