The Hydrodynamic Performance of a Vertical-Axis Hydro Turbine with an Airfoil Designed Based on the Outline of a Sailfish by Aiping Wu, Shiming Wang, Chenglin Ding

“…Results indicated the centrifugal subsystem demonstrated peak hydrodynamic efficiency at a 25° installation angle, whereas the axial-flow module achieves optimal performance at 35° blade orientation. …”
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A Comparative Study of Deep Reinforcement Learning Algorithms for Urban Autonomous Driving: Addressing the Geographic and Regulatory Challenges in CARLA by Yechan Park, Woomin Jun, Sungjin Lee

“…To evaluate the adaptability of each algorithm to geographical variability and complex traffic laws, scenario-specific reward and penalty functions were carefully designed and incorporated. …”
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clonevdjseq: A workflow and bioinformatics management system for sequencing, archiving, and analysis of VDJ sequences from clonal libraries by Keith Mitchell, Samuel Hunter, Lutz Froenicke, Karl Murray, Matthew Settles, James S. Trimmer

“…The results of this effort has yielded sequences used to develop functional recombinant monoclonal antibodies and single chain variable fragments as a part of the NeuroMabSeq initiative where thousands of hybridoma samples were processed (Mitchell et al. in Sci Rep 13(1):16200, 2023) as well as provide additional modeling and extensibility to other modalities. …”
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Unraveling novel variants in the NF1 gene and investigating potential therapeutic strategies by Jianmei Huang, Ke Yang, Yaoping Wang, Xinrui Ma, Wenke Yang, Xiaodong Huo, Jie Bai, Hongjie Zhu, Jinming Wang, Yibing Lv, Shixiu Liao

“…A retrospective analysis of 49 clinical trials over the past 20 years revealed that NF1 therapies predominantly target neurofibromin’s GTPase function. Gene therapies aiming to restore neurofibromin by transducing the truncated NF1-GRD gene have been developed but faced pre-clinical challenges, including cloning capacity, transduction efficiency, and immunogenicity caused by gene delivery. …”
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Generating Electricity with Hydraulically Amplified Self-Healing Electrostatic (HASEL) Transducers by Isabel Hess, Stephen Chamot, Blake Boren, Patrick Musgrave

“…This study identifies hydraulically amplified self-healing electrostatic (HASEL) transducers as electricity generators, contrary to their conventional role as actuators. HASELs are soft, variable-capacitance transducers inspired by biological muscles which were developed to mimic the flexibility and functionality of natural muscle tissues. …”
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Algorithm for Dynamic Reactive Power Optimization of Regional Power Grid Based on Interior Point Method and Neighborhood Search Decoupling Dynamic Programming Method by Jie ZHANG, Hengfeng WANG, Shengchun LIU, Huabiao WANG, Canghai WANG, Yao RAN, Xianmin WANG, Yongfei MA, Wei YAN

“…The two-stage method could not only ensure the quality of the optimal solution, but also avoid solving the state combination explosion problem with discrete variables, which greatly improves the computational efficiency. …”
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Process engineering by Ahmed Mohamed Farid Shaaban, Azza Ibrahim Hafez, Mona Amin Abdel-Fatah, Nabil Mahmoud Abdel-Monem, Mohamed Hanafy Mahmoud

“…The solution diffusion model was used to develop power correlations to calculate the permeate side solute mass transfer coefficient as a function of effective cross-flow Reynolds number. …”
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A New Legendre Collocation Method for Solving a Two-Dimensional Fractional Diffusion Equation by A. H. Bhrawy

“…A new spectral shifted Legendre Gauss-Lobatto collocation (SL-GL-C) method is developed and analyzed to solve a class of two-dimensional initial-boundary fractional diffusion equations with variable coefficients. The method depends basically on the fact that an expansion in a series of shifted Legendre polynomials PL,n(x)PL,m(y), for the function and its space-fractional derivatives occurring in the partial fractional differential equation (PFDE), is assumed; the expansion coefficients are then determined by reducing the PFDE with its boundary and initial conditions to a system of ordinary differential equations (SODEs) for these coefficients. …”
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Replacing GRACE/GRACE‐FO C30 With Satellite Laser Ranging: Impacts on Antarctic Ice Sheet Mass Change by Bryant D. Loomis, Kenneth E. Rachlin, David N. Wiese, Felix W. Landerer, Scott B. Luthcke

“…The C30 coefficient, which has a large impact on the recovered Antarctic Ice Sheet mass changes, is shown here to be poorly observed by GRACE/GRACE‐FO when either mission is operating without two fully functional accelerometers. …”
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The Effect of Rural Guide Plan on Objective Quality of Life among Rural Communities in Fariman County by Aliakbar Anabestani, Hamdollah Sojasi Qeidari, Fahime Jafari

“…According to the results of Pearson's correlation tests, the findings of present study showed a significant and strong correlation between implementation of rural guide plan and the mental facet of life quality by a 0.75 correlation coefficient, so that rural guide plan explained 57% of the variation of dependent variable, and among guide plan dimensions the changing environmental rural affected the objective improvement of life quality of villagers by 29 percent. …”
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Mechanical and Civil Engineering Optimization with a Very Simple Hybrid Grey Wolf—JAYA Metaheuristic Optimizer by Chiara Furio, Luciano Lamberti, Catalin I. Pruncu

“…The proposed SHGWJA was tested very successfully in seven “real-world” engineering optimization problems taken from various fields, such as civil engineering, aeronautical engineering, mechanical engineering (included in the CEC 2020 test suite on real-world constrained optimization problems) and robotics; these problems include up to 14 optimization variables and 721 nonlinear constraints. Two representative mathematical optimization problems (i.e., Rosenbrock and Rastrigin functions) including up to 1000 variables were also solved. …”
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Feasibility of estimating the percentage of desert pavement using Tasseled Cap Transformation indices extracted from Landsat 8 images by farzaneh Fotouhi Firoozabad, Atefeh jebali

“…The selected model shows the relationship between the amount of desert pavement and the Greenness and Brightness variables, with a correlation coefficient of 0.61 and a standard error of 23.2. …”
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Safety Assessment of Loop Closing in Active Distribution Networks Based on Probabilistic Power Flow by Wenchao Cai, Yuan Gao, Xiping Zhang, Qin Si, Jiaoxin Jia, Bingzhen Li

“…By modeling DGs and loads as random variables, their cumulants are efficiently obtained through LHS. …”
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Explainable AI-driven assessment of hydro climatic interactions shaping river discharge dynamics in a monsoonal basin by Prashant Parasar, Akhouri Pramod Krishna

“…The main findings of this study are (1) KAN demonstrated high predictive performance with root mean squared error (RMSE) values ranging from 42.7 to 58.3 m3/s, Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) between 0.80 and 0.87, mean absolute error (MAE) between 28.9 to 52.7 and R2 values between 0.84 and 0.90 across stations. (2) SHAP based feature contribution analysis identified Relative humidity (hurs), specific humidity (huss), and temperature (tas) as key predictors, while (pr) showed limited contribution due to spatial inherent inconsistencies in GCM precipitation data. (3) The bootstrapped SHAP distributions highlighted substantial variability in feature importance, particularly for humidity variables, revealing station specific uncertainty patterns in model interpretation. (4) The KAN framework results indicate strong temporal alignment and physical realism, confirming KAN’s robustness in capturing seasonal discharge dynamics and extreme flow events under monsoon influence environments. (5) In this study KAN with SHAP (SHapley additive exPlanations) is implemented for hydrological modeling under monsoon-influenced and data-limited regions such as SRB, offering improved accuracy, functional precision and efficiency compared to traditional models. …”
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A Brief Political Economy of Energy Subsidies in the Middle East and North Africa by Laura El-Katiri, Bassam Fattouh

“…While it is clear that energy subsidy reform will not be the only variable at play, its potential socio-economic dividends are important factors for enabling some common regional objectives—sustainable fiscal policies, fiscal space to invest in key areas, and a more efficient and equitable distribution of scarce resources—to be achieved, helping to promote a more stable political status quo in the long term. …”
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Classification of Biological Data using Deep Learning Technique by Azha Javed, Muhammad Javed Iqbal

“…Previous work failed to properly address issues related to the classification of biological sequences i.e. protein including efficient encoding of variable length biological sequence data and implementation of deep learning based neural network models to enhance the performance of classification/ recognition systems. …”
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Haemodynamics-driven developmental pruning of brain vasculature in zebrafish. by Qi Chen, Luan Jiang, Chun Li, Dan Hu, Ji-wen Bu, David Cai, Jiu-lin Du

“…The brain blood vasculature consists of a highly ramified vessel network that is tailored to meet its physiological functions. How the brain vasculature is formed has long been fascinating biologists. …”
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Dimensions-Reduced Volterra Digital Pre-Distortion Based On Orthogonal Basis for Band-Limited Nonlinear Opto-Electronic Components by Hananel Faig, Yaron Yoffe, Eyal Wohlgemuth, Dan Sadot

“…However, naive implementation of the Volterra polynomial model usually introduces significant complexity due to the large number of model coefficients. Here, we propose the use of orthogonal polynomial basis functions for efficient DPD implementation. …”
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RAMAS-Net: a module-optimized convolutional network model for aortic valve stenosis recognition in echocardiography by Yejia Gan, Wanzhong Huang, Yan Deng, Xiaoying Xie, Yuanyuan Gu, Yaozhuang Zhou, Qian Zhang, Maosheng Zhang, Yangchun Liu

“…IntroductionAortic stenosis (AS) is a valvular heart disease that obstructs normal blood flow from the left ventricle to the aorta due to pathological changes in the valve, leading to impaired cardiac function. Echocardiography is a key diagnostic tool for AS; however, its accuracy is influenced by inter-observer variability, operator experience, and image quality, which can result in misdiagnosis. …”
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Post-thaw dimethyl sulfoxide reduction in autologous peripheral blood progenitor cell suspensions by Miroslava Jandová, Pavel Měřička, Jiří Gregor, Miriam Lánská, Aleš Bezrouk, Dana Čížková, Jakub Radocha

“…Background and objectives: Dimethyl sulfoxide has become the most common cryoprotectant used for cryopreservation of hematopoietic progenitor cells because of its efficiency, regardless of its potentially toxic side effects. …”
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