The Voltage Control Strategy for Doubly Salient Electromagnetic Generator With Active Rectifier Based on Optimal Current Distribution by Weifeng Liu, Yulong Tao, Xiaoli Meng

“…The adoption of active rectifier (AR) can increase the output power, reduce the copper loss, and improve the system efficiency. Either the excitation current or the armature current can be adjusted to control the output voltage in the generation system with AR. …”
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Novel antifouling paint formulation based on Ca2​Cr2O5​ and CaMnO3​ NPs as a protective pigment by H. Abd El-Wahab, Hossa F. Al-Shareef

“…The obtained results demonstrated greater efficiency of the painted steel-based F3a than F1 and F3b, and being comparable to the standard formula (F2).…”
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RL-BMAC: An RL-Based MAC Protocol for Performance Optimization in Wireless Sensor Networks by Owais Khan, Sana Ullah, Muzammil Khan, Han-Chieh Chao

“…The results obtained from the simulations indicate that RL-BMAC outperforms B-MAC in terms of throughput by 58.5%, packet drop rate by 44.8%, energy efficiency by 35%, and latency by 26.93%…”
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Soil microbiomes: a promising strategy for boosting crop yield and advancing sustainable agriculture by Komal Pandey, Baljeet Singh Saharan

“…In contrast, soil microbiomes present a promising avenue for sustainable agriculture, offering the potential to increase crop yields, enhance nutrient use efficiency, bolster plant resistance to environmental stresses, and improve overall plant health. …”
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Track Detection Algorithm Based on Trace Correlation Using Hough Transform by A. A. Monakov

“…Track detection is one of the main tasks to be solved in trajectory processing. This task can be efficiently solved using the Hough Transform. A track is considered detected if the number of position measurements received in a number of consecutive radar scans and falling into the same cell of the parameter space (accumulator) has exceeded the detection threshold. …”
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Research of moisture transfer in grain at oscillating drying by R. A. Marin

“…But the modes with periodic lying allowing to increase significantly efficiency of seeds and grain drying including the increased moisture are least studied. …”
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Aplicação do Modelo Swat na avaliação do consumo de água em áreas de florestas plantadas na bacia do rio Pará, Alto São Francisco, em Minas Gerais / Application of SWAT Model in th... by Evandro Luís Rodrigues, Marcos Antônio Timbó Elmiro, Claudia Maria Jacobi, Wanderson Lopes Lamounier

“…The results show the efficiency of environmental modeling as a method to detect impacts on water balance due to changes in vegetation cover. …”
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Legal education reform and medical litigation: Improved access but delayed justice in plastic surgery malpractice cases in South Korea. by Daihun Kang, Seung Eun Hong

“…South Korea's 2009 legal education reform, which replaced the bar exam and two-year judicial training system with graduate-level law schools, aimed to enhance the quality and accessibility of legal services. …”
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Using Generative AI to Identify Arguments in Judges’ Reasons: Accuracy and Benefits for Students by Paul Burgess, Iwan Williams, Lizhen Qu, Weiqing Wang

“…The study concludes that while LLMs hold potential benefits for the legal profession, including increased efficiency and enhanced access to justice, for GAI use that may be carried out by a law student, the technology cannot yet replace the nuanced human skill of legal argument analysis.…”
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G-RCenterNet: Reinforced CenterNet for Robotic Arm Grasp Detection by Jimeng Bai, Guohua Cao

“…First, a channel and spatial attention mechanism is introduced to improve the network’s capability to extract target features, significantly enhancing grasp detection performance in complex backgrounds. Second, an efficient attention module search strategy is proposed to replace traditional fully connected layer structures, which not only increases detection accuracy but also reduces computational overhead. …”
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Design of an Electromechanical Testing Machine for Elastomers’ Fatigue Characterization by Gabriel Testa, Nicola Bonora, Luca Esposito, Gianluca Iannitti

“…The VITAL-E (Versatile Innovative Testing Low-Cycle Fatigue for Elastomers) project introduces a shift in low-cycle fatigue (LCF) testing by replacing traditional hydraulic systems with an electromechanical solution. …”
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Towards Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substance (PFAS)-Free Energy Harvesting: Recent Advances in Triboelectric Nanogenerators for Sports Applications by Mónica P. S. Ferreira, Inês Ferreira, Vânia Pais, Liliana Leite, João Bessa, Fernando Cunha, Raúl Fangueiro

“…For this reason, PFAS-free alternatives, such as polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) and MXenes, need to be better explored to replace PFAS materials while aiming to achieve equal efficiency. …”
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Comparison of Dietary Inorganic and Small-Peptide Chelating Trace Minerals on Growth Performance, Immunity, Meat Quality, and Environmental Release in <i>Litopenaeus vannamei</i> by Jingshen Chen, Nan Liu, Shumeng Wang, Hailong Wang, Kun Ouyang, Yuxuan Wang, Junyi Luo, Jiajie Sun, Qianyun Xi, Yuping Sun, Yongguo Si, Yongliang Zhang, Ting Chen

“…There were no significant differences (<i>p</i> > 0.05) among the control, 40% SPM and 50% SPM groups in terms of the survival rate, weight gain rate, specific growth rate, hepatosomatic index, condition factor, feed intake, feed conversion ratio, or protein efficiency ratio; however, protein efficiency ratio was reduced in the 30% SPM group (<i>p</i> < 0.05). …”
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Valorization black carrot colorant process liquid waste by clarification and Decolorization: A novel sugar alternative for gummies by İlyas Atalar, Burcu Tüzün, Ibrahim Palabiyik, Omer Said Toker, Suzan Uzun, Tahra ElObeid, Nevzat Konar

“…The brightness remained considerably high when the glucose syrup was replaced with BCLW up to 50 %. Accelerated shelf-life tests showed changes in color and hardness. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Multiphase Flow in a Physical Model of a Foundry Degassing Unit by L. Manoch, L. Socha, J. Sviželová, K. Gryc, A. Mohamed, J. Häusler

“…While maintaining the realistic geometry of the rotor, the shape and size of the refining ladle, and the type and amount of inert gas, the original melt is replaced by water. The experimentally evaluated quantity is the degassing efficiency of the melt. …”
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Enhanced YOLOv8-based method for space debris detection using cross-scale feature fusion by Yang Guo, Xianlong Yin, Yao Xiao, Zhengxu Zhao, Xu Yang, Chenggang Dai

“…Finally, the content-aware reassembly of features module is employed to replace the original upsampling module, which enhances the efficiency and accuracy of feature reconstruction, thereby achieving effective detection and identification of spatial debris targets. …”
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Towards Energy Sustainability in the Digital Realm. A Compass of Strategies between Natural and Artificial Intelligence by Michele De Chirico, Raffaella Fagnoni, Carmelo Leonardi, Ami Licaj, Giuseppe Lotti, Manfredi Sottani, Annapaola Vacanti

“…An analysis of contemporary strategies is presented through two main parameters: firstly, a distinction is made between solutions that use artificial intelligence to optimise efficiency and solutions that use natural intelligence to rethink traditional consumption paradigms. …”
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Potential Probiotics Role in Excluding Antibiotic Resistance by Irfan Ahmed, Zhengtian Li, Sharoon Shahzad, Saima Naveed, Ahmad Kamran Khan, Ayesha Ahmed, Zahid Kamran, Muhammad Yousaf, Shakeel Ahmad, Gulnaz Afzal, Hafiz Ishfaq Ahmad, Nasim Ahmad Yasin, Junjing Jia, Mubashir Hussain, Shahzad Munir

“…They can improve the growth performance and feed efficiency in the chicken flock. A favorable production scenario could favor intestinal microbiota interacting with antibiotic growth promoters and alter the gut bacterial composition. …”
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MODELLING OF CRACK PROPAGATION: COMPARISON OF DISCRETE LATTICE SYSTEM AND COHESIVE ZONE MODEL by Karel Mikeš, Franz Bormann, Ondřej Rokoš, Ron H.J. Peerlings

“…Simplifications therefore need to be adopted, which allow for efficient yet accurate modelling of engineering applications. …”
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Advances in Batteries, Battery Modeling, Battery Management System, Battery Thermal Management, SOC, SOH, and Charge/Discharge Characteristics in EV Applications by R. Ranjith Kumar, C. Bharatiraja, K. Udhayakumar, S. Devakirubakaran, K. Sathiya Sekar, Lucian Mihet-Popa

“…The second-generation hybrid and Electric Vehicles are currently leading the paradigm shift in the automobile industry, replacing conventional diesel and gasoline-powered vehicles. …”
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