Fabrication of aluminum-coated glucose/graphene oxide hybrid materials for the dual adsorption of fluoride and methylene blue by Siwei Tan, Xiaoyin Ruan, Haipeng Ye, Ji Shao, Xiaoyue Shan, Yanpeng Shi, Yanna Le

“…The enhanced adsorption efficiency and multi- selectivity of this adsorbent suggest its potential to decrease the regeneration frequency of adsorption materials, lower processing costs, and mitigate environmental impacts. This adsorbent is suitable for future development as a sustainable slow-release agent, enabling prolonged use with straightforward operational procedures and efficiency.…”
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How low can you go: evaluating electrode reduction methods for EEG-based speech imagery BCIs by Maurice Rekrut, Maurice Rekrut, Johannes Ihl, Tobias Jungbluth, Antonio Krüger, Antonio Krüger

“…Nonetheless, our findings support the move away from extensive and costly high-resolution systems toward more compact, user-specific setups, facilitating the transition of SI-BCIs from laboratory settings to real-world applications.…”
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Critical review of energy storage systems: A comparative assessment of mechanisms, advantages, challenges, and integration with renewable energy by Vaishnavi Mahadevan, S Raja S, Maher Ali Rusho, Simon Yishak

“…Key challenges such as high costs, efficiency limitations, and infrastructure requirements are also addressed with potential mitigation strategies. …”
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Edge-Optimized Lightweight YOLO for Real-Time SAR Object Detection by Caiguang Zhang, Ruofeng Yu, Shuwen Wang, Fatong Zhang, Shaojia Ge, Shuangshuang Li, Xuezhou Zhao

“…However, existing deep learning-based methods suffer from excessive model parameters and high computational costs, making them impractical for real-time deployment on edge computing platforms. …”
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Energy-Efficient Coverage Path Planning for a Reconfigurable Robot by W. K. R. Sachinthana, I. D. Wijegunawardana, S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon, M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala, Mohan Rajesh Elara

“…With this approach, nearly 100% coverage was achieved, whereas existing methods failed to provide complete coverage in some cases. Path costs were reduced by 47% and 24% compared to existing approaches for reconfigurable and fixed robots, respectively, in cases where complete coverage was achievable.…”
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Long‐term dynamics of coastal dune landscapes and habitat diversity: Insights from a quarter century of resurveys in Castelporziano Presidential Estate by Elena Cini, Alicia Teresa Rosario Acosta, Marco Malavasi, Simona Sarmati, Silvia Del Vecchio, Daniela Ciccarelli, Flavio Marzialetti

“…Traditional monitoring relies on costly field surveys, but high‐resolution satellite imagery offers an efficient alternative. …”
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Parameter Disentanglement for Diverse Representations by Jingxu Wang, Jingda Guo, Ruili Wang, Zhao Zhang, Liyong Fu, Qiaolin Ye

“…However, simply integrating more branches or increasing the width for the diversity would inevitably increase model complexity, leading to prohibitive inference costs. In this paper, we revisit the learnable parameters in neural networks and showcase that it is feasible to disentangle learnable parameters to latent sub-parameters, which focus on different patterns and representations. …”
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MSJosSAR Configuration Optimization and Scattering Mechanism Classification Based on Multi-Dimensional Features of Attribute Scattering Centers by Shuo Liu, Fubo Zhang, Longyong Chen, Minan Shi, Tao Jiang, Yuhui Lei

“…However, current research on the configuration optimization of multi-dimensional SAR systems is limited, particularly in balancing recognition requirements with observation costs. This limitation has become a major bottleneck restricting the development of MSJosSAR. …”
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Upper Shallow Foundation Pit Engineering: Utilization and Evaluation of Portal Frame Anti-Heave Structures by Jun He, Jinping Ou, Xiangsheng Chen, Shuya Liu, Kewen Huang, Xu Zhang

“…However, the construction costs are relatively high, leaving room for optimization.…”
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The non-linear relationship between green technology and life expectancy by Mohd Shahidan Shaari, Abdul Hayy Haziq Mohamad, Miguel Angel Esquivias, Temitayo B. Majekodunmi, Amri Sulong, Wen Chiat Lee

“…Despite global recognition of renewable energy benefits, limited access and high costs have prolonged dependence on fossil fuels, which contribute to environmental pollution and lower life expectancy. …”
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GENOMICON-Seq enables realistic simulation of amplicon and exome sequencing for low-frequency mutation detection by Milan S. Stosic, Jean-Marc Costanzi, Ole Herman Ambur, Trine B. Rounge

“…GENOMICON-Seq is thus a flexible, reproducible framework for assessing new protocols, benchmarking variant callers, and refining data analysis pipelines, ultimately reducing costly trial-and-error in the laboratory. The Docker-based package is freely available at https://github.com/Rounge-lab/GENOMICON-Seq .…”
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Compact eye camera with two-third wavelength phase-delay metalens by Jeong-Geun Yun, Hyunjung Kang, Kyookeun Lee, Youngmo Jeong, Eunji Lee, Joohoon Kim, Minseok Choi, Bonkon Koo, Doyoun Kim, Jongchul Choi, Junsuk Rho

“…However, their commercial adoption remains limited due to manufacturing challenges in defining high-aspect-ratio nanostructures, which drive up costs and reduce production yields. To address these issues, we propose an infrared metalens with a wide field of view, designed to reduce the aspect ratio of the nanostructures. …”
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Development of a UAV LiDAR-Based Framework for Consolidation Settlement Monitoring Through Spatial Analysis by Seok-Jun Ko, Seongho Hong, Tae-Young Kwak

“…Conventional methods, such as settlement plates, are limited by high costs and sparse spatial coverage, which leaves areas unmonitored and vulnerable to unexpected settlement. …”
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Analysis of cultivated land degradation in southern China: diagnostics, drivers, and restoration solutions by Yanqing Liao, Yanqing Liao, Zhihong Yu, Zhihong Yu, Lihua Kuang, Lihua Kuang, Yefeng Jiang, Yefeng Jiang, Chenxi Yu, Chenxi Yu, Weifeng Li, Weifeng Li, Ming Liu, Xi Guo, Xi Guo, Yingcong Ye, Yingcong Ye

“…However, existing methods are often costly, limited in scope, and fail to capture the multidimensional complexity of the degradation processes.MethodsThis study integrated vegetation indices, topographic data, and soil physical and chemical properties to construct a model for identifying cultivated land degradation. …”
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A method for automatically extracting long-term and large-scale land use and land cover information by Hongzhen Tian, Zheng Zhang, Qinping Liu, Mengmeng Yang, Na Wei

“…The results demonstrate that the automated method can extract long-term LULC information with sufficient coverage from remote sensing imagery on a global scale, significantly saving researchers time and manpower costs.…”
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Economic indicators for cowpea cultivation under different irrigation depths by Erika de O. T. de Carvalho, Deborah L. P. Costa, Denilson B. da Luz, Matheus L. Rua, Maria de L. A. Velame, Adrielle C. Monteiro, Igor C. de O. Vieira, João V. de N. Pinto, Gabriel S. T. Fernandes, Hildo G. G. C. Nunes, Paulo J. de O. P. de Souza, Marcos A. S. dos Santos

“…In both years, the total operating costs were higher under irrigation than under rainfed conditions. …”
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Grouping control of electric vehicles based on improved golden eagle optimization for peaking by Yang Yu, Yuhang Huo, Shixuan Gao, Qian Wu, Mai Liu, Xiao Chen, Xiaoming Zheng, Xinlei Cai

“…First, considering the difference between peak and valley loads and the operating costs of EVs, a peak shaving model for EVs is constructed. …”
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Advancing energy efficiency: thermomechanical characterization of plastic-infused concrete for sustainable building solutions by Siddique, Mohammed Javeed, Akhas, Punitha Kumar

“…The objectives of this research include reducing air conditioning costs, decreasing carbon emissions, and shortening the payback period for energy-efficient building practices. …”
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AI-driven data mining for sustainable ship power system technologies by Peter J. Stavroulakis, Periklis Prousaloglou, Maria-Christina Kyriakopoulou-Roussou, Stratos Papadimitriou

“…Shipping is pivotal for global supply chains, yet its predominance is made possible through a plethora of negative externalities that include extensive and very critical social, ethical, and environmental costs. The industry tries to power through the latter with a prime facilitator, which refers to maritime technology. …”
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Reparameterized Feature Aggregation Convolutional Neural Network for Remote Sensing Scene Image Classification by Cuiping Shi, Mengxiang Ding, Liguo Wang

“…Although transformer performs well in building long-range dependencies, the computational complexity of its self-attention mechanism is proportional to the square of the input sequence length, which can lead to high computational costs and resource consumption when processing large-scale or high-resolution remote sensing images. …”
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