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How to achieve efficient and non-destructive tomato picking?
Higher Education PressPeer-Reviewed Publication
Tomatoes are an important vegetable crop worldwide, but their picking operations have long relied on manual labor, facing problems such as high labor intensity, high costs, and easy fruit damage. In protected tomato cultivation, fruits often grow in clusters with dense branches and leaves. Traditional mechanical picking equipment is prone to environmental interference, resulting in low picking success rates or high damage rates. How to achieve efficient and non-destructive picking of tomatoes in complex planting environments?
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- Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
The secrets of dynamic changes in residual film and microplastics in cotton fields
Higher Education PressPeer-Reviewed Publication
In the vast cotton fields of Xinjiang, plastic film covering technology has been a weapon for increasing yield—it conserves water, raises temperatures, and improves water utilization efficiency, significantly boosting cotton production in arid regions.
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- Frontiers of Agricultural Science and Engineering
Hollow mesoporous carbon nanospheres derived from metal–organic frameworks for efficient sono-immunotherapy against pancreatic cancer
Beijing Institute of Technology Press Co., LtdA research paper by scientists from Liaoning Cancer Hospital & Institute, The First Affiliated Hospital of Ningbo University, and other institutions proposed a hollow mesoporous carbon (HMC) nanoparticle prepared via the sacrificial template method, featuring a porphyrin-like structure that enables efficient singlet oxygen generation and synergistic sono-immunotherapy for pancreatic cancer.
The new research paper, published on May 9 in the journal Cyborg and Bionic Systems, presented the preparation, characterization, and therapeutic application of MOF-derived HMC nanoparticles, and demonstrated their potential to enhance sono-immunotherapy efficacy by inducing tumor cell apoptosis and activating the immune
system.A federated anti-forgetting representation method based on hybrid model architecture and gradient truncation
Higher Education PressAnti-forgetting representation learning method reduces the weight aggregation interference on model memory and augments the representation performance.
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- Frontiers of Computer Science
Pathways to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions for Southeast Asia
PNAS NexusPeer-Reviewed Publication
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- PNAS Nexus
Scientists discover first method to safely back up quantum information
University of WaterlooPeer-Reviewed Publication
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- Physical Review Letters