Plutonium in the Arctic Marine Environment — A Short Review by Lindis Skipperud

“…Since different plutonium sources are characterised by distinctive plutonium-isotope ratios, evidence of a localised influence can be supported by clear perturbations in the plutonium-isotope ratio fingerprints as compared to the known ratio in global fallout. …”
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The high cancer incidence in young people in Italy: do genetic signatures reveal their environmental causes? by Ruggero Ridolfi

“…Today, the whole genome sequencing techniques for human cancers can help to formulate a map of mutational signatures in individual tumours, and a list of mutational fingerprints showing exposure to specific environmental mutagens is being developed. …”
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Overview on Untargeted Methods to Combat Food Frauds: A Focus on Fishery Products by Giuseppina M. Fiorino, Cristiano Garino, Marco Arlorio, Antonio F. Logrieco, Ilario Losito, Linda Monaci

“…Focus is placed on untargeted methods that are attracting the interest of the analytical community thanks to their rapidity and high throughput; such methods enable a fast collection of “fingerprinting signals” referred to each authentic food, subsequently stored into large database for the construction of specific information repositories. …”
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Charge doping into spin minority states mediates doubling of T C in ferromagnetic CrGeTe3 by Liam Trzaska, Lei Qiao, Matthew D. Watson, Monica Ciomaga Hatnean, Igor Marković, Edgar Abarca Morales, Tommaso Antonelli, Cephise Cacho, Geetha Balakrishnan, Wei Ren, Silvia Picozzi, Phil D. C. King

“…From angle-resolved photoemission, we observe spectroscopic fingerprints that this electron doping drives a marked increase in T C, reaching values more than double that of the undoped material, in agreement with recent studies using electrostatic gating. …”
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Le Théâtre de la mort de Tadeusz Kantor : un « gué secret » entre les vivants et les morts by Virginie Lachaise

“…They are ”snapshots“ ”fingerprints“ that overlap each other in the mode of repetition and variation and draw an anamorphic and fleeting reality, the image of the mental space of the author. …”
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Tracking solid electrolyte interphase dynamics using operando fibre-optic infra-red spectroscopy and multivariate curve regression by Cédric Leau, Yu Wang, Charlotte Gervillié-Mouravieff, Steven T Boles, Xiang-Hua Zhang, Simon Coudray, Catherine Boussard-Plédel, Jean-Marie Tarascon

“…By establishing molecular fingerprints that can be used to identify reaction products, IR-FEWS combined with MCR-ALS enables improved understanding of SEI evolution during cell formation with notable differences stemming from electrolyte or anode material. …”
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Analysis of Corn Deterioration Due to Molding Using Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy by Xiaoyan Wei, Guifang Wu, Pengcheng Qiu, Huihe Yang, Shubin Yan, Jianing Di, Xiangpeng Zhao, Feixu Zhang, Hongda Zhang

“…This study utilized surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) to obtain Raman spectral fingerprints of moldy corn, combined with multi-class support vector machines (SVM) for rapid detection. …”
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16S rRNA gene sequencing of non-lactic acid bacteria cultures from lait caillé in Burkina Faso by Geoffroy Romaric Bayili, Clarisse S. Compaoré, Bréhima Diawara, Lene Jespersen, Hagretou Sawadogo-Lingani

“…Pure colonies were selected, then the penta-GTG oligonucleotide (GTG)5-based rep-PCR fingerprinting followed by cluster analysis and sequencing of the 16S rRNA gene was performed to identify the isolates. …”
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Indoor localization system based on virtual access points with filtering schemes by Dong Myung Lee, Boney Labinghisa

“…Kalman filter has been previously used together with virtual access point and showed improvement by decreasing error distance of Wi-Fi fingerprinting results. This article also aims to include particle filter in the system to further improve localization and test its effectiveness when paired with Kalman filter. …”
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Founding Editorial – Forensics and TheScientificWorld by Walter Rowe

“…The intervening century saw the development and application of fingerprinting, firearm and tool mark identification, forensic chemistry, forensic biology, forensic toxicology, forensic odontology, forensic pathology, and forensic engineering. …”
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Biometric Fusion for Enhanced Authentication in Cloud Computing Environments by Chiyo Miyazawa, Ryosuke Sato

“…By leveraging diverse biometric traits like fingerprints, iris scans, and palm prints, MultiFusionGuard utilizes their unique patterns to enhance security measures. …”
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Characterization and discrimination of fermented sweet melon juice by different microbial strains via GC-IMS-based volatile profiling and chemometrics by Zhaoling Wang, Si Mi, Xianghong Wang, Kemin Mao, Yuwei Liu, Jie Gao, Yaxin Sang

“…This study confirms the effect of microorganisms on the flavor of the fermented sweet melon juice and shows the potential of HS-GC-IMS combined with chemometrics as a powerful strategy to obtain volatile fingerprints of different fermented sweet melon juice.…”
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Contact ion-pair SN2 reactions activated by Lewis Base Phase transfer catalysts by Ju Gyeong Jeong, Young-Ho Oh, Tae Hyun Park, Sung-Sik Lee, Dong Wook Kim, Sungyul Lee

“…The 19F-NMR spectra of MF (M = K, Cs) ion-pairs in various solvents are used as fingerprinting tools to identify the CIP CsF/PTC/substrate complexes in SN2 reactions. …”
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DNA Typing of Mycobacterium bovis Isolates from Badgers (Meles meles) Culled from Areas in Ireland with Different Levels of Tuberculosis Prevalence by Claire Furphy, Eamon Costello, Denise Murphy, Leigh A. L. Corner, Eamonn Gormley

“…The extent to which the prevalence levels in badgers impact on the prevalence in cattle is not known. Previously, DNA fingerprinting has shown that M. bovis strain types are shared between badgers and cattle, and that there are a large number of strain types circulating in the two species. …”
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Antimicrobial resistance and epidemiological patterns of Streptococcus pyogenes in Türkiye by Nihan Ünübol, Nese Caglayan, Sinan Cebeci, Yeşim Beşli, Banu Sancak, Neval Yurttutan Uyar, Siavosh Salmanzadeh Ahrabi, Masoud Alebouyeh, Tanıl Kocagöz

“…Methods: We determined the minimum inhibitory concentration using the penicillin gradient test and performed emm typing and DNA fingerprinting via pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) to analyze the clonal spread of 92 S. pyogenes strains isolated from two hospitals in Türkiye between 2020 and 2022. …”
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The ‘Silent Guardians’ in the Fight against Corruption: The Case of North Macedonia by Emilija Gjorgjievska Tudjarovska

“…Based on theoretical, empirical as well as comparative observations, within single case method analysis, this article aims to examine the compliance of the theoretical fingerprints with the actual practice and provide a different angle on the institutional opportunities for social traps, in the context of unconsolidated democracies. …”
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Cell Imaging by Spontaneous and Amplified Raman Spectroscopies by Giulia Rusciano, Gianluigi Zito, Giuseppe Pesce, Antonio Sasso

“…The high chemical specificity due to its fingerprinting character and the minimal requests for sample preparation have rendered it nowadays very popular in the analysis of biosystems for diagnostic purposes. …”
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Proteomic Profiling Towards a Better Understanding of Genetic Based Muscular Diseases: The Current Picture and a Look to the Future by Marc Pauper, Andreas Hentschel, Malte Tiburcy, Sergi Beltran, Tobias Ruck, Ulrike Schara-Schmidt, Andreas Roos

“…Proteomics accelerates diagnosis and research of muscular diseases by enabling the robust analysis of proteins relevant for the manifestation of neuromuscular diseases in the following aspects: (i) evaluation of the effect of genetic variants on the corresponding protein, (ii) prediction of the underlying genetic defect based on the proteomic signature of muscle biopsies, (iii) analysis of pathophysiologies underlying different entities of muscular diseases, key for the definition of new intervention concepts, and (iv) patient stratification according to biochemical fingerprints as well as (v) monitoring the success of therapeutic interventions. …”
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Use of ATR-FTIR Spectroscopy and Chemometrics for the Variation of Active Components in Different Harvesting Periods of Lonicera japonica by Yun-Chu Zhang, Jing Deng, Xiu-Lian Lin, Ya-Mei Li, Han-Xuan Sheng, Bo-Hou Xia, Li-Mei Lin

“…The preliminary characterization from ATR-FTIR fingerprints showed various characteristic absorption peaks of the main active components from the different harvesting times, such as flavonoids, organic acids, iridoids, and volatile oils. …”
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Phytochemical and Antibacterial Investigations of the Extracts and Fractions from the Stem Bark of Hymenaea stigonocarpa Mart. ex Hayne and Effect on Ultrastructure of Staphylococc... by Gustavo Santiago Dimech, Luiz Alberto Lira Soares, Magda Assunção Ferreira, Anne Gabrielle Vasconcelos de Oliveira, Maria da Conceição Carvalho, Eulália Azevedo Ximenes

“…The chromatographic fingerprints suggest the presence of astilbin and other flavonoids in EE and HE. …”
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