Gray matter microstructure alterations with excess extra-cellular free water contribute to cognitive dysfunction in bipolar disorder: A comparative analysis with white matter patho... by Yasuhito Nagai, Toshimasa Fujimura, Wataru Uchida, Rinako Iseki, Koji Kamagata, Shigeki Aoki, Tadafumi Kato

“…Results: Compared to healthy controls, BD patients exhibited decreased fractional anisotropy (FA) and free-water (FW)-corrected FA, along with mean diffusivity (MD) and radial diffusivity (RD) across a wide area on TBSS. …”
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Features of Hydrogen-Enriched Methane–Air Flames Propagating in Hele-Shaw Channels by Sergey Yakush, Sergey Rashkovskiy, Maxim Alexeev, Oleg Semenov

“…Experiments were performed with the gap width of 3.5 mm; video recordings were processed in order to determine the quantitative features of the flame front propagation (leading and trailing point coordinate, coordinates of the cusps, cell sizes and shapes). …”
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Collaboration of Two UV-Absorbing Dyes in Cholesteric Liquid Crystals Films for Infrared Broadband Reflection and Ultraviolet Shielding by Mengqi Xie, Yutong Liu, Xiaohui Zhao, Zhidong Liu, Jinghao Zhang, Dengyue Zuo, Guang Cui, Hui Cao, Maoyuan Li

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Image-data-driven simulation of fluid dynamics (proposal and evaluation) by Nobuto NAKAMICHI, Younghwa CHO, Nobuyuki OSHIMA

“…Therefore, in this study, we applied a primarily filtering-based image processing technique to calculate the level-set of geometry shapes from image luminance values to apply it to the IB-NS. …”
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Electronic Quality Enhancement of Multicrystalline Silicon via SiN_x and H₂ Plasma Passivation Using Plasma-Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition for Photovoltaic... by Achref Mannai, Rabia Benabderrahmane Zaghouani, Karim Choubani, Mohammed A. Almeshaal, Mohamed Ben Rabha, Wissem Dimassi

“…This innovative approach replaced toxic chemical wet processes with H₂ plasma and SiN_x. …”
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Numerical study of the time-fractional partial differential equations by using quartic B-spline method by Fahad K. Nashmi, Bushra A. Taha

“…The fractional Caputo derivative is employed to depict anomalous diffusion processes influenced by memory effects. The proposed numerical method utilizes quartic B-spline functions for spatial discretization and employs a finite difference method to address the time-fractional derivative. …”
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Epidemic dynamics in the spatio-temporal predator-prey model by Hyangim Ji, Maria Vasilyeva, Nana Adjoah Mbroh, Alexey Sadovski

“…An extension beyond traditional models that often treat these processes separately. The model consists of four partial differential equations and includes key ecological factors such as growth and mortality rates, predation, reproduction, and carrying capacity. …”
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Numerical analysis of the self-sustaining traveling wave of nuclear fission propagated by epithermal neutrons in uranium dicarbide medium by M. R. Shcherbyna, K. O. Shcherbyna, V. O. Tarasov, S. I. Kosenko, S. A. Chernezhenko

“…Numerical analysis provides significant insights into the dynamics of neutron distribution and nuclide evolution, enhancing our understanding of the underlying physical processes and their implications for traveling wave reactor design.…”
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Particular aspects of determining reliability indicators of thermoelectric generator modules using experimental data by Petrо Gorskyi

“…The paper substantiates the need to use diffusion-nonmonotonic failure time distribution for processing the results of resource tests of thermoelectric generator modules in order to determine their standardized reliability indicators and relative errors of the obtained values. …”
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Microwave drying kinetic characteristics of yellow phosphorus-like materials by jiayu HE, lei XU, yongfen SUN, hang LI

“…Four thin-layer drying kinetic models were used to fit the relevant experimental data, revealing that the Modified Page model was the most suitable for describing the microwave drying process of the material. Surface diffusion coefficients of water molecules were calculated under different conditions, and activation energy was derived from these coefficients. …”
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Simulating characteristics of Si/Ge tandem monolithic solar cell with Si1-xGex buffer layer by A. B. Gnilenko, Ju. N. Lavrich, S. V. Plaksin

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A novel deep learning approach to classify 3D foot types of diabetic patients by Pui-ling Li, Qin-feng Xiao, Kit-lun Yick, Qi-long Liu, Li-ying Zhang

“…The proposed model offers a cost-effective way to analyse foot shapes and facilitate the customization process for both the footwear industry and medical applications.…”
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Numerical Analysis of Ejector Flow Performance for High-Altitude Simulation by Chae-Hyoung Kim, Chang-Su Park

“…During the initial vacuum process, if the injection pressure of the ejector decreases below the design pressure, vacuum degradation occurs because of momentum deficiency, followed by pressure perturbations as the vacuum process resumes. …”
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Application of CoLD-CoP to Detecting Competitively and Cooperatively Binding Ligands by Shiva V. Patnala, Roberto Robles, David A. Snyder

“…The lengthy and costly process of identifying competitive or cooperative binding can be streamlined by coupling computational biochemistry and spectroscopy tools. …”
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A fast and fully automated system for segmenting retinal blood vessels in fundus images by Alqassab Ans Ibrahim Mahameed, Luque-Nieto Miguel-Ángel

“…The proposed model enhances image quality through a novel pre-processing pipeline that includes logarithmic contrast enhancement, noise reduction using an improved complex wavelet transform with shrinkage, and anisotropic diffusion filtering for edge enhancement. …”
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Oxygen effect on the performance of β-Ga2O3 enhancement mode MOSFETs heteroepitaxially grown on a sapphire by Yueh-Han Chuang, Fu-Gow Tarntair, Tzu-Wei Wang, Anoop Kumar Singh, Po-Liang Liu, Dong-Sing Wuu, Hao-Chung Kuo, Xiuling Li, Ray-Hua Horng

“…Enhancement-mode β-Ga2O3 metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) were then fabricated with a gate-recessed process, incorporating a 5 µm gate field plate structure. …”
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Artificial neural networks analysis of entropy generation in magnetic-micropolar nanofluid flow equipped with porous media and Darcy-Forchheimer law by Zahoor Iqbal, Md Fayz- Al- Asad, Huiying Xu, Xinzhong Zhu, Muhammad Sajjad Hossain, Ridha Selmi, M.M. Alqarni, Sharifah E. Alhazmi, Fahima Hajjej, M.M.H. Imran

“…We investigate the thermal diffusion features in micropolar nanofluid across a porous medium with steady and incompressible, laminar flow with variable properties of magnetic field, thermal and mass expansion coefficient and we thoroughly examine the generation of entropy while considering its extensive applicability in industrial and engineering processes. …”
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SAR Images Change Detection Based on Attention Mechanism-Convolutional Wavelet Neural Network by Jiahui E, Lu Wang, Chunhui Zhao, P. Takis Mathiopoulos, Tomoaki Ohtsuki, Fumiyuki Adachi

“…During the first stage weights in the clustering process to improve the accuracy of the resulting clustering centers are introduced while during the second stage, these refined cluster centers can be constrained. …”
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Effect of Aging on the Antifungal Activity and Surface Roughness of Soft Lining Material Incorporated with Chitosan Nano-Particles by Huda Abdul-Wahab Abdul-Shafi, Hawraa Khalid Aziz

“…Also, the result of the study concluded that vertex soft lining material impregnated with chitosan nano-particles aids in obtaining a lining material with the antifungal activity against C. albicans. While the aging process and the addition of CHs-NPs was not having a significantly effect on the surface roughness. …”
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Drivers and fluxes of dissolved organic carbon along the northern Antarctic Peninsula during late summer by RAQUEL AVELINA, LETICIA C. DA CUNHA, RODRIGO KERR, CÁSSIA O. FARIAS, CLAUDIA HAMACHER, MAURICIO M. MATA

“…This study adds insights on the role of DOC as a proxy for a better understanding of the coupling between physical and biogeochemical processes over time in an environment sensitive to climate change.…”
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