Development and Application of a New Convective Entrainment Rate Parameterization for Improving Precipitation Simulation Over the Tibetan Plateau and Its Surrounding Areas by Junjun Li, Chunsong Lu, Jinghua Chen, Jian Li, Jing Yang, Xiaoqi Xu, Lei Zhu, Xin He, Shiying Wu

“…Abstract The Tibetan Plateau (TP) significantly impacts the global climate. TP's unique geographical conditions make it one of the areas with the largest precipitation biases in numerical models. …”
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A hybrid Framework for plant leaf disease detection and classification using convolutional neural networks and vision transformer by Sherihan Aboelenin, Foriaa Ahmed Elbasheer, Mohamed Meselhy Eltoukhy, Walaa M. El-Hady, Khalid M. Hosny

“…This proposed model leverages the strength of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViT), where an ensemble model, which consists of the well-known CNN architectures VGG16, Inception-V3, and DenseNet20, is used to extract robust global features. Then, a ViT model is used to extract local features to detect plant diseases precisely. …”
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Research status and development trends of dust concentration monitoring technology by ZHANG Yongqi, WANG Jie, ZHOU Yuhao, YANG Junni, DENG Bin

“…The paper also delves into the continuous separation technologies and standards for respirable dust particles on a global scale and systematically examines the challenges that current dust concentration continuous monitoring technologies face in terms of instrumental measurement precision, reliability, stability, environmental adaptability, intelligent automatic calibration, and power consumption optimization. …”
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Data mining and socio-spatial patterns of COVID-19: geo-prevention keys for tackling the pandemic by Olga De Cos Guerra, Valentín Castillo Salcines, David Cantarero Prieto

“…To that end the research is based on data mining methods (3D bins and emerging hot-spots) and exploratory geo-statistical analysis (Global Moran’s Index, Nearest Neighbourhood and Ordinary Least Square analyses, among others). …”
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Phage-Derived Endolysins Against Resistant Staphylococcus spp.: A Review of Features, Antibacterial Activities, and Recent Applications by Mina Golban, Javad Charostad, Hossein Kazemian, Hamid Heidari

“…Abstract Antimicrobial resistance is a significant global public health issue, and the dissemination of antibiotic resistance in Gram-positive bacterial pathogens has significantly increased morbidity, mortality rates, and healthcare costs. …”
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Discovery of robust and highly specific microbiome signatures of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease by Emmanouil Nychas, Andrea Marfil-Sánchez, Xiuqiang Chen, Mohammad Mirhakkak, Huating Li, Weiping Jia, Aimin Xu, Henrik Bjørn Nielsen, Max Nieuwdorp, Rohit Loomba, Yueqiong Ni, Gianni Panagiotou

“…Abstract Background The pathogenesis of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) with a global prevalence of 30% is multifactorial and the involvement of gut bacteria has been recently proposed. …”
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Fire Carbon Cycle Research Is on the Rise: A Bibliometric Analysis from 1989–2023 by Di Wang, Siquan Yang, Qichao Yao, Weikang Zhang, Zhaogang Liu, Yanyan Pei, Fenglin Zuo

“…Although there is a substantial global body of research on fire carbon cycle (FCC), there are relatively few studies offering graphical and quantitative analyses. …”
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Placental Infection with Different SARS-CoV-2 Variants Leading to Stillbirth: Report of Two Cases by Miriam A. Snow, Medini K. Annavajhala, Sofia Z. Moscovitz, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Larisa Debelenko

“…The persistence of rare cases of SP as COVID-19 becomes globally endemic emphasizes the importance of disease prevention in pregnancy.…”
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An in-depth analysis of two common methodologies used to derive hourly solar radiation values from daily ones: pros and cons by Harry D. Kambezidis, Harry D. Kambezidis

“…Nevertheless, modelling solar radiation at an hourly level is nowadays required for a short-term output forecast from solar installations. The daily global solar radiation decomposition models are one category of solar models that convert daily solar radiation values to hourly ones. …”
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Relationship between Abdominal Pressure, Pulmonary Compliance, and Cardiac Preload in a Porcine Model by Joost Wauters, Piet Claus, Nathalie Brosens, Myles McLaughlin, Greet Hermans, Manu Malbrain, Alexander Wilmer

“…Central venous and pulmonary wedge pressure increased with increasing IAP and correlated inversely (r=-0.31) with stroke index (SI). Global end-diastolic volume index was unaffected by IAP and correlated best with SI (r=0.52). …”
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Engineering tomato disease resistance by manipulating susceptibility genes by Duoduo Wang, Palash Mandal, Md Sazan Rahman, Lirong Yang

“…This review underscores the potential of CRISPR-based approaches to transform tomato breeding, paving the way for sustainable production of disease-resistant cultivars amidst escalating global food security challenges.…”
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Understanding Sofia’s travel dynamics: Study of private traffic patterns and urban mobility by Lidia Lazarova Vitanova, Evgeny Shirinyan, Tereza Trendafilova, Dessislava Petrova-Antonova

“…They not only support economic activities and enhance social interactions but also enable urban development, global trade, and access to essential resources and opportunities. …”
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Analytical approaches to evaluate risk factors of multimorbidity: a systematic scoping review protocol by Alex Lewin, Poppy Alice Carson Mallinson, Sanjay Kinra, Judith Lieber, Chaisiri Angkurawaranon, Hirotomo Yamanashi, Chanchanok Aramrat, Nutchar Wiwatkunupakarn, Nick Birk, Wenbo Song, Mika Matsuzaki, Elliott Rogers

“…This proposed scoping review aims to summarise and appraise the analytical approaches used in the published literature that evaluated risk factors of multimorbidity and to provide guidance for researchers conducting analyses in this field.Methods and analysis We will systematically search three electronic databases—Embase, Global Health and MEDLINE, as well as the reference lists of identified relevant review articles, from inception to September 2024. …”
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Spinach ameliorates dietary oxidized tallow-induced NAFLD by regulating inflammatory cytokines, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors, and antioxidant systems by Neelab, Alam Zeb, Muhammad Jamil

“…Background: Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is one of the most prevalent chronic liver disorders globally and is a major clinical concern that is increasing in both industrialized and developing countries. …”
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IDBGL: A unique image dataset of black gram (Vigna mungo) leaves for disease detection and classificationMendeley Data by Md. Mehedi Hasan Shoib, Shahnewaz Saeem, Afia Benta Aziz Tonima, Mayen Uddin Mojumdar

“…Our purpose is to create a unique dataset of Bangladesh's Black Gram (Vigna mungo) to help global researchers build a deep learning-automated system for the early detection and classification of Black Gram leaf diseases that will assist farmers and create more awareness among different agricultural stakeholders. …”
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GFTT: Geographical Feature Tokenization Transformer for SAR-to-Optical Image Translation by Hongbo Liang, Xuezhi Yang, Xiangyu Yang, Jinjin Luo, Jiajia Zhu

“…In addition, we leverage a self-supervisory task to encourage the transformer to learn meaningful semantic correspondence from local and global style patterns. Finally, we utilize the noise-contrastive estimation loss to maximize mutual information between the input and translated image. …”
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Phenotypic Detection of Metallo-β-Lactamase in Imipenem-Resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Yalda Khosravi, Mun Fai Loke, Eng Guan Chua, Sun Tee Tay, Jamuna Vadivelu

“…However, the emergence of carbapenem resistance due to the production of metallo-β-lactamases (MBLs) is of global concern. In this study, 90 imipenem- (IPM- or IP-) resistant P. aeruginosa (IRPA) isolates, including 32 previously tested positive and genotyped for MBL genes by PCR, were subjected to double-disk synergy test (DDST), combined disk test (CDT), and imipenem/imipenem-inhibitor (IP/IPI) E-test to evaluate their MBLs detection capability. …”
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Human Genomic Loci Important in Common Infectious Diseases: Role of High-Throughput Sequencing and Genome-Wide Association Studies by Gerald Mboowa, Ivan Sserwadda, Marion Amujal, Norah Namatovu

“…HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis (TB), and malaria are 3 major global public health threats that undermine development in many resource-poor settings. …”
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Experimental and Numerical Analysis of Hollow and Solid Reinforced Concrete Piers under Static and Impact Loadings by Pengfei Yao, Junyu Zhu, Lu Zhu, Hai Fang, Changgen Qian

“…For RC piers with a hollow ratio of 0 and 0.4, the global failure dominated the damage process. However, failure of piers with a hollow ratio of 0.6 was governed by the local damage near the loading point. …”
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Emended snake optimizer to solve multiobjective hybrid energy generation scheduling by Kaur Avneet, Dhillon J.S., Singh Manmohan

“…The basic SOA is emended through simple search and opposition-based learning, enhancing exploitation, convergence behavior, and procuring near to global solutions. The simulation studies involve solving unconstrained standard benchmark problems and electric power system problems. …”
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