Vision Transformer-Based Unhealthy Tree Crown Detection in Mixed Northeastern US Forests and Evaluation of Annotation Uncertainty by Durga Joshi, Chandi Witharana

“…Additionally, we investigated the impact of different spectral band combinations on model performance to identify the most effective configuration without incurring additional data acquisition costs. …”
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Optimal modes of side-section flow in heat-pump-assisted extractive distillation systems for separating allyl alcohol–allyl acetate mixtures with butyl propionate by P. S. Klauzner, D. G. Rudakov, E. A. Anokhina, A. V. Timoshenko

“…The reduction in energy costs relative to the conventional scheme was 20% for the sequence without a heat pump and 38% for that with a heat pump. …”
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Socioeconomic profile and vulnerabilities of people receiving home-based palliative care in Kerala, India by Jashanjot Singh Mangat, Shreyas Patil, Deepak Sudhakaran, Smriti Rana, MM Sunil Kumar, Parth Sharma

“…Abstract Introduction Home-based palliative care (HBPC) enhances access to palliative care, reduces health-related costs, and improves health outcomes. However, studies centered on the socioeconomic profile of HBPC are limited. …”
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Risk of bias in routine mental health outcome data: the case of Health of the Nation Outcome Scales by Apostolos Tsiachristas, Ryan Williams, Edward Penington

“…After adjusting for observed factors determining the likelihood of assessment, the strength of association between HoNOS scores and overall costs was significantly reduced.Conclusion Most of the activity observed in this study cannot be evaluated with HoNOS. …”
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High-purity AAV vector production utilizing recombination-dependent minicircle formation and genetic coupling by Hao Liu, Nan Liu, Chen Zhou, Ailing Du, Mayank Kapadia, Phillip W L Tai, Erik Barton, Guangping Gao, Dan Wang

“…Abstract Triple transfection of HEK293 cells is the most widely used method for producing recombinant adeno-associated virus (rAAV), a leading gene delivery vector for human gene therapy. …”
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An Improved Decision Support System for Identification of Abnormal EEG Signals Using a 1D Convolutional Neural Network and Savitzky-Golay Filtering by Unmesh Shukla, Geetika Jain Saxena, Manish Kumar, Anil Singh Bafila, Amit Pundir, Sanjeev Singh

“…Medical experts employ electroencephalography (EEG) for analyzing the electrical activity in the brain to infer disorders. However, the time costs of human experts are very high, and the examination of EEGs by such experts, therefore, accounts for a plethora of medical resources. …”
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Assessment of Classical Force-Fields for Graphene Mechanics by Zhiwei Ma, Yongkang Tan, Xintian Cai, Xue Chen, Tan Shi, Jianfeng Jin, Yifang Ouyang, Qing Peng

“…However, graphene synthesis’s costly and complex process significantly impairs researchers’ endeavors to explore its properties and structure experimentally. …”
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Experience in using povidone-iodine to treat superficial and full-thickness burns by O. V. Vladimirova, P. M. Lavreshin, V. I. Vladimirov, A. E. Rybalko, I. A. Zybinskiy

“…Choosing the most effective antiseptic agent for burn injuries is crutial both from the perspective of effective local treatment of wounds and wound complications and from the perspective of pharmacoeconomic aspects. …”
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Dermolipectomies after bariatric procedures in the Public Health System: a long way to go by Antoninho José Tonatto, Jorge Luís de Moraes, Fabiola Grigoletto Lupion, Silvia Helena Mandu, Vanessa Sayuri Ogawa, Carolina Peressutti, Renato da Silva Freitas

“…Post-bariatric abdominal dermolipectomy was the most performed procedure, accounting for 65% of the procedures, followed by brachial (14.8%), crural (14.7%) and circumferential (4.7%) dermolipectomy. …”
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A unique statistical framework to predict the health of a machine by utilizing the vibration features of rolling element bearing data by Saima Bhatti, Fozia Shaikh, Asif Mansoor, Asif Ali Shaikh

“…Bearing malfunctions rank among the most frequent mechanical failures in rotating machinery, resulting in significant downtime and repair costs if not identified promptly. …”
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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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Advanced explainable models for strength evaluation of self-compacting concrete modified with supplementary glass and marble powders by Khan Kaffayatullah, Khan Muhammad Ehsan Ullah, Al-Naghi Ahmed A. Alawi, Amin Muhammad Nasir, Iftikhar Bawar, Qadir Muhammad Tahir

“…Model interpretability was ensured through Shapley Additive exPlanations, partial dependence plots, and individual conditional expectation analyses, which identified curing time as the most influential feature. The Taylor plot and validation metrics confirmed RF’s superior reliability. …”
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Cable-Driven Underactuated Flexible Gripper for Brown Mushroom Picking by Haonan Shi, Gaoming Xu, Yixuan Xie, Wei Lu, Qishuo Ding, Xinxin Chen

“…Brown mushrooms are widely consumed globally due to their low calorie content, high nutritional value, and suitability for periodic growth in industrial mushroom houses, offering significant commercial value. Most robotic grippers pick mushrooms based on precise force control, which requires a high-precision force sensor, increasing production costs and potential failure rates. …”
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Review on integral stiffened panel of aircraft fuselage structure by Devi Chandra, Y. Nukman, Muhammad Adlan Azka, S.M. Sapuan, J. Yusuf

“…The increasing demand to decrease manufacturing costs and weight reduction is driving the aircraft industry to change the use of conventional riveted stiffened panels to integral stiffened panels (ISP) for aircraft fuselage structures. …”
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Influence of Geometric Effects on Dynamic Stall in Darrieus-Type Vertical-Axis Wind Turbines for Offshore Renewable Applications by Qiang Zhang, Weipao Miao, Kaicheng Zhao, Chun Li, Linsen Chang, Minnan Yue, Zifei Xu

“…The offshore implementation of vertical-axis wind turbines (VAWTs) presents a promising new paradigm for advancing marine wind energy utilization, owing to their omnidirectional wind acceptance, compact structural design, and potential for lower maintenance costs. However, VAWTs still face major aerodynamic challenges, particularly due to the pitching motion, where the angle of attack varies cyclically with the blade azimuth. …”
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A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for Predicting Power Transformer Failures Using Internet of Things-Based Monitoring and Explainable Artificial Intelligence by Emrah Aslan, Yildirim Ozupak, Feyyaz Alpsalaz, Zakaria M. S. Elbarbary

“…Failures in these units can lead to significant power outages and costly downtime. Existing maintenance strategies often fail to accurately predict such failures, highlighting the need for novel predictive approaches. …”
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Thrust Resistance Calculation Method in Diaphragm Wall Grab Trenching Considering Soil Accumulation and Slurry Pressure by CAO Yu, MENG Hongfeng, WANG Qian, WANG Xiaohui, LI Jie, CHEN Fudan

“…The direct object of diaphragm wall grab trenching is the soil, and the excavation resistance encountered by grab in different soil layers directly affects the construction costs and trenching quality/efficiency. However, there are few studies on the thrust resistance of diaphragm wall grab trenching, and most of them focus on engineering field such as river dredging, without comprehensively considering the impact of soil accumulation and slurry in grab on thrust resistance. …”
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Strategies to control the growth of unwanted microalgae during the production of Arthrospira platensis BEA 005B by Silvia Villaró, Sandra Valero-Cardoso, Cristina Cerdá-Moreno, Martina Ciardi, Tomás Lafarga

“…While recycling helps reduce costs and environmental impact, it can also result in an increased risk of biological contamination. …”
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Designing and planning a bioethanol supply chain network under uncertainty using a data-driven robust optimization model under disjunctive uncertainty sets by Farzaneh MansooriMooseloo, Maghsoud Amiri, Mohammad Taghi Taghavi Fard, Mostafa Hajiaghaei-Keshteli

“…Purpose: Most research in the field of designing and planning bioethanol supply chains has been based on deterministic models, which do not consider dynamic environmental conditions and thus do not provide reliable outputs. …”
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Use of Modular and Wearable Technical Means of Disinfection During Liquidation of Emergency Situations by A. S. Morozov, V. P. Lakomov, A. A. Noskov

“…The aerosol treatment method and the formulation based on ethyl alcohol provided high productivity of works, low manual labor costs, and reliable disinfection of objects with low consumption of preparation. …”
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