Out-of-distribution generalization for segmentation of lymph node metastasis in breast cancer by Yiannis Varnava, Kiran Jakate, Richard Garnett, Dimitrios Androutsos, Pascal N. Tyrrell, April Khademi

“…The proposed framework shows the ensembled models constructed from models that generalized across both tumor and normal patches enhanced performance, achieving an F1 score of 0.81 for LNM classification on unseen ID and OOD samples. …”
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Social, Racial, and Economic Disparities Affecting Outcomes of Hypertensive Adolescents by Kanya Singhapakdi, Amelia Haydel, Marla Johnston, Shengping Yang, Tamara Bradford, Dedrick Moulton, Thomas R. Kimball

“…These findings substantiate that adolescents with essential hypertension are not only impacted by biological factors but also a combination of intersecting social constructs. The results of this study provide both a deeper understanding of the challenges these patients face and the opportunity to develop real‐life interventions that can optimize clinical outcomes.…”
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Quercetin can improve anesthesia induced neuroinflammation and cognitive dysfunction by regulating miR-138-5p/ LCN2 by Linjie Lou, Wanning Yu, Ying Cheng, Quan Lin, Yanyan Jiang, Dalong Wang, Lei Che, Meiqing Du, Shuai Wang, Haining Zhen

“…Methods Cognitively impaired rats were constructed using Isoflurane (ISO) anesthesia and treated with Que. …”
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Novel architecture of ternary ZnO/PMA/AgI heterojunctions towards boosted visible-light photocatalytic destruction of antibiotics by Yossor R. Abdulmajeed, Saad H. Ammar, Nada D. Ali, Fatma D. Ali, A. Al-Farraji, Marwa A. Lafta

“…Herein, we demonstrated that the constructed ZnO embedded with phosphomolybdic acid (PMA) and AgI ternary heterojunction (ZnO/PMA/AgI) considerably improves the visible-light-induced photocatalytic destruction activity toward levofloxacin (LEV) antibiotic (97.4% within 60 min) compared to binary samples (ZnO/PMA and ZnO/AgI) and single samples (ZnO, PMA, and AgI). …”
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Cloud Computing Resource Scheduling Algorithm Based on Unsampled Collaborative Knowledge Graph Network by Haichuan Sun, Liang Gu, Chenni Dong, Xin Ma, Zeyu Liu, Zhenxi Li

“…Based on graph convolutional neural networks, analyze the target load of cloud platforms, construct multi hop data transmission paths one by one, and perform deep level information load balancing; Establish a multiplexing information transmission model, correct the initial weights of graph convolutional neural networks, combine reverse transmission calculation methods, integrate and balance cloud computing resources, and confirm the optimal resource scheduling plan; Integrating class convolution and human-machine interaction attention mechanism, the value of the previous time series neural unit is transferred to the current neural unit, and the classification output sequence of knowledge graph relational data feature fragments is analyzed. …”
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Uniaxial compressive damage evolution and constitutive modeling of fissure-like rocks under different loading rates based on acoustic emission by Qinyong Wang, Wei Chen, Wenqing Peng, Yuanzeng Wang, Yu Zhou, Zhili Peng

“…The number of AE rings, energy, and cumulative energy are positively correlated with the loading rate, while the cumulative ringing counts decrease. (4) A damage constitutive model constructed with AE energy and the Logistic function can accurately represent the specimen’s response to different loading rates. …”
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Development of a Novel Electrochemical Immunosensor for Rapid and Sensitive Detection of Sesame Allergens Ses i 4 and Ses i 5 by Huimei Li, Tian’ge Pan, Shudong He, Hanju Sun, Xiaodong Cao, Yongkang Ye

“…The voltammetric immunosensor was constructed using a composite of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs), polyethyleneimine (PEI), and multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), which was synthesized in a one-pot process and modified onto a glass carbon electrode to enhance the catalytic current of the oxygen reduction reaction. …”
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A framework for the continuous monitoring of person-centred hospital care: validation of a checklist for participatory service improvement by F. Cardinali, S. Carzaniga, L. Martini, M. T. Loiudice, Fabrizio Carinci

“…Methods Factor analysis was used to validate the construct of the checklist. Varimax rotation with eigenvalues > 1 was used to optimize factor structure. …”
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Multi-Temporal Analysis and Techno-Economic Evaluation of Offshore Wind Energy Integration to the Western Interconnection by Li He, Shahnawaz Siddiqui, Sameer Nekkalapu, Sohom Datta, Travis Douville, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Manisha Maharjan

“…Three generation and transmission scenarios across two future representations of the Western Interconnection (WI) are modeled, and detailed production cost modeling (PCM) and power flow (PF) models of each topology were constructed. A novel multi-terminal high voltage direct current (MTDC) model was developed and utilized, and its performance is compared with conventional high voltage direct current (HVDC) radial topology. …”
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A Global Empirical Model of Electron Density Profile in the F Region Ionosphere Basing on COSMIC Measurements by Qiaoling Li, Libo Liu, Maosheng He, He Huang, Jiahao Zhong, Na Yang, Man‐Lian Zhang, Jinzhe Jiang, Yiding Chen, Huijun Le, Jun Cui

“…Combining all the five models, we construct the α‐Chapman‐Based‐EDP. Compared with observations from COSMIC‐1 and ‐2, the model captures the ionospheric climatology well, such as solar activity dependence, seasonal variation, and spatial pattern, including the equatorial ionization anomaly and midlatitude trough as well as their variabilities. …”
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DET induces apoptosis and suppresses tumor invasion in glioma cells via PI3K/AKT pathway by Rui Zhao, Mengran Wang, Zeyu Wu, Panpan Zhao, Huiling Dong, Yue Su, Chenghui Zhao, Min Qi, Shizhang Ling, Shizhang Ling, Xiaochun Jiang, Xiaochun Jiang

“…A protein-protein interaction (PPI) network was constructed using Cytoscape and STRING, and target binding was evaluated through molecular docking. …”
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Characteristics and Control of High Current Vacuum Arc Deflection Under the Impact of Lateral Magnetic Field by Jingjing Li, Xinyu Zhu, Yiping Jiang, Xu Peng, Qihan Li, Xiaolong Huang

“…To eliminate the impact of the external lateral magnetic field and considering the stainless steel shielding hood structure of the actual vacuum arc zone, this study constructs shielding hoods with intermediate layers made of iron and silicon steel respectively to shield the external lateral magnetic field. …”
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Human Health, Ecosystem Quality, and Resource Scarcity Burdens Inflicted by Livestock Production Across Chinese Regions by Yixuan Shao, Qilin Cao, Junnian Song, Jiahao Xing, You Wu, Cheng Sun, Pan He, Wei Yang

“…It requires inventorying localized, activity‐specific, and indicator‐extended multidimensional eco‐environmental burdens and revealing their transfers within interregional trade to inform holistic livestock production management from both production and consumption sides. Herein, we construct a life cycle framework covering multiple livestock species, feeding regimes, and activities to evaluate nine environmental impacts ending up as human health, ecosystem quality and resource scarcity burdens in Chinese provincial regions. …”
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Promoter engineering with programmable upstream activating sequences in Aspergillus Niger cell factory by Xiaomei Zheng, Yuting Guo, Meiling Chen, Yudan Lu, Yimou Du, Yu Lei, Ping Zheng, Jibin Sun

“…Results In this study, we identified two functional upstream activation sequences (UAS) located upstream of the core promoters of highly expressed genes in A. niger. We constructed and characterized a synthetic promoter library by fusing the efficient UAS elements upstream of the strong constitute PgpdA promoter in A. niger. …”
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Network and Dataset for Multiscale Remote Sensing Image Change Detection by Shenbo Liu, Dongxue Zhao, Yuheng Zhou, Ying Tan, Huang He, Zhao Zhang, Lijun Tang

“…As existing RSCD datasets lack rich scale information and often focus on change targets of specific sizes, a new dataset, MSRS-CD, is constructed. This dataset consists of 842 pairs of images with a resolution of 1024 × 1024 pixels, featuring uniformly distributed change detection target sizes. …”
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A functional approach to analyze the genetic basis for differences in virulence of monkeypox virus clades by Patricia L. Earl, Jeffrey L. Americo, Sara Reynolds, Wei Xiao, Catherine Cotter, Bernard Moss

“…Recombinant viruses expressing firefly luciferase were constructed in which partially overlapping Z-79 DNA segments of 5,000 to 13,000 bp containing ∼ 40 genes in total from the two ends of MPXV-79 were replaced with corresponding segments of USA-2003. …”
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Demonstration of Millimeter Wave 5G Setup Employing High-Gain Vivaldi Array by Waleed Tariq Sethi, Muhammad Ahmed Ashraf, Amr Ragheb, Amr Alasaad, Saleh A. Alshebeili

“…Next, the 1 × 4 linear array is used to construct a 4 × 4 antenna array unit cell. The proposed 4 × 4 antenna array unit cell is fabricated, and the characteristics of its elements (i.e., the single SCVA, 1 × 4 linear array, and WPD) are thoroughly investigated. …”
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Exploration of interstitial fluid proteome in Homo sapiens forearm through a cutting edge intradermal microdialysis and high-throughput proteomics approach: a pilot study by Yu Sakamoto, Naoto Fujii, Junko Shibato, Ravi Gupta, Cheol Woo Min, Sun Tae Kim, Ranjith Kumar Bakku, Randeep Rakwal

“…A protein–protein interaction (PPI) network was constructed with genes from STRING using Cytoscape. …”
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Study on Few-Shot Fault Diagnosis Method for Marine Fuel Systems Based on DT-SViT-KNN by Shankai Li, Liang Qi, Jiayu Shi, Han Xiao, Bin Da, Runkang Tang, Danfeng Zuo

“…Firstly, a diesel engine DT model is constructed by integrating the mathematical, mechanism, and three-dimensional physical models of the Medium-speed diesel engines of 6L21/31 Marine, completing the mapping from physical entity to virtual entity. …”
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Effectiveness of educational intervention in improving physical activity and nutritional performance among pregnant women: a pre-post quasi-experimental study using health belief m... by Ali Khani Jeihooni, Fatemeh Razmjouie, Hanieh Jormand, Fariba Sedghi Jahromi, Pooyan Afzali Harsini, Amirhossein Kamyab, Farzaneh Ghaleh Golab

“…Data were analyzed using paired and independent t-tests, with effect sizes and 95% confidence intervals reported.ResultsThe intervention significantly improved physical activity (mean score: 29.25 ± 4.42 vs. 12.28 ± 4.36, p < 0.001) and nutritional performance across all food groups (p < 0.001) in the experimental group compared to the control group. Key constructs of the HBM, including perceived sensitivity, severity, benefits, self-efficacy, and cues to action, showed significant increases with notable effect sizes and 95% confidence intervals, while perceived barriers significantly decreased (p < 0.001).ConclusionsThe educational intervention based on the HBM effectively improved physical activity and nutritional performance among pregnant women. …”
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