Toxicity and biochemical effects of four pesticides on honey bee, Apis mellifera under laboratory conditions by Z. M. Al Dhafar, M. A. Abdel Razik, M. A. Osman, M. E. Sweelam

“…In contrast, the tested insecticides activated PPO enzyme at LC25 concentration, while PPO activity was reduced after treating adult bees with LC50. Lambda-cyhalothrin, thiamethoxam, fenpyroximate and hexythiazox disrupted the physiology of honey bees, thereby reducing the efficiency of this beneficial pollinator. …”
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Exploring the Impact of Pedestrian Behavior Parameters on Gap Acceptance in Microsimulation Applications by Saki Rezwana, Nicholas Lownes

“…As urban environments become increasingly congested, understanding pedestrian behaviors at intersections is essential for ensuring safety and efficiency. This study explores the complexities of pedestrian behavior in urban traffic networks, focusing on sensitivity analysis using a microscopic simulation tool and a pedestrian module based on the social force model (SFM). …”
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Hadamard Product Arguments and Their Applications by Kyeongtae Lee, Hankyung Ko, Donghwan Oh, Jihye Kim, Hyunok Oh

“…The verifier operates with a complexity of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">${\mathcal {O}}_{\lambda }(\log n)$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, which includes <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathcal {O}(\log n)$ </tex-math></inline-formula> operations in <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathbb {G}_{T}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> and only <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mathcal {O}(1)$ </tex-math></inline-formula> pairing operations, making verification highly efficient. …”
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DIAGNOSTIC AND PROGNOSTIC SIGNIFICANCE OF INTRATHECAL SYNTHESIS OF IMMUNOGLOBULIN FREE LIGHT CHAINS IN MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS by V. D. Nazarov, S. V. Lapin, E. A. Surkova, E. P. Evdoshenko, G. S. Makshakov, Areg A. Totolian

“…Therefore, the indexes of free Ig light chains enables more precise diagnostics, like as more efficient severity evaluation of multiple sclerosis.…”
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Structural Biomimetics of Non-smooth Pits for Ceramic Extruders and Its Reducing Adhesion and Resistance by Shengrui YU, Ping JI, Zhemin DAI, Lei XU, Zhihuan LIU, Wei LI, Huiting WU

“…Moreover, when the pits were uniformly distributed on the head’s surface of the ceramic extruder in a parallel arrangement, with a pit radius of 1.5 mm and a distance between the centers of two adjacent pits of 4.5 mm, the drag reduction rate (<inline-formula><tex-math id="Z-20240910111850">$\lambda_{\mathrm{f}} $</tex-math><alternatives><graphic specific-use="online" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="202300031_Z-20240910111850.jpg"/><graphic specific-use="print" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="202300031_Z-20240910111850.png"/></alternatives></inline-formula>) for clay extrusion reached 21.83%, the variance of relative angular velocity (<inline-formula><tex-math id="Z-20240910111854">$\lambda_{\mathrm{s}}^2 $</tex-math><alternatives><graphic specific-use="online" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="202300031_Z-20240910111854.jpg"/><graphic specific-use="print" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:href="202300031_Z-20240910111854.png"/></alternatives></inline-formula>) decreased by 3.44%, and the clay extrusion efficiency increased by 11.95%. …”
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Solving four-dimensional superconformal Yang-Mills theories with Tracy-Widom distribution by Zoltan Bajnok, Bercel Boldis, Gregory P. Korchemsky

“…We exploit this relationship to develop an efficient method for computing the observables in superconformal Yang-Mills theories at both weak and strong coupling. …”
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Compact wideband and high gain horn slot antenna array fed by printed ridge gap waveguide for X band applications by Mahboubeh Taraji, Elham Baladi, Marco A. Antoniades

“…The antenna has a compact size of $$4.8\times 4.8\times 1.5\,\text {cm}^{2}$$ or 1.6 $$\lambda _0\times$$ 1.6 $$\lambda _0\times$$ 0.5 $$\lambda _0$$ at 10 GHz.…”
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EZR-MZR Resonators for Compact Low-Profile Omnidirectional Circular-Polarized Antenna Design by Lin Peng, Kai Sun, Xing Jiang, Si-Min Li, Cheng-Li Ruan

“…The proposed omnidirectional CP antenna has the advantages of low profile from ZOR characteristics and high design efficiency from the inherent 90&#x00B0; PD between the orthogonal polarizations. …”
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Enhanced Light Emission of Er(Yb/Y) Silicates at the Wavelength of 1.53  $\mu$m With Au Plasmonic Arrays by Gongli Xiao, Jianqing Li, Hongyan Yang

“…In this paper, we present a novel method to increase photoluminescence (PL) efficiency at the wavelength of 1.53&#x00A0;<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu$</tex-math></inline-formula>m (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\lambda =$</tex-math></inline-formula> 1.53&#x00A0;<inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX"> $\mu$</tex-math></inline-formula>m) by depositing Au plasmonic arrays on <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX"> $\text{SiO}_\text{2}\text{/Er}\text{(Yb/Y)}$</tex-math></inline-formula> silicates. …”
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A small serving of mash: (Quantum) algorithms for SPDH-Sign with small parameters by Mendelsohn Andrew, Dable-Heath Edmund, Ling Cong

“…We find an efficient method to solve the semidirect discrete logarithm problem (SDLP) over finite nonabelian groups of order p3{p}^{3} and exponent p2{p}^{2} for certain exponentially large parameters. …”
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DynBlock: dynamic data encryption with Toffoli gate for IoT by Mubasher Haq, Ijaz Ali Shoukat, Alamgir Naushad, Mohsin Raza Jafri, Moid Sandhu, Abd Ullah Khan, Hyundong Shin

“…DynBlock leverages Tofoli gates and XOR operations to reduce the number of computation operations required to achieve optimal throughput and energy efficiency. Security validation of DynBlock is performed considering various metrics, including an average key avalanche effect of 53.85%, average plain-text avalanche effect of 57.82%, differential cryptanalysis ( $$\Delta = 2^{-128}$$ ), and cryptanalysis ( $$\Lambda = 2^{-64}$$ ). …”
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A two stage differential evolution algorithm for parameter estimation of proton exchange membrane fuel cell by Mohammad Aljaidi, Sunilkumar P. Agrawal, Pradeep Jangir, Sundaram B. Pandya, Anil Parmar, Arpita, Ali Fayez Alkoradees, Bhargavi Indrajit Trivedi, Mohammad Khishe

“…Most traditional parameter estimation methodologies depend on optimization algorithms which are limited in their efficiency, convergence speed, and robustness. Typically, existing algorithms fail to achieve a balance between precision and computational efficiency, leading to suboptimal modeling of the complex, nonlinear behavior of PEMFCs. …”
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Efficacy of insecticides against wheat thrips Haplothrips tritici Kurd. in winter wheat crops by Iu. Klechkovskyi, V. Klychko, G. Khorohorina

“…Determine the technical effectiveness of insecticides Karate Zeon 050 CS, SC (lambda-cyhalothrin, 50 g/l); Match 050 ES, CE (lufenuron, 50 g/l); Enjio 247 SC, CS (thiamethoxam, 141 g/l + lambda-cyhalothrin, 106 g/l); Talstar, 10% CE (bifenthrin, 100 g/l); Mospilan, VP (acetamiprid, 200 g/kg); Inazuma, VG, (acetamiprid, 100 g/kg + lambda-cyhalothrin, 30 g/kg) in the Southern Steppe of Ukraine. …”
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Effectiveness of insecticides against the adult stage of western corn beetle (Diabrotica virgifera virgifera LeConte, 1868) by V. Saliienko, V. Fedorenko

“…Avaunt EC and Engio SC insecticides showed the most effective efficiency — 65.69% and 54.26%, the lower efficacy — Coragen SC with 11.38%. …”
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Considerations of Physical Design and Implementation for 5 MHz-100 W LLC Resonant DC-DC Converters by Akinori Hariya, Ken Matsuura, Hiroshige Yanagi, Satoshi Tomioka, Yoichi Ishizuka, Tamotsu Ninomiya

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A Low-Profile Broadband Circularly Polarized Slot Antenna Loaded With Metasurface for UHF-RFID Readers by Thi Ngoc Hien Doan, Hai Dang Le, van Son Hoang, Khac Kiem Nguyen, Son Xuat Ta

“…A metasurface, which is composed of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$6\times 6$ </tex-math></inline-formula> periodic metallic plates, is inserted between the array and GND to allow a low profile with high efficiency. The final design with overall size of <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$210\times 210\times 32.4$ </tex-math></inline-formula> mm3 (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.6\lambda \times 0.6\lambda \times 0.09\lambda $ </tex-math></inline-formula> at 0.86 GHz) has been fabricated and measured. …”
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A V-Band Doherty Power Amplifier Based on Voltage Combination and Balance Compensation Marchand Balun by Dong Chen, Chenxi Zhao, Zhengdong Jiang, Kam Man Shum, Quan Xue, Kai Kang

“…Moreover, a nonlinear driver is used to drive the peaking amplifier to enhance the output power and the turn-on speed of it. The power-added efficiency (PAE) of this PA at the 6-dB power back-off point is 8.7&#x0025; and the peak PAE reaches 16.8&#x0025;. …”
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Extending the Low Frequency Limit of Tightly Coupled Dipole Arrays for Ultra-Wide Bandwidth With Ultra-Thin Profile by Rajbala Solanki, Peng Khiang Tan, Theng Huat Gan

“…The overall profile of the array is approximately <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\lambda _{L}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>/25, (where <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\lambda _{L}$ </tex-math></inline-formula> is the wavelength at the lowest frequency of operation) and it has an average radiation efficiency of 66%. …”
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Quad-Band Multiport Rectenna for RF Energy Harvesting in Ambient Environment by Sunanda Roy, R. Jun-Jiat Tiang, Mardeni Bin Roslee, Md. Tanvir Ahmed, M. A. Parvez Mahmud

“…Indistinctly, the proposed antenna consists of 8-port which maintain <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$0.33\lambda \times 0.33\lambda $ </tex-math></inline-formula> (i.e. wavelength <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\lambda $ </tex-math></inline-formula> calculated at 0.9 GHz in free space) average area per port and has achieved more than 35&#x0025; relative bandwidth (BW) with a maximum gain of 6.5 dBi to cover the selected frequency bands. …”
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Design and analysis of a 60 GHz high gain wideband magneto electric dipole antenna array based on trapped printed gap waveguide technology by Haitham Hamada, Mohamed Mamdouh M. Ali, Shoukry I. Shams, Ashraf A. M. Khalaf, A. M. M. A. Allam

“…The 2 × 2 array of ME-dipoles has overall dimensions of 1.6 $$\lambda _0$$ $$\times$$ 1.4 $$\lambda _0$$ and demonstrates an impedance bandwidth ( $$|S_{11}| <$$ – 10 dB) exceeding 33.33 $$\%$$ at 60 GHz, with a peak gain of over 18 dBi.…”
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