Research on the Performance of a Liquid–Solid Triboelectric Nanogenerator Prototype Based on Multiphase Liquid by Wei Wang, Jin Yan, Xianzhang Wang, Hongchen Pang, Chengqi Sun, Yin Sun, Lijun Wang, Dapeng Zhang

“…As liquid phase dielectric materials typically used in L-S TENG, a variety of organic and inorganic single-phase liquids, including distilled water, acidic solutions, sodium chloride solutions, acetone, dimethyl sulfoxide, and acetonitrile, as well as paraffinic oils, have been used in experiments. However, it is noteworthy that the function of multiphase liquids as dielectric materials is still understudied. …”
Get full text

Bioinformatics screening and clinical validation of CircRNA and related miRNA in male osteoporosis by Jiayi Li, Sijia Guo, Qingyun Sun, Ning An, Jisheng Lin, Qi Fei

“…Finally, a ceRNA network of four circRNAs derived from three hub genes was constructed. Validation experiments were performed on selected circRNAs and related miRNAs in this ceRNA network using peripheral blood clinical samples. …”
Get full text

Detection of differences in physical symptoms between depressed and undepressed patients with breast cancer: a study using K-medoids clustering by Jianyao Tang, Bingqian Guo, Chuhan Zhong, Jing Chi, Jiaqi Fu, Jie Lai, Yujie Zhang, Zihan Guo, Shisi Deng, Yanni Wu

“…These findings demonstrate that social media can provide new perspectives on symptom experiences. The combination of digital tools and traditional clinical tools for symptom management in follow-up has great potential in the future. …”
Get full text

Application of Enhanced Weighted Least Squares with Dark Background Image Fusion for Inhomogeneity Noise Removal in Brain Tumor Hyperspectral Images by Jiayue Yan, Chenglong Tao, Yuan Wang, Jian Du, Meijie Qi, Zhoufeng Zhang, Bingliang Hu

“…The approach discussed in this paper, according to the experiments, produces the best results in terms of the subjective effect and unreferenced image denoising evaluation indices (MICV and MNR). …”
Get full text

Pembangunan Aplikasi Mobile Pengenalan Objek Untuk Pendidikan Anak Usia Dini by Muhammad Fadhlan Supriadi, Ema Rachmawati, Anditya Arifianto

“…MobileNet architecture consists of a depthwise convolution layer and pointwise convolution layer in extracting features. The experiment also uses the architecture of Single Shot Multibox Detector (SSD) as a method of detecting objects. …”
Get full text

Estimating ocean currents from the joint reconstruction of absolute dynamic topography and sea surface temperature through deep learning algorithms by D. Ciani, C. Fanelli, B. Buongiorno Nardelli

“…Building upon recent findings, we conduct an Observing System Simulation Experiment (OSSE) relying on Copernicus numerical model outputs (with respective temporal and spatial resolutions of 1 d and 1/24°), and we present a strategy for further refinements. …”
Get full text

US-county level variation in intersecting individual, household and community characteristics relevant to COVID-19 and planning an equitable response: a cross-sectional analysis by Mathew V Kiang, Nancy Krieger, Caroline O Buckee, Jarvis T Chen, Taylor Chin, Rebecca Kahn, Ruoran Li, Satchit Balsari

“…Objectives To illustrate the intersections of, and intercounty variation in, individual, household and community factors that influence the impact of COVID-19 on US counties and their ability to respond.Design We identified key individual, household and community characteristics influencing COVID-19 risks of infection and survival, guided by international experiences and consideration of epidemiological parameters of importance. …”
Get full text

Ecological stability of broad bean (<i>Vicia faba</i> L.) in organic farming conditions by N. A. Georgieva, V. I. Kosev

“…In order to assess the ecological stability of 17 broad bean accessions (Fb 1896, Fb 1903, Fb 1929, Fb 2481, Fb 2486, Fb 3270, BGE 002106, BGE 029055, BGE 032012, BGE 041470, BGE 043776, BGE 046721, FbH 13, FbH 14, FbH 15, FbH 16, BGP) with regard to key quantitative traits, a field experiment was conducted in the Institute of Forage Crops (Pleven) in 2016–2018. …”
Get full text

New Gold(I) Complexes as Potential Precursors for Gas-Assisted Methods: Structure, Volatility, Thermal Stability, and Electron Sensitivity by Aleksandra Butrymowicz-Kubiak, Tadeusz M. Muzioł, Piotr Madajski, Iwona B. Szymańska

“…We studied their thermal stability and volatility using thermal analysis and variable-temperature infrared spectroscopy (VT IR) and by conducting sublimation experiments. The gold(I) amidinate [Au₂(μ-(NH)₂CC₂F₅)₂]_n sublimates at 413 K under 10⁻² mbar pressure. …”
Get full text

Mechanisms of N₂O Emission in Drip-Irrigated Saline Soils: Unraveling the Role of Soil Moisture Variation in Nitrification and Denitrification by Fang Zhang, Zhi Qu, Qian Zhao, Zixuan Xi, Zhen Liu

“…In this study, we simulated these four soil water characteristic values to conduct an indoor soil incubation experiment under three different incubation conditions: aerobic (O), aerobic with 10 pa acetylene (OC), and anaerobic (AO). …”
Get full text

Shale Heterogeneity in Western Hunan and Hubei: A Case Study from the Lower Silurian Longmaxi Formation in Well Laidi 1 in the Laifeng-Xianfeng Block, Hubei Province by Peng Zhang, Junwei Yang, Yuqi Huang, Jinchuan Zhang, Xuan Tang, Chengwei Liu

“…The results of the low-temperature N2 adsorption-desorption experiment show that the shale pores are mainly composed of micropores and mesopores with narrow throats and complex structures, and their main morphology is of a thin-necked and wide-body ink-bottle pore. …”
Get full text

Green synthesis and enhanced photocatalytic performance of Co-Doped CuO nanoparticles for efficient degradation of synthetic dyes and water splitting by Daniel Masekela, Lovedonia K. Kganyakgo, Kwena D. Modibane, Tunde L. Yusuf, Sheriff A. Balogun, Wilson M. Seleka, Edwin Makhado

“…Moreover, the scavenger experiment showed that the primary active species responsible for the photocatalytic decomposition of MB were hydroxyl radicals (•OH) and holes (h+), followed by electrons (e-) and superoxide radicals (•O2–). …”
Get full text

Neural Correlates of Social Touch Processing: An fMRI Study on Brain Functional Connectivity by Vladimir Khorev, Semen Kurkin, Larisa Mayorova, Galina Portnova, Anastasia Kushnir, Alexander Hramov

“…Conclusions: These findings elucidate the neural underpinnings of tactile experiences and their potential impact on behavior and emotional state. …”
Get full text

A BERT-Based Classification Model: The Case of Russian Fairy Tales by Валерий Дмитриевич Соловьев, Марина Ивановна Солнышкина, Andrey Ten, Николай Аркадиевич Прокопьев

“…Results: We validated BERT’s potential for Russian text classification and ability to enhance the performance and quality of the existing NLP models. Our experiments with cointegrated/rubert-tiny, ai forever/ruBert-base, and DeepPavlov/rubert-base-cased-sentence on different classification tasks demonstrate that our models achieve state-of-the-art results with the best accuracy of 95.9% in cointegrated/rubert-tiny thus outperforming the other two models by a good margin. …”
Get full text

Multimodality Imaging Probe for Positron Emission Tomography and Fluorescence Imaging Studies by Suresh K. Pandey, Jasmeet Kaur, Balu Easwaramoorthy, Ankur Shah, Robert Coleman, Jogeshwar Mukherjee

“…Our results suggest that BSA-biotin-DTPA-FAM may function as a multiprobe for PET and fluorescence imaging. Experiments are currently in progress to demonstrate cell tracking using both optical and nuclear imaging.…”
Get full text

Addressing unmet mental health needs of older adults in Turbo, Colombia: a multi-component psychosocial intervention feasibility study by Clarissa Giebel, Erika Montoya, Gabriel Saldarriaga, Thais Caprioli, Mark Gabbay, Danicza Martinez, Jessica Rua, Maria Isabel Zuluaga

“…Twelve participants were interviewed about their experiences of the intervention and its feasibility. …”
Get full text

Transformer-Based Person Detection in Paired RGB-T Aerial Images With VTSaR Dataset by Xiangqing Zhang, Yan Feng, Nan Wang, Guohua Lu, Shaohui Mei

“…Moreover, the adaptation scheme is constructed with multiple strategies to effectively handle various scenarios involving persons, and the entire network is trained end-to-end. Extensive experiments conducted on the Heridal and VTSaR datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of light-weighted VTSaRNet in achieving impressive metrics precision of 98.3&#x0025;, recall of 96.78&#x0025;, mAP@0.5 of 98.73&#x0025;, and mAP@0.5:0.95 of 73.98&#x0025; under self-built VTSaR dataset, respectively). …”
Get full text

WNT3A promotes the cementogenic differentiation of dental pulp stem cells through the FOXO1 signaling pathway by Dongmei Cheng, Yang Bao, Xue Wang, Haidong Xiang, Tianyuan Guo, Yong Du, Zhiyong Zhang, Han Guo

“…Subsequently, cell experiments were conducted to validate the core targets. …”
Get full text

Effects of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy on nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and TGF-β signaling pathway by Hideki Kumagai, Akira Sasaki, Akira Umemura, Keisuke Kakisaka, Takeshi Iwaya, Satoshi S Nishizuka

“…The transforming growth factor (TGF)-β signaling pathway reportedly contributes to liver fibrosis, mainly in animal experiments. The aim of the present study was to evaluate changes in serum proteins before and after LSG by proteomic analysis and to investigate their association with NAFLD. …”
Get full text

Impact of the Seeding Method on Physiological, Agronomic, and Biochemical Performance of Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) Varieties Grown in Burkina Faso by Badiel Badoua, Kihindo Adama Pascal, Yao Koffi Bertin, Nana Rasmata, Ouedraogo Razacswendé Fanta, Dondasse Edmond, Tamini Zoumbiessé

“…For this reason, we undertook this study to highlight the impact of the seeding method on the physiological, morphological, and agronomic performances of sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) varieties grown in Burkina Faso. The experiment was conducted at the Gampèla agropedagogical station located at 12°25′N, 12°22′W from Ouagadougou. …”
Get full text