X-Ray-Based 3D Histopathology of the Kidney Using Cryogenic Contrast-Enhanced MicroCT by Arne Maes, Onno Borgel, Clara Braconnier, Tim Balcaen, Martine Wevers, Rebecca Halbgebauer, Markus Huber-Lang, Greet Kerckhofs

“…By comparing different contrast-enhancing staining agents and freezing protocols, we found that the preferred sample preparation protocol was the combination of staining with 1:2 hafnium(IV)-substituted Wells-Dawson polyoxometalate and freezing by submersion in isopentane at −78°C. …”
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Phytoplankton Communities and Cyanotoxin Production in Some Bulgarian Lowland Lakes and Reservoirs by Detelina Belkinova, Ivanka Teneva, Stefan Kazakov, Silvia Stamenova

“…They are often accompanied by the production of cyanotoxins in concentrations, which are hazardous for human health. In this research, we analysed phytoplankton communities in four lowland water bodies, for the presence of cyanobacterial blooms and toxin production. …”
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Dogs distinguish authentic human emotions without being empathic by Juliane Bräuer, Dorothea Eichentopf, Nomi Gebele, Louise Jandke, Veronique Mann, Katharina Schulte, Yana Bender

“…Through a detailed analysis of dog behavior in these naturalistic settings, we investigated whether dogs show behavioral responses to genuine human emotions. …”
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Stochastic User Equilibrium Assignment in Schedule-Based Transit Networks with Capacity Constraints by Wangtu Xu, Lixin Miao, Wei-Hua Lin

“…We split passenger demands among connections which are the space-time paths between OD pairs of the network. …”
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Pathway Detection from Protein Interaction Networks and Gene Expression Data Using Color-Coding Methods and A* Search Algorithms by Cheng-Yu Yeh, Hsiang-Yuan Yeh, Carlos Roberto Arias, Von-Wun Soo

“…In the experiments, we tested our methods by applying to two datasets: yeast and human prostate cancer networks and gene expression data set. …”
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An Empirical Study on Relationship between Residents’ Disposable Income and CPI Based on TVECM: Application of Bootstrap SupLM Testing for Threshold Cointegration by Jungang Du

“…In the empirical section, we apply our methods to test and estimate the TVECM of residents’ disposable income and CPI. …”
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Cell Mechanisms of Post-Mortem Excitability of Skeletal Muscle by H. Stigter, T. Krap, W. L. J. M. Duijst

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> The excitability of skeletal muscle is a less-known post-mortem supravital phenomenon in human bodies, and it can be used to estimate the post-mortem interval. We conducted a field study in the Netherlands to investigate the applicability of muscle excitability (SMR) by mechanical stimulation for estimating the post-mortem interval in daily forensic practice. …”
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Identifying Usability and Productivity Dimensions for Measuring the Success of Mobile Business Services by Maiju Vuolle, Anne Aula, Minna Kulju, Teija Vainio, Heli Wigelius

“…This paper reviews existing measures used for evaluating the usability of information systems and those used for evaluating the level of the productivity of a company. We discuss the usefulness of the existing measures in the mobile business context, where both mobility and work-context pose specific demands for the mobile business services. …”
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A Fast Fully Parallel Ant Colony Optimization Algorithm Based on CUDA for Solving TSP by Zhi Zeng, Yuxing Cai, Kwok L. Chung, Hui Lin, Jinwei Wu

“…In view of the known problems of parameter sensitivity, local optimum, and slow convergence in the ant colony optimization (ACO), we aim to improve the performance of the ACO. To solve the traveling salesman problem (TSP) quickly with accurate results, we propose a fully parallel ACO (FP-ACO). …”
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Universal flops of length 1 and 2 from D2-branes at surface singularities by Marina Moleti, Roberto Valandro

“…Abstract We study families of deformed ADE surfaces by probing them with a D2-brane in Type IIA string theory. …”
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Establishment and characterization of three gemcitabine-resistant human intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma cell lines by Jiandong Li, Yanxin Hu, Jiayao Zhang, Weiguang Zhang, Jianhua Yu, Baochun Lu

“…However, the mechanisms underlying gemcitabine (GEM) resistance in ICC remain poorly understood. In this study, we established three GEM-resistant cell models and evaluated their resistance by assessing cell proliferation, cell cycle arrest, and DNA damage. …”
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A Survey of Open Source Products for Building a SIP Communication Platform by Pavel Segec, Tatiana Kovacikova

“…We propose an advanced converged IP communication platform that uses SIP for service delivery. …”
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Dynamical control of topological unidirectional guided resonances via external magnetic field by Bao Jie Zheng, Wei Jie Shi, Hui Yuan Dong, Yong Tao Li, Jia Qi Li, Zheng-Gao Dong, Jin Wang

“…Under an external magnetic field, it is found that genuine UGRs (or quasi-UGRs) in topological nature, depicted by a phase winding number of far-field radiation, can be created by hybridizing the different orthogonal bands in such a nonreciprocal grating. We further investigate the evolution, annihilation, and band transition for residential position of UGRs in three-dimensional parameter space, and we also notice that the emission direction may be switched from one side to the other due to the tuning of the asymmetric coupling. …”
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Numerical Calculation of Three-Dimensional Ground State Potential Energy Function of Na2F System by Yue Wang, Yu Liu, BiLv Fang, Gan Gao, Chengwen Zhang, Dezhi Dong

“…We present a new three-dimensional global potential energy surface (PES) for the ground state of Na2F system. …”
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Analysis and Enhancement of IEEE 802.15.4e DSME Beacon Scheduling Model by Kwang-il Hwang, Sung-wook Nam

“…Through additional experiments, we prove the performance superiority of enhanced DSME.…”
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Accelerated enzyme engineering by machine-learning guided cell-free expression by Grant M. Landwehr, Jonathan W. Bogart, Carol Magalhaes, Eric G. Hammarlund, Ashty S. Karim, Michael C. Jewett

“…We apply this platform to engineer amide synthetases by evaluating substrate preference for 1217 enzyme variants in 10,953 unique reactions. …”
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Incremental accumulation of linguistic context in artificial and biological neural networks by Refael Tikochinski, Ariel Goldstein, Yoav Meiri, Uri Hasson, Roi Reichart

“…Next, we introduce an alternative LLM-based incremental-context model that combines incoming short-term context with an aggregated, dynamically updated summary of prior context. …”
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Integrating environmental sustainability into the teaching of global health ethics from a students’ perspective: new guiding questions by Marc Sánchez Benito, Julia Bielik, Carmen Rauh Garrido, Johanna Krüger, Selina Noe, Saskia-Linda Stämmler, Salome Steinke, Sofia Tzirita, Xuan Zhang

“…As recent global health graduates, we believe that global health relies on the interconnectedness of human and environmental health. …”
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Measurement of Rank and Other Properties of Direct and Scattered Signals by Svante Björklund, Per Grahn, Anders Nelander, Mats I. Pettersson

“…We have designed an experiment for low-cost indoor measurements of rank and other properties of direct and scattered signals with radar interference suppression in mind. …”
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The Generalization Complexity Measure for Continuous Input Data by Iván Gómez, Sergio A. Cannas, Omar Osenda, José M. Jerez, Leonardo Franco

“…We introduce in this work an extension for the generalization complexity measure to continuous input data. …”
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