Shuffle window transformer DeepLabV3+: a lightweight convolutional neural network and transformer based hybrid semantic segmentation network by Yane Li, Zhichao Chen, Hongxia Qi, Ming Fan, Lihua Li

“…When the window size is fixed, by integrating window attention (WA) and shuffle WA mechanisms, cross-window global context modeling with linear computational complexity is achieved. Additionally, we enhance the atrous spatial pyramid pooling (ASPP) by incorporating strip pooling to construct a strip ASPP, effectively extracting both regular and irregular multi-scale (MS) features. …”
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Determination of 18 amino acids in Tianlongquan seasoning glutinous rice wine by HPLC with pre-column derivatization by ZHANG Long, HAO Junguang, MO Wei, WAN Ruijie, WEI Haidan, QI Cen, HOU Hui, LIANG Zhenrong, WU Jinyan, LIN Haichao

“…The method was simple, accurate and efficient, and could be used to quantitatively determine the contents of amino acids in Tianlongquan seasoning glutinous rice wine and related products.…”
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Innovative Peptide-Based Plasmonic Optical Biosensor for the Determination of Cholesterol by Ana Lia Bernardo, Anne Parra, Virginia Cebrián, Óscar Ahumada, Sergio Oddi, Enrico Dainese

“…The resulting biosensor exhibited an exceptionally low detection limit of 21.95 µM and demonstrated a linear response in the 10–200 µM range. This peptide-integrated plasmonic sensor introduces a novel one-step competitive method for cholesterol quantification, positioning itself as a highly sensitive biosensing modality for implementation within the AVAC platform, which operates using reflective dark-field microscopy.…”
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Design of EEG based thought identification system using EMD & deep neural network by Rahul Agrawal, Chetan Dhule, Garima Shukla, Sofia Singh, Urvashi Agrawal, Najah Alsubaie, Mohammed S. Alqahtani, Mohamed Abbas, Ben Othman Soufiene

“…In the proposed method a novel approach of feature extraction is done by Empirical Mode Decomposition on non- stationary & non-linear kind of EEG signal. EMD helps in the effective time frequency analysis by disintegrating the EEG signal in the form of six Intrinsic Mode Functions with help of the frequency components. …”
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Development of an Electrochemical Paper-Based Device Modified with Functionalized Biochar for the Screening of Paracetamol in Substandard Medicines by Martin Kassio Leme da Silva, Francisco Contini Barreto, Guilherme dos Santos Sousa, Rafael Plana Simões, Gaurav Ahuja, Samriddha Dutta, Ashok Mulchandani, Ivana Cesarino

“…The sensor demonstrated linear detection of paracetamol from 5.0 to 60.0 µmol L⁻¹ with a detection limit of 3.50 µmol L⁻¹. …”
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Intelligent traffic congestion forecasting using BiLSTM and adaptive secretary bird optimizer for sustainable urban transportation by Lalitha Krishnasamy, Siva C, Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj, Mahmoud Ahmad Al-Khasawneh, Taher Al-Shehari, Nasser A. Alsadhan, Shitharth Selvarajan

“…Traffic congestion in urban road networks significantly influences sustainability by increasing air pollution levels. Efficient congestion management enables drivers to bypass heavily trafficked areas and reducing pollutant emissions. …”
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Depositing Pt nanoparticles on crumpled Ti3C2Tx for enhanced electrochemical sensing by Huaqing Chen, Tianshu Chu, Shundong Ge, Bowei Zhang, Fu-Zhen Xuan, Rui Yin

“…The experimental results showed that Pt/Na-Ti3C2Tx possessed a wide linear range (0.1–100 μM), a low detection limit (0.029 μM), and a high sensitivity (0.556 μA·μM−1·cm−2). …”
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Iterative Fast Super-Twisting Flux Sliding Mode Observer for SPMSM with Tangent Quadrature Phase-Locked Loop by Fujiong Zhao, Yunxia Xie, Jianfeng Mao, Yingjie Xu, Gaosheng Li, Rongsheng Jia, Weigang Wang

“…Building on the traditional super-twisting algorithm (STA), the IFST-FSMO is proposed to accelerate convergence and enhance chattering suppression, which incorporates a linear term and utilizes the hyperbolic tangent function to replace the intrinsic sign function. …”
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A High-Throughput Screening Strategy for <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> Producing Menaquinone-7 Based on Fluorescence-Activated Cell Sorting by Lina Yang, Can Tang, Yan Cui, Jianhua Zhang

“…To address this, we utilized the effect of MK-7 on transmembrane potential to develop a high-throughput screening (HTS) strategy for efficiently identifying strains with improved MK-7 production. …”
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Analytical and numerical investigations of slip flow in a Jeffery-Hamel configuration within a converging microchannel incorporating a step variation in wall temperature and the ef... by Elhoucine Essaghir, Youssef Haddout, Mustapha Darif, Abdelaziz Oubarra, Jawad Lahjomri

“…Key findings reveal optimum regime of heating characterized by a linear variation of bulk temperature and uniform heat flux, for a fixed Reynolds number and at an optimal value around ψopt = 21° in no-slip flow, decreasing to ψopt = 8.8° as the flow becomes more rarefied at Kn = 0.1. …”
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Brain activation and heart rate variability as markers of autonomic function under stress by Annika Huber, Julian Koenig, Bastian Bruns, Martin Bendszus, Hans-Christoph Friederich, Joe J. Simon

“…Abstract Efficient brain–heart interactions, mediated by the central autonomic network (CAN), are crucial in regulating physiological and psychological stress. …”
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Integrated Energy Management in Small-Scale Smart Grids Considering the Emergency Load Conditions: A Combined Battery Energy Storage, Solar PV, and Power-to-Hydrogen System by Hossein Jokar, Taher Niknam, Moslem Dehghani, Pierluigi Siano, Khmaies Ouahada, Mokhtar Aly

“…This study introduces an advanced Mixed-Integer Linear Programming model tailored for comprehensive electrical and thermal energy management in small-scale smart grids, addressing emergency load shedding and overload situations. …”
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Development of multiplex real-time PCR for simultaneous detection of common fungal pathogens in invasive mycoses by Yasmin Khairani Muhammad Ismadi, Suharni Mohamad, Azian Harun

“…The limit of detection was determined to be 100 pg/μl (106 copies/μl), achievable within a rapid 3-h timeframe. The PCR assay efficiency exhibited a range between 89.77% and 104.30% for each target organism, with linearity falling between 0.9780 and 0.9983. …”
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The determination and pollution analysis of β-N- methylamino-L-alanine and its isomers in algal health products by WANG Chen, YUAN Guanxiang, LUO Qing, QIN Xiaoyun, YANG Shengyuan, LIU Guihua

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the pollution levels of algal health products in China， the liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry method based on AQC derivation for BMAA and its isomers in algal health products was established.MethodsThe samples were treated by acid hydrolysis， nitrogen concentration and AQC derivatization， and then analyzed by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry， quantified by internal standard methods of two commercial isotope standards.ResultsIn the linear range of 0.25-100 μg/L， the correlation coefficients of BMAA toxins were all above 0.998. …”
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Chemical reaction, radiative heat and mass transfer impact on unsteady MHD flow past a porous vertical plate with heat source and dissipation by Kurma Santhosha, B. Shankar Goud, Kottakkaran Sooppy Nisar

“…It is efficient in the sense of converging quickly to limiting solutions that satisfy the underlying governing equations and related initial and boundary conditions. …”
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Enhance triangular fuzzy parametric framework for solid multi objective transportation problem with split decision variables by Vishwas Deep Joshi, Medha Sharma, Lenka Čepová, Huda Alsaud, Kanak Kalita

“…In the subsequent phase, these CMOTPs are addressed by Fuzzy Linear Programming (FLP), and the most equitable solution at each μ-level is determined by its Euclidean distance from the fuzzy ideal solution. …”
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A Methodology for Turbine-Level Possible Power Prediction and Uncertainty Estimations Using Farm-Wide Autoregressive Information on High-Frequency Data by Francisco Javier Jara Ávila, Timothy Verstraeten, Pieter Jan Daems, Ann Nowé, Jan Helsen

“…The method leverages a Stochastic Variational Gaussian Process with a Linear Model of Coregionalization, incorporating physical models like manufacturer power curves as mean functions and enabling flexible modeling of active power and its associated variance. …”
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Integration of Carbon Nanotubes into Manganese Dioxide Nanorods for Enhanced Enzymeless Electrochemical Glucose Sensing with High Sensitivity and Selectivity by Khawtar Hasan Ahmed, Alonso Moreno Zuria, Mohamed Mohamedi

“…These factors enable more efficient, scalable, and durable sensors with better sensitivity, stability, and affordability for real-time glucose monitoring. …”
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Routing Protocols Performance on 6LoWPAN IoT Networks by Pei Siang Chia, Noor Hisham Kamis, Siti Fatimah Abdul Razak, Sumendra Yogarayan, Warusia Yassin, Mohd Faizal Abdollah

“…The result also shows that RPL is the most power-efficient protocol among the scenarios compared to LOADng and AODV. …”
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How the Functional Constitution of Plant Communities in Field Margins Affects Wild Bee Community Composition and Functional Structure by Jane Morrison, Jordi Izquierdo, Eva Hernández Plaza, José L. González-Andújar

“…Maintaining flowering plants in agricultural field margins is often recommended as a cost-effective and efficient method of offering habitat for wild pollinator conservation. …”
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