Balanced fertilization management to protect soil inorganic carbon stocks and reduce soil CO2 emissions by Mostafa Abdollahpour, Lichao Fan, Guodong Shao, Jingjing Tao, Georg Guggenberger, Kazem Zamanian

“…Decalcification, especially due to acidity induced by nitrogen (N) fertilization, generates an often-underestimated source of atmospheric CO2 in agroecosystems. …”
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Molecular Basis of Acute Cystitis Reveals Susceptibility Genes and Immunotherapeutic Targets. by Ines Ambite, Manoj Puthia, Karoly Nagy, Caterina Cafaro, Aftab Nadeem, Daniel S C Butler, Gustav Rydström, Nina A Filenko, Björn Wullt, Thomas Miethke, Catharina Svanborg

“…IL-1β processing was hyperactive in these mice, due to a new, non-canonical mechanism involving the matrix metalloproteinase 7- (MMP-7). …”
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Advances in Wearable Biosensors for Wound Healing and Infection Monitoring by Dang-Khoa Vo, Kieu The Loan Trinh

“…Examples are the PETAL patch sensor that applies multiple sensing mechanisms for wide-ranging views on wound status and closed-loop systems that connect biosensors to therapeutic devices to automate infection control. …”
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The Role of Nitric Oxide in Cancer Treatment: Ally or Foe? by Angelika Myśliwiec, Dorota Bartusik-Aebisher, David Aebisher

“…While iNOS inhibitors show preclinical promise in various inflammatory and neoplastic conditions, no such agents have reached clinical approval, due to the complexity and context-dependent effects of NO. …”
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ANOVA Based Optimization of UV Nanosecond Laser for Polyamide Insulation Removal from Platinum Wires Under Water Confinement by Danial Rahnama, Graziano Chila, Sivakumar Narayanswamy

“…Again, conditions around 1200 mm/s and 1500 mm/s with 2 µm line distance and two loops offered favorable outcomes, although 1200 mm/s was selected as the optimal speed due to better consistency. …”
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Biodegradability of SCOBY-derived bacterial cellulose affected by purification methods by Diego Gomez-Maldonado, Diego González Rodríguez, Mireya Valdés Rivera, Mariana Zerón Pontones, Edgar Ulin, Gabriel Vigueras-Ramírez, Maribel Hernández-Guerrero

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FPGA Readout for Frequency-Multiplexed Array of Micromechanical Resonators for Sub-Terahertz Imaging by Leonardo Gregorat, Marco Cautero, Alessandro Pitanti, Leonardo Vicarelli, Monica La Mura, Alvise Bagolini, Rudi Sergo, Sergio Carrato, Giuseppe Cautero

“…Designing high-performance, high-pixel-density sensors is challenging without FPGAs, which are crucial for deterministic parallel processing, fast ADC/DAC control, and handling large data throughput. This paper presents a MEMS-resonator detector, fully managed via an FPGA, capable of controlling pixel excitation and tracking resonance-frequency shifts due to radiation using parallel digital lock-in amplifiers. …”
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A lightweight prosthetic hand with 19-DOF dexterity and human-level functions by Hao Yang, Zhe Tao, Jian Yang, Wenpeng Ma, Haoyu Zhang, Min Xu, Ming Wu, Shuaishuai Sun, Hu Jin, Weihua Li, Liu Wang, Shiwu Zhang

“…The prosthetic hand features real-time sensing of joint angles in each finger, feeding data into a control module for selectively heating or cooling SMA actuators in a closed-loop manner, mimicking the functioning of human muscles. …”
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On the Characterization of Phase Noise for the Robust and Resilient PLL-TRNG Design by Ziheng Ma, Bohan Yang, Wenping Zhu, Hanning Wang, Yi Ouyang, Min Zhu, Leibo Liu

“…Among TRNG implementations, the phase-locked loop-based TRNG (PLL-TRNG) is a widely adopted solution for FPGA platforms due to the availability of a stochastic model. …”
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Monitoring the Precession of Gas Turbine Engines Rotor Systems and Evaluating the State of Inter-Rotor Bearings by Okhtilev M. Yu., Khimenko V.I., Koromyslichenko V.N., Klucharev A.A., Zubko A.I.

“…Dynamic mechanical interaction between the rotors and inter-shaft bearing caused by counterphase motion of the mass centers of the rotors or the precession axes can lead to a sudden failures causing bearing breakage in the two-loop gas turbine engines. It has been assumed in the paper that sudden failures are caused by accumulated, total fatigue of the bearing material arising because of shock cyclic bearing loads due to the precession of the rotors. …”
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Hybrid Inverter Zeta-Ćuk for Grid-Tied Photovoltaic Applications by Anderson A. Dionizio, Leonardo P. Sampaio, Sergio A. O. da Silva, Vitor Monteiro, Joao L. Afonso

“…The maximum power available at the PV array is harvested using a multi-loop control in conjunction with the perturb-and-observe algorithm, while an AF-αβ-PLL system guarantees synchronism with the power grid. …”
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Pointing Acquisition and Tracking System for Free Space Optical Communication Based on Integrated Optical Phased Array by Lei Chen, Lei Zhu, Heng Du, Xiangyu Wang, Shiyang Shen, Yihao Wang, Shan Zhao, Xiaodong Wang

“…The calculated closed-loop bandwidth is >2.5 kHz. The PAT system has low complexity, small size, mechanical-free beam agility steering, and high tracking bandwidth capability.…”
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Insights into phylogenetic positions and distribution patterns: Complete mitogenomes of two sympatric Asian horned toads in Boulenophrys (Anura: Megophryidae) by Hongmei Xiang, Qiang Zhou, Wei Li, Juan Shu, Zhirong Gu, Wansheng Jiang

“…The mitogenome of B. sangzhiensis was 16,950 bp, while that of B. tuberogranulata was 16,841 bp, each comprising 13 protein‐coding genes (PCGs), 22 transfer RNA genes (tRNAs), two ribosomal RNA genes (rRNAs), and a noncoding control region (D‐loop). The gene content, nucleotide composition, and evolutionary rates of each mitogenome were analyzed. …”
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Aerodynamic model identification of supersonic aircraft using Bayesian approach-based Box–Jenkins structure by Muhammad Fawad Mazhar, Muhammad Wasim, Manzar Abbas, Imran Shafi, Jamshed Riaz, Tae-hoon Kim, Imran Ashraf

“…This study discovers a decoupled longitudinal aerodynamic model of an open-loop supersonic aircraft using a novel algorithm that blends grey-box modeling architecture i.e. …”
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Modern Technologies to Detect Fungi That Cause Diseases to Agricultural Crops: A review by Teeba H. Mohammad, Zahraa A. Abed, Zahraa R. Taha

“…Therefore, the rapid and accurate early detection of the pathogen is crucial for the crop and to avoid losses. A loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) assay is used to detect about 100 pg fragments of DNA genes per reaction, which accurately detects fungal infections. …”
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Microfluidic-enabled three-dimensional stretchable thermoelectrics by Zhenlong Huang, Tao Chen, Yan Jiang, Rui Zhou, Yizhuo Wang, Junjie Ji, Hongwei Xie, Taisong Pan, Dongpeng Fan, Linlong Liang, Longpeng Yang, Binbin Jiang, Peng Li, Min Gao, Jia Zhu, Guang Yao, Dongfeng Xue, Yuan Lin

“…The device achieves ~10 °C environmental and 11 °C on-skin temperature reduction with precise control. Furthermore, by integrating a temperature sensor and control circuit with the 3D TED, a wearable closed-loop system is developed. …”
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Design and testing of a lotus root harvester with a collection device by Xiaofeng Zhou, Lizi Liu, Yunfu Luo, Hui Wang

“…Lotus root harvesting faces significant challenges due to its submerged growth in muddy environments, including high labor intensity (currently 100 % manual collection), 30–40 % rot losses from untimely harvesting, and the inefficiency of existing equipment that lacks integrated collection and balance control. …”
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High rate of false positive malaria rapid diagnostic tests in a district hospital in Uganda by Susanne E. Mortazavi, Susanne E. Mortazavi, Allan Lugaajju, Anna-Clara Ivarsson, Sara Karlsson Söbirk, Sara Karlsson Söbirk, Hans Norrgren, Hans Norrgren, Kristina E. M. Persson, Kristina E. M. Persson

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Improving sustainable isopropanol production in engineered Escherichia coli W via oxygen limitation by Regina Kutscha, Dominic Uhlir, Stefan Pflügl

“…In the future, optimizing the carbon flux around the pyruvate node, ensuring sufficient NADPH supply, and establishing a feedback control loop to control process variables affecting oxygen transfer to the culture, could make microbial isopropanol production feasible at an industrial scale.…”
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Empowering Particle Jamming Soft Gripper with Tactility via Stretchable Optoelectronic Sensing Skin by Liyan Mo, Wenhao Xie, Jingting Qu, Jiutian Xia, Yunquan Li, Yuanfang Zhang, Tao Ren, Yang Yang, Juan Yi, Changchun Wu, Yonghua Chen

“…Furthermore, it can effectively detect the slippage of grasped objects, facilitating accurate closed‐loop control for secure manipulation.…”
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