Incorporation of Histogram Intersection and Semantic Information into Non-Negative Local Laplacian Sparse Coding for Image Classification by Ying Shi, Yuan Wan, Xinjian Wang, Huanhuan Li

“…This method integrates Non-negativity and Locality into Laplacian Sparse Coding (NLLSC) optimisation, enhancing coding stability and ensuring that similar features are encoded into similar codewords. In addition, histogram intersection is introduced to redefine the distance between feature vectors and codebooks, effectively preserving their similarity. …”
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Establishment of a Mutant Library for Infection Cushion Development and Identification of a Key Regulatory Gene in <i>Botrytis cinerea</i> by Maoyao Tang, Kexin Wang, Pan Zhang, Jie Hou, Xiaoqian Yu, Hongfu Wang, Yangyizhou Wang, Guihua Li

“…Further genetic analysis of one of the mutants led to the identification of <i>EXO70</i>, a gene encoding a component of the exocyst complex, as a key regulatory factor in IC development. …”
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New Insights into Behçet’s Syndrome Metabolic Reprogramming: Citrate Pathway Dysregulation by Anna Santarsiero, Pietro Leccese, Paolo Convertini, Angela Padula, Paolo Abriola, Salvatore D’Angelo, Faustino Bisaccia, Vittoria Infantino

“…Citrate is an intermediary metabolite synthesized in mitochondria, and when transported into the cytosol by the mitochondrial citrate carrier—SLC25A1-encoded protein—it is cleaved into acetyl-CoA and oxaloacetate by ATP citrate lyase (ACLY). …”
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Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification with Interpretability in Children Based on Structural MRI Features Extracted Using Contrastive Variational Autoencoder by Ruimin Ma, Ruitao Xie, Yanlin Wang, Jintao Meng, Yanjie Wei, Yunpeng Cai, Wenhui Xi, Yi Pan

“…In this paper, we propose a machine learning method for ASD classification in children with age range from 0.92 to 4.83 years, based on s-MRI features extracted using Contrastive Variational AutoEncoder (CVAE). 78 s-MRIs, collected from Shenzhen Children’s Hospital, are used for training CVAE, which consists of both ASD-specific feature channel and common-shared feature channel. …”
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Gastrointestinal Bacterial and Methanogenic Archaea Diversity Dynamics Associated with Condensed Tannin-Containing Pine Bark Diet in Goats Using 16S rDNA Amplicon Pyrosequencing by Byeng R. Min, Sandra Solaiman, Raymon Shange, Jong-Su Eun

“…A 16S rDNA bacterial tag-encoded FLX amplicon pyrosequencing technique was used to characterize and elucidate changes in GI bacteria and methanogenic archaea diversity among the diets. …”
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Transcriptomic analysis reinforces the implication of spatacsin in neuroinflammation and neurodevelopment by Liriopé Toupenet Marchesi, Daniel Stockholm, Typhaine Esteves, Marion Leblanc, Nicolas Auger, Julien Branchu, Khalid Hamid El Hachimi, Giovanni Stevanin

“…Among these, spastic paraplegia type 11 (SPG11) represents a complex form of HSP caused by deleterious variants in the SPG11 gene, which encodes the spatacsin protein. Previous studies have described several potential roles for spatacsin, including its involvement in lysosome and autophagy mechanisms, neuronal and neurites development or mitochondria function. …”
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Lipid Nanoparticles With Fine‐Tuned Composition Show Enhanced Colon Targeting as a Platform for mRNA Therapeutics by Riccardo Rampado, Gonna Somu Naidu, Olga Karpov, Meir Goldsmith, Preeti Sharma, Assaf Ezra, Lior Stotsky, Dor Breier, Dan Peer

“…Using interleukin‐10‐encoding mRNA as therapeutic cargo, n‐LNPs demonstrated a reduction of pathological burden in colitis‐bearing mice. n‐LNPs represent a starting point to further investigate the influence of LNPs composition on systemic biodistribution, ultimately opening new therapeutic modalities in different pathologies.…”
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Chromosome-level reference genome and annotation of the Arctic fish Anisarchus medius by Ruoyu Liu, Ziyu Meng, Yinan Mu, Ran Zhang, Hanhui Ma, Jingjing Hu, Yanan Wang, Yuxin Shi, Yanan Li, Chaofeng Wang, Weini Zhang, Longshan Lin, Ping Zheng, Xinhua Chen

“…A total of 30,345 protein-coding genes were identified, encoding 46,603 proteins, with a BUSCO completeness of 94.98%. …”
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HandSegNet: Hand segmentation using convolutional neural network for contactless palmprint recognition by Koichi Ito, Yusei Suzuki, Hiroya Kawai, Takafumi Aoki, Masakazu Fujio, Yosuke Kaga, Kenta Takahashi

“…HandSegNet employs a new CNN architecture consisting of an encoder–decoder model with a pyramid pooling module. …”
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A molecular basis for spine color morphs in the sea urchin Lytechinus variegatus by Maria Wise, Madison Silvia, Gerardo Reyes, Rushane Dunn, Thomas M. Onorato, Cosmo Pieplow, Aidan Furze, El Hebert, Nathalie Oulhen, Dan Ritschoff, David R. McClay, Gary Wessel

“…The abundance of mRNAs encoding flavin mono-oxygenase variancts and polyketide synthase was predictive of the color of the adult and antibodies identified their histological location in the spine cells. …”
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Differential Expression of -Associated Genes in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease by Yeon Joo Yook, Yu Mi Woo, Moon Hee Yang, Je Yeong Ko, Bo Hye Kim, Eun Ji Lee, Eun Sun Chang, Min Joo Lee, Sunyoung Lee, Jong Hoon Park

“…Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is characterized by formation of multiple fluid-filled cysts that expand over time and destroy renal architecture. The proteins encoded by the PKD1 and PKD2 genes, mutations in which account for nearly all cases of ADPKD, may help guard against cystogenesis. …”
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The mechanisms of fiber flax adaptation to high soil acidity (a review) by N. V. Kishlyan, N. V. Melnikova, T. A. Rozhmina

“…Using flax genotypes contrasting in acid resistance, an increase in the expression of genes encoding UDP-glycosyltransferases (UGT) and glutathione-S-transferases (GST) was established under aluminum stress. …”
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A re-assessment of Taxomyces andreanae, the alleged taxol-producing fungus, using comparative genomics by Tian Cheng, Miroslav Kolařík, Luis Quijada, Marc Stadler

“…However, a full genome sequence of this strain was generated by a German research group in 2013, in an unsuccessful attempt to detect the biosynthesis genes encoding for taxol. This prompted us to search for phylogenetic marker genes and compare those with the data that recently have become available from state-of-the-art polyphasic taxonomic studies. …”
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Electrophoretic patterns of gliadin as markers of genotypes in the analysis of the durum wheat landrace Kubanka by T. I. Peneva, O. A. Lyapunova

“…Depending on the component composition of the α-zone encoded by alleles of the GLI-2A locus, biotypes were combined into 4 groups. …”
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A Finger Vein Recognition Algorithm Based on the Histogram of Variable Curvature Directional Binary Statistics by Min Li, Xue Jiang, Honghao Zhu, Fei Liu, Huabin Wang, Liang Tao, Shijun Liu

“…Simultaneously incorporating the original image feature information, these four aspects of information are fused and encoded to construct a variable curvature binary pattern (VCBP) with multifeatures. …”
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Impact of frequent ARID1A mutations on protein stability provides insights into cancer pathogenesis by Rajen K. Goutam, Gangtong Huang, Exequiel Medina, Feng Ding, William J. Edenfield, Hugo Sanabria

“…Abstract The ARID1A gene, frequently mutated in cancer, encodes the AT-rich interactive domain-containing protein 1 A, a key component of the chromatin remodeling SWI/SNF complex. …”
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Steganography in Game Actions by Ching-Chun Chang, Isao Echizen

“…Each agent, acting as an encoder, learns a policy to disguise the very existence of hidden messages within actions seemingly directed toward innocent objectives. …”
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Utility of Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines for Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Generation by Satish Kumar, Joanne E. Curran, David C. Glahn, John Blangero

“…Here, we report a new optimized LCL-to-iPSC reprogramming protocol using episomal plasmids encoding pluripotency transcription factors and mouse p53DD (p53 carboxy-terminal dominant-negative fragment) and commercially available reprogramming media. …”
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A sensitive ERK fluorescent probe reveals the significance of minimal EGF-induced transcription by Zhang Weisheng, Jun Nakayama, Yukino Inomata, Shigeki Higashiyama, Toru Hiratsuka

“…Extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) regulates multiple cellular functions through distinct activation patterns. Genetically encoded fluorescent probes are instrumental in dissecting the ERK activity dynamics in living cells. …”
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Detection of OqxAB Efflux Pumps, a Multidrug-Resistant Agent in Bacterial Infection in Patients Referring to Teaching Hospitals in Ahvaz, Southwest of Iran by Mojtaba Moosavian, Mahtab Khoshkholgh Sima, Nazanin Ahmad Khosravi, Effat Abbasi Montazeri

“…In this study, we investigated the prevalence of oqxA and oqxB genes as two encoding agents of efflux pumps and the determination of antibiotic resistance rate in clinical isolates of Enterobacteriaceae. …”
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