Analysis of diclofenac in water samples using in situ derivatization-vortex-assisted liquid-liquid microextraction with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry by Aydin Senar, Aydin Mehmet Emin, Beduk Fatma, Tekinay Arzu, Kilic Havva

“…A novel micro-extraction technique for a rapid and sensitive analysis of diclofenac (DCF) in water samples has been developed. DCF was derivatized and extracted simultaneously using vortex-assisted liquid-liquid micro-extraction (VALLME) prior to gas chromatography with mass spectrometry detection. …”
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Compact Unidirectional Laser Based on All-Dielectric Metasurface With High Quality Factor by Ke Xu, Ming Fang, Zhixiang Huang

“…Our observations offer enormous potential in controlling light emission and provides an essential step for developing efficiency and directionality LEDs, and ultra-compact lasers.…”
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Analysis of 3 kW Solar Power Plant Production Optimization by Improving Energy Production Efficiency Using 3d Pvsyst Simulation Method by Teguh Mohammad Fiqri, Redi Ratiandi Yacoub, Rudi Kurnianto, Rusman Rusman, Hasan Hasan

“…This study concludes that optimizing the position of solar panels is an effective step to enhance the performance of PLTS systems. …”
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Design and implementation of an ultra-high gain, soft-switching, bidirectional dc-dc converter with high efficiency by Mahdi Madadi, Mostafa Jazaeri, Hamed Molla-Ahmadian

“…In order to verify the proposed topology and also evaluate the performance and reliability of the design, a 300 W laboratory prototype is developed. The behavior of the open-loop control system in step-up mode is comprehensively analyzed and the results are presented.…”
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Affinity Coefficient for Clustering Autoregressive Moving Average Models by Ana Paula Nascimento, Alexandra Oliveira, Brígida Mónica Faria, Rui Pimenta, Mónica Vieira, Cristina Prudêncio, Helena Bacelar-Nicolau

“…In various fields, such as economics, finance, bioinformatics, geology, and medicine, namely, in the cases of electroencephalogram, electrocardiogram, and biotechnology, cluster analysis of time series is necessary. The first step in cluster applications is to establish a similarity/dissimilarity coefficient between time series. …”
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Aerodynamic Performance of Propellers for Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Measurement, Analysis, and Experiment by Hang Zhu, Zihao Jiang, Hang Zhao, Siyu Pei, Hongze Li, Yubin Lan

“…Data-processing software is also developed to draw curves and perform single-step calculations of three propellers’ parameters: airfoil resistance power, induced velocity, and efficiency. …”
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Physiological role and mechanisms of action for a long noncoding haplotype region by Hong Xue, Manoj K. Mishra, Yong Liu, Pengyuan Liu, Michael Grzybowski, Rajan Pandey, Kristie Usa, Mark A. Vanden Avond, Niharika Bala, Abdel A. Alli, Allen W. Cowley, Jr., Qiongzi Qiu, Andrew S. Greene, Sridhar Rao, Caitlin C. O'Meara, Aron M. Geurts, Mingyu Liang

“…However, such investigation has been impractical for many of these variants as they are in haplotypes containing multiple single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) spanning thousands of base pairs and have small effect sizes. We developed an integrated approach to address this challenge, combining an efficient two-step technique to precisely edit large haplotypes in human induced pluripotent stem cells and orthologous region deletion in phenotypically permissive animal models. …”
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Enhancing Multi–Class Prediction of Skin Lesions with Feature Importance Assessment by Paulauskaite-Taraseviciene Agne, Sutiene Kristina, Dimsa Nojus, Valiukeviciene Skaidra

“…Numerous image processing techniques have been developed for the identification of various types of skin lesions. …”
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Decoupled, wearable soft robotic rehabilitation device for the upper limb by James Greig, Mhairi McInnes, Edward K. Chadwick, Maria Elena Giannaccini

“…Used at home or in a rehabilitation setting, these devices have the potential to reduce compound pressures on hospitals and social care systems. Despite recent developments in soft wearable robots, many of these devices restrict the range of motion and lack quantitative assessment of moment transfer to the wearer. …”
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Introducing β-Ti ductile-zones for enhancing both strength and ductility in heterostructured titanium alloy composites by Xiaoqi Mao, Lianwen Wang, Guodong Sun, Xuezhe Zhang, Yongqing Fu, Longlong Dong

“…Breaking trade-off barriers of strength-ductility in Ti alloys and their composites has been a key challenge for their engineering applications. Herein, we developed a new strategy of introducing β-Ti ductile zones in heterostructured (Cu@CNTs/TC4)+TC18 composites, which were synthesized using two-stepped ball milling, spark plasma sintering and hot rolling processes. …”
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A Feature Selection Method by using Chaotic Cuckoo Search Optimization Algorithm with Elitist Preservation and Uniform Mutation for Data Classification by Le Wang, Yuelin Gao, Jiahang Li, Xiaofeng Wang

“…Feature selection is an essential step in the preprocessing of data in pattern recognition and data mining. …”
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PEM water electrolyzer modeling: Issues and reflections by Abdelkrim Benmehel, Salaheddine Chabab, Arthur Lucas Do Nascimento Rocha, Michael Chepy, Tarik Kousksou

“…Nowadays, water electrolysis is widely recognized as a crucial step in the transition towards a hydrogen-based economy. …”
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Asymptomatic elevation of serum aminotransferase activity: stages of diagnostic search by Yu. A. Tereshchenko, S. Yu. Tereshchenko

“…According to epidemiologic data, 10–20% of adult population of the developed countries has increased activity of aminotransferases. …”
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From Pixels to Diagnosis: Implementing and Evaluating a CNN Model for Tomato Leaf Disease Detection by Zamir Osmenaj, Evgenia-Maria Tseliki, Sofia H. Kapellaki, George Tselikis, Nikolaos D. Tselikas

“…The paper explores the application of machine learning (ML) technologies to develop a model capable of identifying and classifying diseases in tomato leaves. …”
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The relationship between educational attainment, lifestyle, self-rated health, and depressive symptoms among Chinese adults: a longitudinal survey from 2012 to 2020 by Xinyan Xiong, Rita Xiaochen Hu, Wenyuan Ning

“…These findings reveal health interventions to develop education further and improve its quality.…”
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Ribosome biogenesis: A central player in liver diseases by Wei Luo, Jing Zhou, Yongmin Yan, Xuezhong Xu

“…Ribosome biogenesis is a multi-step process that initiates within the nucleolus, terminates in the cytoplasm, and determines the rate of protein synthesis. …”
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Wireless Network Topology Inference: A Markov Chains Approach by James Martin, Tristan Pryer, Luca Zanetti

“…We develop a consistent estimator that approximates the transition matrix of the chain in the operator norm, with the number of required samples scaling roughly linearly with the size of the state space. …”
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Numerical Solution of the Nonlinear Convection–Diffusion Equation Using the Fifth Order Iterative Method by Newton–Jarratt by Santiago Quinga, Wilson Pavon, Nury Ortiz, Héctor Calvopiña, Gandhy Yépez, Milton Quinga

“…A MATLAB script function was developed to implement the approach in two stages: first, discretizing the equation using the Crank–Nicolson Method, and second, solving the resulting nonlinear systems using Newton’s iterative method enhanced by a three-step Jarratt variant. …”
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Assessment of the quality of study of sorghum sowing rates in the south of Kazakhstan by Murzabaev Bolat, Kantureyeva Gulzhan, Batyr Eleonora, Turebayeva Sagadat, Issayeva Saida

“…The simultaneous application of diammonium phosphate and the planting of the seed is a requisite step. It is imperative that the 2,4-D herbicide is applied immediately following the sowing process, specifically when the sorghum plant has developed between three and six leaves. …”
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Recent challenges and scope in tandem cells for unassisted overall water splitting by Himanshi Goel, Riya Nagpal, Kumar Rakesh Ranjan, Vivek Mishra

“…Herein, we briefly summarize the recent developments in solar to hydrogen conversion technology utilizing different mechanisms over the period including metal oxide, nitrides, monolithic configuration, photo-catalysts, electro-catalysts, surface modulation layers and low quantum yield.…”
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