Cyberattack Resilience of Autonomous Vehicle Sensor Systems: Evaluating RGB vs. Dynamic Vision Sensors in CARLA by Mustafa Sakhai, Kaung Sithu, Min Khant Soe Oke, Maciej Wielgosz

“…Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on a heterogeneous sensor suite of RGB cameras, LiDAR, GPS/IMU, and emerging event-based dynamic vision sensors (DVS) to perceive and navigate complex environments. However, these sensors can be deceived by realistic cyberattacks, undermining safety. …”
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Evaluation of a UAS-based Bridge Inspection Framework with Automated Damage Candidate Suggestion and Human-in-the-loop Damage Assessment by E. T. Bartczak, M. Bassier, M. Vergauwen

“…Unmanned aerial systems have shown considerable potential to improve bridge inspection procedures by enhancing safety, efficiency, and data quality. However, developing a comprehensive system that integrates safe flight planning, data acquisition, automated damage detection, and reporting while addressing practical challenges remains complex. …”
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Molecular Xenomonitoring (MX) allows real-time surveillance of West Nile and Usutu virus in mosquito populations. by Clément Bigeard, Laura Pezzi, Raphaelle Klitting, Nazli Ayhan, Grégory L'Ambert, Nicolas Gomez, Géraldine Piorkowski, Rayane Amaral, Guillaume André Durand, Agathe M G Colmant, Cynthia Giraud, Katia Ramiara, Camille Migné, Gilda Grard, Thierry Touzet, Stéphan Zientara, Rémi Charrel, Gaëlle Gonzalez, Alexandre Duvignaud, Denis Malvy, Xavier de Lamballerie, Albin Fontaine

“…West Nile Virus (WNV) and Usutu virus (USUV) circulate through complex cryptic transmission cycles involving mosquitoes as vectors, birds as amplifying hosts and several mammal species as dead-end hosts. …”
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Optimization of a Navigation System for Autonomous Charging of Intelligent Vehicles Based on the Bidirectional A* Algorithm and YOLOv11n Model by Shengkun Liao, Lei Zhang, Yunli He, Junhui Zhang, Jinxu Sun

“…The optimized YOLOv11n model achieves state-of-the-art precision (P) and mAP@0.5 compared to YOLOv5, YOLOv8n, and the baseline model, with a minor 0.9% recall (R) deficit compared to YOLOv5 but more balanced overall performance and superior capability for small-object detection. By fusing the two improved modules, the proposed system successfully realizes autonomous charging navigation, providing an efficient solution for energy management in intelligent vehicles in real-world environments.…”
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Adaptively evolved human oral actinomyces‐sourced defensins show therapeutic potential by Shunyi Zhu, Bin Gao, Yoshitaka Umetsu, Steve Peigneur, Ping Li, Shinya Ohki, Jan Tytgat

“…Signatures of natural selection were detected in defensins from the actinomyces colonized in human oral cavity and ruminant rumen and dental plaque, highlighting their role in adaptation to complex multispecies bacterial communities. …”
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Bone scintigraphy based on deep learning model and modified growth optimizer by Omnia Magdy, Mohamed Abd Elaziz, Abdelghani Dahou, Ahmed A. Ewees, Ahmed Elgarayhi, Mohammed Sallah

“…To address the aforementioned issues, this work proposed a machine-learning technique that uses phases to detect Bone scintigraphy. The first phase in the proposed model is the feature extraction and it was conducted based on integrating the Mobile Vision Transformer (MobileViT) model in our framework to capture highly complex representations from raw medical imagery using two primary components including ViT and lightweight CNN featuring a limited number of parameters. …”
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The Optical System Design of a Space-Based Wide-Field Infrared Slitless Spectrometer by Yue Chen, Liang Zhou, Peiquan Chen, Pengkai Dong, Haiyang Zhang, Wenji She

“…With the increasingly complex space environment, the operational safety of spacecraft faces severe challenges, creating an urgent need to develop efficient and reliable space target detection and identification technologies. …”
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Beyond N-Grams: Enhancing String Kernels With Transformer-Guided Semantic Insights by Nazar Zaki, Reem Alderei, Mahra Alketbi, Alia Alkaabi, Fatima Alneyadi, Nadeen Zaki

“…Particularly, the Transformer-Guided N-gram Selection and the Custom Kernel Function consistently outperform baseline models, achieving near-perfect detection accuracy with significantly reduced computational complexity. …”
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Combining metabolomic and transcriptomic approaches to assess and improve crop quality traits by Delphine M. Pott, Sara Durán-Soria, Sonia Osorio, José G. Vallarino

“…In addition, they allow to establish correlation between genotype and metabolite composition, and to clarify the genetic architecture of complex biochemical pathways, such as the accumulation of secondary metabolites in plants, many of them being highly valuable for the human diet. …”
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Finite element analysis and structural optimization design of multifunctional robotic arm for garbage truck by Hainan Li, Yang Li

“…IntroductionWith the increasing demand for garbage disposal, complex operating environments and frequent use require garbage truck manipulators to have better performance.MethodsThis study designs a multifunctional robotic arm for garbage trucks, which has three basic degrees of freedom, is driven by hydraulic cylinders, and has a claw type end effector. …”
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Defect identification of fan blade based on adaptive parameter region growth algorithm by Wang Yifan, Wang Xueyao, Yang Dongmei, Ru Xinqin, Zhang Yuxin

“…Abstract China’s wind power generation is rich in resources and mature technology, but has the problems of harsh power generation environment, high operation and maintenance costs due to complex operating conditions, and serious consequences of failures. …”
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Advanced AI approaches for the modeling and optimization of microgrid energy systems by Mohammed Amine Hoummadi, Badre Bossoufi, Mohammed Karim, Ahmed Althobaiti, Thamer A. H. Alghamdi, Mohammed Alenezi

“…GA, from natural selection, is constantly seeking the best configuration. …”
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Optimized Navigation for SLAM Using Marker-Assisted Region Scanning, Path Finding, and Mapping Completion Control by Luigi Maciel Ribeiro, Nadia Nedjah, Paulo Victor Rodrigues de Carvalho

“…Specifically, it achieves a 64.39% reduction in poses compared to ACO and 71.07% compared to zigzag navigation, highlighting its efficiency in complex environments.…”
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Occlusion Vehicle Target Recognition Method Based on Component Model by Haorui Han, Hanshan Li

“…Based on the U-net codec structure, combining multi-scale detection and double constraints loss to improve the visual region segmentation under complex background (VSRS) performance. …”
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Sensing-Aided Communication Method for Distributed Radar Communication System by Xinren Wang, Sisi Xia, Zhongzheng Ding, Qin Wang, Wenchao Xia, Haitao Zhao

“…Numerical simulation results show that this scheme can achieve excellent performance in complex real-world environments. This work contributes to the development of efficient ISAC solutions and provides insights for future research into 6G technologies.…”
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Towards sustainable architecture: Enhancing green building energy consumption prediction with integrated variational autoencoders and self-attentive gated recurrent units from mult... by Qing Zeng, Fang Peng, Xiaojuan Han

“…The framework incorporates self-attention mechanisms and Multi-Task Learning (MTL) strategies to capture long-term dependencies and complex patterns in energy consumption time series data, while simultaneously optimizing prediction accuracy and anomaly detection. …”
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Cyborg insect factory: automatic assembly for insect-computer hybrid robot via vision-guided robotic arm manipulation of custom bipolar electrodes by Qifeng Lin, Nghia Vuong, Kewei Song, Phuoc Thanh Tran-Ngoc, Greg Angelo Gonzales Nonato, Hirotaka Sato

“…Abstract Insect–computer hybrid robots offer strong potential for navigating complex terrains. This study identified the intersegmental membrane between the pronotum and mesothorax of the Madagascar hissing cockroach as an effective site for electrical stimulation to control direction and speed. …”
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Deep Learning Model for Feature Extraction and Anomaly Recognition in High-Dimensional Energy Metering Data by Huakun Que, Zetao Jiang, Zhifeng Zhou, Yongsheng He, Xin Liu

“…Abnormal energy usage in buildings and industries, often caused by system malfunctions, leads to substantial energy waste. Detecting such anomalies is essential for cost control and efficient energy management. …”
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Two key algorithms for intelligent inspection robots in electric bicycle charging sheds by Yingjian An, Ge Wei

“…Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed MS-RRT* achieves a 100% exploration success rate in narrow channels, outperforming state-of-the-art methods in both efficiency and robustness. The improved SOLOv2 also surpasses Mask R-CNN in multi-category component recognition, ensuring reliable inspection in complex scenarios. …”
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Decoding burn trauma: biomarkers for early diagnosis of burn-induced pathologies by Fadi Khalaf, Daniella Touma, Alexandra Pappas, Lareina Hatim, Stephanie Wojtowicz-Piotrowski, Marc G. Jeschke

“…Abstract Burn injuries represent a significant global challenge due to their multifaceted nature, characterized by a complex cascade of metabolic and immune dysfunction that can result in severe complications. …”
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