Synthesis of modified chitosan TiO2 and SiO2 hydrogel nanocomposites for cadmium removal by Soudeh Banivaheb, Sasan Dan, Hassan Hashemipour, Maryam Kalantari

“…Nanocomposites were shown as porous structures with the average pore diameter of 4.40 and 5.05 nm for TiO2 and SiO2 composite, respectively. …”
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Strains on Sri Lankan Families: Pandemic, Politics, and Economic Turmoil by Shehan Felician, Rilwan Muhammed, Koralage Paboda, Marikar Faiz

“…This confluence of challenges has had a profound impact on families throughout the nation, disrupting individual lives, community structures, and the very foundation of family stability. …”
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Naphthyl-Substituted Ruthenium(II)–Arene Complexes: Exploring the Impact of Binding Modes on Cytotoxicity in Cancer and Normal Cell Lines by Serdar Batıkan Kavukcu, Hafize Seda Vatansever, Suleyman Ilhan, Hayati Türkmen

“…Hirshfeld surface analysis was employed to investigate intermolecular interactions within the crystal structures of the complexes, providing insights into their molecular shapes and potential for interactions with other molecules. …”
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TSINet: A Semantic and Instance Segmentation Network for 3D Tomato Plant Point Clouds by Shanshan Ma, Xu Lu, Liang Zhang

“…TSINet adopts an encoder–decoder architecture, where a shared encoder incorporates four Geometry-Aware Adaptive Feature Extraction Blocks (GAFEBs) to effectively capture local structures and geometric relationships in raw point clouds. …”
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Reprogramming of human urine cells into cardiomyocytes via a small molecule cocktail in xeno-free conditions by Yu Chen, Aoli Li, Aijie Liu, Wei Zheng, Haishi Fan, Jingwei Zhang, Chenwen Huang

“…Results Reprogramming efficiency achieves 15.08% on day 30, with purity reaching 96.67% on day 60. hCiCMs display cardiomyocyte markers, sarcomeric structures, and abundant mitochondria. Electrophysiological analysis confirms ventricular-like action potentials and regular calcium transients. …”
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GIVTED-Net: GhostNet-Mobile Involution ViT Encoder-Decoder Network for Lightweight Medical Image Segmentation by Resha Dwika Hefni Al-Fahsi, Ahmad Naghim Fauzaini Prawirosoenoto, Hanung Adi Nugroho, Igi Ardiyanto

“…The performance evaluation of the proposed GIVTED-Net model is conducted on various datasets including Kvasir Instrument, ISIC-2018 Lesion Boundary Segmentation, and WBC Image datasets, covering different medical objects such as instruments, lesions, and anatomical structures. Notably, GIVTED-Net demonstrates superior performance compared to existing models, showcasing its suitability for deployment on resource-constrained devices.…”
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Establishment of a novel probe-based RT-qPCR approach for detection and quantification of tight junctions reveals age-related changes in the gut barriers of broiler chickens. by J Sophia von Buchholz, Ivana Bilic, Jörg R Aschenbach, Michael Hess, Taniya Mitra, Wageha A Awad

“…Tight junctions (TJs) play a dominant role in gut barrier formation, therefore, resolving the structures of TJs in any animal species is crucial but of major importance in fast growing broilers. …”
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From IP3RPEP6 Inhibition of IP3 receptor channels to insights: do channel subunits collaborate or cooperate? by Katja Witschas, Siyu Tao, Luc Leybaert

“…The channels are tetrameric structures centered around a Ca2+-permeable pore, which mutually interact to control channel opening initiated by both IP3 and cytoplasmic Ca2+. …”
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Nonlinear effects and possible temperature increases in ultrasonic microscopy by J. Wójcik, J. Litniewski, L. Filipczyński, T. Kujawska

“…The computed temperature increases can be significant and also harmful, especially when imaging small superficial structures and testing living cell cultures. However, they can be easily decreased by reducing the repetition frequency of the microscope. …”
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Measuring Retiming Responses of Passengers to a Prepeak Discount Fare by Tracing Smart Card Data: A Practical Experiment in the Beijing Subway by Qingru Zou, Xiangming Yao, Peng Zhao, Zijia Wang, Taoyuan Yang

“…Applications of fare optimization are also executed, and the results suggest that optimizing the valid time window of the discount fares is a feasible way to improve the congestion relief effect of the policy, while policy makers should be cautious to change fare structures and increase discounts.…”
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Compositional dependence of magnetic damping in sputter-deposited CoxFe1−x thin films by Samanvaya S. Gaur, Rosa E. Diaz, Ernesto E. Marinero

“…The magnetic damping dependence of Co1−xFex thin films over a Co composition (23%–36%) is reported here. The thin film structures were sputter deposited at ambient temperature, and FMR measurements in both in-plane and out-of-plane geometries were utilized to measure magnetic damping parameters, αtot, which include intrinsic damping and contributions from spin pumping. …”
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Comparison of modified anterior and traditional posterior accesses for ultrasound-guided superior laryngeal nerve block in awake endotracheal intubation: study protocol for a rando... by Guo Chen, Tao Zhu, Yusi Hua, Qiyuan Huang

“…Superior laryngeal nerve block (SLNB) can effectively abolish the glottic closure reflex, and blunt the sensation of the structures above the cords. A method that consists of SLNB along with translaryngeal injection (TLI) can provide satisfactory anaesthesia and intubating conditions. …”
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A History of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Implementation in Nepal by Sagar Dahal, Joel T. Heinen

“…Though the new policy has many positive aspects in that it is progressive in shifting away from more classical, strict protection, we found that there are still shortcomings within national administrative structures and a lack of policy that coordinates and informs different government offices of their responsibilities and how they interface under the current federal system. …”
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Adversarial Dual-Distortion Image Rectification: Integrating Multi-Scale Discriminators and Central Self-Attention Modules by Jingfeng Luo, Chengwan You, Bochuan Zheng

“…Additionally, we introduced a multi-scale discriminator with a pyramidal feature fusion architecture to strengthen the synergistic optimization of local textures and global structures in generative adversarial networks. Experimental results demonstrate that, compared to state-of-the-art correction methods, our approach achieves significant improvements in both objective quantitative metrics (e.g., SSIM, PSNR) and visual consistency. …”
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THE INFLUENCE OF FEATURES OF VORTEX FLOW ON AERODYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SUPERSONIC MANEUVERABLE AIRCRAFT MODEL by K. A. Osipov

“…According to the results of the numerical simulations, all the main nonlinearities in the integral characteristics associated with the vortex breakdown phenomenon and the interference of vortex structures were explained. The physical features of the vortex flow around the maneuverable aircraft model with a sharp-edged nose and their influence on the longitudinal and lateral aerodynamic characteristics are revealed. …”
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Opportunities and Challenges of Brain-on-a-Chip Interfaces by Wenwei Shao, Weiwei Meng, Jiachen Zuo, Xiaohong Li, Dong Ming

“…Central to this innovation is the advancement of stem cell and microelectrode array technologies, which facilitate the development of neuro-electrode hybrid structures to ensure effective signal transmission in lab-grown brains. …”
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A Decision Support System for Optimal Building Cold Source Selection by Qing Li, Yan Dong, Rong-Guang Cao, Le Li, Zhi-Bin Chen

“…Based on existing approaches to construction project evaluation and the selection of cold source systems, we establish an evaluation index for building cold source system functional models and network structures. This approach can take into account the impact of cost on decisions. …”
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Chaotic Behavior of Trapped Cosmic Rays by Vanessa López-Barquero, Paolo Desiati

“…In coherent magnetic structures, such as the heliosphere, or due to magnetohydrodynamic turbulence, magnetic mirroring can temporarily trap particles, leading to chaotic behavior. …”
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Bridging tradition and innovation: strengthening food system resilience through Indigenous Guardian partnerships and knowledge sharing in the Sierra Nevada and British Columbia by Nina M. Fontana, Brenden Mercer, Brian Wallace, Rebecca Allen

“…Through Indigenous Guardian programs, participatory mapping, two-eyed seeing, and data sovereignty principles such as Ownership, Control, Access, and Possession (OCAP®), these partnerships strengthen Indigenous governance structures while addressing historical land dispossession and disrupted foodways. …”
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火灾后低合金结构钢低周疲劳性能演化机理研究 by 顾跃跃, 霍红伟, 任海辉, 郭煜斌, 戴书洋, 方成

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