Magnetic PDMS@SiO2/Fe3O4 composite friction layer material for enhanced triboelectric nanogenerator output performance by Zhang Shaojun, Yin Zhirao, Wang Tianshu, Sun Rui, Zhang Qianyong, Zhao Chun, Wang Youzhi, Wang Mingyu

“…In our study, a vertical contact PC-TENG was utilized as an energy harvester, incorporating magnetic nano-oxide particles to bolster the output efficiency of TENG. This investigation represents the inaugural application of SiO2 and Fe3O4 nanoparticles within PDMS negative friction layers. …”
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Agri-energy chains: from field to land planning by Massimo Monteleone, Salvatore Luciano Cosentino, Giuseppe De Mastro, Marco Mazzoncini

“…The consciousness about the limited petroleum availability and the negative environmental consequences related to fossil fuels exploitation, inevitably calls for a new global energy model based on a drastic improvement on energy use efficiency, energy savings and renewables. …”
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Investigation of External Charges Effects on Piezoelectric ZnO Nanogenerator by Samira Fathi, Tahereh Fanaei Sheikholeslami

“…Piezopotential generation in semiconductive ZnO nanowire (NW), oriented along the c-axis [0001], is significantly affected by free charge carriers within the ZnO NW. …”
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Green Hydrogen Production based on Biogas Reforming Integrated with Membrane-based CO2 Capture  by Calin-Cristian Cormos, Letitia Petrescu, Ana-Maria Cormos

“…Detailed techno-economic and environmental analysis underlines the promising potential of green hydrogen production based on biogas reforming integrated with membrane-based CO2 capture feature: high cumulative energy efficiency (about 55 - 60 %), low specific CO2 emissions (down to 2 kg/MWh as process emission and negative emissions for the overall decarbonized biogas reforming system), co-generation capability of green hydrogen and decarbonized power as well as positive key economic indicators (e.g., specific investment cost, operational cost, levelized hydrogen production cost etc.) compared to the current fossil-based state of the art systems.…”
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Effect of tool angle in nanocutting of single crystal GaN using diamond cutter by Yongqiang WANG, Hao XIA, Zhihang HU, Shuaiyang ZHANG, Shaohui YIN

“…It unequivocally establishes that: Tool rake angle is a paramount factor governing the dominant material removal mode, chip formation efficiency, and the severity of subsurface damage. Large negative rake angles, while sometimes necessary for tool edge strength, induce extreme stress and temperature conditions that promote massive dislocation activity, phase transformation, and amorphization, leading to deep subsurface damage. …”
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Treatment of sugarcane vinasse in AnMBR and UASB: process performance and microbial community comparison by Beatriz Egerland Bueno, Beatriz Egerland Bueno, Victor S. Garcia Rea, Flávia Talarico Saia, Gustavo Bueno Gregoracci, Gustavo Dacanal, J. B. van Lier, Marcelo Zaiat

“…L-1.d-1, the UASB reactor reached 75% ± 7% of COD removal efficiency whereas the AnMBR generated a solids-free effluent and reached 88% ± 2% of COD removal efficiency. …”
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Mitigating Environmental Impacts of Small Hydropower Plants Through Advanced Hydraulic Modelling by Halych Oksana, Nowak Petr, Bilkova Eva, Riabenko Oleksandr

“…Hydropower facilities, while essential for renewable energy generation and water regulation, can experience negative hydraulic effects that compromise equipment performance, structural integrity, and environmental stability. …”
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Metallo‐supramolecular nanofibers based on type‐I photosensitizer for synergistic antibacterial therapy by Shibo Lyu, Lukun Li, Jingdong Gao, Dapeng Liu, Fengling Song

“…However, the pronounced hypoxic microenvironment in the bacterial infections limits the therapeutic efficiency of traditional type‐II PDT, which is highly dependent on oxygen. …”
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Unitary patent system and innovation dynamics in the European Union: The role of economic resources and R&D investments by Radka MacGregor Pelikánová, Martin Hála, Marek Beneš

“…FINDINGS: The first 20 months of the UPS operations suggests that the Unitary Patent is a viable, but not the most popular, patenting option, and that there is a positive impact on the GDP per capita and GERD for the majority of the EU member states and that there are differences between EU member states in their efficiency to generate Unitary Patents. IMPLICATIONS: The performed study confirms the parallel co-existence of various patenting strategies and the importance of investments in patented inventions. …”
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Novel ternary Z scheme carbon quantum dots (CQDs) decorated WS2/PANI ((CQDs@WS2/PANI):0D:2D:1D) nanocomposite for the photocatalytic degradation and electrochemical detection of ph... by Tarab Fatima, Samina Husain, Manika Khanuja

“…The endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and antibiotics are causing negative effects on human beings and animals by disrupting the endocrine system and spreading antimicrobial resistance. …”
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From Research Project to Research Portfolio: Meeting Scale and Complexity by Jonathan Linton, Nicholas Vonortas

“…The authors argue that scientists need to proactively engage in the discussion over the need to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of societal investments to ensure that the next generation of the management and decision-making process for our science, technology and innovation system is rooted in sound principles.The classic peer review process tends to provide unintended overlap and allows for an ill fit between some of the pieces and unwanted gaps to occur. …”
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Urgensi Penilaian Kesehatan Bank dan Tax Avoidance pada Kinerja Keuangan Perbankan Syariah by Wahyu Tri Susilowati, Baldric Siregar

“…The hope is that Islamic banks can earn high profits if they succeed in carrying out efficiency in various fields. In addition, Islamic banks are also considered to be able to manage the costs they incur properly because they can generate high profitability. …”
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Enhanced ResNet-50 for garbage classification: Feature fusion and depth-separable convolutions. by Lingbo Li, Runpu Wang, Miaojie Zou, Fusen Guo, Yuheng Ren

“…As people's material living standards continue to improve, the types and quantities of household garbage they generate rapidly increase. Therefore, it is urgent to develop a reasonable and effective method for garbage classification. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Produced Water Quality from a Nearshore Oil Treatment Facility by DBM Nwokoma, KK Dagde

“… Produced water, which is a mixture of organic and inorganic compounds, is a major waste stream generated in oil and gas industries. Its negative impacts on the receiving water bodies have become a worrisome environmental issue. …”
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Performance Evaluation of Produced Water Quality from a Nearshore Oil Treatment Facility by DBM Nwokoma, KK Dagde

“… Produced water, which is a mixture of organic and inorganic compounds, is a major waste stream generated in oil and gas industries. Its negative impacts on the receiving water bodies have become a worrisome environmental issue. …”
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Functional analysis of metabolic channeling and regulation in lignin biosynthesis: a computational approach. by Yun Lee, Luis Escamilla-Treviño, Richard A Dixon, Eberhard O Voit

“…Lignin is a polymer in secondary cell walls of plants that is known to have negative impacts on forage digestibility, pulping efficiency, and sugar release from cellulosic biomass. …”
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Electronic Nose Humidity Compensation System Based on Rapid Detection by Minhao Cai, Sai Xu, Xingxing Zhou, Huazhong Lu

“…Finally, this study builds an electronic nose humidity compensation system to compensate for the datasets generated via rapid real-time detection, efficiently correcting the deviation of the sensor response caused by humidity variations. …”
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VIOLET: Vectorized Invariance Optimization for Language Embeddings Using Twins by Mikhail E. Ram, G. Manju

“…We present VIOLET, a novel positive pair-based information maximisation strategy for fine-tuning BERT to generate robust, invariant, and semantically meaningful sentence embeddings. …”
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Evaluation of the dosimetric impact of patient positioning errors on single- isocenter multitarget stereotactic radiosurgery by Mariana Cunha de Souza, Caroline Castilhano Bueno, Caroline Zeppellini dos Santos Emiliozzi

“…Treating multiple brain metastases with a single isocenter enhances efficiency, but requires higher accuracy to account for rotation-induced shifts, which increase with the distance from the target to the isocenter. …”
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Rice Leaf Disease Image Enhancement Based on Improved CycleGAN by YAN Congkuan, ZHU Dequan, MENG Fankai, YANG Yuqing, TANG Qixing, ZHANG Aifang, LIAO Juan

“…Comparative experiments were conducted across multiple GAN models, enabling a thorough assessment of the proposed model's performance in generating rice disease images. Additionally, different attention mechanisms, including efficient channel attention (ECA), coordinate attention (CA), and CBAM, were individually embedded into the generator's residual module. …”
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