A Novel Approach to Face Verification Based on Second-Order Face-Pair Representation by Qiang Hua, Chunru Dong, Feng Zhang

“…All the experiments are carried out on Labeled Face in the Wild (LFW) to verify the algorithm’s effectiveness against challenging uncontrolled conditions.…”
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Implementation of project based learning containing esd to improve students' creative thinking skills by Adetia Yeyen Purnamasari, Nuryani Rustaman, Widi Purwianingsih, Weni Lestari

“…The data collection technique uses case-based essay questions about the diversity of wild plants in the area. Data were analyzed using the N Gain test, normality test, homogeneity test and hypothesis test. …”
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Locality preserving binary face representations using auto‐encoders by Mohamed Amine Hmani, Dijana Petrovska‐Delacrétaz, Bernadette Dorizzi

“…The binary representations are evaluated on the MOBIO and the Labelled Faces in the Wild databases, where their biometric recognition performance and entropy are measured. …”
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Rose Rosette Disease: A New Disease of Roses in Florida by Binoy Babu, Mathews L. Paret, Tim Schubert, Carlye Baker, Gary Knox, Fanny Iriarte, James Aldrich, Laura Ritchie, Carrie L. Harmon, Svetlana Y. Folimonova

“… Rose rosette disease is an incurable, destructive disease that affects both wild and cultivated roses. Over the past several decades, the disease has spread over much of the U.S., though it was first observed in Florida in 2013. …”
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Evaluation of 2′-Deoxy-2′-Flouro-5-Methyl-1-β--Arabinofuranosyluracil as a Potential Gene Imaging Agent for Expression In Vivo by Mian M. Alauddin, Atranik Shahinian, Erlinda M. Gordon, Peter S. Conti

“…In vitro experiments demonstrate that the accumulation of [ 14 C]-FMAU in HSV-tk -expressing cells is 2.4-fold ( p < .02), 4.0-fold ( p < .001), and 5.3-fold ( p < .001) higher than the wild-type cells at 1, 3, and 5 hr, respectively. …”
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Advancing semantic segmentation: Enhanced UNet algorithm with attention mechanism and deformable convolution. by Effat Sahragard, Hassan Farsi, Sajad Mohamadzadeh

“…To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, we conduct experiments on benchmark datasets, including Stanford and Cityscapes, as well as the newly introduced WildPASS and DensPASS datasets. Based on our experiments, the proposed method achieved state-of-the-art results including mIoU 85.79 and 82.25 for the Stanford dataset, and the Cityscapes dataset, respectively. …”
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Violence and Non-Violence at Rock Concerts: 1970s French Society Confronted With Its Contradictions by Joann Élart

“…The vocabulary of violence and non-violence was systematically employed in newspaper columns to describe the wild energy emanating from performers and audience members during live performances. …”
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A human pathogenic hantavirus circulates and is shed in taxonomically diverse rodent reservoirs. by Samuel M Goodfellow, Robert A Nofchissey, Chunyan Ye, Jaecy K Banther-McConnell, Thanchira Suriyamongkol, Joseph A Cook, Jonathan L Dunnum, Ivana Mali, Steven B Bradfute

“…<h4>Results</h4>We conducted an extensive survey of SNV genetic prevalence in wild-caught small mammal communities throughout New Mexico and observed that 27% of all animals were positive for SNV. …”
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Exposure of insects to current use pesticide residues in soil and vegetation along spatial and temporal distribution in agricultural sites by Carolina Honert, Ken Mauser, Ursel Jäger, Carsten A. Brühl

“…We calculated in-field additive risks for earthworms, collembola, and soil-living wild bees using the measured soil concentrations of CUPs. …”
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The current distribution of pond slider Trachemys scripta (Reptilia: Emydidae) in Croatia by Toni Koren, Ana Štih, Ivona Burić, Katarina Koller, Boris Lauš, Mladen Zadravec

“… The pond slider Trachemy scripta was one of the most commonly exported turtles until the last decade and often released into the wild outside its native range. It was introduced to Europe, Africa, South America and Asia and included on the EU list of 100 World's Worst Invasive Alien Species and the List of invasive alien species of Union concern. …”
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The Role of the PAX8/PPARγ Fusion Oncogene in Thyroid Cancer by Kimberly A. Placzkowski, Honey V. Reddi, Stefan K. G. Grebe, Norman L. Eberhardt, Bryan McIver

“…It is most often expressed in follicular carcinomas and exerts a dominant-negative effect on wild-type PPARγ, and stimulates transcription of PAX8-responsive promoters. …”
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Clonal reproduction by seed of a cultivated hybrid plant: a new perspective for small-scale rice growers by Vernet, Aurore, Meynard, Donaldo, Guiderdoni, Emmanuel

“…Although sources of apomixis and the genetic loci controlling its constituent elements have been identified in wild species, their transfer by crossing to cultivated species has so far been unsuccessful. …”
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Targeted In Situ Gene Correction of Dysfunctional APOE Alleles to Produce Atheroprotective Plasma ApoE3 Protein by Ioannis Papaioannou, J. Paul Simons, James S. Owen

“…In particular, we discuss the possibility and potential benefit of applying in combination two technical advances to repair aberrant APOE genes: (i) an engineered endonuclease to introduce a double-strand break (DSB) in exon 4, which contains the common, but dysfunctional, ε2 and ε4 alleles; (ii) an efficient and selectable template for homologous recombination (HR) repair, namely, an adeno-associated viral (AAV) vector, which harbours wild-type APOE sequence. This technology is applicable ex vivo, for example to target haematopoietic or induced pluripotent stem cells, and also for in vivo hepatic gene targeting. …”
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Lactoferrin alleviates the adverse effects of early-life inflammation on depression in adults by regulating the activation of microglia by Wenli Wang, Qin An, Yunxia Zou, Yunping Dai, Qingyong Meng, Yali Zhang

“…Lactation LF-deficient mice were established by nursing wild-type mice using LF systemic knockout mother mice. …”
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Whole transcriptomic and proteomic analyses of an isogenic M. tuberculosis clinical strain with a naturally occurring 15 Kb genomic deletion. by Carla Duncan, Frances B Jamieson, JoLynn Troudt, Linda Izzo, Helle Bielefeldt-Ohmann, Angelo Izzo, Carolina Mehaffy

“…The strains denominated ON-A WT (wild type) and ON-A NM (natural mutant) were isolated from a previously reported TB outbreak in an inner city under-housed population in Toronto, Canada. …”
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Étude ethnotaxonomique des espèces fruitières spontanées comestibles chez l’ethnie Diola d’Oussouye (Sénégal) by Yves Djihounouck, Doudou Diop, César Bassène, Mame Samba Mbaye, Richard Demba Diop, Babacar Faye, Kandioura Noba

“…Our results showed that among 62 wild botanical species, only 4 were domesticated. …”
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The Monsters of Geoffrey Chaucer: The Miller in The General Prologue and the Miller in The Reeve’s Tale in The Canterbury Tales by Nazan Yıldız

“…Aggressive and disruptive, rather than a human, the Miller looks like a wild animal bringing down doors-literally social boundaries- with his head. …”
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CREB Regulates Experience-Dependent Spine Formation and Enlargement in Mouse Barrel Cortex by Annabella Pignataro, Antonella Borreca, Martine Ammassari-Teule, Silvia Middei

“…We found that sensory deprivation through prolonged whisker trimming leads to an increased number of thin spines in the layer V of related barrel cortex (Contra) in wild type but not mCREB mice. In the barrel field controlling spared whiskers (Ipsi), the same trimming protocol results in a CREB-dependent enlargement of dendritic spines. …”
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Challenges of <i>Dermanyssus gallinae</i> in Poultry: Biological Insights, Economic Impact and Management Strategies by Péter Sárkány, Zoltán Bagi, Ágnes Süli, Szilvia Kusza

“…Bird mites are parasites that feed on both wild and domesticated bird species, causing severe degradation in avian welfare. …”
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Role of Lysosomes in Silica-Induced Inflammasome Activation and Inflammation in Absence of MARCO by Rupa Biswas, Raymond F. Hamilton, Andrij Holian

“…Silica increased NLRP3 inflammasome activation and release of the proinflammatory cytokine, IL-1β, to a greater extent in MARCO−/− AM compared to wild type (WT) AM. Furthermore, in MARCO−/− AM there was greater cathepsin B release from phagolysosomes, Caspase-1 activation, and acid sphingomyelinase activity compared to WT AM, supporting the critical role played by lysosomal membrane permeabilization (LMP) in triggering silica-induced inflammation. …”
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