Plasmon Enhanced Universal SERS Detection of Hierarchical Plastics by 3D Plasmonic Funnel Metastructure by Weixi Lu, Jian Luo, Yuyang Zhuang, Jie Liang, Min Xiong, Hui Liu, Lin Zhou

“…Abstract Plasmonic nanostructures have aroused tremendous excitement in extreme light matter interactions because of efficient light harvesting and nanometer field concentration, ideal for solar thermal conversion, photocatalysis, photodetection, etc. …”
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Study on Spatial Distribution and Heritage Corridor Network of Traditional Settlements in Ancient Huizhou by Yao Wu, Yuxin Yang, Mingrui Miao, Yonglan Wu, Hui Zhu

“…Simulation of multi-path cultural flows and network analysis show that high betweenness corridors concentrate along the northeast–southwest axis, promoting efficient cultural circulation, while low betweenness areas highlight gaps in direct connectivity. …”
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Enhancing GANs With MMD Neural Architecture Search, PMish Activation Function, and Adaptive Rank Decomposition by Prasanna Reddy Pulakurthi, Mahsa Mozaffari, Sohail A. Dianat, Jamison Heard, Raghuveer M. Rao, Majid Rabbani

“…Finally, the proposed Adaptive Rank Decomposition (ARD) method reduces the complexity of the network with minimal impact on its generative performance, thus enabling efficient deployment on resource-limited platforms. …”
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Green Biosynthesized Selenium Nanoparticles by Cinnamon Extract and Their Antimicrobial Activity and Application as Edible Coatings with Nano-Chitosan by Mousa A. Alghuthaymi, Amany M. Diab, Aml F. Elzahy, Khaled E. Mazrou, Ahmed A. Tayel, Shaaban H. Moussa

“…CIE/Se/Cht-NP composites are proposed as effectual control agents toward food-borne pathogens using efficient biological carriers and eco-friendly phytosynthesis protocol.…”
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Workpiece Coordinate System Measurement for a Robotic Timber Joinery Workflow by Francisco Quitral-Zapata, Rodrigo García-Alvarado, Alejandro Martínez-Rocamora, Luis Felipe González-Böhme

“…Experimental validation confirms that the proposed method is efficient and improves milling accuracy. By dynamically identifying the workpiece geometry, the system successfully addresses challenges posed by irregular timber shapes, resulting in higher accuracy for timber joints. …”
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Algorithm for pixel-level concrete pavement crack segmentation based on an improved U-Net model by Zixuan Zhang, Yike He, Di Hu, Qiang Jin, Manxu Zhou, Zongwei Liu, Hongli Chen, He Wang, Xinchen Xiang

“…Among the seven comparison models, U-Net-FML has the strongest overall performance, highlighting its engineering value for precise detection and efficient analysis of cracks.…”
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Low-Power Vibrothermography for Detecting Barely Visible Impact Damage in CFRP Laminates: A Comparative Imaging Study by Zulham Hidayat, Muhammet Ebubekir Torbali, Nicolas P. Avdelidis, Henrique Fernandes

“…The LVT results were further validated by comparison with PT and phased array ultrasonic testing (PAUT) data to confirm the location and shape of detected damage. These findings demonstrate that LVT, when combined with PCA or RPCA, offers a reliable method for identifying BVID and can support safer, more efficient structural health monitoring of composite materials.…”
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The critical number and size of precipitation embryos to accelerate warm rain initiation by J.-S. Lim, J.-S. Lim, J.-S. Lim, J.-S. Lim, Y. Noh, H. Lee, F. Hoffmann

“…It is shown that more and larger PEs are needed to accelerate rain initiation when collisions are already efficient without PEs, e.g. due to a broad droplet size distribution or a strong turbulence effect. …”
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AISI 1045 Steel Flat Surfaces Machining Using the Magneto-Abrasive Method by Maiboroda V. S., Belajev O. O., Dzhulii D. Yu., Slobodianiuk I. V.

“…The possibility of a highly efficient achievement of the roughness of flat surfaces up to Ra < 0.05 μm with the initial Ra > 1–2 μm with removing of the heredity of the machining in the form of microwaves obtained in the face milling operation was shown. …”
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Prediction of the Sea-Keeping Behavior of High-Speed Unmanned Surface Vehicles Under the Coastal Intersecting Waves by Xiaobin Hong, Guihong Zheng, Ruimou Cai, Yuanming Chen, Guoquan Xiao

“…To better study the sea-keeping response behavior of unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) in coastal intersecting waves, a prediction is conducted using the CFD method in this paper, in which a USV with the shape of a small-scale catamaran and designed target for high-speed navigating is considered. …”
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Structural Regulation of Infrared Radiation in Butterfly Wing Scales by Chufei Tang

“…A further study of 99 butterfly species from several families shows that as the range of butterfly species moves from low to high latitudes, which generally corresponds to a decrease in habitat temperature, the efficiency of infrared radiation in the wing scales decreases, i.e., the wing radiates less efficiently for cooling and less heat is dissipated. …”
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Co-culture dynamics between Lachancea cidri and Saccharomyces cerevisiae impact fermentative aroma profile by Vasni Zavaleta, Diego Valderrama-Soto, Luis A. Saona, Romain Minebois, Amparo Querol, Francisco A. Cubillos, Pablo Villarreal

“…Interestingly, L. cidri efficiently ferments SWM, even at low nitrogen concentrations (60 mg/L YAN), generating a distinct sensory profile characterized by higher concentrations of isobutanol and ethyl ester, in contrast to that in S. cerevisiae. …”
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All-solid continuous-wave Nd: YVO4-diamond intracavity Raman laser by Yunpeng Cai, Yaxuan Duan, Hui Chen, Bingzheng Yan, Yaoyao Qi, Zhenxu Bai, Yulei Wang, Zhiwei Lu, Jie Ding

“…Compared to the linear cavity, the V-shaped cavity has a higher conversion efficiency of 11.07% and a narrower linewidth of 0.07 nm. …”
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Assessment of RBFs Based Meshfree Method for the Vibration Response of FGM Rectangular Plate Using HSDT Model by Manish Srivastava, Jeeoot Singh

“…The novelty of the present modified method is to analyze the square and rectangular plates without changing the shape parameters. Here, the seventeen different RBFs are available in various literature to demonstrate the accuracy and efficiency of the present method in terms of the number of nodes and computational time. …”
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Impact of the vibrocathode on the patterns and properties of electrolytic copper powders by Marina V Korchagina, Alexander A. Naumenko, Valery M. Lipkin

“…The productivity of copper powder obtaining in the offered terms is 0.25 g/(cm2·h), mean particle size is 3-4 microns. High efficiency of the process compared with the use of sulphate electrolytes, and a positive effect of the shape and size of the obtained copper powder on the processes of alloying Fe-based materials are reported. …”
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Eosin Yellowish Dye-Sensitized ZnO Nanostructure-Based Solar Cells Employing Solid PEO Redox Couple Electrolyte by S. S. Kanmani, K. Ramachandran, S. Umapathy

“…The dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) based on ZnO nanorods sensitized with Eosin yellowish dye exhibits a maximum optimal energy conversion efficiency of 0.163% compared to that of nanoparticles and nanoflowers, due to better dye loading and direct conduction pathway for electron transport.…”
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Dual Zeroth-Order Resonant USB Dongle Antennas for 4G MIMO Wireless Communications by Yan Shi, Lu Zhang, Chang-Hong Liang

“…Measurement results show that proposed MIMO antenna system has total efficiency over 40% across the operation band and isolation less than −8 dB at the lower band and −16 dB at the upper band, respectively.…”
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A two-step multiaxial racetrack filter algorithm for non-proportional load histories by Marco Antonio Meggiolaro, Jaime Tupiassú Pinho de Castro, Hao Wu

“…The MRF procedures are optimized here by the introduction of a pre-processing “partitioning” step on the load history data, which selects candidates for the reversal points in a robust partitioning process, highly increasing the filter efficiency and decreasing its computational time. The improved MRF is evaluated through the fatigue analyses of over-sampled tension-torsion data measured in 316L stainless steel tubular specimens under non-proportional load paths.…”
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Revisiting classical concepts of Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics - Part III: The stress field in a double-edge notched finite strip by means of the “stress-neutralization” techni... by Christos Markides, Stavros K Kourkoulis

“…It is revealed that the assumption of “shallow” notches suffices a quite efficient solution for the overall stress field in finite strips. …”
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Machine learning modeling based on informer for predicting complex unsteady flow fields to reduce consumption of computational fluid dynamics simulation by Mingkun Fang, Fangfang Zhang, Di Zhu, Ruofu Xiao, Ran Tao

“…This paper proposes an innovative approach based on the Informer model for efficient prediction of unsteady flow fields. This study focuses on the two-dimensional National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) 0009 hydrofoil wake vortices and introduces the machine learning model Informer to predict unsteady wake vortices. …”
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