Enhancing nano indentation properties of Al 7075 alloy: The role of silver addition by Mariyam Sattar, Raja M Umer, Muhammad Punhal Sahto, Mamoon Aamir, Mohammed A. Tashkandi, Lioua Kolsi

“…Al 7075, valued for wide applicability in aerospace structures, remains prone to environmental degradation in harsh environments. …”
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Spectral and Spatial Attention Fusion for Building Segmentation in Remote Sensing Imagery by M. Chendeb El Rai, M. Darweesh, A. Beya Far, A. Gawanmeh

“…Many existing building segmentation methods struggle in discerning complex structures and providing fine grained generalisation over different geographic regions. …”
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Terrestrial laser scanning point clouds and tree attributes from 55 sample plots at the Evo test site (spring 2024) by Tuomas Yrttimaa, Lauri Liikonen, Aapo Erkkilä, Mikko Vastaranta

“…To support the development of computational methods for tree and forest stand characterization, as well as to facilitate the exploration of tree structures, we collected TLS data from 55 sample plots (32 m × 32 m) and 6320 trees in Evo, Southern Finland. …”
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Comparative Study of Disturbance Observer-Based Control Methods on an Industrial Gimbal System by Mucahid Ridvan Kaplan, Burak Kurkcu, Mehmet Onder Efe, Zeki Yagiz Bayraktaroglu

“…This paper presents a comprehensive experimental evaluation of notable DOBC structures, conducted in both a simulation environment with a comparative analysis and in real-time experiments. …”
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Olive Plant Treated with Different Geo-Material Foliar Film (Zeolite and Kaolin Based): Leaf Characteristics and Oil Quality by Annalisa Rotondi, Tommaso Ganino, Andrea Calderoni, Margherita Rodolfi, Rohini Dhenge, Lucia Morrone

“…The research examines leaf anatomical modifications, including internal tissue structures, trichome and stomatal density, chlorophyll content, and gas exchange parameters, alongside the impact on fruit development and extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) quality. …”
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Effects of In Situ Electrical Pulse Treatment on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of Al-Zn-Mg-Cu Alloy Resistance Spot Welds by Shitian Wei, Xiaoyu Ma, Jiarui Xie, Yali Xie, Yu Zhang

“…Selected area electron diffraction (SAED) patterns further show that these quasicrystals undergo partial dissolution under the influence of the pulsed current, transforming into short-range ordered cluster-like structures. Lap shear tests demonstrate that joints treated with pulsed current exhibit significantly higher peak load and energy absorption compared to untreated specimens. …”
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Fact-Checkers on the Fringe: Investigating Methods and Practices Associated With Contested Areas of Fact-Checking by Silvia Montaña-Niño, Victoria Vziatysheva, Ehsan Dehghan, Anand Badola, Guangnan Zhu, Otávio Vinhas, Michelle Riedlinger, Sofya Glazunova

“…In addition to identifying how fringe fact-checkers weaponize fact-checking practices and exploit or mimic the social standing of accredited fact-checkers, we critique examples where state-supported fact-checkers associated with authoritarian governance structures fact-check for national interests. We propose a spectrum of fact-checkers including those where public or general interest fact-checkers follow journalistic ideals and align with accredited communities of practice or non-accredited peer recognition, and a collection of fringe fact-checkers ranging from “special interest” actors promoting specific political agendas to hostile actors with disruptive, destructive, and openly propagandistic interests and aims to destabilize the global public sphere. …”
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Facial anatomy applied to live models by Ricardo Frota Boggio, Agnaldo Gonçalves de Castro, Kazuyo Yamada, Adriane Tartare, Daniel Boro dos Santos, Gladstone Eustáquio de Lima Faria

“…Different planes and anatomical structures were represented on live models’ faces to simulate and teach the main injectable cosmetic procedures; syringes, needles, cannulas, and ultrasound gel stained with food inks were used. …”
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PALEOGEODYNAMICS OF MAGMATIC AND METAMORPHIC PROCESSES OF FORMATION OF ULTRAMAFIC ROCKS OF CHAGAN-UZUN MASSIF (OPHIOLITES OF GORNY ALTAI) by V. A. Simonov, A. V. Kulikova, A. V. Kotlyarov, T. B. Kolotilina

“…The Geochemical and mineralogical studies showed, that harzburgites of the Chagan-Uzun massif are restites with a degree of partial melting 15–20 %, which formed at temperatures 1520–1420 °С under the conditions of the mid-oceanic ridge and transformed during the evolution of paleooceanic structures under the influence of magmatic processes at the initial stages of subduction and manifestation of boninite magmatism. …”
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Convergent allometric trajectories in Devonian Carboniferous unornamented Polygnathus conodonts by FÉLIX NESME, CATHERINE GIRARD, CARLO CORRADINI, SABRINA RENAUD

“…The shape of feeding structures is reputed to be under functional constraints related to the processing of food particles. …”
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Shape Penalized Decision Forests for Imbalanced Data Classification by Rahul Goswami, Aindrila Garai, Payel Sadhukhan, Palash Ghosh, Tanujit Chakraborty

“…Furthermore, simulated datasets with visually interpretable structures showcase the model’s generalization capacity. …”
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CF-YOLO for small target detection in drone imagery based on YOLOv11 algorithm by Chengcheng Wang, Yuqi Han, Chenggui Yang, Mingjie Wu, Zaiqing Chen, Lijun Yun, Xuesong Jin

“…Firstly, addressing the issue of small target information loss that may arise from hierarchical convolutional structures, we conduct in-depth research on the Path Aggregation Network (PAN) and innovatively propose a Cross-Scale Feature Pyramid Network (CS-FPN). …”
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The experiences of home-based care workers when rendering services in the communities in Northern Tshwane and Madibeng districts by Lily K. Motswasele-Sikwane, Mary M. Madumo, Moipone M. Tlapu, Indiran Govender

“…Policies and support structures should be strengthened or reformed to promote comprehensive and integrated care to sustain HBCWs.…”
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Rabbit-based experimental model for scalp reimplantation: advancing microsurgical training and translational research by Rui Sergio Monteiro de Barros, José Maciel Caldas dos Reis, Deivid Ramos dos Santos, Vitor Nagai Yamaki, Renan Kleber Costa Teixeira, André Lopes Valente

“…Conclusion: The rabbit provides a realistic biological model for training scalp reimplantation with high fidelity to human vascular structures.…”
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The Environmental Effects Induced by a Metro Shield Tunnel Side-Crossing on Adjacent Pile Foundations and Its Impact Partition by Hui Hu, Yimo Zhu, Gang Zhang, Heng Zhang, Peng Tu

“…However, if the disturbance of stratum cannot be clearly understood, it will affect the safety of adjacent underground structures and aboveground buildings. Based on the construction of the interval tunnel between Shizishan station and Chuanshi station of Chengdu metro line 7 project, this paper proposed a simplified calculation method to analyze the impact of shield excavation on adjacent pile foundation. …”
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Multi-scale computational analysis of Melanin’s therapeutic potential in skin cancer by Shilpa Valiyaparambil, Janakiraman Kunchithapatham, Muddukrishnaiah Kotakonda, Kamal Yoonus Thajudeen, Saad Ali Alshehri, Mohammed Muqtader Ahmed

“…To Present a computational study of the electronic structures of melanin and its binding propensities with skin cancer-related proteins (1P7K, 2VCJ, and 5OTE). …”
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Response analysis of hollow core slab bridge with different column heights to near-fault seismic motions. by Sayed Mahmoud, Ahmed Soliman, ‪magdy GENIDI, Waleed Abdallah

“…Such unique characteristics can substantially change the induced seismic responses of structures. The current study incorporates near-fault earthquake motions with forward-directivity and fling-step to excite a reinforced concrete (RC) hollow-core slab bridge with varying column heights. …”
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Rainfall Organization and Storm Tracking in Urban Barcelona, NE Spain, Using a High-Resolution Rain Gauge Network by María del Carmen Casas-Castillo, Xavier Navarro, Raül Rodríguez-Solà

“…Tailored rainfall indices highlighted a division between inland areas shaped by orography and coastal zones influenced by the sea. These spatial structures evolved with rainfall duration, shifting from localized contrasts at a 10 min resolution to more homogeneous distributions at daily scales. …”
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Filamentation activates bacterial Avs5 antiviral protein by Yiqun Wang, Yuqing Tian, Xu Yang, Feng Yu, Jianting Zheng

“…Here we present cryo-EM structures of EfAvs5 filaments, elucidating the mechanisms of dimerization, filamentation, filament bundling, ATP binding, and NAD+ hydrolysis, all of which are crucial for anti-phage defense. …”
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Starch-Based Fishing Composite Fiber and Its Degradation Behavior by Wenwen Yu, Fei Yang, Lei Wang, Yongli Liu, Jiangao Shi

“…As the starch content increased, the melting temperature and the crystallinity of the fibers gradually decreased due to fluffy internal structures. Dynamic mechanical analysis showed that the transition peak α in the high-temperature region was gradually weakened and narrowed with increasing starch content; moreover, a shoulder appeared on the low-temperature side of the α peak was assigned to the β-relaxation related to starch phase. …”
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