Experimental and computational evaluation of chitosan-Mg2+ augmentation with antibiotics against multi-drug resistant clinical isolates by Rutuja Gumathannavar, Tanu Dixit, Mandar Shirolkar, Laxman Tatikondewar, Anjali Kshirsagar, Neelesh Kumbhojkar, Satish Tongaonkar, Atul Kulkarni, Santosh Koratkar

“…The synthesized CS-Mg NC efficiently enhances the synergistic effect of nanocomposites and antibiotics against MDR clinical isolates.…”
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Integer linear programming for unsupervised training set selection in molecular machine learning by Matthieu Haeberle, Puck van Gerwen, Ruben Laplaza, Ksenia R Briling, Jan Weinreich, Friedrich Eisenbrand, Clémence Corminboeuf

“…We argue that the reason for the improved performance is due to the selection that is based on the notion of local similarity (i.e. per-atom) and a unique ILP approach that finds optimal solutions efficiently. Altogether, this work provides a practical algorithm to improve the performance of physics-inspired ML models and offers insights into the conceptual differences with existing training set selection approaches.…”
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Enantioselective construction of silicon-stereogenic vinylsilanes from simple alkenes by Kailin Yin, Jinyu Zhang, Deng Pan, Shu-Han Chen, Song Chen, Yufeng Shi, Genping Huang, Dongbing Zhao

“…The significance of this transformation lies in its ability to achieve regioconvergent and enantioconvergent conversion, efficiently transforming petroleum-derived isomeric mixtures of olefin feedstocks into a single regio- and stereoisomer product. …”
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Joint Optimization of Wireless Charging Station Location and Operation Scheduling for Electric Buses Under Uncertain Demand by Jiacheng Li, Masato Noto, Yang Zhang, Jia Guo

“…An adaptive genetic algorithm (AGA) is developed to solve the model efficiently. A case study based on a real-world bus route in China demonstrates that the proposed strategy not only improves system performance but also yields tangible benefits—reducing the required number of electric buses by 29.4%, shortening departure intervals by 12.5%, and lowering daily operational costs by 10.5%.…”
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Quick-MIMIC: A Multimodal Data Extraction Pipeline for MIMIC with Parallelization by Yutao Dou, Wei Li, Yangtao Zheng, Xiaojun Yao, Huanxiang Liu, Albert Y. Zomaya, Shaoliang Peng

“…The extensive experimental results show that our pipeline can efficiently extract the needed data from the MIMIC dataset and convert it into the correct format for further analytic tasks.…”
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Religiousness and Cultural Competences among Nurses in the Context of Social Changes by Jadwiga Małgorzata Bąk, Barbara Niedorys, Agnieszka Chrzan-Rodak, Krzysztof Jurek, Danuta Zarzycka, Barbara Ślusarka

“…It has been observed that the bigger the efficients of External Religion Orientation and Seeking Religion Orientation, the higher the levels of cultural competences. …”
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Simultaneous multi-objective optimization method for trading indicators by Nhat M. Nguyen, Minh Tran

“…Our findings prove that the multi-objective Particle Swarm Optimization method efficiently balances the complexity to combine various technical indicators in a way that keeps the logic of the strategy simple. …”
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General Local Reactive Boundary Condition for Dissolution and Precipitation Using the Lattice Boltzmann Method by J. Weinmiller, M. P. Lautenschlaeger, B. Kellers, T. Danner, A. Latz

“…Overall, the novel RBC accurately models first‐order reactions, is applicable for complex geometries, and allows efficiently simulating dissolution and precipitation phenomena in fluids at the pore scale.…”
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Cosmo Hunters - a card game for middle-school (K12) Astronomy Education by Rachele Toniolo, Giannandrea Inchingolo, Alessandra Zanazzi, Silvia Casu

“…We also noticed that it enhances more efficiently the interest in the scientific aspects embedded in its game mechanics, i.e., the existence of different frequencies of the electromagnetic spectrum and the multi-frequencies observations used in astronomical research. …”
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A wireless sensor data-based coal mine gas monitoring algorithm with least squares support vector machines optimized by swarm intelligence techniques by Peng Chen, Yonghong Xie, Pei Jin, Dezheng Zhang

“…In order to assess the risks arisen from gas explosion or gas poisoning, wireless sensor data should be processed and classified efficiently. Due to the fact that the “negative samples” of coal mine safety data are scarce, least squares support vector machine is introduced to deal with this problem. …”
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Innovative ZnO-W18O49 nanocomposites and ZnWO4 nanostructures for water treatment by Maryam Aliannezhadi, Farnaz Doost Mohamadi, Mohaddeseh Jamali, Fatemeh Shariatmadar Tehrani

“…Interestingly, 10 mg of ZW0.05 nanocomposite demonstrates the excellent deterioration of MB with efficiencies of 99% and 91% within 170 min in the neutral and acidic solutions, respectively. …”
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Binary Mixtures of Nonyl Phenol with Alkyl Substituted Anilines as Corrosion Inhibitors for Mild Steel in Acidic Medium by H. S. Shukla, N. Haldar, G. Udaybhanu

“…Corrosion inhibition ability of the compounds has been tested at different exposure periods (6 h to 24 h) and at different temperatures (303 K to 333 K). …”
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Strange features are no better than no features: predator recognition by untrained birds by Ondřej Fišer, Irena Strnadová, Petr Veselý, Michaela Syrová, Michal Němec, Barbora Kamišová, Josef Šalom, Roman Fuchs

“…The question, though, still remains of whether exchanging predator key features with those of nonpredatory species or, alternatively, completely removing them, have different or equal impact on recognition. Here we tested to ascertain whether the presence of the “incorrect key features” of a harmless pigeon (Columba livia) placed on a common kestrel (Falco tinnunculus) body impairs predator recognition more efficiently than the absence of any key features. …”
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Development and Characterization of PEGylated Chromatographic Monoliths as a Novel Platform for the Separation of PEGylated RNase a Isomers by Calef Sánchez-Trasviña, Marco Rito-Palomares, José González-Valdez

“…This technology, based on PEGylated monoliths, represents a new methodology to efficiently separate proteins and PEGylated proteins. …”
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Overlapping community-based fair influence maximization under a multi-transformation optimization algorithm by Chunfeng Jiang, Zegang Niu, Jingru Qu, Yulan Zhao, Amin Rezaeipanah

“…The algorithm adapts to different transformations without the need for manual selection, allowing it to efficiently explore the solution space. …”
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Biochemical properties of ectoine hydroxylases from extremophiles and their wider taxonomic distribution among microorganisms. by Nils Widderich, Astrid Höppner, Marco Pittelkow, Johann Heider, Sander H J Smits, Erhard Bremer

“…This comprehensive in silico analysis was coupled with the biochemical characterization of ectoine hydroxylases from microorganisms that can colonize habitats with extremes in salinity (Halomonas elongata), pH (Alkalilimnicola ehrlichii, Acidiphilium cryptum), or temperature (Sphingopyxis alaskensis, Paenibacillus lautus) or that produce hydroxyectoine very efficiently over ectoine (Pseudomonas stutzeri). These six ectoine hydroxylases all possess similar kinetic parameters for their substrates but exhibit different temperature stabilities and differ in their tolerance to salts. …”
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Seismic first break picking based on multi-task learning by Zhongpo Zhang, Jing Yang

“…During the training process, we use different loss functions for different decoding branches, and guide the network fitting through joint loss. …”
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Morphological Changes in the Aortic Wall after Blood Loss (An experimental Study) by A. A. Slavnov, V. T. Dolgikh

“…The found morphometric characteristics of different aortic segments should be considered as the basis for longlasting adaptation, which can supply blood to the vital organs as efficiently as possible in late recovery periods.…”
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Coupling circuit design for Single-Wire Earth Return PLC applications through cascaded s-parameters optimization by Kristi Beqirllari, Cagil Ozansoy, Douglas Gomes

“…This technique can be easily and time efficiently applied in various applications and for testing different coupler configurations.…”
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Modification and Application of Natural Clinoptilolite and Mordenite from Almaty Region for Drinking Water Purification by Mudasir Zahid, Yerlan Doszhanov, Karina Saurykova, Noorahmad Ahmadi, Didar Bolatova, Meruyert Kurmanbayeva, Akbope Aydarbek, Rahmuddin Ihsas, Makpal Seitzhanova, Dana Akhmetzhanova, Almagul Kerimkulova, Ospan Doszhanov

“…The clinoptilolite post-modification removal efficiencies reached 94%, 86%, and 84%, respectively, while mordenite zeolites achieved 95%, 90%, and 87% removal efficiencies, respectively. …”
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