Indirect electrochemical detection of perfluoro decanoic acid from water by Sorina-Claudia Negrea, Lidia Ani Diaconu, Dorian Neidoni, Adina Pacala, Luoana Florentina Pascu, Sorina Motoc, Anamaria Baciu, Elena Trif, Florica Manea

“…Linear dependence between signal decrease vs. increasing PFDA concentrations allowed determining sensitivity and the lowest limit of detection of 0.160 nM (0.08 µg·dm-3) PFDA. The integration of MIP technology with electrochemical sensors offers a robust platform for environmental monitoring of PFDA, combining high selectivity, sensitivity and rapid response time. …”
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The Localization Research of Brain Plasticity Changes after Brachial Plexus Pain: Sensory Regions or Cognitive Regions? by Shuai Wang, Zhen-zhen Ma, Ye-chen Lu, Jia-jia Wu, Xu-yun Hua, Mou-xiong Zheng, Jian-guang Xu

“…We concluded that the entorhinal-hippocampus pathway, which was part of the Papez circuit, was involved in the functional integrated areas of brachial plexus pain processing. …”
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Unaccountable counting: the folly of incorporating open ocean carbon sinks in Nationally Determined Contributions by Berger, Manon, Comte, Adrien, Kwiatkowski, Lester, Bopp, Laurent

“…Additionally, the EEZ oceanic carbon sink is already considered in estimates of remaining carbon budgets to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. Therefore, integrating these fluxes into NDCs would lead to inconsistency between national objectives and global climate goals.We argue that to identify the additionality of management measures aimed at enhancing the anthropogenic carbon sink in EEZ waters, robust assessments of the baseline carbon sink and how it would have evolved without intervention will be needed. …”
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Deciphering the generation of heterogeneity in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma metastasis via single-cell multiomics analysis by Kaiwen Sheng, Jun Chen, Ruitang Xu, Haoqiang Sun, Ran Liu, Yongjie Wang, Wenwen Xu, Jiao Guo, Miao Zhang, Shuai Liu, Juan Lei, Yawen Sun, Yang Jia, Dianhao Guo

“…In conjunction, we integrated these data with 55 scRNA-seq datasets, ChIP-seq or CUT&Tag sequencing data, Hi-C sequencing data, bulk RNA-seq data, and bulk ATAC-seq data from ESCC cell lines to dissect the mechanisms underlying the heterogeneity of ESCC and tumor microenvironment (TME). …”
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Assessment of ecological environment quality and their drivers in urban agglomeration based on a novel remote sensing ecological index by Fangyuan Lu, Chen Zhang, Haoyu Cao, Xibin Wang, Tong Zheng, Zhenfang Huang

“…This study utilizes the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform, integrates MODIS imagery and NPP-VIIRS data to develop a Novel Remote Sensing Ecological Index (NRSEI). …”
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Clinical efficacy of a virtual reality tool for the treatment of obesity: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial by Dimitra Anastasiadou, Jose Antonio Ramos-Quiroga, Mel Slater, Bernhard Spanlang, Desiderio Cano Porras, Marta Comas, Andreea Ciudin, Gemma Parramon Puig, Julia Vázquez-De Sebastián, Pilar Lusilla-Palacios

“…Introduction Previous research has shown that it is feasible to integrate motivational interviewing techniques with behavioural and psychological interventions for the treatment of obesity. …”
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Dual-Polarized Wideband Filtering Antenna Array Based on Stacked-PCB Structure by Matti Kuosmanen, Sten E. Gunnarsson, Johan Malmstrom, Juha Ala-Laurinaho, Jari Holopainen, Ville Viikari

“…The filtering effect is realized by corrugating the tapered slotlines, which provides effective, space-saving integration of the filters that fit into a half-wavelength lattice. …”
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Letter and Person Recognition in Freeform Air-Writing Using Machine Learning Algorithms by Huseyin Kunt, Zeki Yetgin, Furkan Gozukara, Turgay Celik

“…In the study, a dataset is also developed, containing the air-writing signals from the wearable glove, integrated with IMU sensors (gyroscope and accelerometer). …”
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Duckweed: a starch-hyperaccumulating plant under cultivation with a combination of nutrient limitation and elevated CO2 by Ling Guo, Ling Guo, Yang Fang, Songhu Wang, Yao Xiao, Yanqiang Ding, Yanling Jin, Xueping Tian, Anping Du, Zhihua Liao, Kaize He, Shuang Chen, Yonggui Zhao, Li Tan, Zhuolin Yi, Yuqing Che, Lanchai Chen, Jinmeng Li, Leyi Zhao, Peng Zhang, Zhengbiao Gu, Fangyuan Zhang, Yan Hong, Qing Zhang, Hai Zhao

“…Therefore, there is a pressing need to explore and develop new sources of starch.MethodsWe develop a novel duckweed cultivation technology that combines nutrients limitation and CO2 supplementation to achieve very high starch content. In this study, we integrated whole-genome sequencing, epigenomics, transcriptomics, enzyme activity, and composition variation to elucidate the mechanisms of efficient starch accumulation in duckweed in terms of starch accumulation and carbon partitioning, regulation of the expression of genes in the starch metabolic pathway, and sucrose biosynthesis and transportation.Results and discussionAlthough Landoltia punctata exhibits dramatic gene family contraction, its starch content and productivity reached 72.2% (dry basis) and 10.4 g m-2 d-1, respectively, in 10 days, equivalent to a yield of 38.0 t ha-1 y-1, under nutrient limitation treatment with elevated CO2 levels. …”
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Enhancing Reliability in Infrastructure-Based Collective Perception: A Dual-Channel Hybrid Delivery Approach With Real-Time Monitoring by Yu Asabe, Ehsan Javanmardi, Jin Nakazato, Manabu Tsukada, Hiroshi Esaki

“…We have implemented AutowareV2X, a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication module integrated into the autonomous driving (AD) software Autoware. …”
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Parent-implemented early intervention design for improving speech and language skills among Mandarin-speaking infants and toddlers with cleft lip and/or palate by Sha Lai, Li Lu, Zhongliang Zhou, Chi Shen, Binting Yang, Binting Yang, Zhanping Ren, Zhanping Ren, Siwei Ma, Siwei Ma, Siwei Ma

“…., infants and toddlers with CL/P, parents and environment), and a set of early intervention programs were designed by integrating various intervention techniques.ResultsThe diagnosis of parent–child interaction problems showed that 40.91% of parents and children often use electronic media together; in parent–child interaction, 41.67% of parents presented ‘lack of waiting’, 29.55% overcorrected pronunciation errors. …”
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PFAS contamination and mitigation: A comprehensive analysis of research trends and global contributions by Motasem Y.D. Alazaiza, Tharaa M. Alzghoul, Madhusudhan Bangalore Ramu, Salem S. Abu Amr, Mohammed F.M. Abushammala

“…Overall, the research underscores the need for innovative strategies and integrated management plans to combat PFAS pollution effectively. …”
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Impact of Ethical Leadership on Autonomy and Self-Efficacy in Virtual Work Environments: The Disintegrating Effect of an Egoistic Climate by Carlos Santiago-Torner, José-Antonio Corral-Marfil, Yirsa Jiménez-Pérez, Elisenda Tarrats-Pons

“…However, economic and social uncertainty occasionally leads to adaptive responses that prioritize profit as the primary interest, blurring the integrating role of ethical leadership. There are a number of studies that support this reality in a virtual work environment. …”
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C-POS: A Context-Aware Adaptive Part-of-Speech Language Learning Framework by Shazia Maqsood, Abdul Shahid, Fakhra Nazar, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Ahmad, Manuel Mazzara

“…However, the specialized nature of mobile technologies has opened a new horizon for learners that make information available to people at any time, at any place, and in any form.The number of smartphone users is increasing every year and more than 4.78 billion smartphone users are in the world today.It can be understood that learning increases when the learning process is integrated with daily life routine activities. The context-awareness is one of the commonly used techniques that provide specialized content to different learners based on their context parameters. …”
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Stable Isotope-Resolved Metabolomic Differences between Hormone-Responsive and Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cell Lines by Jason H. Winnike, Delisha A. Stewart, Wimal W. Pathmasiri, Susan L. McRitchie, Susan J. Sumner

“…BT474 and MDA-MB-468 cells produced high amounts of 13C-glycine from media [U-13C]-glucose which was integrated into glutathione, indicating de novo synthesis. …”
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A vacuum lyophilization and bacterial tablet-based method for culture medium evaluation and potential use in probiotic products by Wen Cui, Liang Zhao, Yuwen Shi, Wei Feng, Xiao Chen, Hui Liu

“…The results suggested that vacuum freeze-dried bacterial tablet method had high conformity when compared to ISO 11133-2014 quantitative method (χ2 = 0.25, p > 0.05; Kappa = 0.75).DiscussionHence, vacuum freeze-drying method is an integral part of preservation of bacterial strains and the preparation of related biological products. …”
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Swarm learning with weak supervision enables automatic breast cancer detection in magnetic resonance imaging by Oliver Lester Saldanha, Jiefu Zhu, Gustav Müller-Franzes, Zunamys I. Carrero, Nicholas R. Payne, Lorena Escudero Sánchez, Paul Christophe Varoutas, Sreenath Kyathanahally, Narmin Ghaffari Laleh, Kevin Pfeiffer, Marta Ligero, Jakob Behner, Kamarul A. Abdullah, Georgios Apostolakos, Chrysafoula Kolofousi, Antri Kleanthous, Michail Kalogeropoulos, Cristina Rossi, Sylwia Nowakowska, Alexandra Athanasiou, Raquel Perez-Lopez, Ritse Mann, Wouter Veldhuis, Julia Camps, Volkmar Schulz, Markus Wenzel, Sergey Morozov, Alexander Ciritsis, Christiane Kuhl, Fiona J. Gilbert, Daniel Truhn, Jakob Nikolas Kather

“…Methods In this study, we present an integrated pipeline combining weakly supervised learning—reducing the need for detailed annotations—with local AI model training via swarm learning (SL), which circumvents centralized data sharing. …”
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3D Point Cloud from Millimeter-wave Radar for Human Action Recognition: Dataset and Method by Biao JIN, Kangsheng SUN, Hao WU, Zixuan LI, Zhenkai ZHANG, Yan CAI, Rongmin LI, Xiangqun ZHANG, Genyuan DU

“…At the core of our approach is the Point EdgeConv and Transformer (PETer) network, which integrates edge convolution with transformer models. …”
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Advances in colorectal cancer diagnosis using optimal deep feature fusion approach on biomedical images by Sultan Refa Alotaibi, Manal Abdullah Alohali, Mashael Maashi, Hamed Alqahtani, Moneerah Alotaibi, Ahmed Mahmud

“…The improved diagnosis load in the pathology laboratory, incorporated with the reported intra- and inter-variability in the biomarker assessment, has prompted the quest for consistent machine-based techniques to be integrated into routine practice. In the healthcare field, artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved extraordinary achievements in healthcare applications. …”
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A holistic physics-informed neural network solution for precise destruction of breast tumors using focused ultrasound on a realistic breast model by Salman Lari, Hossein Rajabzadeh, Mohammad Kohandel, Hyock Ju Kwon

“…This study presented a novel approach for the precise ablation of breast tumors using focused ultrasound (FUS), leveraging a physics-informed neural network (PINN) integrated with a realistic breast model. FUS has shown significant promise in treating breast tumors by effectively targeting and ablating cancerous tissue. …”
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