Handling Imbalance Classification Virtual Screening Big Data Using Machine Learning Algorithms by Sahar K. Hussin, Salah M. Abdelmageid, Adel Alkhalil, Yasser M. Omar, Mahmoud I. Marie, Rabie A. Ramadan

“…A large set of experiments were implemented on Apache Spark using numeric PaDEL and fingerprint descriptors. The proposed solution was compared to both no-sampling method and SMOTE on the same datasets. …”
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Employee attendance system using face recognition and GPS using local binary pattern histogram by Narahari Vigraha Prasada, Ikrimach

“…Conventional approaches such as manual sign-ins and RFID cards or fingerprint scanning have shown important weaknesses, especially with regard to proxy attendance (buddy punching). …”
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Rapid Quantitative Analysis of Forest Biomass Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Partial Least Squares Regression by Gifty E. Acquah, Brian K. Via, Oladiran O. Fasina, Lori G. Eckhardt

“…The effect of reducing the wavenumber range to the fingerprint region for PLS modeling and the relationship between the chemical composition and higher heating value of logging residue were also explored. …”
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Chemical and Oxygen Isotopic Composition of Roman and Late Antique Glass from Northern Greece by Alberta Silvestri, Elissavet Dotsika, Antonio Longinelli, Enricomaria Selmo, Sophia Doukata-Demertzi

“…The present paper emphasizes the importance of measuring the oxygen isotopic and chemical compositions of ancient glass, in order to constrain some features such as age, raw materials, and production technologies and to identify the “fingerprint” of local productions. In this context, thirty-nine Roman and late Antique glass samples and eight chert samples from northern Greece were selected and analysed for their oxygen isotopic and chemical compositions. …”
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A Review of Detection of Antibiotic Residues in Food by Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy by Jun-Fa Liang, Cheng Peng, Peiyu Li, Qiu-Xiong Ye, Yu Wang, Yun-Ting Yi, Zi-Sheng Yao, Gui-Yun Chen, Bin-Bin Zhang, Jia-Jian Lin, Qizhi Luo, Xuncai Chen

“…Thus, SERS has become a promising alternative analytical method for detecting antibiotic residues, as it can provide an ultrasensitive fingerprint spectrum for the rapid and noninvasive detection of trace analytes. …”
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Light Hydrocarbon Geochemistry: Insight into Mississippian Crude Oil Sources from the Anadarko Basin, Oklahoma, USA by Ibrahim Atwah, Stephen Sweet, John Pantano, Anthony Knap

“…The result shows a distinct geochemical fingerprint reflected in biomarkers such as the abundance of extended tricyclic terpanes, together with heptane star diagrams, and diamantane isomeric distributions. …”
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Bioassay-Guided Fractionation, ESI-MS Scan, Phytochemical Screening, and Antiplasmodial Activity of Afzelia africana by Bright Yaw Vigbedor, Jonathan Osei-Owusu, Ralph Kwakye, David Neglo

“…The main aim of the study was to carry out bioassay-guided fractionation of the crude methanol extract of Afzelia africana in order to isolate fractions and to evaluate their antiplasmodial activities and ESI-MS fingerprints. Methods. The methods employed include column chromatographic fractionation, phytochemical screening, antiplasmodial activity (malaria SYBER green assay (MSF)), and ESI-MS profile (full ESI-MS scan). …”
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A Culture-Proven Case of Community-Acquired Legionella Pneumonia Apparently Classified as Nosocomial: Diagnostic and Public Health Implications by Annalisa Bargellini, Isabella Marchesi, Patrizia Marchegiano, Luca Richeldi, Roberto Cagarelli, Greta Ferranti, Paola Borella

“…We found that the clinical strain had identical rep-PCR fingerprint of L. pneumophila serogroup 1 isolated at home. …”
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Metabolome profiling dissects the oat (Avena sativa L.) innate immune response to Pseudomonas syringae pathovars. by Chanel J Pretorius, Paul A Steenkamp, Ian A Dubery

“…The metabolome acts as a metabolic fingerprint of the biochemical activities of a biological system under particular conditions, and therefore provides a functional readout of the cellular mechanisms involved. …”
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Charge heterogeneity of therapeutic monoclonal antibodies by different cIEF systems: views on the current situation by Alessandro Ascione, Marcello Belfiore, Jaana Vesterinen, Mihaela Buda, Wolf Holtkamp, Francesca Luciani

“…Therapeutic mAbs show a specific “charge fingerprint” that may affect safety and efficacy, and, as such, it is often identified as a critical quality attribute (CQA). …”
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Designing an internet of things laboratory to improve student understanding of secure IoT systems by A. Ravishankar Rao, Angela Elias-Medina

“…These include barcode scanners, cameras, fingerprint sensors, and pulse sensors. These devices cover important functions such as patient identification, monitoring, and creating electronic health records. …”
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Moving Target Localization in Sports Image Sequence Based on Optimized Particle Filter Hybrid Tracking Algorithm by Yan Guo

“…This paper proposes a fusion stadium positioning algorithm, which uses self-optimizing particle filter to integrate the improved athlete dead reckoning and WiFi position fingerprint algorithm for stadium positioning. In order to determine the initial absolute position of the stadium positioning, for athletes entering the stadium from the outside, a seamless switching algorithm outside the stadium is proposed, using the characteristics of high-altitude satellite GPS to find a suitable switching point as the initial absolute position. …”
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Antioxidant Potential and Phenolic Compounds of Some Widely Consumed Turkish White Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) Varieties by Orak Hakime Hülya, Karamać Magdalena, Orak Adnan, Amarowicz Ryszard

“…Differences in the inhibition of emulsion oxidation by extracts of white bean varieties were slight. The RP-HPLC fingerprint analysis of extracts showed the presence of five dominant phenolic compounds which were described as ferulic or caffeic acids derivatives. …”
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Application of kDNA Minicircle PCR-RFLP to Characterize Leishmania donovani Clinical Isolates Obtained from Post-Kala-Azar Dermal Leishmaniasis in Eastern Nepal by Ojesh Pokhrel, Keshav Rai, Narayan Raj Bhattarai, Suman Rijal, Arpana Rijal, Basudha Khanal

“…All PKDL isolates have the same genetic structure. kDNA PCR-RFLP assay revealed 18 different genotypes; however, structural analysis showed the two distinct kDNA genotype population (k = 2). The kDNA fingerprint patterns of parasites from hilly districts were clustered separately from low-land districts. …”
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Genetic Dissection of Sympatric Populations of Brown Planthopper, Nilaparvata lugens (Stål), Using DALP-PCR Molecular Markers by M. A. Latif, M. Y. Rafii, M. S. Mazid, M. E. Ali, F. Ahmed, M. Y. Omar, S. G. Tan

“…Direct amplified length polymorphism (DALP) combines the advantages of a high-resolution fingerprint method and also characterizing the genetic polymorphisms. …”
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All-Metal Metamaterial-Based Sensor with Novel Geometry and Enhanced Sensing Capability at Terahertz Frequency by Sagnik Banerjee, Ishani Ghosh, Carlo Santini, Fabio Mangini, Rocco Citroni, Fabrizio Frezza

“…At terahertz wavelength, the proposed design can be used for any value of the aforementioned angles, targeting THz spectroscopy-based biomolecular fingerprint detection and energy harvesting applications.…”
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Research Progress in Small-Molecule Detection Using Aptamer-Based SERS Techniques by Li Zheng, Qingdan Ye, Mengmeng Wang, Fan Sun, Qiang Chen, Xiaoping Yu, Yufeng Wang, Pei Liang

“…Surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) spectroscopy is an ultra-sensitive, non-destructive analytical technique that can rapidly acquire the “fingerprint information” of the measured molecules. …”
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MS-Based Analytical Techniques: Advances in Spray-Based Methods and EI-LC-MS Applications by Federica Bianchi, Nicolò Riboni, Veronica Termopoli, Lucia Mendez, Isabel Medina, Leopold Ilag, Achille Cappiello, Maria Careri

“…It can provide molecular weight information and a wealth of structural details that give a unique fingerprint for each analyte. Due to these characteristics, mass spectrometry-based analytical methods are showing an increasing interest in the scientific community, especially in food safety, environmental, and forensic investigation areas where the simultaneous detection of targeted and nontargeted compounds represents a key factor. …”
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Image Quality Assessment Based on Multi-Scale Representation and Shifting Transformer by Geng Fu, Ziyu Wang, Cuijuan Zhang, Zerong Qi, Mingzheng Hu, Shujun Fu, Yunfeng Zhang

“…Image Quality Assessment (IQA) is a crucial metric for intelligent control systems and computer vision tasks, such as surveillance, restoration, and fingerprint identification, significantly advancing algorithm development in these areas. …”
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Gemological and Spectral Characteristics of Gem-Quality Blue Gahnite from Nigeria by Yifang Chen, Junhao Zheng, Mingmei Lu, Ziqi Liu, Zhengyu Zhou

“…The infrared spectra showed midinfrared absorption bands near 510 cm−1, 559 cm−1, and 664 cm−1 in the fingerprint region, corresponding to the Zn-O stretching vibration, bending vibration, and Al-O bending vibration, respectively. …”
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