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The Role of Artificial Intelligence in Revolutionizing Industrial Automation for Municipal Waste Management in Industry 4.0

The topic’s relevance is related to the need to improve the efficiency of municipal waste management in the context of the development of Industry 4.0, where artificial intelligence (AI) can play a key role in optimizing the processes of sorting, collecting, and recycling waste. The purpose of the study is to study the potential of AI to improve environmental and operational indicators in the field of waste management, as well as to test hypotheses regarding the impact of AI on reducing costs, increasing efficie…

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Global genomic surveillance of β-lactam resistance in Escherichia coli across human, animal, and environmental reservoirs

Background Escherichia coli poses a global health threat from increasing β-lactam resistance. This study uses genomic and One-Health data to map resistance patterns and enhance antimicrobial resistance (AMR) prediction and management. Methods This study performed a One-Health whole-genome analysis of 30,554 E. coli isolates from human, animal, and environmental sources, spanning from 2000 to 2025. Publicly available genomic data were retrieved from NCBI, encompassing β-lactam resistance genes, including extended…

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Anonymized but Useful Synthetic Tabular Health Data for AI based Fall Risk Assessment

Artificial Intelligence (AI) bears potential for improving health care, but this depends on the availability of open-access, realistic, and useful data. To facilitate AI model development in health care we release SynTabFall, a novel synthetic dataset for fall risk assessment. With a total of 745,380 samples and 44 attributes such as demographics, diseases, mobility and cognition related risk factors, this tabular dataset allows for training fall risk prediction models without access to the original patient data…

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EMFF-2025: a general neural network potential for energetic materials with C, H, N, and O elements

The discovery and optimization of high-energy materials (HEMs) face challenges due to the computational expense and slow iteration of traditional methods. Neural network potentials (NNPs) have emerged as an efficient alternative to first-principles simulations. This study presents EMFF-2025, a general NNP model for C, H, N, and O-based HEMs, leveraging transfer learning with minimal data from DFT calculations. The model achieves DFT-level accuracy, predicting the structure, mechanical properties, and decompositi…

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Digital Transformation in Accounting: An Assessment of Automation and AI Integration

This study conducts a bibliometric analysis of the scientific literature on digital, automated, and AI-assisted accounting systems. The data include documents listed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases. The analysis identifies the main authors, countries/territories, sources, and thematic trends. The results reveal that the scientific output within this research field has increased since 2018, emphasising the integration of artificial intelligence (AI), robotic process automation, and blockchain technolog…

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Tackling algorithmic bias and promoting transparency in health datasets: the STANDING Together consensus recommendations

Without careful dissection of the ways in which biases can be encoded into artificial intelligence (AI) health technologies, there is a risk of perpetuating existing health inequalities at scale. One major source of bias is the data that underpins such technologies. The STANDING Together recommendations aim to encourage transparency regarding limitations of health datasets and proactive evaluation of their effect across population groups. Draft recommendation items were informed by a systematic review and stakeh…

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Artificial intelligence for modeling and understanding extreme weather and climate events

In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) has deeply impacted various fields, including Earth system sciences, by improving weather forecasting, model emulation, parameter estimation, and the prediction of extreme events. The latter comes with specific challenges, such as developing accurate predictors from noisy, heterogeneous, small sample sizes and data with limited annotations. This paper reviews how AI is being used to analyze extreme climate events (like floods, droughts, wildfires, and heatwaves), hig…

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Overview of AI and communication for 6G network: fundamentals, challenges, and future research opportunities

Abstract With the growing demand for seamless connectivity and intelligent communication, the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and sixth-generation (6G) communication networks has emerged as a transformative paradigm. By embedding AI capabilities across various network layers, this integration enables optimized resource allocation, improved efficiency, and enhanced system robust performance. This paper presents a comprehensive overview of AI and communication for 6G networks, with a focus on their fou…

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A foundation model for the Earth system

Reliable forecasting of the Earth system is essential for mitigating natural disasters and supporting human progress. Traditional numerical models, although powerful, are extremely computationally expensive1. Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have shown promise in improving both predictive performance and efficiency2,3, yet their potential remains underexplored in many Earth system domains. Here we introduce Aurora, a large-scale foundation model trained on more than one million hours of diverse ge…

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Harnessing data science and artificial intelligence to advance implementation research and practice

Implementation science aims to bridge the gap between research evidence and routine health care practice by understanding and optimizing the integration of evidence-based interventions. In this paper, we identify seven persistent challenges limiting implementation progress, including (1) overwhelming volume of implementation materials (e.g., reports, interviews, surveys); (2) contextual variability; (3) complex interactions between contextual factors, interventions, and outcomes; (4) interest holder engagement c…

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DynStabNet: A Deep Learning Framework for Fast Dynamical Stability Prediction of Crystal Structures

Semiconductor materials are widely used in electronic, optoelectronic, and energy applications. While DFT-based phonon calculations provide highly accurate assessments for dynamical stability of structures, their prohibitive computational cost poses a significant bottleneck for large-scale materials screening. Herein, we develop DynStabNet, an E(3)-equivariant graph neural network (E3GNN) framework that learns dynamical stability from phonon-informed data, enabling rapid prediction without the need for explicit…

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A Review of Water Quality Forecasting and Classification Using Machine Learning Models and Statistical Analysis

The prediction and management of water quality are critical to ensure sustainable water resources, particularly in regions like Malaysia, where rivers face increasing pollution from industrialisation, agriculture, and urban expansion. This review aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of machine learning (ML) models and statistical methods applied in forecasting and classification of water quality. A particular focus is given to hybrid models that integrate multiple approaches to improve predictive accuracy an…

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A Review of Water Quality Forecasting and Classification Using Machine Learning Models and Statistical Analysis

A Review of Explainable Artificial Intelligence from the Perspectives of Challenges and Opportunities

The widespread adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in critical domains, such as healthcare, finance, law, and autonomous systems, has brought unprecedented societal benefits. Its black-box (sub-symbolic) nature allows AI to compute prediction without explaining the rationale to the end user, resulting in lack of transparency between human and machine. Concerns are growing over the opacity of such complex AI models, particularly deep learning architectures. To address this concern, explainability is of param…

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The Illusion of Thinking

Recent generations of frontier language models have introduced Large Reasoning Models (LRMs) that generate detailed thinking processes before providing answers. While these models demonstrate improved performance on reasoning benchmarks, their fundamental capabilities, scaling properties, and limitations remain insufficiently understood. Current evaluations primarily focus on established mathematical and coding benchmarks, emphasizing final answer accuracy. However, this evaluation paradigm often suffers from da…

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Review of machine learning approaches for predicting mechanical behavior of composite materials

In recent years, machine learning (ML) has emerged as a powerful tool for predicting the mechanical behavior of composite materials, offering a faster, more cost-effective alternative to traditional testing and simulation methods. This review explores how various ML techniques, including random forests, support vector machines, artificial neural networks, and deep learning models, are used to forecast key material properties such as tensile strength, hardness, fracture toughness, and fatigue life. From a broad s…

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