Towards Integrated Design Tools for Water–Energy Nexus Solutions: Simulation of Advanced AWG Systems at Building Scale by Lucia Cattani, Roberto Figoni, Paolo Cattani, Anna Magrini

“…This study contributes to fill such a research gap by building upon an authors’ previous work and proposing an enhanced methodology. …”
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An Intelligent Natural Language Processing (NLP) Workflow for Automated Smart Building Design by Ebere Donatus Okonta, Francis Ogochukwu Okeke, Emeka Ebuz Mgbemena, Rosemary Chidimma Nnaemeka-Okeke, Shuang Guo, Foluso Charles Awe, Chinedu Eke

“…The automation of smart building design processes remains a significant challenge, particularly in translating complex natural language requirements into structured design parameters within Computer-Aided Design (CAD) environments. …”
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It tastes sweeter when melted: Exploring the impact of food temperature on tongue temperature and perceived sweetness/vanilla by Hannah McNeill, Rebecca Ford, Ian Fisk, Margaret Thibodeau, Gloria Liu, Marion Doyennette, Qian Yang

“…The relationship between perceived sweetness intensity and temperature of food is complex. Previous research on the effect of temperature on sweetness perception primarily focused on single solutions. …”
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The Soviet Factor in the US-China Military-Technical Cooperation during the Cold War by Yinan Li

“…This paper is intended to partially fill this gap. The author examines the logic of the military-technical cooperation between the PRC and the United States in the context of complex interactions within the United States — the USSR — China strategic triangle in the last years of the Cold War. …”
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The Determinants of the Expansion of the Exchange Rate on The Black Market in The Maghreb by Said El Bouazizi

“…Since the early 1990s, after the institutional changes in the market economy, a black currency exchange has taken a significant turn, which was accompanied by a large gap between the black market and official currency exchange. …”
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Spatiotemporal characteristics and interactive effect between ecology and economy in forest ecological protection area: conflict or coordination? by Yilin Zhang, Xiangli Wu, Zhixuan Xue, Xi Wang

“…More significantly, there is a gap in the link between the ecology and economy in small-scale, county-level areas under the intervention of government policies. …”
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Fostering resilient recovery: An intervention for disaster-affected teachers in Indonesia by Elinor Parrott, Martha Lomeli-Rodriguez, Alfi Rahman, Yulia Direzkia, Andrea Bernardino, Rochelle Burgess, Helene Joffe

“…This study addresses this gap by detailing an intervention designed to foster resilient recovery among secondary school teachers in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, to enhance their ability to support both themselves and their students after a devastating earthquake/tsunami.Teachers (n = 37) from three disaster-affected schools participated in a one-day workshop exploring collective strengths and strategies to develop their own and their students’ post-disaster resilience, featuring the Tree of Life activity. …”
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A Residual Physics-Informed Neural Network Approach for Identifying Dynamic Parameters in Swing Equation-Based Power Systems by Jiani Zeng, Xianglong Li, Hanqi Dai, Lu Zhang, Weixian Wang, Zihan Zhang, Shengxin Kong, Liwen Xu

“…These results show the potential of Res-PINN to bridge the gap between physics-guided learning and practical power system modeling and parameter identification.…”
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Multi-scale drought variability over West Africa and the associated large-scale circulation patterns by Akinwale T. Ogunrinde, Paul Adigun, Xue Xian, Haipeng Yu, Dairaku Koji, Adeyemi Adebiyi, Ahmad A. Sabo

“…This study addresses the critical research gap in understanding regional drought dynamics in West Africa (WA) using advanced multivariate wavelet coherence (MWC) techniques, revealing critical insights into the complex interplay between large-scale climate indices and regional drought patterns. …”
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A tutorial on ‘capped utilisation’ as a metric and key performance target in NHS England’s Model Hospital operating theatres database: caution for international healthcare systems... by Chen Zhang, Claire Dunstan, Jaideep J. Pandit

“…We present results of a theoretical sensitivity analysis to assess how CTU values vary for hypothetical operating lists of three different structures (number of cases, their duration, and intercase gap times), as the stated start and finish times are shifted backwards and forwards in time. …”
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Wide‐Field Bond Quality Evaluation Using Frequency Domain Thermoreflectance with Deep Neural Network Feature Reconstruction by Amun Jarzembski, Siddharth Nair, Wyatt Hodges, Matthew Jordan, Anthony McDonald, Logan Antiporda, Greg W. Pickrell, Timothy Walsh, Fabio Semperlotti, Jason Neely, Luke Yates

“…Wide‐field analysis of bonded versus gap regions is enabled by deep neural network feature reconstruction, that after training, rapidly provides an interpretable representation of bond quality. …”
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Transformer-Based Motion Predictor for Multi-Dancer Tracking in Non-Linear Movements of Dancesport Performance by Zhiling Wang

“…Traditional Multi-Object Tracking (MOT) frameworks predominantly rely on appearance-based features and Kalman Filter-based motion models, which struggle with complex, non-linear motion patterns exhibited in dance performances. …”
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Transcription factors bind thousands of active and inactive regions in the Drosophila blastoderm. by Xiao-yong Li, Stewart MacArthur, Richard Bourgon, David Nix, Daniel A Pollard, Venky N Iyer, Aaron Hechmer, Lisa Simirenko, Mark Stapleton, Cris L Luengo Hendriks, Hou Cheng Chu, Nobuo Ogawa, William Inwood, Victor Sementchenko, Amy Beaton, Richard Weiszmann, Susan E Celniker, David W Knowles, Tom Gingeras, Terence P Speed, Michael B Eisen, Mark D Biggin

“…Identifying the genomic regions bound by sequence-specific regulatory factors is central both to deciphering the complex DNA cis-regulatory code that controls transcription in metazoans and to determining the range of genes that shape animal morphogenesis. …”
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Sustainable Energy Development and Agriculture in European Union Member States—Territorial Differentiation and Interrelationships by Joanna Wyrwa, Anetta Barska, Janina Jędrzejczak-Gas

“…The assessment of sustainability is a complex process since it is a multidisciplinary field of study with practical implications. …”
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Levels of engagement in participatory health systems strengthening: A systematic literature review by Jesse David Marinus, Chaïm la Roi, Christiaan Boerma

“…Engaging participants in Health Systems Strengthening (HSS) facilitates a more person-centred approach that better addresses the complex interplay within health systems and helps to bridge the gap between knowledge and practical application. …”
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A Scalable Data-Driven Surrogate Model for 3D Dynamic Wind Farm Wake Prediction Using Physics-Inspired Neural Networks and Wind Box Decomposition by Qiuyu Lu, Yuqi Cao, Pingping Xie, Ying Chen, Yingming Lin

“…This paper proposes a novel data-driven surrogate modeling framework to bridge this gap, leveraging Neural Networks (NNs) trained on data from the high-fidelity SOWFA (simulator for wind farm applications) tool. …”
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First principles investigation of the structural, anisotropic mechanical, optical, thermodynamic, and thermoelectric properties of MF2 (M = Ca, Sr, Ba, Pb) fluorite minerals using... by V.A. Dabhi, H.S. Patel, A.M. Vora

“…The electronic band structures reveal wide indirect band gaps, classifying these materials as high band gap semiconductors. …”
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Application of CIBERSORTx and BayesPrism to deconvolution of bulk RNA-seq data from human myocardium and skeletal muscle by Marcella Conning-Rowland, Chew W. Cheng, Oliver Brown, Marilena Giannoudi, Eylem Levelt, Lee D. Roberts, Kathryn J. Griffin, Richard M. Cubbon

“…Technological advances mean this can be performed at the single-cell level, but the large sample sizes needed in clinical studies are currently prohibitively expensive and complex. Deconvolution of bulk RNA-seq offers an opportunity to bridge this gap by defining the cell lineage composition of samples. …”
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Analytical solution for temperature distribution of plates with convective boundaries under welding by Eduardo Vitor Meirelles, Marcelo Igor Lourenço, Jean-David Caprace

“…This development bridges the gap between simplified theoretical models and practical industrial applications in welding simulations. …”
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Leveraging advanced feature extraction for improved kidney biopsy segmentation by Muhammad Wajeeh Us Sima, Chengliang Wang, Muhammad Arshad, Jamshed Ali Shaikh, Salem Alkhalaf, Fahad Alturise

“…V-SAM sets a new paradigm for adapting foundation models to clinical workflows, with direct applications in chronic kidney disease diagnosis and biomarker discovery. This work bridges the gap between SAM's generalizability and the precision demands of medical imaging, offering a scalable solution for resource constrained healthcare environments.…”
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