Design and Simulation of a Solar Thermal Dryer for Fruits. by Amanya, Sylus

“…The write-up presented in this report focused on the design and manufacture of a solar thermal dryer for fruits that dries 5Kg of fruit slices, 5mm thick per batch, and can be used for small-scale farmers that grow fruits in western Uganda following a challenge they face like pests and disease infestation during open sun drying, nutrient loss and among others. …”
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Quasinormal ringing of de Sitter braneworlds by Hai-Long Jia, Wen-Di Guo, Yu-Xiao Liu, Qin Tan

“…Abstract Compared with the Poincaré braneworld, the de Sitter (dS) braneworld aligns more closely with the present universe characterized by a small but finite cosmological constant. …”
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A comparative study of deep End-to-End Automatic Speech Recognition models for doctor-patient conversations in Polish in a real-life acoustic environment by Karolina Pondel-Sycz, Piotr Bilski, Piotr Bobiński, Leszek Morzyński, Marcin Lewandowski, Emil Kozłowski, Grzegorz Szczepański, Maciej Jasiński, Grzegorz Makarewicz, Agnieszka Paula Pietrzak, Andrzej Buchowicz, Paweł Mazurek, Adrian Bilski, Jacek Olejnik, Iwona Olejnik

“…The following paper presents research on the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) methods for the construction of a system to automatically transcribe the medical interview in Polish language during a visit in the clinic. …”
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Bilateral Lung Transplantation in a Patient with Humoral Immune Deficiency: A Case Report with Review of the Literature by Jocelyn R. Farmer, Caroline L. Sokol, Francisco A. Bonilla, Mandakolathur R. Murali, Richard L. Kradin, Todd L. Astor, Jolan E. Walter

“…Humoral immune deficiencies have been associated with noninfectious disease complications including autoimmune cytopenias and pulmonary disease. Herein we present a patient who underwent splenectomy for autoimmune cytopenias and subsequently was diagnosed with humoral immune deficiency in the context of recurrent infections. …”
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A renewable double plasma mirror for Petawatt-class lasers by Nick Czapla, Derek M. Nasir, Lieselotte Obst-Huebl, Anthony Zingale, Jianhui Bin, Anthony J. Gonsalves, Sven Steinke, Kei Nakamura, Carl B. Schroeder, Eric Esarey, Cameron G. R. Geddes, Douglass W. Schumacher

“…We demonstrate an improvement of two to three orders of magnitude in contrast and a total throughput of 80%. We present the first measurements of a beam reflected from a single or double plasma mirror system using a wavefront sensor, showing a well preserved wavefront and spatial mode. …”
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Blockchain-Based Mobile Edge Computing Framework for Secure Therapy Applications by MD. Abdur Rahman, M. Shamim Hossain, George Loukas, Elham Hassanain, Syed Sadiqur Rahman, Mohammed F. Alhamid, Mohsen Guizani

“…For security, the framework uses blockchain–Tor-based distributed transactions to preserve the therapeutic data privacy, ownership, generation, storage, and sharing. …”
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Sodium Benzoate and Potassium Sorbate in Some Beverages in Sulaymaniyah, Kurdistan Region of Iraq: A Health Risk Assessment Study by Monte Carlo Simulation by Shilan Muhammad Abdulla, Ramin Aslani, Mohammad Hasan Zarghi, Saeid Yousefi, Nabi Shariatifar, Ebrahim Molaee-Aghaee, Ayub Ebadi Fathabad

“…Furthermore, the health risks associated with these preservatives in beverages were evaluated for adults and children using Monte Carlo simulations. …”
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A robot arm-assisted acupuncture system with motion and force monitoring: establishment and validation by Ying-Chen Li, Yi Yu, Xuan Qiao, Liu-Jie Ren, Jing-Wen Xu, Xin Wang, Wei Gu, Wei Yao

“…ObjectiveTraditional manual acupuncture faces challenges in quantifying stimulation parameters and preserving techniques consistency. This study presents a robot arm-assisted acupuncture system replicating manual manipulations with precise motion and force monitoring.MethodsSystem validation was conducted through a Laser Vibrometer to measure multiple frequency-amplitude combinations, followed by comparative analysis between robotic and manual acupuncture manipulations using both motion and force monitoring. …”
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Adherent junctions: Physiology, role in hydrocephalus and potential therapeutic targets by Zhiye Chen, Jian He, Yating Guo, Yue Hao, Wentao Lv, Zexin Chen, Junqiang Wang, Yijian Yang, Kaiyue Wang, Zhikun Liu, Qian Ouyang, Zhangjie Su, Pingsheng Hu, Gelei Xiao

“…This paper discusses the formation and function of AJs and their role in preventing hydrocephalus by preserving the polarity of ependymal cilia, regulating the number of ependymal cells, and upholding the brain barrier integrity to impede hydrocephalus exacerbation, which provides a new direction for the study of hydrocephalus.…”
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Ultra-stable low-coordinated PtSA/CeZrO2 ordered macroporous structure integrated industrial-scale monolithic catalysts for high-temperature oxidation by Baojian Zhang, Rui Liu, Liangwei Li, Weihong Guo, Biluan Zhang, Bosheng Chen, Weidong Yuan, Pan Li, Shaowen Zhang, Jinlong Wang, Ji Yang, Zhu Luo, Yanbing Guo

“…To address these, we present a novel PtSA/CeZrO2 catalyst, featuring isolated Pt single atoms (PtSA) on a Ce0.8Zr0.2O2 support with an ordered macroporous (OM) structure. …”
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Humanized mouse models in MDS by Raluca Munteanu, Diana Gulei, Cristian Silviu Moldovan, Emanuele Azzoni, Laura Belver, Richard Feder, Simina Pirv, Anca Dana Buzoianu, Hermann Einsele, Moshe Mittelman, Gabriel Ghiaur, Robert Hasserjian, Ciprian Tomuleasa

“…However, difficulties persist, such as limited long-term engraftment, incomplete immune reconstruction, and limited possibilities of modeling early-stage or low-risk MDS. This review presents an overview of current humanized and genetically engineered mouse models suitable for studying MDS, evaluating their capacity to replicate disease complexity, preserve clonal architecture, and support translational research. …”
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One Health approach to Coxiella burnetii: first serosurvey of owners and dogs living on oceanic islands and mainland seashore areas of Brazil by Aaronson Ramathan Freitas, Danilo Alves de França, Louise Bach Kmetiuk, Rafaella Martini, Ruana R. Delai, Claudia Turra Pimpão, João Henrique Perotta, Ivan Roque de Barros-Filho, Fabiano Borges Figueiredo, Rogério Giuffrida, Rogério Giuffrida, Vamilton Alvares Santarém, Vamilton Alvares Santarém, Helio Langoni, Alexander Welker Biondo

“…Such low seroprevalence may have been consequence of the livestock absence of these environmentally preserved islands, in addition to a major geographical barrier to airborne dispersal in southern Brazilian seashore mainland areas due to the rainforest (Serra do Mar) mountains. …”
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Diagenetic alteration of magnetic minerals in Labrador Sea sediments (IODP Sites U1305, U1306, and U1307) by Noriko Kawamura, Naoto Ishikawa, Masayuki Torii

“…Magnetite (Fe3O4) was present at all analyzed depths, whereas maghemite (γFe2O3) was found only above the iron reduction zone. …”
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Lymph Node-Targeting Nanovaccine through Antigen-CpG Self-Assembly Potentiates Cytotoxic T Cell Activation by Xiaobo Xi, Lijun Zhang, Guihong Lu, Xiaoyong Gao, Wei Wei, Guanghui Ma

“…Due to the large amounts of resident antigen-presenting cells (APCs) and T cells in lymph nodes, great efforts have been made to explore the strategy of targeting lymph nodes directly with nanovaccines to activate T cells. …”
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Characterization of Porcine Ventral Mesencephalic Precursor Cells following Long-Term Propagation in 3D Culture by Pia S. Jensen, Lise Lyck, Pia Jensen, Jens Zimmer, Morten Meyer

“…For passaging, the tissue spheres were cut into quarters, avoiding mechanical or enzymatic dissociation in order to minimize cellular trauma and preserve intercellular contacts. Spheres were propagated for up to 237 days with analysis of cellular content and differentiation at various time points. …”
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Assessing uncertainties in parton showers at double logarithmic accuracy for jet quenching studies by Carlota Andres, Liliana Apolinário, Néstor Armesto, André Cordeiro, Fabio Dominguez, José Guilherme Milhano

“…Abstract We present a systematic study of how different choices of ordering and phase-space constraints in parton showers affect the space-time structure of vacuum parton cascades and their interface with jet quenching models. …”
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Wireless Bipolar Electrochromic Sensor Based on Metal–Organic Framework‐Derived NiCo Bimetallic Carbon Nanocomposite for Visual Detection of Uric Acid by Qunyan Zhu, Huahua Dong, Guoliang Lu, Kaige Qv, Wensheng Yang, Lin Zhang

“…However, achieving interference‐free and highly sensitive detection of biomolecules remains challenging, mainly due to the challenges of integrating electrochromic materials with (enzymatic) catalysts while preserving anti‐interference performance. In this work, a closed bipolar electrochromic (cBPEC) sensor for wireless and visual detection of uric acid (UA) is presented, utilizing a NiCo bimetallic embedded nitrogen‐doped carbon (NiCo@NC) nanocomposite. …”
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Viscous methylene blue formulation for antimicrobial photodynamic therapy in dentistry by Carolina Montovam Monteiro, José Marcelo Lacerda Alves Gonçalves, Gabriela Benedito Machado, Orlando Chiarelli-Neto, Renato Araújo Prates, Céline Frochot, Christiane Pavani

“…Stability testing demonstrated that the formulation preserved its organoleptic properties, pH, and MB content over 1 year. …”
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METABOLIC DIVERSITY OF ZOANTHARIANS COLLECTED AT BRAZILIAN OCEANIC ISLANDS by Bianca Del B. Sahm, Ana C. Zanatta, Francisco da Chagas L. Pinto, Otília D. L. Pessoa, Diego V. Wilke, Paula C. Jimenez, Norberto P. Lopes, Tito M. C. Lotufo, Letícia V. Costa-Lotufo

“…These chemical classes are similar to those described for the continental zoanthids, previously assessed. The results presented herein reveal a preserved metabolome across the analyzed species, Palythoa caribaeorum, Palythoa variabilis and Zoanthus spp., and between island and continental organisms, suggesting core species-specific metabolites and a portion of an environmentally-driven chemical expression.…”
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Autonomous Robotic System for Snow Removal in Large-Scale Photovoltaic Arrays by Jijiang Wu, Liqun Liu, Qingfeng Wu, Junqiang He, Wanjun Li

“…This translates to a reduction in manual labor and preserves over 90% of the PV array’s energy output compared with the no-nothing scenario. …”
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