Polysaccharide-Based Superporous, Superabsorbent, and Stimuli Responsive Hydrogel from Sweet Basil: A Novel Material for Sustained Drug Release by Bilal Ahmad Lodhi, Muhammad Ajaz Hussain, Muhammad Sher, Muhammad Tahir Haseeb, Muhammad Umer Ashraf, Syed Zajif Hussain, Irshad Hussain, Syed Nasir Abbas Bukhari

“…This study is carried out on polysaccharide-based hydrogel extracted from the seeds of Ocimum basilicum L. for its evaluation as a superabsorbent and stimuli responsive biomaterial for sustained release drug delivery system. …”
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A dual-phase financial strategy for sustainable customer loyalty: Integrating fixed deposits and voucher systems in Sri Lankan supermarket retail by A.K.G.N. Deshapriya, W.M.A. Weerakoon, H.Y.M.T.P. Wickramasinghe, T.M.C.E.K. Tennakoon, B.N. Jayasinghe, S.A.N. Hirunika, H.P.G.T. Dulshan, M.I.V. Perera, M.D.H.S. Maddage, D.D. Munasinghe, D.G.N.D. Jayarathna, M. M. V. Senanayake, G.V.D.P.P. Perera

“… This study develops and evaluates an innovative dual-phase customer loyalty strategy for Sri Lankan supermarkets, integrating fixed deposit investments with voucher-based reward systems to enhance both customer engagement and sustainable business profitability during festive seasons. …”
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Modeling the Impact of Public Transportation and Mitigation Strategies in COVID-19 Spread in Mexico City by Fernando Reyes-Gomez, Emmanuel Torres-Marin, Maria Elena Larraga, Luis Alvarez-Icaza, Roman A. Mora-Gutierrez

“…Furthermore, the model incorporates several key time-varying parameters such as district population, commuting patterns, and contact matrices for different settings. …”
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Technology-enabled CONTACT tracing in care homes in the COVID-19 pandemic: the CONTACT non-randomised mixed-methods feasibility study by Carl A Thompson, Thomas A Willis, Amanda Farrin, Adam Gordon, Amrit Daffu-O’Reilly, Catherine Noakes, Kishwer Khaliq, Andrew Kemp, Tom Hall, Chris Bojke, Karen Spilsbury

“…The CONtact TrAcing in Care homes using digital Technology intervention introduces Bluetooth-enabled wearable devices for automated contact tracing. We provided structured reports (scheduled regularly and in reaction to positive COVID-19 cases) on contact patterns to homes to support better-informed infection prevention and control decisions and potentially reduce blanket restrictive measures. …”
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STF: A spherical transformer for versatile cortical surfaces applications by Jiale Cheng, Fenqiang Zhao, Zhengwang Wu, Xinrui Yuan, Li Wang, John H Gilmore, Weili Lin, Xin Zhang, Gang Li

“…We evaluate the Spherical Transformer on key tasks, including cognition prediction at the surface level and two vertex-level tasks: cortical surface parcellation and cortical property map prediction. …”
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Plasma state monitoring and disruption characterization using multimodal VAEs by Yoeri Poels, Alessandro Pau, Christian Donner, Giulio Romanelli, Olivier Sauter, Cristina Venturini, Vlado Menkovski, the TCV Team, the WPTE Team

“…We build upon the Variational Autoencoder framework, and extend it for (1) continuous projections of plasma trajectories; (2) a multimodal structure to separate operating regimes; and (3) separation with respect to disruptive regimes. …”
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Research on the evolution and prediction of the heights of water-conducting fracture zones in overlying rocks during layered mining of extremely thick coal seams by MENG Hailun, CHENG Xianggang, QIAO Wei

“…Based on the geological conditions of the extremely thick coal seams in the Jurassic coalfields of Xinjiang, this research selected the parameters of the typical working face 9-15 (08) in the Liuhuanggou Coal Mine of the Zhunnan Coalfield in Xinjiang, quantitatively evaluated the development characteristics and evolution patterns of the overlying rock fracture fields under layered full-mechanized mining of extremely thick coal seams through numerical simulations and fractal geometry theory analysis. …”
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Factors affecting the design of the management dashboard framework with an emphasis on the components of human resources productivity by Hassan Barmaki, Farshad Faezy Razi, Ehtesham Rashidi

“…Dashboards can easily be used as a tool to help evaluate performance and support efficient decision-making by identifying trends, patterns and anomalies in information (Vagzgo et al, 2020). …”
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Seven New Irbesartan Salts: Significantly Improved Dissolution, Excellent Hygrothermal Stability, and Characteristic Supramolecular Synthons by Junxiao Wang, Chuanhua Wu, Menglong Zhang, Lingli Hou, Wei Chen, Dingding Jing, Ying Bao

“…Furthermore, supramolecular synthon studies revealed distinct hydrogen-bonding patterns (e.g., bifurcated bonds in 2,5-CBSA and CPSA salts) that correlate with moisture resistance. …”
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Optimizing Sputtered SnO₂:Dy Thin Films for NO₂ Gas Detection by Marwen Mezyen, Nabila Bitri, Ibtissem Riahi, Fatma Chaabouni, Eduard Llobet

“….% in increments of 2% (wt.%). X-ray patterns showed that all deposited films exhibited the tetragonal rutile structure of SnO₂. …”
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Substituting photoautotrophic with heterotrophic Chlorella species for water quality regulation and microbial community modification in Litopenaeus vannamei pond culture by Chu-er Song, Zhen Meng, Bangyin Zhang, Lin Yang, Xiaoxuan Sun, Zheng Zhang, Xiaojin Song

“…Regular sampling was performed on water and L. vannamei individuals from both sets of ponds to evaluate water nutrient parameters, bacterial community composition, and growth parameters correspondingly. …”
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Interactive eAssessment of writing competency in French as a foreign language: Development and implementation of an AI-enhanced progress monitoring system by Abdelghani Es-sarghini, Abdelaziz Boumahdi

“…Data collection spanned 1.5 months and included semi-structured interviews, system interaction statistics, and detailed feedback analysis using Atlas.ti coding, with two distinct examination periods. …”
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How much upfront-embodied GHG emissions can wooden buildings save—displacement factors for wooden buildings by Ali Amiri, Seppo Junnila

“…Here, we conduct a detailed evaluation of the upfront-embodied GHG (UE-GHG) emissions benefits of wood compared with the other construction materials. …”
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The impact of cross-validation choices on pBCI classification metrics: lessons for transparent reporting by Felix Schroeder, Stephen Fairclough, Frederic Dehais, Matthew Richins

“…A comparison of cross-validation schemes in which train and test subset boundaries either respect the block-structure of the data collection or not, illustrated how the relative performance of classifiers varies significantly with the evaluation method used. …”
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VisGraphVar: A benchmark generator for Assessing Variability in Graph Analysis Using Large Vision-Language Models by Camilo Chacon Sartori, Christian Blum, Filippo Bistaffa

“…These models are increasingly capable of tackling abstract visual tasks. Geometric structures, particularly graphs with their inherent flexibility and complexity, serve as an excellent benchmark for evaluating these models’ predictive capabilities. …”
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Preliminary design of a traffic separation scheme at the hub port of IKN: hydro-oceanographic analysis for navigational safety in the Makassar Strait by Ibnu Fauzi, Danang Ariyanto, Cahyarsi Murtiaji, Catur Indra Sukmana, Eny Cholishoh

“… The increasing maritime traffic density in the Makassar Strait, particularly due to the development of the Hub Port at Indonesia’s new capital (IKN), necessitates a structured Traffic Separation Scheme (TSS) to ensure navigational safety. …”
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Biogenic Synthesis of Ag Nanoparticles, ZnO Nanoparticles, and Ag@ZnO Nanocomposites as Photocatalysts for the Degradation of Brilliant Blue Dye by Vinidu Gamage, Gobika Thiripuranathar, Upul Nishshanka, Namal Priyantha, Manisha De Alwis Goonatilleke, Beth Guiton, Siyath Gunewardene, Sumedha Jayanetti

“…Moreover, X-ray diffraction patterns confirm the synthesis of pure crystalline structures, with a face-centered cubic structure for Ag and a hexagonal wurtzite structure for ZnO NPs during the synthesis of Ag@ZnO NCs. …”
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New Evidence of Holocene Faulting Activity and Strike-Slip Rate of the Eastern Segment of the Sunan–Qilian Fault from UAV-Based Photogrammetry and Radiocarbon Dating, NE Tibetan Pl... by Pengfei Niu, Zhujun Han, Peng Guo, Siyuan Ma, Haowen Ma

“…Understanding the activity parameters of this fault is essential for interpreting strain distribution patterns in the central–western segment of the Qilian–Haiyuan fault zone, located along the northeastern margin of the Tibetan Plateau, and for evaluating the seismic hazards in the region. …”
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Simple Yet Powerful: Machine Learning-Based IoT Intrusion System With Smart Preprocessing and Feature Generation Rivals Deep Learning by Kazim Kivanc Eren, Kerem Kucuk, Fatih Ozyurt, Omar H. Alhazmi

“…We evaluated our method on the ToN-IoT dataset, which contains various network traffic data sets and various types of attacks. …”
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Preparation of ZnO nanoparticles from Juglans regia dry husk extract for biomedical applications by Khetam Habeeb Rasool, Wedian K. Abad, Ahmed N. Abd

“…The peaks in the XRD pattern corresponded to the (100), (002), (101), (110), (103), and (201) planes. …”
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