Taguchi-based optimisation of FSW parameters for advancement in aerospace materials: Al-Li 2060 alloy by Noah E. El-Zathry, Stephen Akinlabi, Wai Lok Woo, Vivek Patel, Rasheedat M. Mahamood

“…Aluminium-lithium (Al-Li) 2060 alloy, a 3rd generation Al-Li alloy, is considered a structural material for aircraft components. …”
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The CHILES Continuum and Polarization Survey. I. Survey Design and Noise Characterization by Nicholas M. Luber, Min S. Yun, Hansung B. Gim, Daniel Krista-Kelsey, D.J. Pisano, Emmanuel Momjian, Chris Hales

“…We introduce and describe the CHILES Continuum and Polarisation (CHILES Con Pol) Survey, a 1000 hr 1.4 GHz wideband full polarization radio continuum deepfield with the Very Large Array, commensurate with the CHILES H i deepfield. …”
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Electrically programmable pixelated coherent mid-infrared thermal emission by Xiu Liu, Yibai Zhong, Zexiao Wang, Tianyi Huang, Sen Lin, Jingyi Zou, Haozhe Wang, Zhien Wang, Zhuo Li, Xiao Luo, Rui Cheng, Jiayu Li, Hyeong Seok Yun, Han Wang, Jing Kong, Xu Zhang, Sheng Shen

“…This integrated temperature-emissivity modulation of metasurfaces is systematically extended to form a pixelated 2D array with low crosstalk, envisioning advanced approaches toward scalable 2D electrical wiring for densely packed, independently addressable pixels.…”
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Phonation differentiation by non-contact laryngeal magnetomyography by Justus Marquetand, Nima Noury, Hongyu Lu, Haodi Yang, Chrystina Montuori Sorrentino, Lukas Rüttiger, Marlies Knipper, Christoph Braun, Hubert Löwenheim, Johannes von Fraunberg, Anke Tropitzsch, Markus Siegel, Stephan Wolpert

“…We recorded magnetic muscle activity of the larynx and neighboring cervical muscles using a 3 × 5 array of OPMs. Subjects vocalized an /a/ in three different conditions: loud high pitch, loud low pitch, and soft high pitch, in 90 s blocks. …”
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Flexible intelligent microwave metasurface with shape-guided adaptive programming by Fan Li, Taisong Pan, Weihan Li, Zujun Peng, Dengji Guo, Xiang Jia, Taiqi Hu, Lingxiao Wang, Wei Wang, Min Gao, Guang Yao, Le Zuo, Mei Bi, Xiaolong Weng, Wenxuan Tang, Yuan Lin

“…Such ambition is hampered by the absence of adaptivity to shape variation in current programming strategies for RM. Herein, we present a flexible intelligent surface platform (FISP) as a solution to achieve flexible RM with highly stable performance under dynamic deformation. …”
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Gap Impact on Rigid Submerged Vegetated Flow and Its Induced Flow Turbulence by Heba Mals, Jaan H. Pu, Prashanth Reddy Hanmaiahgari, Bimlesh Kumar, Ebrahim Hamid Hussein Al-Qadami, Mohd Adib Mohammad Razi

“…This study investigates the hydrodynamic effects of submerged rigid vegetation, specifically focusing on the local flow and turbulence alterations resulting from the removal of a single stem from an otherwise uniform vegetation array under controlled laboratory conditions. …”
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Near-source wastewater surveillance of SARS-CoV-2, norovirus, influenza virus and RSV across five different sites in the UK. by Jay C Bullen, Mina Mohaghegh, Fatima Tahir, Charlotte Hammer, Jacob Sims, Frederico Myers, Lucas Eisinger, Ali Reza Kasmati, Claire F Trant

“…By tracking infectious diseases through sewage, municipal-scale wastewater surveillance has provided early warnings of future COVID-19 hospitalisations, identified biases in diagnostic testing, and is rapidly expanding to a broader array of pathogens. Despite applications in the targeted delivery of local interventions, near-source wastewater surveillance has received less attention and we know little about the near-source time series dynamics of contrasting pathogens. …”
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Experimental and Simulative Investigation of Deterministic Lateral Displacement and Dielectrophoresis Methods for Continuous Multi-Property Particle Sorting by Jonathan Kottmeier, Maike Sophie Wullenweber, Zhen Liu, Ingo Kampen, Arno Kwade, Andreas Dietzel

“…Simulative and experimental studies were carried out to address multi-dimensional particle fractionation of non-biological particles according to size, shape, and density inside a high-throughput DLD array. Density sensitive separation was achieved for melamine and polystyrene particles at a diameter of 5 µm at a Reynolds number (<i>Re</i>) of 82, corresponding to an overall flow rate of 11.3 mL/min. …”
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Analytical approach for simultaneous determination of azoxystrobin, prothioconazole and trifloxystrobin in plant protection products by Lazić Sanja, Šušnjar Aleksandra, Vuković Slavica, Ećimović Jelena, Đukanović Mitar, Šunjka Dragana

“…Chromatographic separation of the active substances was achieved using 0.1% acetic acid and acetonitrile (30:70 v/v) at a flow rate of 0.52 ml/min on a Zorbax Eclipse XDB-C18 (50 mm × 4.6 mm × 1.8 µm) and UV detection at 210 nm. …”
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Microbubble-based fabrication of resilient porous ionogels for high-sensitivity pressure sensors by Ziwei Yang, Jingxiao Wang, Xiao Wan, Hongcheng Xu, Chuanyu Zhang, Xiaoke Lu, Weixuan Jing, Chuanfei Guo, Xueyong Wei

“…Periodic motion sliding results in a relative velocity between the imported airflow and the fluid solution, converts the airflow to microbubbles in the high-viscosity ionic fluid and promptly solidifies the fluid into a porous ionogel under ultraviolet exposure. …”
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Noninvasive prognostication of hepatocellular carcinoma based on cell-free DNA methylation. by Ran Hu, Benjamin Tran, Shuo Li, Mary L Stackpole, Weihua Zeng, Yonggang Zhou, Andrew Melehy, Saeed Sadeghi, Richard S Finn, Xianghong Jasmine Zhou, Wenyuan Li, Vatche G Agopian

“…These findings indicate that cfDNA methylation is a promising noninvasive prognostic biomarker for HCC, providing a proof-of-concept for its potential clinical utility and laying the groundwork for broader applications.…”
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Ontological differences in first compared to third trimester human fetal placental chorionic stem cells. by Gemma N Jones, Dafni Moschidou, Tamara-Isabel Puga-Iglesias, Katarzyna Kuleszewicz, Maximilien Vanleene, Sandra J Shefelbine, George Bou-Gharios, Nicholas M Fisk, Anna L David, Paolo De Coppi, Pascale V Guillot

“…We showed that e-CSC shared a common phenotype with l-CSC, differentiating down the osteogenic, adipogenic and neurogenic pathways, and containing a subset of cells endogenously expressing NANOG, SOX2, c-MYC, and KLF4, as well as an array of genes expressed in pluripotent stem cells and primordial germ cells, including CD24, NANOG, SSEA4, SSEA3, TRA-1-60, TRA-1-81, STELLA, FRAGILIS, NANOS3, DAZL and SSEA1. …”
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Nanoscale Noncoplanar Beam Splitters With Tunable Split Ratio by Shengnan Tian, Hanming Guo, Jinbing Hu, Songlin Zhuang

“…To this end, we proposed a polarization-controllable beam splitter based on dielectric metasurface composed of an array of dielectric pillars. …”
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Investigating the Bioactive Potential of Ononis spinosa L. Phytochemical Profiling and Antibacterial Effectiveness Evaluation by Lakhdar Benalach, Fadhela Boukada, Kouider Cherifi, Ali Latreche, Ikram Messellem, Mohammed Bellatreche

“…The phenolic compounds in the aerial parts of Ononis spinosa were examined using high performance liquid chromatography coupled with a diode array detector (HPLC-UV/DAD) technology, and were assessed due to their antimicrobial properties. …”
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Improving Edge Quality of Liquid Crystal Display 3D Printing Using Local Dimming Method by Xing-Rui Ding, Zi-Hao Deng, Jia-Sheng Li, Rui-Xiang Qian, Bo-Wen Duan, Zong-Tao Li

“…The burgeoning advancements in Light Emitting Diode (LED) technology have opened avenues for applications beyond traditional display and lighting, notably in the realm of 3D printing. …”
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Integrated Multiband-Mode Multiplexing Photonic Lantern for Selective Mode Excitation and Preservation by Li Zhao, Ting Yu, Yunhao Chen, Jianing Tang

“…We propose and experimentally demonstrate an Integrated Multiband-Mode Multiplexing Photonic Lantern (IM3PL) that enables the selective excitation of high-order modes and stable modal preservation across multiple wavelength bands. As a proof-of-concept configuration, the IM3PL integrates a custom-designed input fiber array composed of three 980 nm single-mode fibers (SMFs) and two few-mode fibers (FMFs) operating at 1310 nm and 1550 nm, respectively. …”
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Contextual Deep Semantic Feature Driven Multi-Types Network Intrusion Detection System for IoT-Edge Networks by Shaho Hassen, Ahmed Abdlrazaq

“… Recent years have witnessed an exponential rise in wireless networks and allied interoperable distributed computing frameworks, where the different sensory units transfer real-world event data to the network analyzer for run-time decisions. There exists an array of applications employing edge- internet of things (Edge-IoT) where the edge nodes collect local data to perform real-time decisions. …”
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Benign Bacillus: decoding the genetic potential of native rhizosphere Bacillus spp. from rice, to induce plant growth and defense by Kalyani M. Barbadikar, Neha Attal, Sowmya Vanama, Maruthi Pesari, Divya Kattupalli, Raman Meenakshi Sundaram, Kannan Chinnaswami

“…Their genomic analysis indicated a rich array of genes associated with secondary metabolite production, plant growth promotion, elicitation, and biocontrol activities. …”
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Performance evaluation and multi-objective optimization of EDM parameters for Ti6Al4V using different tool electrodes by Manoj Jagdale, Masuk Abdullah, Nitin Ambhore, Atul Kulkarni, Rakesh Chaudhari, Jay Vora, József Menyhárt

“…Abstract Ti6Al4V alloy is widely used in aerospace and biomedical applications due to its excellent mechanical and thermal properties, but its poor machinability makes it a difficult-to-cut material. …”
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Seasonal Variations and Structure-Specific Phytochemical Profiles of <i>Glochidion chodoense</i> by Nari Yoon, Jajung Ku, Yang-Ho Kang, Sanghyun Lee

“…<i>Glochidion chodoense</i>, a rare and endangered plant endemic to Republic of Korea, is known for containing a wide variety of phytochemicals, including triterpenoid saponins and flavonoids. …”
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