2026 July-2 - 528 articles
Biomass–plastic co-pyrolysis has emerged as a promising thermochemical route for the valorization of mixed biomass and plastic waste streams, addressing growing challenges in waste management and resource efficiency. This review summarizes curr...
Functional meals are emerging, encompassing complete meal systems designed to deliver physiological benefits through food synergy, interactions with the food matrix, and optimized release of bioactive compounds. This narrative review examines the rol...
Rainfall infiltration can alter matric suction and significantly affect the active earth pressure acting on retaining structures with unsaturated backfills. This effect becomes more complex when hydraulic layering and finite-width failure mechanisms...
Accurate measurement of three-dimensional flame temperature distribution is crucial for combustion diagnosis. Traditional optical methods rely on observation windows or multi-camera arrays, which can be difficult to deploy in environments with restri...
This paper proposes an improved state-of-charge (SOC)-based adaptive droop control strategy for photovoltaic DC microgrids with distributed energy storage units (DESUs). To overcome the slow SOC equalization and limited adaptability of conventional d...
The development of deep oil and gas reservoirs has become a key focus in the exploration and exploitation of hydrocarbon resources. To elucidate the mechanisms governing the flow evolution of reservoir sandstone under deep, high-triaxial stress condi...
The variation in thermal stratifications significantly alter the distribution of the wind load on buildings. In this study, large eddy simulation (LES) was adopted to investigate this influence on an isolated cubic building. The thermally stratified...
With the continuous increase in coal mining depth in China, concealed geological structures—such as collapsed columns and faults—pose a severe threat to mine safety by triggering water inrush accidents. Mine DC resistivity methods exhibit...
The expansion of wind energy, while essential for the energy transition, poses serious collision risks to birds, particularly due to the rotating blades of wind turbines. When conducting environmental impact assessments, accurate quantification of th...
To address the challenges of information fusion and prediction for highly non-stationary, noisy, and lag-responsive heterogeneous time-series data from multi-source environmental sensing, this paper proposes a novel adaptive hybrid framework, SAPSO-V...
This study characterised the profiles of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in the indoor air of hairdressing, beauty, and nail salons and assessed the associated incremental cancer risk (ILCR). A distinctly divergent exposure pattern, partic...
Liquid biopsy has emerged as a transformative approach in modern oncology, offering minimally invasive access to tumor-derived biomarkers through the analysis of circulating tumor DNA, cell-free DNA, and extracellular vesicles such as exosomes. Unlik...
This article presents the use of autoencoders as part of a dimensionality-reduction method in the task of crime clustering. The study was conducted on a real-world crime dataset from the city of Chicago, based on publicly available police records. Th...
This study aims to accurately predict students’ academic performance trajectories for university entrance examinations by proposing a machine learning framework that explicitly accounts for missing data and uncertainty. Mock examination data ar...
The missing values in electricity load are a critical issue in grid applications. The electricity demand time series data are usually large-scaled with complicated patterns and cause difficulties for imputation. This paper presents a Bayesian matrix...
This study presents an analytical elastic solution using the complex variable approach to determine the soil disturbance surrounding a shallow rectangular tunnel, taking into account the effect of gravity and considering the influence of grouting pre...
The integration of sensing systems, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and data analytics technologies is enabling the development of digital twins for monitoring and managing complex built environments. University campuses represent suitable scenarios fo...
Centrifugal spraying systems are widely used in plant protection unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) due to their flexible droplet size adjustment and low-volume application capabilities. These systems can typically generate a wide range of volume median...
Glioblastoma recurrence remains nearly inevitable despite maximal resection and adjuvant therapy, with most relapses occurring within or adjacent to the original tumor site. Conventional MRI underestimates tumor infiltration beyond contrast-enhancing...
Deep learning-driven medical image analysis has become a critical auxiliary tool for clinical oral disease diagnosis. However, most existing caries detection methods based on YOLO series models are validated on single-lesion datasets, leading to gene...
In smart cities, crowding in transportation hubs, large event venues, and commercial/tourist districts can rapidly escalate from service congestion to public-safety incidents. Real-world operations are constrained by heterogeneous sensing coverage, d...
Resource-based cities in Northwest China face increasing ecological, geotechnical, and socio-economic challenges caused by long-term mining, including subsidence, slope instability, waste rock accumulation, soil erosion, industrial decline, and settl...
Identifying the impact location (“sweet spot”) on a tennis racket is crucial for performance evaluation in tennis training. However, existing approaches typically rely on expensive vision-based systems or specialized sensors, limiting the...
Conventional push-out tests detect bone–implant failure only at the point of macroscopic instability, leaving earlier damage stages unresolved. Here we present a proof-of-concept for a push-out test stand combined with acoustic emission (AE) mo...
Sarcopenia is an age-related progressive decline in skeletal muscle mass, strength, and physical performance that increases the risk of falls, disability, and reduced quality of life among older adults. Its pathogenesis is multifactorial and involves...
Background: Lichen planopilaris (LPP) and frontal fibrosing alopecia (FFA) are primary cicatricial alopecias with no FDA-approved treatments and a limited evidence base for any intervention. Alopecia areata (AA), while better studied, similarly lacks...
In this paper, we propose an assist-as-needed (AAN) backstepping control scheme for a lower-limb exoskeleton with nonlinear dynamics and uncertain human–robot interactions. The main objective is to achieve a good trajectory tracking capability...
Periodontal diseases are highly prevalent conditions characterized by chronic inflammation, which leads to progressive destruction of tooth-supporting tissues. Conventional therapies, including scaling and root planing, grafting, and surgical procedu...
Forest planning and operational execution still often rely on separate office-based workflows, field inventories, and analogue tree-marking procedures, limiting direct communication between planners and field personnel. Mixed reality (MR) interfaces...
Broccoli by-products represent an underutilized source of dietary fiber and bioactive compounds with potential as functional food ingredients. This study evaluated the effect of enzymatic treatment with Viscozyme® L on broccoli by-products and th...
Sentencing is among the most contested tasks in criminal adjudication, as judges must balance retribution, rehabilitation, deterrence, and proportionality within broad judicial discretion. In Taiwan, Article 57 of the Criminal Code mandates considera...
Exploration of ultra-deep tight sandstones in the Silurian Lower Kepingtage Formation, Tarim Basin, is hindered by low success rates. Here, we integrated 3D seismic, core, and petrographic data to investigate reservoir characteristics and fault contr...
Emergency communication support is a critical prerequisite for effective disaster response. To address the problems of one-sided indicator weighting and the uncertain quantification of qualitative indicators in emergency communication network evaluat...
Eruca vesicaria subsp. sativa (rocket) sprouts are a rich source of bioactive compounds used in cosmetics. Phytochemical profiling (LC-PDA-MS/MS) of 5-day-old sprouts identified 26 metabolites, mainly glucosinolates (e.g., glucoraphanin and glucoeruc...
Vibrations generated by blasting operations in open-pit mines can have adverse effects on nearby buildings. To mitigate these vibrations by selecting an appropriate delay time, blasting vibration monitoring experiments were conducted in an open-pit m...
Optical document recognition has made great progress in recent years. However, large historical tables still pose substantial challenges because of poor scan quality, irregular layouts, and the sheer number of table cells. Table transcription tools p...
The depletion of high-grade manganese ore reserves, accompanied by the progressive decline in ore quality, has intensified concerns regarding the supply of suitable manganese raw materials for Kazakhstan’s ferroalloy industry. Under these condi...
Despite the presence of multi-axis vibration in many vehicles, biodynamic responses of the human body are mostly studied under single-axis conditions. In this study, the fore-aft, lateral, and vertical apparent masses were measured under tri-axis tra...
Purpose: The aim of this study was to assess gnathion soft-tissue deviation in Kosovar children and adolescents with Angle malocclusions using structured light scanning technology. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 90 children (age...
This study investigates the passive control of backward-facing step flows using rigid and elastic cantilevered plates, with emphasis on flow reattachment, pressure recovery, and fluid–structure interaction effects. The numerical methodology was...
Patent intelligence is hard to automate: data is heterogeneous and multilingual, and monitoring runs on daily cycles. This paper reports an engineering case study of a production low-code workflow on the n8n platform that integrates twelve RSS feeds...
The objective of this study was to evaluate forage yield, chemical composition, canopy characteristics, and lamb performance in Massai and Marandu grass pastures grown as monocultures or as a multispecies pasture under intermittent stocking. Lambs, w...
Borehole electrical imaging logs provide important sensor-derived information for identifying fractures, bedding structures, and reservoir heterogeneity. However, strip-like missing regions commonly arise from uneven tool pad distribution, incomplete...
Combine harvesters operate under harsh, time-varying field conditions, where unplanned downtime causes significant timeliness losses. This review systematically examines advances in structural fault diagnosis for combine harvesters, tracing the evolu...
To address the insufficient bearing capacity of existing slab culverts under increased fill heights in highway widening projects, a reinforcement method integrating an additional deck slab with a grouted steel pipe pile-supported composite foundation...
Recent advances in NeRF-based inpainting have enabled the completion of masked regions across multi-view images. However, two major challenges remain: generating accurate masks efficiently in the presence of complex multi-object interference and main...
Modernising historical literature into contemporary language is a form of diachronic intralingual translation that supports access to written cultural heritage. For low-resource languages such as Slovene, this task is hindered by orthographic, lexica...
Green finance has become a key component of sustainability transitions by supporting the alignment of financial systems with environmental and climate-related objectives. As discussions on sustainable investments and climate finance increasingly take...
Pedestrian safety at urban intersections is influenced by complex interactions among environmental conditions, social cues, and boundedly rational behavioral responses, making intervention planning under uncertainty particularly challenging. Existing...
This study examines the strongly nonlinear cross-media dynamics of a deep-sea umbilical cable–payload system during free-surface crossing under different sea states and lifting speeds. A two-dimensional time-domain lumped-mass model was establi...
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