Experimental silo-dryer-aerator for the storage of soybean grains by Paulo C. Coradi, Ângelo F. C. Lemes

“…The experiment was set up in a completely randomized factorial 5 × 4 experimental design including five grain batches stored after being dried at 30, 40, and 50 °C (mixed grains were dried at three temperatures) in the silo-dryer-aerator cells and one mixed grain batch stored in the silo-storage-aerator system under ambient air conditions for four storage times (zero, one, two, and three months). …”
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Physicochemical, Mineral, and Sensory Properties of Masuku (Uapaca kirkiana) Beverages by Benson Ali, Maria Chunda

“…Two formulations of masuku juice were prepared, one batch involved peeling the masuku and obtaining the pulp, while in the other batch, they were not peeled. …”
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Quality consistency evaluation for carbon nanotubes by Zihao Song, Lu Jin, Guoying Wei, Lingling Ren

“…The proposed method could provide a quantitative evaluation method of the intra-batch and inter-batch quality consistency of carbon nanotube powders.…”
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VIOLET: Vectorized Invariance Optimization for Language Embeddings Using Twins by Mikhail E. Ram, G. Manju

“…Unlike conventional contrastive learning methods that rely on large batch sizes and hard negative mining to achieve performance, VIOLET operates exclusively on positive pairs. …”
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A Low-Power Streaming Speech Enhancement Accelerator for Edge Devices by Ci-Hao Wu, Tian-Sheuan Chang

“…The required latency is further reduced with batch normalization-based transformers. Additionally, we employed softmax-free attention, complemented by an extra batch normalization, facilitating simpler hardware design. …”
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Study of cesium sorption by a Brazilian bentonite by Daisy Mary Marchezini dos Santos, Clédola Cássia Oliveira de Tello

“…With the purpose to calculate the true value of cesium sorption, a mass-balance was made considering all the steps of the batch experiment, and it was found a 6% loss in the whole process. …”
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Optimized machine learning based comparative analysis of predictive models for classification of kidney tumors by Vatsala Anand, Ajay Khajuria, Rupendra Kumar Pachauri, Vinay Gupta

“…Among them, the top three models—SVM, KNN, and XGBoost—were tested with different batch sizes, which are 16 and 32. SVM performed best when the batch size was 32. …”
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A multistage double-blind placebo-controlled study to assess the safety and efficacy of transdermal vitamin D phosphate supplementation (TransVitD) by Thomas Hibbard, Paolo Andriollo, Chui Hua Lim, Qing Guo, Karl P. Lawrence, Bolaji Coker, Rayka Malek, Abdel Douiri, Mohamed A. Alhnan, Stuart.A. Jones

“…This clinical study will test if a new vitamin D ester, vitamin D phosphate, which is more water-soluble compared to vitamin D, administered via a transdermal patch, can be used to improve vitamin D status. Method This is a two-part study comprising a dose-escalation with the vitamin D phosphate transdermal patch followed by a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multiarmed, multistage clinical trial. …”
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Glioma Image-Level and Slide-Level Gene Predictor (GLISP) for Molecular Diagnosis and Predicting Genetic Events of Adult Diffuse Glioma by Minh-Khang Le, Masataka Kawai, Kenta Masui, Takashi Komori, Takakazu Kawamata, Yoshihiro Muragaki, Tomohiro Inoue, Ippei Tahara, Kazunari Kasai, Tetsuo Kondo

“…In external validation, the patch-level/case-level AUCs of <i>IDH1/2</i> and 1p/19q co-deletion detection were 0.76/0.83 and 0.78/0.88, respectively. …”
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(S)-2-Hydroxyisovalerate Production from <span style="font-variant: small-caps">d</span>-Xylose with CO-Converting <i>Clostridium ragsdalei</i> by Irina Schwarz, Markus Rupp, Oliver Frank, Andreas Daschner, Dirk Weuster-Botz

“…<i>Clostridium ragsdalei</i> was found to produce (S)-2-hydroxyisovalerate (2-HIV) as a novel product in addition to acetate, ethanol, and <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">d</span>-2,3-butanediol in heterotrophic (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">d</span>-xylose), autotrophic (CO), and mixotrophic (<span style="font-variant: small-caps;">d</span>-xylose + CO) conditions. Mixotrophic batch processes in stirred-tank bioreactors with continuous gassing resulted in improved production of this alpha-hydroxy acid compared to batch processes solely with either <span style="font-variant: small-caps;">d</span>-xylose or CO. …”
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A depth-wise separable VGG19-capsule network for enhanced bell pepper and grape leaf disease classification with ensemble activation by Midhun P Mathew, Sudheep Elayidom, Jagathy Raj V P, Abubeker K M

“…A hybrid architecture combining VGG19 and CapsNet, using Depth Wise Separable Convolution (DWSC) and batch renormalization with a dropout rate of 0.4, a learning rate of 0.001, and a batch size of 9, successfully captures complex patterns for categorizing diseases in bell pepper and grape plants. …”
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Clinical lipidomics reveals high individuality and sex specificity of circulatory lipid signatures: a prospective healthy population study by Jessica Medina, Nicolas Goss, Gonçalo dos Santos Correia, Rebecca Borreggine, Tony Teav, Zoltan Kutalik, Pedro Marques Vidal, Hector Gallart-Ayala, Julijana Ivanisevic

“…Based on National Institute of Standards and Technology quality control analysis, median between-batch reproducibility was 8.5%, over the course of analysis of 13 independent batches comprising 1,086 samples collected from 364 individuals at three time points. …”
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The culture of the tropical sea urchin Salmacis sphaeroides: A new candidate for aquaculture in South China by Yikun Cen, Youkai Tu, Jinhui Wu, Hong Wu, Dong Wang, Zonghe Yu

“…In the first batch (deployed for ca. 4 months), the absolute growth rate of the test diameter (AGRD) was 12.79 ± 0.98 mm month−1 from May to September; in the second batch (deployed for 6 months), the AGRD was 5.68 ± 0.90 mm month−1 from October to May of the following year. …”
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Efficient Dye Removal and Water Treatment Feasibility Assessment for Iraq's Industrial Sector: A Case Study on Terasil Blue Dye Treatment Using Inverse Fluidized Bed and Adsorption by Sadiq Sadiq Mussadaq M Baqer, Hatem A Gzar, Qasim M Jani, Mahdi Nuhair Rahi Nuhair Rahi

“… In this study, we investigated Terasil blue dye absorption on modified rice husk through batch and continuous trials. In continuous mode includes experimental tests in an inverse fluidized bed teqnique at various times and under various operating conditions (bed height, initial concentration, and varying flow rate) were investigated. …”
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Online and Offline Identification of False Data Injection Attacks in Battery Sensors Using a Single Particle Model by Victoria A. O'Brien, Vittal S. Rao, Rodrigo D. Trevizan

“…Online simulations and offline batch simulations were performed to determine the effectiveness of the proposed approach. …”
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Development of sustained-release floating tablets of diltiazem hydrochloride by Hung Pham Van, Tung Nguyen Thanh, Nhat Hoang Thi Anh, Hieu Bui Trung, Uyen Dinh Thi Thu, Duyen Nguyen Thi Thanh

“…The manufacturing process for 1000 tablets per batch was established, and process parameters were investigated. …”
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Current and Near-Future Technologies to Quantify Nanoparticle Therapeutic Loading Efficiency and Surface Coating Efficiency with Targeted Moieties by Vy Tran, Na Nguyen, Scott Renkes, Kytai T. Nguyen, Tam Nguyen, George Alexandrakis

“…Despite their potential, the translation of active targeting nanoparticles faces challenges in production scale-up and batch consistency. Accurate quality control methods for nanoparticle therapeutic payload and coating characterization are critical for attaining the desired levels of batch repeatability, drug/gene loading efficiency, targeting molecule coating effectiveness, and safety profiles. …”
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Integrated analysis of exosome-related genes and their role in psoriasis pathogenesis by Zhen Wang, Fang Luo

“…After standardizing and normalizing the data, PCA confirmed effective batch effect removal. Differentially expressed genes (DEGs) were analyzed for immune-related functions, and PPI networks were constructed. …”
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Liposome-Based Drug Delivery Systems: From Laboratory Research to Industrial Production—Instruments and Challenges by Suman Basak, Tushar Kanti Das

“…The challenges of transitioning to industrial-scale production are examined, with emphasis on achieving batch-to-batch consistency, scalability, regulatory compliance, and cost-effectiveness. …”
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Quantitative Chemical Sensing Using Genetically Engineered Bacterial Bioreporters by Yonatan Uziel, Yossef Kabessa, Benjamin Shemer, Etai Shpigel, Shimshon Belkin, Aharon J. Agranat

“…To overcome luminescence intensity variations due to bacterial batch differences and the ambient temperature, simultaneous measurements were carried out on sample solutions containing known concentrations of the TM. …”
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