Observational partitioning of water and CO₂ fluxes at National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON) sites: a 5-year dataset of soil and plant components for spatial... by E. Zahn, E. Bou-Zeid

“…<p>Long-term time series of transpiration, evaporation, plant net photosynthesis, and soil respiration are essential for addressing numerous research questions related to ecosystem functioning. However, quantifying these fluxes is challenging due to the lack of reliable and direct measurement techniques, which has left gaps in the understanding of their temporal cycles and spatial variability. …”
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Artificial intelligence Defect Detection Robustness inReal-time Non-Destructive Testing of Metal Surfaces by Chaoyu Dong, Jovian Sanjaya Putra, Andrew A. Malcolm

“… Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing defect detection by employing advanced computational techniques to enhance accuracy and efficiency. Through machine learning methods and deep neural networks, it is possible for AI systems to learn from diverse datasets and accurately identify defects across various applications. …”
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Genome-wide association study of blood vitamin D metabolites and bone remodelling markers in pigs by Dipanwita Paul, Michael Oster, Siriluck Ponsuksili, Klaus Wimmers, Henry Reyer

“…Hence, mineral utilization efficiency might be indirectly improved which remains to be empirically demonstrated through further research.…”
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Minimally Invasive Surgery in Modern Medicine: A Review of Laparoscopic Techniques, Indications, and Postoperative Outcomes by Maksymilian Czarnota, Martyna Adamowicz, Aleksandra Górniak

“…Enhanced visualisation, single-incision access and staple-line optimisation improved technical efficiency, while restrictive fluid and ERAS pathways halved pulmonary complications and hastened recovery. …”
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Unveiling the corporate governance dynamics: exploring the nexus of board composition, audit committee attributes, foreign ownership, and firm performance in an emerging market by Mohd Arsh, Mohd Shamim Ansari, Gayas Ahmad, Marghoob Enam, Mosab I. Tabash, Mujeeb Saif Mohsen Al-Absy

“…This study investigates the collective impact of key corporate governance variables namely board composition, audit committee characteristics, and foreign ownership on firm performance in an emerging economy, India. …”
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Sparse Learning of the Disease Severity Score for High-Dimensional Data by Ivan Stojkovic, Zoran Obradovic

“…This problem is solved by addressing a dual formulation which is smooth and allows an efficient optimization. The proposed approach might be used as an effective and reliable tool for both scoring function learning and biomarker discovery, as demonstrated by identifying a stable set of genes related to influenza symptoms’ severity, which are enriched in immune-related processes.…”
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Simultaneous single-sample determination of NMNAT isozyme activities in mouse tissues. by Giuseppe Orsomando, Lucia Cialabrini, Adolfo Amici, Francesca Mazzola, Silverio Ruggieri, Laura Conforti, Lucie Janeckova, Michael P Coleman, Giulio Magni

“…Final assay validation was achieved in a tissue extract by comparing the activity and expression levels of individual isozymes, considering their distinctive catalytic efficiencies. Furthermore, considering the key role played by NMNAT activity in preserving axon integrity and physiological function, this assay procedure was applied to both liver and brain extracts from wild-type and Wallerian degeneration slow (Wld(S)) mouse. …”
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On the added value of sequential deep learning for the upscaling of evapotranspiration by B. Kraft, B. Kraft, B. Kraft, J. A. Nelson, S. Walther, F. Gans, U. Weber, G. Duveiller, M. Reichstein, W. Zhang, M. Rußwurm, D. Tuia, M. Körner, Z. Hamdi, M. Jung

“…</p> <p>When using only meteorological covariates, we found that the sequential models (LSTM and TCN) performed better (each with a Nash–Sutcliffe efficiency (NSE) of 0.73) than the instantaneous models (FCN and XGBoost), both with an NSE of 0.70, in site-level cross-validation at the hourly scale. …”
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MiR-216a-3p inhibits the cytotoxicity of primary natural killer cells by Rowan Abdelbary, Rowan Abdelbary, Manon Ragheb, Manon Ragheb, Shereen A. El Sobky, Nagwa El-Badri, Nourhan Aboud, Ahmed Tawheed, Asmaa Gomaa, Mona Zidan, Ramy K. Aziz, Abd Elrahman Abouzid, Radwa Ayman Salah, Mohamed El-Kassas, Imam Waked, Ahmed Moustafa, Ahmed Moustafa, Injie Omar Fawzy, Nada El-Ekiaby, Ahmed Ihab Abdelaziz

“…IntroductionThe role of miRNAs in regulating variable molecular functions has been sought by scientists for its promising utility in regulating the immune response and, hence, in treating various diseases. …”
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Analisis Kualitas Website Balai Besar Taman Nasional Gunung Gede Pangranggo (BBTNGGP) menggunakan Metode Webqual 4.0 by Muhammad Syahid Qadhafi, Atit Pertiwi

“…The results of the analysis of the quality of this website concluded that the variable usability and information quality had a good value compared to the variable service interaction quality. …”
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Weather Phenomena Monitoring: Optimizing Solar Irradiance Forecasting With Temporal Fusion Transformer by Xinyang Hu

“…The proposed model decomposes the raw solar irradiance sequence into intrinsic mode functions using VMD and optimizes the TFT using the variable screening network and GRU-based encoder-decoder. …”
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Optimizing Constrained Engineering Optimization Problems Using Improved Mountain Gazelle Optimizer by Vu Hong Son Pham, Nghiep Trinh Nguyen Dang, Van Nam Nguyen

“…These enhancements underscore the significant potential of iMGO in real-world applications across aerospace engineering, structural design optimization, energy system planning, and other fields, thereby contributing to more efficient and sustainable engineering solutions.…”
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Non-destructive textural quality assessment of peaches and nectarines using near-infrared spectroscopy integration time by Eva Cristina Correa, Paola Baltazar, Pilar Barreiro, Natalia Hernández-Sánchez, Lourdes Lleó, Ángela Melado-Herreros, Belén Diezma

“…A principal component analysis (PCA) was used to analyze textural variability, and discriminant function analysis (DFA) and artificial neural networks (ANNs) were applied to classify fruit firmness levels.PCA effectively defined a new variable, PC1, that captured the variance in fruit texture, correlating positively with juiciness and negatively with firmness. …”
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Smart Fermentation Technologies: Microbial Process Control in Traditional Fermented Foods by Chong Shin Yee, Nur Asyiqin Zahia-Azizan, Muhamad Hafiz Abd Rahim, Nurul Aqilah Mohd Zaini, Raja Balqis Raja-Razali, Muhammad Ameer Ushidee-Radzi, Zul Ilham, Wan Abd Al Qadr Imad Wan-Mohtar

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Compositional and nutritional value of lupin cultivars: Identifying high-protein seeds for enhanced protein isolate production and phytochemical valorisation by Pau Taberner-Pibernat, Albert Ribas-Agustí, Gisela Quinteros, Gerard Sabeña, Miguel López-Gómez, Rubén Domínguez-Valencia, Ricard Bou

“…The wet extraction process yielded high-purity protein isolates with favourable extraction efficiency. These findings highlight the potential of lupin for diverse applications in the food and industrial sectors. …”
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Contribution of entropy analysis on three-dimensional Prandtl model under Hall and ion slip effects with generalized mass and heat fluxes via OHAM by Sana Akbar, Muhammad Sohail, Syed Tehseen Abbas, Abha Singh

“…This article also examined the combined impacts of thermal conductivity change together with variable mass diffusion co-efficient within the heat and mass transport in the occurrence of Prandtl fluid. …”
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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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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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Possibilities of Using Artificial Intelligence in Security Analysis by Maciej Norbert Ciesielski

“…In total, out of twelve features/variables that make up analytical imagination, artificial intelligence already functions efficiently (or will function efficiently soon) in practically all of them.…”
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Speciation and mobilization of ultra-trace Hg(II) in groundwater by Kunfu PI, Yanxin WANG, Juewen LIU, Ya’nan YANG, Van Cappellen PHILIPPE

“…Applying tests to hydrogeochemically diverse groundwaters from the Grand River Watershed, Canada, the results indicate that the DNA-functionalized hydrogel is able to quickly detect dissolved Hg(II) but inapplicable to low Hg(II) concentrations (<1.60 μg/L), whereas the DNA-DGT sensor can capture variably ultra-trace Hg(II) species depending on the deployment time. …”
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