Life cycle assessment and cost analysis of locally made solar powered cooler for vaccine storage by Milton Mbugano, Juma Rajabu Selemani, Baraka Kichonge, Grite Nelson Mwaijengo, Mwema Felix Mwema

“…Storing vaccines and perishable food in regions without access to the national grid presents significant challenges. Solar power generation technologies have emerged as a viable alternative solution to address these issues. …”
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Privacy and Security in the Metaverse: Trends, Challenges, and Future Directions by Jagdeep Singh, Parminder Singh, Ranjodh Kaur, Avinash Kaur, Mustapha Hedabou

“…Based on our findings, we provide actionable solutions, such as developing privacy-preserving technologies, secure authentication mechanisms, and interoperable security standards. …”
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The Modified Trochleoplasty for Trochlear Dysplasia Types B and D by Sergio Marinho de Gusmão Canuto, M.D., Arthur Macedo de Gusmão Canuto, M.D., Camilo Partezani Helito, M.D., Ph.D., Pedro Baches Jorge, M.D., Ph.D., Vitor Barion Castro de Padua, M.D., Ph.D., Diego Ariel de Lima, M.D., Ph.D.

“…Trochlear dysplasia is a major risk factor for recurrent patellar instability, often requiring surgical intervention in high-grade cases. The present modified trochleoplasty technique, known as the “Brazilian trochleoplasty,” is a reproducible technique developed by the Brazilian Storm Knee Research Group, which reshapes the trochlear groove while preserving cartilage integrity. …”
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Material and Structural Characterization of Historical Masonry: Analytical Framework for Restoration Planning: A Case Study by Ana Maria Grămescu, Dorina Nicolina Isopescu, Ionela Carazeanu Popovici, Mihaela Pericleanu, Bucur Dan Pericleanu, Corina Elena Anghelescu, Georgeta Voicu, Dan Alexandru Ghiga

“…The research findings presented in the paper refer to a case study, Costache Conachi Manor, a building classified as a historic monument, located in Galați County, Romania. …”
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Seamless finer-resolution soil moisture from the synergistic merging of the FengYun-3 satellite series by Daniel F. T. Hagan, Seokhyeon Kim, Guojie Wang, Xiaowen Ma, Yifan Hu, Yi Y. Liu, Alexander Barth, Haonan Liu, Waheed Ullah, Isaac K. Nooni, Samuel A. Bhatti

“…Finally, we averaged the merged sub-daily FY soil moisture into daily estimates and gap-fill it using a deep learning interpolation approach to reconstruct the missing days while preserving the characteristics of the Merged FY data. …”
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Occurrence dataset of protected fungal species for the Red Data Book in Yugra Region, Western Siberia by Nina Filippova, Elena Zvyagina, Sergey Bolshakov, Stanislav Arefyev, Tatiana Bulyonkova, Ilya Filippov, Yury Rebriev, Anton Shiryaev, Iraida Stavishenko, Tatyana Svetasheva

“…An integrated occurrence dataset for the species included in the new edition of the Red Data Book is presented.…”
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Quasi-ordered plasmonic metasurfaces with unclonable stochastic scattering for secure authentication by Gyurin Kim, Doeun Kim, JuHyeong Lee, Juhwan Kim, Se-Yeon Heo, Young Min Song, Hyeon-Ho Jeong

“…Here, we present plasmonic metasurfaces that achieve this balance through electrostatic self-assembly of quasi-ordered gold nanoparticles onto a dielectric-spaced metallic mirror. …”
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An exceptional window into the Triassic-Jurassic boundary on the margins of the Ardenno-Rhenish Massif: stratigraphy and palaeontology of the Irrel section (Rhineland-Palatinate, G... by Lea D. Numberger-Thuy, Manuela Aiglstorfer, Dominique Delsate, Susanne Feist-Burkhardt, Stefan Gräbenstein, Philipe Havlik, Sylvie Régnier, Thomas Servais, Ben Thuy

“…Finally, it stands out in yielding well preserved fossils of taxa that are rare or undocumented in the region. …”
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GraphVelo allows for accurate inference of multimodal velocities and molecular mechanisms for single cells by Yuhao Chen, Yan Zhang, Jiaqi Gan, Ke Ni, Ming Chen, Ivet Bahar, Jianhua Xing

“…GraphVelo preserves vector magnitude and direction information during transformations across different data representations. …”
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Breast reconstruction with creation of upper retropectoral and lower mixed subcutaneous cavities and use of flaps by Ognev Meireles Cosac, Ismar Ribeiro, Luciano Gomes Moura, Daniel Augusto dos Santos Soares, Leonardo Martins Costa Daher, Milena Carvalho Almeida Galdino, Gabriel Campelo dos Santos, Leonardo David Pires Barcelos, Pablo Juarez Calieron, Marcus Vinicius Serra de Oliveira, Lucas Correia Evangelista

“…No patient needed salvage surgery or had recurrence of mammary neoplasia during the study period. Conclusion: The present technique preserves the skin located at the lower portion of the breast, with a low risk of dehiscence or extrusion of the implant in this region, providing a double protection of the implant, with the pectoralis major muscle in the upper two thirds and the cutaneous-dermis-fat flap in the lower third, characterizing a "dual-plane" positioning.…”
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Identificação de mudanças florestais por 13C e 15N dos solos da Chapada do Araripe, Ceará Identification of forest changes using 13C and 15N of soils of the Araripe Plateau, Ceará... by Luiz A. R. Mendonça, Horst Frischkorn, Marlúcia F. Santiago, Plínio B. de Camargo, José O. G. de Lima, Josué Mendes Filho

“…It was found that soils from (at present) protected areas, the OM of which exhibits C3 type d13C of the present vegetation in surface samples but of the C3-C4 type in depth, correspond to ecosystems anthropized in the past through agriculture. …”
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A robust and efficient authentication and key agreement for UAV-assisted AGS communication in internet of vessels by Shang Gao, Zuobin Ying, Zijie Pan, Jianping Cai, Maode Ma

“…However, in the complex network environment of the Internet of Vessels, AGS presents significant security challenges, such as unauthorized access that leads to data breaches. …”
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CAGFNet: A Cross-Attention Image-Guided Fusion Network for Disparity Estimation of High-Resolution Satellite Stereo Images by Qian Zhang, Jia Ge, Shufang Tian, Laidian Xi

“…Recent advancements in deep learning have opened new research avenues for disparity estimation. This paper presents a novel end-to-end disparity estimation network designed to address these challenges through three key innovations: (1) a cross-attention mechanism for robust feature extraction, (2) an image-guided module that preserves geometric details, and (3) a 3D feature fusion module for context-aware disparity refinement. …”
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Estimation of calcitonin and calcitonin gene-related peptide-α in bone calcification in quail during laying period by Hadeel M. Hameed, Soulaf J. Kakel

“…Maintaining the balance of calcium, phosphorus, and their regulating hormones is essential in laying hens to preserve the quality of the eggs and the framework. …”
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BDEKD: mitigating backdoor attacks in NLP models via ensemble knowledge distillation by Zijie Zhang, Xinyuan Miao, Chenyu Zhou, Chenming Shang, Xi Chen, Xianglong Kong, Wei Huang, Yi Cao

“…Abstract Backdoor attacks present significant risks to the security of deep neural networks (DNNs) in NLP domain, as the attackers can covertly manipulate the model’s output behavior either by poisoning the training data or tampering model’s training process. …”
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Corneal neurotization meets COVID-19: a case report of minimally invasive corneal neurotization complicated by COVID-19-related keratitis by Shuqin Zhuang, Qiaoran Qi, Jiaying Zhang, Jin Li

“…The diagnostic approach outlined may offer valuable insights for similar presentations. After a protracted clinical course, the patient ultimately achieved restoration of corneal sensation and reinnervation, demonstrating the preserved regenerative potential of MICN-reconstructed neural pathways even after severe viral infection.…”
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LookupForensics: A Large-Scale Multi-Task Dataset for Multi-Phase Image-Based Fact Verification by Shuhan Cui, Huy H. Nguyen, Trung-Nghia Le, Chun-Shien Lu, Isao Echizen

“…This dataset simulates real-world conditions and includes both content-preserving and content-aware manipulations that present a range of difficulty levels and have potential for ongoing research. …”
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Problems of Cosmopolitanism and Alternativeness in the History of Central Asia by N. T. Nurulla-Khodzhaeva

“…Many community-based units of Samarkand had their own commercial, socio-cultural and educational networks that preserved alternativeness within the life cycle, which balanced between universality and particularism. …”
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Different Inhomogeneous Evolutionary Histories for Uranus and Neptune by Roberto Tejada Arevalo

“…We present updated nonadiabatic and inhomogeneous evolution models for Uranus and Neptune, employing an interior composition of methane, ammonia, water, and rocks. …”
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Evaluating the Effect of Primary Amine in Bitterness of Selected Cephalosporins Cephalexin and Cefaclor as Examples by Diyar B. Wso, Dana Muhammad Hamad Ameen

“…The sensory experience of bitterness is influenced by distinct functional groups present in various foods and chemicals. Researchers have developed diverse techniques and strategies to modify these antibiotics' chemical structure while preserving their therapeutic efficacy to overcome this taste challenge. …”
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