Vegetation indices (VIs) have long been a crucial tool for monitoring plant growth and health, assessing the impact of environmental factors on vegetation, and supporting decision-making processes in agriculture and forestry. Traditionally, these mat...
Agricultural productivity is increasingly threatened by plant diseases, which can spread rapidly and lead to significant crop losses if not identified early. Detecting plant diseases accurately in diverse and uncontrolled environments remains challen...
The increasing global population and climate change threaten food security, with the need for sustenance expected to rise by 85% by 2050. Rice, a crucial staple food for over 50% of the global population, is a major source of calories in underdevelop...
Recent advances in all-solid-state battery (ASSB) research have significantly addressed key obstacles hindering their widespread adoption in electric vehicles (EVs). This review highlights major innovations, including ultrathin electrolyte membranes,...
Chest X-ray imaging plays a vital and indispensable role in the diagnosis of lungs, enabling healthcare professionals to swiftly and accurately identify lung abnormalities. Deep learning (DL) approaches have attained popularity in recent years and ha...
Having access to a unique quantum circuit that one wants to protect against use by others is a very likely scenario in industrial computing. However, currently, users rely on classical computer security schemes, which have known shortcomings. In this...
Urbanization has led to the degradation of green areas and natural resources, which are critical for preserving biodiversity and natural benefits. Sustainable urban development (SUD) practices aim to balance urbanization with preserving and protectin...
Pharmacovigilance databases are showing evidence of injury in the context of the modified COVID-19 mRNA products. According to recent publications, adverse event reports linked to the mRNA COVID-19 injections largely point to the spike protein as an...
Drilling fluids are vital in oil and gas well operations, ensuring borehole stability, cutting removal, and pressure control. However, fluid loss into formations during drilling can compromise formation integrity, alter permeability, and risk groundw...
Due to global development and increased public awareness of food’s effects on health, demands for innovative and healthy products have risen. Biodegradable and environmentally friendly polymer usage in modern food products is a promising approa...
Local communities in Mzimba District, Malawi, have limited access to healthcare services and often rely on traditional medical practice and medicinal plants (MPs) for most of their medical care. However, phytomedicines’ use has not been well document...
The decarbonization of industrial process heat is one of the bigger challenges of the global energy transition. Process heating accounts for about 20% of final energy demand in Germany, and the situation is similar in other industrialized nations aro...
Hydrogen is set to become an important energy carrier in Germany in the next decades in the country’s quest to reach the target of climate neutrality by 2045. To meet Germany’s potential green hydrogen demand of up to 587 to 1143 TWh by 2...
The discovery of natural products has been pivotal in drug development, providing a vast reservoir of bioactive compounds from various biological sources. This narrative review addresses a critical research gap: the largely underexplored role of gut...
An electrothermal analysis for barium-titanate-based ceramics is presented, combining the Heywang–Jonker model for the electric resistivity with a heat dissipation mechanism based on natural convection and radiation in a one-dimensional model o...
Solving nonlinear oscillations is a challenging task due to the mathematical complexity of the related differential equations. In many cases, determining the oscillation’s period requires the solution of complicated integrals using numerical me...
Background: The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a global pandemic that has killed over 1.5 million people worldwide. A constellation of multisystem involvement with SARS-CoV-2 has been reported. COVID-19 has been shown to affect the human nerv...
The spectrophotometric methods of determination of the active pharmaceutical ingredients meloxicam and nimesulide were reviewed and a simple UV-spectrophotometric method for the determination of these active pharmaceutical ingredients in industrial e...
To achieve sustainability and fulfill sustainable development goals, the digitalization of the power sector is vital. This study aims to examine how blockchain can be integrated into and enrich smart grids. In total, 10 research questions are explore...
Corn (Zea mays L.) productivity is often compromised by phytosanitary challenges, with fungal disease like Curvularia leaf spot being particularly significant. While synthetic fungicides are commonly used, there is growing interest in exploring alter...
Caffeic and ferulic acids are critical phenolic compounds in coffee beans, known for their antioxidant properties and influence on coffee’s acidity. This study developed and validated a rapid and simple analytical method to quantify these acids...
This paper is aimed at eliciting consistency conditions for the existence of unsteady incompressible axisymmetric swirling viscous Beltrami vortices and explicitly constructing solutions that obey the conditions as well as the Navier–Stokes equ...
When finger joints become immobile due to an accident during sports or a widespread disease such as rheumatoid arthritis, customised finger joint implants are to be created. In an automated process chain, implants will be produced from ceramic or met...
Chest X-ray imaging is an essential tool in the diagnostic procedure for pulmonary conditions, providing healthcare professionals with the capability to immediately and accurately determine lung anomalies. This imaging modality is fundamental in asse...
Background: The lack of knowledge about physical responses to pickleball creates a clear gap about performance in this sport. The purpose of this study was to investigate neuromuscular fatigue caused by playing doubles pickleball. Methods: Recreation...
Rockfalls are incidents of nature that take place when rocks or boulders break from a steep slope and fall to the ground. They can pose considerable threats to buildings placed in high-risk zones. Despite the fact that the impact of a rockfall on a b...
Anguilliform swimming is one of the most complex locomotion modes, involving various interacting phenomena, necessitating multidisciplinary studies. Eel robots are designed to incorporate biological principles and achieve efficient locomotion by repl...
Quantum-secure cryptography is a dynamic field due to its crucial role in various domains. This field aligns with the ongoing efforts in data security. Post-quantum encryption (PQE) aims to counter the threats posed by future quantum computers, highl...
In order to produce detergents with improved performance and good market acceptability, it is crucial to develop formulations with improved foamability and cleaning performance. The use of a delicate balance of surfactants and additives is an appeali...
Data visualization plays a crucial role in gaining insights from high-dimensional datasets. ISOMAP is a popular algorithm that maps high-dimensional data into a lower-dimensional space while preserving the underlying geometric structure. However, ISO...
Quantum dots with sizes between 1 and 100 nm possess unique optical and electronic properties, making them valuable in energy, bioimaging, and optoelectronics fields. While traditional synthesis methods offer control over QD properties, they face cha...
The glymphatic system is a newly discovered waste-clearing system that is analogous to the lymphatic system in our central nervous system. Furthermore, disruption in the glymphatic system has also been associated with many neurodegenerative disorders...
The multiple steady states of Ag/Bi2212-composite high-
With the prevalence of obesity soaring and the absence of an effective and safe treatment that is low-cost and always feasible, food supplements have gained attention for their potential benefits in the absence of significant safety concerns. Cinnamo...
In recent years, novel Personal Mobility Vehicles (PMVs) with a narrow width and an inward tilting mechanism, similar to motorcycles (MCs), have been proposed to prevent overturning during turns. Due to their compact size, these vehicles have inheren...
Haebara and Stocking–Lord linking methods are frequently used to compare the distributions of two groups. Previous research has demonstrated that Haebara and Stocking–Lord linking can produce bias in estimated standard deviations and, to...
The COVID-19 pandemic is caused by a novel and rapidly mutating coronavirus, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Although several drugs are already in clinical use or under emergency authorization, there is still an urgent n...
The application of blockchain technology and Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) into geology offers potential for the preservation, management, and dissemination of geological data. This perspective paper explores the feasibility, benefits, and challenges of...
Background: The objective of this study was to compare the facial pattern according to Steiner’s cephalometric analysis with other facial measurement methods (Ricketts, Björk-Jarabak, and McNamara). Methods: 200 patients from a university...
Collaborative learning has been widely studied in higher education and beyond, suggesting that collaboration in small groups can be effective for promoting deeper learning, enhancing engagement and motivation, and improving a range of cognitive and s...
Understanding natural killer (NK) cell functionality is essential in developing more effective immunotherapeutic strategies that can enhance patient outcomes, especially in the context of cancer treatment. This review provides a comprehensive overvie...
Weight regain (WR) after bariatric surgery, particularly sleeve gastrectomy, is a significant challenge, often driven by a combination of metabolic, behavioral, and lifestyle factors. Non-surgical interventions to manage WR are critical, given the in...
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), encompassing Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, presents a growing health challenge in Spain. This review examines the current understanding of IBD through the lens of genetics, epigenetics, and metabolism...
The friction factor is a widely used parameter in characterizing flow resistance in pipes and open channels. Recently, the application of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) has found several applications in water resource engineering....
This study aims to improve the computational efficiency of the frequency domain analysis of medium-frequency transformers (MFTs) with the presence of large clearance distances and fine foil windings. The winding loss and magnetic energy in MFTs in th...
This study evaluated the phytochemical composition and antioxidant activity of Piliostigma thonningii (Schumach.) Milne-Redh, Psorospermum febrifugum Spach, Inula glomerata Oliv. and Hiern, Zanthoxylum chalybeum Engl. and Monotes africanus A.DC., cla...
The biogenic synthesis of copper oxide nanoparticles was explored using the Myriophyllum spicatum plant through a process involving co-precipitation and was utilized as an effective photocatalyst for the reduction of Cr(VI) and Pb(II) ions in an aque...
This research paper presents a novel approach for occlusion inpainting in thermal images to efficiently segment and enhance obscured regions within these images. The increasing reliance on thermal imaging in fields like surveillance, security, and de...
Cinematic and pop culture narratives offer powerful tools for engaging with science by contextualizing complex principles within familiar, imaginative stories. This paper investigates the scientific feasibility of a plan depicted in Godzilla Minus On...
The Multi-Objective Optimization Problem (MOOP) in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a challenging issue that requires balancing multiple conflicting objectives, such as maintaining coverage, connectivity, and network lifetime all together. These ob...
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