Influence of ilmenite ore particles as pigment on the anticorrosion and mechanical performance properties of polyamine cured epoxy for internal coating of gas transmission pipeline... by A.M. Al-Sabagh, M.I. Abdou, M.A. Migahed, A.M. Fadl, Ahmed A. Farag, M.M. Mohammedy, S. Abd-Elwanees, A. Deiab

“…In the present work, Different high build epoxy coating formulations cured by polyamine hardener were modified by incorporation various concentrations (50, 75 and 100%) of processed micro-sized ilmenite ore (FeTiO3) as pigment to replace all inorganic solids content to form a highly cross linked ilmenite epoxy adduct in three dimensional network. …”
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Traffic Oscillations Mitigation in Vehicle Platoon Using a Car-Following Control Model for Connected and Autonomous Vehicle by Zhijun Gao, Jiangfeng Wang, Xi Zhang, Jiakuan Dong, Lei Chen, Xuedong Yan, Wei Zhang

“…The characteristics and evolution of traffic flow are analysed and some indexes reflecting traffic efficiency and stability are calculated and analysed. …”
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Towards Automated Quality Control in Industrial Systems: Developing Markov Decision Process Model for Optimized Decision-Making by Katerina Mitkovska-Trendova, Robert Minovski, Verica Bakeva, Simeon Trendov, Dimitar Bogatinov

“…This integrated approach enables manufacturers to proactively identify and mitigate quality issues, enhancing operational efficiency, reducing waste, and driving continuous improvement in industrial systems.…”
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Substituting photoautotrophic with heterotrophic Chlorella species for water quality regulation and microbial community modification in Litopenaeus vannamei pond culture by Chu-er Song, Zhen Meng, Bangyin Zhang, Lin Yang, Xiaoxuan Sun, Zheng Zhang, Xiaojin Song

“…The inoculation with C. pyrenoidosa demonstrated enhanced removal efficiency of PO43--P and NH4+-N, along with regulation of pH and BOD/COD levels in shrimp ponds. …”
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Optimization, Design, and Implementation of Biodiversity-Focused Fisheries Survey Stations: A Case Study of the Coastal Waters of Maoming by Yuexiu DENG, Yongheng HUANG, Jianyu DONG, Ning CHEN, Jing ZHANG, Xuefeng WANG

“…Therefore, meticulous sampling design is key to maximizing data quality and survey efficiency. While increasing the number of sampling stations can enhance result accuracy, it escalates survey costs and may adversely affect the marine environment and ecosystems. …”
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Transforming Telemedicine: Strategic Lessons and Metrics from Italy’s Telemechron Project (Telemechron Study) by Sara Jayousi, Martina Cinelli, Roberto Bigazzi, Stefano Bianchi, Simonetta Scalvini, Gabriella Borghi, Palmira Bernocchi, Sandro Inchiostro, Alexia Giovanazzi, Marina Mastellaro, Maria Adalgisa Gentilini, Lorenzo Gios, Mauro Grigioni, Carla Daniele, Giuseppe D’Avenio, Sandra Morelli, Daniele Giansanti

“…Effective frameworks and KPIs are crucial for assessing telemedicine services, especially in terms of their impact on patient outcomes and service efficiency. <i>Methods:</i> This study adopted a dual approach to assess the contributions of the Telemechron project. …”
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Investigating the Digestive Characteristics of Lipid Emulsions with Varying ω-3/ω-6 Ratios Using in Vitro Simulated Digestion Models by Qiyue YANG, Yizhuo FAN, Yitong MO, Liyan ZHANG, Yehui ZHANG, Yousheng ZHANG, Wenjuan JIAO

“…The results showed that emulsions with varying ω-3/ω-6 ratios exhibited similar trends during digestion, distinct differences in their digestive properties were also observed. …”
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Evaluating the Effectiveness of Smart Glasses in Reducing Patient Care Time in Emergency Departments: Cohort Study From the Hangzhou Asian Games by Xinwei Jiang, Bangbo Xia, Mohammad Mostafa Ansari, Huiquan Jiang, Jianjiang Qi, Zhongheng Zhang, Sheng Dai, Pingping Zheng, Yang He, Ning Liu, Pengpeng Chen, Ronghua Luo, Xuchang Qin, Yansong Miao, Junru Dai, Xiaoyu Zhou, Changliang Wang, Hui Chen, Wenbin Xu, Tao Wu, Qiang Shi, Zhonghua Chen, Liping Zhou, Hao Zhang, Yun Xie, Quan Zhang, Bifa Zhou, Xiaohong Pan, Zixi Chen, Libo Zhen, Yaqing Sun, Zelin Lu, Yihao Loh, Shameera Sayer, Jennifer Mochtar, Pannika Wongpraewit, Yifan Wang, Yucai Hong

“…Gender and age demographics showed no significant differences between the cohorts. The ARTS cohort had a significantly lower average PPT of 23 minutes compared to the non-ARTS cohort’s 40.3 minutes (PP ConclusionsAR smart glasses have the potential to enhance patient admission efficiency and reduce care time in EDs. …”
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Antigen-independent activation is critical for the durable antitumor effect of GUCY2C-targeted CAR-T cells by Xiaofei Wei, Lin Shen, Chang Liu, Cheng Zhang, Min Tao, Jian Li, Xicheng Wang, Ting He, Fei Dai, Changsong Qi, Mingyang Ma, Yanping Ding, Xinan Lu, Dongqun Liu

“…CAR-T cells with different compositions of the hinge, transmembrane and costimulatory domains were also constructed for selection of the long-lasting CAR-T format with durable antitumor efficacy in vitro and in tumor-bearing mice. …”
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Optical design of beam for proton therapy energy selection system based on CYCIAE-230 superconducting cyclotron by ZHAO Bohan, GUO Qiankun, ZHANG Tianjue, WANG Chuan, YIN Zhiguo, SONG Qiqi, HE Aolai, LIU Zhan, WANG Xi, HU Mingzhi, LIU Jingyuan, WANG Yang, ZHU Xiaofeng, XIONG Rui, JIANG Tianyi

“…Finally, the feasibility of flexible and adjustable beam emittance and transmission efficiency for esigned ESS was verified by calculations.Results & ConclusionsThe results show that the ESS meets the demand of proton therapy, and the rational use of adjustable slit can make the ESS have the characteristics of flexible and adjustable beam emittance, so as to realize the adjustable beam transmission in the energy selection section. …”
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Effects of Standardized Natural Citrus Extract on Growth, Gut Health, Carcass Quality, and Welfare of Broiler Chickens by Sekhou Cisse, Arkadiusz Matuszewski, Damian Bień, Patrycja Ciborowska, Anna Zalewska, Jakub Urban, Monika Michalczuk, Marta Mendel, Urszula Latek, Joanna Polak, Małgorzata Sobczak-Filipiak, Paweł Konieczka, Mohammed El Amine Benarbia

“…The feed conversion ratio (FCR) and European Efficiency Index (EEI) of broiler chickens were also calculated weekly. …”
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The Flow of Living Kidney Donor Candidates Through the Evaluation Process: A Single-Center Experience in Ontario, Canada by Steven Habbous PhD, Beth Montesi BScN, BA, RN, Christy Masse BScN, RN, Corinne Weernink, Sisira Sarma PhD, Mehmet A. Begen MSc, PhD, Ngan N. Lam MD, Christine Dipchand MSc, MD, Seychelle Yohanna MD, Dervla M. Connaughton MB BCh BAO, PhD, Lianne Barnieh PhD, Amit X. Garg MD, PhD

“…Donors completed the main evaluation tests on a median of 5 different dates. Thirty-six recipients started dialysis after their living donor candidates’ evaluation had been underway for at least 3 months. …”
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Machine learning enhanced metal 3D printing: high throughput optimization and material transfer extensibility by Yuanjie Zhang, Cheng Lin, Yuan Tian, Jianbao Gao, Bo Song, Hao Zhang, Min Wang, Kechen Song, Binghui Deng, Dezhen Xue, Yonggang Yao, Yusheng Shi, Kun Kelvin Fu

“…For 316L stainless steel, we concurrently printed 54 samples with different parameters and subjected them to parallel tests to generate an extensive dataset for ML analysis. …”
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Pore‐Scale Modeling of Coupled CO2 Flow and Dissolution in 3D Porous Media for Geological Carbon Storage by Yongfei Yang, Jinlei Wang, Jianzhong Wang, Yingwen Li, Hai Sun, Lei Zhang, Junjie Zhong, Kai Zhang, Jun Yao

“…We investigated the coupled scCO2 flow and dissolution processes at pore‐scale under different rock structures, capillary numbers, and rock wettability conditions. …”
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Cardiopulmonary responses to acute exogenous ketosis at rest, and during submaximal and maximal exercise by Christopher D. Crabtree, Justen Stoner, Alex Buga, Bradley Robinson, Drew Decker, Ashwini Chebbi, Xavier El‐Shazly, Emily Murphy, Aydan Jordan, Teryn Bedell, Madison L. Kackley, Tyler McClure, Yuchi Han, Orlando P. Simonetti, Jeff S. Volek

“…Abstract Nutritional ketosis achieved through various methods in animals and humans has been shown to augment cardiac efficiency and function. However, this response during exercise has not been well characterized. …”
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CRISPR/Cas9-mediated PD-1 attenuation enhances tumor infiltrating lymphocyte-based adoptive cellular therapy in humanized-PDX model of hepatocellular carcinoma by Wu Ge, Huaping Liu, Di Wu, Yang Hu, Qi Liang, Muqi Liu, Hao Liu, Jianmin Wu, Juan Zhang, Yao Deng, Kedar Ghimire, Pengfei Rong, Wei Wang, Xiaoqian Ma

“…T-cell receptor (TCR) sequencing and bulk RNA-sequencing of PD-1-edited or non-edited T cells was conducted to examine their differences. Finally, we demonstrated the ability of PD-1-edited or non-edited T cells to inhibit tumor growth in HCC patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models. …”
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Live attenuated coronavirus vaccines deficient in N7-Methyltransferase activity induce both humoral and cellular immune responses in mice by Zhen Zhang, Qianyun Liu, Ying Sun, Jiali Li, Jiejie Liu, Ruangang Pan, Liu Cao, Xianying Chen, Yingjian Li, Yuzhen Zhang, Ke Xu, Deyin Guo, Li Zhou, Ke Lan, Yu Chen

“…Moreover, we found that N7-MTase is well conserved among different CoVs and is a universal target for developing antivirals against CoVs. …”
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Flow and heat transfer characteristics of 3D printed sheet and solid triply periodic minimal surfaces porous structures by Jiajie Hu, Wei Xu, Huixin Liang, Jianping Shi, Wenlai Tang, Baocheng Guo, Jiquan Yang, Liya Zhu

“…The heat transfer performance of different TPMS structures and the fin structure was researched by means of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations and experimental methods. …”
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DAF-Net: Dual-Aperture Feature Fusion Network for Aircraft Detection on Complex-Valued SAR Image by Qingbiao Meng, Youming Wu, Yuxi Suo, Tian Miao, Qingyang Ke, Xin Gao, Xian Sun

“…However, in full-aperture images, responses from different angles are aliased, making it challenging to disentangle angular-specific details for anisotropic aircraft. …”
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Optimal radiation dose to induce an abscopal effect by combining carbon-ion radiotherapy and anti-CTLA4 antibody by Liqiu Ma, Yang Li, Yoshimitsu Sakamoto, Lin Xie, Saaya Suzuki, Yukari Yoshida, Li Sui, Gang Guo, Jialing Wen, Wangcai Ren, Kazuhiro Kakimi, Kensuke Osada, Akihisa Takahashi, Takashi Shimokawa

“…This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of by two combinations, one of CIRT and anti-CTLA4 antibody, the other of CIRT and anti-PD-1 antibody, applied at different radiation doses for distal tumour and metastasis suppression. …”
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