Automatic Differentiation‐Based Full Waveform Inversion With Flexible Workflows by Feng Liu, Haipeng Li, Guangyuan Zou, Junlun Li

“…By leveraging state‐of‐the‐art AD, objective functions such as soft dynamic time warping and Wasserstein distance, which are difficult to apply in traditional FWI are also easily integrated into ADFWI. …”
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Electrospun poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) scaffolds – a step towards ligament repair applications by Thammarit Khamplod, James B. Winterburn, Sarah H. Cartmell

“…Electrospun PHBV can be produced with low batch variability and tailored, application specific properties, giving these biomaterials promise in tissue scaffold applications where aligned fibre networks are desired, such as ACL regeneration.…”
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Multi-Stage Adversarial Defense for Online DDoS Attack Detection System in IoT by Yonas Kibret Beshah, Surafel Lemma Abebe, Henock Mulugeta Melaku

“…The existing defence technique primarily focuses on batch learning- based DDoS attack detection systems, that are not equipped to handle multiple and unknown adversarial attacks in real time. …”
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Continual Test-Time Adaptation for Robust Remote Photoplethysmography Estimation by Hyunwoo Lee, Haechang Lee, Byung Hyun Lee, Se Young Chun

“…Moreover, continuous adaptation across multiple domains is also challenging due to the dynamic environmental changes such as lighting transitions or continuous motions. …”
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Characteristics of phosphorus sorption kinetics on sediments at different initial phosphorus concentrations by HUANG Li-dong, CHAI Ru-shan, ZONG Xiao-bo, ZHANG Yong-song

“…Kinetics studies were carried out using an agitated batch method. The kinetics of sorption were followed based on the amounts of P adsorbed at various time intervals. …”
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Approach to management of bleeding during EUS-guided liver biopsy: salvage therapy using absorbable gelatin sponge by Frances Dang, MD, MSc, David Cheung, MD, Michael Andrew Yu, MD, Usman Rahim, MD, Joshua Kwon, MD, Amirali Tavangar, MD, Jason Samarasena, MD, MBA, Kenneth Chang, MD

“…Methods: Liver biopsy was performed using a dynamic suction technique with a 19-gauge fine-needle biopsy needle. …”
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Trade-Offs and Synergies of Ecosystem Services in Terminal Lake Basins of Arid Regions Under Environmental Change: A Case Study of the Ebinur Lake Basin by Guoqing Lv, Yonghui Wang, Xiaofei Ma, Yonglong Han, Chun Luo, Wei Yu, Jian Liu, Zhiyang Du

“…Enhanced ES functions were associated with increased patch number, density, and shape complexity, while landscape diversity fluctuated. …”
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A response surface methodology study on the development of pH-sensitive wound dressings using Rhodamine B-loaded chitosan nanoparticles and sodium alginate-based films by Seyed Alireza Sheikholeslami, Javad Esmaeili, Saeedeh Zare Jalise, Aboulfazl Barati

“…Design/methodology/approach: Using response surface methodology, the Rhodamine B fluorescence colorant was encapsulated within colloidal nanoparticles and integrated into a sodium alginate patch at various concentrations. The physical and chemical characteristics of the nanoparticles and the wound dressing were thoroughly analyzed via dynamic light scattering (DLS), zeta potential measurements, scanning electron microscopy (SEM), and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR). …”
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Two-Stage Target Detection for Compact HFSWR With Space-to-Depth YOLOv8 and Multiframe ViT by Tong Wu, Ming Li, Jiong Niu, Ling Zhang, Wandong Zhang, Qing Ming Jonathan Wu

“…Thereafter, target association and pattern selection are applied to collect multiframe image patch sequences for each ROI result. Finally, Stage-2 focuses on further discriminating the input image patches to obtain refined target detection results. …”
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Antenna systems for IoT applications: a review by Sunawar Khan, Tehseen Mazhar, Tariq Shahzad, Afsha Bibi, Wasim Ahmad, Muhammad Amir Khan, Mamoon M. Saeed, Habib Hamam

“…IoT antenna systems affect network performance and connection by affecting gain, directivity, bandwidth, efficiency, and impedance matching. Dipole, patch, spiral, metamaterial-based, and other antenna types are tested in IoT settings to identify their applicability, benefits, and downsides. …”
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Aging-Invariant Sheep Face Recognition Through Feature Decoupling by Suhui Liu, Chuanzhong Xuan, Zhaohui Tang, Guangpu Wang, Xinyu Gao, Zhipan Wang

“…Then, a nonlinear feature decoupling module employs a hybrid channel-batch attention mechanism to separate age-related features from identity-specific characteristics. …”
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Deconstructing the Properties of Solar Super Active Region 13664 in the Context of the Historic Geomagnetic Storm of 2024 May 10–11 by Priyansh Jaswal, Suvadip Sinha, Dibyendu Nandy

“…Our analysis indicates that five of its magnetic properties rank at the 100.00th percentile among all ARs observed during 2010 May–2024 June by the Solar Dynamic Observatory. A total of 16 magnetic properties of AR 13664 are ranked higher than the 99.00th percentile when compared to other ARs recorded in Space-weather Helioseismic Magnetic Imager Active Region Patch data series, which includes all well-established flare relevant parameters. …”
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Dual-stream interactive mechanism with multi-modal hierarchical aggregation transformer for gait recognition by Jinghang Liu, Xiangyuan Xu, Yan Qiu, Chunzhi Wang

“…This mechanism incorporates batch normalization and residual connections to ensure stable and effective feature extraction. …”
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Visual Automatic Localization Method Based on Multi-level Video Transformer by Qiping ZOU, Botao LI, Saian CHEN, Xi GUO, Taohong ZHANG

“…This approach divides the original video data into token sequences across four levels: 2D Patch, 3D Patch, Frame, and Clip, capturing a comprehensive range of spatial and temporal details. …”
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Knowledge- and Model-Driven Deep Reinforcement Learning for Efficient Federated Edge Learning: Single- and Multi-Agent Frameworks by Yangchen Li, Lingzhi Zhao, Tianle Wang, Lianghui Ding, Feng Yang

“…We consider a general FL algorithm with configurable parameters, including the number of local iterations, mini-batch sizes, step sizes, aggregation weights, and quantization parameters, and provide a rigorous convergence analysis. …”
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Biomass pyrolysis for biochar production: Study of kinetics parameters and effect of temperature on biochar yield and its physicochemical properties by Nikhill Rambhatla, Tanushka Florence Panicker, Ranjeet Kumar Mishra, Srinivas Kini Manjeshwar, Abhishek Sharma

“…The kinetic study of biomass was performed using a thermogravimetric analyser at dynamic heating rates (10, 30, and 50 °C min−1) in an inert atmosphere. …”
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A Multi-Machine and Multi-Modal Drift Detection (M2D2) Framework for Semiconductor Manufacturing by Chin-Yi Lin, Tzu-Liang (Bill) Tseng, Tsung-Han Tsai

“…An interpretability layer—using attention visualization or SHAP/LIME—delineates which sensors, logs, or batch identifiers precipitate each drift alert, accelerating root-cause analysis. …”
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Embedded Hardware-Efficient FPGA Architecture for SVM Learning and Inference by B. B. Shabarinath, Muralidhar Pullakandam

“…In this paper, we propose Parallel SMO, a new algorithm that selects multiple violating pairs in each iteration, allowing batch-wise updates that enhance convergence speed and optimize parallel computation. …”
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I porti di Fiumicino. Quale sostenibilità? by Italia Nostra

“…The construction today of two commercial ports, in a stretch of vulnerable coast and subject to an unstable dynamic equilibrium, contrasts enormously with all the principles of sustainability and respect for the environment well recalled even in the Italian Constitution. …”
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Sustainable water treatment using thermally stable natural clay: dual adsorption–thermolysis approach for organic pollutants and nitrate removal by Iyad Dawood, Ahed H. Zyoud, Shaher Zyoud, Ameed Amireh, Samer H. Zyoud, Tae Woo Kim

“…The contaminants investigated include pharmaceutical compounds (phenazopyridine and tetracycline), industrial dyes (methyl orange and methylene blue), and nitrate ions, which are selected on the basis of their persistence, toxicity, and resistance to conventional treatment methods. Batch adsorption experiments conducted under optimized conditions (pH ≈ 4, 25 °C, and pollutant concentrations ranging from 10 to 40 mg/L) revealed high removal efficiencies, ranging between 84% and 93% for organic pollutants and 89% for nitrate. …”
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