Cooling of a hot elliptic curved wall by using multiple ternary nano-jets located at different elevations under the combined effects of rotating cylinder and magnetic field in lami... by Fatih Selimefendigil, Nermeen Abdullah, Kaouther Ghachem, Faiza Benabdallah, Badr M. Alshammari, Lioua Kolsi

“…Outcomes are useful for design, optimization and development of new cooling methods by using jet impingement for electronic cooling, PV cooling, material processing and drying applications.…”
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Fluorescence by 5-aminolevulinic acid-induced protoporphyrin IX varies in tumor and normal tissues during robot-assisted partial nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma by Takashi Matsuoka, Issei Suzuki, Ryosuke Suzuki, Arinobu Fukunaga, Yoichiro Tohi, Yoshio Sugino, Takuya Okada, Mutsushi Kawakita

“…Conclusions Both tumors and normal tissues exhibited heterogeneous PPIX levels, limiting margin visualization. While current 5-ALA-PDD was insufficient for guiding resection in RAPN, further optimization may enhance its clinical utility.…”
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Design of an improved graph-based model integrating LSTM, LoRaWAN, and blockchain for smart agriculture by Ravi Kumar Munaganuri, Narasimha Rao Yamarthi, Sai Chandana Bolem

“…Moreover, it utilizes reinforcement learning with Deep Q-Learning to derive an optimized irrigation schedule. In this regard, it enables learning optimal irrigation policies and implements them to improve efficiency in the usage of water by 25% and increases crop yield by 15% compared to the traditional methods. …”
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Algorithm for Calculating the Parameters of a Garden Boom Sprayer for Pesticide Application by I. G. Smirnov, G. I. Lichman, L. A. Marchenko

“…(Research purpose) To develop an algorithm for calculating the parameters of a boom garden sprayer when treating fruit plants with pesticides, to ensure their high-quality application, reduce losses and eliminate the risks of environmental pollution. (Materials and methods) The research is based on analytical methods of optimization offered by applied mathematics, the theory of choosing the parameters of agricultural mobile machines, criteria for assessing the quality of the working fluid distribution during the fruit plant treatment, data on the crown shape of the trees and shrubs being cultivated. …”
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Unsupervised Learning for Distributed Downlink Power Allocation in Cell-Free mMIMO Networks by Mattia Fabiani, Asmaa Abdallah, Abdulkadir Celik, Omer Haliloglu, Ahmed M. Eltawil

“…The proposed unsupervised learning approach circumvents the arduous task of training data computations, typically required in supervised learning methods, bypassing the use of conventional complex optimization methods and heuristic methodologies. …”
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GaitCSF: Multi-Modal Gait Recognition Network Based on Channel Shuffle Regulation and Spatial-Frequency Joint Learning by Siwei Wei, Xiangyuan Xu, Dewen Liu, Chunzhi Wang, Lingyu Yan, Wangyu Wu

“…Concurrently, the spatial domain processing branch balances the contributions of frequency and spatial domain information through an adaptive weighting mechanism, maintaining computational efficiency while enhancing features. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed GaitCSF model achieves significant performance improvements on mainstream datasets including GREW, Gait3D, and SUSTech1k, breaking through the performance bottlenecks of traditional methods. …”
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Lightweight patch-level attention for efficient pig behavior detection: A novel dataset and approach by Shuo Wan, Zhongqiang Huang, Tao Han, Ying Sha

“…To address these challenges, we propose a lightweight pig behavior detection model that integrates prediction head optimization and GIoU for improved bounding box regression, while utilizing patch-level attention instead of global attention and employing depthwise separable convolutions in place of standard convolutions. …”
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Gd and Zr Co-Doped BiFeO₃ Magnetic Nanoparticles for Piezo-Photocatalytic Degradation of Ofloxacin by Xuan Liu, Jie Chao, Feifei Guo, Liangliang Chang, Xinyang Zhang, Wei Long, Zengzhe Xi

“…An XPS analysis confirmed Fe³⁺ dominance and oxygen vacancy enrichment, while optimized BGFZ9 exhibited enhanced remanent magnetization (0.1753 emu/g, 14.14 increase) compared to undoped BFO. …”
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Capacity Estimation of Lithium-Ion Battery Systems in Fuel Cell Ships Based on Deep Learning Model by Xiangguo Yang, Jia Tang, Qijia Song, Yifan Liu, Lin Liu, Xingwei Zhou, Yuelin Chen, Telu Tang

“…A TCN-BiGRU model is then developed, with hyperparameters determined by the Kepler optimization algorithm (KOA). Cells from a battery pack under consistent conditions are used for training, while other cells in the same pack serve as the test set. …”
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Simulation and prediction of hydrological processes in Kaidu River Basin based on DHSVM model by Qiyue Zhang, Changchun Xu, Hongyu Wang, Qian Wang, Lin Li, Yu Luo

“…The double cumulative curve method is applied to quantify the respective contributions of climate change and reservoir operations to runoff variation, and to reveal the mechanisms by which reservoir cluster regulation alters the spatiotemporal distribution of runoff. …”
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Enhanced activity localization and microscale dosimetry in alpha-emitter radiopharmaceutical therapy using integrated autoradiography and histological imaging by Sandeep Sahota, Krystal A. Quirindongo, Joseph Piccolo, Anupriya Chhabra, Nouran Zaid, Simin Deveauxbray, Kenechukwu C. Charles-Obi, Brian Miller, Robert F. Hobbs, George Sgouros, Remco Bastiaannet

“…This underscores the critical need for sub-organ dosimetry to better understand αRPT radiobiology and guide treatment optimization. While autoradiography enables high-resolution activity mapping, conventional approaches lack anatomical context for accurate dose mapping. …”
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Synergistic reinforcement of PVA films with boric acid and nano-silica for high-barrier food packaging by Xinyu Xu, Siqi Xie, Baoying Shi, Di Wu, Yu Lin, Qiaohui Zhi, Yufeng Wang, Haiyan Song

“…This research investigates an innovative method for enhancing the traits of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) through the addition of boric acid (BA) as a crosslinking agent, along with γ-aminopropyl triethoxysilane modified nano-silica (NS) to refine the polymer matrix. …”
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Producing mixed linked xylooligosaccharides from red algae biomass through single-step enzymatic hydrolysis by Michelle Teune, Christoph Suster, Yannick Wolf, Nils Michels, Henrieke Mieth, Thorben Döhler, Daniel Bartosik, Joris Krull, Jan-Hendrik Hehemann, Thomas Schweder, Christian Stanetty, Uwe T. Bornscheuer

“…Further optimization upon upscaling offers the possibility of achieving even greater improvements. …”
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Leveraging multimodal large language model for multimodal sequential recommendation by Zhaoliang Wang, Baisong Liu, Weiming Huang, Tingting Hao, Huiqian Zhou, Yuxin Guo

“…Experimental results demonstrate that our method achieves significant improvements over state-of-the-art baselines on four benchmark datasets and substantially enhances the precision of the recommendation results while exhibiting superior robustness and adaptability in multimodal sequential recommendation scenarios. …”
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Vibration Characteristics of Double-Shield TBM Cutterhead Under Rock–Machine Interaction Excitation by Guang Zhang, Qing Song, Qiuming Gong, Dongxing Liu, Dongwei Li, Minghao Sun

“…During the transition from Class II to Class IV rock, the axial vibration frequency decreases while the tangential vibration frequency increases due to changes in rock-breaking patterns. …”
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Wettability of the Plant Growth Regulator 28-HB on Pepper Leaves at Different Developmental Stages by Xiaoya Dong, Kaiyuan Wang, Zhouming Gao, Cuicui Zhu, Xianping Guan, Baijing Qiu

“…Specifically, the SFE of the adaxial leaf surface declined from 43.4 mJ/m² at the seedling stage to 26.6 mJ/m² at the fruiting stage, while the abaxial surface decreased from 27.5 mJ/m² to 22.5 mJ/m². …”
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Extraction of Rubidium and Cesium Ions by Adsorption–Flotation Separation in Titanosilicate-Hexadecyltrimethylammonium Bromide System by Dezhen Fang, Haining Liu, Xiushen Ye, Yanping Wang, Wenjie Han

“…Employing the response surface optimization method to analyze the interactive effects of these four factors, we found that their order of significance was as follows: pH > aeration rate > CTAB concentration > flotation time. …”
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High-Precision Complex Orchard Passion Fruit Detection Using the PHD-YOLO Model Improved from YOLOv11n by Rongxiang Luo, Rongrui Zhao, Xue Ding, Shuangyun Peng, Fapeng Cai

“…Secondly, deep separable convolution (DWConv) is adopted to replace standard convolution. The proposed method involves decoupling spatial convolution and channel convolution, a strategy that enables the retention of multi-scale feature expression capabilities while achieving a substantial reduction in model computation. …”
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Inherent Trade-Offs Between the Conflicting Aspects of Designing the Compact Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Anti-Interference Array by Xiangjun Li, Xiaoyu Zhao, Xiaozhou Ye, Zukun Lu, Feixue Wang, Peiguo Liu

“…Furthermore, we demonstrate that increasing antenna size enhances the signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) while also introducing trade-offs with mutual coupling losses, which degrade SNR after compensation. …”
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Soil eDNA-based droplet digital PCR assay as a new monitoring tool for terrestrial mammals by Marko Đokić, Vida Jojić, Pavle Lukić, Lucija Markulin, Vanja Bugarski-Stanojević

“…This study demonstrates the effectiveness of droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) for identifying vertebrate taxa from soil-derived environmental DNA (eDNA) a methodological combination not previously documented in literature. The protocol is optimized for detecting cryptic species of the lesser blind mole rat (BMR). …”
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