Fabrication of pyrroloquinoline quinone-loaded small unilamellar vesicles through various downsizing techniques for biomedical applications by Gerardo Garcia-Zavaleta, Daniel Mejia-Valdez, Hamed Hosseinian, Ciro A. Rodriguez, Geoffrey A. Cordell, Yadira I. Vega-Cantu, Aida Rodriguez-Garcia

“…The results demonstrate the ability of these systems to encapsulate PQQ with high stability, efficient entrapment, and extended release profiles for their potential use in biomedicine as a delivery system for bone tissue engineering.…”
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Particle Swarm Optimization–Long Short-Term Memory-Based Dynamic Prediction Model of Single-Crystal Furnace Temperature and Heating Power by Lin Hou, Dedong Gao, Shan Wang, Wenyong Zhang, Haixin Lin, Yan An

“…Precise temperature and heating power control are crucial for crystal quality and production efficiency in the Czochralski single-crystal growth process. …”
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Unmanned Surface Vessel Cluster Path Planning Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning by Manjiang YU, Jiawei HE, Bowen XING

“…Firstly, a long and short-term memory module was introduced based on the multi-agent deep deterministic policy gradient algorithm to enhance the ability of the USVs to utilize the temporal information in path planning; secondly, a multi-level representational experience pool was designed to improve the training efficiency and data utilization and reduce the interference between different experiences; finally, stochastic network distillation was used as a curiosity mechanism to provide intrinsic rewards for the USVs to explore new regions and solve the convergence due to the sparse rewards. …”
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Elimination of background in film-based applications by Rachael M. Berry, Stefan Schmitz, Brian D. Johnson, Boguslawa Dworecki, Elizabeth A. Fritz, Kenneth A. Roebuck, Kimberly K. Hines

“…To demonstrate the efficiency of the Background Eliminator, we analyzed the product's ability to remove signal evenly, performance on several brands of film, and usefulness with various detection methods. …”
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UAV object tracking algorithm based on spatial saliency-aware correlation filter by Changhui Wu, Jinrong Shen, Kaiwei Chen, Yingpin Chen, Yuan Liao

“…Recently, correlation filter-based tracking methods have been widely adopted in UAV target tracking due to their outstanding performance and excellent tracking efficiency. However, existing correlation filter-based tracking methods still face issues such as redundant visual features with weak discriminative ability, inadequate spatio-temporal information mining, and filter degradation. …”
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Elucidating ATP’s role as solubilizer of biomolecular aggregate by Susmita Sarkar, Saurabh Gupta, Chiranjit Mahato, Dibyendu Das, Jagannath Mondal

“…Going beyond its conventional activity as energy currency, the amphiphilic nature of ATP enables its protein-specific interaction that would enhance ATP’s efficiency in cellular processes.…”
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HCAP: Hybrid cyber attack prediction model for securing healthcare applications. by Mohanad Faeq Ali, Mohammed Shakir Mohmood, Ban Salman Shukur, Rex Bacarra, Jamil Abedalrahim Jamil Alsayaydeh, Masrullizam Mat Ibrahim, Safarudin Gazali Herawan

“…The extracted features are fed into the lion-optimization technique to fine-tune the hyperparameters of the recurrent neural networks, enhancing the model's ability to efficiently predict cybersecurity threats with a maximum recognition rate in IoMT environments. …”
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Development of a High-Performance Immunoaffinity Separation Technique for Rare Cell Capture by Dora Szerenyi, Paul Stolk, Jozsef Tovari, Laszlo Takacs, Andras Guttman

“…Circulating tumor cell enrichment and enumeration are advancing early detection of cancer, monitoring of therapy response, and even next-generation therapies. Efficiently capturing rare cells from complex biological fluids is essential in both diagnostic and therapeutic applications. …”
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Knowledge Distillation-Enhanced Behavior Transformer for Decision-Making of Autonomous Driving by Rui Zhao, Yuze Fan, Yun Li, Dong Zhang, Fei Gao, Zhenhai Gao, Zhengcai Yang

“…On the other hand, the complexity of these environments leads to low sample efficiency in RL, making it difficult to efficiently learn driving policies. …”
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Adsorption and inhibition study of N-(5-methoxy-2-hydroxybenzylidene) isonicotinohydrazide Schiff base on copper corrosion in 3.5% NaCl by Cordelia U. Dueke‑Eze, Nancy A. Madueke, Nkem B. Iroha, Ngozi J. Maduelosi, Lebe A. Nnanna, Valentine C. Anadebe, Augustine A. Chokor

“…Maximum value of 97.7% inhibition efficiency was obtained with weight loss measurement at 303 K for the highest NMHI concentration (1 × 10-3 M) used. …”
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Early warning strategies for corporate operational risk: A study by an improved random forest algorithm using FCM clustering. by Xini Fang

“…Secondly, the Criteria Importance Through Intercriteria Correlation (CRITIC) weight method is employed to determine the importance of these risk indicators, thereby enhancing the model's prediction ability and stability. Following this, the FCM clustering algorithm is utilized for pre-processing sample data to improve the efficiency and accuracy of data classification. …”
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Exploring the Role of EU Subsidies in Enhancing the Competitiveness of Slovak Farms by Ivana Kravčáková Vozárová, Rastislav Kotulič

“…Based on the results, it has been confirmed that subsidies support the income side of farms and improve the overall cost-to-revenue ratio, which is reflected in better cost efficiency. These subsidies contribute to increasing the competitiveness of agricultural enterprises by allowing farms to better cover their costs, which can have a positive impact on their ability to compete in the market in both the short term and long term.…”
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Evaluating the Activity of Ultrasound on Biofilm Formation by Acinetobacter baumannii isolated from clinical Specimens by Shymaa Ali, Halah H. Al-Haideri, Amna M. Al Hishimi

“…The aims of the study are to investigate the antibiotic susceptibility profile of clinically isolated A. baumannii, biofilm production, and the efficiency of Low Frequency Ultrasound (LFU) and honey to attenuate biofilm production. …”
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Identification model of mine water inrush source based on XGBoost and SHAP by Bencong Kou, Tingxin Wen

“…The Sparrow Search Algorithm combines Tent chaos mapping and Levy flight strategy (CLSSA), which makes the optimization process better balance the global search ability and local search ability, so as to improve the efficiency and effect of parameter optimization. …”
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A distance-aware approach for reliable out-of-distribution detection of wind turbine gearbox fault diagnosis by Jingxin Zhou, Yao Zhao

“…Fault diagnosis of wind turbine gearbox is essential to ensure operational efficiency and prevent costly downtime. However, conventional deep learning models often struggle with domain shift, where the distribution of testing data differs from that of training data. …”
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Extracting organs of interest from medical images based on convolutional neural network with auxiliary and refined constraints by Fenghui Lian, Yingjie Sun, Meiyu Li

“…Abstract Accurately extracting organs from medical images provides radiologist with more comprehensive evidences to clinical diagnose, which offers up a higher accuracy and efficiency. However, the key to achieving accurate segmentation lies in abundant clues for contour distinction, which has a high demand for the network architecture design and its practical training status. …”
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Nanotechnology-Enhanced Face Masks: Future Scopes and Perspectives by Ashraf Maher, Mohamed S. Abdo, Hany S. Abdo

“…These properties give new-generation masks the ability to remove the drawbacks of traditional surgical masks, such as microbial growth and low filtration efficiency. …”
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Proximal <italic>LSSVR</italic> of Gauss-Laplacian With Mixed-Noise-Characteristics and Its Applications for Short-Term Wind-Speed Forecasting by Ting Zhou, Shiguang Zhang

“…It possesses the traits of high efficiency, simplicity, and good generalization ability. …”
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A sigmoid attractiveness based improved firefly algorithm and its applications in IIR filter design by Ao Liu, Peng Li, Xudong Deng, Liang Ren

“…These improvements are twofold: first, a sigmoid-based attractiveness is employed to reformulate its definition and strengthen its local refinement ability; second, a dynamic step parameter tuning strategy is designed to adjust the random search intensity and narrow the search space iteratively to strengthen its global search ability. …”
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Thermally assisted healable film based on modified natural rubber-bearing benzyl chloride functionality by Rattanawadee Ninjan, Bencha Thongnuanchan, Natinee Lopattananon, Subhan Salaeh, Anoma Thitithammawong

“…After the healing process, the cured film showed a healing efficiency of 49.67% in tensile strength (7.61 MPa). …”
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