Impact of Use of Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction on the Quality of Brazil Nut Oil (<i>Bertholletia excelsa</i> HBK) by Orquidea Vasconcelos dos Santos, Sara Camila Vidal Freires, Helen Cristina de Oliveira Palheta, Paulo Henrique de Melo Ferreira

“…This approach promotes both raw material integrity and the protection of human and environmental health. …”
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Study of Strength Characteristics of Products Produced by 3D-Printing from PLA by V. A. Ermakova, E. V. Gasperovich, A. I. Ermakov, V. V. Litvyak

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Application of Thermodynamic Models to Predict the Solubility of Biologically Active Substances by K. S. Stepanov, G. N. Turmanidze, V. V. Sorokin, A. D. Sakharov

“…The choice of solvents for the processes of extraction of biologically active substances from natural raw materials, the processes of purification of natural and synthesized substances by extraction, crystallization and dissolution methods is an important problem of the modern pharmaceutical industry, because a large number of experiments must be performed to determine the optimal solvent or mixture of solvents. …”
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Federated Learning for Enhanced Cybersecurity and Trustworthiness in 5G and 6G Networks: A Comprehensive Survey by Afroditi Blika, Stefanos Palmos, George Doukas, Vangelis Lamprou, Sotiris Pelekis, Michael Kontoulis, Christos Ntanos, Dimitris Askounis

“…Federated learning (FL), emerges as a key enabler of Trustworthy AI (TAI), empowering the engagement of distributed network nodes in AI training without the need for exchanging raw data, thereby mitigating the risks associated with centralized data processing. …”
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Rapid Quality Assessment of Polygoni Multiflori Radix Based on Near-Infrared Spectroscopy by Bin Jia, Ziying Mai, Chaoqun Xiang, Qiwen Chen, Min Cheng, Longkai Zhang, Xue Xiao

“…In this study, various spectral preprocessing techniques were used to preprocess the raw spectral data. The spectral data were correlated with the determination of three-component contents using the partial least squares regression (PLSR) method. …”
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Design and Verification of a Versatile and Lightweight Radar Platform for High-Resolution Imaging of Glacial Subsurface Structures by Lena Krabbe, Niklas Haberberger, Michael Stelzig, Felix Pfluger, Matthias Braun, Martin Vossiek

“…Furthermore, the imaging properties of the developed system are introduced, and the processing chain to retrieve subsurface images from the raw radar data using synthetic aperture radar concepts is presented. …”
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Potential utilization of seaweed-derived fusion salt in human diet by Bhagirath Rakhasiya, Adusumilli Somya, Aswin Alichen, Digvijay Singh Yadav, Bhavik Kantilal Bhagiya, Jasmine V. Rajai, Sudheer Kumar Yannam, Abhiram Seth, Jitendra Kumar Singh, Tanmaye Seth, Vaibhav A. Mantri

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SILK TRADE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: TRENDS IN THE PERIOD 2010-2019 by Agatha POPESCU

“…The paper analyzed in the EU silk export, import and trade balance in the period 2010-2019 pointing out the main tendencies and the role and position of the major "actors" in silk commercial transactions. The data provided by International Trade Center were processed using the fixed basis index, descriptive statistics, average annual growth rate, and trend method based on regression models. …”
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Comparison of Image Preprocessing Strategies for Convolutional Neural Network-Based Growth Stage Classification of Butterhead Lettuce in Industrial Plant Factories by Jung-Sun Gloria Kim, Soo Chung, Myungjin Ko, Jihoon Song, Soo Hyun Shin

“…This study investigates the feasibility of CNN-based growth stage classification of butterhead lettuce (<i>Lactuca sativa</i> L.) using two data types: raw images and images processed through GrabCut–Watershed segmentation. …”
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Prediction of elastic modulus, yield strength, and tensile strength in biocompatible titanium alloys by Marković G., Ružić J., Sokić M., Milojkov D., Manojlović V.D.

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Thermophysical Characteristics of Tropical Fruits in Milk Powder Products by Igor A. Korotkiy, Evgeny N. Neverov, Alexander A. Vladimirov, Olga A. Neverova, Larisa A. Proskuryakova

“…Canning requires thermophysical calculations for thermal or cold processing. These calculations are based on thermophysical characteristics of raw materials. …”
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Identification of Susceptibility Modules and Genes for Cardiovascular Disease in Diabetic Patients Using WGCNA Analysis by Weiwei Liang, Fangfang Sun, Yiming Zhao, Lizhen Shan, Hanyu Lou

“…To identify susceptibility modules and genes for cardiovascular disease in diabetic patients using weighted gene coexpression network analysis (WGCNA). Methods. The raw data of GSE13760 were downloaded from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) website. …”
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Detection of human activities using multi-layer convolutional neural network by Essam Abdellatef, Rasha M. Al-Makhlasawy, Wafaa A. Shalaby

“…However, achieving high accuracy and robustness remains a challenge, particularly when dealing with noisy sensor data from accelerometers and gyroscopes. This paper introduces HARCNN, a novel approach leveraging Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to extract hierarchical spatial and temporal features from raw sensor data, enhancing activity recognition performance. …”
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ecoSound-web: an open-source, online platform for ecoacoustics [version 3; peer review: 3 approved] by Thomas C Wanger, Liu Dilong, Noemí Pérez, Matthias Markolf, Anna F. Cord, Tara Hanf-Dressler, Kevin F.A. Darras

“…Passive acoustic monitoring of soundscapes and biodiversity produces vast amounts of audio recordings, but the management and analyses of these raw data present technical challenges. A multitude of software solutions exist, but none can fulfil all purposes required for the management, processing, navigation, and analysis of acoustic data. …”
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The More, the Better? Evaluating the Role of EEG Preprocessing for Deep Learning Applications by Federico Del Pup, Andrea Zanola, Louis Fabrice Tshimanga, Alessandra Bertoldo, Manfredo Atzori

“…It evaluates the effects of varying preprocessing levels, from raw and minimally filtered data to complex pipelines with automated artifact removal algorithms. …”
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Classifying Sunn Pest Damaged and Healthy Wheat Grains Across Different Species with YOLOV8 and Vision Transformers by Melike Çolak, Özgü Özkan, Ali Berkol, Nergis Pervan Akman, Murat Ardıç, Okan Sezer, Nazife Gözde Ayter Arpacıoğlu, Zekiye Budak Başçiftçi, Murat Olgun

“…Then, the dataset was enriched with different data augmentation techniques, and data-efficient vision transformers were used to classify sunn pest-damaged and healthy grains. …”
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A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF COPPER AND ANTIMICROBIAL COPPER COATINGS by Iulian SPANU, Alina ROBU, Aurora ANTONIAC, Iuliana CORNESCHI, Veronica MANESCU (PALTANEA), Larisa POPESCU, Dragos ALEXANDRESCU

“…We used the VOSviewer software for analyzing the raw data that we collected from the Web of Science Core Collection. …”
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Association of Microbiome in Oral Cancer Patients and Healthy Individuals: A Metagenomic Study by Harshitkumar J. Savalia, Nimisha Patel, Krishna Mohan Singh, Manan Patel, Shomesh Chandra, Purva Gohil, Apurvasinh Puvar, Chaitanya G. Joshi, Rushika Patel

“…The study involved collecting 40 swabs from oral cancer patients, post-therapeutic patients, and healthy individuals, amplifying DNA samples, processing raw data using Perl scripts and Prinseq Lite, performing metagenomic analysis using QIIME 2-2022.2, and taxonomic classification using Greengenes2. …”
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Quantifying the Effects of Water Status on Grapevine Vegetative Growth, Yield, and Grape Composition Through a Collaborative Analysis by David Uriarte, Luis Gonzaga Santesteban, José Manuel Mirás-Avalos, Ignacio Buesa, Javier José Cancela, Juan Luis Chacón, José Mariano Escalona, Diego Sebastiano Intrigliolo, Miriam Lampreave, Amelia Montoro, Luis Rivacoba, Fernando Visconti, Jesús Yuste, Carlos Miranda

“…Similarly, mega-analyses, which combine raw data from many studies into a single sample for processing and statistical analysis, are a very powerful tool for analyzing results of heterogeneous origin but require a high level of collaboration between the researchers contributing data. …”
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Implications of Pulse Frequency in Terrestrial Laser Scanning on Forest Point Cloud Quality and Individual Tree Structural Metrics by Tom E. Verhelst, Kim Calders, Andrew Burt, Miro Demol, Barbara D’hont, Joanne Nightingale, Louise Terryn, Hans Verbeeck

“…The scan time for a single scan was 180, 90 and 45 s for 300, 600 and 1200 kHz, respectively. Differences among the raw acquired scans from different PRR replicates were largely removed by several necessary data processing steps, notably the removal of uncertain points with a low reflectance attribute. …”
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