Energy Efficiency Optimization of Air Conditioning Systems Towards Low-Carbon Cleanrooms: Review and Future Perspectives by Xinran Zeng, Chunhui Li, Xiaoying Li, Chennan Mao, Zhengwei Li, Zhenhai Li

“…In light of global carbon reduction goals and escalating energy costs, improving the energy efficiency of cleanroom heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems has become a critical research priority. …”
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Application of Horizontal Subsurface Flow Constructed Wetland Systems for Domestic Wastewater Treatment: A Case Study, Kızılcaören by Fulya Aydın Temel, Esin Avcı, Yüksel Ardalı

“…CWs have several advantages included land intensive, low energy, easy operation and maintenance, low investment/operational costs, landscape esthetics, reuse of waters, and increased wildlife habitat compared to conventional systems. …”
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Iatrogenic damage to the vascular-nerve bundle and lymphatic collectors of the femoral triangle during phlebectomy by B. V. Boldin, V. Yu. Bogachev, P. Yu. Golosnitskiy, P. Yu. Turkin, G. A. Varich, I. M. Dizengof

“…This can lead to severe complications requiring surgery, social and economic consequences associated with the need forlong-term outpatient and inpatient treatment, social security costs and a marked decrease in quality oflife. Reports on the occurrence of this pathology in the medical literature are few and, as a rule, describe extremely rare clinical cases. …”
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Image Processing for Laser Impact Detection in Shooting Simulators by José Antonio García Torres, Daniel Guzmán Pérez, Jhon Fredy Rincón Morantes, Daniel Felipe Molina Martínez, Cristian Camilo García Rodríguez, Jhonnatan Eduardo Zamudio Palacios

“…Simulation systems play a crucial role in firearms training by offering advantages such as the progressive improvement of shooting skills, reduced logistical costs, ammunition savings, and decreased need for personnel deployment to shooting ranges. …”
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PiezoSight: Coupling vision based tactile sensor neural network processing and piezoresistive stimulation for enhanced piezo-vision hybrid sensing by Abdullah Solayman, Hussain Sajwani, Oussama Abdul Hay, Rui Chang, Laith AbuAssi, Abdulla Ayyad, Yahya Zweiri, Yarjan Abdul Samad

“…Vision-based tactile sensors (VBTS) have become ubiquitous in robotics for contact and touch measurements due to their minimal instrumentation costs and exceptional high-resolution feedback. However, in the literature, VBTS often suffers from the requirement of extensive calibration and is limited to a specific range of forces. …”
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Stackable 3D-printed core-shell nozzle system for multi-shell fiber and microdroplet generation by Jianfeng Li, Peer Fischer

“…Traditional fabrication methods often rely on fixed coaxial, triaxial or quadaxial needles, which are costly and prone to clogging, particularly for smaller inner diameters. …”
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Local Binary Pattern–Cycle Generative Adversarial Network Transfer: Transforming Image Style from Day to Night by Abeer Almohamade, Salma Kammoun, Fawaz Alsolami

“…However, existing CycleGAN-based approaches struggle with texture loss, structural inconsistencies, and high computational costs. In our attempt to overcome these challenges, we produced LBP-CycleGAN, a new modification of CycleGAN that benefits from the advantages of a Local Binary Pattern (LBP) that extracts details of texture, unlike traditional CycleGAN, which relies heavily on color transformations. …”
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Leveraging carbon financing technologies for enhancing rural livelihood resilience in climate-vulnerable communities: A global perspective by Jennifer Turyatemba TUMUSHABE, Balikuddembe William ODINGA, Robinah Alice NAMUWAYA

“…Findings indicate that carbon financing can effectively reduce vulnerability when intentionally designed for resilience, with digital technologies cutting transaction costs by 60% while improving transparency. Community-managed forests-maintained carbon stocks comparable to protected areas, though secure land tenure proved critical for equitable outcomes. …”
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Three-Dimensional Outdoor Pedestrian Road Network Map Construction Based on Crowdsourced Trajectory Data by Jianbo Tang, Tianyu Zhang, Junjie Ding, Ke Tao, Chen Yang, Jianbing Xiang, Xia Ning

“…Due to the complexity of outdoor environments, we still face challenges in collecting up-to-date outdoor road network maps because of high data collection costs, resulting in a lack of navigation road network maps in outdoor scenarios. …”
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Simulation of Asymmetric Lamb Waves for Sensing and Actuation in Plates by A. Ghoshal, W.N. Martin, M.J. Schulz, W.H. Prosser, A. Chattopadhyay

“…The PBM is capable of simulating many possible scenarios including a variety of test cases, whereas experimental measurements of all of the cases can be costly and time consuming. The model also incorporates the sensor measurement effect, which is an important aspect in damage detection. …”
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AI-Driven Belt Failure Prediction and Prescriptive Maintenance with Motor Current Signature Analysis by João Paulo Costa, José Torres Farinha, Mateus Mendes, Jorge O. Estima

“…Industrial belt failures pose significant challenges to manufacturing operations, often resulting in costly downtime and maintenance interventions. This study presents a comprehensive approach to belt failure analysis, leveraging advanced monitoring and diagnostic techniques. …”
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UAV Path Planners in Complex Environments: A Multi-Dimensional Perturbation Based on Artificial Bee Colony by Xuzhao Chai, Guanhao Zhou, Haoyu Wang, Ping Liu, Zhongyun Liu, Chao Li, Li Yan

“…In the onlooker bee phase, the curvature-guided elite neighbor search strategy is used to prioritizes high-curvature waypoints, enhancing optimization efficiency in complex terrain. Furthermore, path costs are independently modeled in the horizontal and vertical directions. …”
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Evaluation of synthetic data impact on fire segmentation models performance by Matej Arlovic, Franko Hrzic, Mitesh Patel, Tomasz Bednarz, Josip Balen

“…However, they require high-quality datasets, which are costly and time-intensive to gather. To overcome this issue, we created the SYN-FIRE dataset, consisting of 2000 labeled images of simulated indoor industrial fires using NVIDIA Omniverse. …”
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Digital Transformation in African Heritage Preservation: A Digital Twin Framework for a Sustainable Bab Al-Mansour in Meknes City, Morocco by Imane Serbouti, Jérôme Chenal, Saâd Abdesslam Tazi, Ahmad Baik, Mustapha Hakdaoui

“…This architecture enhances real-time monitoring, improves accuracy, reduces operational costs, and enables predictive maintenance while minimizing invasive inspections. …”
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Dual-Aspect Active Learning with Domain-Adversarial Training for Low-Resource Misinformation Detection by Luyao Hu, Guangpu Han, Shichang Liu, Yuqing Ren, Xu Wang, Zhengyi Yang, Feng Jiang

“…Existing approaches, such as domain adaptation and metalearning, attempt to transfer knowledge from related source domains but often fail to fully address the challenges of data scarcity and annotation costs. Moreover, traditional active learning strategies typically focus solely on textual uncertainty, overlooking domain-specific discrepancies and the critical role of affective information in misinformation content. …”
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LVID-SLAM: A Lightweight Visual-Inertial SLAM for Dynamic Scenes Based on Semantic Information by Shuwen Wang, Qiming Hu, Xu Zhang, Wei Li, Ying Wang, Enhui Zheng

“…Recent approaches combining deep learning with algorithms for dynamic scenes comprise two types: faster, less accurate object detection-based methods and highly accurate, computationally costly instance segmentation-based methods. In addition, maps lacking semantic information hinder robots from understanding their environment and performing complex tasks. …”
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Transmit Waveform Design for Symbol-level Precoding-based One-bit Dual-functional Radar-communication by Zhuoyuan HE, Shengyao CHEN, Han ZHU, Feng XI, Hongtao LI, Zhong LIU

“…This study explores the use of one-bit Digital-to-Analog Converters (DAC) to mitigate the challenges of high hardware costs and excessive power consumption in large-scale Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) communication and radar systems. …”
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Determination of Trace Lead and Copper in Seawater by Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry with Coconut Shell Biochar Enrichment by Mei HAN, Wei ZHANG, Na JIA, Chenling ZHANG, Xiangke KONG

“…This method had the advantages of simple operation, low costs, environmental protection, and high reliability and sensitivity.…”
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State-of-the-arts methods for studying factors driving the utilization of open science resources by Le Thi Tuyet Trinh, Nguyen Thi Thu Hang, Le Minh Cuong, Ngo Van Dinh, Hoang Khanh Linh, Do Thi Trinh, Nguyen Thuy Phuong Tram, Ho Nguyen, Manh-Tung Ho

“…To achieve this, we will integrate relevant factors such as capabilities, attitudes, perceived costs and benefits, cultural and institutional influences, and alignment of values into our analytical framework. …”
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Application of Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in the Field of Antimicrobial Peptide Prediction by QIAN Yuchen, NIE Ting, HUA Yanming, XU Shiying, GUO Sheng, ZHANG Xin, LUO Xiaohu, LIU Yanan

“…Artificial intelligence algorithms can be continuously optimized based on prior knowledge and real-time data, which significantly improves the prediction efficiency of antibacterial peptides and reduces research and development costs. Additionally, these algorithms offer the possibility to explore the diversity of antimicrobial peptides and optimize their properties. …”
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