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Performance enhancement of a wind driven PMSG using an artificial neural network based nonlinear backstepping controller
With the increasing demand for wind energy in the electric power generation industry, optimizing robust and efficient control strategies is essential for a wind energy conversion system (WECS). In thi...
How do digital techniques of shape capture and alignment compare to traditional casting methods when applied to pediatric ankle-foot orthoses (AFOs)?
Achieving optimal alignment and fit is a key aspect of ankle-foot orthosis (AFO) design, as it directly influences the effectiveness of the device. While digital workflows offer the potential to integ...
Age-related change in children’s physical activity and sedentary time: The International Children’s Accelerometry Database (ICAD)
Background Many young people fail to achieve the minimum recommended amount of physical activity to benefit their health. Understanding the nature of age-related changes in behaviour and how this vari...
The effect of face masks on confusion of emotional expressions
While the use of personal protective equipment protects healthcare workers against transmissible disease, it also obscures the lower facial regions that are vital for transmitting emotion signals. Pre...
An analysis of behavioral characteristics and enrollment year variability in 47,444 dogs entering the Dog Aging Project from 2020 to 2023
Understanding dog behavior, especially in the context of the human social environment, is critical to maintaining positive human-dog interactions and relationships. Furthermore, behavior can be an imp...
The Pandemic Journaling Project: A new dataset of first-person accounts of the COVID-19 pandemic
Background The rapid global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic affected different regions, communities, and individuals in vastly different ways that interdisciplinary social scientists are well-position...
Beyond lethal temperatures: Factors behind the disappearance of chum salmon from their southern margins under climate change
The Tone River in Japan represents one of the southern limit distributions of chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta) on the western side of the North Pacific, but the number of adult chum salmon observed her...
A novel hybrid model for species distribution prediction using probabilistic random forest, principal component analysis and genetic algorithm
Probabilistic Random Forest is an extension of the traditional Random Forest machine learning algorithm that is one of the frequently used machine learning algorithms employed for species distribution...
Impact of skin tone, environmental, and technical factors on thermal imaging
Background Erythema, an early visual indicator of tissue damage preceding pressure injuries (PrIs), presents as redness in light skin tones but is harder to detect in dark skin ton...
More than scientists: How message and messenger attributes influence viewers’ climate change intentions
Effectively motivating public action on climate change remains a central challenge for science communicators. This study investigated how message and messenger attributes shape viewers’ motivation to...
Epidemiological patterns of SARS-CoV-2 reinfections in Espírito Santo, Brazil: A population-based analysis using integrated surveillance and vaccination data
Background Reinfections with SARS-CoV-2 have gained increasing relevance in the context of emerging immune-evasive variants and waning population immunity. Understanding their frequency and distributi...
In vitro characterization of Trichophyton rubrum biofilm by combined anti-biofilm enzymes
Trichophyton rubrum, a dermatophyte, demonstrates a notable ability to form mature biofilms on skin and associated surfaces, strengthening its resistance to antifungal agents. This characteristic pose...
Preliminary study on metabolite differences between two obesity syndromes based on Q Exactive liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry metabolomics
Background According to traditional Chinese medicine, based on the pathogenesis, clinical manifestation, and treatment, obesity can be classified into two broad types, namely, “shi obesity” and “xu ob...
Utilizing CNNs for classification and uncertainty quantification for 15 families of European fly pollinators
Pollination is essential for maintaining biodiversity and ensuring food security, and in Europe it is primarily mediated by four insect orders (Coleoptera, Diptera, Hymenoptera, Lepidoptera). However,...
YOLOv11-WBD: A wavelet-bidirectional network with dilated perception for robust metal surface defect detection
In the field of quality control, metal surface defect detection is an important yet challenging task. Although YOLO models perform well in most object detection scenarios, metal surface images under o...
Matrix games between full siblings in Mendelian populations
We develop a model that integrates evolutionary matrix game theory with Mendelian genetics. Within this framework, we define the genotype dynamics that describes how the frequencies of genotypes chang...
Correction: Game bird carcasses are less persistent than raptor carcasses, but can predict raptor persistence dynamics
Multiproxy analysis unwraps origin and fabrication biographies of Sardinian figurines: On the trail of metal-driven interaction and mixing practices in the early first millennium BCE
This article presents a multiproxy investigation of metal samples obtained from 48 Nuragic figurines (so-called bronzetti) and three copper bun ingots. These objects originate from three prominent Sar...
Correction: Barriers and facilitators of access to sexual and reproductive health services among migrant, internally displaced, asylum seeking and refugee women: A scoping review
Trust or money? Barriers to health and healthcare behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic
This study aimed to examine how trust in institutions and changes in household finances were associated with healthcare utilization and preventive behaviors during and immediately after the COVID-19 p...
Global transcriptional analysis of human FHs 74 Int intestinal epithelial cells after exposure to advanced glycation end products
Advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and reactive intermediates, such as methylglyoxal, are formed during thermal processing of foods and have been implicated in the pathogenesis of a series of chro...
The Minoan Thera eruption predates Pharaoh Ahmose: Radiocarbon dating of Egyptian 17th to early 18th Dynasty museum objects
The huge volcanic eruption at Thera (Santorini), situated in the Aegean Sea, occurred within the Late Minoan IA archaeological period. However, its temporal association with Egyptian history has long...
Structural evolution of microfibers in seawater and freshwater under simulated sunlight: A small- and wide-angle X-ray scattering study
Microfibers are pollutants of increasing concern, as they accumulate in aquatic environments and pose risks to living organisms. Once released, they undergo degradation processes that reduce their siz...
Transcriptome analysis of shade-induced growth and photosynthetic responses in soybean cultivars
Shade stress alters soybean growth through transcriptomic changes and adaptive responses that optimize light capture and utilization, regulated by a phytohormonal network. This study examined the phys...
It’s not black and white: Perspectives of Western Canadian beef farmers on dairy-beef production
Non-replacement dairy calves (i.e., males and females not needed for milking herd replacement) can face multiple welfare challenges due to their low economic value in the dairy and beef industries. In...