Reference Torque Tracking Controller for Electric Power Steering Using a Disturbance Observer With System Identification-Based Parameter Selection by Chanwoo Heo, Daehyun Jung, Jeongha Moon, Deukpyo Lee, Wonshick Ko, Seunghoon Woo

“…Conventional EPS systems use boost curves to modify assist torque based on vehicle speed and drive modes. …”
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Machine learning-based assessment of flood susceptibility in the Eastern Mediterranean: a case study of Baniyas River basin by Hazem Ghassan Abdo, Sahar Mohammed Richi, Taorui Zeng, Saeed Alqadhi, Pankaj Prasad, Thong Nguyen-Huy, Maged Muteb Alharbi, Javed Mallick

“…In this analysis, the performance of four ensemble machine learning algorithms (ML), that is support vector machine (SVM), random forest (RF), artificial neural network (ANN) and extreme gradient boost (XGBoost), was compared and tested in mapping flood susceptibility in the Eastern Mediterranean region. …”
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Plasma-Modified Carbon Materials for Radionuclide Absorption by Yifan Fang, Zixuan Guo, Bing Lian, Jing Kang, Zhou Fang, Longfei Qie, Lili Liu, Luxiang Zhao, Ruixue Wang

“…Plasma modification has emerged as a highly effective strategy for enhancing the surface chemistry of carbon materials, thereby significantly improving their adsorption performance. This process increases the specific surface area of carbon materials and introduces a variety of functional groups, which in turn boost their capacity to adsorb radionuclides. …”
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Finite-Time Adaptive Control for Electro-Hydraulic Braking Gear Transmission Mechanism with Unilateral Dead Zone Nonlinearity by Qinghua Cao, Jian Wu, Fuxing Xu, Xinhong Miao, Mingjie Guo, Yuan Chu

“…Then, the “complexity explosion” in the design of the control strategy was avoided by command filtering, and the design process of the controller was simplified. Furthermore, the finite-time control theory was employed to boost the system’s convergence speed, thereby enhancing control performance. …”
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Ion Substitution-Induced Distorted MOF Lattice with Deviated Energy and Dielectric Properties for Quasi-Solid-State Ion Conductor by Yike Huang, Yun Zheng, Yan Guo, Qi Zhang, Yingying Shen, Hebin Zhang, Yinan Liu, Yihao Zheng, Pingshan Jia, Rong Chen, Lifen Long, Zhiyuan Zhang, Congcong Zhang, Yuanhang Hou, Kunye Yan, Ziyu Huang, Manting Zhang, Jiangmin Jiang, Shengyang Dong, Wen Lei, Huaiyu Shao

“…Defects in the lattice can help stabilize the intermediate state in the charge transfer process and lower the corresponding impedance from 2.6 MΩ to 559 Ω.…”
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Exploring future scenarios for Latvia’s regional business incubators by Karlis Markus, Baiba Rivza, Peteris Rivza

“… The research demonstrates that since 2007, the business incubator programs administered by the Investment and Development Agency of Latvia (LIAA) have significantly boosted regional entrepreneurship in Latvia. These programs provide essential support to young entrepreneurs, promote employment, stimulate entrepreneurship, and enhance the quality of life in the regions. …”
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Role and Mechanisms of the mTOR Signalling Pathway in the Synthesis of Milk Components by RongNuo Li, YiNing Zheng, HuiJun Geng, Lu Deng

“…Importantly, they suggest that targeting the mTOR signalling pathway to promote efficient and healthy farming of dairy cattle may be a potential strategy to boost livestock industry profits.…”
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A Design of a Redundancy-Based Cascaded Bidirectional DC–DC Converter for Improved Reliability in Energy Storage Devices by Thales Augusto Fagundes, Guilherme Henrique Favaro Fuzato, Rafael Fernando Quirino Magossi, Ana Lais Rui Oliveira, Ricardo Quadros Machado

“…With the employment of this topology, its reliability is increased due to redundancy in power conversion, which differs from conventional structures formed by dc/dc converters that cannot process power flow when a fault occurs. Thus, the topology is provided merging the cascaded bidirectional Boost converter and cascaded bidirectional Cuk converter. …”
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The Effect of Incorporating Fermented Elderberries (<i>Sambucus nigra)</i> into Bread: Quality, Shelf Life, and Biological Enhancement by Natália L. Seixas, Vanessa B. Paula, Teresa Dias, Luís G. Dias, Letícia M. Estevinho

“…The elderberry fermentation process was optimised using <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>, guided by a Plackett–Burman experimental design. …”
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MOLECULAR DETECTION OF POLYMORPHISM OF HEAT SHOCK P ROTEIN 70 (hsp70) IN THE SEMEN OF ARABI RAMS by Hassan Nima Habib, Bassam Yasein Khudaier, Amad Falah Hassan

“…Heat shock proteins Hsp70 proteins belong to the heat shock protein family, boost cellssurvival in hostile environments, involved in many cellular biological processes. …”
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Alkali-treatment of Lupine peels for valorizing adsorption of organic cationic pollutants from wastewater: Kinetics, isotherm, thermodynamic, regeneration, and mechanism by Nour W. Sabry, Ibrahim Naeem, Seed A. Hassanien, Osama Abuzalat, Ahmad Baraka

“…Characterization of untreated (YLPP) and NaOH-treated (T-YLPP) samples using FTIR, BET, SEM/EDX, and XPS revealed that alkaline treatment enhances functional group exposure, increases active sites, boosts surface area from 376.23 to 427.49 m²/g, and enlarges pore volume and size. …”
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Enhancing sleep stage classification with ballistocardiogram signals: feature selection using attention mechanism and XGBoost by Chao Luo, Banteng Liu, Jiayu Chai, Zhijian Teng

“…Evaluated on 10,201 sleep segments, the Fast-ABC Boost model achieved an accuracy of 89.85%, along with superior precision, recall, F1-score, and Kappa values compared to conventional methods. …”
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Abnormal Load Variation Forecasting in Urban Cities Based on Sample Augmentation and TimesNet by Yiyan Li, Zizhuo Gao, Zhenghao Zhou, Yu Zhang, Zelin Guo, Zheng Yan

“…With the evolving urbanization process in modern cities, the tertiary industry load and residential load start to take up a major proportion of the total urban power load. …”
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Empowering Rural Women in the Cocoa Production Chain in Sardinata, Norte de Santander, Colombia by Neida Albornoz-Arias, Camila Rojas-Sanguino, Akever-Karina Santafe-Rojas

“…Interviews were conducted with 10 female cocoa producers from Sardinata. The coding process, grounded in theoretical material, generated five subcategories with corresponding theoretical codes, leading to the emergence of a new subcategory. …”
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AN EFFECTIVE APPROACH TO FACE RECOGNITION WITH ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE INTERNET OF THINGS USING NVIDIA JETSON NANO by Ngoc Giau Pham, Nhien Loc Bui, Quang Hien Tran, Le Thanh Hai Tong, Hong Ngoc Tran

“…This study examines how artificial intelligence (AI) can be incorporated into the Internet of Things (IoT), with a particular focus on using the NVIDIA Jetson Nano as a specialized AI platform. The aim is to boost the functional capabilities of IoT devices, allowing them to independently carry out sophisticated data analysis and decision-making tasks to heighten their efficiency and effectiveness. …”
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Exploring the Inherent Variability of Economically Fabricated ZnO Devices Towards Physical Unclonable Functions for Secure Authentication by Savvas Ermeidis, Dimitrios Tassis, George P. Papageorgiou, Stavros G. Stavrinides, Eleni Makarona

“…By leveraging intrinsic variability from Li doping and the stochastic hydrothermal growth process, we systematically identified electrical parameters offering outstanding variability, stability, and reproducibility. …”
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Investigating the influence of digital transformation, budgeting and budgetary control on the financial performance of SMEs by Oziegbe Simeon Ebhota, Yao Hongxing, Agyemang Kwasi Sampene

“…The findings indicate that digital transformation significantly boosts customer experience, big data analytics, and budgetary controls. …”
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Significance of melting heat transfer in maxwell nanofluid stagnation point flow across quadratic stratified riga surface by Abbas Khan, Hashim, Hijaz Ahmad, Suriya Uma Devi, Muhammad Farooq, Sawera Batool, Syed M. Hussain

“…Thus, we need to examine the melting heat processes in a linearly stretched sheet and stagnation point-influenced quadratic stratified Maxwell nanofluid flow. …”
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Connecting the drops: A methodological challenge for the deployment of ICTs in mediterranean irrigation systems by Kevin Daudin, Gilles Belaud, Crystele Leauthaud, Zhour Bouzidi, Caroline Lejars

“…The vulnerability of irrigated systems in areas coping with water scarcity has boosted the demand for information and communication technologies (ICTs), e.g. tools and services derived from field sensors or satellite data. …”
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Enhanced biogas production from water hyacinth and cow dung with wood and faecal sludge biochar by Robinah N. Kulabako, Swaib Semiyaga, Rodney S. Tumwesige, Collin Irumba, Miria I. Opio, Musa Manga, Vianney Tumwesige, Jessica Quintana-Najera, Andrew B. Ross

“…Co-digesting WH with cow dung (CD) enhances biogas yield but poses challenges like process instability and excessive carbon dioxide production. …”
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