Analysis of Heat Transfer Performance in a Brayton Cycle Recuperator by Elvis Falcão de Araújo, Guilherme Borges Ribeiro, Lamartine Nogueira Frutuoso Guimarães

“…Thermodynamic cycles are currently the most wanted means of converting nuclear power into available work due to the higher conversion efficiencies provided. Rankine cycles have been greatly applied for terrestrial reactors and nuclear submarines, while a lot of space projects have been using Brayton cycles for power conversion mainly due to mitigation in power-to-radiator area ratio. …”
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Uncovering soil compaction: performance of electrical and electromagnetic geophysical methods by A. Carrera, A. Carrera, L. Peruzzo, M. Longo, G. Cassiani, F. Morari

“…In this context, soil compaction resulting from inappropriate agricultural practices not only affects soil ecological functions, but also decreases the water-use efficiency of plants by reducing porosity and increasing water loss through superficial runoff and enhanced evaporation.…”
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IrrigApp: An Online Tool for Determining Crop Water Use and Evaluating Irrigation Scheduling Options by José O. Payero

“…., county, crop, soil type, start date, end date, irrigation applications, and irrigation efficiency). IrrigApp calculates daily crop evapotranspiration (ETc) and conducts a daily soil water balance to estimate several daily and seasonal variables, such as ETc under dryland and irrigated conditions, soil water content in the crop root zone, and water losses by runoff and deep percolation. …”
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Assessing service quality and its impact on patient experience and satisfaction in prosthetics and orthotics: a SERVQUAL-based cross-sectional study by Mahmoud Alfatafta, Nizar Alsubahi, Huda Alfatafta, Amneh Alshawabka, Anthony McGarry, Alaeddin Ahmad, Evelin Derkacs, Dorottya Varga, Bálint Molics

“…Reliability significantly influenced PS (p < 0.001) but had no impact on PE (p = 0.386), while Empathy did not significantly affect PS (p = 0.311), suggesting that practical aspects such as device functionality and efficiency may be prioritized over emotional considerations in P&O care. …”
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Risk Assessment Approach of Toll Road Operator by A. Yu. Talavirya, M. B. Laskin

“…All such factors are modeled in the AnyLogic environment as random variables with a rich choice of distribution functions and their parameters.Results. …”
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Genome‐wide screening of abberant methylated drivers combined with relative risk loci in bladder cancer by Chuanjie Zhang, Kangjie Shen, Yuxiao Zheng, Feng Qi, Jun Luo

“…MethylMix package was used for identifying methylation‐driven genes and functional analysis was mainly performed based on ConsensusPathDB database. …”
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Bayesian inference for peak feature extraction and prediction of material property in X-ray diffraction data by Ryo Murakami, Taisuke T. Sasaki, Hideki Yoshikawa, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Keitaro Sodeyama, Tadakatsu Ohkubo, Hiroshi Shinotsuka, Kenji Nagata

“…We challenge peak feature extraction in the situation where only the peak function profile is known a priori, without knowledge of the measurement material or crystal structure factor. …”
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MCL-SWT: Mirror Contrastive Learning with Sliding Window Transformer for Subject-Independent EEG Recognition by Qi Mao, Hongke Zhu, Wenyao Yan, Yu Zhao, Xinhong Hei, Jing Luo

“…Inspired by left/right hand motor imagery inducing event-related desynchronization (ERD) in the contralateral sensorimotor cortex, we develop a mirror contrastive loss function. It segregates feature spaces of EEG signals from contralateral ERD locations while curtailing variability in signals sharing similar ERD locations. …”
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Signatures of Rapidly Rotating Stars with Chemically Homogeneous Evolution in the First Galaxies by Boyuan Liu, Yves Sibony, Georges Meynet, Volker Bromm

“…We find that the rest-frame UV luminosity of star-forming galaxies can be significantly enhanced by a factor of  ∼3−6 when CHE stars above a minimum initial mass of ${m}_{\star ,\min }^{\mathrm{CHE}}\sim 2-10\,{M}_{\odot }$ account for more than half of the total stellar mass following a Salpeter initial mass function. As a result, the UV luminosity functions observed at z  ∼ 12−16 can be reproduced with less extreme values of star formation efficiency and UV luminosity stochastic variability. …”
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Fast 3D localization of nano-objects in wide-field interferometric scattering microscopy via vectorial diffraction model-derived analytical fitting by Liaoliao Wei, Caroline Livan Anyi, Huakun Li, Haitao Nie, Bihan Wen, Tong Ling

“…In this study, we introduce an efficient analytical fitting approach for retrieving the 3D positions of nano-objects in wide-field iSCAT. …”
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SSR loci potentially associated with high amylopectine content in maize kernel endosperm by S. I. Vakula, O. A. Orlovskaya, L. V. Khotyleva, A. V. Kilchevsky

“…As a component of functional nutrition, maize cultivars with “non-traditional” kernel composition (waxy, oilbearing, sugar, opaque, etc. phenotypic variants) are promising. …”
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Simultaneous single-sample determination of NMNAT isozyme activities in mouse tissues. by Giuseppe Orsomando, Lucia Cialabrini, Adolfo Amici, Francesca Mazzola, Silverio Ruggieri, Laura Conforti, Lucie Janeckova, Michael P Coleman, Giulio Magni

“…Final assay validation was achieved in a tissue extract by comparing the activity and expression levels of individual isozymes, considering their distinctive catalytic efficiencies. Furthermore, considering the key role played by NMNAT activity in preserving axon integrity and physiological function, this assay procedure was applied to both liver and brain extracts from wild-type and Wallerian degeneration slow (Wld(S)) mouse. …”
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Mass transpiration impact on effectiveness of heat transport of ternary hybrid nanofluid with velocity slip by S. Bilal, Muhammad Yasir

“…Furthermore, to raise the efficiency and to optimize the performance of the aforementioned mechanisms insertion of the composition of distinctively natured ternary nanoparticles comprising of Cu, TiO2 and Ag are induced. …”
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Neural Network and Generalized Extended State Observer Sliding Mode Control of Hydraulic Cylinder Position in the Independent Metering Control System with Digital Valves by Xiangfei Tao, Kailei Liu, Jing Yang

“…The independent metering control system is renowned for its ability to independently regulate the flow and pressure of various actuators, achieving high efficiency and energy savings in hydraulic systems. …”
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Slow and Quick Flow Models Explain the Temporal Dynamics of Daily Salinity in Streams by Thomas G. Westfall, Tim J. Peterson, Anna Lintern, Andrew W. Western

“…However, significant variability within high‐frequency data sets can result in poor explanation of temporal dynamics using the simple C‐Q equation. …”
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Accurate Sugarcane Detection and Row Fitting Using SugarRow-YOLO and Clustering-Based Spline Methods for Autonomous Agricultural Operations by Guiqing Deng, Fangyue Zhou, Huan Dong, Zhihao Xu, Yanzhou Li

“…This model introduces the WTConv convolutional modules to expand the sensory field and improve computational efficiency, adopts the iRMB inverted residual block attention mechanism to enhance the modeling capability of crop spatial structure, and uses the UIOU loss function to effectively mitigate the misdetection and omission problem in the region of dense and overlapping targets. …”
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Biomechanical Analysis of <i>Camellia oleifera</i> Branches for Optimized Vibratory Harvesting by Rui Pan, Ziping Wan, Mingliang Wu, Shikui Lu, Lewei Tang

“…The nonlinear least squares method, based on the hyperbolic tangent function, was employed to fit the bending load–deflection curves of the branches. …”
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Chemical magnetic field-assisted batch polishing method of 316L stainless steel by Fukang Yin, Chenchun Shi, Zikang Huang, Ke Wu, Jinbang Li, Chunjin Wang

“…This work is capable of providing valuable reference undoubtedly for batch precision polishing of 316L stainless steel and other significant functional materials.…”
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AESware: Developing AES-enabled low-power multicore processors leveraging open RISC-V cores with a shared lightweight AES accelerator by Eunjin Choi, Jina Park, Kyuseung Han, Woojoo Lee

“…AESware supports variable key lengths and ensures minimal power consumption with a compact design. …”
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Path following control of underground mining articulated vehicle based on the preview control method by MENG Yu, GAN Xin, BAI Guo-xing

“…By considering the relationship between the position and situation of the vehicle, the objective function of the predictive control was optimized by minimizing the lateral deviation of the following path and the heading angle deviation of the vehicle. …”
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