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In this work, a facile preparation method was proposed to reduce natural organics fouling of hydrophobic membrane via UV grafting polymerization with methacrylic acid (MAAc) and methyl acrylamide (MAAm) as hydrophilic monomers, followed by multihydro...

In the present scenario, the integration of distributed generation (DG) sources into the grid is inevitably required for meeting demand and ameliorating the power quality. High integration levels can form unintentional islands which need to be recogn...

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have achieved remarkable efficiencies, yet further progress is limited by defect-induced nonradiative recombination and instability associated with uncontrolled crystallization. Here, we develop a protic ionic-liquid pre...

With smart city infrastructures growing, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been widely used in the intelligent transportation systems (ITS). The traditional adaptive traffic signal control method based on reinforcement learning (RL) has expanded from...

The proliferation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) has spawned a variety of intelligent services, where efficient coordination plays a significant role in increasing the effectiveness of cooperative execution. However, due to the limited operationa...

The styrene–butadiene–styrene (SBS)-modified asphalt pavement has been in growing demand in the road construction field owing to its workable mechanical property and temperature durability. This paper prepared a penetrative rejuvenator (P...

Waste wood biomass as precursor for manufacturing activated carbon (AC) can provide a solution to ever increasing global water quality concerns. In our current work, Melia azedarach derived phosphoric acid-treated AC (MA-AC400) was manufactured at a...

Technological innovations and quality control processes within blood supply organizations have significantly improved blood safety for both donors and recipients. Nevertheless, the risk of transfusion-transmitted infection remains non-negligible. App...

Flavonoids, including maackiain (Maac) from Sophora flavescens Aiton roots, have many pharmacological properties, such as antitumor, antimicrobial, and antifungal activities. This research aimed to develop an in vitro plant and callus culture system...

This study reports the ability of magnetic alginate activated carbon (MAAC) beads to remove Cd(II), Hg(II), and Ni(II) from water in a mono-metal and ternary system. The adsorption capacity of the MAAC beads was highest in the mono-metal system. The...

This study presents an effective magnetic separation method for cadmium removal, based on the use of a novel nanostructured material as an adsorbent. This adsorbent involves the incorporation of magnetite nanoparticles (Fe₃O₄-NPs), synthesized by the...

The integration of Renewable Energy Resources (RERs) into Power Distribution Networks (PDN) has great significance in addressing power deficiency, economics and environmental concerns. Photovoltaic (PV) technology is one of the most popular RERs, bec...

The rapid proliferation of devices on the Internet of Things (IoT) in smart city environments enables autonomous decision-making, but introduces challenges of scalability, coordination, and privacy. Existing reinforcement learning (RL) methods, such...

In order to clarify the local environment during interpolymer complex formation between poly(carboxylic acids) and poly(acrylamide derivatives) with different N-substitutions, a fluorescence label technique was used. 3-(2-propenyl)-9-(4-N,N-dimethyla...

In recent years, significant progress has been made in the multi-target tracking (MTT) of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) swarms. Most existing MTT approaches rely on the ideal assumption of a pre-set target trajectory. However, in practice, the trajec...

Genomic selection (GS) is a methodology that is revolutionizing plant breeding because it can select candidate genotypes without phenotypic evaluation in the field. However, its practical implementation in hybrid prediction remains challenging since...

pH-sensitive polymer–liposomes can rapidly release their payloads. However, it is difficult to simultaneously achieve stability and pH-responsiveness in the polymer–liposomes. In this study, stable and pH-sensitive crosslinked polymer–liposomes were...

With the rapid development of big data and Internet of things (IOT), the number of networking devices and data volume are increasing dramatically. Fog computing, which extends cloud computing to the edge of the network can effectively solve the bottl...

Device to device (D2D) communication technology is the main component of future communication, which greatly improves the utilization of spectrum resources. However, in the D2D subscriber multiplex communication network, the interference between comm...

With the large-scale deployment of sensors, both the smart grid and the power communication network should jointly deal with different kinds of big data. The fusion of both networks should bring unpredictable accidents, even leading a catastrophic de...

One of the challenges in multi-agent systems comes from the environmental non-stationarity that policies of all agents are evolving individually over time. Many existing multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) methods have been proposed to address...

Advancement and innovation in bone regeneration, specifically polymeric composite scaffolds, are of high significance for the treatment of bone defects. Xyloglucan (XG) is a polysaccharide biopolymer having a wide variety of regenerative tissue thera...

Allele-specific expression (ASE) is a phenomenon in which the expression level of an allele from both parents is inconsistent, which is considered to play a key role in the differences between hybrids. As a typical climacteric fruit, banana undergoes...

With continuous advancements in Internet technology and the increased use of cryptographic techniques, the cloud has become the obvious choice for data sharing. Generally, the data are outsourced to cloud storage servers in encrypted form. Access con...

Inverter-based resources (IBRs) are becoming more prominent due to the increasing penetration of renewable energy sources that reduce power system inertia, compromising power system stability and grid support services. At present, optimal coordinatio...

This work involves the synthesis of hybrid oligomers based on the epoxy methacrylate resin. The EA resin was obtained by the modification of industrial-grade bisphenol A-based epoxy resin and methacrylic acid has been synthesized in order to develop...

This paper seeks to address the limitations of conventional remote sensing data dissemination algorithms, particularly their inability to model fine-grained multi-modal heterogeneous feature correlations and adapt to dynamic network topologies under...