Performance enhancement of Darrieus wind turbines using Plain Flap and Gurney Flap configurations: A CFD analysis by Wallaaldin Abass Eltayeb, Jarupula Somlal

“…GF configurations, especially the 0.25c, 120° GF, provided stable torque generation, enhancing performance under variable wind conditions. …”
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TMBO-AOD: Transparent Mask Background Optimization for Accurate Object Detection in Large-Scale Remote-Sensing Images by Tianyi Fu, Hongbin Dong, Benyi Yang, Baosong Deng

“…This approach not only alleviates the imbalance between positive and negative samples but also enhances the efficiency of candidate generation. …”
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Productivity and Resource Misallocation: Empirical Findings from Firms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region and Turkey by Eleftherios Giovanis, Öznur Özdamar Giovanis

“…The results are mixed, wherein in Egypt and Turkey, female ownership and international quality certification are positively associated with productivity and allocation efficiency. Moreover, obstacles in SBRs present a negative and significant correlation with the firms’ performance and productivity, increasing dispersions in the resource allocation, output, and capital. …”
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Lithium Battery Thermal Runaway Warning Method Based on Multi-Feature Fusion by Mingwei DAI, Chunfu ZHANG, Jiawu YANG

“…[Objective] During the operation and storage of lithium batteries, substantial heat is generated. Anomalies in temperature can impact the lifespan and cycling efficiency of lithium batteries, and in extreme cases, may lead to explosions. …”
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Enhancing palbociclib efficacy with low toxicity in breast cancer using polycaprolactone-based nanocarriers by Nastaran Zerang, Zohreh Mirjafary, Hamid Saeidian, Morteza Rouhani

“…The zeta potential of the PAL@PCL nanocapsules remained negative, indicating their continued stability throughout the entire period. …”
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Bulk System Reliability Assessment Incorporating Nodal Correlations in Supply–Demand Variabilities and Uncertainties Created with Net-Zero Emission Targets by Deeksha Sharma, Rajesh Karki

“…This paper implements a nodal negative load modeling method to integrate wind power generation in reliability assessment, capturing the cross-correlation between demand–supply variabilities at any node of the network. …”
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Does the Choice of Topic Modeling Technique Impact the Interpretation of Aviation Incident Reports? A Methodological Assessment by Aziida Nanyonga, Keith Joiner, Ugur Turhan, Graham Wild

“…This study presents a comparative analysis of four topic modeling techniques —Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT), Probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (pLSA), and Non-negative Matrix Factorization (NMF)—applied to aviation safety reports from the ATSB dataset spanning 2013–2023. …”
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Metal oxide nanoparticles as promising agents for triggering defense mechanisms in plants against bacterial diseases by Kindye Belaye Wassie, Getahun Yemata

“…MONPs such as zinc oxide (ZnO), copper oxide (CuO), and titanium dioxide (TiO2) can cause oxidative stress in plant cells and generate reactive oxygen species (ROS), which activate defense-related signaling pathways.Reactive oxygen species (ROS) can be directly scavenged by nanoparticles, which can also act as transporters to more efficiently deliver traditional antioxidants to target areas or mimic natural antioxidant enzymes.In addition to their ability to stimulate plant immune responses, MONPs have inherent antibacterial characteristics that can directly impede bacterial development. …”
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Nearly Degenerate Four-Wave Mixing in Single-Mode Fabry–Pérot Laser Diode Subject to Single Beam Optical Injection by Jian-Wei Wu, Yong Hyub Won

“…While external injection mode is moved towards the side mode selected as the pump wave, newly generated signals only occurred with small positive probe detuning. …”
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Cross-linked chitosan/lysozyme hydrogels with inherent antibacterial activity and tuneable drug release properties for cutaneous drug administration by Wing-Fu Lai, Obireddy Sreekanth Reddy, Dahong Zhang, Haicui Wu, Wing-Tak Wong

“…This study reports the generation and characterization of gels formed by 1,5-pentanedial-mediated crosslinking between chitosan and lysozyme for cutaneous drug delivery. …”
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Orthogonally conjugated phthalocyanine-porphyrin oligomer for NIR photothermal-photodynamic antibacterial treatment by Guixue Lian, Wanru Zhao, Gaoqiang Ma, Sen Zhang, Ailin Wu, Lin Wang, Dongjiao Zhang, Wei Liu, Jianzhuang Jiang

“…Compared with organic photothermal agents induced by unstable H-aggregation with blue-shifted absorption and fluorescence/ROS quenching, this orthogonal-structured uniform SiPc-ddCPP nanoparticle shows remarkably stability and NIR photothermal effect (η = 31.15%) along with fluorescence and ROS generation. Antibacterial studies have shown that both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria could be efficiently annihilated in a few minutes through synergistic PDT-PTT along with satisfactory bacterial targeting. …”
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Gene Transfection of Human Turbinate Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Derived from Human Inferior Turbinate Tissues by Jin Seon Kwon, Seung Hun Park, Ji Hye Baek, Truong Minh Dung, Sung Won Kim, Byoung Hyun Min, Jae Ho Kim, Moon Suk Kim

“…At a high negative-to-positive charge ratio, DNA-PEI NPs treatment led to cytotoxicity of hTMSCs, but the transfection efficiency of DNA was increased due to the electrostatic effect between the NPs and the membranes of hTMSCs. …”
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Strain-induced variation in quantum dot emissions close to Si-vacancy transitions by Zhao An, Xin Cao, Maik Steinbach, Jürgen Koch, Peter Jäschke, Christian Laurio, Frederik Benthin, Yiteng Zhang, Chenxi Ma, Eddy Patrick Rugeramigabo, Rolf J. Haug, Jingzhong Yang, Michael Zopf

“…Here, we explore the strain tuning of GaAs/AlGaAs quantum dots emitting single photons close to the transitions of negatively charged Si-vacancy centers in diamonds, which are high-performance quantum memories with an efficient spin-photon interface. …”
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Investigation of structural, electronic, optical, and photocatalytic properties of new double perovskites Cs2InSbX6 (X = F, Cl) under strain effects by S. Tariq, L.H. Omari, F. Mezzat, E.K. Hlil

“…We investigated how strain ranging from −5% to +5 % influences these materials' performance in optoelectronic and photocatalytic applications. Notably, negative strain enhances absorption and quantum efficiency for both compounds, particularly Cs₂InSbCl₆, which shows superior absorption in the visible spectrum. …”
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Triple gain switched-capacitor based inverter with reduced component count by Gangadhar Dhal, Kasinath Jena, Krishna Kumar Gupta, Chinmoy Kumar Panigrahi, Dhananjay Kumar, Pradeep Kumar Sahu, Lipika Nanda

“…A backside H-bridge is not required to generate negative voltage levels. The PD provides a detailed explanation of the structural analysis, the self-balancing mechanism, the optimum capacitance value, and the control approach. …”
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Artificial intelligence tools and literary translation: a comparative investigation of ChatGPT and Google Translate from novice and advanced EFL student translators’ perspectives by Safaa M. Abdelhalim, Asma A. Alsahil, Zainab A. Alsuhaibani

“…The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies based on Large Language Models (LLMs) is reshaping the translation landscape, particularly by facilitating unprecedented levels of translation efficiency. To unlock the potential of (AI) tools in facilitating intercultural understanding and bridging language barriers in literary translation, this study examined the perspectives of 63 Saudi EFL student translators (27 novices, 36 advanced) on literary translations generated by Google Translate (GT) and ChatGPT. …”
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Holographic tomographic volumetric additive manufacturing by Maria Isabel Álvarez-Castaño, Andreas Gejl Madsen, Jorge Madrid-Wolff, Viola Sgarminato, Antoine Boniface, Jesper Glückstad, Christophe Moser

“…We show that computer-generated holograms implemented with tiled holograms and point-spread-function shaping mitigates the speckle noise which enables the fabrication of millimetric 3D objects exhibiting negative features of 31 μm in less than a minute with a 40 mW light source in acrylates and scattering materials, such as soft cell-laden hydrogels, with a concentration of 0.5 million cells per mL.…”
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Light scattering-based screening method for rapid evaluating antibiotic effects on bacteria using laser speckle imaging by Donghyeok Kim, Seongjoon Moon, Jongseo Lee, Kyoungman Cho, Changhan Lee, Jonghee Yoon

“…The LSI system utilizes an optical diffuser with controlled rotations to generate multiple independent speckle illumination patterns. …”
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A wireless sensor data-based coal mine gas monitoring algorithm with least squares support vector machines optimized by swarm intelligence techniques by Peng Chen, Yonghong Xie, Pei Jin, Dezheng Zhang

“…In order to assess the risks arisen from gas explosion or gas poisoning, wireless sensor data should be processed and classified efficiently. Due to the fact that the “negative samples” of coal mine safety data are scarce, least squares support vector machine is introduced to deal with this problem. …”
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Multivariate Analysis of Microbiological and Incubation Parameters in Hatching Eggs Sanitized with or Without Essential Oils by Gabriel da Silva Oliveira, Concepta McManus, Vinícius Machado dos Santos

“…Aspects related to the contamination of hatching eggs, sanitary management during pre-incubation, and the performance of the incubation process can compromise productive efficiency in poultry farming. When these factors negatively influence poultry farming, they can destabilize the generation and distribution of financial resources throughout the production chain, as well as limit public access to poultry-derived proteins. …”
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