Application of Biofire Filmarray Joint Infection Panel for Rapid Identification of Aetiology in a Necrotizing Fasciitis Case by Zoltán Tóth, Bence Balázs, Walter P. Pfliegler, Eszter Csoma, László Majoros, Dorka Szűcs, Renátó Kovács

“…Although effective antimicrobial therapy is an important part of treatment, the traditional microbiological diagnostic methods are not fast enough to meaningfully influence early therapeutic decisions. …”
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Knowledge Distillation-Enhanced Behavior Transformer for Decision-Making of Autonomous Driving by Rui Zhao, Yuze Fan, Yun Li, Dong Zhang, Fei Gao, Zhenhai Gao, Zhengcai Yang

“…Simulation results demonstrate that KD-BeT maintains fast convergence and high asymptotic performance during training. …”
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A Generalized Phase-Shift PWM Extension for Improved Natural and Active Balancing of Flying Capacitor Multilevel Inverters by Georgios Kampitsis, Efstratios I. Batzelis, Antonis Kolokasis, Elison Matioli, Bikash C. Pal

“…The main challenge that such systems face, particularly the ones based on high-frequency Gallium-Nitride devices and small-value ceramic capacitors, relate to the stringent requirements for precise and fast capacitor balancing. Conventional <italic>natural balancing</italic> techniques exhibit poor settling times, while most improved natural balancing methods are not easily scalable to more than five levels. …”
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Ultra-broadband all-optical nonlinear activation function enabled by MoTe2/optical waveguide integrated devices by Chenduan Chen, Zhan Yang, Tao Wang, Yalun Wang, Kai Gao, Jiajia Wu, Jun Wang, Jianrong Qiu, Dezhi Tan

“…The activator exhibits an ultra-broadband response from visible to near-infrared wavelength, a low activation threshold of 0.94 μW, a small device size (~50 µm2), an ultra-fast response rate (2.08 THz), and high-density integration. …”
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Rice straw degradation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa AMB-CD-1, isolated from fresh cow dung and its impact on rice plants by Kishan Raj, Anup Singh, Tapas Chowdhury, S Gupta, Ravindra Soni

“…Results also revealed that the highest germination percentage, shoot weight and shoot length were found to be significantly superior in T4 (50% Sand + 50% Compost) whereas the highest chlorophyll content was found in T7 (25% Sand + 25% Soil + 50% Compost), and T1 (100% Sand) was effective in terms of root length.Conclusion Overall, the study concluded that Pseudomonas aeruginosa AMB-CD-1 might be a fast decomposer of paddy straw.…”
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Characteristics of Ionospheric Irregularities Using GNSS Scintillation Indices Measured at Jang Bogo Station, Antarctica (74.62°S, 164.22°E) by Junseok Hong, Jong‐Kyun Chung, Yong Ha Kim, Jaeheung Park, Hyuck‐Jin Kwon, Jeong‐Han Kim, Jong‐Min Choi, Young‐Sil Kwak

“…Phase scintillation phenomenon is known to occur frequently at high latitudes and primarily related to a significant plasma density gradient, which is due to fast plasma flows in the polar region, energetic particle precipitation in the auroral region, polar cap patches, or several instability mechanisms. …”
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Tracking the Ghosts of the Himalayas: Snow Leopard Conservation Insights From Satellite Collar Data by Pratistha Shrestha, Dayaram Pandey, Pemba Sherpa, Prakash Shah, Dipesh Kumar Sharma

“…Hidden Markov models (HMMs) revealed three behavioural states based on the movement patterns—slow (indicative of resting), moderate and fast (associated with travelling) and demonstrated that the time of day influenced their behavioural state. …”
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SAR Image Simulation for Crater Terrain Using Formation Theory-Based Modeling and Hybrid Ray-Tracing by Ya-Ting Zhou, Yongsheng Zhou, Qiang Yin, Fei Ma, Fan Zhang

“…Finally, simulated SAR images of the crater terrain are generated using the SAR echo fast time-frequency domain simulation algorithm and the chirp scaling imaging algorithm. …”
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Three-dimensional diffractive acoustic tomography by Luca Menozzi, Tri Vu, Aidan J. Canning, Harshal Rawtani, Carlos Taboada, Marie Elise Abi Antoun, Chenshuo Ma, Jesse Delia, Van Tu Nguyen, Soon-Woo Cho, Jianing Chen, Theresa Charity, Yirui Xu, Phuong Tran, Jun Xia, Gregory M. Palmer, Tuan Vo-Dinh, Liping Feng, Junjie Yao

“…Moreover, powered by the fast focal line volumetric reconstruction, 3D-DAT has achieved 50-fold faster reconstruction times than traditional photoacoustic imaging reconstruction. …”
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The plastid and mitochondrial genomes of <i>Vavilovia Formosa</i> (Stev.) Fed. and the phylogeny of related legume genera by N. V. Shatskaya, V. S. Bogdanova, O. E. Kosterin, G. V. Vasiliev, A. K. Kimeklis, E. E. Andronov, N. A. Provorov

“…., but the internodes between successive divergences were short in all cases, suggesting that the radiation of Trifolium, other Trifolieae and Fabeae was fast, occurring within a small time interval as compared to further evolution of these lineages. …”
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DockCADD: A streamlined in silico pipeline for the identification of potent ribosomal S6 Kinase 2 (RSK2) inhibitors by El Mehdi Karim, Meriem Khedraoui, Abdelkbir Errougui, Yasir S. Raouf, Abdelouahid Samadi, Samir Chtita

“…These results have pointed out the use of DockCADD as an efficient tool for the fast and low-cost process of drug discovery; L1–L3 should be further validated experimentally for cancer therapy.…”
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Image Comparison on T2 Qtse Lumbal Examination using Grappa Technique with and without Magnetization Transfer Contrast in Degenerative Disc Disease Case by Karina Sandra Arief Apriliani, Sri Andreani Utomo, Muhaimin, Lailatul Muqmiroh

“…GRAPPA is a parallel imaging technique that can produce images with a fast scan time but is followed by a decreased Signal to Noise Ratio SNR value. …”
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Time-dependent Acceleration and Escape of Charged Particles at Traveling Shocks in the Near-Sun Environment by Thomas M. Do, Federico Fraschetti, Jozsef Kota, Joe Giacalone, Christina M. S. Cohen, David J. McComas

“…We compare the “nose” structure at a few ∼100s keV protons first measured in situ by Parker Solar Probe in crossing the very fast 2022 September 5 shock at 0.07 au; we find that the nose is reasonably well explained by a lack of the highest energy particles not yet produced by the young shock by both our model and the no-escape version.…”
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Scoring of swine lung images: a comparison between a computer vision system and human evaluators by Robert Valeris-Chacin, Beatriz Garcia-Morante, Marina Sibila, Albert Canturri, Isaac Ballarà Rodriguez, Ignacio Bernal Orozco, Ramon Jordà Casadevall, Pedro Muñoz, Maria Pieters

“…There is a need to implement simple, fast, and valid CVPC scoring methods. Therefore, this study aimed to compare CVPC scores provided by a computer vision system (CVS; AI DIAGNOS) from lung images obtained at slaughter, with scores assigned by human evaluators. …”
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State-of-Charge Estimation of Lithium-Ion Battery Pack Based on Improved RBF Neural Networks by Li Zhang, Min Zheng, Dajun Du, Yihuan Li, Minrui Fei, Yuanjun Guo, Kang Li

“…Firstly, a suitable input set strongly correlated with the package SOC is identified from directly measured voltage, current, and temperature signals by a fast recursive algorithm (FRA). Secondly, a RBF neural model for battery pack SOC estimation is constructed using the FRA strategy to prune redundant hidden layer neurons. …”
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Development and Validation of an RP-HPLC Method for CB13 Evaluation in Several PLGA Nanoparticle Systems by J. Álvarez-Fuentes, L. Martín-Banderas, I. Muñoz-Rubio, M. A. Holgado, M. Fernández-Arévalo

“…A simple, fast, and reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatographic (RP-HPLC) method has been developed and validated for determining of a cannabinoid derivate, which displays potent antihyperalgesic activity, 1-naphthalenyl[4-(pentyloxy)-1-naphthalenyl]methanone (CB13) into PLGA nanoparticles. …”
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Risk Assessment Maturity Level of Academic Information System Using ISO 27001 System Security Engineering-Capability Maturity Model by Nurbojatmiko Nurbojatmiko, Qurrotul Aini, Nabil Cahya Wasiqi, Muhammad Fitra Alfajri, Zahra Ulinnuha, Yuni Kurnia Purwati, Indah Kusuma Ayu, Natasya Aurora Yasmin

“…These activities must be implemented in the academic information system of every university in Indonesia. Appropriate and fast academic services depend on information technology and adequate and trained human resources (HR). …”
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Luminescence of bound excitons created near sodium impurity ions in KCl:Na single crystals by K. Shunkeyev, А. Kenzhebayeva, A. Krasnikov, V. Nagirnyi, Sh Sagimbayeva, D. Sergeyev, А. Tilep, Zh Ubaev, A. Lushchik

“…It is worth noting that at room temperature, the light yield of these XRL bands in KCl:Na practically coincides with that for the luminescence measured in the same way in classical scintillators, CsI and CsI:Na crystals. The lifetime of the fast component of cathodoluminescence at 2.8 and 3.1 eV equals 2.4 and 1.7 ns, respectively, at 6 K and even shortens to approximately τ ≈ 0.3 ns at room temperature. …”
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Effects of Freeze-Thaw Cycles on the Flavor of Nanguo Pear by Ge Bai, Ya Wang, Jianrong Zheng, Xiaomin Zhang, Zhaoyue Zhuang, Danshi Zhu, Xuehui Cao

“…The effects of three freeze-thaw cycles (FT1–FT3) on Nanguo pear flavor were studied under fast (−80°C) and slow (−20°C) freezing conditions. …”
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Spectroscopic and Morphological Studies of Metal-Organic and Metal-Free Dyes onto Titania Films for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Gabriella Di Carlo, Daniela Caschera, Roberta G. Toro, Cristina Riccucci, Gabriel M. Ingo, Giuseppina Padeletti, Luisa De Marco, Giuseppe Gigli, Giovanna Pennesi, Gloria Zanotti, Anna M. Paoletti, Nicola Angelini

“…These findings suggest that mesostructured films could be considered the most promising substrates to realize photoanodes with a fast electron transfer process.…”
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