Monitoring individual rice field flooding dynamics over a large scale to improve mosquito surveillance and control by Mauricianot Randriamihaja, Tokiniaina M. Randrianjatovo, Michelle V. Evans, Felana A. Ihantamalala, Vincent Herbreteau, Christophe Révillion, Eric Delaitre, Thibault Catry, Andres Garchitorena

“…Methods A method using radar imagery is proposed to monitor flooding dynamics in individual rice fields, a primary larval habitat, over very large geographic areas relevant to national malaria control programmes aiming to implement LSM at scale. …”
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Hybrid biochar-graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) composite photocatalyst: a facile strategy for enhanced degradation of Ciprofloxacin (CIP) by Ijlal Idrees, Muhammad Zafar, Malik Adeel Umer, Amna Mir, Fahad Rehman, Abrar Faisal, Abdul Razzaq, Woo Young Kim

“…These results point towards the success of composite formation of GCN with BC due to enhanced photocatalytic activity observed in the results and prove the creation of a visible light active (VLA) photocatalyst for efficient removal of pharmaceutical micropollutants like CIP from wastewater. Many different methods are employed to study the physiochemical, textural, and optical properties of the prepared material which include Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface area, x-ray diffraction spectroscopy (XRD), Scanning electron microscopy (SEM), Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy, UV Visible absorption, and Photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy.…”
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Optimization of Parameters of Saline Sodium Citrate Buffer for Stability of Colloidal Gold Nanoparticles Used in DNA Hybridization Biosensor by Maksym Soboleskyi, Illia Holubiev, Andrii Lopatynskyi, Anton Samoylov, Glib Dorozinsky, Oleksandr Liapin, Roman Khrystosenko, Volodymyr Chegel, Sergiy Dzyadevych, Oleksandr Soldatkin

“… Background. The use of optical biosensors based on surface plasmon resonance (SPR) spectrometry have long been established as a viable alternative to the traditional molecular biological methods, such as immunostaining or ELISA. …”
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A Novel Dual-Modal Deep Learning Network for Soil Salinization Mapping in the Keriya Oasis Using GF-3 and Sentinel-2 Imagery by Ilyas Nurmemet, Yang Xiang, Aihepa Aihaiti, Yu Qin, Yilizhati Aili, Hengrui Tang, Ling Li

“…Effectively and timely mapping of different degrees of salinized soils is essential for sustainable land management and ecological restoration. …”
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Space-Based Mapping of Pre- and Post-Hurricane Mangrove Canopy Heights Using Machine Learning with Multi-Sensor Observations by Boya Zhang, Daniel Gann, Shimon Wdowinski, Chaohao Lin, Erin Hestir, Lukas Lamb-Wotton, Khandker S. Ishtiaq, Kaleb Smith, Yuepeng Li

“…Model performance of SAR and optical data differed with time period and across height classes. …”
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PI-ADFM: Enhancing Multimodal Remote Sensing Image Matching Through Phase-Integrated Aggregated Deep Features by Haiqing He, Shixun Yu, Yongjun Zhang, Yufeng Zhu, Ting Chen, Fuyang Zhou

“…Experimental results substantiate that, in juxtaposition with state-of-the-art methods, the PI-ADFM method has significantly augmented the count of matches for optical-infrared and optical synthetic aperture radar images by a factor of at least 1.7 and 3.7, respectively, while concurrently enhancing the accuracy by a minimum of 10% and 6%, respectively. …”
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Synthesis and properties of composite materials based on zinc oxide nanoparticles in an insulating matrix by S. Y. Karankova, I. A. Tikhonov, E. B. Chubenko

“…A composite material based on zinc oxide nanoparticles synthesized by the chemical hydrothermal method and a polymer insulated matrix of sodium silicate was obtained. …”
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Characterisation of zinc delivery from a nipple shield delivery system using a breastfeeding simulation apparatus. by Rebekah L Scheuerle, Sylvaine F A Bruggraber, Stephen E Gerrard, Richard A Kendall, Catherine Tuleu, Nigel K H Slater

“…Inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry was used to detect the zinc released, using a method that does not require prior digestion of the samples and that could be applied in other zinc analysis studies in breast milk. …”
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Surface crack growth subject to bending and biaxial tension-compression by V. Shlyannikov, A. Tumanov, A. Zakharov, A. Gerasimenko

“…Both the optical microscope measurements and the crack opening displacement (COD) method are used to monitor and calculate both crack depth and crack length during the tests. …”
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Fungal β-Glucans Enhance Lactic Acid Bacteria Growth by Shortening Their Lag Phase and Increasing Growth Rate by Andrea Bukša, Filip Petrović, Željka Maglica

“…This study investigated the prebiotic properties of fungal glucan extracts from <i>Pleurotus ostreatus</i>, <i>Lentinula edodes</i>, and <i>Saccharomyces cerevisiae</i>, employing a novel high-throughput method based on optical density measurements. This approach enabled the simultaneous screening of the effects of multiple extracts on six different strains of probiotic bacteria. …”
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Controlled biopolymer roughness induced by plasma and excimer laser treatment by P. Slepicka, I. Michaljanicova, V. Svorcik

“…The ablation loss and morphology of PLLA was induced by excimer laser exposure of plasma pre-treated PLLA with different laser fluencies and number of pulses. The combination of a certain input parameters of plasma pre-treatment together with laser exposure induces extensive physico-chemical changes (morphology, contact angle, optical properties) on polymer surface with dramatic roughness increase. …”
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Vulnerability of Submarine Cable Network of Mainland China: Comparison of Vulnerability between before and after Construction of Trans-Arctic Cable System by Yongshun Xie, Chengjin Wang

“…The submarine optical-fiber cable (submarine cable) is a large connectivity infrastructure, which plays an important role in international communication, cyber-physical systems, and even national security. …”
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Phasor-FSTM: a new paradigm for multicolor super-resolution imaging of living cells based on fluorescence modulation and lifetime multiplexing by Luwei Wang, Yue Chen, Jiaqing Guo, Xiaoyu Weng, Wei Yan, Jun Song, Tong Ye, Junle Qu

“…To demonstrate the capabilities of Phasor-FSTM, we performed two-color to four-color super-resolution imaging at a resolution of ~λ/5 and observed the interactions of organelles in live cells during continuous imaging for a duration of over 20 min. Our method stands out for its simplicity and adaptability, seamlessly fitting into existing laser scanning microscopes without requiring multiple laser lines for excitation, which also provides a new avenue for other super-resolution imaging technologies based on different principles to build multi-color imaging systems with the requirement of a lower budget.…”
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Small- to Large-Scale Electron Beam Powder Bed Fusion of Functionally Graded Steels by Carlos Botero, William Sjöström, Emilio Jimenez-Pique, Andrey Koptyug, Lars-Erik Rännar

“…The ability to control process parameters over time and build space in electron beam powder bed fusion (PBF-EB) opens up unprecedented opportunities to tailor the process and use materials of a different nature in the same build. The present investigation explored the various methods used to adapt the PBF-EB process for the production of functionally graded materials (FGMs). …”
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A novel measurement system for unattended, in situ characterization of carbonaceous aerosols by A. Keller, P. Specht, P. Steigmeier, E. Weingartner

“…The fast thermograms contain information regarding the volatility and refractoriness of the sample without imposing an artificial fraction separation like other measurement methods. Different aerosol components, like wood-burning emissions, soot from the propane flame and secondary organic matter, create diverse identifiable patterns.…”
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New Solution for Photovoltaic Station Collector Line Protection Based on Comprehensive Harmonic Drive by Jiandong WO, Wulue PAN, Yuehui LI, Jiayi WU

“…The simulation study is carried out for different fault conditions, and the effectiveness of proposed method is verified.…”
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Photoluminescence of ZnS Luminophore Sonofragmentated in Isopropyl Alcohol Solution by M. Zakirov, O. Korotchenkov, Ya. Rybak

“…The paper presents a new method of producing nanosized SiO2 particles by a sonochemical reaction in a mixture of SiC in distilled water. …”
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An Organic Acid-induced Synthesis and Characterization of Selenium Nanoparticles by Charu Dwivedi, Chetan P. Shah, Krishankant Singh, Manmohan Kumar, Parma Nand Bajaj

“…A simple wet chemical method has been developed to synthesize selenium nanoparticles (size 40–100 nm), by the reaction of sodium selenosulphate precursor with different organic acids in aqueous medium, under ambient conditions. …”
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Abundant new interaction solutions and nonlinear dynamics for the (3+1)-dimensional Hirota–Satsuma–Ito-like equation by Liu Xiaotian, Zhang Yongshuai, Yang Yunqing

“…The corresponding evolution and dynamics for the interaction solutions under different parameters are discussed. Such interactions are key to modeling realistic systems in which multiple phenomena coexist, such as fluid mechanics, plasma physics, and optical systems, where waves can exchange energy and form stable or unstable patterns. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of hybrid cured poly(ether-urethane)acrylate/titania microcomposites formed from tetraalkoxytitanate precursor

“…Hybrid poly(ether-urethane)acrylate (PEUA)/titania (TiO2) microcomposites were prepared using a novel method that includes a swelling of different photo-crosslinked PEUA networks in concentrated tetraisopropoxytitanate (Ti(OiC3H7)4 or TIPT) precursor solution in organic media followed by the hydrolysis of covalently bonded polyalkoxytitanate ([–OTi(OC3H7)2–]n) chains and their aggregation to amorphous micro- and nano-scale sized TiO2 particles. …”
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