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This study presents OptiWood-YOLO, a YOLOv8n-based pipeline for automated wood-surface defect detection. Defective timber materials were obtained in collaboration with wood-processing companies, and documented image acquisition included controlled la...

Small first-person-view (FPV) drones provide a flexible platform for ecological and environmental monitoring tasks, including the localization of pollution sources, inspection of contaminated areas, and low-disturbance observation of wildlife. Howeve...

Stage III/N2 non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) can often be treated with either surgery-based multimodality therapy or definitive chemoradiotherapy. Historical randomized trials showed that surgery improved local control without demonstrating an ove...

This paper investigates the magnetic structures and excitations of the orthochromites RCrO${}_3$. The neutron scattering intensities of these magnetic structures were calculated. For scenarios where the R site is non-magnetic, the Bragg peaks I(1 0 1) and...

In this paper, we investigate the spatiotemporal dynamics of a diffusive Leslie–Gower predator–prey model incorporating the Allee effect, prey harvesting, and cooperative hunting among predators. By introducing spatial diffusion into a pr...

Conventional load-carrying practices in hilly and low-resource regions, such as Doko and head-straps, put substantial axial load pressures on the spine, resulting in chronic musculoskeletal discomfort. This research presents LoCaDe-Exo, a CFRP-based...

Background: Nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is a malignancy highly prevalent in southern China. Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of cancer, yet the interplay between the systemic and local metabolic landscapes of NPC remains poorly characterized....

The technological suitability of unconventional oil-bearing materials for screw pressing depends on both raw-material characteristics and their behavior during processing and subsequent oil clarification. This study comparatively evaluated black sesa...

Chronic pruritus is a complex sensory disorder arising from interactions among epidermal barrier dysfunction, immune signaling, peripheral sensory neurons, spinal circuits, and supraspinal networks. Bioactive lipids participate in this neuroimmune cr...

Event cameras capture motion with high temporal resolution, but recovering from raw events a velocity field that also obeys the underlying flow physics remains difficult. Existing event-based methods either require ground-truth velocity or depth, whi...

This research introduces a non-invasive physiological assessment framework to evaluate metrics from facial video sequences via remote photoplethysmography (rPPG) and a deep learning approach. The system inspects facial videos at the frame level to de...

Cycloviruses are circular Rep-encoding single-stranded DNA (CRESS-DNA) viruses detected in a wide range of biological and environmental samples, although the natural hosts and biological significance of many members of the genus remain poorly underst...

After World War II, Australian potters and makers increasingly used Indigenous Australian images on pottery and other household goods. This paper traces how several boat designs from Arnhem Land bark paintings were copied, changed and sold on artisan...

Thrombotic complications represent uncommon but potentially life-threatening adverse events associated with assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs), particularly in the setting of controlled ovarian stimulation and ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome...

The Modified Discrete Sine Transform (MDST) is widely used in signal-processing applications where computational efficiency, latency, and energy consumption are critical design constraints. This paper introduces a low-complexity, parallel MDST algori...

Objectives: The aim was to identify metabolic subtypes within metabolically unhealthy obesity (MUO) using integrated metabolomics and hematology data and evaluate their differential risks for cardiovascular–kidney–metabolic (CKM)-related...

Background: The development of novel tubulin-targeting agents remains a promising strategy in anticancer drug design. In the present study, novel heterocyclic tubulin-targeting compounds were identified using a complex in silico/in vitro workflow. Me...

Large converter-dominated power systems combine grid-following (GFL) converters, grid-forming (GFM) converters, and modular multilevel converters (MMCs) from different manufacturers, while complete control models are rarely available to any single op...

As renewable energy resources become more and more prevalent in campus distribution networks, there is a need for efficient energy management strategies that can coordinate photovoltaic (PV) generation, battery energy storage and power exchange with...

A case study of municipal tree leaf waste valorization is presented for Jubail Industrial City, Saudi Arabia. The current disposal practice primarily relies on landfilling, resulting in resource loss and greenhouse gas emissions. This study evaluated...

The field of medical microrobotics has emerged as a promising approach for delicate medical interventions in anatomical regions where conventional approaches lack efficiency. Due to the fact that constrained anatomical workspaces offer limited visibi...

Objectives: Natural cycle frozen embryo transfer (FET) has become an increasingly preferred approach for endometrial preparation in ovulatory women. Whether modified natural cycle (mNC) protocols incorporating human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) for o...

Ecological protection and high-quality development of the Yellow River Basin in China have received considerable attention; however, water-quality changes and pollution sources remain unclear. On the basis of water-quality monitoring data from 14 con...

Background: Relapse remains a major clinical challenge in multiple myeloma (MM), highlighting the need to identify circulating proteins associated with relapse as candidates for disease monitoring and further biomarker development. Methods: An integr...

Single-cell RNA sequencing has supplied cell atlases and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled virtual-cell models with scalable, gene-level descriptions of cellular state. Yet prevalent poly(A)-based counting assays capture only part of the RNA lands...

Real-world energy consumption of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) varies with trip conditions, driving behavior, and vehicle state. Treating vehicle type merely as a control variable may mask substantial heterogeneity in energy consumption mechanisms...

Sliding-mode control (SMC) is valued in automotive applications for its robustness and its low computational cost, although chattering remains a practical obstacle. Higher-order and adaptive formulations reduce chattering, but each carries limitation...

The increasing adoption of Internet of Things (IoT) systems in machine-to-machine (M2M) scenarios requires authentication mechanisms that support trust and accountability across organizational boundaries. Standard X.509-based mTLS mechanisms provide...

Industrial visual inspection requires not only accurate segmentation but also reliable and traceable decision making, since incorrect automatic refinements may lead to downstream manufacturing failures. Although segmentation foundation models achieve...

Agricultural operations generate substantial quantities of waste, including lignocellulosic residues such as peanut shells, which are frequently undervalued and disposed of via conventional methods like landfilling. This study employs Life Cycle Asse...

The transition from fossil-based plastics to bioplastics in food packaging requires not only technological advances but also coherent regulatory frameworks and economic support mechanisms. This review examines how policies, production costs, and indu...

Time-lapse (4D) seismic inversion is a key tool for monitoring subsurface changes caused by fluid injection and production, but model-based workflows require repeated forward and adjoint evaluations, a wavelet estimate for every vintage, and survey-s...

Editors of published Korean Easy-Read documents changed 50 aligned sentences by widely varying amounts (edit distance 0.39–0.89), motivating rewrite intensity as a control variable for large language models (LLMs). We ask whether a requested in...

Osteosarcoma, the most prevalent primary bone tumor, predominantly influences children and adolescents. The pre-metastatic niche (PMN) is a specialized microenvironment that forms before clinically detectable metastatic lesions. Cancer-associated fib...

Offshore renewable energy (ORE) systems experience interacting chemical, biological, and mechanical stresses that make coating performance dependent on component duty and maintenance access. This critical narrative review evaluates conventional and a...

This study investigated the feasibility of using thermography-derived crop water stress index (CWSI) images combined with deep learning for irrigation-level identification in potato plants as a proof of concept. Potato plants (Solanum tuberosum L. cv...

Physiological brain aging is driven by progressive neuro-glial-vascular remodeling, in which neurotransmitter systems serve as the core functional network integrating central resilience and peripheral systemic signaling. This narrative review provide...

Quorum sensing (QS) has emerged as a central mechanism by which bacteria coordinate gene expression across populations. As synthetic biology has advanced, QS has been developed into a widely exploited design layer for programming collective behaviors...

Manganese (Mn) pollution in aquatic environments poses threats to fish health, yet the molecular mechanisms of Mn-induced cardiac injury remain poorly understood. Epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG), the major bioactive catechin in green tea, exhibits...

Natural compounds, including curcumin, resveratrol and other polyphenols, exhibit biologically significant antimicrobial, anticancer and antioxidant activities, making them promising candidates for drug development. These bioactive compounds have bee...

Software-Defined Radios are particularly suited to performing radio spectrum monitoring from unmanned aerial vehicles. This is thanks to their reduced size, wide bandwidth and advanced signal processing capabilities. But their task is made increasing...

Coastal zones and their connected freshwater and marine systems are among the environments most acutely exposed to accelerating climate hazards. European policy has responded by placing Digital Twin (DT) infrastructures at the centre of its climate a...

Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) causes severe enteric disease in piglets. The spike (S) gene is the major target of neutralizing antibodies and a hotspot for genetic variation. In this study, eight PEDV S-gene sequences were obtained from a co...

Systemic risk in the global staple food trade network has become a critical threat to global food security amid escalating geopolitical frictions and frequent extreme weather events. This study constructs directed weighted trade networks for wheat, r...

The selective electrooxidation of glycerol to value-added products is an effective method to address the surplus glycerol derived from biodiesel production. In this study, a series of carbon-supported non-precious metal-doped PtRu-based multicomponen...

The growing volume of textile waste increases the need for effective chemical recycling methods. The hydrochloric acid-based polycotton recycling process offers a route to valorize polycotton textiles (polyester/cotton blends in any ratio) in two ste...

An important consideration in fast-hole drilling electrical discharge machining (FHD-EDM) systems is the reliable power delivery under high current and high temperature operating conditions. The developed mathematical model considers the electrical c...

Resveratrol (RES) is a natural polyphenolic compound that protects the organism against oxidative stress and various metabolic injuries. Ochratoxin A (OTA) is a widely occurring mycotoxin with established reproductive toxicity in monogastric animals,...

Lake-water-quality assessment and multivariate statistical analysis are usually based on concentrations. In lakes where water level and storage fluctuate widely, however, hydrological change can produce a common concentration response across many sol...

Coupled visual degradations in underwater recordings make it difficult to relate simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) performance changes to specific factors and their severity. We present York-Tank, which is a controlled stereo dataset combi...