Structural characteristics, multifunctional applications, and research prospects of ferritin: a case study of sturgeon ferritin by Nida Maqsood, Zuoliang Tang, Abu Zar Ghafoor, Shuhong Li, Zhiqing Zhang, Anjun Chen, Zhiyong Zou, Man Zhou, Meiliang Li

“…In food engineering, ferritin acts as both a carrier for bioactive compounds and a highly efficient, low-irritant iron fortificant, significantly enhancing nutrient stability, solubility, and bioavailability, thereby extending food shelf life. …”
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Radiation Enhancement of an Ultrawideband Unidirectional Folded Bowtie Antenna for GPR Applications by Guangyao Yang, Shengbo Ye, Yicai Ji, Xiaojuan Zhang, Guangyou Fang

“…The radiation efficiency of the loaded bowtie antenna (BA) is improved, and the low-frequency bandwidth is broadened by the bent loop circuits. …”
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Acrylonitrile-Styrene-Acrylate Particles with Different Microstructure for Improving the Toughness of Poly(styrene-co-acrylonitrile) Resin by Yuanying Zhang, Xuechun Zhang, Yongbin Cao, Jiachun Feng, Wuli Yang

“…TEM results demonstrated that the particles with different morphologies of multilobe shape, complete core-shell and dumbbell shape were obtained depending on the cross-linker amount. …”
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Research on horizontal multi-step cavity construction for salt cavern gas storage based on experiments by Jiasong CHEN, Xuefeng BAI, Guijiu WANG, Lianbin ZHAO, Jun LU, Lilin FAN, Haosheng LIU, Luokun XIAO

“…ObjectiveGiven that most salt rock strata in China consist of thin-layered salt formations, conventional single-well and single-cavity construction technologies are no longer adequate for the efficient construction of large-size salt cavities. …”
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The effect of device geometry on the performance of a wave energy converter by Emma C. Edwards, Craig Whitlam, John Chapman, Jack Hughes, Bryony Redfearn, Scott Brown, Scott Draper, Alistair G. L. Borthwick, Graham Foster, Dick K.-P. Yue, Martyn Hann, Deborah Greaves

“…Comparing against the single shape which extracts the theoretical maximum power, the optimal shapes found in our study extract almost as much power (12% less) with substantially less moment (reduced by up to 35%), revealing a promising direction for wave energy development.…”
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A flexible statistical distribution for capturing complex patterns in industrial data by Ehab M. Almetwally, Amal S. Hassan, Mohamed Kayid, Arne Johannssen, Mohammed Elgarhy

“…A simulation study is conducted to assess the efficiency of the estimated parameters. According to the outcomes of this study, Bayesian estimates often perform better than frequentist estimates. …”
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Analysis of bulletproof performance of structurally optimized ceramic composite armor through numerical simulation and live fire test by Zhiyong Chen, Jian Hou, Fei Gao, Sier Deng, Yingqiang Xu, Jing Qin, Shuaishuai Cui, Jun-Hyun Kim

“…In this regard, structural regulation of the shape of the ceramic-based composite plates allows for the design of lightweight armor with improved bulletproof capability.…”
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AITP-YOLO: improved tomato ripeness detection model based on multiple strategies by Wenyuan Huang, Wenyuan Huang, Yiran Liao, Peiling Wang, Ziao Chen, Ziao Chen, Ziqi Yang, Ziqi Yang, Lijia Xu, Jiong Mu, Jiong Mu

“…The bounding box loss function is modified to Shape-IoU, with the loss computed by emphasizing the shape and scale of the bounding box, hence enhancing the precision of bounding box regression, expediting model convergence, and augmenting model correctness. …”
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Characterizing Wake Behavior of Adaptive Aerodynamic Structures Using Reduced-Order Models by Kyan Sadeghilari, Aditya Atre, John Hall

“…The previous study used a genetic algorithm to obtain nine TAD shapes that maximized aerodynamic efficiency in Region 2. …”
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Real-time freshness prediction for Apples and Lettuces using imaging recognition and advanced algorithms in a user-friendly mobile application by Chrysanthos Maraveas, George Kalitsios, Marianna I. Kotzabasaki, Dimitrios V. Giannopoulos, Kosmas Dimitropoulos, Anna Vatsanidou

“…Nine deep algorithms were compared in the research for image classification including Vision Transformer (ViT), Swin Transformer, Residual Networks (ResNet), EfficientNet, ConvNeXt, DeiT, MobileNetV3, MaxViT, and TNT (Transformer in Transformer). …”
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Balancing cleaner energy and geopolitical interests in the complex transition of the European electricity mix: from Fukushima to the Ukraine war by Marcio Cataldi, Nieves Espinosa, Sonia Jerez, Juan Pedro Montávez, Larissa Haringer Martins Da Silveira, Jairton Dupont, Marcos Alexandre Teixeira

“…Ultimately, this research reveals that the European Union choices in transitioning towards a cleaner electricity mix have not yet proven efficient. In fact, these choices may have inadvertently created favorable conditions for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, triggering, not only a humanitarian crisis, but also an economic downturn in Europe due to soaring energy prices. …”
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slendr: a framework for spatio-temporal population genomic simulations on geographic landscapes by Petr, Martin, Haller, Benjamin C., Ralph, Peter L., Racimo, Fernando

“…Together with its R-idiomatic interface to the tskit library for tree-sequence processing and analysis, slendr opens up the possibility of performing efficient, reproducible simulations of spatio-temporal genomic data entirely within the R environment, leveraging its wealth of libraries for geospatial data analysis, statistics, and visualization. …”
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An intelligent method for detection of small target fungal wheat spores based on an improved YOLOv5 with microscopic images by Zhizhou Ren, Kun Liang, Yingqi Zhang, Jinpeng Song, Xiaoxiao Wu, Chi Zhang, Xiuming Mei, Yi Zhang, Xin Liu

“…This approach enables efficient and accurate detection of wheat fungal spores, supporting early contamination warning in post-harvest management.…”
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Magnetic and mechanical hardening of nano-lamellar magnets using thermo-magnetic fields by Liuliu Han, Jin Wang, Nicolas J. Peter, Fernando Maccari, András Kovács, Ruth Schwaiger, Oliver Gutfleisch, Dierk Raabe

“…Another challenge lies in the inherent brittleness of current magnets, which limits their applications for high dynamic mechanical loading conditions during service and complex shape design during manufacturing towards high efficiency and sustainability. …”
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Robust quantum control using reinforcement learning from demonstration by Shengyong Li, Yidian Fan, Xiang Li, Xinhui Ruan, Qianchuan Zhao, Zhihui Peng, Re-Bing Wu, Jing Zhang, Pengtao Song

“…By avoiding learning from scratch and starting with reasonable control pulse shapes, this approach can increase sample efficiency by reducing the number of samples, which can significantly reduce the training time. …”
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Leveraging Success: The Hidden Peak in Debt and Firm Performance by Suzan Dsouza, Krishnamoorthy Kathavarayan, Franklin Mathias, Dharmesh Bhatia, Abdallah AlKhawaja

“…These insights offer valuable guidance for managers, investors, and policymakers aiming to strengthen financial stability and efficiency through informed capital structure choices.…”
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Driver-Centric Design: Empirical Strategies for Optimizing the Visualization of Driving Information on Vehicle Liquid Crystal Display Dashboards by Jin-Long Lin, Meng-Cong Zheng, Tao Wang, Peng Liu

“…The results for resident display information indicate that design type makes a significant difference in both reading performance and visual search efficiency. In addition, only the unconventional-shaped (L-shaped) dual-dial design achieves the “desired” rating in the user experience evaluations. …”
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Multi-Scale Analysis of the Mitigation Effect of Green Space Morphology on Urban Heat Islands by Jie Liu, Xueying Wu, Liyu Pan, Chun-Ming Hsieh

“…This study investigates the multi-scale relationships between UGS spatial patterns and cooling effects in Macao, employing morphological spatial pattern analysis (MSPA) to characterize UGS configurations and geographically weighted regression (GWR) to examine city-scale thermal interactions, complemented by patch-scale buffer analyses of area, perimeter, and landscape shape index effects. Results demonstrate that high-UGS-integrity areas significantly enhance cooling capacity (area with proportion of core ≥35% showing optimal performance), while fragmented elements (branches, edges) exacerbate UHIs, with patch-scale analyses revealing nonlinear threshold effects in cooling efficiency. …”
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Influences of Dual Air-Swirler Angles on Swirling Injection and Combustion of Kerosene-Air at a Supercritical Pressure by Danyang Wang, Danyang Wang, Dongxin Huang, Jianguo Xu, Hua Meng, Hua Meng

“…High-pressure swirling injection and combustion are important phenomena in a modern gas turbine engine as its compression ratio has been significantly increased to improve thermodynamic efficiency. Large eddy simulations are conducted to analyze turbulent flow and combustion of kerosene-air in a dual-air-swirler gas turbine model combustor at a supercritical pressure of 4 MPa, above the critical pressure of kerosene. …”
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A fractal gripper with switchable mode for geometry adaptive manipulation by Jiaxin Huang, Jian Shen, Yilin Zheng, Yanbo Guo, Zhigong Song

“…The self-recovery feature is realized by resilient design to activate the function of continuous robust grasping and improve the grasping efficiency. Besides, the grasped objects can be held softly owing to the contact force redistribution and pressure re-equilibrium. …”
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