Comparison of Illumina and Oxford Nanopore sequencing data quality for Clostridioides difficile genome analysis and their application for epidemiological surveillance by Semeh Bejaoui, Sofie Holtsmark Nielsen, Astrid Rasmussen, John Eugenio Coia, Dorte Terp Andersen, Tobias Bruun Pedersen, Martin Vad Møller, Marc Trunjer Kusk Nielsen, Dorte Frees, Søren Persson

“…Results Illumina sequencing produced reads with an average quality of 99.68% (Q25), while Nanopore sequencing produced reads reaching an average quality of 96.84% (Q15), showing a tenfold difference in quality. …”
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Respiratory pathogen spectrum and epidemiological trends in Hainan Province: a retrospective analysis from 2017 to 2023 by Lvying Wu, Jianan Zhang, Zhiming Wu, Hua Pei, You Zhang

“…A total of 21,036 patients with RTI of all age groups were enrolled and tested for nine common pathogens: influenza A virus (Flu-A), influenza B virus (Flu-B), parainfluenza virus (PIV), Adenovirus (AAV), respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), Q fever Rickettsiae (Q Fever), Legionella pneumophila (L. pne), Chlamydia pneumoniae (C. pne), and Mycoplasma pneumoniae (M. pne). …”
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Molecular Detection of Anaplasma spp. and Ehrlichia spp. in Ruminants from Twelve Provinces of China by Haixiang Qiu, Patrick John Kelly, Jilei Zhang, Qinghua Luo, Yi Yang, Yongjiang Mao, Zhangping Yang, Jing Li, Hongzhuan Wu, Chengming Wang

“…(JX629807) were present in ruminants from China, while the 16S rRNA FRET-qPCR sequence data indicated that there might also be A. platys, A. phagocytophilum, Anaplasma sp. …”
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Quantifying the spatial impact of an invasive Acacia on ecosystem functioning using remote sensing by André Große-Stoltenberg, Christiane Werner, Christine Hellmann, Jens Oldeland, Jan Thiele

“…Four vegetation indices were calculated as proxies of ecosystem functions, and these indices were used to compute functional diversity in terms of spectral Rao’s Q for assessing impacts by Acacia based on airborne hyperspectral data. …”
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gga-miR-6634-5p Affects the proliferation and steroid hormone secretion of chicken (Gallus Gallus) granulosa cells by targeting MMP16 by Yixiang Tian, Xing Wu, Zihao Zhang, Yijie Li, Meng Hou, Ruirui Jiang, Donghua Li, Yanhua Zhang, Yulong Guo, Guoxi Li, Xiaojun Liu, Xiangtao Kang, Yadong Tian, Wenting Li, Yuetao Li

“…It was further found by functional enrichment analysis, qRT-PCR, western blot (WB) and ELISA that MMP16 may play a regulatory role in GCs proliferation as well as steroid hormone secretion through the mTOR signaling pathway and PPAR signaling pathway. …”
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Spotted fever group rickettsiae in black rats, pets, and humans in Zungarococha community, A rural area in the surroundings of Iquitos, Peru by Cusi Ferradas, Guillermo Salvatierra, David Payahuanca, Winnie Contreras, Andrés M. López-Pérez, Therangika A. Hangawatte, Diana León, Bruno M. Ghersi, Ricardo Gamboa, Katia Manzanares Villanueva, Viviana Pinedo-Cancino, Risa Pesapane, Gabriela Salmón-Mulanovich, Andrés G. Lescano, Janet Foley

“…We screened ectoparasites and black rat tissues by real-time-PCR (qPCR). Positive ectoparasites were further assessed by PCR and DNA amplicon sequencing. …”
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Blow-Up Analysis for a Quasilinear Degenerate Parabolic Equation with Strongly Nonlinear Source by Pan Zheng, Chunlai Mu, Dengming Liu, Xianzhong Yao, Shouming Zhou

“…We investigate the blow-up properties of the positive solution of the Cauchy problem for a quasilinear degenerate parabolic equation with strongly nonlinear source ut=div(|∇um|p−2∇ul)+uq,  (x,t)∈RN×(0,T), where N≥1, p>2 , and m, l,  q>1, and give a secondary critical exponent on the decay asymptotic behavior of an initial value at infinity for the existence and nonexistence of global solutions of the Cauchy problem. …”
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Energy Detection in Multihop Cooperative Diversity Networks: An Analytical Study by M. O. Mughal, L. Marcenaro, C. S. Regazzoni

“…Furthermore, an alternative series form representation of generalized Marcum- Q function is employed in order to simplify the ensuing mathematical derivations. …”
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Behaviour of Thin Film TiO2 Overlaid λ/2 Microstrip Rejection Filter Due to Ageing of the Overlay by S. B. Rane, Vijaya Puri

“…The circuit after 600 days show a considerable shift in the resonance frequency to higher frequency side and increase in Q. The long term ageing aspects of the dielectric layers used for protection, passivation and improvement of circuit properties should be taken into consideration during design and fabrication.…”
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Infinite Product Representation for the Szegö Kernel for an Annulus by Nuraddeen S. Gafai, Ali H. M. Murid, Nur H. A. A. Wahid

“…In this paper, we show how to represent the Szegö kernel for an annulus as a basic bilateral series (also known as q-bilateral series). This leads to an infinite product representation through the application of Ramanujan’s sum. …”
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HIGH-FREQUENCY MICROINDUCTOR ON THE BASE OF FLEXIBLE POLYIMIDE FILM by A. V. Petrov, S. E. Demyanov, E. Yu. Kaniukov, D. Fink

“…This model has following main operational characteristics: winding density of 7 winding/mm at the winding thickness 10 μm; inductivity 0.3 mH with the Q-factor of 8 at 200 MHz. A possibility of the decrease of dimensions of the device down to 10-6 mm3 is shown.…”
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Solutions of Second-Order m-Point Boundary Value Problems for Impulsive Dynamic Equations on Time Scales by Xue Xu, Yong Wang

“…We study a general second-order m-point boundary value problems for nonlinear singular impulsive dynamic equations on time scales uΔ∇(t)+a(t)uΔ(t)+b(t)u(t)+q(t)f(t,u(t))=0,t∈(0,1),t≠tk,uΔ(tk+)=uΔ(tk)-Ik(u(tk)), and k=1,2,…,n,u(ρ(0))=0,u(σ(1))=∑i=1m-2αiu(ηi)‍. …”
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La flûte pinkuyllu des Provincias Altas du Cuzco (Pérou) : organologie et symbolique érotique d’un aérophone andin by Raphaël Parejo-Coudert

“…The author focuses on the flute’s erotic symbolism, and gives examples of its usage in Q’ellapampa, a rural community of the Kunturkanki district (in the Canas province of the Cuzco district, in Peru). …”
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Mahfuzât: Cezayir İbâdîleri Arasında Beş Gün by Mehmet Söylemez

“…UDGD 0DªKHGXªO 0HQKHF DGÈQD éVD éVD NDUëÈODGÈ 6RQ GHUHFH VHYHFHQ HVSLULOL KDILI VDNDOOÈ 0L]DEv \DQL (PD]LèOHUGHQ ELU JHQo RODQ éVD éVD E 6DOLK RQODUGDQ ]L\DGH GDKD oRN $UDSODUD EHQ]HPHNWH\GL 2QXQOD ELUOLNWH NDODFDèÈPÈ] \XUW RODQ %XUFXªO .HIIkQ VHPWLQLQ HO +DOOkW PDKDOOHVLQGH \HU DODQ HO +LNPH LVLPOL 'DUXªW WDOHEHª\H GRèUX \RO DOÈ\RUX] 0XKDPPHG %DEDDPPv KRFD\OD LUWLEDW NXUGXèXPX]GD HQVWLWOHULQGH ELU PLVDILUKDQHOHULQLQ ROGXèXQX GLOHUVHN EX UDGD GLOHUVHN EDëND ELU PHNDQGD YH\D |èUHQFLOHUOH ELUOLNWH NDODELOHFHèLPL]L V|\OHPLëWL %L] |èUHQFLOHUL WDQÈPDN LVWHGLèLPL] LoLQ \XUWWD NDOPD\È WHUFLK HW…”
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Chaos and Dynamics Induced by the Amplitude of Load Torque: Analysis and Control by Arnaud Ngonting Topy, Justin Roger Mboupda Pone, Alex Stephane Kemnang Tsafack, Romanic Kengne

“…In this contribution, the dynamics and chaos control of a permanent magnet reluctance synchronous motor (PMSM) with constant, sinusoidal, and square load torque taking the reference rotor speed and the stator voltage on d-q-axis are analyzed. The analysis shows that under some conditions, varying amplitude of the load torque, PMSM presents period doubling route to chaos with one and double-scroll attractors and bursting oscillations. …”
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All-Optical 1-to-8 Wavelength Multicasting at 20 Gbit/s Exploiting Self-Phase Modulation in Dispersion Flattened Highly Nonlinear Photonic Crystal Fiber by Zhan-Qiang Hui

“…The results show our designed scheme achieve operation wavelength range of 25 nm, OSNR of 32.01 dB and Q factor of 12.8. Moreover, the scheme has simple structure as well as high tolerance to signal power fluctuation.…”
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Incorporation of Polymers into Calcined Clays as Improved Thermal Insulating Materials for Construction by Serina Ng, Bjørn Petter Jelle

“…Calcined clay is a Type Q supplementary cementing material according to EN197-1:2000. …”
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Solutions of a Quadratic Inverse Eigenvalue Problem for Damped Gyroscopic Second-Order Systems by Hong-Xiu Zhong, Guo-Liang Chen, Xiang-Yun Zhang

“…Given k pairs of complex numbers and vectors (closed under conjugation), we consider the inverse quadratic eigenvalue problem of constructing n×n real matrices M, D, G, and K, where M>0, K and D are symmetric, and G is skew-symmetric, so that the quadratic pencil Q(λ)=λ2M+λ(D+G)+K has the given k pairs as eigenpairs. …”
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On nonparametric conditional quantile estimation for non-stationary spatial processes by Kanga, Serge Hippolyte Arnaud, Hili, Ouagnina, Dabo-Niang, Sophie

“…Large sample properties based on almost complete and $L^{q}$-consistencies of the estimator are established.…”
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Hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis syndrome: A disease with many faces by Ankit Agrawal, Sangeetha Pabolu, Shirisha Ale, Yesenia Galan

“…Major manifestations include chronic urticarial vasculitis (UV) with complement deficiency and demonstration of serum C1q antibodies. We describe a case of a 60-year-old male who presented with a generalized rash and was eventually diagnosed with HUVS. …”
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