Interfacial Engineering-Free Microfluidics: Toward a Mild and Cost-Effective Strategy for Surfactant- and Demulsifier-Free Hydrogel Microsphere Fabrication by Qing Qin, Yu Zhang, Yubei Wei, Jinnuo Lv, Meiling Tian, Yuanyuan Sun, Wei Fang, Xingjian Huang, Jianglin Li, Yifeng Su, Xiaoliang Xiang, Xing Hu, Zhizhi Zhou

“…Notably, the hydrogel microspheres can be efficiently harvested through oscillatory aqueous phase separation, removing post-fabrication washing steps (typically 6–8 cycles for surfactant and oil removal). …”
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Increasing the Bioavailability of Phosphate by Using Microorganisms by A. A. A. U. Aberathna, D. A. Satharasinghe, A. P. Jayasooriya, R. N. Jinadasa, S. Manopriya, B. P. A. Jayaweera, C. A. N. Fernando, W. A. D. V. Weerathilake, G. A. Prathapasinghe, J. A. Liyanage, J. M. K. J. K. Premarathne

“…The application of PSM has the potential to be used as an efficient, eco-friendly, and sustainable approach that can replace traditional fertilizers. …”
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Optimal artificial lift methods for small oil field production by Mirjanić Anastasija, Crnogorac Miroslav, Danilović Dušan, Ilić Marija, Karović-Maričić Vesna, Tomić Lola

“…This study investigates artificial lift methods, and through analyzing SRP and ESP system performance, concludes that SRP systems are more suitable for sustained and efficient production on small oil field X.…”
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Full-Wave Analysis of the Shielding Effectiveness of Thin Graphene Sheets with the 3D Unidirectionally Collocated HIE-FDTD Method by Arne Van Londersele, Daniël De Zutter, Dries Vande Ginste

“…Special care is taken to elaborate on the efficient implementation of the implicit update equations. …”
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Toxicity of Citrus sinensis essential oil on Lutzomyia longipalpis (Diptera: Psychodidae), vector of visceral leishmaniasis in Brazil by FERNANDA BATISTA-SANTOS1, SÂMIA FRANCIELLE SILVA1, THIAGO SANTOS2, DÉBORA M. LIMA3, RAQUEL MARIA F. SOUSA3, RICARDO A. BARATA1

“…Further studies are needed to support the development of an efficient product that helps control these vectors.…”
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Decom-UNet3+: A Retinal Vessel Segmentation Method Optimized With Decomposed Convolutions by Qun Li, Juntao Zhang, Licheng Hua, Songyin Fu, Chenjie Gu

“…Specifically, the encoders replace standard convolutional layers with asymmetric convolutions and depthwise separable convolutions, reducing the number of parameters while enhancing capability for feature extraction. …”
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Substation Equipment Defect Detection Based on Improved YOLOv8 by Yiwei Sun, Xiangran Sun, Ying Lin, Yi Yang, Zhuangzhuang Li, Lun Du, Chaojun Shi

“…First, the backbone of YOLOv8 is replaced with EfficientViT, which not only reduces computational redundancy but also enhances the model’s feature extraction capabilities, thereby improving overall performance. …”
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Privacy-Preserving Data Uploading SchemeBased on Threshold Secret Sharing Algorithm for Internet of Vehicles by Zheng Jiang, Fang-Fang Chua, Amy Hui-Lan Lim

“…The method proved to be both practical and efficient, allowing it to be suitable for dynamic as well as complex IoV environments.…”
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Residual host cell proteins: sources, properties, detection methods and data acquisition modes by Yifan Yao, Yifan Yao, Xuemei Wen, Xuemei Wen, Hongjuan Pan, Hongjuan Pan, Ziwei Chen

“…The research in the future includes the development of more efficient sample pretreatment methods and data processing techniques to improve the sensitivity and accuracy of detection. …”
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Study on the Interface Reinforcement Effect of Bamboo Grid in Filled Loess Embankment in a High and Steep Gully by Guozhou Chen, Haodong Tian, Zibo Du, Jingwei Zhang, Yuancheng Guo, Julong Wang

“…A bamboo grid is a new type of reinforcement material, which can replace traditional geogrids in the reinforcement of embankments. …”
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An effective dual encoder network with a feature attention large kernel for building extraction by Shaobo Qiu, Jingchun Zhou, Yuan Liu, Xiangrui Meng

“…Moreover, replacing skip connections with the CTrans module mitigates semantic inconsistency during feature fusion, ensuring better multidimensional feature integration. …”
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Green Last-Mile Delivery: Adapting Beverage Distribution to Low Emission Urban Areas by Alessandro Giordano, Panayotis Christidis

“…Electrifying urban last-mile logistics is an important step towards reducing carbon emissions which requires replacing conventional vehicles with low-carbon alternatives that offer comparable operational and cost characteristics. …”
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Classical Simulability of Quantum Circuits with Shallow Magic Depth by Yifan Zhang, Yuxuan Zhang

“…Quantum magic is a necessary resource for quantum computers to be not efficiently simulable by classical computers. Previous results have linked the amount of quantum magic, characterized by the number of T gates or the stabilizer rank, to classical simulability. …”
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An ELECTRA-Based Model for Power Safety Named Entity Recognition by Peng Liu, Zhenfu Sun, Biao Zhou

“…This paper introduces a power safety NER model using efficiently learning an encoder that classifies token replacements accurately (ELECTRA) model. …”
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Design and Fabrication of Improved Socket System, the Triple-Side Wall Expansion Socket System for Better Comfort of Transtibial Amputees by Sahil Rasiklal Patel, Gouri Mahato

“…Background: Transtibial prosthesis is a device specifically replaces the part of the leg that is below the knee joint. …”
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Requirements for Human Respiratory Syncytial Virus Glycoproteins in Assembly and Egress from Infected Cells by Melissa Batonick, Gail W. Wertz

“…We investigated whether the glycoproteins of HRSV were involved in the late stages of viral replication by utilizing recombinant viruses where each individual glycoprotein gene was deleted and replaced with a reporter gene to maintain wild-type levels of gene expression. …”
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A Novel Deeply-Learned Image Quality Analysis Algorithm for Clustering by Zhongzhe Chen, Xing Gao

“…This framework utilizes a multi-layer deep architecture, in which the standard fully-linked layers are replaced by the deep convolutional ones in order to intelligently calculate semantic visual representations. …”
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PERANCANGAN SISTEM INFORMASI PEMBAYARAN SERVIS ELEKTRONIK TOKO MS COMPUTER MENGGUNAKAN JAVA DAN MYSQL by Harry Dhika, Merita Ayu Sri Maharani, Atikah Atikah

“…The results of research that has been carried out at the MS Computer Store, with the existence of an electronic service payment application system replacing the old system, the current employee performance becomes more effective and efficient. …”
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Enzyme Catalysis for Sustainable Value Creation Using Renewable Biobased Resources by Roland Wohlgemuth

“…Excellent opportunities for the resource-efficient manufacturing of compounds are provided by the actions of enzymes working in reaction cascades and pathways within the same reaction space, like molecular robots along a production line. …”
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Research and Experiment on a Chickweed Identification Model Based on Improved YOLOv5s by Hong Yu, Jie Zhao, Xiaobo Xi, Yongbo Li, Ying Zhao

“…Firstly, the Squeeze-and-Excitation Module (SE) and Convolutional Block Attention Module (CBAM) were added to the model’s feature extraction network to improve the model’s recognition accuracy; secondly, the Ghost convolution lightweight feature fusion network was introduced to effectively identify the volume, parameter amount, and calculation amount of the model, and make the model lightweight; finally, we replaced the loss function in the original target bounding box with the Efficient Intersection over Union (EloU) loss function to further improve the detection performance of the improved YOLOv5s model. …”
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