Propionate metabolism in Desulfurella acetivorans by Eugenio Pettinato, Thomas M. Steiner, Eric A. Cassens, Thomas Geisberger, Christian Seitz, Simone König, Wolfgang Eisenreich, Ivan A. Berg

“…Here we show that D. acetivorans possesses a putative operon encoding enzymes of the methylcitrate cycle of propionate oxidation and demonstrate that this bacterium is capable of propionate growth. …”
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fMRI Evidence of Magnitude Manipulation during Numerical Order Processing in Congenitally Deaf Signers by Josefine Andin, Peter Fransson, Jerker Rönnberg, Mary Rudner

“…We found the neuronal networks recruited in the two tasks to be generally similar across groups, with significant activation in the dorsal visual stream for the letter order task, suggesting letter identification and position encoding. For the digit order task, no significant activation was found for either of the two groups. …”
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Do words compete as we speak? A systematic review of picture-word interference (PWI) studies investigating the nature of lexical selection by Korko Małgorzata, Bose Arpita, Jones Alexander, Coulson Mark, de Mornay Davies Paul

“…The contribution of pre-lexical processes, such as an interaction between distractor processing and conceptual encoding of the target to the overall semantic context effect is far from settled.…”
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A New Website Fingerprinting Method for Tor Hidden Service by Zihang Hui, Jiangtao Zhai, Shengxian Wang, Weijie Ji

“…To address this problem, a new website fingerprinting method that combines the Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers (BERT) model and a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) network was proposed to improve the accuracy of website fingerprinting for Tor hidden services. …”
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Genome-wide profiling of tRNA modifications by Induro-tRNAseq reveals coordinated changes by Yuko Nakano, Howard Gamper, Henri McGuigan, Sunita Maharjan, Jiatong Li, Zhiyi Sun, Erbay Yigit, Sebastian Grünberg, Keerthana Krishnan, Nan-Sheng Li, Joseph A. Piccirilli, Ralph Kleiner, Nicole Nichols, Brian D. Gregory, Ya-Ming Hou

“…Here we use Induro—a new group-II intron-encoded RT—to map and quantify genome-wide tRNA modifications in Induro-tRNAseq. …”
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Finding p-Hub Median Locations: An Empirical Study on Problems and Solution Techniques by Xiaoqian Sun, Weibin Dai, Yu Zhang, Sebastian Wandelt

“…Genetic algorithms perform well for solving three types of single allocation problems, since the problem formulations can be neatly encoded with chromosomes of reasonable size. Lagrangian relaxation is the only technique that solves reliable multiple allocation problems in large networks. …”
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A comprehensive evaluation of histopathology foundation models for ovarian cancer subtype classification by Jack Breen, Katie Allen, Kieran Zucker, Lucy Godson, Nicolas M. Orsi, Nishant Ravikumar

“…Attention-based multiple instance learning classifiers were compared using three ImageNet-pretrained encoders and fourteen foundation models, each trained with 1864 whole slide images and validated through hold-out testing and two external validations (the Transcanadian Study and OCEAN Challenge). …”
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Attosecond metrology of vacuum-ultraviolet high-order harmonics generated in semiconductors via laser-dressed photoionization of alkali metals by Arjun Nayak, Debobrata Rajak, Balázs Farkas, Camilio Granados, Philipp Stammer, Javier Rivera-Dean, Theocharis Lamprou, Katalin Varju, Yann Mairesse, Marcelo F. Ciappina, Maciej Lewenstein, Paraskevas Tzallas

“…The phase of these oscillations encodes the attosecond synchronization of the high-harmonics and is used for attosecond pulse metrology. …”
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Vehicle Information Influence Degree Screening Method Based on GEP Optimized RBF Neural Network by Jingfeng Yang, Nanfeng Zhang, Ming Li, Yanwei Zheng, Li Wang, Yong Li, Ji Yang, Yifei Xiang, Lufeng Luo

“…To solve the problem for a large number of data transmissions in an actual operation, wireless transmission is proposed for text information (including position information) on the basis of the principles of the maximum entropy probability and the neural network prediction model combined with the optimization of the Huffman encoding algorithm, from the exchange of data to the entire data extraction process. …”
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SLC29A1 and SLC29A2 are human nicotinamide cell membrane transporters by Mingyang Chen, Luexiang Yuan, Binxin Chen, Hui Chang, Jun Luo, Hengbin Zhang, Zhongjian Chen, Jiao Kong, Yaodong Yi, Mengru Bai, Minlei Dong, Hui Zhou, Huidi Jiang

“…Here, we demonstrate that equilibrative nucleoside transporter 1 and 2 (ENT1 and 2, encoded by SLC29A1 and 2) drive cellular nicotinamide uptake and establish nicotinamide metabolism homeostasis. …”
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A reduction-secretion system contributes to roxarsone (V) degradation and efflux in Brevundimonas sp. M20 by Xuehui Zong, Xuyang Wang, Minghui Yu, Jiahui Wang, Congcong Li, Bing Wang, Yongan Wang

“…Three genes, BsntrA, arsC2, and BsexpA, encoding nitroreductase, arsenate reductase, and MFS transporter, respectively, were identified in the Rox(V)-resistant strain Brevundimonas sp. …”
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Protein C Deficiency Caused by a Novel Mutation in the PROC Gene in an Infant with Delayed Onset Purpura Fulminans by Mariam S. Al Harbi, Ayman W. El-Hattab

“…Protein C is an anticoagulant that is encoded by the PROC gene. Protein C deficiency (PCD) is inherited in an autosomal dominant or recessive pattern. …”
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Short‐Term Prediction of the Dst Index and Estimation of Efficient Uncertainty Using a Hybrid Deep Learning Network by Ruyao Wang, Jianhui Wang, Tuo Liang, Huixiong Zhang

“…The proposed model achieves excellent scalability by extracting representative embeddings from the Dst index time series through an encoder‐decoder framework and integrating these with external solar wind parameters via a prediction network. …”
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Nonfamilial, MPL S505N-Mutated Essential Thrombocythaemia by Ruth Morrell, Stephen E. Langabeer, Liam Smyth, Meegahage Perera, Gerard Crotty

“…The most frequent of these mutations, W515L and W515K, occur in exon 10 of MPL, which encodes the receptor for thrombopoietin. Another exon 10 mutation, MPL S505N, has been shown to be a founder mutation in several pedigrees with familial thrombocythaemia where it is associated with a high thrombotic risk, splenomegaly and progression to bone marrow fibrosis. …”
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Behçet's Disease (Adamantiades-Behçet's Disease) by Fumio Kaneko, Ari Togashi, Sanae Saito, Hideo Sakuma, Noritaka Oyama, Koichiro Nakamura, Kenji Yokota, Keiji Oguma

“…HLA-B51 is associated in more than 60% of the patients and its restricted CD8+ T cell response is clearly correlated with the target tissues. Bes-1 gene encoded partial S. sanguinis genome which is highly homologous with retinal protein, and 65 kD heat shock protein (Hsp-65) released from streptococci is playing an important role with human Hsp-60 in the pathogenesis of ABD. …”
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Persistent Homology Combined with Machine Learning for Social Network Activity Analysis by Zhijian Zhang, Yuqing Sun, Yayun Liu, Lin Jiang, Zhengmi Li

“…This paper first creates an ego network for each user, encodes the higher-order topological features of the ego network as persistence diagrams using persistence homology, and computes the persistence entropy. …”
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Chronic Social Defeat Stress Modulates Dendritic Spines Structural Plasticity in Adult Mouse Frontal Association Cortex by Yu Shu, Tonghui Xu

“…Our findings suggest that chronic stress experience leads to adaptive change in neural circuits that may be important for encoding stress experience related memory and anhedonia.…”
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Aspergillus fumigatus ctf1–a novel zinc finger transcription factor involved in azole resistance by Xiao Gong, Heng Zhang, Wenxu Cheng, Zhangxuan He, Tianyan Ma, Tian Chen, Yi Sun

“…Here, we investigated the function of ctf1 (AFUA_1G03800), a gene encoding a C6 transcription factor. Homologous recombination replacement technology was employed to construct ctf1-knockout and revertant strains. …”
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TEFM facilitates transition from RNA synthesis to DNA synthesis at H-strand replication origin of mtDNA by Shigeru Matsuda, Masunari Nakayama, Yura Do, Takashi Ishiuchi, Mikako Yagi, Sjoerd Wanrooij, Kazuto Nakada, Fan-Yan Wei, Kenji Ichiyanagi, Hiroyuki Sasaki, Dongchon Kang, Takehiro Yasukawa

“…Conversely, levels of tRNAs encoded near transcription promoters increase, indicating enhanced transcription initiation frequency. …”
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Efficient Feature Selection and Classification of Protein Sequence Data in Bioinformatics by Muhammad Javed Iqbal, Ibrahima Faye, Brahim Belhaouari Samir, Abas Md Said

“…The existing classification results are unsatisfactory due to a huge size of features obtained through various feature encoding methods. In this work, a statistical metric-based feature selection technique has been proposed in order to reduce the size of the extracted feature vector. …”
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