The Importance of Physiochemical Processes in Decarbonisation Technology Applications Utilizing the Subsurface: A Review by Ieva Kaminskaite, Sandra Piazolo, Andy R. Emery, Nicholas Shaw, Quentin J. Fisher

“…We particularly focus on processes occurring within the lithologies most commonly considered for decarbonisation technologies. …”
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Effect of Processing Parameters on the Heating Uniformity of Postharvest Tobacco Leaves Subjected to Radio Frequency Disinfestations by Jinsong Zhang, Yingqi Tian, Xin Ye, Zijun Mo, Rui Li, Shaojin Wang

“…The experiments were conducted to determine the effects of three process parameters (electrode gap, sample thickness, and hot air temperature) on the RF heating rate and uniformity of tobacco leaves. …”
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Unveiling anomalous strengthening and deformation mechanism evolution in a Mg-Gd-Y-Zr alloy under rate-temperature coupling effects by Jingli Li, Chen Wen, Xiuzhu Han

“…These findings clarify the dual role of twinning and its interaction with rate-temperature conditions, providing valuable insights into optimizing the hot processing of rare-earth magnesium alloys.…”
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Fine Structure of the Breakthrough Phase of the Attachment Process in a Natural Lightning Flash by Rubin Jiang, Abhay Srivastava, Xiushu Qie, Shanfeng Yuan, Hongbo Zhang, Zhuling Sun, Dongfang Wang, Caixia Wang, Guanlin Lv, Zongxiang Li

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Assessing wastewater heat resources in Zambian food and beverage processing: Case studies, regional assessment, and implications by Eleanor Mancusi-Ungaro, Madhu K. Murali, Paul Coughlan, Godfrey Hampwaye, Derrick Bwalya Tembo, Aonghus McNabola

“…Wastewater heat recovery (WWHR) aims to recycle low-grade thermal resources embedded in wastewater discharges and lower the energy requirements for hot-water production in various settings. WWHR has received growing attention in recent years, however, limited attention has been given to potential WWHR resources or the technologies required to exploit these in hot-water-intensive industrial settings, such as food and beverage processing. …”
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Comparative evaluation of encoding techniques for workflow process remaining time prediction for cloud applications by Cong Liu, Wenjuan Liu, Na Guo, Rongjia Song, Yan Gu, Long Cheng, Qingtian Zeng

“…However, there remains a lack of comprehensive empirical evaluation to analyze the impact of various event encoding techniques on prediction accuracy. To fill this gap, this paper conducts an extensive experimental evaluation of five state-of-the-art event encoding techniques, including One-Hot, Skip-Gram, CBOW (Continuous Bag-of-Word), FastText and GloVe, across nine prediction models based on LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory), GRU (Gated Recurrent Unit), and QRNN (Quasi-Recurrent Neural Network). …”
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A novel framework for identifying fishing grounds from AIS data containing vessels of unknown types by Changhai Huang, Jialong Kong, Jian Zheng, Yuli Chen, Jingen Zhou

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Numerical Study of the Thermal Energy Storage Container Shape Impact on the NePCM Melting Process by Obai Younis, Naef A. A. Qasem, Aissa Abderrahmane, Abdeldjalil Belazreg

“…In this article, we examined the influence of the inner and outer tube shapes of a shell and tube LHTES on the thermal activity within the system. The gap between the inner and outer tube is loaded with nano-enhanced phase change material (NePCM); hot fluid is passed through the inner tube while the outer tube is insulated. …”
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Influence of Cold-Rolling Processes on the Dimensional Accuracy and Roughness of Small-Diameter Thick-Walled Seamless Tubes by Xiuping Ding, Ran Li, Pengfei Jin, Weijie Wang, Cheng Zhang, Minyu Ma, Jinfeng Huang

“…Cold pilgering is widely utilized in high-end applications for the precise shaping of seamless tubes due to its capacity for large deformation, which reduces the number of deformation processes and shortens production cycles. However, there is a gap in the research on the cold pilgering of small-diameter, thick-walled seamless tubes, specifically those with an outer diameter–wall thickness ratio of ≤3. …”
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Approaches to Heterogeneous Integration for Millimeter-Wave Applications by A. S. Efimov

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Urbanization Shifts Immunometabolism in a Common Bumblebee by Virginie Cuvillier‐Hot, Alessandro Fisogni, Vincent Doublet, Sylvain Guillot, Anne‐Catherine Holl, Julie Leclercq‐Dransart, Florent Occelli, Yves Piquot, Nina Hautekèete

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Enhancing Generative Class Incremental Learning Performance With a Model Forgetting Approach by Taro Togo, Ren Togo, Keisuke Maeda, Takahiro Ogawa, Miki Haseyama

“…In this study, we aim to bridge this gap by incorporating the forgetting mechanisms into GCIL, thereby examining their impact on the models' ability to learn in continual learning. …”
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Coded speech enhancement using auxiliary utterance-level information by Haixin Zhao, Nilesh Madhu

“…Abstract Numerous post-processing methods have been proposed to improve coded speech quality and intelligibility. …”
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Methodology for Estimating the Cost of Construction Equipment Based on the Analysis of Important Characteristics Using Machine Learning Methods by Nataliya Boyko, Oleksii Lukash

“…This paper describes in detail the preliminary data processing. The main stages of preprocessing are presented in detail: detection and processing of missing data, removing anomalous data, coding of categorical data, and scaling. …”
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Artificial Intelligence−Driven Analysis Identifies Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction, Hip Arthroscopy and Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome, and Shoulder Instability as... by Henry B.G. Baird, B.S., William Allen, M.D., Mauricio Gallegos, M.D., Cody C. Ashy, M.D., Harris S. Slone, M.D., W. Michael Pullen, M.D.

“…It will also allow us to identify research gaps that may need to be addressed.…”
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Synthesizing a pragmatic and systemized measure of universal health coverage: verifying the circumstances of mortality CATegories of death investigated by verbal autopsy by Ningxin Zhu, Abdul Wahab, Abdul Wahab, Mária Bartušová, Mária Bartušová, Nawi Ng, Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb, Laith Hussain-Alkhateeb

“…Verbal autopsy (VA), as a standardized and scalable method, is well designed to fill gaps by eliciting causes of death information at the population level. …”
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A global study on the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the modern cow leather industry by F. Brugnoli, K. Sena, L. Zugno, A. Oggioni

“…The paper contains important information for understanding the LCA hot spots and provides insights into the industry regarding the improvements needed in specific process areas. …”
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Effect of open die forging and cooling rate on the precipitation of secondary phases and corrosion properties of a cast UNS S32760 super duplex stainless steel by E. Pitacco, R. Bertolini, E. Ghinatti, L. Pezzato, C. Gennari, I. Calliari, M. Pigato

“…The results reveal a significantly higher degree of sensitization in samples subjected to hot plastic deformation. The findings provide new valuable insights on the existing knowledge gap about the interplay between hot plastic deformation, secondary phase precipitation kinetics and the corrosion behaviour of super duplex stainless steels, contributing to the understanding of their performance in demanding chloride-rich environments.…”
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Research Progress on Frost Formation Mechanism of Air-source Heat Pump and Its Defrosting/Anti-frosting Technology by Zhang Yi, Zhang Guanmin, Zhang Lili, Ma Xiaoxu, Xu Pan, Tian Maocheng

“…., affecting the frosting process and the corresponding defrosting/anti-frosting method, such as reverse cycle, hot gas bypass, electric heater, low-frequency oscillation, hot water spray, ultrasonic vibration, electric field, magnetic field, changing the characteristics of inlet ambient air, changing surface temperature, surface treatment methods and so on are summarized. …”
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Polarization-insensitive integration of nanoparticle-on-a-slit cavities with dielectric waveguides for on-chip surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy by Javier Redolat, Daniel Arenas-Ortega, Ángela Barreda, Amadeu Griol, Elena Pinilla-Cienfuegos, Alejandro Martínez

“…Abstract In the nanoparticle-on-a-slit (NPoS) cavity, a variation of the nanoparticle-on-a-mirror geometry, a metallic nanoparticle is placed on a functionalized narrow slit created on a metal plate so that two nanometric-scale gaps enable extreme plasmonic localization. For many applications, it is desirable to integrate such cavities on a chip and provide access to (and collection from) the hot spots via integrated waveguides. …”
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