Ultrafast no-wash bioassay based on gold nanoparticles and enhanced by acoustic streaming by Shuting Pan, Xianwu Ke, Rui You, Yanyan Wang, Xian Chen, Xiaotian Shen, Bohua Liu, Chongling Sun, Wei Pang, Xuexin Duan

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Adaptive-optical 3D microscopy for microfluidic multiphase flows by Clemens Bilsing, Erik Nützenadel, Sebastian Burgmann, Jürgen Czarske, Lars Büttner

“…We measure the flow inside a sessile, oscillating 50-μl droplet on an opaque gas diffusion layer for fuel cells and show that the temporally varying refraction at the droplet surface causes a systematic underestimation of the flow field magnitude corresponding to the first droplet eigenmode which plays a major role in their detachment mechanism. …”
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REM sleep is associated with white matter integrity in cognitively healthy, older adults. by Marie Altendahl, Devyn L Cotter, Adam M Staffaroni, Amy Wolf, Paige Mumford, Yann Cobigo, Kaitlin Casaletto, Fanny Elahi, Leslie Ruoff, Samirah Javed, Brianne M Bettcher, Emily Fox, Michelle You, Rowan Saloner, Thomas C Neylan, Joel H Kramer, Christine M Walsh

“…Participants completed the PSQI, a subjective measure of sleep quality, and used an at-home sleep recorder (Zeo, Inc.) to measure total sleep time (TST), sleep efficiency (SE), and percent time in light sleep (LS), deep sleep (DS), and REM sleep (RS). …”
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Development and validation of an explainable machine learning model for predicting postoperative pulmonary complications after lung cancer surgery: a machine learning studyResearch... by Shaolin Chen, Ting Deng, Qing Yang, Jin Li, Juanyan Shen, Xu Luo, Juan Tang, Xulian Zhang, Jordan Tovera Salvador, Junliang Ma

“…Nine key characteristics were selected for model development: age, duration of surgery, Charson comorbidity index (CCI), tumour stage, measured carbon monoxide diffusion (DLCO, mmol/min/kPa), intra-operative infusion volume (IFIV, mL), red blood cell volume distribution width–coefficient of variation (RDW-CV, %), body mass index (BMI), and number of years of smoking. …”
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Magnetic cork as adsorbent to remove hexavalent chromium from aqueous solution by Juana Abenojar, Sara López de Armentia, Juan Carlos. del Real, Miguel Angel Martinez

“…The relative efficiencies to the total milligrams of added adsorbent were 98, 98.6, and 99.7 mg, respectively. …”
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Study on the Influence of Expansion Ratio on the Effectiveness of Foam in Suppressing Forest Surface Fires by Haiyan Wang, Junzhao Zhang, Hongbin Zhong, Lei Chen

“…Key performance indicators, including extinguishing coverage time, internal cooling rate, and resistance to reignition, were systematically measured. The effects of expansion ratio on the diffusion and penetration behavior of foam on the fuel bed surface were then investigated to understand how these characteristics influence suppression performance. …”
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Development of innovation activity in the Russian Federation: problems and prospects by E. N. Strizhakova, D. V. Strizhakov

“…The study established the main trends in the process of development, implementation, and diffusion of innovations in scientific and industrial activities in the Russian Federation. …”
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Agricultural innovations for sustainable crop production intensification by Michele Pisante, Fabio Stagnari, Cynthia A. Grant

“…It is also suggested that a comprehensive effort be undertaken to measure different stages of the innovation system, including technological adoption and diffusion at the farm level, and to investigate the impact of agricultural policies on technological change and technical efficiency. …”
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Understanding Teachers’ Adoption of AI Technologies: An Empirical Study from Chinese Middle Schools by Jin Zhao, Siyi Li, Jianjun Zhang

“…In this context, understanding the critical factors influencing middle school teachers’ adoption of AI technologies for classroom instruction is essential for fostering the deep integration of these technologies into teaching and improving teaching efficiency in middle schools. Grounded in the structural equation model (SEM) approach, this research integrates the Innovation Diffusion Theory, the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), and the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), and proposes a structural model comprising 10 latent variables. …”
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Compound Optical Film Using Gray Scale Mask Embedded with Microvoids by C. T. Pan, Y. C. Chen, Y. J. Chen, W. C. Wang, H. C. Yang, H. C. Wu

“…The optical efficiency can be improved via the compound optical film.…”
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Electroacupuncture combined with cognitive rehabilitation outperforms cognitive rehabilitation alone in treating post-stroke cognitive impairment: a randomized controlled trial by Yisha Guo, Tingting Sun, Fengxi Qiu, Xueyi Li, Weiwei Cui, Zhenhua Liao, Jiajia Yao

“…Cognitive assessments and Diffusion Tensor Imaging tests were performed pre- and post-intervention. …”
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Edaphic and meteorological parameters as determinants of radon exhalation and its environmental implication in Peruvian agroecosystems by B. Pérez, L. C. Stieff, R. E. Ponce-Amanca, C. J. Guevara-Pillaca, D. Palacios

“…Third, gamma radiation measurements quantified radon progeny contributions ( $$2.82 \times 10^{-4} \pm 1.15 \times 10^{-5}$$ efficiency) for soil moisture detection. …”
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Antibacterial Activity of Cyanobacteria Dolichospermum affine Isolated from Freshwater by Dilek Yalçın

“…The antimicrobial test was determined using the disk diffusion method. The antimicrobial activities of D. affine extracts were measured using the diameter of the inhibition zone (DIZ) of the pathogen microorganisms. …”
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Synthesis, Electrochemical, Thermodynamic, and Quantum Chemical Investigations of Amino Cadalene as a Corrosion Inhibitor for Stainless Steel Type 321 in Sulfuric Acid 1M by Y. Koumya, R. Idouhli, A. Oukhrib, M. Khadiri, A. Abouelfida, A. Benyaich

“…The electrochemical results showed that ACM acted as a mixed-type corrosion inhibitor and the inhibition efficiency attained 91% at 10−3M. EIS measurements revealed that both metal charge transfer and diffusion processes are involved in the interfacial metal/solution reactions. …”
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Thickness-dependent Electrochromic Properties of Amorphous Tungsten Trioxide Thin Films by K.J. Patel, G.G. Bhatt, S.S. Patel, R.R. Desai, J.R. Ray, C.J. Panchal, Priya Suryavanshi, V.A. Kheraj, A.S. Opanasyuk

“…It turns out that the ‘thicker’ film exhibits better coloration efficiency (CE) as compared to the ‘thinner’ film. …”
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Hydrophobic starch acetate nanoparticles: A biopolymer-based system for sustained antitubercular drug release by Gaurang Rami, Pruthviraj Limbachiya, Mohyuddin Maradiya, Girish Acharya, Jabali Vora

“…Dynamic light scattering measured the particle sizes of SANPs to be 161 nm. …”
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Member Size Effect in Seebeck Coefficient of Cement Composites Incorporating Silicon Carbide by Byeong-Hun Woo, Kyu-Tae Park, Kyung-Suk Yoo, Jee-Sang Kim

“…Cubic specimens exhibited higher SC values compared to beam specimens, with a maximum SC of 1374 μV/K at 100% SiC substitution, attributed to shorter thermal diffusion distances. The findings suggest that optimizing member size and SiC content can significantly improve the thermoelectric performance of cement composites, potentially enhancing energy efficiency in construction applications.…”
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Evaluation Metrics and Methods for Generative Models in the Wireless PHY Layer by Michael Baur, Nurettin Turan, Simon Wallner, Wolfgang Utschick

“…Our analysis is based on real-world measurement data and includes the Gaussian mixture model, variational autoencoder, diffusion model, and generative adversarial network. …”
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Optimization and evaluation of nebivolol hydrochloride loaded transferosomes using Box-Behnken experimental design by P V Shelke, Punit R Rachh, Someshwar Mankar, Saurin Amin, Deepak Jain

“…Particle size analysis, zeta potential measurement, and in vitro drug release tests were performed to characterize the transferosomes. …”
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Research on an ultrafine water mist partition multistage dust suppression system in underground excavation tunnel by Deji Jing, Qisheng Kan, Mingying Dai, Jichuang Ma, Chunhua Bao, Pengyu Du, Ping Chang

“…Through field application and measurement in the I030409 excavation face of Qipanjing Coal Mine, the average reduction efficiency for total dust and respirable dust in the tunnel reached 91.74% and 93.4%, respectively, which effectively controls the problem of dust pollution in the excavation tunnel.…”
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