Lossless and reference-free compression of FASTQ/A files using GeneSqueeze by Foad Nazari, Sneh Patel, Melissa LaRocca, Alina Sansevich, Ryan Czarny, Giana Schena, Emma K. Murray

“…Overall, GeneSqueeze represents a competitive and specialized compression method for FASTQ/A files containing nucleotide sequences. …”
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Sustainable Distance E-Learning for Enhanced Students Retention and Support: Faculty of Law National Open University of Nigeria in Focus by Erimma Gloria Orie

“… The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) was primarily conceived to afford the teeming population of prospective university candidates the opportunity to access tertiary education in order to fulfill their life dreams, contribute to national socio-economic development in our ever competitive, contemporary and globalised world. The NOUN is ranked 7th in Nigeria, offers about 60 academic programmes including Law and has been delivering academic excellence in consonance with its mandate. …”
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DMPNet: dual-path and multi-scale pansharpening network by Gurpreet Kaur, Manisha Malhotra, Dilbag Singh, Dilbag Singh, Sunita Singhal

“…Finally, to achieve optimal spatial and spectral reconstruction, the IRM decomposes the fused features into low- and high-frequency components using discrete wavelet transform (DWT).ResultsThe proposed DMPNet outperforms competitive models in terms of ERGAS, SCC (WR), SCC (NR), PSNR, Q, QNR, and JQM by approximately 1.24%, 1.18%, 1.37%, 1.42%, 1.26%, 1.31%, and 1.23%, respectively.DiscussionExtensive experimental results and evaluations reveal that the DMPNet is more efficient and robust than competing pansharpening models.…”
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Assessing the Logistics Efficiency of Baltic Region Seaports Through DEA-BCC and Spatial Analysis by Vilma Locaitienė, Kristina Čižiūnienė

“…Efficient logistics is a key factor in the competitiveness of seaports, especially in regions such as the Baltic Sea, where ports play important roles as hubs in the European Union’s Trans-European transport network (TEN-T). …”
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Compounds Involved in the Invasive Characteristics of <i>Lantana camara</i> by Hisashi Kato-Noguchi, Midori Kato

“…Possible evidence of the compounds involved in the defense functions of <i>L. camara</i> against natural enemies, such as herbivore mammals and insects, parasitic nematodes, pathogenic fungi and bacteria, and the allelochemicals involved in its allelopathy against neighboring competitive plant species, have accumulated in the literature over three decades. …”
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Epidemiological characteristics of injury in 7–22-year-old badminton players by age and sex by Xiao Zhou, Kazuhiro Imai, Xiao-Xuan Liu, Zhuo Chen, Eiji Watanabe, Hongtao Zeng

“…This epidemiology study is a retrospective design in 7–22-year-old badminton players at a national competitive tournament with a questionnaire from 2018 to 2023. …”
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Sustainable closed-loop supply chain network design: heuristic hybrid approach with considering inflation and carbon emission policies by Saeid Kalantari, Hamed Kazemipoor, Farzad Movahedi Sobhani, Seyyed Mohammad Hadji Molana

“…Purpose: Establishing the structure and expansion of sustainable closed-loop supply chains is critical to meeting environmental, economic, and social standards to strengthen their position in competitive markets. This study aims to decide on operational and tactical levels to configure the Stable Closed Chain Supply Chain Network (SCLSC) to maximize Net Present Value (NPV) and seek to minimize carbon emissions while maintaining environmentally friendly policies and considering inflation.Methodology: This paper considers a solid Fuzzy Robust Optimization (FRO) approach to deal with stable, closed-loop supply chain uncertainties. …”
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Sustainable Distance E-Learning for Enhanced Students Retention and Support: Faculty of Law National Open University of Nigeria in Focus by Erimma Gloria Orie

“… The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) was primarily conceived to afford the teeming population of prospective university candidates the opportunity to access tertiary education in order to fulfill their life dreams, contribute to national socio-economic development in our ever competitive, contemporary and globalised world. The NOUN is ranked 7th in Nigeria, offers about 60 academic programmes including Law and has been delivering academic excellence in consonance with its mandate. …”
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Capacity and market potential for local production and distribution of electric two-wheelers in Southeast Asia, focused on Thailand, Indonesia and Vietnam by Hyung Ju Kim, Shritu Shrestha, Kanya Pranawengkapti

“…A robust E2Ws ecosystem, local E2Ws in the region will require increased cooperation among local E2W and charging equipment manufacturers within the global supply chain, ensuring the development and distribution of environmentally sustainable, technologically advanced, and competitively priced products. Furthermore, E2Ws producers must develop and implement various innovative business models, particularly around battery reuse and recycling, developed in partnership with market stakeholders, including digital platform companies with high growth potential. …”
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Computational Methods for Information Processing from Natural Language Complaint Processes—A Systematic Review by J. C. Blandón Andrade, A. Castaño Toro, A. Morales Ríos, D. Orozco Ospina

“…This work contributes as support for the creation of new systems that can give companies a significant competitive advantage due to their ability to reduce the response time of the complaints as established by law.…”
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Improving the publication activity of Ukrainian scientists: problems, solutions, the use of mathematical and statistical methods by S. O. Serbenyuk

“…The article is devoted to the formulation of possible ways of solving the problem of proper State support and funding for publications of Ukrainian scholars in leading foreign professional journals in accordance with the following criteria: equal rights and opportunities to receive funding for publications in foreign professional journals from the State, regardless of age, gender, race, nationality, religious beliefs, social and property status, place of work, research topic, etc. funding for foreign professional publications is provided only to the scientist personally without the mediation of the institution where he/she works or third parties in order to increase his/her scientific efficiency and quality, to popularize Ukrainian science and to attract competitive international professionals to science; the funding of foreign professional publications should be set transparently. …”
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Self-assessed health of adult Australian sport club participants during and after COVID-19 restrictions: a longitudinal study by Rochelle Eime, Jack Harvey, Melanie Charity

“…Participation in community club sport was particularly disrupted with cancelled training and competitions, and this has been shown to impact the health of individuals. …”
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Theoretical Cognition and Practical Design of a High-Quality Teacher Education System for Building a Country Strongin Education: An Interview with Professor Liu Haimin from Northea... by LIU Haimin, MAN Ying

“…The high-quality teacher education system is continuously enhancing China's international competitiveness in education. In the context of building a strong country in education, the construction of a high-quality teacher education system requires the guidance of an educationalist spirit, scientific and systematic institution design, as well as efficient and flexible education governance.…”
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Unlocking the Healing Potential: A Comprehensive Review of Ecology and Biology of Medical‐Grade Honey in Wound Management and Tissue Regeneration by Parmis Barazesh, Helia Hajihassani, Fatemeh Motalebi, Seyedeh Mobina Hosseini Neiresi, Romina Hajihassani, Ahmad Reza Mehrabian

“…Genetic modification of bees to enhance MGH's properties could make it more competitive against conventional treatments. Honey‐based medications could reduce costs, improve energy efficiency, and have minimal side effects. …”
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Product quality and price in deciding to repurchase rice Batang Girl by Hartelina Hartelina, Syifa Pramudita Faddila, Yanu Prasetyo, Thuwi Wulakrisna

“…By further understanding these dynamics, Batang Girl rice agents in Karawang can optimize their marketing strategies to achieve long-term success in a competitive market.…”
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Citizenship in Lithuanian Lexicographical Sources, Youth Worldview, and Media Texts by Marius Smetona

“…As a result, various initiatives, competitions, lessons, and programs are offered. The research concludes that the cognitive definition of citizenship embraces respect for the state, its language, symbols, history, culture, and traditions, as well as for other citizens and differing opinions; a duty to the state (defence, involvement in public life, voting, paying taxes, restraining misbehaviour); working for the state; love for the country; and self-sacrifice for it. …”
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A VersaTile Approach to Reprogram the Specificity of the R2-Type Tailocin Towards Different Serotypes of <i>Escherichia coli</i> and <i>Klebsiella pneumoniae</i> by Dorien Dams, Célia Pas, Agnieszka Latka, Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa, Lars Fieseler, Yves Briers

“…<b>Background:</b> Phage tail-like bacteriocins, or tailocins, provide a competitive advantage to producer cells by killing closely related bacteria. …”
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A novel graph neural network based approach for influenza-like illness nowcasting: exploring the interplay of temporal, geographical, and functional spatial features by Jiajia Luo, Xuan Wang, Xiaomao Fan, Yuxin He, Xiangjun Du, Yao-Qing Chen, Yang Zhao

“…Results Our approach for predicting influenza outbreaks achieves competitive performance on real-world datasets (Corr = 0.8202; RMSE = 0.0017; MAE = 0.0013; MAPE = 0.0966), surpassing established baselines. …”
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Behind the lenses: Biases in the contribution of wildlife photography to biodiversity representation by Héctor Ruiz‐Villar, Ana Morales‐González, Jon Morant

“…In the present study, we assessed biases in wildlife photography at spatial, temporal, taxonomic, conservation status and selection criteria scales, and modelled the factors influencing the probability of portrayed organisms winning a wildlife photography contest by using data on 1333 pictures featured in the Wildlife Photographer of the Year, one of the most popular wildlife photography competitions worldwide. The representation of biomes mostly coincides with their extension on the planet. …”
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Sustainable Distance E-Learning for Enhanced Students Retention and Support: Faculty of Law National Open University of Nigeria in Focus by Erimma Gloria Orie

“… The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) was primarily conceived to afford the teeming population of prospective university candidates the opportunity to access tertiary education in order to fulfill their life dreams, contribute to national socio-economic development in our ever competitive, contemporary and globalised world. The NOUN is ranked 7th in Nigeria, offers about 60 academic programmes including Law and has been delivering academic excellence in consonance with its mandate. …”
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