Presenting the Physical Pattern of Today's Housing by Taking Advantage of the Desirable Qualities of Historical Houses (Case Study: Kerman City) by Amjad Bahredar, Ramin Madani, Mohsen Afshari

“…These qualities, in addition to meeting their functional needs, seek to solve the superior needs of the residents. …”
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Genotyping from targeted NGS data based on a small set of SNPs correctly matches patient samples by Deyan Yordanov Yosifov, Christof Schneider, Stephan Stilgenbauer, Daniel Mertens, Eugen Tausch

“…In two cohorts of totally 1441 patients with sequential samples, we could identify 3 sample swaps, 7 mislabelled samples (3 externally and 4 internally) and 1 mistake of unknown origin. We provide an R function for automated detection of sample swaps and mislabelling to the community as a free and open-source tool.…”
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Simulation of Vertical Movements of Seawater in Stratified Reservoirs by N. V. Kudinov, A. A. Filina, A. V. Nikitina, D. V. Bondarenko, I. F. Razveeva

“…A software module for numerical simulation of hydrophysical processes of water movement with different salinity and density was developed. This is open-source software that provides not only the redefinition of empirical dependences (as algebraic functions), but also the connection of external simulating modules to display dependences algorithmically.Discussion and Conclusion. …”
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Feasibility and case studies on converting small hydropower stations to pumped storage by Yangqing Dan, Qingyue Chen, Daren Li, Wenhuan Bai, Weiming Zhou, Anyu Yang, Jia Yang

“…Abstract Hydropower, as a controllable energy source, plays a crucial role in supporting essential functions such as peak shaving, frequency regulation, and load reserve within modern power systems, thereby enhancing the overall economic efficiency and safety of these systems. …”
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Establishing a national biosafety and biosecurity agency for the United States by David R. Gillum, David R. Gillum, David R. Gillum, Rebecca Moritz, Rebecca Moritz, Gregory D. Koblentz

“…The NBBA would consolidate various regulatory functions, streamline processes, and enhance oversight. …”
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Sex assessment from the proximal femur in a Spanish population based on three-dimensional computed tomography metric analysis by Đorojević Mirjana, Roldán Concepción, Botella Miguel, Alemán Inmaculada

“…The univariate and multivariate discriminant functions (DFs) were formulated for assessing sex. …”
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A Comparison of Feminist Term Translation Practices in Academic Journals of Gender and Women’s Studies in Turkiye by Göksenin Abdal, Tuba Ayık Akça

“…Feminist term translation brings both linguistic and pragmatic sides of translation together and turns the act of translation into a function-driven process rather than a solely form-based transfer. …”
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The methodology of translating the metonymic images of the Resurrection in the Holy Qur’an according to Larson’s theory, the translation of Makarim Al-Shirazi and Hussain Ansaryan... by Hossein Bayat, Ali Zeighami, Sayyed Reza Mirahmadi, Ebrahim Rezapour

“…His semantic translation is a faithful translation into the source language and a reliable way to translate texts, especially religious texts. …”
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Dynamic and efficient vehicular cloud management scheme with privacy protection by Min XIAO, Tao YAO, Yuanni LIU, Yonghong HUANG

“…The vehicular cloud (VC) formed by vehicles is used for localization processing and consumption of traffic sensing data to achieve timely intelligent traffic management.The vehicle cloud is highly dynamic, self-organizing and timely, in which the identity and location privacy of vehicle users need to be protected as this poses challenges to the vehicular cloud management.A dynamic and self-organizing vehicle cloud management scheme based on the asymmetric group key agreement protocol was designed, where the vehicle cloud is automatically formed through the self-organized group key agreement of vehicles.The group key was used to control the provision and access of vehicle cloud services, and the dynamic management of the vehicle cloud was implemented through group key update.The scheme used traceable one-time pseudonym technology to achieve anonymous authentication and conditional privacy protection of vehicle users, and the group key agreement stage only included one bilinear pair operation to achieve high efficiency.In addition, the key negotiation and update process used lightweight signatures, supporting batch verification, to achieve efficient message source authentication and integrity authentication.Then the security and efficiency of vehicle cloud communications in the self-organizing environment can be ensured.The dynamic key update mechanism of the key agreement protocol realized the dynamic joining or exiting of vehicles in the vehicle cloud, adapting to the dynamic characteristics of the vehicle cloud.Under the random oracle model and the difficult assumption of the inverse computational Diffie Hellman (ICDH) problem, it was proved that the asymmetric group key agreement scheme satisfied the selective-plaintext security.The security analysis shows that the scheme can protect the identity and location privacy of vehicle users, realize the legal tracking of malicious vehicles, and ensure the confidentiality, integrity and anti-counterfeiting of communications, as well as the forward security of vehicle cloud dynamic management.The performance comparison analysis shows that this scheme has certain advantages in communication and computing efficiency under the condition of the same function and security level.…”
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A directed greybox fuzzer for windows applications by Xin Ren, Peng-fei Wang, Xu Zhou, Kai Lu

“…Abstract Directed greybox fuzzing (DGF) has proven effective in vulnerability discovery, but most efforts focus on the Linux platform, with substantially less attention devoted to Windows platform due to its closed-source and GUI software nature. This paper proposes WinDGF, a novel directed greybox fuzzer for Windows applications that addresses challenges including target function localization in persistent testing, GUI bypassing, and fitness metric calculation. …”
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CHARTER OF THE STAVROPOL KRAI: PROBLEM ISSUES AND SEARCH FOR SOLUTION by V. Cherepanov

“…The interpretation of the source of the government of the Stavropol Krai, which is the people of the Stavropol Kraias part of the multinational people of the Russian Federation, has been proposed. …”
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Prevalence and determinants of restrictive lung disorder among quarry workers at the Umuoghara quarry site, Ebonyi State, Nigeria: a cross-sectional study by Ngozika Substance Ike-Samuel, Osaeloka C. Ekwueme, Susan Chioma Udeh

“…Data was collected using a pre-tested semi-structured questionnaire among 300 quarry workers selected by simple random sampling method. Lung function test was performed using a spirometer- spirovit SPI schiller and data was analyzed with the use of IBM SPSS version 23.0. …”
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Systemic model of segregation and transformation of urban solid waste by Alex Rengifo Rojas, Nelino Florida Rofner, Luis Morales y Chocano, José Raúl Rodríguez Lichtenheldt, Julio Pedro Atoche Cornejo

“…These values were adjusted to a probability distribution function and expressed in state, flow and auxiliary equations, to explain and predict their behavior. …”
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Bioinformatics analysis to explore biomarkers and mechanisms of action associated with endoplasmic reticulum stress and ferroptosis in Parkinson's disease. by Hao Wang, Lijuan Feng, Limeng He, Nan Liu, Yan Wan, Wei Zhang

“…<h4>Methods</h4>Data for PD and ERS, as well as information on ferroptosis, were sourced from public databases and relevant literature. …”
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Effects of exogenous sugars on root sugar metabolism and antioxidant system under sub-low root-zone temperature in Malus baccata Borkh. by LIU Hanyu, WANG Peng, ZHOU Wenjie, SU Hong, LÜ Deguo, LI Lijie

“…And, sugar not only serves as structural material and an energy source but also has signaling functions to regulate the expression of relevant genes and activities of relevant enzymes. …”
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Dimeric natural product panepocyclinol A inhibits STAT3 via di-covalent modification by Li Li, Yuezhou Wang, Yiqiu Wang, Xiaoyang Li, Qihong Deng, Fei Gao, Wenhua Lian, Yunzhan Li, Fu Gui, Yanling Wei, Su-Jie Zhu, Cai-Hong Yun, Lei Zhang, Zhiyu Hu, Qingyan Xu, Xiaobing Wu, Lanfen Chen, Dawang Zhou, Jianming Zhang, Fei Xia, Xianming Deng

“…Homo- or heterodimeric compounds that affect dimeric protein function through interaction between monomeric moieties and protein subunits can serve as valuable sources of potent and selective drug candidates. …”
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Digital Platforms for the Built Environment: A Systematic Review Across Sectors and Scales by Michele Berlato, Leonardo Binni, Dilan Durmus, Chiara Gatto, Letizia Giusti, Alessia Massari, Beatrice Maria Toldo, Stefano Cascone, Claudio Mirarchi

“…Unlike existing reviews focused on single technologies or sectors, this work offers a cross-sectoral synthesis, highlighting shared challenges and opportunities across disciplines and lifecycle stages. It identifies the functional roles, enabling technologies and systemic barriers affecting digital platform adoption, such as fragmented data sources, limited interoperability between systems and siloed organizational processes. …”
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A Robust InSAR-DEM Block Adjustment Method Based on Affine and Polynomial Models for Geometric Distortion by Zhonghua Hong, Ziyuan He, Haiyan Pan, Zhihao Tang, Ruyan Zhou, Yun Zhang, Yanling Han, Jiang Tao

“…Additionally, we select additional Sentinel-1 and Copernicus DEM data to verify the reliability of multi-source DEM matching and adjustment. …”
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Erythrina lysistemon Hutch. abates deranged metabolic indices linked with diabetic complications in experimental rat model by Kolawole Olofinsan, Veronica Salau, Ochuko Erukainure, Md. Shahidul Islam

“…This study investigated the in vivo activity of E. lysistemon bark extract on animal models of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and complications vis-a-vis the effects on pancreatic functional enzymes and morphology, serum biochemical profile, and hepatic glucose metabolism. …”
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Advanced capabilities for in vitro stress diagnostics: a review by Yana G. Pekhova, Anna A. Kuzyukova, Larisa A. Marchenkova

“…Comprehensive assessment of modern possibilities of stress objectification using laboratory diagnostics of its markers based on data from literary sources. MATERIALS AND METHODS. To select publications, we studied the PubMed, Web of Science (Web of Science Core Collection and Medline), Cochrane Library databases, included data from meta-analyses and review articles, full-text articles investigating the relationship between laboratory biomarkers and stress. …”
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