MGLI-Former: a multi-scale and global-local information interactive attention transformer for urban shantytown extraction by Shouhang Du, Shaoyu Wang, Yuhao Hua, Shu Peng, Fei Qin, Xue Li, Yufei Wu

“…Shantytowns, characterized by poor living conditions and simple houses, necessitate efficient extraction and analysis for urban planning. …”
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Development and pre-evaluation of a “DiagNurse” mobile app to support nurses in clinical diagnosis using the ADDIE model by Grzegorz Józef Nowicki, Wiktoria Mazurek, Alicja Waśkowicz, Ewa Kowalczyk, Julia Kozioł, Marek Miłosz, Mariusz Dzieńkowski, Barbara Ślusarska

“…Abstract Healthcare workers are increasingly utilising cutting-edge technology, including mobile apps, to enhance patient health care and ensure efficient professional performance. The aim of this study was to design, develop and evaluate an educational mobile app dedicated towards being employed by nursing students and practicing nurses to support the clinical assessment of a patient’s health condition in nursing care. …”
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Recommendations for optimising pilot and feasibility work in surgery by K. Fairhurst, S. Potter, J. M. Blazeby, K. N. L. Avery

“…Adoption and utilisation of these recommendations will optimise surgical PAFS, facilitating successful and efficient future surgical trials.…”
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Thermal Transport in Polyethylene Reinforced with H/CH₃/C₂H₅ Functionalized Graphene: A Molecular Dynamics Study by Nava Zarkhah, Mostafa Baghani, Daniel George, Ali Rajabpour, Majid Baniassadi, Mohammadreza Aghaei

“…These findings offer quantitative insights into optimizing polymer nanocomposites for thermal management applications, such as microelectronics and energy storage systems, where efficient heat dissipation is important.…”
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Thermal-mechanical coupled stress prediction of printed circuit heat exchanger in the supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle by Junlin Chen, Wenhai Du, Keyong Cheng, Xunfeng Li, Xiulan Huai, Jiangfeng Guo, Pengfei Lv, Hongsheng Dong

“…The proposed models streamline PCHE design verification and dynamic control optimization, ensuring safer and more efficient SCO2 cycle operation. This research advances sustainable energy systems by providing reliable tools for PCHE stress assessment, with potential applications in solar, nuclear, and waste heat recovery systems.…”
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Spatial–Frequency Fusion Network With Learnable Fractional Fourier Transform for Remote Sensing Imaging Enhancement by Wenyu Xu, Maohan Liang, Yuxu Lu, Ruobin Gao, Dong Yang

“…To overcome these challenges, this article proposes a novel spatial–frequency fusion network (termed SFFNet) with a learnable fractional Fourier transform for efficient remote sensing imaging enhancement. In the spatial domain, the SFFNet uses a multiscale spatial pyramid pooling block to capture both fine-grained details and global contextual information, while residual connections ensure robust feature learning and spatial detail preservation. …”
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mtGrasp: Streamlined reference‐grade mitochondrial genome assembly and standardization to enhance metazoan mitogenome resources by Mark Louie D. Lopez, Cecilia L. Yang, Lauren Coombe, René L. Warren, Michael J. Allison, Jacob J. Imbery, Inanc Birol, Caren C. Helbing

“…The present study introduces the Mitochondrial Genome Reference‐grade Assembly and Standardization Pipeline (mtGrasp), a streamlined and memory‐efficient pipeline for assembling complete and standardized mitogenomes from short‐read metazoan DNA libraries (https://github.com/bcgsc/mtGrasp). …”
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Nanofabrication of superhydrophobic fluidic concentrators coupled with metallic plasmonic nano-antennas for SERS analysis in the sub-femtomolar range by Sofien Ramos, Victor Fabre, Mathieu Arribat, Aurélie Lecestre, Adrian Laborde, Frank Carcenac, Philippe Louarn, Emmanuelle Trevisiol, Christophe Vieu

“…Self-assembled silicon nanopillars decorated with metallic nanoparticles have emerged as efficient Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) substrates. …”
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Participation of Emerging Commercial Farmers in the Strategic Private-Sector Investment Interventions by Sandile Jason Mnikathi, Simphiwe Innocentia Hlatshwayo, Ojo Temitope, Mjabuliseni Simon Cloapas Ngidi

“…Private sector investment interventions serve as essential mechanisms for creating efficient, cost-effective financial solutions and technological support for emerging farmers in developing economies, yet their successful implementation is influenced by various contextual and socioeconomic factors. …”
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From Voxels to Viruses: Using Deep Learning and Crowdsourcing to Understand a Virus Factory by Avery Pennington, Oliver N. F. King, Win Min Tun, Mark Boyce, Geoff Sutton, David I. Stuart, Mark Basham, Michele C. Darrow

“…The application of citizen science–driven crowdsourcing to the generation of instance segmentations of volumetric bioimages is a step towards developing annotation-efficient segmentation workflows for bioimaging data. …”
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Unstable Slope Identification and Monitoring Using Polarization-Enhanced DS-InSAR: A Case Study in the Bailong River Basin by Yahui Qiu, Yuanjian Wang, Ximin Cui, Debao Yuan, Peixian Li

“…In this study, we propose a distributed scatterer InSAR (DS-InSAR) method centered on efficient polarization channel optimization and the construction of DS target covariance matrices to improve surface deformation monitoring in mountainous regions. …”
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Establishment of a TaqMan qPCR method with MGB probe for the specific detection of BVDV field strains circulating in China by Lele An, Lele An, Xiaoting Ren, Yetao Zhang, Shubin Zhang, Yongqing Zhao, Yongqing Zhao

“…These results suggest that the established TaqMan MGB qPCR assay is a reliable and efficient tool for the detection and epidemiological investigation of BVDV-1 and BVDV-2 infections in cattle herds across China.…”
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Investigating waste management strategies in the extended producer responsibility in Iran by Hassan Passandideh Tashakori, Parvin Farshchi, Dariush Karimi, Seyed Masoud Monavari

“…EPR is aimed at reducing the financial load that waste collection and management imposes on local governments, especially waste that requires complicated and costly treatment and recovery processes. It is an efficient tool in resource management according to which the responsibility for goods and products rests with their producers until the end of their life cycle. …”
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Microenvironment-responsive living hydrogel containing engineered probiotic for treatment of massive bone defects by Haoyu Fang, Yanyi Wang, Li Li, Xiaotong Qin, Daoyu Zhu, Pei Liu, Qianhao Yang, Youshui Gao, Zhongmin Shi, Xin Ma, Chao Zhong, Yixuan Chen

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Convolutional Neural Networks for Automatic Identification of Individuals at Terrestrial Terminals by Darwin Yarango-Farro, Alex Mondragon-Fernandez, Heber I. Mejia-Cabrera, Juan Arcila-Diaz

“…The research was conducted under a quantitative approach and a quasi-experimental design. …”
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A reagent-free, fouling-resistant electrochemical multifunctional peptide sensor for highly sensitive and rapid detection of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers by Yajing Ji, Xueqin Li, Xiumin Li, Xiaochun Hu, Wei Cong, Honggang Hu, Siyao Liu, Yan Chen

“…This study presents a novel, efficient, and rapid strategy for detecting Aβ aggregates in human serum without complex pre-processing and provides practical support for the early clinical diagnosis of AD.…”
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Determination of Trace ⁵⁵Fe and ⁶³Ni in Steel Samples via Liquid Scintillation Counting by Giada Gandolfo, Maria Letizia Cozzella, Tiziana Guarcini, Giuseppe Augusto Marzo

“…The optimization process demonstrated that achieving the required MDCs necessitates acquisition times of approximately 5 days for ⁵⁵Fe and 6 h for ⁶³Ni, ensuring compliance with stringent regulatory requirements and supporting efficient laboratory workflows.…”
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Nudge-Based Intervention for Cognitive Enhancement of Elderly in Long-Term Care Facilities During Fire Evacuation According to Urgent-Level Circumstances by Jihye Ryu, Sung-Kyung Kim, Hye-Kyoung Lee, Won-Hwa Hong, Young-Chan Kim

“…., voice evacuation system) in high-level scenarios (practice experts AHP: 0.31) and visual information through the continuous installation of guide lines in strategic locations (academic experts AHP: 0.35) to facilitate efficient evacuation. As a result, this study confirms both the differing and concordant opinions among expert groups while recognizing the absolute necessity of elderly evacuation research and considering the unique challenges that prevent actual evacuation experiments with elderly individuals. …”
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A Coarse-to-Fine Image Warping Approach Using Trust Region Optimization for Orthoimage Mosaicking by Hongche Yin, Yinxuan Li, Pengwei Zhou, Guozheng Xu, Jian Yao, Li Li

“…We introduce the image pyramid strategy to achieve efficient coarse-to-fine optimization and help to avoid local optima. …”
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Dynamic reconstruction of electroencephalogram data using RBF neural networks by Xuan Wang, Congcong Du, Xianjin Ke, Jian Zhang, Zheng Zheng, Yayan Yue, Ming Yu

“…The proposed method offers computationally efficient and interpretable approach for EEG analysis with potential applications in neurological diagnosis and cognitive research.…”
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