Use of Attention Maps to Enrich Discriminability in Deep Learning Prediction Models Using Longitudinal Data from Electronic Health Records by Lucía A. Carrasco-Ribelles, Margarita Cabrera-Bean, Jose Llanes-Jurado, Concepción Violán

“…Moreover, the latter could give attention weights both in the time and feature domains. Conclusions: Our results suggest that discriminability and more informative and clinically plausible attention maps do not always go together. …”
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Tumor-Educated Platelets lncRNA-STARD4-AS1 and ELOA-AS1 as Potential Novel Biomarkers for the Early Diagnosis of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer by Luo C, Lin Z, Huang F, Ning L, Yuan Y

“…The current study was aimed to examine whether TEPs lncRNA-STARD4-AS1 and ELOA-AS1 might be potential biomarkers for NSCLC.Materials and Methods: TEPs were obtained by low-speed centrifugation. Quantitative real-time PCR was used to determine the expression level of TEPs-STARD4-AS1, ELOA-AS1 in the training cohort and the validation cohort. …”
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Design and Implementation of a Smart Campus Flexible Internet of Things Architecture on a Brazilian University by Bruno Oliveira Zarpellon, Luis de Oro Arenas, Eduardo Paciencia Godoy, Fernando Pinhabel Marafao, Helmo K. Morales Paredes

“…Although the concept of the smart campus was initially conceived to study the smart city in a less complex setting, over time, both concepts have evolved into distinct areas of inquiry, exhibiting unique characteristics and impacts. …”
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Influencia de las condiciones ambientales de la ciudad de Bogotá sobre el comportamiento mecánicos de una mezcla asfáltica Influence of the Bogotá environmental conditions on the m... by Hugo Alexander Rondón Quintana, Fredy Alberto Reyes Lizcano

“…All mixtures increase the modulus with time due to aging of the asphalt cement.…”
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Construction and Simulation of Online English Reading Model in Wireless Surface Acoustic Wave Sensor Environment Optimized by Particle Swarm Optimization by Bolan Zhou

“…In this paper, by adding a window to the test data in the time domain, the multiplicative and additive interference in the test signal is suppressed, and the signal-to-noise ratio of the test result is improved. …”
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Blast loading prediction in a typical urban environment based on Bayesian deep learning by Weiwen Peng, Meilin Pan, Chunjiang Leng, Shufei Wang, Wei Zhong

“…Commonly used numerical simulation methods can provide accurate blast loading prediction results, but suffer from high computation time and cost. In this paper, a novel and fast method for blast loading prediction in a typical urban environment is proposed. …”
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Vibroacoustic Study of a Miniature Jet Engine Under Blade-Casing Rubbing Condition by Bartłomiej Cywka, Wojciech Prokopowicz, Bartosz Ciupek, Grzegorz M. Szymański, Daniel Mokrzan, Andrzej Frąckowiak

“…The obtained research results and the resulting observations and conclusions make it necessary to perform technical analyses and pre-implementation tests each time before allowing the use of a conventional engine if it undergoes the process of reconstruction in terms of using a new fuel (especially if its technical parameters are different from the originally used one). …”
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The role of repeat fine needle aspiration in managing indeterminate thyroid nodules by Laura Allen, Ayham Al Afif, Matthew H. Rigby, Martin J. Bullock, Jonathan Trites, S. Mark Taylor, Robert D. Hart

“…Most initial FNAs were category I (82%), the remainder category III (18%). rFNA yielded a different category 60% of the time. However, 60% remained category I or III. rFNA results of benign or malignant were found in 40% of cases; 1% were SFN/SFM. …”
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Climate change risk trap: low-carbon spatial restructuring and disaster risk in petroleum-based economies by Viktor Rözer, Sara Mehryar, Mohammad M M Alsahli

“…Their strong dependency on the export of fossil fuels requires a more far-reaching economic restructuring to meet both local and global emission targets than most other economies, exposing them to high transition risks. At the same time, the profound economic changes resulting from a low-carbon transition lead to a spatial redistribution of assets and labour, when brown assets and jobs get stranded and new green assets and jobs are created elsewhere. …”
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Ferroptosis triggers mitochondrial fragmentation via Drp1 activation by Lohans Pedrera, Laura Prieto Clemente, Alina Dahlhaus, Sara Lotfipour Nasudivar, Sofya Tishina, Daniel Olmo González, Jenny Stroh, Fatma Isil Yapici, Randhwaj Pratap Singh, Nils Grotehans, Thomas Langer, Ana J. García-Sáez, Silvia von Karstedt

“…Here, we provide evidence that Drp1 is activated upon experimental induction of ferroptosis and promotes cell death execution and mitochondrial fragmentation. Using time-lapse microscopy, we found that ferroptosis induced mitochondrial fragmentation and loss of mitochondrial membrane potential, but not mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization. …”
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Simulation of interferometric imaging with EISCAT_3D for fine-scale in-beam incoherent scatter spectra measurements by D. Huyghebaert, D. Huyghebaert, B. Gustavsson, J. Vierinen, A. Kvammen, M. Zettergren, J. Swoboda, I. Virtanen, S. M. Hatch, K. M. Laundal

“…Furthermore, with more development, it can be used to test experimental setups and to design experiments for EISCAT_3D by investigating the needed integration time for various SNSDRs, beam patterns, and ionospheric conditions.…”
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Omnidiversity Consolidation of Conservation Assessment: A Case Study of Tasmanian Coastal Geoconservation Sites by Jake Crisp, Joanna Ellison, Andrew Fischer

“…Omnidiversity allowed time-effective and cost-effective methods to simultaneously assess geodiversity and biodiversity, determine the harboring capacity of geodiversity for biodiversity, and facilitate conservation through unification of disparate steps into one streamlined approach. …”
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The Role of Phosphatidylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PEMT) Gene rs12449964 Polymorphism in the Development of Acute Pancreatitis and its Complications by T. A. Samgina, Yu. E. Azarova, Yu. V. Kanishchev, V. A. Lazarenko, P. M. Nazarenko, A. V. Polonikov

“…Genotyping of rs12449964 polymorphism was performed using real-time PCR by allelic discrimination using a CFX96 Bio-Rad Laboratories amplifier (USA) with TaqMan probes and commercial TaqMan SNP Genotyping Assays reagents purchased from Applied Biosystems (USA).Results. …”
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PERCEPTION OF ONLINE VERSUS PHYSICAL LEARNING AMONGUNIVERSITY STUDENTS by Ramna Shafique, Muhammad Abdullah, Tooba Nasir, Sundas Salim, Sabrina Jam, Bina Fawad

“…However, medical students were more self-satisfied with online learning as it was time-saving, allowed them to learn at their own pace, provided continued access to online material, and offered the opportunity to study in comfortable surroundings compared to non-medical students. …”
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Synthesis of the Magnetically Nanoporous Organic Polymer Fe3O4@SiO2-NH2-COP and Its Application in the Determination of Sulfonamide Residues in Surface Water Surrounding a Cattle F... by Yuqin Yang, Junjie Miao, Zhendong Yin, Weili Hao, Hongmei Shi, Ling Ma, Tiesheng Shi

“…The influencing parameters, including pH, the used amount of MCOPs, the type of eluent, adsorption solution, and desorption time, were optimized. Under the optimized conditions, the method conferred good linearity ranges (R2 ≥ 0.9990), low detection limits (S/N = 3, LOD, 0.10–0.25 μg·L−1), and satisfactory recoveries (79.7% to 92.2%). …”
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Kruppel-family zinc finger proteins as emerging epigenetic biomarkers in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma by Patrick Pearson, Kendra Smith, Nilita Sood, Elizabeth Chia, Alicia Follett, Michael B. Prystowsky, Simon Kirby, Thomas J. Belbin

“…The truncated version of ZNF154 protein increased doubling time and reduced cell migration in UM-SCC-1 cancer cells. …”
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Zinc oxide seed priming enhances drought tolerance in wheat seedlings by improving antioxidant activity and osmoprotection by Rasha M. El-Shazoly, A. A. Othman, Muhammad Saqlain Zaheer, Ahmed F. Al-Hossainy, Dalia A. Abdel-Wahab

“…Experimental and computational methods (time-dependent density functional theory (TD-DFT)) were employed to perform IR and XRD analyses of the isolated molecules of the ZnO NPs/Iso. …”
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Exploring serum miR-33b as a novel diagnostic marker for hypercholesterolemia and obesity: insights from a pilot case-control study by Yaser Masoumi-Ardakani, Mostafa Eghbalian, Hossein Fallah, Alireza Jafari, Beydolah Shahouzehi

“…Serum miR-33b levels were determined using the real-time PCR method. The expression of miR-33b was significantly higher in the HC and obese groups compared to the control group (p < 0.001). …”
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Molecular Epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 Variants in Vaccinated and Non-Vaccinated Patients of Erbil Province, Kurdistan Region-Iraq by Dlshad Abdullah Hassan, Sazan Qadir Maulud, Rzgar Farooq Rashid, Jivan Qasim Ahmed, Rezhna Khider Ali

“…Variants-specific real-time reverse transcription (rRT)-PCR method can be used as an alternative to genome sequencing, which is expensive and labored for identifying these variants, especially in settings with limited resources. …”
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Synthesis of novel magnesium ferrite Schiff base chitosan nanocomposite for efficient removal of pb(II) ions from aqueous media by Nada S. Al-Kadhi, Ehab A. Abdelrahman, Fowzia S. Alamro, Reem K. Shah, Fawaz A. Saad, Khalil ur Rehman

“…The optimal conditions for maximum Pb(II) ions removal were determined to be a pH of 5.5, a contact time of 100 min, and a temperature of 328 K. Furthermore, the nanocomposite demonstrated excellent recyclability, retaining over 94.8% of its initial removal efficiency after five consecutive adsorption-desorption cycles. …”
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