Multifractal Analysis of Geological Data Using a Moving Window Dynamical Approach by Gil Silva, Fernando Pellon de Miranda, Mateus Michelon, Ana Ovídio, Felipe Venturelli, Letícia Moraes, João Ferreira, João Parêdes, Alexandre Cury, Flávio Barbosa

“…Validations for the proposed methodology were performed using controlled artificial data generated from Weierstrass–Mandelbrot functions. Then, the methodology was applied to real geological profile data measuring permeability and porosity in oil wells, revealing the fractal dimensions of these data along the depth of each analyzed case. …”
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Deriving Test Suites with the Guaranteed Fault Coverage for Extended Finite State Machines by A. D. Ermakov, N. V. Yevtushenko

“…However, the performed experiments clearly show that a test suite extended by such distinguishing sequences detects much more functional faults in software implementations of a system whose behaviour is described by the given EFSM.…”
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Modulation of rhizosphere microbiota by Bacillus subtilis R31 enhances long‐term suppression of banana Fusarium wilt by Ming‐Wei Shao, Hao‐Jun Chen, Ai‐Qin Huang, Li Zheng, Chun‐ji Li, Di Qin, Yun‐Hao Sun, Zheng Lin, Gang Fu, Yan‐Hong Chen, Yong‐Jian Li, Zhang‐Yong Dong, Ping Cheng, Heru Pramono, Guo‐Hui Yu, Zhi‐Min Xu, Shuang Miao, Kevin D. Hyde

“…This study revealed the secondary succession characteristics of rhizosphere microbiota in banana fields after more than 5‐year continuous cropping and assessed the suppressive effects induced by biocontrol strain Bacillus subtilis R31. …”
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Use of an ejector to reduce the time of air injection during testing of the containment system at nuclear power plants by Sergii Surkov, Volodymyr Kravchenko, Iryna Korduba, Andrii Golovchenko, Oleksandr Butenko, Serhii Tsybytovskyi, Yuliia Trach

“…In addition, they used numerical methods that generate an error. The present work uses a mathematical apparatus that provides a more accurate result. …”
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Multi-Objective Optimal Power Flow of Integrated Transmission and Distribution Network Considering Node Carbon Emission Intensity by ZHANG Xianglong, YUAN Zhaoxiang, DONG Shufeng, LIU Ying, XIAO Zhihong, TIAN Yuzhou

“…A multi-objective linear weighted processing method based on a satisfaction function was proposed. [Results] A numerical example was provided to verify that the proposed linear weighted model based on the satisfaction function solution concept can reduce the solving time of the collaborative transmission and distribution power flow by more than 50%. …”
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Investigating age-related muscle force adaptations in males and females during sit-to-walk transition motion using EMG-informed modeling by Zakia Hussain, Alpha Agape Gopalai, Siti Anom Ahmad, Mazatulfazura Sf Binti Salim, Darwin Gouwanda, Pei-Lee Teh

“…Moreover, females exhibited more pronounced age-related muscle force changes than males during gait initiation. …”
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A Recommendation Algorithm Incorporating Adaptive Gating Mechanisms and Knowledge Graph Enhancements by Yi Yu, Teng Lv

“…Then, for the item feature vector, the model dynamically adjusts the weights of Collaborative Filtering (CF) and Knowledge Graph (KG) through the gating mechanism, generating a more expressive item representation. The gating mechanism calculates the gating value through the sigmoid function, allowing user’s behavioral characteristics in different scenarios to more accurately impact item recommendation. …”
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The Application of Interactive Effect Evaluation Model in the Teaching of College Mathematics Courses by Jungang Chen

“…The traditional mathematics teaching only reflects a function of knowledge inheritance, but lacks the function of knowledge innovation. …”
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Structure and distribution of gynaecological diseases for girls and teenage girls in the Zaporizhzhia area by N. V. Avramenko, O. V. Kabachenko, T. O. Tsaruk

“…In recent years the question of gynecological diseases in women and teenage girls becomes more and more relevance. Girls of pubertal age should become mothers of new generation, but the health of adolescents continues to deteriorate. …”
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Stepper Motor Position Control Using PD and MPC Algorithms Embedded in Programmable Logic Controller by Anshul Jaswal, Ma'moun Abu-Ayyad, Yash Lad, Anilchandra Attaluri

“…In addition, this study compares the result of MPC algorithm with traditional control strategies, such as PD. To generate pulses and read the motor encoder signal, the project used special function modules and implemented IEC 61131 programming code in ladder logic, function blocks, and structured text. …”
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Deepfake detection method based on patch-wise lighting inconsistency by Wenxuan WU, Wenbo ZHOU, Weiming ZHANG, Nenghai YU

“…The rapid development and widespread dissemination of deepfake techniques has caused increased concern.The malicious application of deepfake techniques also poses a potential threat to the society.Therefore, how to detect deepfake content has become a popular research topic.Most of the previous deepfake detection algorithms focused on capturing subtle forgery traces at pixel level and have achieved some results.However, most of the deepfake algorithms ignore the lighting information before and after generation, resulting in some lighting inconsistency between the original face and the forged face, which provided the possibility of using lighting inconsistency to detect deepfake.A corresponding algorithm was designed from two perspectives: introducing lighting inconsistency information and designing a network structure module for a specific task.For the introduction of lighting task, a new network structure was derived by designing the corresponding channel fusion method to provide more lighting inconsistency information to the network feature extraction layer.In order to ensure the portability of the network structure, the process of feature channel fusion was placed before the network extraction information, so that the proposed method can be fully planted to common deepfake detection networks.For the design of the network structure, a deepfake detection method was proposed for lighting inconsistency based on patch-similarity from two perspectives: network structure and loss function design.For the network structure, based on the characteristic of inconsistency between the forged image tampering region and the background region, the extracted features were chunked in the network feature layer and the feature layer similarity matrix was obtained by comparing the patch-wise cosine similarity to make the network focus more on the lighting inconsistency.On this basis, based on the feature layer similarity matching scheme, an independent ground truth and loss function was designed for this task in a targeted manner by comparing the input image with the untampered image of this image for patch-wise authenticity.It is demonstrated experimentally that the accuracy of the proposed method is significantly improved for deepfake detection compared with the baseline method.…”
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Hashtags as pragmatic devices of cultural reproduction in digital discourse by Galina E. Snezhko

“…Although hashtags are becoming more and more popular among academics as online communication tools, little is known about how they contribute to the practical reproduction of cultural norms. …”
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Impacts of Captive Domestication and Geographical Divergence on the Gut Microbiome of Endangered Forest Musk Deer by Huilin Liu, Lu Xiao, Zhiqiang Liu, You Deng, Jinpeng Zhu, Chengzhong Yang, Qing Liu, Di Tian, Xiaojuan Cui, Jianjun Peng

“…Wild populations exhibited a Pseudomonadota-dominated gut microbiota (significantly more abundant than in captive counterparts), enriched with lignin-degrading genera <i>Novosphingobium</i> and <i>Acinetobacter</i>. …”
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The relationship between pomegranate root collar rot and the diversity of fungal communities in its rhizosphere by Ziqiang Wu, Jianxin Chen, Jie Chen, Jie Chen, Yalin Yang, Aiting Zhou, Jianrong Wu, Jianrong Wu

“…The rhizosphere microbiome plays a crucial role in plant growth, development, and disease resistance.MethodsThis study utilized Illumina MiSeq sequencing to analyze the fungal communities in the roots and rhizosphere soils of healthy and diseased pomegranates, focusing on the impact of root collar rot disease on the diversity and structural composition of these communities.ResultsThe results indicated that in the unique fungal communities of healthy plant roots, the relative abundance of ectomycorrhizal and arbuscular mycorrhizal functional (AMF) groups was 53.77%, including genera such as Glomus and Septoglomus. …”
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Satellite Altimetry-based Extension of global-scale in situ river discharge Measurements (SAEM) by P. Saemian, O. Elmi, M. Stroud, R. Riggs, B. M. Kitambo, F. Papa, G. H. Allen, M. J. Tourian

“…These water level time series are sourced from both existing Level-3 water level time series and newly generated ones within this study. The Level-3 data are gathered from pre-existing data sets, including Hydroweb.Next (formerly Hydroweb), the Database of Hydrological Time Series of Inland Waters (DAHITI), the Global River Radar Altimetry Time Series (GRRATS), and HydroSat. (3) SAEM's third product is rating curves for the defined VSs, which map water level values into discharge values, derived using a nonparametric stochastic quantile mapping function approach. …”
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Clinical implications, safety, efficacy of Recombinant Human Granulocyte Colony-Stimulating Factors and Pegylated Equivalent by Silvia Bolis, Emilia Cocorocchio, Consuelo Corti, Andrés J M Ferreri, Niccolò Frungillo, Giovanni Grillo, Emanuela Salè Omodeo, Lucilla Tedeschi, Vittorio Ruggero Zilioli

“…For instance, lenograstim binds to receptors in the same way of endogenous ligand, and neutrophils obtained from stimulation with this G-CSF have a physiological activity profile similar to neutrophils normally generated in humans. Conversely, the different interaction between filgrastim and G-CSF receptor is more frequently associated with morphological abnormalities, reduced motility and chemotaxis and a reduced response to bacterial stimuli in induced neutrophils.…”
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Influence of Infotainment-System Audio Cues on the Sound Quality Perception Onboard Electric Vehicles in the Presence of Air-Conditioning Noise by Massimiliano Masullo, Katsuya Yamauchi, Minori Dan, Federico Cioffi, Luigi Maffei

“…The results indicate that introducing ISA cues in car cabins fosters improvements in the perceived aesthetic dimension of sound quality, making it more functioning, natural, and pleasant. For the Italian group, adding ISA cues also moderated the loudness dimension by reducing noise perception. …”
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The extracellular loop 2 (ECL2) of the human histamine H4 receptor substantially contributes to ligand binding and constitutive activity. by David Wifling, Günther Bernhardt, Stefan Dove, Armin Buschauer

“…To study the role of the FF motif in ECL2, we generated the hH4R-F168A mutant. The receptor was co-expressed in Sf9 insect cells with the G-protein subunits Gαi2 and Gβ1γ2, and the membranes were studied in [3H]histamine binding and functional [35S]GTPγS assays. …”
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A comparative survey of the influence of small self-cleaving ribozymes on gene expression in human cell culture by Dennis Kläge, Elisabeth Müller, Jörg S. Hartig

“…We were able to identify functional structures suited for aptazyme design and generated highly efficient hammerhead ribozyme variants originating from the human genome. …”
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Robust models of disease heterogeneity and control, with application to the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic. by Kory D Johnson, Annemarie Grass, Daniel Toneian, Mathias Beiglböck, Jitka Polechová

“…This not only reduces the median total infections and peak quarantine cases, but also controls outbreaks much more reliably: such a controller entirely prevents rare but large outbreaks. …”
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