Exome sequencing of UK birth cohorts [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by Petr Danecek, Amy Hough, John Wright, Karen Ho, Nicholas J. Timpson, Sarah J. Lindsay, Davide Bonfanti, Daniel S. Malawsky, Rafaq Azad, Deborah Plowman, Sara Widaa, Gemma Shireby, Emla Fitzsimons, David Bann, Matthew E. Hurles, Hilary C. Martin, Susan M. Ring, Dan Mason, Michael A. Quail, Wei Huang, Vivek Iyer, Mahmoud Koko, Iaroslav Popov, Laurie Fabian, Gennadii Zakharov, Ruth Y. Eberhardt, Emma E. Wade, Qin Qin Huang

“…We then present some preliminary analyses to illustrate the quality of the datasets and probe potential sources of bias. …”
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Designing a Forecasting Model and Evaluating the Strategic Cooperation between the Banking System and Fintech Startups using the Adaptive Neural Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS) by Arash Onsori, Abbas Khamseh, Taghi Torabi, Hamid Reza Yazdani

“…The initial membership functions, depicted in Figure 1, set the stage for subsequent modeling by illustrating the shape and characteristics of linguistic variables in the ANFIS system. …”
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Construction of the cancer patients’ database based on the US National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) datasets for cancer epidemiology research by Jinyoung Moon, Yongseok Mun

“…To address this gap, the authors developed a cancer patient database from the US NHANES datasets by employing multiple R programming codes. Methods To illustrate the practical application of this methodology to a real-world problem, the authors extracted the R codes applied in an academic paper published in another journal on January 30th, 2024 ( https://doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2024.e24337 ). …”
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Recessive transition of rural residential land use from the perspective of value co-creation: A case study of Yiwu City, Zhejiang by ZHANG Cong, LONG Hualou, FENG Dedong

“…The case of Yiwu City, Zhejiang Province, was used for illustration. [Results] (1) Value co-creation of ural residential land follows the process model of “value consensus-value execution-value win-win” and the operational paradigm of “subject interaction - capacity embedding - benefit sharing”, driving the “element integration - structure reorganization - function optimization” of rural residential land use system, resulting in the dynamic evolution of diverse values such as residential security, economic property, production and operation, ecological protection, and cultural inheritance, and achieving the recessive rural residential land use transition. (2) Yiwu’s practice path of guiding multiple stakeholders to interact collaboratively, constructing “value consensus” for rural residential land, driving with multiple forces, and implementing “value execution” for rural residential land through multi-dimensional rule interaction is a successful model for realizing the recessive rural residential land use transformation through value co-creation. (3) Through the practice of value co-creation, Yiwu has achieved a transformation of the functional value of rural residential land from residential security orientation to economic property orientation, and then to a comprehensive and coordinated approach that encompasses residential security, production and operation, economic assets, and ecological protection, etc. …”
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Seaweed Fly Larvae Cultivated on Macroalgae Side Streams: A Novel Marine Protein and Omega-3 Source for Rainbow Trout by Niklas Warwas, Emma L. Berdan, Xintian Xie, Elisabeth Jönsson, Jonathan A. C. Roques, Darragh Doyle, Markus Langeland, James Hinchcliffe, Henrik Pavia, Kristina Sundell

“…However, changes in electrogenic intestinal transport were observed between the SWFL and BSFL diets, illustrating the heterogeneous effect of different insect products. …”
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Multiproxy analysis exploring patterns of diet and disease in dental calculus and skeletal remains from a 19th century Dutch population by Bartholdy, Bjørn Peare, Hasselstrøm, Jørgen B., Sørensen, Lambert K., Casna, Maia, Hoogland, Menno, Historisch Genootschap Beemster, Henry, Amanda G.

“…Despite the limitations, this preliminary study illustrates many benefits of using calculus to target a variety of compounds that could have been consumed as medicine or diet. …”
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Regenerative viticulture and climate change resilience by Flora O'Brien, Alistair Nesbitt, Rebecca Sykes, Belinda Kemp

“…Research covering a range of regional or context specific environments regarding regenerative approaches or practices are limited, particularly when seeking to address opportunities for, and impacts of whole vineyard systems change–this is a complex area that has not yet been fully addressed. Findings illustrate the emerging status of RV as a researched and/or applied concept, and this review supports those establishing RV systems and contributes to evidence-based RV approaches. …”
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Carbon dioxide fluxes and the dominant role of vegetation in recently created and reference Gulf Coast marshes by A. Muench, T. Elsey‐Quirk, J. R. White, R. D. DeLaune

“…At similar elevations, S. alterniflora in both the created and reference marshes was a greater C sink than S. patens areas of the reference marsh. Our findings illustrate that establishment of vegetation is critical to promoting C sink functions in created marshes and, notably, species do matter.…”
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Models for an arenavirus infection in a rodent population: consequences of horizontal, vertical and sexual transmission by Chandrani Banerjee, Linda J. S. Allen, Jorge Salazar-Bravo

“…Numerical examples illustrate the dynamics of the models. The biological implications of the results and future research goals are discussed in the conclusion.…”
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Design and performance analysis of wireless body area networks in complex indoor e-Health hospital environments for patient remote monitoring by Erik Aguirre, Peio Lopez-Iturri, Leyre Azpilicueta, Carmen Rivarés, José Javier Astrain, Jesús Villadangos, Francisco Falcone

“…Both the measurements and simulation results illustrate the strong influence of the presented scenario on the overall performance of the wireless body area networks: losses due to material absorption and the strong influence of multipath components due to the great number of obstacles and the presence of persons make the use of the presented method very useful. …”
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Downregulation of FXYD2 Is Associated with Poor Prognosis and Increased Regulatory T Cell Infiltration in Clear Cell Renal Cell Carcinoma by Zedan Zhang, Yanlin Tang, Lei Li, Wuping Yang, Yawei Xu, Jingcheng Zhou, Kaifang Ma, Kenan Zhang, Hongkai Zhuang, Yanqing Gong, Kan Gong

“…Functional enrichment analysis illustrated that TGF-β-SMAD2/3, Notch, and PI3K-Akt-mTOR signaling pathways may be potential signaling pathways of FXYD2 in ccRCC. …”
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Spread the Joy: How High and Low Bias for Happy Facial Emotions Translate into Different Daily Life Affect Dynamics by Charlotte Vrijen, Catharina A. Hartman, Eeske van Roekel, Peter de Jonge, Albertine J. Oldehinkel

“…Low reward responsiveness in daily life may be key to why individuals who show a low happy bias during laboratory tasks are vulnerable for depression. This study illustrates the potential benefits of a network approach for unraveling psychological mechanisms.…”
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Green synthesis and characterization of NiO/Hydroxyapatite nanocomposites in the presence of peppermint extract and investigation of their antibacterial activities against Pseudomo... by Ali Shakerimoghaddam, Hayder Jihad Majeed, Ali Jawad Hashim, May Jaleel Abed, Layth S. Jasim, Masoud Salavati-Niasari

“…Although, all synthesized samples are remarkable in their ability to prevent the formation of biofilms at MIC and sub-MIC concentrations (p < 0.01), NiO/HAP illustrated biofilm inhibitory activity up to 95 % for Pseudomonas aeruginosa and to 81 % for Staphylococcus aureus. …”
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Communication in Neglected Tropical Diseases' elimination: A scoping review and call for action. by Claudia Nieto-Sanchez, David M Hatley, Mario J Grijalva, Koen Peeters Grietens, Benjamin R Bates

“…<h4>Background</h4>Although the practice of communication is often called upon when intervening and involving communities affected by NTDs, the disciplinary framework of health communication research has been largely absent from NTD strategies. To illustrate how practices conceptualized and developed within the communication field have been applied in the context of NTD elimination, we conducted a scoping review focusing on two diseases currently targeted for elimination by the WHO: lymphatic filariasis and Chagas disease.…”
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Enhanced Expression and Bioactivity Assessment of Recombinant SUMO-Protease-1 in E. coli BL21 (DE3) via Cleavage of His6-SMT3-SDF-1 Fusion Protein by Farzad Sadri, Hossain Safarpour, Zahra Ansari, Yazdan Ebrahimpour, Mohammad Feriedouni

“…In the scratch wound-healing assay, recombinant SDF-1 increased cell migration following cleavage, confirming that biological activity was retained. These findings illustrate Ulp1’s efficient synthesis and effectiveness for prospective applications in biology. …”
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Drawing-Aware Parkinson&#x2019;s Disease Detection Through Hierarchical Deep Learning Models by Ioannis Kansizoglou, Konstantinos A. Tsintotas, Daniel Bratanov, Antonios Gasteratos

“…By directly comparing it against a similar end-to-end classifier, the benefits of our technique are clearly illustrated during experiments. Finally, its performance is compared against several state-of-the-art ML- and DL-based PD detection methods, demonstrating the method&#x2019;s supremacy.…”
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Soft intersection almost bi-quasi-interior ideals of semigroups by Aslıhan Sezgin, Zeynep BAŞ, Aleyna İlgin

“…Besides, we support our assertions with illustrative and concrete examples.…”
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Improving Crack Detection Precision of Concrete Structures Using U-Net Architecture and Novel DBCE Loss Function by Andrew Prasetyo, I Ketut Eddy Purnama, Eko Mulyanto Yuniarno, Priyo Suprobo

“…The performance of our method is rigorously evaluated by combining DeepCrack, GAPS, Crack500, and CrackForest datasets to illustrate that the model can detect cracks in various material conditions. …”
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A specific role of village doctors in reducing disparities: a quantile regression analysis of end-of-life medical care by Yuan Fang, Shih-Ting Huang, Chengrui Xiao

“…We adopt the quantile regression to illustrate the heterogeneous impacts of village doctors on the EOL medical care spending from the distribution perspective. …”
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