Construction and Performance Evaluation of a Flow Meter Based on Thermal Pulse to Measure Plant Sap Flow in Vascular Tissues by M. Teimorzadeh, J. Baradaran Motie, A. Rohani, Y. Selahvarzi

“…Effective irrigation management necessitates precise information on the quantity and pattern of water consumption by trees. To achieve optimal irrigation, a reliable method for quantifying plant water needs is crucial, ensuring that trees avoid drought stress. …”
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Research on manufacturing quality improvement based on product gene evaluation method and a meta-heuristic algorithm with hybrid encoding scheme by Wenxiang Xu, Chao Wang, Shimin Xu, Junyong Liang, Dezheng Liu, Baigang Du

“…In this method, an optimization model is established and described by formulas, in which three optimization objectives including production quality, costs, and time are involved. …”
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Soil Physical Properties, Root Distribution, and “Ponkan” Tangerine Yield Across Different Rootstocks in a Deep Tillage Ultisol by Pedro Antônio Namorato Benevenute, Laura Beatriz Batista Melo, Samara Martins Barbosa, Mariany Isabela Soares Domingues, Isabela Cristina Filardi Vasques, Everton Geraldo de Morais, Lucas Roberto de Castro, Geraldo César de Oliveira, Ester Alice Ferreira, Bruno Montoani Silva

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Research on the Sugarcane Stubble Chopping Mechanism of an Ultra-Deep Vertical Rotary Tillage Cutter Based on FEM-SPH Coupling Method by Wang Yang, Huangsheng Lu, Xiong Xiao, Zhengkai Luo, Weilong Dai, Zhiheng Lu

“…To solve this, this paper develops a simulation model of ultra-deep vertical rotary tillage (UDVRT) in a sugarcane stubble field using the FEM-SPH coupling method and physical testing. The simulation model is used to investigate the rotary tillage process in the stubble field and the stubble chopping mechanism of the UDVRT cutter, identifying the causes of inadequate stubble chopping effectiveness. …”
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Multi-Method Combined Screening of Agarase-Secreting Fungi from Sea Cucumber and Preliminary Analyses on Their Agarases and Agar-Oligosaccharide Products by Shuting He, Tiantian Lu, Xiaoyu Sun, Fangfang Ban, Longjian Zhou, Yayue Liu, Yan Feng, Yi Zhang

“…Agar can be degraded into agar-oligosaccharides by physical, chemical, and biological methods, but the further industrial application of agar-oligosaccharides has been limited by the environmental pollution of traditional agar-oligosaccharides preparation methods and the lack of novel agarase. …”
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Nitrogen Isotope Determination Method Using EA Isolink-IRMS: Comparison of Single/Double Furnace Modes and Evaluation of Measurement Accuracy by Ye-kai WANG, Nan WANG, Yan-yan ZHAO, San-zhong LI, Xi-jie YIN

“…By measuring a series of standard substances and marine sediments with varying nitrogen contents, the method for nitrogen isotope measurement was further optimized. …”
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Adaptive Multiscale Noise Control Enhanced Stochastic Resonance Method Based on Modified EEMD with Its Application in Bearing Fault Diagnosis by Jimeng Li, Jinfeng Zhang

“…According to the oscillation characteristics of signal itself, the algorithm of modified EEMD can adaptively decompose the fault signals into different scales and it reduces the decomposition levels to improve calculation efficiency of the proposed method. …”
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HPLC method development/validation and skin diffusion study of caffeine, methyl paraben and butyl paraben as skin-diffusing model drugs. by Randa S H Mansour, Imad I Hamdan, Mutaz S H Salem, Enam A Khalil, ALSayed A Sallam

“…The proposed method employed a gradient system that was systematically optimized for separation and quantification of the penetrants. …”
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Regression Analysis in Development of Method for Isolation and Quantitative Determination of Water-soluble Polysaccharides from Sunflower Roots of One-year-old by N. A. Dyakova

“…The aim of this study is to select optimal parameters of ultrasonic extraction of water-soluble polysaccharides from sunflower roots of oneyear old based on regression analysis.Materials and methods. …”
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Classification of Paddy Rice Planting Area Through Feature Selection Method Using Sentinel-1/2 Time Series Images by Shiyu Zhang, Pengao Li, Yong Xie, Wen Shao, Xueru Tian

“…Therefore, this study took Liyang City as the study area, reconstructed Sentinel-2 cloud-free time series optical images, and extracted spectral features, vegetation indexes, and other features, in combination with the polarization features of the Sentinel-1 time series radar images. The optimal feature subset was selected through the feature selection method, and machine learning algorithms were optimized for paddy rice planting area classification. …”
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The 7-step “P” technique: a novel manual push method for high-quality OCT imaging in severe coronary stenosis by Jincheng Guo, Saiying He, Jia Zhou, Hao Liu, Zixuan Li, Zijing Liu, Senhu Wang, Haotian Wang

“…BackgroundAchieving optimal optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging in patients with severe coronary stenosis is challenging because of the catheter-induced restriction of distal contrast flushing within the lesion.AimsTo evaluate the effectiveness of manual contrast injection followed by OCT catheter advancement in improving image clarity in patients with severe coronary stenosis.MethodsThis single-centre observational study included 60 patients with acute coronary syndrome who demonstrated antegrade thrombolysis in myocardial infarction (TIMI) flow ≥2 on coronary angiography before the OCT catheter was passed through the severe coronary lesions. …”
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Fast HPLC-MS/MS Method for Determining Penicillin Antibiotics in Infant Formulas Using Molecularly Imprinted Solid-Phase Extraction by Mónica Díaz-Bao, Rocío Barreiro, José Manuel Miranda, Alberto Cepeda, Patricia Regal

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Identification and Differentiation of Polygonum multiflorum Radix and Polygoni multiflori Radix Preaparata through the Quantitative Analysis of Multicomponents by the Single-Marker... by Ding-Qiang Luo, Pu Jia, Shan-Shan Zhao, Ye Zhao, Hai-Jing Liu, Feng Wei, Shuang-Cheng Ma

“…We redefined the “Polygonum multiflorum rules.” The method using “Polygonum multiflorum rules” revised after optimization of the determination results was used, as it was accurate and led to convenient operation and low inspection costs, and moreover, the method could differentiate Polygoni multiflori Radix Preaparata and Polygonum multiflorum Radix medicinal samples and precisely identify samples that were different from the completely processed product Polygoni multiflori Radix Preaparata.…”
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An Adaptive Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm for Unconstrained Optimization by Feng Qian, Mohammad Reza Mahmoudi, Hamïd Parvïn, Kim-Hung Pho, Bui Anh Tuan

“…Conventional optimization methods are not efficient enough to solve many of the naturally complicated optimization problems. …”
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Preparation of Schiff Base Derived from 3,4-Dimethoxybenzaldehyde and p-Aminobenzoic Acid by Supersonic Speed Gas Impacting Method by Yan-Hua Cai, Wen Luo

“…A Schiff base derived from 3,4-dimethoxybenzaldehyde and p-aminobenzoic acid (SBDA) was synthesized by novel supersonic speed gas impacting method. The morphology and geometric structure of the synthesized Schiff base SBDA were investigated, the results showed that the particles of SBDA were not completely regular and the HOMO and LUMO of SBDA optimized geometry structure using the semiempirical method PM3 were −9.115 eV and −1.191 eV, respectively, and some bond length of synthesized SBDA became short and bone angle became large compared to the reactant. …”
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Research on Self-locking and Efficiency Maximization of 3K（Ⅲ） Type Planetary Gear Train Based on the Transmission Ratio Method by Xu Mengchong, Sun Wei, Yang Yifan, Kong Jianyi, Su Pincheng

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Valve Internal Leakage Signal Enhancement Method Based on the Search and Rescue Team–Coupled Multi-Stable Stochastic Resonance Algorithm by Chengbiao Tong, Yuehong Zhao, Xinming Xu

“…The results demonstrate that all CMSR parameters require optimization. Furthermore, the noise reduction was effective for three different leakage signals of faulty check valves, in which the highest in the number of interrelationships increased by 6.9569 times and the highest amplitude ratio of the peak frequency increased by 11.7004 times. …”
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Broadband Dynamic Sensitivity Analysis of a Euler–Bernoulli Beam Under Thermal Load Using the Efficient Wave-Based Method by Xudong Zhang, Hao Tang, Hao Yan, Qiang Chen

“…The broadband dynamic response and its sensitivity to input parameters for a Euler–Bernoulli beam in a thermal environment are examined using an efficient wave-based method (WBM). First, the accuracy of the simulation for predicting the broadband dynamic response is validated. …”
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Health condition prediction method of the computer numerical control machine tool parts by ensembling digital twins and improved LSTM networks by Chen Guo, Yin Haifang

“…The results show that the proposed method has good fitting effect and high accuracy in different monitoring cycles. …”
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Elastic constants identification for laminated composites using laser doppler vibrometry and an inversion method based on legendre orthogonal polynomial expansion by Hongye Liu, Lei Wang, Xuan Li, Liang Shen, Chongpeng Qiu, Zenghua Liu, Zhenhua Tian

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