A spiking interest in customer’s value co-creation may be observed lately, especially in the gaming industry. The general purpose of this study is to identify the customers’ inclination to perform game modding as a manner of value co-crea...
As data exploitation continues to demonstrate its value, ontologies, thesauri, and other semantic datasets are increasingly recognized for enabling semantically meaningful data integration across disparate domains. With the proliferation of dataset c...
Evapotranspiration (ET) is a key component of the hydrological cycle, but traditional monitoring approaches are always based on measurements, which cannot satisfy the requirements of research on a regional scale. Hence, ET estimation by remote sensin...
A major refurbishment of the toroidal complex of the RFX-mod device is in progress and it will include the removal of the Inconel vacuum vessel and a modification of the stainless steel supporting structure to be made vacuum-tight. The axisymmetric e...
Inhibition of cancer cell adhesion is an effective approach to killing adherent cancer cells. B49 and its analog B49Mod1 peptides, derived from the extracellular domain (ECD) of bone marrow stromal antigen 2 (BST-2), display anti-adhesion activity on...
Reference evapotranspiration (ET0) is essential for irrigation management, but its spatial estimation is limited by sparse meteorological observations. Satellite products such as MOD16 potential evapotranspiration (PET) provide spatial continuity, ye...
Within the scope of this article, security threats against web applications and the effects of Web Application Firewall (WAF) usage on security were examined. The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the open-source ModSecurity-based...
The H13-mod steel optimized by composition and heat treatment has reached the performance index of the shield machine hob. The hot deformation behavior of the H13-mod steel was investigated by compression tests in the temperature range from 900 to 11...
Unlike canonical cis-splicing, trans-splicing combines exons from two distinct transcripts, creating chimeric mRNAs. One striking example is the mod(mdg4) locus in Drosophila, where all mRNAs, encompassing over 30 isoforms, are exclusively generated...
Previous research on moving object detection in traffic surveillance video has mostly adopted a single threshold to eliminate the noise caused by external environmental interference, resulting in low accuracy and low efficiency of moving object detec...
Remotely sensed (RS) evapotranspiration (ET) models can make full use of the land surface information retrieved using remote sensing and are therefore widely used in large-scale ET estimates. The MODIS Global Evapotranspiration model (MOD16) is one o...
Clouds play an important role in the energy and moisture cycle of the earth–atmosphere system, which affects many important processes in nature and human societies. However, there are very few fine-grained and high-precision global cloud climatology...
Globally, water is an important resource required for the survival of human beings. Water is a scarce resource in the semi-arid environments, including South Africa. In South Africa, several studies have quantified evapotranspiration (ET) in differen...
Deep generative models are becoming a tool of choice for exploring the molecular space. One important application area of deep generative models is the reverse design of drug compounds for given attributes (solubility, ease of synthesis, etc.). Altho...
Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important component of the hydrological cycle. Understanding the ET process has become of fundamental importance given the scenario of global change and increasing water use, especially in the agricultural sector. Determ...
Background/Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate potential biomarkers of bacterial translocation (lipopolysaccharide-binding protein (LBP) and soluble CD14 subtype (sCD14-ST)) and intestinal wall damage (intestinal fatty acid binding prot...
This communication presents ModSCO, a web application that supports systematic energy performance evaluation using Reduced Order Models (ROM). These models are particularly useful in scenario with missing, incomplete or uncertain building informatio...
In the present paper, microstructural changes in two alloys, IN617 and DMV617 mod, after 5 h and 1000 h of aging at 700 °C were investigated using scanning transmission electron microscopy. The mechanical properties of the samples were evaluated...
Background: Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) is common in intensive care units (ICUs) and is associated with high mortality. Although there have been multiple investigations into a multitude of organ dysfunctions, little is known about the...
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Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) can help the European Union (EU) in accelerating the cost-effective renovation of existing building stock. However, there are many risks and barriers that can inhibit the application of EPC. These barriers include...
Time series of Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) derived from multiple satellite sensors are crucial data to study vegetation dynamics. The Land Long Term Data Record Version 4 (LTDR V4) NDVI dataset was recently released at a 0.05 × 0.05...
The early detection and rapid extinguishing of forest fires are effective in reducing their spread. Based on the MODIS Thermal Anomaly (MOD14) algorithm, we propose an early stage fire detection method from low-spatial-resolution but high-temporal-re...
(1) Background: Present methods for drug susceptibility tests (DST) rely on culture methods that are sophisticated and relatively faster, or a slow and cheaper option. These methods frustrate disease control; therefore, there is a need for methods th...
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the most dramatic pandemic of the new millennium; to counteract it, specific vaccines have been launched in record time under emergency use authorization or conditional marketing authorization by virtue of a fav...
Snow in the mountainous watersheds of the Tarim River Basin is the primary source of water for western China. The Snow Cover Daily L3 Global 500-m Grid (MOD10A1) remote sensing dataset has proven extremely valuable for monitoring the changing snow co...
Class II mesio-occluso-distal (MOD) restorations are routinely used to rehabilitate molars with extensive structural loss, where cavity bases are often employed to protect dentin and modulate stress transfer. However, polymer-based restorative materi...
The aim of this study was to compare fracture resistance of teeth presenting medium-sized mesial-occlusal-distal (MOD) cavities using different base materials. Thirty-six extracted molars were immersed for 48 h in saline solution (0.1% thymol at 4 °C...
This study investigated an alternative mechanism of transcription termination that occurs independently of polyadenylation. We focused on a non-canonical transcription terminator (NTT) identified in the mod(mdg4) gene of Drosophila melanogaster. Usin...
The aim of this research was to study the impact of using a short fiber-reinforced composite (SFRC) core on the fatigue performance and fracture behavior of direct large posterior composite restorations. Moreover, the influence of the consistency (fl...
In order to ensure flight safety and eliminate hidden dangers, it is very important to detect aircraft track anomalies, which include track deviations and track outliers. Many existing track anomaly detection methods cannot make full use of multidime...
Simulating the dynamics of plant species or types in grassland communities remains an open area of research for which the Community Simulation Model (CoSMo) offers novel approaches. The grassland model ModVege was first parameterised based on a funct...
Despite the importance of tidal ecosystems in the global carbon budget, the relationships between environmental drivers and carbon dynamics in these wetlands remain poorly understood. This limited understanding results from the challenges associated...
The growing complexity of web attacks highlights the need for adaptive, intelligent defense systems that overcome the limitations of traditional rule-based web security. Thus, the architecture proposed in this paper integrates data-driven deep learni...
In the Hetao Irrigation District of China, land consolidation to expand cultivated areas has disrupted the regional water–salt balance, increasing soil salinization risks. This study investigates the spatial optimization of cultivated land and...
Soil secondary salinization is a major limiting factor of sustainable agricultural production in arid and semi-arid irrigation zones, yet predictive tools for regional water–salt dynamics remain limited. The Yichang Irrigation District, located...
The Water-Cooled Lithium–Lead (WCLL) is one of the most promising technologies for power conversion and tritium production in future fusion-powered reactors; it will be implemented in one of the Test Breeding Modules (TBM) inside the ITER reactor and...
The effects of thermal simulation on the short-term creep fracture of modified 91 (mod. 91) weld metal (WM) were evaluated at elevated temperature. The reheated zones in the WM during multiple passes were simulated by an infrared heater. The simulate...
We present a real-world dataset capturing thirty consecutive days of malicious HTTP traffic filtered and blocked by the OWASP ModSecurity Web Application Firewall (WAF) on a live production server. Each entry corresponds to a request that triggered o...
The safety performance of nuclear power plants (NPPs) is a very important factor in evaluating nuclear energy sustainability. Safety analysis of passive and active safety systems have a positive influence on reactor transient mitigation. One of the c...
Depicting the spatiotemporal dynamics of vegetation cover in the Yellow River Basin (YRB) and delineating the influences of climate change and human activities on the dynamics have been of significant importance for understanding the surface earth sy...
The in-box LOCA (Loss of Coolant Accident) represents a major safety concern to be addressed in the design of the WCLL-BB (water-cooled lead-lithium breeding blanket). Research activities are ongoing to master the phenomena and processes that occur d...
Evapotranspiration is an important part of the hydrological cycle, surface energy balance and global climate system. Due to spatial heterogeneity, the trends in actual evapotranspiration (ET) and its associated factors vary in different regions. Beca...
Rising temperature, rainfall, and wind regime changes, increasing of frequency and intensity of extreme events are only some of the effects of climate change affecting the agro-forestry sector. Earth Observation data from satellite missions (often av...
Improving the spatial resolution of microwave satellite soil moisture (SM) products is important for various applications. Most of the downscaling methods that fuse optical/thermal and microwave data rely on remotely sensed land surface temperature (...
Background/Objectives: Vaccination remains an important means of protection against influenza and COVID-19. Administering influenza and COVID-19 vaccines as a combined formulation may be advantageous. Methods: This phase 3, randomized study evaluated...
To improve the pharmacological properties of maize ribosome-inactivating protein (maize RIP) for targeting HIV-infected cells, the previously engineered TAT-fused active form of maize RIP (MOD) was further engineered for cysteine-directed PEGylation....
The latest MODIS GPP (gross primary productivity) product, MOD17A2H, has great advantages over the previous version, MOD17A2, because the resolution increased from 1000 m to 500 m. In this study, MOD17A2H GPP was assessed using the latest eddy covari...
Alpine swamp meadow on the Tibetan Plateau is among the most sensitive areas to climate change. Accurate quantification of the GPP in alpine swamp meadow can benefit our understanding of the global carbon cycle. The 8-day MODerate resolution Imaging...
Rapid developments in wide-bandgap semiconductors have led to the demand for interconnection materials that can withstand harsh conditions. In this study, novel Ag composite pastes were developed with the assistance of metal organic decomposition (MO...
Modified mRNAs (modRNAs) are an emerging delivery method for gene therapy. The success of modRNA-based COVID-19 vaccines has demonstrated that modRNA is a safe and effective therapeutic tool. Moreover, modRNA has the potential to treat various human...
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