Motion feature extraction using magnocellular-inspired spiking neural networks for drone detection by Jiayi Zheng, Jiayi Zheng, Yaping Wan, Xin Yang, Hua Zhong, Minghua Du, Gang Wang, Gang Wang

“…To design and train the MG-SNN, we propose a new backpropagation method called Dynamic Threshold Multi-frame Spike Time Sequence (DT-MSTS), and establish a dataset for the training and validation of MG-SNN, effectively extracting and updating visual motion features. …”
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Process on biological nitrogen removal technology of ammonia- nitrogen wastewater from ion-type rare earth mines by FAN Cunwen, GUO Peijie, HU Yujia, LIU Xinfu, QIU Qingrong, SU Hao, ZHANG Dachao

“…Ammonium sulfate is a commonly used leaching agent in the mining process of southern ion-type rare earth mines, which causes large quantities of mine ammonia-nitrogen wastewater under the leaching action of rainwater even after stopping mining for a long time. The typical characteristics of ion-type rare earth mine ammonia-nitrogen wastewater are extreme low C/N, coexistence of ammonia and nitrate, which increased the cost and difficulty of nitrogen removal. …”
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Stimulation of MMP-1 and CCL2 by NAMPT in PDL Cells by Marjan Nokhbehsaim, Sigrun Eick, Andressa Vilas Boas Nogueira, Per Hoffmann, Stefan Herms, Holger Fröhlich, Søren Jepsen, Andreas Jäger, Joni Augusto Cirelli, James Deschner

“…Eight of these genes could be confirmed by real-time PCR: NAMPT induced a significant upregulation of EGR1, MMP-1, SYT7, ITPKA, CCL2, NTM, IGF2BP3, and NRP1. …”
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Towards a fully automated underwater census for fish assemblages in the Mediterranean Sea by Kilian Bürgi, Charles Bouveyron, Diane Lingrand, Benoit Derijard, Frédéric Precioso, Cécile Sabourault

“…In conclusion, utilising a minimal-human-input video method liberates the data acquisition from limiting factors (i.e. meteorological and logistical) and automation of this video analysis significantly reduces the labour and time required. For future fieldwork campaigns, the video data collection protocol needs to be modified to better resemble traditional UVC and enhance this acquisition method.…”
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Bidirectional Relationship between Gastric Emptying and Plasma Glucose Control in Normoglycemic Individuals and Diabetic Patients by Bogdan Mircea Mihai, Cătălina Mihai, Cristina Cijevschi-Prelipcean, Elena-Daniela Grigorescu, Mihaela Dranga, Vasile Drug, Ioan Sporea, Cristina Mihaela Lăcătușu

“…Disordered gastric emptying in diabetes mellitus is understood today as a complex pathophysiological condition, with both irreversible and reversible components and high intra- and interindividual variability of time span and clinical features. While limited delays may be useful for reducing postprandial hyperglycemias, severely hindered gastric emptying may be associated with higher glycemic variability and worsened long-term glycemic control. …”
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Discovery of a novel Mediterranean Haemaphysalis (Ornithophysalis) doenitzi group tick species infesting Falco eleonorae on Antikythira Island, Greece by Lidia Chitimia-Dobler, Christos Barboutis, Anastasios Bounas, Christina Kassara, Ben J. Mans, Anastasios Saratsis, Ala Tabor

“…This taxonomic assignment situates the newly described species within the Ornithophysalis subgenus and the Haemaphysalis doenitzi group, marking its presence for the first time within the Western Palaearctic region.…”
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Prognostic Value of Left Ventricular Diastolic Dysfunction in Patients Undergoing Cardiac Catheterization for Coronary Artery Disease by Hidekatsu Fukuta, Nobuyuki Ohte, Kazuaki Wakami, Toshihiko Goto, Tomomitsu Tani, Genjiro Kimura

“…To test the hypothesis, we assessed diastolic function by cardiac catheterization (relaxation time constant (Tau) and end-diastolic pressure (EDP)) as well as Doppler echocardiography (early diastolic mitral annular velocity (𝑒) and a ratio of early diastolic mitral inflow to annular velocities (𝐸/𝑒)) in 222 consecutive patients undergoing cardiac catheterization for coronary artery disease (CAD). …”
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Exposure to leachates of plastic food containers disturbs glucose and lipid metabolism: Insights from models mimicking real-exposure scenarios by Hu Liu, Peiqi Li, Tan Zhou, Ziqi Yu, Weigao Zhang, Yunfeng Zhu, Jiayi Xu, Xiaoxiao Wu, Jing Li, Chi Zhang, Lei Chen, Dan Weng

“…Transcriptome sequencing of liver tissues highlighted significant alterations in the expression of genes involved in metabolic pathways, further corroborated by real-time qPCR validation. These findings underscore the potential metabolic health risks posed by the use of heated plastic food containers.…”
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Trastuzumab in Esophagogastric Cancer: HER2-Testing and Treatment Reality outside Clinical Studies in Germany by Kirsten Merx, Manuel Barreto Miranda, Lenka Kellermann, Ulrich Mahlknecht, Oliver Lange, Michael Gonnermann, Ralf-Dieter Hofheinz

“…We analysed trends over time in palliative first-line chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced or metastatic esophagogastric cancer. …”
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Non-invasive analysis of faience necklace beads and scarabs from Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age necropolises in southern Portugal by António M. Monge Soares, António P. Gonçalves, Luis C. Alves, Pedro Valério, Filipe Santos, Rui Monge Soares, Manuela de Deus

“…Moreover, its occurrence in a necropolis located far inland in southern Portugal, accurately radiocarbon-dated to the Late Bronze Age, testifies to an Orientalising trade in luxury products before or just at the time of the foundation of the first Phoenician settlements on the Iberian Peninsula’s coasts. …”
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DeepEye: An Automatic Big Data Visualization Framework by Xuedi Qin, Yuyu Luo, Nan Tang, Guoliang Li

“…An evolutionized system in the field faces the following three main challenges: (1) Visualization verification: to determine whether a visualization for a given dataset is interesting, from the viewpoint of human understanding; (2) Visualization search space: a "boring" dataset may become interesting after an arbitrary combination of operations such as selections, joins, and aggregations, among others; (3) On-time responses: do not deplete the user’s patience. …”
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HMGB-1 as a Novel Predictor of Disease Severity and Prognosis in Patients with Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome by Hong Du, Jing Li, Haitao Yu, Jianqi Lian, Ye Zhang, Ying Zhang, Xuefan Bai, Pingzhong Wang

“…The levels of white blood cells (WBC), platelets (PLT), hematocrit (HCT), albumin (ALB), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), serum creatinine (Scr), and uric acid (UA) were routinely tested in the same time frame. Results. The levels of HMGB-1 increased with the severity of the disease (P<0.001). …”
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Gypsum heterogenous nucleation pathways regulated by surface functional groups and hydrophobicity by Yan-Fang Guan, Xiang-Yu Hong, Vasiliki Karanikola, Zhangxin Wang, Weiyi Pan, Heng-An Wu, Feng-Chao Wang, Han-Qing Yu, Menachem Elimelech

“…Herein, we use in situ microscopy to investigate the real-time gypsum nucleation on self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) terminated with −CH3, −hybrid (a combination of NH2 and COOH), −COOH, −SO3, −NH3, and −OH functional groups. …”
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Mechanically Twisting‐Induced Top‐Down Chirality Transfer for Tunable Full‐Color Circularly Polarized Luminescent Fibers by Xiaoxiao Yu, Linfeng Chen, Qin Liu, Xiaoqing Liu, Zhenduo Qiu, Xinhai Zhang, Meifang Zhu, Yanhua Cheng

“…By carefully adjusting the twisting parameters in time and space, in conjunction with circular dichroism (CD), CPL, and 2D wide‐angle X‐ray scattering (2D WAXS) studies, a twisting‐induced top‐down chiral transfer mechanism derived from the molecular‐level asymmetric rearrangement of fluorescent units is elucidated within polymers under external torsional forces. …”
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Early Intervention of Didang Decoction on MLCK Signaling Pathways in Vascular Endothelial Cells of Type 2 Diabetic Rats by Shoujiao Ye, Zhenqiang Song, Jing Li, Chunshen Li, Juhong Yang, Bai Chang

“…The expression level of MLCK was detected using Western Blot analysis, and the levels of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP), protein kinase C (PKC), and protein kinase A (PKA) were examined using Real Time PCR. Under the electron microscope, the cells in the early-DDD-intervention group and the simvastatin group were significantly more continuous and compact than those in the diabetic group. …”
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Optimization of Analog Circuit Parameters Using Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Coupled with an Enhanced Whale Optimization Algorithm by Hengfei Yang, Shiyuan Yang, Debiao Meng, Chenghao Hu, Chaosheng Wu, Bo Yang, Peng Nie, Yuan Si, Xiaoyan Su

“…The IWOA is employed during the training process of BiLSTM to search for optimal hyperparameters, which reduces model training time and enhances the robustness and accuracy of the model. …”
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Human Mesenchymal Stromal Cells Transplantation May Enhance or Inhibit 4T1 Murine Breast Adenocarcinoma through Different Approaches by T. Jazedje, A. L. Ribeiro, M. Pellati, H. M. de Siqueira Bueno, G. Nagata, M. Trierveiler, E. G. Rodrigues, M. Zatz

“…Coculture of htMSCs and 4T1 tumor cells revealed an increase in IL-8 and MCP-1 and decreased VEGF production. For the first time, we show that MSCs isolated from a single source and donor when injected in the same animal model and tumor can lead to opposite results depending on the experimental protocol. …”
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Adaptability assessment of the whitecap statistical physics model with cruise observations under high sea states by Yongfang Shi, Yongfang Shi, Yongzeng Yang, Yongzeng Yang, Jinpeng Qi, Jinpeng Qi, Haili Wang

“…The WSPM showed good agreement with observational data at most sites, accurately capturing variations in whitecap coverage. At the same time, discrepancies in the model results were observed, which were attributed to errors in the WSPM's data sources and complex sea conditions characterized by rapid shifts in wind direction and alternating dominance of wind waves and swell. …”
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Integrated Transcriptomic and Proteomic Analyses Reveal Molecular Mechanism of Response to Heat Shock in <i>Morchella sextelata</i> by Jiexiong Zhang, Yanxia Li, Yifan Mao, Yesheng Zhang, Botong Zhou, Wei Liu, Wen Wang, Chen Zhang

“…A conceptual model of the heat shock adaptation regulatory network in <i>M. sextelata</i> was proposed for the first time; the results provide novel insights into the thermotolerance response mechanisms of macroascomycetes and valuable resources for the breeding enhancement of thermotolerant morel strains.…”
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Unfolding cascading impacts of changing South Asia monsoon on a Hindu Kush Himalayas basin by Surendra Maharjan, Wenzhao Li, Shahryar Fazli, Arshad Ansari, Suraj Tiwari, Roma Thakurathi, Rejoice Thomas, Hesham El-Askary

“…These scenarios are projected using an ensemble of five bias-corrected CMIP6 climate models under Shared Socioeconomic Pathways 2-4.5 and SSP 5-8.5 for three-time frames: Near Future (2025–2050), Mid Future (MF) (2051–2075), and Far Future (2076–2100). …”
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