Degradable film mulching increases soil carbon sequestration in major Chinese dryland agroecosystems by Zihan Liu, Chenxu Zhao, Nanhai Zhang, Jing Wang, Zhaoyang Li, Yves Uwiragiye, Nyumah Fallah, Thomas W. Crowther, Yuanyuan Huang, Yuanyuan Huang, Yi Xu, Sheng Zhang, Yakov Kuzyakov, Kadambot H. M. Siddique, Zhikuan Jia, Zucong Cai, Scott X. Chang, Minggang Xu, Christoph Müller, Yi Cheng

“…This difference is likely attributable to the higher microbial C use efficiency in soil under DM, leading to increased microbial-derived C compared to PM. …”
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Innovative strategies for utilizing microalgae as dual-purpose biofertilizers and phycoremediators in agroecosystems by Muhamad Maulana Azimatun Nur, Mahreni, Sri Wahyu Murni, Tutik Muji Setyoningrum, Faizah Hadi, Tunjung Wahyu Widayati, Danang Jaya, Raden Roro Endang Sulistyawati, Dwi Aulia Puspitaningrum, Resti Nurmala Dewi, Hadiyanto, M. Hasanuzzaman

“…Microalgae provide a dual benefit by absorbing excess nutrients and contaminants from wastewater, generating nutrient-rich biomass that can replace chemical fertilizers and support plant growth. …”
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IECAU-Net: A Wood Defects Image Segmentation Network Based on Improved Attention U-Net and Attention Mechanism by Yingda Dong, Chunguang He, Xiaoyang Xiang, Yuhan Cui, Yongkang Kang, Anning Ding, Huaqiong Duo, Ximing Wang

“…The positions of the two modules were replaced to improve the accuracy of semantic segmentation of surface cracks in sawn timber. …”
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Purification of Cellulose and Chitin Polymers and Other Value-Added Products from the Microalga <i>Chlorella vulgaris</i> Using a Green Biorefinery Process by Enio Zanchetta, Baptiste Mercier, Maxime Frabboni, Eya Damergi, Christian Ludwig, Horst Pick

“…Microalgae produce renewable biomass at high efficiency by using photosynthesis to capture the greenhouse gas CO₂ from the atmosphere and releasing O₂. …”
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A lightweight hybrid model for accurate ammonia prediction in pig houses by Jacqueline Musabimana, Qiuju Xie, Hong Zhou, Ping Zheng, Honggui Liu, Tiemin Ma, Jiming Liu

“…To overcome these issues, this study presents a novel, lightweight hybrid transformer model that combines Convolutional Neural Networks, Long Short-Term Memory, and Transformer (CNN-LSTM-Transformer) for NH₃ prediction. The model replaces feedforward networks with separable convolutional layers to capture local and spatial dependencies more efficiently, as well as reduce computational complexity. …”
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Infrared Small Target Detection Based on Approximate Background Regularization and Bimodal Slice Based Graph Constraints by Xiaoling Ge, Zipeng Fu, Xuelian Yu, Weixian Qian, Kan Ren, Minjie Wan, Guohua Gu

“…With inherent low-rank properties, this regularizer replaces the nuclear norm operation in traditional low-rank decomposition, significantly reducing computational costs. …”
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Different combinations of pheromone trap, dispenser and chemical treatments for controlling the mango fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata Saunders (Diptera: Tephritidae) by Musa Sadeghi, Majeed Askari seyahooei, Majid Fallahzadeh, Abdolnabi Bagheri, Ali Ameri Seyahooei, Mina Khademipour, Seyed-Saeed Modarresi-Najafabadi

“…Using pheromone traps is one of the standard methods to control the mango fruit fly, Bactrocera zonata (Saunders) (Diptera: Tephritidae). The lower efficiency of traps has made it inevitable to consider more efficient methods of controlling this pest. …”
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Staggered supply of ferric citrate and oxygen as electron acceptors promote the co-recovery of vivianite and bioplastics PHB from wastewater by Yiwen Yang, Jifei Chang, Danhui Liang, Fengai Yang, Xiaoming Yang, Hongjin Ji, Xin Wang, Nan Li

“…Biodegradable bioplastic polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) produced and recovered from wastewater offered an effective strategy to replace synthetic plastics while mitigating plastics waste pollution. …”
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SSCD-YOLO: Semi-Supervised Cross-Domain YOLOv8 for Pedestrian Detection in Low-Light Conditions by Fangliang Cao, Kai Yan, Hongliang Chen, Zhen Wang, Yunliang Du, Zekang Zheng, Kefan Li, Baozhu Qi, Mingjia Wang

“…Additionally, a cross-domain distillation loss function is designed to improve the performance and efficiency of multi-scale object detection. Experimental results show that CDF-CycleGAN outperforms CycleGAN on various metrics across the LLVIP and M3FD datasets. …”
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YOLO11-ARAF: An Accurate and Lightweight Method for Apple Detection in Real-World Complex Orchard Environments by Yangtian Lin, Yujun Xia, Pengcheng Xia, Zhengyang Liu, Haodi Wang, Chengjin Qin, Liang Gong, Chengliang Liu

“…First, to enhance the model’s ability to capture apple-specific features, we replaced the original C3k2 module with the CARConv convolutional layer. …”
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Development of a Recombinase-Mediated Cassette Exchange System for Gene Knockout and Expression of Non-Native Gene Sequences in <i>Rickettsia</i> by Benjamin Cull, Nicole Y. Burkhardt, Benedict S. Khoo, Jonathan D. Oliver, Xin-Ru Wang, Lisa D. Price, Kamil Khanipov, Rong Fang, Ulrike G. Munderloh

“…Methods: Combining the efficiency of the himar1 transposon method with a recombinase-mediated system, we aimed to develop a genetic tool enabling the exchange of the transposon with a cassette encoding non-native sequences. …”
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Evaluation of Seaweed Meal and Konjac Glucomannan Mixture as Feed Ingredients in Largemouth Bass <i>Micropterus salmoides</i> by Yan-Bo Cheng, Dan Wu, Liang Gao, Shun Rong, Guo-Huan Xu, Xu-Fang Liang

“…Four iso-nitrogenous and iso-lipid diets were formulated: a control (15% SF; GK00) and three other diets replacing 33.3% (GK05), 66.7% (GK10), or 100% (GK15) of SF with GKM. …”
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Employing Neural Networks, Fuzzy Logic, and Weibull Analysis for the Evaluation of Recycled Brick Powder in Concrete Compositions by Mohammad Mohtasham Moein, Komeil Rahmati, Ali Mohtasham Moein, Ashkan Saradar, Sam E. Rigby, Amin Akhavan Tabassi

“…This study aimed to assess the quality of concrete by examining the effect of replacing cement with varying percentages of recycled brick powder (RBP—0% to 50%). …”
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Pretraining-improved Spatiotemporal graph network for the generalization performance enhancement of traffic forecasting by Xiangyue Zhang, Chao Li, Ling Ji, Yuyun Kang, Mingming Pan, Zhuo Liu, Qiang Qi

“…Additionally, adding or replacing datasets in a trained model requires retraining, which decreases prediction accuracy and increases time cost. …”
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Impacts of non-starch polysaccharide sources with enzymes influencing intestinal mucosa-associated microbiota and mucosal immunity of nursery pigs on growth and carcass traits at m... by Jonathan T. Baker, Zixiao Deng, Alexa R. Gormley, Sung Woo Kim

“…Conclusion Soybean hulls and wheat bran replacing DDGS in nursery diets improved uniformity of pigs at market weight, which might be attributed to beneficial modulation of the mucosa-associated microbiota and enhanced intestinal morphology during the nursery phase. …”
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Paper discs in a 3D printed microplate hybrid microfluidic device for low-cost, rapid, and ultrasensitive paper-based bioluminescence detection of human epidermal growth factor rec... by Ahmed A. Shalaby, Asmaa Salah, Akihiko Ishida, Masatoshi Maeki, Manabu Tokeshi

“…Chromatographic paper discs are good substrates for fast immobilization of capture antibody without making any surface modification and they can be replaced with new discs to reuse the 3D printed microplate. …”
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Follow-up dental examination a day after apicoectomy using the store-and-forward method by Miladinović Milan, Živković Dušan, Živković Milan, Lazić Zoran, Karanović Andrijana, Mihailović Đorđe, Šehalić Meliha, Duka Miloš

“…Based on the internet transmission of patients’ digital photographs and ac-companying patient medical history records, the study showed that the in-person control dental examinations a day after surgery can be successfully replaced with the remote store-and-forward method of telemedicine.…”
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YOLO-MES: An Effective Lightweight Underwater Garbage Detection Scheme for Marine Ecosystems by Chengxu Huang, Wenyuan Zhang, Beitian Zheng, Jiahao Li, Bochen Xie, Ruisi Nan, Zongming Tan, Baohua Tan, Neal N. Xiong

“…To address this issue, this paper introduces YOLO-MES, an innovative underwater debris detection algorithm that integrates a lightweight design and a feature enhancement mechanism to enable efficient model deployment while preserving high accuracy. …”
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Exploring Hydrogen–Diesel Dual Fuel Combustion in a Light-Duty Engine: A Numerical Investigation by Francesco Scrignoli, Alfredo Maria Pisapia, Tommaso Savioli, Ezio Mancaruso, Enrico Mattarelli, Carlo Alberto Rinaldini

“…The numerical analysis explores the effects of progressively replacing diesel fuel with hydrogen, up to 80% of the total energy input. …”
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Lightweight obstacle detection for unmanned mining trucks in open-pit mines by Guangwei Liu, Jian Lei, Zhiqing Guo, Senlin Chai, Chonghui Ren

“…Then the feature extraction structure of the YOLOv8 neck is replaced with the BiFPN (Bi-directional Feature Pyramid Network) structure. …”
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