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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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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Rapid SERS detection of antimony using a superparamagnetic FA@MIL-101(Fe) composite substrate by Zhenli Sun, Jianghong Tang, Xunlong Ji, Jingjing Du

“…SERS presents a promising approach for detecting Sb, attributed to its high sensitivity and ability to capture distinct molecular fingerprints. However, traditional SERS substrates have struggled with effective detection because of weak interactions between Sb and traditional SERS substrate. …”
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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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Adulteration detection of plant protein beverages by UPLC-MS/MS based on signature peptide of allergen by Yawei Ning, Zhuo Liu, Zheng Yang, Junmei Ma, Yan Zhang, Qiang Li

“…Almond, peanut, walnut and soybean were hydrolyzed, followed by separation by NanoLC-Triple TOF MS. The obtained fingerprints were identified by ProteinPilotTM combined with Uniprot, and 16 signature peptides were selected. …”
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Asymmetric Omphalopagus in a Triplet after In Vitro Fertilization: A Rare Case of Conjoined Twinning by Samir Jabari, Roman Carbon, Manuel Besendörfer, Arndt Hartmann, Oliver Rompel, André Hoerning, Stephan Söder

“…The sex was nondeterminable, but DNA fingerprinting revealed that both parasite and autosite are monozygotic, so are females. …”
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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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Classification of Coffee Beans by GC-C-IRMS, GC-MS, and 1H-NMR by Victoria Andrea Arana, Jessica Medina, Pierre Esseiva, Diego Pazos, Julien Wist

“…This system relies on fingerprints acquired on a 400 MHz magnet and is thus well suited for small scale random screening of samples obtained at resellers or coffee shops. …”
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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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Antibacterial Mechanisms of Constituents from Galla chinensis Revealed by Experimental and Virtual Screening-Based Studies by Meilan Liu, Tingting Lin, Liyuan Yao, Hongfeng Chen, Yu Lu, Zhengguo Tao, Haiquan Zhao, Sheng-Xiang Qiu, Liyun Zhao

“…The chemical constituents of Galla chinensis were identified by chemical fingerprinting. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6-Penta-O-galloyl-β-D-glucose (PGG) from Galla chinensis exhibited significant inhibition activity against adenylyl transferase (ATase) of E. coli and antibacterial activity against E. coli. …”
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History, status and genetic characteristics of native cattle breeds from the Republic of Kazakhstan by A. K. Khamzina, A. A. Yurchenko, N. S. Yudin, P. Sh. Ibragimov, Y. S. Ussenbekov, D. M. Larkin

“…An overview of genetic studies using DNA fingerprinting, microsatellites, and SNPs aimed at identifying unique characteristics, genetic diversity, and genes under selection, as well as markers of economically important and productive traits of Kazakh cattle breeds, is also provided. …”
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