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Reinforcement learning for robotic manipulation is often limited by poor sample efficiency and unstable training dynamics, challenges that are further amplified in federated settings due to data privacy constraints and task heterogeneity. To address...

The integration of artificial intelligence into criminal sentencing decisions represents one of the most consequential applications of algorithmic systems in contemporary governance. While AI-assisted risk assessment tools promise enhanced consistenc...

Critical metals play a crucial role in advancing sustainable energy technologies, with their demand steadily increasing due to the global push for a circular economy. At present, critical metals are primarily extracted from mineral resources, but cri...

Ubiquitin-specific proteases (USPs) constitute the largest and most diverse family of deubiquitinating enzymes (DUBs), playing a pivotal role in maintaining protein homeostasis through reversible post-translational modifications (PTMs). Renal fibrosi...

Background/Objectives: There is high demand for Anshenbunao syrup (ABS) in Chinese medicine owing to its steady therapeutic efficacy for insomnia and neurasthenia. However, it contains a substantial proportion of Polygoni Multiflori Radix Praeparata...

An HPO (Hunter–Prey Optimizer)-optimized Bidirectional LSTM (HPO-BiLSTM) model is introduced to address the challenges in predicting gas concentration within coal mining working faces. This study aims to adaptively adjust the key hyperparameter...

A writing system $\mathfrak{W}$ on an alphabet $\mathcal{A}$ is a tuple $(\mathfrak{R},\mathfrak{M})$, where $\mathfrak{R}$ is a finite set of text formation rules and $\mathfrak{M}$ is a finite rule application mechanism that generates texts on $\mathcal{A}$. A natural writing system forms natural language texts on an alphabet such as...

Time series forecasting performance is strongly influenced by the structural properties of the underlying data, yet learning-based models are often applied without sufficient validation of this dependency. This study evaluates a uniformly configured...

Background and Objectives: Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) carries high mortality, with cardiovascular complications frequently contributing to adverse outcomes. This study investigated the relationship between cardiac auscultation using e...

Background: Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), previously known as non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), is increasingly prevalent in children. However, reliable noninvasive diagnostic tools remain limited. The hep...

Optimal sensor placement (OSP) for structural health monitoring of large-scale space grid structures must enable reliable identification of localized member deterioration with sparse instrumentation. Modal-based OSP criteria optimize observability of...

This paper addresses the challenge of deduplicating job postings in large, heterogeneous datasets by introducing an efficient, multi-stage methodology that combines embedding-based filtering with Large Language Model (LLM) validation. The proposed sy...

Software repositories such as Git are significant sources of metadata about software projects, containing information such as modified files, change authors, and often commentary describing the change. An emerging approach to support software change...

This study identifies and extracts two typical drought characteristics, drought frequency and drought severity, based on the Meteorological Drought Composite Index (MCI), and systematically analyzes their spatiotemporal evolution in Inner Mongolia. U...

Background/Objectives: Dried blood spot (DBS) sampling, a technique for collecting capillary blood samples, is widely used in therapeutic drug monitoring, pharmacokinetic and toxicology research, newborn screening, and population health because it en...

Background: Candiduria is a common finding in hospitalized patients, particularly in intensive care units (ICUs) and in those with indwelling urinary catheters. Additionally, Candida spp. is among the most frequent causes of healthcare-associated uri...

The power-shift system employed in agricultural multi-range continuously variable transmissions (CVTs) features a complex structure and control logic, presenting significant challenges to the reliability of agricultural machinery. To enable timely de...

Respect for privacy has been identified as a guiding principle for the development and use of responsible or ethical artificial intelligence (AI), but also as an endangered value in many countries, including those in Africa. Yet, on the African conti...

Dalbavancin is a long-acting lipoglycopeptide antibiotic increasingly off-label used for the management of complex and chronic Gram-positive infections, including osteoarticular, prosthetic, and cardiovascular device-related infections. While its pro...

Herein, (Nafion-treated) (30 wt%) NiO_x/graphene (GP) were prepared at 250 °C and 450 °C and investigated as materials for dopamine electrochemical detection. Initially, characterization of the samples was performed using high-resolution trans...

Topology identification and signal inference are cornerstone tasks in graph signal processing (GSP). Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is particularly effective for network inference as it explicitly captures causal dependencies. However, a major bo...

Addressing challenges in few-shot image classification, this study introduces the Multi-Dimensional Attention and Composite Loss Former, a meta-learning model built on a Residual Network-12 backbone. The model incorporates multi-dimensional attention...

Spatio-temporal features are crucial for maritime trajectory forecasting, especially in scenarios involving curved waterways or abrupt changes in ship motion patterns. Although Automatic Identification System (AIS) data, which are widely used for tra...

Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) are a promising alternative to conventional piezoelectric transducers, offering superior design flexibility and broadband operational characteristics. However, their clinical and practical deplo...

The one-dimensional Bin Packing Problem (1D-BPP) is a well-known NP-hard grouping problem characterized by high structural complexity and broad practical relevance. Among the metaheuristic approaches proposed for this problem, the Grouping Genetic Al...

Background/Objectives: Hydrogels infused with silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are widely used for their antibacterial properties, yet their stability, specifically upon contact with solid growth media (agar), remains poorly explored. This study compared...

Accurate estimation of the state of charge (SOC) is essential for the safe and efficient operation of lithium-ion batteries. Conventional Adaptive Unscented Kalman Filter (AUKF) methods often exhibit limited accuracy, primarily due to the empirical s...

In current mobile networks, users’ identity privacy is threatened by long-term observation attacks. To resist such attacks, identity-anonymity technology has been proposed. However, existing anonymity schemes cannot adapt to diverse, dynamic bu...

Introduction: Bevacizumab, applied in cancer treatment, binds vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibiting blood vessels growth, avoiding tumours expansion [...]

Atrial septal defect (ASD) affects 1:11.3 children in some US states; however, the antecedents of these trends are yet to be identified. A total of 1882 ASD rates (ASDRs) for 2003–2020 were sourced from the National Birth Defects Prevention Net...

(1) Background: Malnutrition increases the risk of complications, prolongs the period of hospitalization, worsens the results of treatment, and increases the costs of hospital stay. Patients’ lack of knowledge on how to cope with it may increas...

Climate warming puts new selective pressures on natural populations, but there are few quantitative measurements of selection in natural populations over protracted time periods. Observations made at the beginning and end ofa 47-year cumulative incre...

Background and Objectives: Intertrochanteric hip fractures (ITFs) are common in older adults and frequently coexist with knee osteoarthritis (KOA). Although both conditions share key biomechanical risk factors, the specific relationship between KOA s...

Reforming processes are key technologies for the production of hydrogen and synthesis gas from hydrocarbon feedstocks, with steam reforming and dry reforming being the most extensively studied routes. Steam reforming remains the dominant industrial p...

This paper details the design of a guidance architecture, in the form of a layered, finite state machine, meant to enable safe and autonomous rendezvous operations. The onboard software uses relative state parametrization based on relative orbital el...

Assessing wildfire susceptibility requires integrating environmental and anthropogenic factors to quantify the probability and vulnerability of fires in a given area. Many existing machine-learning models offer high predictive power but limited inter...

In this study, the material removal behavior of abrasive brushing tools on zirconia-toughened alumina cutting edges is experimentally investigated. Three different brushing tool specifications with bonded diamond grains are tested, varying in filamen...

Functional time series (FTS) modeling has emerged as a powerful framework for capturing complex temporal dependencies using the functional autoregressive models FAR($p,m$) and FARX($p,m,\tau$). These functional models characterize the evolution of funct...

The therapeutic potential of prodigiosin as a hydrophobic anticancer agent can be enhanced by various approaches, one of which is the loading of PG into extracellular vesicles. Drug distribution and stability in aqueous media play a crucial role in t...

West Nile virus (WNV) circulates endemically in Romania, yet prevention of WNV infection in horses largely depends on owner-driven decisions that require accurate risk perception and veterinary guidance. A cross-sectional online survey was carried ou...

Tertiary amines such as N,N-dimethyl-cyclohexylamine (DMCHA) are recently explored as candidate solvents for the extraction and separation of lipids from algal biomass. DMCHA exhibits the interesting property of polarity switching which is based on t...

The lunar surface soil (regolith) represents a potential substrate for crop cultivation in future extraterrestrial bases. However, the absence of indigenous microbial activity severely limits nutrient availability in lunar soil. In this study, the ef...

The reproductive efficiency of breeding boars substantially influences swine industry productivity. Sperm viability during ambient-temperature storage is critically affected by environmental factors, including microbial activity. This study aimed to...

As test anxiety has evolved conceptually, identifying specific components contributing to educational success is essential. This study is the first to examine how different components of test anxiety are related to university dropout. Hungarian unive...

This paper investigates the integration of on-site photovoltaic (PV) systems in the industrial sector under a zero feed-in configuration, where all generated electricity is consumed locally without export to the grid. The analysis follows the current...

Perceived complexity is a key component of sensory brain function as it indicates the number of resources necessary to process incoming information. A recently proposed measure of perceived complexity defined it as normalized Shannon entropy. However...

This study aimed to evaluate the effects of modified corn straw dietary fiber (MCDF) on growth performance, nutrient metabolism, serum biochemistry, antioxidant capacity, intestinal morphology and hepatic lipid deposition in broilers. A total of 200...

This study’s aim was to clarify the regulatory roles of the MKI67 rs11016073 and APOB rs1367117 polymorphisms in the relationship between blood Pb levels and cancer risk. Blood Pb concentrations were measured using inductively coupled plasma ma...

This study addresses the inline dielectric characterization of liquids using a prototype planar resonant sensor with two capacitively coupled spirals, fabricated by inkjet printing on a Rogers RO4003C substrate. The device includes a central hole des...

This paper is devoted to the introduction and systematic study of $(P,Q)$-normal operators in the context of semi-Hilbertian spaces, where P and Q are non-constant complex polynomials in one variable. This class generalizes the well-known notion of pol...