Phytoremediation and Environmental Law: Harnessing Biomass and Microbes to Restore Soils and Advance Biofuel Innovation by Aneta Kowalska, Robert Biczak

“…As assumed in the Green Deal, the European economy has to be turned into a resource-efficient and green economy with zero net emission of greenhouse gases. …”
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A avaliação da lei complementar n° 233/2005 em relação a exploração sustentável das florestas em Mato Grosso: sua eficácia nas políticas ambientais no Brasil by Alessandra Maria Filippin dos Passos Santos, Aumeri Carlos Bampi, Wylmor Constantino Tives Dalfovo

“…Thus, it was understood that the complementary law alone is not able to act efficiently in relation to the protection of flora and the promotion of sustainable activities, requiring an alignment between the agents, the State and the competent bodies, evidencing that the factors associated with deforestation in these municipalities are complex and are not related only to the timber sector.…”
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Investigation into forces on offshore piles with constant and linearly varying diameters using CFD and extended Morison equation under separate wave and current loadings by Kemal Bal, Deniz Bayraktar Bural

“…The classical Morison equation is evaluated alongside an extended version to address limitations in predicting forces on geometrically complex structures. Mesh convergence studies are performed to select the optimum grid size for separate wave and current simulations. …”
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A avaliação da lei complementar nº 233/2005 em relação a exploração sustentável das florestas em Mato Grosso: sua eficácia nas políticas ambientais no brasil by Alessandra Maria Filippin dos Passos Santos, Aumeri Carlos Bampi, Wylmor Constantino Tives Dalfovo

“…Thus, it was understood that the complementary law alone is not able to act efficiently in relation to the protection of flora and the promotion of sustainable activities, requiring an alignment between the agents, the State and the competent bodies, evidencing that the factors associated with deforestation in these municipalities are complex and are not related only to the timber sector.…”
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Design and Validation of a Simplified Method to Determine Minimum Bactericidal Concentration in Nontuberculous Mycobacteria by Sara Batista, Mariana Fernández-Pittol, Lorena San Nicolás, Diego Martínez, Sofía Narváez, Mateu Espasa, Elena Garcia Losilla, Marc Rubio, Montserrat Garrigo, Griselda Tudó, Julian González-Martin

“…MBC values provide useful additional information regarding MIC values since the MBC/MIC ratio reveals whether antibiotics have bactericidal or bacteriostatic activity according to the species, which is pivotal for selecting the most adequate antibiotic combination to ensure efficient treatment management.…”
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Optofluidic sorting of microparticles using Airy beams by Zhelin Qu, Kunpeng Wang, Chao Feng, Tianli Wu, Yao Zhang, Xian Zhao, Jun-Lei Wang

“…We also demonstrate more complex operations involving wavefront modulation and microfluidic devices. …”
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Influence of Tire Parameters on Contact Patch and Axle Force Generation against Short Obstacles Using DOE Approach by Vikas Birajdar, Seyed Jamaleddin Mostafavi Yazdi, Madhu Kandampadath, Mohammad Behroozi, Javad Baqersad

“…DOE findings suggest optimization strategies for selecting tire parameters to achieve a high test-to-simulation correlation with improved computational efficiency. …”
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Deep reinforcement learning-based mechanism to improve the throughput of EH-WSNs by Zahra Hasani, Maryam Mahdavimoghadam, Razieh Mohammadi, Zahra Shirmohammadi, Amirhossein Nikoofard, Eesa Nikahd, Kasra Davoodi

“…This discretization simplifies the representation of energy states and reduces complexity, making it easier to design and implement. …”
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Unraveling the Reshaping of Human Resource Management Function: the mediating role of artificial intelligence by Samuel Bangura, Anos Chitamba Chitamba, Lucia Zithobile Ngidi, Sizwe Mbona

“… The dynamic nature of the modern work environment is characterized by increasing complexity, diversity, and adaptability beyond traditional workplaces. …”
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Comparison of Different Methods (Digestion, Combustion, Gasification and Pyrolysis) for Sludge Energy Recovery: A Case Study for Ekbatan’s Municipal Treatment Plant by A. Hemmati, T. Abedzadegan

“…Different methods of urban sewage sludge energy recovery such as burning, gasification, pyrolysis and digestion based on the net energy production efficiency, advantages and disadvantages and complexity of these processes have been investigated in this article. …”
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Research progress on additive manufacturing technology in diamond tool preparation by WEI Yingkang, LI Jiaxu, WANG Yan, WANG Jianyong, ZHANG Liangliang, WU Xiwang, LIU Shifeng

“…Compared to the traditional manufacturing technology, the additive manufacturing can fundamentally solve the problems of innovative design and efficient fabrication for the complex structural components, which is known as a potential effective method for the preparation of high-performance diamond tools. …”
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Multi-material 3D printed smart floor tiles with triboelectric energy generation and security monitoring by Shidhin Mappoli, Kalyan Ghosh, Martin Pumera

“…Nylon 6 and carbon/polyvinylidene fluoride (C/PVDF) filaments are selected for positive and negative triboelectric layers, respectively and conductive carbon/polylactic acid (C/PLA) filament was selected for both current collectors and wood/PLA is selected for both top and bottom supporting layers. …”
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An Improved Strategy for Torque Ripple Reduction of Dual Three-Phase Brushless DC Motor Fed by Two Diode-Clamped, Three-Level Inverters Using Model Predictive Control by Zahra Emami, Abolfazl Halvaei Niasar

“…It has important challenges such as high torque ripple, low efficiency, vibrations, and noise that are undesirable for high power applications such as submarines. …”
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Current State of Logistics Development and Its Role in the China’s Regional Economy by Xiaomei Sun, Amangeldi Zhumadilov, Madina Myrzalieva, Avaz Kazakov, Aigerim Akmatova

“…For this, the study also considered selected statistical data that can characterize this area. …”
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Early Prediction of Remaining Useful Life for Lithium-Ion Batteries with the State Space Model by Yuqi Liang, Shuai Zhao

“…Subsequently, the top three highest correlated features are selected, and only the first 300 cycling data are used for training. …”
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Weed detection in cornfields based on improved lightweight neural network model by Haicheng Wan, Shanping Wang

“…By improving the original YOLOv4 model structure, the complexity of the original YOLOv4 model is simplified. …”
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RETRACTED: Intelligent power grid energy supply forecasting and economic operation management using the snake optimizer algorithm with Bigur-attention model by Lingling Cui, Jiacheng Liao

“…This paper investigates smart grid energy supply forecasting and economic operation management, with a focus on building an efficient energy supply prediction model. Four datasets were selected for training, and a Snake Optimizer (SO) algorithm-optimized Bigru-Attention model was proposed to construct a comprehensive and efficient prediction model, aiming to enhance the reliability, sustainability, and cost-effectiveness of the power system. …”
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Fast simulation of the influence of a refractive free-form microstructure on a wave field based on scalar diffraction theory by Thiemicke Fabian, El-Bashar Ramy, Hameed Mohamed F.M., Agour Mostafa, Obayya Salah S.A., Bergmann Ralf B., Falldorf Claas

“…The main advantage of this method is its reduced complexity, which leads to a remarkable reduction in computation time by more than two orders of magnitude compared to finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) methods. …”
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PyMem: A Graphical User Interface Tool for Neuromemristive Hardware–Software Co-Design by Aswani Radhakrishnan, Jushnah Palliyalil, Sreeja Babu, Anuar Dorzhigulov, Alex James

“…However, to build complex neural systems, it is a tedious process to select the right memristor models and architectures that are suitable to be used in a range of realistic conditions. …”
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CO2-promoted photocatalytic aryl migration from nitrogen to carbon for switchable transformation of N-arylpropiolamides by Ge Liu, Denghui Ma, Jianchen Zhang, Fanyuanhang Yang, Yuzhen Gao, Weiping Su

“…As a result, this protocol features with a broad substrate scope, as demonstrated by more than 90 examples including complex bioactive compounds. Notably, abundant, nontoxic and low-cost CO2 acted as an essential and irreplaceable additive to enable the tetra- and tri-substituted alkenyl amides to be synthesized with excellent selectivity.…”
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