SlimPort: Port-Driven High-Level Synthesis for Continuous-Flow Microfluidic Biochips by Youlin Pan, Yanbo Xu, Ziyang Chen, Xing Huang, Genggeng Liu

“…High-level synthesis, as an important stage in the design flow of CFMBs, generates binding and scheduling solutions whose quality directly affects the efficiency of the execution of bioassays. Existing high-level synthesis methods perform numerous transport tasks concurrently to increase efficiency. …”
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Context of Institutional Trust Erosion: An Inquiry into Workers' Experiences in Accessing Support and Welfare Institutions by Mohadeseh Zia Naserani, Hossein Afrasiabi, SeyedAlireza Afshani, Hamid Ebadollahi-Chanzanagh

“…Institutional trust emerges when citizens perceive government institutions as accountable, efficient, benevolent, predictable, open, transparent, fair, and honest. …”
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Edge-Assisted Label-Flipping Attack Detection in Federated Learning by Nourah S. AlOtaibi, Muhamad Felemban, Sajjad Mahmood

“…In LFA, malicious clients deliberately mislabel local data, causing the global model to misclassify certain classes, thus undermining its integrity. Although centralized detection methods have been explored, there is a notable gap in addressing LFA within the decentralized Client-Edge-Cloud architecture, which is crucial for FL systems. …”
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Design, Construction, and Evaluation of an Automatic Feeder Control System for Sugarcane Billet Planters by B. Abbasian, M. E. Khorasani Ferdavani, H. Zaki Dizaji

“…The load cell control method emerged as the most effective solution, successfully eliminating the need for operators while ensuring high standards of planting quality and efficiency. …”
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Gender and Gender Inequalities: Elucidating the Role of Supervisor–Employee Gender Congruence Through United States Survey Results by Kuk-Kyoung Moon, Jaeyoung Lim

“…Gender inequalities in the workplace present a profound challenge, undermining not only the psychological well-being and performance of employees but also the fabric of organizational justice and efficiency. …”
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Public–private partnership in pipelining science of acute care ecosystem: Insights from Taiwan's Presidential Hackathon by Chao‐Wen Chen, Yung‐Sung Yeh, Ta‐Chien Chan, Yi‐Syuan Wu

“…This disorganization undermined collaboration and response efficiency. Methods Taiwan's Presidential Hackathon introduced an innovative approach to improving the trauma system by integrating digital pipeline science through public–private partnerships (PPPs). …”
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Optimizing forest stand aggregation in fragmented stands using graph convolutional networks: A case study in Japan by YangYu You, Hyun Bae Kim, Takuyuki Yoshioka

“…Japan’s forest sector faces persistent challenges due to fragmented land ownership and an increasingly skewed age-class structure, undermining not only management efficiency but also economic viability and long-term sustainability. …”
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Educational Stress and Artificial Intelligence Tools: A Study of International Students’ Experiences in Spanish Higher Education by Aida Mehrad, Mohammad Hossein Tahriri Zangeneh, Meriem Bouzedif, Neema George Rweramila

“… Stress has become a pervasive challenge for students navigating the demands of modern education, often undermining both academic performance and overall well-being. …”
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Research on Mobile Agent Path Planning Based on Deep Reinforcement Learning by Shengwei Jin, Xizheng Zhang, Ying Hu, Ruoyuan Liu, Qing Wang, Haihua He, Junyu Liao, Lijing Zeng

“…For mobile agent path planning, traditional path planning algorithms frequently induce abrupt variations in path curvature and steering angles, increasing the risk of lateral tire slippage and undermining operational safety. Concurrently, conventional reinforcement learning methods struggle to converge rapidly, leading to an insufficient efficiency in planning to meet the demand for energy economy. …”
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Rethinking the potential of urban agriculture as a climate resilience strategy: Evidence from Accra, Ghana by Gideon Baffoe, Philip Antwi-Agyei

“…It critically examines the extent to which UA has been integrated into national policy frameworks and identifies the barriers undermining its broader adoption and implementation. …”
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AS-TBR: An Intrusion Detection Model for Smart Grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure by Hao Ma, Yifan Fan, Yiying Zhang

“…A significant challenge in AMI traffic data is the severe class imbalance, where existing methods tend to favor majority class samples while neglecting the detection of minority class attacks, thereby undermining the overall reliability of the detection system. …”
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Quantum State Estimation for Real-Time Battery Health Monitoring in Photovoltaic Storage Systems by Dawei Wang, Liyong Wang, Baoqun Zhang, Chang Liu, Yongliang Zhao, Shanna Luo, Jun Feng

“…The growing deployment of photovoltaic (PV) and energy storage systems (ESSs) in power grids has amplified concerns over component degradation, which undermines efficiency, increases costs, and shortens system lifespan. …”
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Impact of artificial intelligence in transforming the doctor–cancer patient relationship by P.-E. Heudel, H. Crochet, J.-Y. Blay

“…Materials and methods: This article synthesizes empirical studies and expert opinions to offer a comprehensive understanding of AI’s current role in oncology. …”
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A Comprehensive Review of MI-HFE and IPHFE Cryptosystems: Advances in Internal Perturbations for Post-Quantum Security by Yong Wang, Lingyue Li, Ying Zhou, Huili Zhang

“…The advent of fully operational quantum computers could enable the execution of Shor’s algorithm, which efficiently factors large integers and undermines the security of RSA and other cryptographic systems reliant on discrete logarithms. …”
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Evaluation of risk-based antigen and antibody surveillance strategies and their association with HPAI outbreaks in South Korean duck farms by Saleem Ahmad, Dae Sung Yoo

“…However, the effectiveness of these strategies—especially in terms of testing frequency, timing, and spatial alignment with outbreak risks—remains under-evaluated.MethodsThis study analyzed antigen and antibody surveillance data from South Korean duck farms between 2019 and 2022. …”
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Navigating the Water–Energy Nexus: A Mathematical Approach by Moses Kayanda Kiteto, Cleophas Achisa Mecha

“…This has significantly undermined the efficiency of the plants as these surveys often miss out on complex interactions, lack robust predictive power and fail to account for dynamic temporal changes. …”
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Generative AI in Higher Education: Balancing Innovation and Integrity by Nigel J. Francis, Sue Jones, David P. Smith

“…This paper argues that while GenAI can provide substantial benefits in terms of automation and efficiency, its integration must be managed with care to avoid undermining the authenticity of student work and exacerbating existing inequalities. …”
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AI meets academia: the fire model's vision for enhanced learning by Nancy Mohamed Afifi

“…AI's capacity to generate complex written outputs poses significant challenges to traditional evaluation methods and potentially undermines the development of critical thinking. …”
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Optimizing patient autonomy: a discrete choice experiment on preferences and disparities in healthcare provider selection by Gideon Leibner, Shuli Brammli-Greenberg

“…Future research should focus on strategies that better address the diverse needs and preferences of the population, ultimately enhancing healthcare system efficiency and equity.…”
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Impact softening performance of low melting point alloy/copper foam composite phase change materials by Jingjing Song, Minzu Liang, Yuliang Lin, Leilei Wu, Jiakai Guo, Wen Liang, Yuwu Zhang

“…The deformation failure mechanism and the strain rate softening effect of low melting point alloy/copper foam composite phase change material (CPCM) under impact loading were investigated using a macro-fine-micro multi-scale analysis method. The consequences of strain rate and relative density on the dynamic response of CPCM were experimentally examined using Split-Hopkinson-Pressure-Bar methods. …”
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