Distortion Optimized Packet Scheduling and Prioritization of Multiple Video Streams over 802.11e Networks by Ilias Politis, Michail Tsagkaropoulos, Thomas Pliakas, Tasos Dagiuklas

“…A distortion prediction model designed to capture the multireferenced frame coding characteristic of H.264/AVC encoded videos is used to predetermine the distortion importance of each video packet in all streams. …”
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Realistic Facial Expression of Virtual Human Based on Color, Sweat, and Tears Effects by Mohammed Hazim Alkawaz, Ahmad Hoirul Basori, Dzulkifli Mohamad, Farhan Mohamed

“…The action units (AUs) of facial action coding system are merged with autonomous AUs to create expressions including sadness, anger with blushing, happiness with blushing, and fear. …”
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Developing Healthcare Complaints Analysis Tool for Health System: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Ali Vafaee Najar, Damoon Gorji, Hoorang Nazari Ardabili, Maryam Pourshirazi, Elaheh Houshmand

“…Conclusions Providing medical centers with such a system by the ministry of health and mandatory reporting of complaints may lead to coding complaints, measure the severity of complaints, service monitoring and organizational learning.…”
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of black carp Mylopharyngodon piceus using Nanopore and Hi-C technologies by Yuxuan Zhang, Yanwen Shao, Xudong Liu, Liang Zhong, Zhaoyan Zhong, Weiwei Zeng, Jiping Zhang, Wenlong Cai, Runsheng Li

“…In total, 203.54 Mb of repeat sequences and 37,418 protein-coding genes were predicted in the genome assembly. …”
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Helioseismic inference of the solar radiative opacity by Gaël Buldgen, Jean-Christophe Pain, Philippe Cossé, Christophe Blancard, Franck Gilleron, Anil K. Pradhan, Christopher J. Fontes, James Colgan, Arlette Noels, Jørgen Christensen-Dalsgaard, Morgan Deal, Sergey V. Ayukov, Vladimir A. Baturin, Anna V. Oreshina, Richard Scuflaire, Charly Pinçon, Yveline Lebreton, Thierry Corbard, Patrick Eggenberger, Peter Hakel, David P. Kilcrease

“…We present opacity profiles derived from helioseismic inferences and compare them with detailed theoretical computations of individual element contributions using three different opacity computation codes, in a complementary way to experimental results. …”
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Managing Recurrent Congestion of Subway Network in Peak Hours with Station Inflow Control by Qingru Zou, Xiangming Yao, Peng Zhao, Fei Dou, Taoyuan Yang

“…To validate the effectiveness of the proposed approach, a decision support system coded in the C# programming language was developed, and the Beijing subway was used as a case study. …”
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Generation of Recombinant Porcine Parvovirus Virus-Like Particles in Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Development of Virus-Specific Monoclonal Antibodies by Paulius Lukas Tamošiūnas, Rasa Petraitytė-Burneikienė, Rita Lasickienė, Artiomas Akatov, Gabrielis Kundrotas, Vilimas Sereika, Raimundas Lelešius, Aurelija Žvirblienė, Kęstutis Sasnauskas

“…Porcine parvovirus (PPV) is a widespread infectious virus that causes serious reproductive diseases of swine and death of piglets. The gene coding for the major capsid protein VP2 of PPV was amplified using viral nucleic acid extract from swine serum and inserted into yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae expression plasmid. …”
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Exosomal miRNAs involvement in pathogenesis, diagnosis, and treatment of rheumatoid arthritis by Mahvash Sadeghi, Jalil Tavakol Afshari, Afsane Fadaee, Mohammadreza Dashti, Fatemeh Kheradmand, Sajad Dehnavi, Mojgan Mohammadi

“…Micro RNAs (miRNAs) are characterized as a class of small non-coding RNAs that influence gene expression at the post-transcriptional level. …”
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Stochastic black-box optimization using multi-fidelity score function estimator by Atul Agrawal, Kislaya Ravi, Phaedon-Stelios Koutsourelakis, Hans-Joachim Bungartz

“…Many traditional optimization methods rely on gradient information, which is frequently unavailable in legacy black-box codes. To address these challenges, we present SCOUT-Nd ( S tochastic C onstrained O p t imization for N dimensions), a gradient-based algorithm that can be used on non-differentiable objectives. …”
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Insights from a Genome-Wide Study of <i>Pantoea agglomerans</i> UADEC20: A Promising Strain for Phosphate Solubilization and Exopolysaccharides Production by Edith Elizondo-Reyna, Humberto Martínez-Montoya, Yahaira Tamayo-Ordoñez, María Antonia Cruz-Hernández, Mauricio Carrillo-Tripp, María Concepción Tamayo-Ordoñez, Gerardo de Jesús Sosa-Santillán, José Antonio Rodríguez-de la Garza, Mario Hernández-Guzmán, Virgilio Bocanegra-García, Erika Acosta-Cruz

“…Genomic analyses showed that a total of 57 and 58 coding sequences (CDSs) related to phosphate solubilization and EPS production were identified within its genome, in addition to a reduced number of CDSs related to drug resistance and phages. …”
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A near-complete genome assembly of Cinchona calisaya by Cailian Du, Yao Xiao, Jin Liu, Qiang He, Wei Li, Wenzhao Xie

“…We identified a total of 42,741 protein-coding genes, among which 38,022 (89.00%) have received functional annotation. …”
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State-of-the-Art Report on Fiber-Reinforced Lightweight Aggregate Concrete Masonry by Saul Rico, Roshanak Farshidpour, Fariborz M. Tehrani

“…In regions with high seismic activity and unspecified building codes or standards, masonry housing has developed into a death trap for countless individuals. …”
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The Impact of PPARγ Genetic Variants on IBD Susceptibility and IBD Disease Course by Jessica Mwinyi, Christa Grete-Wenger, Jyrki J. Eloranta, Gerd A. Kullak-Ublick

“…We determined genetic variants in the coding exons and flanking intronic sequences of the NR1C3 gene in 284 IBD patients and 194 controls and predicted NR1C3 haplotypes via bioinformatic analysis. …”
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A new Bayesian method for the estimation of emergency nurses’ thresholds and agreement in the context of telephone triage by Michele Vicovaro, Giuseppe Mignemi, Massimo Nucci, Luigi Bolognani, Sara Iannattone, Giovanni Bruno, Giovanni Bruno, Andrea Spoto

“…We discuss how the model can be useful to identify nurses who would benefit from a training to improve the consistency of their application of the protocol, as well as to identify specific emergency scenarios for which the assignment of priority codes was most problematic.…”
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Coagulase gene polymorphism of Staphylococcus aureus isolates: A study on dairy food products and other foods in Tehran, Iran by Mohammad Mehdi Soltan Dallal, Mohammad Reza Khoramizadeh, Solmaz Agha Amiri, Ali Akbar Saboor Yaraghi, Ramin Mazaheri Nezhad Fard

“…Coagulase is considered as a major determinant factor for the identification of Staphylococcus aureus strains. The 3′-end coding region of the coagulase (coa) gene contains a series of 81-bp tandem repeats, which differ in the number and location of enzymatic restriction sites among different isolates. coa PCR-RFLP has been used widely to type S. aureus isolates in epidemiological studies. …”
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CircRNAs in colorectal cancer: potential roles, clinical applications, and natural product-based regulation by Jingjing Yang, Jingjing Yang, Qiqi Fan, Yiyun Wang, Yuanyue Liu, Xiaoning Xu, Yeqi Liang, Jiakang Xie, Jiajie Li, Fengting Ai, Yong Cao, Shangzhen Yu, Jinman Liu

“…In recent years, circular RNAs (circRNAs), a novel class of non-coding RNA molecules, have emerged as a research focus due to their unique stability and functional roles. …”
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Modification of the telomerase gene with human regulatory sequences resets mouse telomeres to human length by Fan Zhang, De Cheng, Kenneth I. Porter, Emily A. Heck, Shuwen Wang, Hui Zhang, Christopher J. Davis, Gavin P. Robertson, Jiyue Zhu

“…To address this, we engineer a mouse strain with a humanized mTert gene (hmTert), replacing specific non-coding sequences with human counterparts. The hmTert gene, which is repressed in adult tissues except the gonads and thymus, closely mimics human TERT regulation. …”
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First Trials of Genome Analyses in Some Onobrychis Species using Dot-Blot and Genomic in situ Hybridization Techniques by Metin Tuna, Evren Cabi, Bozena Kolano, Gülru Yücel

“…Further investigations using more comprehensive and comparative analysis with both coding and repetitive DNA regions may provide a better understanding of the genome composition and evolution of O. viciifolia.…”
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Natural variation of CTB5 confers cold adaptation in plateau japonica rice by Haifeng Guo, Shilei Gao, Huahui Li, Jiazhen Yang, Jin Li, Yunsong Gu, Qijin Lou, Runbin Su, Wei Ye, Andong Zou, Yulong Wang, Xingming Sun, Zhanying Zhang, Hongliang Zhang, Yawen Zeng, Pingrong Yuan, Youliang Peng, Zichao Li, Jinjie Li

“…Four natural variations in the promoter and coding regions enhance cold response and transcriptional regulatory activity, enabling the favorable CTB5 KM allele to improve cold tolerance. …”
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Performance Comparison of Mode Choice Optimization Algorithm with Simulated Discrete Choice Modeling by Hyuk-Jae Roh, Satish Sharma, Prasanta K. Sahu, Babak Mehran

“…Partial derivatives of log-likelihood function are derived and coded using Visual Basic Application (VBA). Through extensive numerical evaluation, estimation capability of each proposed estimation algorithms is compared in terms of performance measures. …”
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