Evaluation of various RNA-seq approaches for identification of gene outrons in the flatworm Opisthorchis felineus by N. I. Ershov, D. E. Maslov, N. P. Bondar

“…As a result of SLTS, the original 5’-end (outron) of the transcripts is replaced by a short spliced leader sequence donated from a specialized SL RNA. …”
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Eunugs in die Bybel by F. P. Retief, S. J. P. K. Riekert, J. F. G. Cilliers

“… In Original Bible texts “eunuch” is described as saris (Old Testament, Hebrew) or eunouchos (New Testament, Greek). …”
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E.V. From ‘Greater’ to ‘Global Britain’: The New and the Old in the Foreign Policy of the United Kingdom by E. V. Khakhalkina

“…The first section of the paper identifies the origins of the Greater Britain concept, as well as its key provisions. …”
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Aluminum tolerance and micronutrient content in the grain of oat cultivars with different levels of breeding improvement from the VIR collection by I. G. Loskutov, V. Butris, I. A. Kosareva, E. V. Blinova, L. Yu. Novikova

“…Thirty oat accessions of Russian and French origin from the VIR collection served as the research material. …”
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Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry in the taxonomy of Miscanthus by N. M. Slynko, N. V. Burmakina, O. M. Potseluyev, S. Yu. Kapustyanchik, G. Yu. Galitsin, T. N. Goryachkovskaya, L. V. Kuybida, S. V. Shekhovtsov, S. E. Peltek, V. K. Shumny

“…In this study we performed chemotaxonomic analysis of specimens of Miscanthus sinensis and M. sacchariflorus collected in the Russian Far East and of hybrid plants of both natural and artificial origin. We found 153 substances and identified 143 of them in extracts of eleven Miscanthus plants by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). …”
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Exploring the adoption of diaphragm and lung ultrasound (DLUS) by physiotherapists, physical therapists, and respiratory therapists: an updated scoping review by Simon Hayward, Camella Cardinael, Chloe Tait, Michael Reid, Andrew McCarthy

“…Results 133 studies met all inclusion criteria, an increase of 107 new studies compared to the original scoping review searches 7-years ago. Studies were included from 17 new countries and included 17 new participant populations. …”
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New Approaches to Developing the Integral Indicator Methodology for Estimating the Financial Efficiency of Agricultural Entities in Poland, the Republic of Moldova, and EU Countrie... by Mariusz Trojak, Barbara Kiełbasa, Daniela Popa, Aliona Sargo

“…Original calculus formula to determine the Concentration Index of the UAA for the top 10% largest farms in Moldova and UK.…”
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Anomaly Detection Using Explainable Random Forest for the Prediction of Undesirable Events in Oil Wells by Nida Aslam, Irfan Ullah Khan, Aisha Alansari, Marah Alrammah, Atheer Alghwairy, Rahaf Alqahtani, Razan Alqahtani, Maryam Almushikes, Mohammed AL Hashim

“…The dataset used in this study suffers from the class imbalance issue; therefore, experiments were conducted using the original and sampled datasets. The empirical results demonstrated promising outcomes, where RF achieved the highest accuracy, recall, precision, F1-score, and AUC of 99.60%, 99.64%, 99.91%, 99.77%, and 1.00, respectively, using the sampled data, and 99.84%, 99.91%, 99.91%, 99.91%, and 1.00, respectively, using the original data. …”
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DIFFERENT HUMAN IMAGES AND ANTHROPOLOGICAL COLISSIONS OF POST-MODERNISM EPOСH: BIOPHILOSOPHICAL INTERPRETATION by S. К. Коstyuchkov

“…A progressive disproportion between a human being, whose abilities as a representative of the species Homo sapiens are biologically limited, and the human community, which sees no limits in its information and technological expansion, is of current interest. Originality. The author reveals the key features of the Post-Modernism era, in which a fundamentally different civilizational space originates, and where a new type of person emerges in its internal culture, which is called the postmodern man. …”
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Problematic Issues of Protecting Property Rights from Illegal Actions of Public Authorities by K. I. Varava

“…The issue of protection of property right remains problematic, when there is a conflict of interest between bona fide purchasers and original owners, especially in cases where the original owner is the state or local community, which misused the property and therefore, initiated the process of illegal transfer of the property right. …”
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ANALYSIS OF A GENETIC COLLECTION OF TOMATO CULTIVARS AND HYBRID FORMS FOR RESISTANCE TO LEAF MOLD USING DNA MARKERS by I. N. Shamshin, M. V. Maslova, Y. V. Gryazneva

“…Besides, ac­cording to the originator, this genotype is not resistant to leaf mold. …”
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Risks to human and animal health from the presence of bromide in food and feed by EFSA Scientific Committee, Susanne Hougaard Bennekou, Ana Allende, Angela Bearth, Josep Casacuberta, Laurence Castle, Tamara Coja, Amélie Crépet, Thorhallur Halldorsson, Laurentius (Ron) Hoogenboom, Helle Knutsen, Konstantinos Koutsoumanis, Claude Lambré, Søren Nielsen, Dominique Turck, Antonio Vicent Civera, Roberto Villa, Holger Zorn, Vasileios Bampidis, Jacqueline Castenmiller, Marie‐Christine Chagnon, Bruce Cottrill, Keyvin Darney, Jürgen Gropp, Secundino Lopez Puente, Martin Rose, Marco Vinceti, Maria Bastaki, Petra Gergelová, Luna Greco, Matteo Lorenzo Innocenti, Judit Janossy, Anna Lanzoni, Andrea Terron, Diane Benford

“…Bromide can transfer from feed to food of animal origin, but, from the limited data, it was not possible to quantify the transfer rate. …”
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Dwarf shrub expansion and loss of lichens distinctly dominate multi-decadal changes in northern boreal understory plant communities by Tuija Maliniemi, Joonatan Lohi, Janne Alahuhta, Karoliina Huusko, Risto Virtanen

“…However, the increase in dwarf shrubs was species-specific: the cover of bilberry (Vaccinium myrtillus), crowberry (Empetrum nigrum) and lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) had increased over time, while the originally most dominant species, heather (Calluna vulgaris), had decreased and become subordinate to all the above. …”
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Unpacking the ‘explorer’ narrative and its impacts on African palaeoanthropology by Rebecca R. Ackermann, Keneiloe Molopyane, Sheela Athreya

“… • This paper thus contributes to greater awareness of scientific biases, their historical origins, andopportunities for correction. …”
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A Dynamic Bayesian Network-Based Real-Time Crash Prediction Model for Urban Elevated Expressway by Xian Liu, Jian Lu, Zeyang Cheng, Xiaochi Ma

“…A comparative analysis among the improved DBN-based RTCPM considering the interdependency, the original DBN-based RTCPM without considering the interdependency, and Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) was conducted. …”
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Not all is lost: resilience of microbiome samples to freezer failures and long-term storage by M. Fabiola Pulido Barriga, James W. J. Randolph, Sydney I. Glassman

“…To evaluate the impact of an unexpected −80°C freezer failure and the recoverability of thawed soil samples, we extracted DNA and compared it to long-term DNA stored at −20°C and original 16S and ITS2 sequencing data collected before the malfunction. …”
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Genome variability of domestic tomato varieties: data from AFLP analysis by A. V. Kulakova, E. A. Dyachenko, A. V. Shchennikova, O. N. Pyshnaya, E. A. Dzhos

“…The combination of accessions according to their origin from the originating organization was shown. …”
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Research on Small-Target Detection of Flax Pests and Diseases in Natural Environment by Integrating Similarity-Aware Activation Module and Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network Mod... by Manxi Zhong, Yue Li, Yuhong Gao

“…Secondly, in terms of model architecture, a Bidirectional Feature Pyramid Network (BiFPN) module is introduced to replace the original feature extraction network. Through bidirectional multi-scale feature fusion, the model’s ability to distinguish pests and diseases with similar features and large scale differences is effectively improved. …”
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OUT-OF-BODY EXPERIENCE, PURE BEING AND METAPHYSICS by I. V. Karivets

“…Therefore we can say that out-of-body experience is transpersonal. Originality. Metaphysics is neither speculative nor withdrawn from experience of a human being sphere. …”
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PHILOSOPHICAL IDEAS IN SPIRITUAL CULTURE OF THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF NORTH AMERICA by S. V. Rudenko, Y. A. Sobolievskyi

“…In the conclusions, the obtained results complement the history of the origin and development of philosophical thought of the early American philosophy.…”
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