Harnessing evacuated tube technology for enhanced solar still: A comprehensive review by A.S. Abdullah, Abanob Joseph, Gamal B. Abdelaziz, Elbager M.A. Edreis, Mohammed El Hadi Attia, Wissam H. Alawee, Swellam W. Sharshir

“…However, as the evaporation process is essential to the functioning of solar stills, effective evaporation upgrades are required to raise the solar desalination ability. …”
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Overripening and increased temperature: Alternative strategies to enhance peptide production and bioactivity in salt-reduced boneless cured Iberian hams by Noelia Hernández-Correas, Adela Abellán, Beatriz Muñoz-Rosique, Cindy Bande-De León, Rafael Gómez, Luis Tejada

“…These findings redefine the role of Iberian ham as a functional food with potential applications in cardiovascular and metabolic health management, while maintaining the authenticity and quality of traditional Iberian ham.…”
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Unveiling microsecond diffusion bonding phenomena enabled by air plasma spraying zirconia thermal barrier ceramics onto rare earth environmental barrier silicates by Edward J. Gildersleeve V, Emine Bakan, Marcin Rasinski, Moritz Kindelmann, Ashok Vayyala, Egbert Wessel, Joachim Mayer, Robert Vaßen

“…Despite their intrinsic thermomechanical incompatibility, these MultiLayered Thermal-Environmental Barrier Coatings (T-EBCs) have proven to offer several significant functionalities compared to their alternatives. Characterization limitations prevented the adequate description of the observed intrinsically-enhanced bonding between the zirconia and disilicate layer. …”
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DYNAMIC CHANGES IN POLYPHENOLS, FREE CARBOHYDRATES, AND ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY DURING GERMINATION OF WHEAT AND BARLEY FOR PREPARATION OF MALT FLOUR by YORDAN GEORGIEV, MANOL OGNYANOV, MISHELA TEMKOV, GJORE NAKOV

“…The maltose content was the highest, reaching up to 8.6 % among the detected sugars. The Glc content ranged between 1.0 % and 4.4 %, and sucrose was from 0.6 to 4.3 %. …”
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Game-based visual feedback-guided dynamic balance training versus conventional training in patients with hemiplegia: a pilot randomized controlled trial by Yan Xu, Jiadong Ni, Yajing Yang, Jiajia Yao, Lianhui Fu, Cong Xu

“…The post-training assessment revealed significant improvements (Berg Balance Scale, Functional Reaching Test, Timed “Up-and-Go” Test scores and 10-metre fast walking speed) in outcome measures in the full sample. …”
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Optimization of Nozzle Diameter and Printing Speed for Enhanced Tensile Performance of FFF 3D-Printed ABS and PLA by I. S. ELDeeb, Ehssan Esmael, Saad Ebied, Mohamed Ragab Diab, Mohammed Dekis, Mikhail A. Petrov, Abdelhameed A. Zayed, Mohamed Egiza

“…PLA exhibited a non-linear response, reaching a maximum strength of 89.59 MPa under the same conditions, marking a 22.3% enhancement over the minimum value. …”
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Raman spectral band imaging for the diagnostics and classification of canine and feline cutaneous tumors by Mindaugas Tamošiūnas, Martynas Maciulevičius, Romans Maļiks, Diāna Dupļevska, Daira Viškere, Ilze Matīse-van Houtana, Roberts Kadiķis, Blaž Cugmas, Renaldas Raišutis

“…Initially, Raman spectral bands (with specificity to certain molecular structures and functional groups) were identified in formalin-fixed samples of mast cell tumors and soft tissue sarcomas, obtained through routine veterinary biopsy submissions. …”
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Habitat suitability modelling and range change dynamics of Bergenia stracheyi under projected climate change scenarios by Zishan Ahmad Wani, Javid Ahmad Dar, Javid Ahmad Dar, Aamir Nazir Lone, Shreekar Pant, Sazada Siddiqui

“…These shifts in plant distribution may have far-reaching consequences for ecosystem functioning and stability and the services provided to human communities. …”
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Sc-doped GeTe thin films prepared by radio-frequency magnetron sputtering by Marek Bouška, Jan Gutwirth, Kamil Bečvář, Vladimír Kucek, Stanislav Šlang, Petr Janíček, Lubomír Prokeš, Josef Havel, Virginie Nazabal, Petr Němec

“…Simultaneously, huge variations of optical functions were found as demonstrated by absolute values of optical contrast values (at 405 nm) in the range of |Δn|+|Δk| = 1.88–3.75 reaching maximum for layer containing 8 at% of Sc.…”
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Efficient mechanochemical synthesis of new fluorinated Schiff bases: a solvent-free, alternative to conventional method with mercury adsorption properties by Mirza T. Baig, Mariam T. Sayed, Reem Aledamat, Sumyah Hassan, Alaa AlReyashi, Naheed Sidiq, Siham Y. Al-Qaradawi, Mohamed F. Mady

“…Structural variations, such as hydroxyl and carbonyl functionalities, are anticipated to enhance mercury binding, making these compounds potential candidates for environmental remediation. …”
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Something Old and Something New—A Pilot Study of Shrinkage and Modern Imaging Devices by Josephine V. W. Hearing, Raymund E. Horch, Rafael Schmid, Carol I. Geppert, Maximilian C. Stumpfe

“…Further studies are needed to quantify its impact on functional and cosmetic outcomes.…”
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Evaluating sowing uniformity in hybrid rice using image processing and the OEW-YOLOv8n network by Zehua Li, Zehua Li, Yihui Pan, Xu Ma, Yongjun Lin, Xicheng Wang, Hongwei Li

“…This improvement can enhance the feature extraction ability of the Backbone network, as the new modules can fully utilize the information of all dimensions of the convolutional kernel. (2) An Efficient Channel Attention (ECA) module is added to the Neck for improving the network’s capability to extract deep semantic feature information of the detection target. (3) In the Bbox module of the prediction head, the Complete Intersection over Union (CIoU) loss function is replaced by the Weighted Intersection over Union version 3 (WIoUv3) loss function to improve the convergence speed of the bounding box loss function and reduce the convergence value of the loss function. …”
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Efficiency assessment for antihypertensive, hemodynamic, renal effects of adenosine-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and irbesartan and impact on endothelial disfunction in patie... by M. V. Pereviazkina

“…To provide a comparative assessment of the impact of enalapril maleate and Irbesartanum on renal function, endothelium, hemodynamic and blood pressure in patients with essential hypertension stage II. …”
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Comparative efficacy of tislelizumab plus lenvatinib and tislelizumab alone against advanced hepatocellular carcinoma after lenvatinib failure: a real-world study by Jiajin Yang, Qiuping Xu, Sihao Luo, Jianbing Wu

“…Although the disease control rate (64% vs. 53.8%, p = 0.461) and objective response rate (20% vs. 7.7%, p = 0.202) were numerically higher in the TL group, these differences did not reach significance. Child–Pugh B liver function and tislelizumab monotherapy were independent prognostic factors for poor OS, whereas only tislelizumab monotherapy was an independent prognostic factor for poor PFS, Child-Pugh B was not a prognostic factor for PFS. …”
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Research and Evaluation of a New Structural Damage Identification Method Based on a Refined Genetic Algorithm by Yuantian Qin, Zhehang Yin, Jiahao Ma

“…The INFO and RGA algorithms are used to optimize the objective function for damage identification. The simulation results verify the effectiveness of the three damage identification methods. …”
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Dynamic Analysis of a Bridge Supported With Many Vertical Supports Under Moving Load by Murat Reis, Yașar Pala, Gültekin Karadere

“…An important property of Dirac delta distribution function is utilised in order to reach the exact solution. …”
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Surface Integrity of Austenitic Manganese Alloys Hard Layers after Cavitation Erosion by Ion Mitelea, Ilare Bordeașu, Daniel Mutașcu, Corneliu Marius Crăciunescu, Ion Dragoș Uțu

“…Cavitation erosion, as a mechanical effect of destruction, constitutes a complex and critical problem that affects the safety and efficiency of the functioning of engineering components specific to many fields of work, the most well-known being propellers of ships and maritime and river vessels, seawater desalination systems, offshore oil and gas drilling platforms (including drilling and processing equipment), and the rotors and blades of hydraulic machines. …”
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HSD²Former: Hybrid-Scale Dual-Domain Transformer with Crisscrossed Interaction for Hyperspectral Image Classification by Binxin Luo, Meihui Li, Yuxing Wei, Haorui Zuo, Jianlin Zhang, Dongxu Liu

“…HSD²Former consists of three functional modules: dual-dimension multiscale convolutional embedding (D²MSCE), mixed domainFormer (MDFormer), and pyramid scale fusion block (PSFB). …”
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Testing the Psychometric Properties of the Turkish Version of the LGBT Community Connectedness Scale by Yusuf Barburoğlu, S. Burcu Özgülük Üçok, Eda Çürükvelioğlu Köksal, Yuvamathi Gandhi, Pamela J. Lannutti

“…Therefore, their connectedness to the LGBTQ+ community functions crucially in receiving social support. However, no study in Türkiye has yet comprehensively investigated the community connectedness of people identifying as LGBTQ+. …”
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Multivariate machine learning algorithms for energy demand forecasting and load behavior analysis by Farhan Hussain, M. Hasanuzzaman, Nasrudin Abd Rahim

“…Critical hyperparameters, such as the number of hidden neurons in ANN and the number of input membership functions in ANFIS, are optimized to effectively capture uncertainties in load patterns. …”
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