Genome-scale data resolve ancestral rock-inhabiting lifestyle in Dothideomycetes (Ascomycota) by Claudio G. Ametrano, Felix Grewe, Pedro W. Crous, Stephen B. Goodwin, Chen Liang, Laura Selbmann, H. Thorsten Lumbsch, Steven D. Leavitt, Lucia Muggia

“…We assembled phylogenomic datasets from newly sequenced (4) and previously available genomes (238) of 242 taxa. …”
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End-to-end 3D instance segmentation of synthetic data and embryo microscopy images with a 3D Mask R-CNN by Gabriel David, Emmanuel Faure

“…Our implementation adapts a widely used 2D TensorFlow Mask R-CNN by developing custom TensorFlow operations for 3D Non-Max Suppression and 3D Crop And Resize, facilitating efficient training and inference on 3D data. We validate our 3D Mask R-CNN on two experiences. …”
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Suppression of Aedes aegypti may not affect sympatric Aedes albopictus populations: findings from two years of entomological surveillance in Singapore by Wei Jian Wong, Cheong Huat Tan, Matthew Gregory Verkaik, Lee Ching Ng, Ary Anthony Hoffmann, Chee-Seng Chong

“…Finally, we report that dengue viruses were less prevalent in field Ae. albopictus than in Ae. aegypti, which is consistent with previous findings that Ae. albopictus is a lesser vector than Ae. aegypti in Singapore. …”
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Does mistreatment during institutional childbirth increase the likelihood of experiencing postpartum depressive symptoms? A prospective cohort study in Nepal by Rejina Gurung, Miia Bask

“…Objective To assess the risk of experiencing depressive symptoms among postpartum women exposed to mistreatment during institutional birthing in Nepal. Method We conducted a prospective cohort study from 29 March to 19 August 2022. …”
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NT-Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Levels in Infants with Failure to Thrive due to Caloric Deprivation by L. B. Mänhardt, K. Norozi, C. Müller, C. Willaschek, B. Kostuch, R. Buchhorn

“…Brain natriuretic peptide and its inactive fragment N-terminal pro-BNP (N-BNP) are reliable markers of ventricular dysfunction in adults and children. We analyzed the impact of nutritional state on N-BNP levels in infants with failure to thrive (FTT) and in infants with severe heart failure (HF). …”
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Work Roles in Human–Robot Collaborative Systems: Effects on Cognitive Ergonomics for the Manufacturing Industry by Pablo Segura, Odette Lobato-Calleros, Isidro Soria-Arguello, Eduardo Gamaliel Hernández-Martínez

“…This might carry important consequences in the cognitive dimension of ergonomics, which then contradicts the main well-being goals of collaborative work. Therefore, we designed a series of collaborative scenarios where we shifted the assignment of work responsibilities between humans and robots while executing a quality inspection task. …”
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The Effect of Visual Feedback on Writing Size in Parkinson’s Disease by Adriaan R. E. Potgieser, Elizabeth Roosma, Martijn Beudel, Bauke M. de Jong

“…Micrographia is a relatively early PD sign of visuomotor dysfunction, characterized by a global reduction in writing size and a decrement in size during writing. Here we aimed to investigate the effect of withdrawal of visual feedback on writing size in patients with PD. …”
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A High Efficiency Discontinuous Galerkin Method for 3D Ground-Penetrating Radar Simulation by Shuyang Xue, Changchun Yin, Jing Li, Jiao Zhu, Wuyang Liu

“…To verify the accuracy of our algorithm, we simulate a full-space vacuum and a cuboid in a homogeneous medium and compare results, respectively, with the analytical solutions and those from the finite-difference method. …”
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A Network-Based Impact Measure for Propagated Losses in a Supply Chain Network Consisting of Resilient Components by Jesus Felix Bayta Valenzuela, Xiuju Fu, Gaoxi Xiao, Rick Siow Mong Goh

“…The topology of a supply chain network affects the impacts of disruptions in it. We formulate a network-based measure of the impact of a disruption loss in a supply chain propagating downstream from an originating node. …”
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Imprinting and Promoter Usage of Insulin-Like Growth Factor II in Twin Discordant Placenta by Yan-Min Luo, Qun Fang, Hui-Juan Shi, Lin-Huan Huang, Run-Cai Liang, Guang-Lun Zhuang

“…We analyzed the imprinting and promoter usage of IGF-II in placenta of normal twins (T0 group), weight discordance (T1 group), and phenotype discordance (T2 group). …”
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Temporal Characteristics of Heat Waves and Cold Spells and Their Links to Atmospheric Circulation in EURO-CORDEX RCMs by Eva Plavcová, Jan Kyselý

“…We study summer heat waves and winter cold spells and their links to atmospheric circulation in an ensemble of EURO-CORDEX RCMs in Central Europe. …”
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On Critical Density for Coverage and Connectivity in Directional Sensor Network over Stochastic Channels Using Continuum Percolation by Jinlan Li, Chaowei Wang, Yinghai Zhang, Lin Kang, Zhi Chen

“…Besides, we discuss the coverage and connectivity together as a whole under the proposed model. …”
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Memristor-based feature learning for pattern classification by Tuo Shi, Lili Gao, Yang Tian, Shuangzhu Tang, Jinchang Liu, Yiqi Li, Ruixi Zhou, Shiyu Cui, Hui Zhang, Yu Li, Zuheng Wu, Xumeng Zhang, Taihao Li, Xiaobing Yan, Qi Liu

“…High energy consumption has made deep model growth unsustainable. We present an approach that directly implements feature learning using semiconductor physics to minimize disparity between model and hardware. …”
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Evaluation method and module design for cost-effective compliance with irradiance guidelines to maintain soil quality in solar parks by Cesar Ilkay, Van Aken Bas B.

“…We present two solar park designs, that have the same ground irradiance distribution. …”
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Radiosensitivity and Induction of Apoptosis by High LET Carbon Ion Beam and Low LET Gamma Radiation: A Comparative Study by Atanu Ghorai, Nitai P. Bhattacharyya, Asitikantha Sarma, Utpal Ghosh

“…We measured apoptotic parameters like nuclear fragmentation and caspase-3 activation. …”
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The S-S.M.A.R.T: A New Prognostic Tool for Patients with Suspected Sepsis in the Emergency Department by Ye Jin Kim, Jong Won Kim, Kyeong Ryong Lee, Dae Young Hong, Sang O Park, Young Hwan Lee, Sin Young Kim

“…We compared the prognosis prediction abilities of the S-S.M.A.R.T and qSOFA scores in patients with suspected sepsis. …”
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AFF-LightNet: A Lightweight Ship Detection Architecture Based on Attentional Feature Fusion by Yingxiu Yuan, Xiaoyan Yu, Xianwei Rong, Xiaozhou Wang

“…Last, Scalable Intersection over Union (SIOU) loss was leveraged to improve the convergence speed of the model. We conduct extensive experiments on the publicly available dataset SeaShips and compare it with existing methods. …”
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Quantifying Impacts of Local Traffic Policies on PM Concentrations Using Low Cost Sensors in Berlin by Sean Schmitz, Alexandre Caseiro, Andreas Kerschbaumer, Erika von Schneidemesser

“…At the same time, a new generation of small sensors for air pollution measurement have opened up new avenues for understanding air pollution in cities. In this study, we use Plantower PMS 5003 sensors to measure PM2.5 alongside three local traffic policies implemented in 2020 and 2021. …”
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Comprehensive Review of Privacy, Utility, and Fairness Offered by Synthetic Data by A. Kiran, P. Rubini, S. Saravana Kumar

“…We understand how data privacy, utility and the fairness of synthetic data intervene with each other and identify the areas for future work.…”
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The impact of dance on fitness: Physical and educational benefits for high school students by Tekla Fruzsina TÓTH, Puskás Andrea LENTÉNÉ

“…Furthermore, we studied the effect of folk dance on the performance of students who have dance and physical education classes at school. …”
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