Enantioselective HS-SPME-GC-MS for Authentication of Natural and Synthetic Strawberry Flavour in Syrups by Karolína Průchová, Adéla Grégrová, Hana Helísková, Vojtěch Kružík, Helena Čížková

“…Seven chiral volatiles contributed to the revelation of synthetic origin. γ-Decalactone (enantiomeric ratios: 100∕0, 100∕0, 99∕1, 99∕1, 100∕0, and 99∕1 in strawberries; 100∕0 in 3 natural flavourings; 100∕0 in syrup with natural flavour) was the most contributive indicator of synthetic and natural strawberry flavour, followed by ethyl 2-methylbutanoate (enantiomeric ratios: 0∕100, 5∕95, 5∕95 in 3 natural flavourings, 0∕100 in syrup with natural flavour). …”
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655Val and 1170Pro ERBB2 SNPs in Familial Breast Cancer Risk and BRCA1 Alterations by Stefania Tommasi, Vita Fedele, Rosanna Lacalamita, Michele Bruno, Francesco Schittulli, David Ginzinger, Gery Scott, Serenella Eppenberger-Castori, Daniele Calistri, Silvia Casadei, Ian Seymour, Salvatore Longo, Gianluigi Giannelli, Brunella Pilato, Giovanni Simone, Christopher C. Benz, Angelo Paradiso

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the association of rare alleles of both SNPs and the risk of developing breast cancer, BRCA1 alterations and clinical-pathological features of Caucasian breast cancer patients with familial history of breast/ovarian cancer. The originality of the present paper is that it is the only specifically focusing on the relationship between ERBB2 SNPs and familiarity/BRCA1 characteristics. …”
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Finite-Time Output Robust Control for Restricted Joint Flight Emulator Robotic Arm With Adaptive Tangent Barrier Gains by Isaac Chairez, Alejandra Hernandez-Sanchez, Caridad Mireles, Arthur Mukhamedov, Grigory Bugriy, Stepan Lemak, Viktor Chertopolokhov

“…A standard state feedback control architecture serves as a benchmark for comparison. The origin is shown to be a fixed-time stable equilibrium point for the tracking error space, provided state space constraints are met, as evidenced by the faster convergence of the mean square estimation of the tracking error. …”
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Unified Visual-Aware Representations for Data Analytics by Ladislav Peska, Ivana Sixtova, David Hoksza, David Bernhauer, Jakub Lokoc, Tomas Skopal

“…The desired property of the visualizations is the ability to visually encode the semantic features of the original data. Hence, processing of visualizations (images) by generic deep learning models results in deep feature vectors that could be uniformly used in standard data retrieval/analytics tasks. …”
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Estimating and forecasting bitcoin daily prices using ARIMA-GARCH models by Quang Phung Duy, Oanh Nguyen Thi, Phuong Hao Le Thi, Hai Duong Pham Hoang, Khanh Linh Luong, Kim Ngan Nguyen Thi

“…As financial time series, such as Bitcoin returns, can be volatile, an attempt is made to model this volatility using GARCH (1,1). Originality/value – The study used partially processed secondary data to fit for time series analysis using the ARIMA (12,1,12)-GARCH(1,1) model and hence reliable and conclusive results.…”
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Low-level auricular vagus nerve stimulation lowers blood pressure and heart rate in paroxysmal atrial fibrillation patients: a self-controlled study by Yu Jiang, Yu Jiang, Di Su, Jingwen Xiao, Jingwen Xiao, Wenbo Cheng, Yuemei Hou, Yan Zhang, Yan Zhang

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the effects of low-level auricular vagus nerve stimulation (LL-aVNS) on blood pressure and heart rate in patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation.MethodsA total of 22 patients with paroxysmal atrial fibrillation diagnosed in Fuzhou First General Hospital Affiliated with Fujian Medical University from September 2021 to December 2022 were selected and given LL-aVNS treatment based on the original unchanged drug treatment for 4 weeks. The systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), heart rate maximum (HRmax), heart rate minimum (HRmin), left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), left atrial diameter (LAD), Atrial Fibrillation Severity Scale (AFSS) symptom subscale, and Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale-Heart Failure (MSAS-HF) before and after the treatment were observed and compared. …”
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High‐Throughput Single‐Nucleus RNA Profiling of Minimal Puncture FFPE Samples Reveals Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity of Cancer by Weiqin Jiang, Xiang Zhang, Ziye Xu, Qing Cheng, Xiaohan Li, Yuyi Zhu, Fangru Lu, Ling Dong, Linghui Zeng, Weixiang Zhong, Yongcheng Wang, Longjiang Fan, Hongyu Chen

“…In analyzing 20 samples from various solid tumors, optimized snRandom‐seq still detected ≈17 000 genes and 12 000 long non‐coding RNAs (lncRNAs), achieving precise clustering based on tissue origin. A head‐to‐head comparison with 10× Genomics on fresh biopsy samples showed a similar gene detection rate, with significantly enhanced lncRNA detection, indicating that the optimized snRandom‐seq technique maintains its established gene detection advantages even when applied to small samples. …”
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Bone Formation by Sheep Stem Cells in an Ectopic Mouse Model: Comparison of Adipose and Bone Marrow Derived Cells and Identification of Donor-Derived Bone by Antibody Staining by Kristian Kjærgaard, Chris H. Dreyer, Nicholas Ditzel, Christina M. Andreasen, Li Chen, Søren P. Sheikh, Søren Overgaard, Ming Ding

“…After eight weeks, bone volume versus total tissue volume (BV/TV) was quantified using histomorphometry. Origin of new bone was assessed using human vimentin (HVIM) antibody staining. …”
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Giant and flexible toroidal circular dichroism from planar chiral metasurface by Shijie Kang, Haitao Li, Jiayu Fan, Jiusi Yu, Boyang Qu, Peng Chen, Xiaoxiao Wu

“…The giant intrinsic chirality primarily originates from distinct excitations of in-plane toroidal dipole moments under circular polarized incidences, and the toroidal chiral response is quantitatively controlled by the bilayer offset. …”
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Performance improvement of transcritical vapor generator by a novel double-heated annular configuration by Yue Pan, Yuling Zhai, Zhouhang Li, Nan Hu

“…A novel double-heated annular configuration is proposed for the vapor generator of transcritical CO2 power cycle. The idea originated from that an annulus is more resistant to the deterioration of supercritical heat transfer than a circular tube, and in this work attempts were made on adjusting the heating mode to potentially further improve the thermal efficiency. …”
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Two Novel CYP11B1 Gene Mutations in Patients from Two Croatian Families with 11β-Hydroxylase Deficiency by Katja Dumic, Tony Yuen, Zorana Grubic, Vesna Kusec, Ingeborg Barisic, Maria I. New

“…All three patients are of Croatian (Slavic) origin and there is no self-reported consanguinity in these two families. …”
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Empowering wastewater treatment with step scheme heterojunction ternary nanocomposites for photocatalytic degradation of nitrophenol by Zhu Liu, Mah Roosh, Ming Lu, Aqsa Arshad, Wenqi Xian, Yuqiu Shen, Guocong Liu, Ali Bahadur, Shahid Iqbal, Sajid Mahmood, Khalid M. Alotaibi

“…Most importantly the improved photocatalytic activity of MoS2/Bi2O3/CdS heterojunction originated from the release of internal electric field in S-scheme heterojunction. …”
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Levels of Pathogenic Th17 and Th22 Cells in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis by Marlen Vitales-Noyola, Berenice Hernández-Castro, Diana Alvarado-Hernández, Lourdes Baranda, Sofía Bernal-Silva, Carlos Abud-Mendoza, Perla Niño-Moreno, Roberto González-Amaro

“…However, the strategy for the identification and analysis of proinflammatory Th17 cells in those studies has not been consistent and has usually been different from what was originally described. Therefore, we decided to evaluate the levels of Th17 cells in patients with RA employing an extended immune phenotype by using an eight-color multiparametric flow cytometry analysis. …”
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Reliability and validity validation of the Chinese version of the family vitiligo impact scale by Jian Sun, Linna Li, Xue Tian, Yuping Fu

“…Objective This study aimed to adapt the FVIS across cultures and utilize a cross-sectional design to validate its reliability and validity in evaluating the quality of life of family members with vitiligo in China. Methods The original version scale was first translated into Chinese using Brislin back- translation method. …”
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Global elective breast- and colorectal cancer surgery performance backlogs, attributable mortality and implemented health system responses during the COVID-19 pandemic: A scoping r... by Sonia Haribhai, Komal Bhatia, Maryam Shahmanesh

“…The majority of included studies originated from high-income countries (n = 38, 76.0%). …”
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Pest categorisation of Lepidosaphes pistaciae by EFSA Panel on Plant Health (PLH), Antonio Vicent Civera, Paula Baptista, Anna Berlin, Elisavet Chatzivassiliou, Jaime Cubero, Nik Cunniffe, Eduardo de la Peña, Nicolas Desneux, Francesco Di Serio, Anna Filipiak, Paolo Gonthier, Beata Hasiów‐Jaroszewska, Hervé Jactel, Blanca B. Landa, Lara Maistrello, David Makowski, Panagiotis Milonas, Nikos T. Papadopoulos, Roel Potting, Hanna Susi, Dirk Jan van der Gaag, Alex Gobbi, Virag Kertesz, Andrea Maiorano, Dimitrios Papachristos, Oresteia Sfyra

“…L. pistaciae is reported as a polyphagous pest which, however, mainly affects plants of the genus Pistacia. Originating from Asia, it is widely distributed in pistachio producing countries of Central, South and West Asia. …”
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Elucidating the synergistic effects of aeration and non-thermal plasma on the degradation pathways of specific pollutants in wastewater by Mahdiyeh Bakhtiyari-Ramezani, Narges Ziveh, Navid Ghaemi

“…Organic pollutants originating from industrial discharges pose significant threats to human health and ecological balance. …”
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Comparative analysis of export determinants in Italian and Polish firms: The moderating role of non-family management by Marco Pini, Grzegorz Tchorek

“…IMPLICATIONS: i) the role of corporate governance can differ between countries with reference to a firm’s competitiveness; ii) favoring management openness to external managers for family-owned firms; iii) small firms require greater support in encouraging exporting behavior; iv) the need to consider jointly the issues of innovation, internationalization and corporate governance modes (familynon-family management) in the agenda of the firm’s competitiveness. ORIGINALITY AND VALUE: The paper contributes to the literature on the determinants of exporting by simultaneously studying some firm’s characteristics related to size and age with others related to corporate governance, which are usually addressed separately. …”
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Frequency anomalies and characteristics of extratropical cyclones during extremely wet, dry, windy, and calm seasons in the extratropics by H. Binder, H. Wernli

“…In the Southern Hemisphere (SH) storm track and at the downstream ends of the Northern Hemisphere (NH) storm tracks, cyclones contributing to wet winters are also anomalously intense and typically originate unusually far to the west and south, while in the subtropical North Atlantic and over the eastern Mediterranean, they are on average more stationary than in the climatology. …”
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A prediction approach to COVID-19 time series with LSTM integrated attention mechanism and transfer learning by Bin Hu, Yaohui Han, Wenhui Zhang, Qingyang Zhang, Wen Gu, Jun Bi, Bi Chen, Lishun Xiao

“…LSTMATT is trained on the smoothed time series curve through frequency domain convolution augmentation, then transfer learning is adopted to transfer the learned features back to the original time series resulting in a TLLA model that further improves the performance. …”
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