Performance Analysis of Flat Plate Solar Collector Networks in Batch Operation Considering Scaling by Hebert G. Lugo-Granados, Lázaro Canizalez-Dávalos, Martín Picón-Núñez

“…The findings indicate that modifying the original structure to a 4Lx2p-5s (4 lines, 5 subsections by line connected in series each one with 2 collectors connected in parallel) arrangement achieves the thermal objective more efficiently, resulting in reduced operating costs, reducing the time to reach the desired temperature in one hour, which results in the increase of the number of batches that can be processed per year from 200 to 216. …”
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One-Pot Strategies for Lithium Recovery from Beta-Spodumene and LTA-Type Zeolite Synthesis by Leonardo Leandro dos Santos, Rubens Maribondo do Nascimento, Sibele Berenice Castellã Pergher

“…Lithium extraction was efficiently performed using sodium salts, accompanied by the recycling of the mother liquor, with lithium content in the supernatant precisely quantified via atomic absorption spectroscopy (AAS). …”
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A topic modeling approach for analyzing and categorizing electronic healthcare documents in Afaan Oromo without label information by Etana Fikadu Dinsa, Mrinal Das, Teklu Urgessa Abebe

“…The tools designed for English do not work efficiently for Afaan Oromo due to the linguistic differences and lack of well-structured resources. …”
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Permeability Effect of Green Roof Drainage Board by Pelin Sertyeşilışık, Tayfun Uygunoğlu

“…Due to the fact that the rain water can be collected and used efficiently via green roof systems the effects of the form of the bottom layer of the extensive green roof on the output flow were investigated using both with and without drainage layer systems in this study. …”
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Rice husk biochar: production and sorption properties by O. Kupriyashkina

“…The purpose of this study is to obtain biochar that can be used efficiently and effectively in the anaerobic digestion process for biogas production and to determine its sorption characteristics. …”
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Ectopic expression of vaccinia virus E3 and K3 cannot rescue ectromelia virus replication in rabbit RK13 cells. by Erin S Hand, Sherry L Haller, Chen Peng, Stefan Rothenburg, Adam R Hersperger

“…In this study, we observed that ectromelia virus (ECTV) does not replicate efficiently in cultured rabbit RK13 cells. Conversely, vaccinia virus (VACV) replicates well in these cells. …”
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Priority-Based Cloud Computing Architecture for Multimedia-Enabled Heterogeneous Vehicular Users by Amjad Ali, Hongwu Liu, Ali Kashif Bashir, Shaker El-Sappagh, Farman Ali, Adeel Baig, Daeyoung Park, Kyung Sup Kwak

“…Thus, multimedia cloud computing (MCC) has emerged as an economical and scalable computing technology that can process multimedia-related data efficiently while providing improved Quality of Service (QoS) to vehicular users from anywhere, at any time and on any device, at reduced costs. …”
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Three-arm polyrotaxanes with multidirectional molecular motions as the nanocarrier for nitric oxide-enhanced photodynamic therapy against bacterial biofilms in septic arthritis by Shixin Liu, Yuanfang Jiang, Yu Zhang, Kai Lv, Jiaxin Zhu, Mei Liu, Hao Xu, Genlong Jiao, Wanyong Yang, Guodong Sun, Dong Ma

“…Beneficial from the enhanced permeability of the nanocarrier due to the collective act on biofilms by the molecular motions (slide and rotation of rings) of three chains in different directions, NO capable of inducing biofilm dispersal and reactive oxygen species were efficiently delivered deep inside biofilms under 660 nm laser irradiation, and reactive nitrogen species with stronger bactericidal ability was produced in-situ, further accomplishing bacteria elimination inside biofilms. …”
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Evaluation of Virtual Power Plant Flexibility Resources Based on External Characteristic Equivalence by Rui ZHU, Yiding OU, Xiaotian LI, Xingyu LEI, Yuqing ZHOU, Poyang ZHANG, Rui OU

“…In order to fully utilize the clean, flexible and economic characteristics of distributed energy(DE), it is needed to efficiently manage its comprehensive and flexible regulation characteristics. …”
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Enabling Parallel Performance and Portability of Solid Mechanics Simulations Across CPU and GPU Architectures by Nathaniel Morgan, Caleb Yenusah, Adrian Diaz, Daniel Dunning, Jacob Moore, Erin Heilman, Evan Lieberman, Steven Walton, Sarah Brown, Daniel Holladay, Russell Marki, Robert Robey, Marko Knezevic

“…Efficiently simulating solid mechanics is vital across various engineering applications. …”
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Visible-infrared person re-identification with region-based augmentation and cross modality attention by Yuwei Guo, Wenhao Zhang, Licheng Jiao, Shuang Wang, Shuo Wang, Fang Liu

“…In this paper, a novel Region-based Augmentation and Cross Modality Attention (RACA) model is proposed, focusing on the pedestrian regions to efficiently compensate for missing modality-specific features. …”
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Removal of hydrocarbons and heavy metals from petroleum water by modern green nanotechnology methods by Abderrhmane Bouafia, Souhaila Meneceur, Souheyla Chami, Salah Eddine Laouini, Henda Daoudi, Souheila Legmairi, Hamdi Ali Mohammed Mohammed, Narimene Aoun, Farid Menaa

“…In order to maintain biodiversity, hydrosphere ecosystems, and people, it is crucial to remove these heavy metals and polluting chemical compounds from the watery environment. In this study, different Nanoparticles (α-Fe2O3, CuO, and ZnO) were synthesized by green synthesis method using Portulaca oleracea leaf extract and characterized by UV–Vis spectrophotometers, FTIR spectroscopy, X-Ray Diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy (EDS) techniques in order to investigate morphology, composition, and crystalline structure of NPs, these were then used as adsorbent for the removal of As(III), Bi(II), Cd(II), Cr(VI), Mn(II), Mo(II), Ni(II), Pb(II), Sb(III), Se(-II), and Zn(II) from wastewater, and removal efficiencies of were obtained 100% under optimal conditions.…”
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Developments and Trends in Water Level Forecasting Using Machine Learning Models—A Review by Abdus Samad Azad, Nahina Islam, Md Nurun Nabi, Hifsa Khurshid, Mohammad Ashraful Siddique

“…Detailed analysis identifies proven model efficiencies, potential challenges, and suggests future research directions. …”
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Recent Development and Clinical Application of Cancer Vaccine: Targeting Neoantigens by Ren-You Pan, Wen-Hung Chung, Mu-Tzu Chu, Shu-Jen Chen, Hua-Chien Chen, Lei Zheng, Shuen-Iu Hung

“…With the rapid development of personalized immunotherapy, it is believed that tumors could be efficiently controlled and become curable in the new era of precision medicine.…”
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Hyperspectral Simultaneous Anomaly Detection and Denoising: Insights From Integrative Perspective by Minghua Wang, Lianru Gao, Longfei Ren, Xian Sun, Jocelyn Chanussot

“…The proposed algorithm is efficiently solved by the well-designed linearized alternating direction method of multipliers with an adaptive penalty. …”
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Development of composite catalyst containing renewable biochar blended with zinc oxide and copper diphenyl amine for visible light photocatalytic degradation of methylene blue by Aroosha Saif, Syeda Itrat Rizvi, Zarneen Shaukat, Mamoona Saif, Sobia Tabassum, Rizwan Khalid, Fahad Javed, Nazih Y. Rebouh, Faiza Hassan, Qamar uz Zaman

“…Photocatalytic performance was assessed by degrading Methylene Blue, a common dye pollutant, under visible light.ResultsThe results showed that while ZnO alone achieved 78% degradation, the composites with different Cu-DPA ratios demonstrated varying efficiencies, with the biochar-enhanced ZnO/Cu-DPA composite achieving the highest degradation rate of 97% in 80 min.DiscussionThis composite exhibited good reusability over seven cycles. …”
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FishAI: Automated hierarchical marine fish image classification with vision transformer by Chenghan Yang, Peng Zhou, Chun‐Sheng Wang, Ge‐Yi Fu, Xue‐Wei Xu, Zhibin Niu, Lin Zhu, Ye Yuan, Hong‐Bin Shen, Xiaoyong Pan

“…Abstract To address the issues of high demand for efficiently recognizing fish species in marine scientific research, such as impact assessments on biodiversity and monitoring, an automated hierarchical image classification web‐based platform, named FishAI, was developed. …”
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O-ring-induced transverse aortic constriction (OTAC) is a new simple method to develop cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure in mice by Yasuhisa Nakao, Jun Aono, Mika Hamaguchi, Kayo Takahashi, Tomohisa Sakaue, Katsuji Inoue, Shuntaro Ikeda, Osamu Yamaguchi

“…We demonstrated the OTAC method, which is a simple and effective cardiac pressure overload method in mice. This method will efficiently help us understand heart failure (HF) mechanisms with reduced LV ejection fraction (HFrEF) and cardiac hypertrophy.…”
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Optimization and validation of a real-time PCR method for the simultaneous detection of Lactococcus garvieae and Streptococcus agalactiae in fish by Taona Zinyakasa, Farisai Chidzwondo, Tatenda Makawa, Sitokozile Sibanda, Exnevia Gomo, Tivapasi Musa, Elizabeth Gori

“…The detection limit for L. garvieae was at dilution factor 10-3, with a mean CT value of 25.0, for S. agalactiae, 10-4 with a mean CT value of 29.8. The PCR efficiencies were 97% for L. garvieae and 91% for S. agalactiae, with linear slopes (R2 = 0.999). …”
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Broadband 1 × 3 Couplers With Variable Splitting Ratio Using Cascaded Step-Size MMI by Ye Tian, Jifang Qiu, Mingbin Yu, Zhuili Huang, Yingying Qiao, Zhenli Dong, Jian Wu

“…The coupler consists of two cascaded MMI with different sizes, and a wide range of splitting ratios from 1:0.1:1 to 1:18:1 can be achieved by modifying the size of the first-step MMI. …”
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