Integrating Confidence Maps and Visual Servoing for Needle Tracking in Robotic US-Guided Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy by Hoorieh Mazdarani, James Watterson, Rebecca Hibbert, Carlos Rossa

“…It ensures continuous probe–tissue contact on uneven surfaces and does not require prior knowledge of the needle’s trajectory or additional sensors. …”
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Hardware assurance with silicon photonic physical unclonable functions by Mohammad Amin Mahdian, Ebadollah Taheri, Kaveh Rahbardar Mojaver, Mahdi Nikdast

“…Measurement results from the fabricated CDCs demonstrate their capability to achieve an average Hamming distance threshold of over 0.2, effectively distinguishing between legitimate devices and their copies. …”
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Magnetite-Assisted Capture Affinity, Concentration Dependence, and Magnetic Extraction Rate of <i>Bacillus cereus</i> by Gouri Nilakshika Atapattu, Michelle Giltrap, Furong Tian

“…The interactions between magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) and bio-surfaces have impacted key industries such as food, biomedicine, water purification, and agriculture. …”
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Evaluating aufeis detection methods using Landsat imagery: Comparative assessment and recommendations by Julian Dann, Simon Zwieback, Paul Leonard, W. Robert Bolton

“…Additionally, we evaluate the utility of additional bands and indices in aufeis detection using a grid-search for the top features (3FT) and feature importance metrics.The more complex RF classifier, which relies on an extensive training dataset, outperforms both feature thresholding methods across all validation datasets with an average F1 score of 0.967±0.029. Feature importance metrics indicate that the near-infrared is effective for distinguishing between snow and ice surfaces. …”
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Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence by P. M. Forster, C. Smith, C. Smith, T. Walsh, W. F. Lamb, W. F. Lamb, R. Lamboll, C. Cassou, C. Cassou, M. Hauser, Z. Hausfather, Z. Hausfather, J.-Y. Lee, J.-Y. Lee, M. D. Palmer, M. D. Palmer, K. von Schuckmann, A. B. A. Slangen, S. Szopa, B. Trewin, J. Yun, N. P. Gillett, S. Jenkins, H. D. Matthews, K. Raghavan, A. Ribes, J. Rogelj, J. Rogelj, J. Rogelj, D. Rosen, X. Zhang, M. Allen, M. Allen, L. Aleluia Reis, L. Aleluia Reis, R. M. Andrew, R. A. Betts, R. A. Betts, A. Borger, J. A. Broersma, S. N. Burgess, L. Cheng, P. Friedlingstein, P. Friedlingstein, C. M. Domingues, C. M. Domingues, M. Gambarini, M. Gambarini, T. Gasser, J. Gütschow, M. Ishii, C. Kadow, J. Kennedy, R. E. Killick, P. B. Krummel, A. Liné, A. Liné, A. Liné, D. P. Monselesan, C. Morice, J. Mühle, V. Naik, G. P. Peters, A. Pirani, J. Pongratz, J. Pongratz, J. C. Minx, J. C. Minx, M. Rigby, R. Rohde, A. Savita, A. Savita, S. I. Seneviratne, P. Thorne, C. Wells, L. M. Western, G. R. van der Werf, S. E. Wijffels, S. E. Wijffels, V. Masson-Delmotte, P. Zhai

“…The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). …”
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Nuclear level density in the statistical semiclassical micro-macroscopic approach by A. G. Magner, A. I. Sanzhur, S. N. Fedotkin, A. I. Levon, U. V. Grygoriev, S. Shlomo

“…The interparticle interaction averaged over particle numbers is taken into account in terms of the extended Thomas - Fermi component of the POT. …”
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Transient heat transfer analysis of airflow in a thermal water-bearing tunnel considering airflow turbulence and surrounding rock seepage effects by Shujie Chen, Zhengguo Zhu, Yong Zhao, Guangyan Gu, Ben-Guo He

“…In deep tunnels traversing fractured water-rich strata, surface water descend, heats up at depth, and then rises into the tunnel, resulting in a ‘thermal water-bearing’ tunnel. …”
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Enhancement of Thermochemical Energy Storage by Alkali Metal Chloride Salts-Doped Ca-Based Sorbents: A Combined DFT and Experimental Study by Dehao Kong, Nan He, Qicheng Chen, Binjian Nie, Yingjin Zhang, Nan An, Liang Yao, Zhihui Wang

“…This enhancement originates from the oxygen vacancies generated by Na₂O and K₂O and the significantly increased surface area by CaCl₂ as well as the sintering delay. …”
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A simple steady-state inflow model of the neutral and stable atmospheric boundary layer applied to wind turbine wake simulations by M. P. van der Laan, M. Kelly, M. Baungaard, A. Dicholkar, E. L. Hodgson

“…<p>Wind turbines are increasing in size and operate more frequently above the atmospheric surface layer, which requires improved inflow models for numerical simulations of turbine interaction. …”
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Spatial and temporal distributions of evaporation ducts in the Black Sea and their impact on the over-the-horizon propagation of electromagnetic waves by Chongyang Feng, Chongyang Feng, Shuwen Wang, Chunlong Huang, Fan Yang, Yihang Shu, Kunde Yang

“…This study presents a integration of the ERA5 reanalysis dataset, the Navy Atmospheric Vertical Surface Layer Model (NAVSLaM), and the Advanced Propagation Model (APM) to systematically characterize evaporation duct height (EDH) distributions in the Black Sea and quantify their impact on over-the-horizon propagation. …”
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Evaluation of the shape symmetry of bilateral normal corneas in a Chinese population. by Fangjun Bao, Hao Chen, Ye Yu, Jiguo Yu, Shi Zhou, Jing Wang, QinMei Wang, Ahmed Elsheikh

“…<h4>Results</h4>The general quadratic model provided average RMS of fit errors with the topography data of 1.7±0.6 µm and 5.7±1.3 µm in anterior and posterior corneal surfaces. …”
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Kinetics of Proton Transfer and String of Conformational Transformation for 4-Pyridone-3-carboxylic Acid Under External Electric Field by Ya-Wen Li, Rui-Zhi Feng, Xiao-Jiang Li, Ai-Chuan Liu, En-Lin Wang

“…Due to the first-order Stark effect, some good linear relationships form between the changes of the structures, atoms in molecules (AIMs) results, surface electrostatic potentials, barriers of the transition state, and the external electric field strengths. …”
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Random Forest-Based Retrieval of XCO₂ Concentration from Satellite-Borne Shortwave Infrared Hyperspectral by Wenhao Zhang, Zhengyong Wang, Tong Li, Bo Li, Yao Li, Zhihua Han

“…The training dataset is constructed using the Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2) spectral data, XCO₂ retrievals from OCO-2, surface albedo data, and aerosol optical depth (AOD) measurements for 2019. …”
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Variable domain mutational analysis to probe the molecular mechanisms of high viscosity of an IgG1 antibody by Jing Dai, Saeed Izadi, Jonathan Zarzar, Patrick Wu, Angela Oh, Paul J. Carter

“…An extensive mutational analysis was undertaken of the complementarity-determining region residues residing in hydrophobic surface patches predicted by spatial aggregation propensity, in conjunction with residue-level solvent accessibility, averaged over conformational ensembles from molecular dynamics simulations. …”
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Experimental Analyses of Pore‐Size Dependent Biomineralization in Porous Media Under Various Flow Rate and Bacterial Density Scenarios by Ze Yang, Zhi Dou, Alberto Guadagnini, Xiaoteng Li, Chaoqi Wang, Jinguo Wang

“…We find that CaCO3 mainly precipitates in macropores, consistent with the presence of favorable local hydrodynamic conditions and large surface areas therein. Precipitated CaCO3 volume is found to increase with bacterial density. …”
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Electron Acceleration at Shock Ripples: Role of Pitch-angle Diffusion by Y. D. Xu, G. Li, S. Yao

“…The propagation of gyrophase-averaged electrons is governed by the focused transport equation, where the effect of the turbulent magnetic field is modeled by the pitch-angle diffusion, described by the quasi-linear theory. …”
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Gas Transfer Across Air‐Water Interfaces in Inland Waters: From Micro‐Eddies to Super‐Statistics by Gabriel Katul, Andrew Bragg, Ivan Mammarella, Heping Liu, Qi Li, Elie Bou‐Zeid

“…Abstract In inland water covering lakes, reservoirs, and ponds, the gas exchange of slightly soluble gases such as carbon dioxide, dimethyl sulfide, methane, or oxygen across a clean and nearly flat air‐water interface is routinely described using a water‐side mean gas transfer velocity kL‾, where overline indicates time or ensemble averaging. The micro‐eddy surface renewal model predicts kL‾=αoSc−1/2νϵ‾1/4, where Sc is the molecular Schmidt number, ν is the water kinematic viscosity, and ϵ‾ is the waterside mean turbulent kinetic energy dissipation rate at or near the interface. …”
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Analysis of Satellite and In Situ Optical Proxies for PIC and POC During GEOTRACES GP15 and GP17‐OCE Transects From the Subarctic North Pacific to the Southern Ocean by Yunhao Li, James K. B. Bishop, Phoebe J. Lam, Daniel C. Ohnemus

“…Abstract The biological pump, a fundamental process governing atmospheric CO2, rapidly transfers particulate inorganic and organic carbon (PIC and POC) from surface waters to the deep sea but is inherently highly variable in space and time, and thus poorly observed. …”
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Impact of propeller arrangement on aerodynamic performance for a high-lift distributed propulsion system by Suqi Chen, Zheng Guo, Duoneng Liu

“…SST-IDDES method results indicate that the spiral vortex on the suction surface of the wing on the ascending blade side contributes to increased lift for the distributed propulsion system. …”
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Dynamics of the island mass effect – Part 1: Detecting the extent by G. Bourdin, L. Karp-Boss, L. Karp-Boss, F. Lombard, G. Gorsky, E. Boss

“…Previous algorithms developed for detecting the IME using satellite data are based on monthly or longer averages of satellite-derived chlorophyll <span class="inline-formula"><i>a</i></span> concentrations. …”
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