Enhancing Classroom Lighting Quality in Tehran Through the Integration of a Dynamic Light Shelf and Solar Panels by Shadan Masoud, Zahra Zamani, Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Mohammadjavad Mahdavinejad, Julian Wang

“…These findings highlight the potential of the proposed system as a practical and energy-efficient daylighting strategy for educational buildings in sunny regions such as Tehran.…”
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From Battlefield to Building Site: Probabilistic Analysis of UXO Penetration Depth for Infrastructure Resilience by Boules N. Morkos, Magued Iskander, Mehdi Omidvar, Stephan Bless

“…However, a lognormal distribution was preferred, to avoid negative value sampling, since COVs of the studied parameters can easily exceed this threshold. …”
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CooccurrenceAffinity: An R package for computing a novel metric of affinity in co-occurrence data that corrects for pervasive errors in traditional indices. by Kumar P Mainali, Eric Slud

“…We further develop functions (a) to compute those intervals, (b) to evaluate their true coverage probability of enclosing the population parameter, and (c) to generate figures. 4. CooccurrenceAffinity is a practical and efficient R package with user-friendly functions for end-to-end analysis and plotting of co-occurrence data in various formats, making it possible to compute the recently developed metric of alpha MLE as well as its median and confidence intervals introduced in this paper. …”
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Modeling and optimization control of SOEC with flexible adjustment capabilities by Yaqing He, Weiqing Wang, Yingtian Chi, Jiarong Li, Xinyan Zhang, Bowen Liu, Yuanpeng Wang

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Reversal of Spin‐Torque Polarity with Inverting Current Vorticity in Composition‐Graded Layer at the Ti/W Interface by Hayato Nakayama, Taisuke Horaguchi, Jun Uzuhashi, Cong He, Hiroaki Sukegawa, Tadakatsu Ohkubo, Seiji Mitani, Kazuto Yamanoi, Yukio Nozaki

“…These findings suggest that the sign of spin torque is governed by the polarity of compositional gradient, providing a novel strategy for efficient spin‐torque generation without relying on materials with strong spin or orbital Hall effect.…”
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Resource utilization of high aluminum alkaline waste solution to prepare active alumina carrier by LI Qian, HAN Yuqi, ZHANG Yan, YANG Yongbin, DONG Haigang, DU Anrui

“…The recycling of precious metals from spent aluminum-based catalysts generates a large amount of high-Al alkaline waste solutions, which not only cause a serious waste of aluminum resources, but also may have a negative impact on the environment due to their strong alkalinity. …”
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PENIAPHOBIA AS A COMPONENT OF THE DESTRUCTIVE DIGITAL MEDIA DISCOURSE IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION by Margarita D. Lagutkina, Zhang Yi, Chang Thi Thu Huong

“…Modern hybrid linguistic-mental and information warfare massively uses the promotion of destruction in the mass media as a tool of negative ‘soft power’ media discourse directed against China, Vietnam and Russia owing to their being the key players in the geopolitical arena of Southeast Asia. …”
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Optimization of the Offshore Wind Turbines Layout Using Cuckoo Search Algorithm by Ibrahim Abdulwahab, Solomon Andrew Onazi, Gideon Rimamfate, Akande Abdulwasiu, Abubakar Umar, N.A Iliyasu

“… Wind turbines have gained popularity as one of the efficient micro grid energy generation sources over the years. …”
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EGRN-YOLO: An Enhanced Multi-View Remote Sensing Detection Algorithm for Onshore Wind Turbines Based on YOLOv7 by Renzheng Xue, Haiqiang Xu, Qianlong Wu

“…Wind turbines, as the core components of wind power generation systems, play a crucial role in determining the overall generation efficiency and operational safety. …”
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The Reflection That Connects Us with Ourselves, with the Present, and with our Future Perspectives by Gabriella GORBAI

“…This generation will probably have a hard time believing that those horrible times can never re-turn. …”
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Predictors of Diagnostic Inaccuracy of Detecting Coronary Artery Stenosis by Preprocedural CT Angiography in Patients Prior to Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation by Matthias Renker, Steffen D. Kriechbaum, Stefan Baumann, Christian Tesche, Grigorios Korosoglou, Efstratios I. Charitos, Birgid Gonska, Tim Seidler, Yeong-Hoon Choi, Andreas Rolf, Won-Keun Kim, Samuel T. Sossalla

“…Pertinent clinical characteristics and imaging criteria of all true-positive (<i>n</i> = 71), false-positive (<i>n</i> = 30), false-negative (<i>n</i> = 4), and true-negative patient-level CT diagnoses (<i>n</i> = 87) for relevant stenosis according to ICA were assessed. …”
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Three-Year Follow-Up Assessment of Anthropogenic Contamination in the Nichupte Lagoon by Jorge Herrera-Silveira, Flor Arcega-Cabrera, Karina León-Aguirre, Elizabeth Lamas-Cosio, Ismael Oceguera-Vargas, Elsa Noreña-Barroso, Daniela Medina-Euán, Claudia Teutli-Hernández

“…This study shows the relevance of monitoring in time of vulnerable karstic systems that could be affected by anthropogenic contamination from wastewater inputs, stressing the urgent need for efficient wastewater treatment in the area. The tourist industry in coastal karstic lagoons such as the NLS must have a Wastewater Treatment Program as a compensation measure for the anthropic pressure that is negatively changing the water quality of this highly relevant socio-environmental system.…”
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Culture of Bacillus subtilis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae from byproducts of the enzymatic extraction of Atlantoraja castelnaui oil by Andrea L. Salomone †, Daniela L. Lamas

“… The growing trend in global fish consumption has led to the generation of a large amount of waste and byproducts with negative economic and environmental impacts. …”
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Heavy Metal Control and Dry Matter Assessment in Digested Sewage Sludge for Biogas Production by Krzysztof Michalski, Magdalena Kóska-Wolny, Krzysztof Chmielowski, Michał Gąsiorek, Klaudiusz Grübel, Konrad Kalarus, Wiktor Halecki

“…The nitrogen content was negatively correlated with dry mass. These findings provide valuable insights into optimizing sewage sludge treatment and biogas production processes by underlining the approaches for enhancing sludge properties to support efficient biogas production.…”
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Evaluation of advanced extraction techniques to obtain bioactive enriched extracts from garlic (Allium sativum L.) by-products by Ignacio Jiménez-Amezcua, Ana Cristina Soria, Marina Díez-Municio, María Luz Sanz, Ana Isabel Ruiz-Matute

“…Garlic (Allium sativum L.) residues generated during its production are very abundant and their disposal can have a negative impact on the environment, in addition to entailing high management costs for producers. …”
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UEF-HOCUrdu: Unified Embeddings Ensemble Framework for Hate and Offensive Text Classification in Urdu by Kifayat Ullah, Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan, Faten S. Alamri, Amjad Rehman Khan

“…To meet this challenge, this research proposed a new ensemble based multi-classification model and generated new dataset of 36,000 Urdu tweets categorized as &#x2018;Hate&#x2019;, &#x2018;Offensive&#x2019; and &#x2018;Neither&#x2019;. …”
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Is Ppp the New Firepower For Islamic Finance That Will Accelerate Progress Towards (SDGS)? by Zaher F. Nsouli

“…The study theoretically proves that public-private partnership offers monetary and non-monetary advantages for the public sector, in particular: allowing the allocation of public funds for other local priorities, distributing project risks to both public and private sectors, improved efficiency and project implementation processes in delivering services to the public, emphasizes Value for Money (VfM) – focusing on reduced costs, better risk allocation, faster implementation, improved services and possible generation of additional revenue. …”
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Regional Specifics of Using Community Bins in Waste Management: a Case Study of Rural Communities in Poltava Region (Ukraine) by Viktor Bredun, Rakesh Choudhary, Ajay Kumar

“…Background: The growing waste amount generation and its negative impact on the environment have become a serious problem. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization and Antimicrobial Activity of New 4-aminoantipyrine Derivatives Using Ultrasonic Mediation by Naween M. Youns

“…This reaction was carried out with zirconyl chloride (ZrOCl2.8H2O) as an efficient catalyst under the condition of ultrasound irradiation. …”
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Advancing CRISPR-Based Solutions for COVID-19 Diagnosis and Therapeutics by Roaa Hadi, Abhishek Poddar, Shivakumar Sonnaila, Venkata Suryanarayana Murthy Bhavaraju, Shilpi Agrawal

“…Although RT-qPCR is a precise molecular technique, it is not immune to false-negative results. In contrast, CRISPR-based detection methods for SARS-CoV-2 offer several advantages: they are cost-effective, time-efficient, highly sensitive, and specific, and they do not require sophisticated instruments. …”
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