Exploring Spatio-Temporal Variations in Water and Land Resources and Their Driving Mechanism Based on the Coupling Coordination Model: A Case Study in Western Jilin Province, China by Lujuan Zhang, Guzailinuer Aihemaitijiang, Zihao Wan, Mingtang Li, Jiquan Zhang, Feng Zhang, Chunli Zhao

“…Five indicators—annual average temperature (AAT), urbanization rate (UR), population density (PD), reclamation rate (RR), and water resource utilization rate (WRUR)—were selected as influencing factors. A Tobit model was constructed to elucidate the driving mechanisms behind the evolution of the WLR coupling coordination degree (CCD) in WJP. …”
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Development and routine implementation of deep learning algorithm for automatic brain metastases segmentation on MRI for RANO-BM criteria follow-up by Loïse Dessoude, Raphaëlle Lemaire, Romain Andres, Thomas Leleu, Alexandre G. Leclercq, Alexis Desmonts, Typhaine Corroller, Amirath Fara Orou-Guidou, Luca Laduree, Loic Le Henaff, Joëlle Lacroix, Alexis Lechervy, Dinu Stefan, Aurélien Corroyer-Dulmont

“…A deep learning (DL) model was constructed using the PyTorch and PyTorch Lightning frameworks, and the UNETR transfer learning method was employed to segment BM from MRI. …”
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Two-step-7-Pink Rule: A Practical Tool for the Dermoscopic Evaluation of Fully Amelanotic Skin Lesions by Riccardo Pampena, Stefano Migliorati, Giovanni Paolino, Michela Lai, Nicola Lippolis, Stefania Guida, Stefania Borsari, Sebastiano Pellerone, Sofia Maria Di Ciaccio, Elvira Moscarella, Giovanni Pellacani, Giuseppe Argenziano, Caterina Longo

“…Two dermatologists jointly assessed a validation set of images for dermoscopic criteria and constructed a diagnostic algorithm, the 2-step 7-pink rule (2S-7PR). …”
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Use of advanced topic modeling to generate domains for a preference-based index in osteoarthritis by Ayse Kuspinar, Eunjung Na, Stanley Hum, Allyson Jones, Nancy Mayo

“…Six domains important to people living with OA formed the construct of HRQL. The next steps will be to create items based on the topics generated from this analysis and elicit people’s preferences for the different items.…”
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Alterations in fecal bacteriome virome interplay and microbiota-derived dysfunction in patients with schizophrenia by Shiwan Tao, Yulu Wu, Liling Xiao, Yunqi Huang, Han Wang, Yiguo Tang, Siyi Liu, Yunjia Liu, Qianshu Ma, Yubing Yin, Minhan Dai, Min Xie, Jia Cai, Zhengyang Zhao, Qiuyue Lv, Jiashuo Zhang, Mengting Zhang, Menghan Wei, Yang Chen, Mingli Li, Qiang Wang

“…Specific gut viruses and host peripheral metabolites co-occurring with differential bacteria were identified using Multiple Co-inertia Analysis (MCIA). Additionally, we construct a latent serial mediation model (SMM) to investigate the effect of the gut virome on SCZ through the bacteriome and host metabolic profile. …”
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Molecular Characterization of Putative Virulence Determinants in Burkholderia pseudomallei by Suat Moi Puah, S. D. Puthucheary, Jin Town Wang, Yi Jiun Pan, Kek Heng Chua

“…Through a reverse genetic approach, single-gene knockout mutants were successfully constructed by using site-specific insertion mutagenesis and were confirmed by PCR. …”
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Research Note: Establishment of vector system harboring duck RNA polymerase I promoter for avian influenza virus by Yunyueng Jang, Yoon-Gi Baek, Yu-Na Lee, Ra Mi Cha, Yun-Chan Choi, Min-Ji Park, Youn-Jeong Lee, Eun-Kyoung Lee

“…Notably, the 250-bp duck RNA pol I promoter demonstrated effective functionality in avian cells, exhibiting higher polymerase activity in a minigenome assay. The newly constructed RG system was significantly improved, enabling the rescue of influenza viruses in 293T, DF-1, and CCL141 cells. …”
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Nucleotide Sequencing and Identification of Some Wild Mushrooms by Sudip Kumar Das, Aninda Mandal, Animesh K. Datta, Sudha Gupta, Rita Paul, Aditi Saha, Sonali Sengupta, Priyanka Kumari Dubey

“…A phylogenetic tree is constructed using Neighbor-Joining method showing interrelationship between/among the mushrooms. …”
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Hypergraph User Embeddings and Session Contrastive Learning for POI Recommendation by Yan Zhang, Bin Wang, Qian Zhang, Sulei Zhu, Yan Ma

“…We model users as hyperedges and the POIs they visit as nodes within these hyperedges, constructing a hypergraph that reveals the interaction relationships between users and POIs. …”
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The role of artificial intelligence in pandemic responses: from epidemiological modeling to vaccine development by Mayur Suresh Gawande, Nikita Zade, Praveen Kumar, Swapnil Gundewar, Induni Nayodhara Weerarathna, Prateek Verma

“…The collaborative aspect of AI in vaccine discovery and clinical trials of various vaccines is emphasised, focusing on constructing AI-powered surveillance networks. Conclusively, the review presents a comprehensive assessment of how AI impacts epidemiological modelling, builds AI-enabled dynamic models by collaborating ML and Deep Learning (DL) techniques, and develops and implements vaccines and clinical trials. …”
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Multiphoton imaging-based quantifiable collagen signatures for predicting outcomes in patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma by Xiwen Chen, Jikui Miao, Xingxin Huang, Xiahui Han, Liqin Zheng, Jianxin Chen, Linying Chen, Lianhuang Li

“…Additionally, we also extracted 142 microscopic TACS (M-TACS) from second-harmonic generation (SHG) images and constructed a new robust biomarker, M-TACS-score, using the least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO) regression analysis. …”
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Comparison of the EQ-5D-3L and EQ-5D-5L instruments in patients undergoing unicompartmental knee arthroplasty by Zhipeng Tai, Zhipeng Tai, Dongping Wan, Qiang Zan, Yuanchi Huang, Chao Xu

“…Reliability and validity were also evaluated.ResultsThe results indicate that the EQ-5D-5L surpasses the EQ-5D-3L in construct validity, informativity, detection precision, and discriminatory power. …”
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Experimental Fracture Model versus Osteotomy Model in Metacarpal Bone Plate Fixation by S. Ochman, T. Vordemvenne, J. Paletta, M. J. Raschke, R. H. Meffert, S. Doht

“…In the fracture model, because one can use the same bone for both measurements in the intact state and the bone-plate construct states, the impact of inter-individual differences is reduced. …”
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Use of Tramadol or Other Analgesics in Patients Treated in the Emergency Department as a Risk Factor for Opioid Use by Jorge Enrique Machado-Alba, Laura Sofía Serna-Echeverri, Luis Fernando Valladales-Restrepo, Manuel Enrique Machado-Duque, Andrés Gaviria-Mendoza

“…A Cox proportional-hazards regression model was constructed to identify variables associated with receiving a new opioid. …”
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The Impact of Green Human Resource Management on IT Employees’ Environmentally Eco-friendly Performance and Behavior: The Mediating Role of Organizational Commitment by KDV Prasad, Shivoham Singh, Ved Srinivas, Hemant Kothari, Devendra Shrimali

“…Data normality and questionnaire internal consistency and reliability were assessed measuring Chronbach’s alpha statistic, which reveals the data were normally distributed, and the questionnaire maintained internal consistency and reliability. 500 valid responses were analyzed and four reflective constructs, organizational commitment, green human resource management, organizations’ environmental performance, and employees’ eco-friendly behavior, were assessed via exploratory, confirmatory factor analysis, and hypotheses were tested via structural equation modeling analysis. …”
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LMF-Net: A Learnable Multimodal Fusion Network for Semantic Segmentation of Remote Sensing Data by Jihao Li, Wenkai Zhang, Weihang Zhang, Ruixue Zhou, Chongyang Li, Boyuan Tong, Xian Sun, Kun Fu

“…However, the majority of current approaches commonly focus more on feature mixing and construct relatively complex architectures. The further mining for cross-modal features is comparatively insufficient in heterogeneous data fusion. …”
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Advances and applications on non-Hermitian topological photonics by Yan Qiuchen, Zhao Boheng, Zhou Rong, Ma Rui, Lyu Qinghong, Chu Saisai, Hu Xiaoyong, Gong Qihuang

“…On one hand, photonics system can introduce artificially-constructed gain and loss to study non-Hermitian physics. …”
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Validity and Reliability of the Persian Version of the Tinnitus and Hearing Survey Questionnaire by Seyed Alireza Alavi Dehkordi, Maryam Ramezani, Mohanna Javanbakht, Mohsen Vahedi

“…Convergent validity for tinnitus and sound tolerance sections was evaluated using the Tinnitus Handicap Inventory (THI) and Hyperacusis Questionnaire (HQ) respectively, while pure-tone average assessed hearing section validity. Construct validity was confirmed via confirmatory factor analysis, and internal consistency and test-retest reliability were assessed using Cronbach’s alpha and Intraclass Correlation Coefficient (ICC) respectively. …”
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Dynamic Splitting Behavior and the Constitutive Relationship of Frozen Sandstone Containing a Single Fissure by Tao Zhao, Gengshe Yang, Lei Wang, Hailiang Jia, Yuzhe Qiao

“…Fractured sandstone is widely distributed in mining areas throughout western China where the artificial freezing method is extensively adopted to construct vertical shafts. Blasting and excavation generate stress waves and break frozen fractured sandstone. …”
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Plasticity of thermal tolerance and associated gill transcriptome in ballan wrasse (Labrus bergylta) by Peter Almaiz Palma, Michaël Bekaert, Alejandro P. Gutierrez, Elfred John C. Abacan, Herve Migaud, Mónica B. Betancor

“…Thermal tolerance polygon was constructed and showed the intrinsic (7.9 to 16.8°C) and acquired (3.4°C and 22.8°C) thermal tolerance zones, supporting the seasonal differences in behaviour and delousing efficacy of ballan wrasse deployed in salmon farms. …”
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