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During space sojourns, astronauts experience musculoskeletal deconditioning caused by the lack of gravity. The adaptation of the musculoskeletal system to inactivity and unloading of the weight-bearing limbs may be countered by daily exercise. However, current exercise devices and strategies employed on the International Space Station (ISS) do not appear to …

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most prevalent form of dementia, ranking as the 7th deadliest world’s disease. Over 99% of cases are triggered by unknown environmental factors. Despite decades of research, the exact cause remains elusive, and effective treatments are yet to emerge. Recent epidemiological evidence strongly links cognitive decline …

Over the past decade, rapid advancements in natural language processing have opened up new avenues for tackling complex issues such as news bias analysis. This progress has empowered researchers to explore innovative approaches to uncovering the complex biases inherent in news production and coverage processes. News bias, a multifaceted reflection …

Omnipresence of sensor-equipped devices spurred rapid development of e-health and mhealth applications in the past decades. Despite their wide-spread adoption in the form of wearables, such devices are ultimately not a universal or ideal solution for regular health monitoring due to their reliance on battery, requiring skin contact and general …

In this dissertation, we studied heterogeneous surface recombination of neutral oxygen atoms. We described plasma as a reliable source of neutral oxygen atoms and the behavior of neutral atoms in low-pressure plasma sustained by high-frequency discharges. Neutral atom density in the flowing afterglow and the recombination coefficient on several surfaces …

The subject of the doctoral dissertation is the development of coatings with improved protection of metals against corrosion and antifouling protection on structural steel S355 and aluminum alloy AA7075. S355 is a widely used metal in the construction, while AA7075 is mostly used in the transportation industry. Although they exhibit …

Alkali activation is a chemical process in which aluminosilicate-rich materials that dissolve in basic media at room temperature form binding phases by polycondensation. Alkali-activated materials (AAM), also called geopolymers, are inorganic aluminosilicate-based materials produced mainly from fly ashes and metallurgical slags or clays with high Al and Si content and …

Metagenomics based on high throughput sequencing (HTS) has opened a new era of discovery and genomic characterization of viruses associated with a given host or environment. The search for novel viral sequences provides an excellent opportunity to improve early detection of pathogens, and to predict viral hosts and environmental reservoirs …

Although large research efforts on web application security have been invested for more than a decade, the security of web applications is still a challenging problem. The main focus of the cybersecurity community has been to make operating systems and communication networks more secure and harder for attackers to penetrate. …

Highly porous ceramic γ‒Al2O3 monoliths are important in many applications, e.g., catalysis, thermal insulation and adsorption, yet they still have a lot of unrecognized potential. There is a lot of incentive to employ simple and green fabrication processes for the preparation of such porous ceramic materials; however, many challenges, especially …