Insect frass fertilizer upregulates maize defence genes and resistance against an invasive herbivore pest by Daniel Munyao Mutyambai, Johnstone Mutiso Mutua, Abdul A. Jalloh, Dennis Beesigamukama, Andre Kessler, Sevgan Subramanian, Thomas Dubois, Sunday Ekesi, Chrysantus M. Tanga

“…Maize plants grown in BSFFF amended soils showed 30% more growth, higher chlorophyll, 0.93–2.86 t ha− 1 higher yield, and 48% better nitrogen use efficiency than from those in synthetic or unfertilized soils. …”
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Optimising Physics-Informed Neural Network Solvers for Turbulence Modelling: A Study on Solver Constraints Against a Data-Driven Approach by William Fox, Bharath Sharma, Jianhua Chen, Marco Castellani, Daniel M. Espino

“…In conclusion, it is shown that numerically unclosed systems can be efficiently solved using reduced-order equation sets, potentially leading to a reduced compute requirement compared with traditional solver methods.…”
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Calculating Value in Hand and Wrist Care: A Systematic Review on the Current Literature by Zachary Chen, BS, Mithil Gudi, BS, Alex Lindahl, BS, Charles S. Day, MD, MBA

“…This systematic review aimed to investigate the literature on calculations of value between different treatment options in hand and wrist care. …”
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Greenness visibility in urban living environments as pathway to promote health and well-being: Mapping spatial differentiation in Flanders (Belgium) based on viewshed analysis by Peter Vervoort, Stijn Vanderheiden, Lorenz Hambsch, Lien Poelmans, Frédéric Vandermoere, Ilse Loots

“…By introducing technical improvements that significantly increased computational efficiency, we extended this approach to create a comprehensive VGVI map for Flanders, the northern region of Belgium. …”
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Leveraging the fundamentals of heat transfer and fluid mechanics in microscale geometries for automated next-generation sequencing library preparation by Olivia Ott, Sabrina Tolppi, Jennifer Figueroa-Cruz, Khaliun Myagmar, Khulan Unurbuyan, Anubhav Tripathi

“…We applied this method to two library preparation assays with different DNA fragmentation requirements (mechanical vs. enzymatic fragmentation), sufficiently limiting consumable use to one cartridge and one 384 well-plate per run. …”
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AI-Based Performance Classification of Multi-Level System-of-Systems via Hypergraph Modeling by Jun Jiang, Abdeslem Smahi, Yiwen Chen, Othman Lakhal, Rochdi Merzouki

“…Various performance features are extracted from different aspects, such as the response of physical component systems (PCSs), the task-oriented attributes of managerial component systems (MCSs), the inter/intra-layer communication among CSs of multiple levels and the top-down management efficiency. …”
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Peringkasan Multi-dokumen menggunakan Metode Pengelompokkan berbasis Hirarki dengan Multi-level Divisive Coefficient by Muhamad Mustamiin, Ahmad Lubis Ghozali, Muhammad Lukman Sifa

“…Abstract Summarization is one part of the information retrieval that aims to obtain information quickly and efficiently by making the essence of a document. Documents, especially document reports every day increasing as the implementation of an event. …”
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Screening Biogenic Volatile Organic Compounds from Common Portuguese Shrubs Using Headspace–Bar Adsorptive Microextraction (HS-BAµE) by Jéssica S. R. F. Cerqueira, José M. F. Nogueira

“…In this study, headspace–bar adsorptive microextraction (HS-BAµE) combined with gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was employed to screen the major biogenic volatile organic compounds (BVOCs) emitted by six different Portuguese shrub species (<i>Erica scoparia</i> L., <i>Cistus ladanifer</i> L., <i>Cistus monspeliensis</i> L., <i>Lavandula stoechas</i> L., <i>Thymus villosus</i> L., and <i>Thymus camphoratus</i>). …”
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Effects of Probiotic-Fermented Chinese Herb on Immune Response and Growth Performance in Common Carp (<i>Cyprinus carpio</i>) by Wenzheng Zou, Xuanxuan Huang, Fang Han, Zhongqin Li

“…It can significantly improve farming efficiency and economic benefits, reduce dependence on chemical drugs, and lower environmental pollution, showing good application prospects in production.…”
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An Enhanced Framework for Assessing Pluvial Flooding Risk with Integrated Dynamic Population Vulnerability at Urban Scale by Xinyi Shu, Chenlei Ye, Zongxue Xu, Ruting Liao, Pengyue Song, Silong Zhang

“…An agent-based model (ABM) is developed to analyze the dynamic risks and vulnerabilities of population and building agents under different rainfall scenarios, capturing macroscopic emergent patterns from individual behavior rules and analyzing them in both time and space dimensions. …”
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Enhanced Performance of Intensity Modulation With Direct Detection Using Golay Encoded Nyquist Pulses and Electronic Dispersion Compensation by Julien Moussa H. Barakat, Abdul Rahman El Falou, Zeynep Nilhan Gurkan, Shadi A. Alboon, Abdullah S. Karar

“…A 24-dimensional (24D) extended Golay binary code effectively transforms each incoming 12-bit message into a 24-bit codeword, achieving a coding efficiency of 0.5 bits per symbol for a 56 Gb/s on-off keying (OOK) transmission over 80 km of single mode fiber. …”
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Rapid Assessment of Building Losses in the M6.8 Tingri Earthquake, Tibet, China by Hao Zheng, Jifu Liu, Jidong Wu, Lianyou Liu, Peijun Shi

“…The proposed methodology enhances decision-making efficiency during emergency response by providing critical information for response strategies. …”
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BASIL DB: bioactive semantic integration and linking database by David Jackson, Paul Groth, Hazar Harmouch

“…The database features query and visualization capabilities, including interactive graphs and custom filtering options, that showcase different aspects of the data. Users are able to explore the relationships between bioactives and health effects, enhancing both research efficiency and insight discovery. …”
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Turbulence Statistical Characteristics and Energy Dissipation Rate Analysis of Vertical Jet Energy Dissipators by Haijun Ma, Xihuan Sun, Yongye Li

“…In this paper, the first-order and second-order statistical characteristics and energy dissipation rate of vertical jet energy dissipators under different structural parameters are studied by means of numerical simulation and a physical model test. …”
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Unsupervised Cross-Domain Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) Change Monitoring Based on Limited-Label Transfer Learning and Vision Transformer by Xinyue Zhang, Rong Gui, Jun Hu, Jinghui Zhang, Lihuan Tan, Xixi Zhang

“…Accurate labels and supervised models are difficult to reuse between massive unlabeled time-series PolSAR data due to the complex distribution shifts caused by different imaging parameters, scene changes, and random noises. …”
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Neuromodulatory effects of caffeine and bromazepam on visual event-related potential (P300): a comparative study Efeitos neuromoduladores da cafeína e do bromazepam no potencial ev... by Mariana Montenegro, Heloisa Veiga, Andréa Deslandes, Maurício Cagy, Kaleb McDowell, Fernando Pompeu, Roberto Piedade, Pedro Ribeiro

“…The P300 component of the event-related potential (ERP) is a general measurement of "cognitive efficiency". It is an index of the ability of an individual's central nervous system (CNS) to process incoming information. …”
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Electromagnetic Interference Shielding and Characterization of Ni2+ Substituted Cobalt Nanoferrites Prepared by Sol-Gel Auto Combustion Method by Rezhna Kuekha, Tahseen H. Mubarak, Bruska Azhdar

“…Field emission scanning electron microscopy showed agglomerated grains of different sizes and shapes in the morphological observation. …”
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Performance Evaluation of PLA Based Biocomposites Reinforced with Photografted PALF by A. N. M. Masudur Rahman, Shah Alimuzzaman, Ruhul A. Khan

“…Based on grafting efficiency and mechanical attributes, the intensity of UV radiation and monomer concentration were maximized. …”
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Characterization of the First Marine Pestivirus, Phocoena Pestivirus (PhoPeV) by Lars Söder, Denise Meyer, Olaf Isken, Norbert Tautz, Matthias König, Alexander Postel, Paul Becher

“…PhoPeV replicates most efficiently in the porcine kidney cell line SK6. Pestiviruses generally counteract the cellular innate immune response by degradation of interferon regulatory factor 3 (IRF3) mediated by the viral N-terminal protease (N^pro). …”
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Empirical classification of fatigue-induced physiological tremor in robot-assisted manipulation tasks using BiLSTM-GRU network by Poongavanam Palani, Siddhant Panigrahi, Gunarajulu Renganathan, Yuichi Kurita, Asokan Thondiyath

“…The extracted features from human movement aid the classification of the stages of tremor using BiLSTM-GRU, showing the significance of a cross-sectional area informed model.ResultsThe stages of progression of tremor are classified into five levels in this study, and classified using BiLSTM GRU with four different input feature sets. The performance evaluation metrics, such as the accuracy, precision, recall and F1 score, have been reported to ascertain the efficiency of the proposed feature group. …”
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