Types of shale lithofacies assemblage and its significance for shale oil exploration: A case study of Shahejie Formation in Boxing Sag by LIN Zhongkai,ZHANG Shaolong,LI Chuanhua,WANG Min,YAN Jianping,CAI Jingong,GENG Bin,HU Qinhong

“…In order to realize the efficient development of lacustrine organic-rich shale oil reservoir in the lower sub-member of the third member of the Eocene Shahejie Formation and the upper sub-member of the fourth member of the Eocene Shahejie Formation in the Boxing Sag, Dongying depression, the geological data, such as thin sections, X-ray diffraction and the content of major and trace elements are analyzed. …”
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Demand starter data kit: Selected socio-economic and technical energy system demand modelling data for all 47 counties in KenyaZenodo by Neve Fields, Ariane Millot, Martin Mutembei, Anne Nganga, Pietro Lubello, Leonhard Hofbauer, Mark Howells, Ed Brown

“…The need for data-driven models to inform energy planning and policy making is increasingly important as Kenya looks to transform its energy system to be clean, efficient, diverse and secure. Modelling softwares can be used by policy makers to assess the impacts of different scenarios on energy systems to support planning and decision making. …”
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A Novel Validated Method to Determine the Relationship Between Insulation Thickness and the Annual Cooling Cost in Desert Climates by Mohamed A. Makawi, Wahhaj Ahmed, Habibelrahman Sherif Kenawy, Ahmed Abd El Fattah

“…Energy-efficient building envelope design is essential for minimizing cooling loads and reducing energy consumption, particularly in hot desert climates. …”
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D-SPDH: Improving 3D Robot Pose Estimation in Sim2Real Scenario via Depth Data by Alessandro Simoni, Guido Borghi, Lorenzo Garattoni, Gianpiero Francesca, Roberto Vezzani

“…In recent years, there has been a notable surge in the significance attributed to technologies facilitating secure and efficient cohabitation and collaboration between humans and machines, with a particular interest in robotic systems. …”
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Role of <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i> Fcy Proteins and Their Homologs in the Catabolism of Modified Heterocyclic Pyrimidine Bases by Jaunius Urbonavičius, Iglė Vepštaitė-Monstavičė, Juliana Lukša-Žebelovič, Elena Servienė, Daiva Tauraitė

“…We found that tested permeases differently affect the growth of yeast that is dependent on the heterocyclic pyrimidine bases used as a source of uracil. …”
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Learning to Cycle: Body Composition and Balance Challenges in Balance Bikes Versus Training Wheels by Cristiana Mercê, David Catela, Rita Cordovil, Mafalda Bernardino, Marco Branco

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> BB are recommended, especially for overweight and obese children, as they help develop balance from the onset, and showed to be more efficient in learning to cycle than the BTW.…”
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UEF-HOCUrdu: Unified Embeddings Ensemble Framework for Hate and Offensive Text Classification in Urdu by Kifayat Ullah, Muhammad Aslam, Muhammad Usman Ghani Khan, Faten S. Alamri, Amjad Rehman Khan

“…For this purpose, an extensive comparison of different learning algorithms were conducted. As a result, the most efficient models, namely FastText, XLM-RoBERTa, ULMFiT, and XGBoost were incorporated in the proposed ensemble approach to achieve the best results in both classification and mitigation of NLP issues. …”
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Temperature- and pH-Responsive Poly(NIPAM-<i>co</i>-HEMA-<i>co</i>-AAm) Nanogel as a Smart Vehicle for Doxorubicin Delivery; Combating Colorectal Cancer by Soheila Ghasemi, Mehdi Najafi, Mohammad Doroudian, Banafsheh Rastegari, Abbas Behzad-Behbahani, Hadis Soltanimehr, Fatemeh Farjadian

“…The hydrogel structure was confirmed by different characteristic techniques such as ¹H NMR, FT-IR, and SEC, and the morphology and particle diameters were checked via the scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) methods. …”
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A Hardware Architecture of a Dynamic Ranking Packet Scheduler for Programmable Network Devices by Mostafa Elbediwy, Bill Pontikakis, Jean-Pierre David, Yvon Savaria

“…The introduction of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) separated the control and data forwarding planes, but the data plane still requires a fully programmable packet scheduler that can adapt to different traffic patterns and offer high expressiveness at line rate. …”
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Microscopic pore combination type identification of tight sandstone reservoir based on improved swin transformer architecture by Zhenyu Pang, Zhicong Chen, Sijie Lu, Zhenbo Cai, Yuqing Lu, Mengting Peng

“…Tight sandstone reservoirs differ fundamentally from conventional medium to high permeability reservoirs due to their complex and heterogeneous microscopic pore structures. …”
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Oil Spill Detection in PolSAR Imagery Using Composite Scattering Power Entropy and Multiscale Hybrid Feature Fusion Network by Deliang Xiang, Yu Lu, Dongdong Guan, Guannan Li, Jianda Cheng, Bangjie Li

“…In addition, in the feature fusion module, the method efficiently utilizes shallow features that contain detailed information, such as edges and textures, as well as deep features that contain semantic information. …”
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Developing a new cleavable crosslinker reagent for in-cell crosslinking by Fränze Müller, Bogdan R. Brutiu, Iakovos Saridakis, Thomas Leischner, Micha J. Birklbauer, Manuel Matzinger, Mathias Madalinski, Thomas Lendl, Saad Shaaban, Viktoria Dorfer, Nuno Maulide, Karl Mechtler

“…DiSPASO was designed and developed for efficient cell membrane permeability and crosslinking while securing low cellular perturbation. …”
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Priority-Aware Multi-Agent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Resource Scheduling in C-V2X Mode 4 Communication by Ahmed Thair Shakir, Barbara M. Masini, Nemer Radhwan Khudhair, Rosdiadee Nordin, Angela Amphawan

“…PA-MADRL allows autonomous vehicles to efficiently allocate resources despite varied congestion along with interference conditions by combining centralized training for global optimization and decentralized execution for scalable decision-making. …”
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Fine-Grained Extraction of Coastal Aquaculture Ponds From Remote Sensing Images Using an Edge-Supervised Multi-task Neural Network by Jian Qi, Min Ji, Fengxiang Jin, Jianran Xu, Hanyu Ji, Juan Wang

“…However, traditional image analysis techniques often struggle to efficiently extract aquaculture ponds in the complex, heterogeneous environments of coastal wetlands. …”
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Theoretical modeling of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid on acid-treated peanut skin: microscopic analysis via statistical physics treatment by Salah Knani, Ismahene Ben Khemis, Ana Carolina Ferreira Piazzi Fuhr, Nizar Lefi, Safwat A. Mahmoud, Guilherme Luiz Dotto, Abdulaziz Alenazi, Ridha Selmi

“…Abstract In this study, the experimental adsorption isotherms of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-DA) on peanut skin treated with sulfuric acid were analyzed under different temperatures and characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. …”
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Enhanced Stability of Gr, h-BN and Gr/h-BN protected MoS2 flakes under laser illumination by Chak-Ming Liu, Sheng-Yu Hsu, Hsin-Sung Chen, Chuan-Che Hsu, Yann-Wen Lan, Hsiang-Chih Chiu, Wen-Chin Lin

“…The combined effects of efficient thermal dissipation and isolation from ambient oxygen offer significant protection to MoS₂ under high-power illumination.…”
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Application of artificial intelligence in insect pest identification - A review by Sourav Chakrabarty, Chandan Kumar Deb, Sudeep Marwaha, Md. Ashraful Haque, Deeba Kamil, Raju Bheemanahalli, Pathour Rajendra Shashank

“…AI technology is transforming the field of entomology by enabling high-precision identification of insect pests, leading to more efficient and eco-friendly pest management strategies. …”
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Rare-Earth based magnesium alloys as a potential biomaterial for the future by Abhishek Kumar, Amit Choudhari, Ashish Kumar Gupta, Avinash Kumar

“…Furthermore, the innovative realm of additive manufacturing (AM) is investigated to develop efficient Mg-RE-based biomedical implants, enabling the precise customization of implants to meet individual patient needs. …”
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Preferential Lineage-Specific Differentiation of Osteoblast-Derived Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells into Osteoprogenitors by Casey L. Roberts, Silvia S. Chen, Angela C. Murchison, Rebecca A. Ogle, Michael P. Francis, Roy C. Ogle, Patrick C. Sachs

“…Therefore, epigenetic memory can be exploited for efficient generation of clinically relevant quantities of osteoprogenitor cells.…”
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A Method and Engineering Practice for a Fully Mechanized Caving Coalface to Rapidly Pass Through a Large Fault by Wei Zhang, Feili Yang, Jingyu Chang, Shengxun Zhao, Bin Xu, Jinyong Xiang

“…Therefore, this method can ensure continuous, safe, and efficient mining at the coalface, alleviating the tight situation of mine production succession. …”
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