Nasal microbial diversity is associated with survival in piglets infected by a highly virulent PRRSV-1 strain by Pau Obregon-Gutierrez, Martí Cortey, Gerard E. Martín-Valls, Hepzibar Clilverd, Florencia Correa-Fiz, Virginia Aragón, Enric Mateu

“…Results Piglets that survived the PRRSV-1 outbreak reported a more diverse and different nasal microbiota at three weeks of age compared to piglets dying, which was highly related with the litter of origin and the sow of the piglets. In addition, a high abundance of classical swine nasal colonizers belonging to genera such as Bergeyella, Glaesserella, Neisseria and Moraxella (among others), was related with good outcome. …”
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Potential Research Tool of Stem Cells from Human Exfoliated Deciduous Teeth: Lentiviral Bmi-1 Immortalization with EGFP Marker by Siqi Yao, Lingping Tan, Huan Chen, Xiaojun Huang, Wei Zhao, Yan Wang

“…We compared this cell line with the original SHED for cell morphology under a microscope. …”
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Coinfections between Persistent Parasitic Neglected Tropical Diseases and Viral Infections among Prisoners from Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America by Lilian Da Silva Santos, Hans Wolff, François Chappuis, Pedro Albajar-Viñas, Marco Vitoria, Nguyen-Toan Tran, Stéphanie Baggio, Giuseppe Togni, Nicolas Vuilleumier, François Girardin, Francesco Negro, Laurent Gétaz

“…In Swiss prisons, more than 70% of detained people are foreigners and over one-third originate from sub-Saharan Africa or Latin America. …”
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Synthetic Data Generation and Evaluation Techniques for Classifiers in Data Starved Medical Applications by Wan D. Bae, Shayma Alkobaisi, Matthew Horak, Siddheshwari Bankar, Sartaj Bhuvaji, Sungroul Kim, Choon-Sik Park

“…Incremental SMOTE methods were compared to the original SMOTE variants as well as various architectures of autoencoders. …”
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PDZRN3 regulates adipogenesis of mesenchymal progenitors in muscle by Hiroki Iida, Minako Kawai-Takaishi, Yoshihiro Miyagawa, Yasuhiko Takegami, Akiyoshi Uezumi, Takeshi Honda, Shiro Imagama, Tohru Hosoyama

“…Although mesenchymal progenitors (MPs) are present in postnatal skeletal muscle and are the cells from which IMAT originates, the molecular mechanism by which MPs contribute to IMAT formation has not been completely elucidated. …”
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Time-resolved Hubble Space Telescope UV Observations of an X-Ray Quasiperiodic Eruption Source by T. Wevers, M. Guolo, S. Lockwood, A. Mummery, D. R. Pasham, R. Arcodia

“…X-ray quasiperiodic eruptions (QPEs) are a novel mode of variability in nearby galactic nuclei whose origin remains unknown. Their multiwavelength properties are poorly constrained, as studies have focused almost entirely on the X-ray band. …”
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Race as a prognostic factor of breast mucinous carcinoma by Dingyuan Wang, Yang Wang, Songlin Gao, Rongshou Zheng, Guijian Wu, Jianping Wang, Can Lu, Kena Bu, Chun Zhang, Wanqing Chen, Bailin Zhang

“…For patients with BMC originating from China, a more conservative treatment approach may be warranted.…”
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Screening of <em>FecLL</em> prolific allele of the <em>B4GALNT2</em> gene in Algerian sheep populations by Assia Hadjazi, Fatima Zahra Belharfi, Fatima Zohra Mahammi, Stéphane Fabre, Semir Bechir Suheil Gaouar, Nacera Tabet-Aoul

“…Conclusions: The FecLL allele, which is shared by the French Lacaune population and the North African D’man populations, could indicate the ancestral origin of the mutation in B4GALNT2 or the occurrence of an ancient introgression event to improve prolificacy. …”
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An Enhanced Three-Band Algorithm for Retrieving Phycocyanin Concentration from Satellite Data in Plateau Inland Lake by Dajun Yuan, Bo-Hui Tang, Dong Wang, Junyi Chen, Zhen Zhang, Zhitao Fu

“…Using in situ observation data from Erhai Lake as an example, the results show that ETBA significantly outperforms the original three-band algorithm in mitigating interference from non-PC pigments. …”
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Altered chromatin landscape and 3D interactions associated with primary constitutional MLH1 epimutations by Paula Climent-Cantó, Marc Subirana-Granés, Mireia Ramos-Rodríguez, Estela Dámaso, Fátima Marín, Covadonga Vara, Beatriz Pérez-González, Helena Raurell, Elisabet Munté, José Luis Soto, Ángel Alonso, GiWon Shin, Hanlee Ji, Megan Hitchins, Gabriel Capellá, Lorenzo Pasquali, Marta Pineda

“…The role of the identified cis-regulatory regions in the molecular mechanism underlying the origin and maintenance of CME requires further investigation.…”
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En plaque meningioma of the temporal bone: A systematic review on the imaging and management of a rare tumor by Arianna Burato, Giuseppe Maruccio, Livio Presutti, Ignacio Javier Fernandez, Gabriele Molteni, Giulia Molinari

“…Conclusions: Meningioma en plaque (MEP) is a rare tumour, particularly when it originates within the temporal bone. Appropriate imaging in patients complaining of audiological sign and symptoms is mandatory to avoid diagnostic delays, avoid inappropriate surgical procedures, and adopt the appropriate treatment.…”
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Attitudes toward artificial intelligence and robots in healthcare in the general population: a qualitative study by Paulina Smoła, Iwona Młoźniak, Monika Wojcieszko, Urszula Zwierczyk, Mateusz Kobryn, Elżbieta Rzepecka, Mariusz Duplaga

“…Negative attitudes originated from convictions regarding unreliability and the lack of proper technological and political control over AI; an equally important topic was the inability of artificial entities to feel and express emotions. …”
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Exploring segmented assimilation theory in health education utilization and its influencing factors among internal migrants in China: insights from the 2017 China migrants dynamic... by Ting Xu, Ting Xu, Zeyu Wang, Tingting Wang, Jiahua Shi, Aiyong Zhu, Enhong Dong, Enhong Dong

“…Additionally, factors such as ethnicity, marital status, employment status, educational attainment, hukou type, health insurance type, time of access to healthcare, social integration, social participation, establishment of health records, and issues encountered in host and origin places significantly influenced HEU.DiscussionThis study highlights diverse assimilation patterns among Chinese internal migrants regarding HEU, consistent with the theory of segmented assimilation. …”
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New Evidence for <i>Cotinus coggygria</i> Scop. Extracts Application in Gastrointestinal Ailments by Dejan Stojković, Nina Dragičević, Marija Ivanov, Nevena Gajović, Milena Jurišević, Ivan Jovanović, Marina Tomović, Jelena Živković

“…The antimicrobial activity of water and methanolic extracts of <i>C. coggygria</i> leaves, bark and flowers towards various oral fungal and bacterial strains of clinical origin was tested by use of a microdilution assay. …”
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Body composition as an indicator of metabolic changes in mice obtained by <i>in vitro</i> fertilization by M. V. Anisimova, Yanli Gon, G. V. Kontsevaya, A. V. Romashchenko, N. V. Khotskin, A. K. Stanova, L. A. Gerlinskaya, M. P. Moshkin

“…Thus, the totality of our original and literature data shows an increase in the risk of metabolic disorders in IVF offspring, which is confirmed by epidemiological studies of a relatively young cohort of people born using assisted reproductive technologies.…”
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The Discovery and Characterization of Minimoon 2024 PT5 by Bryce T. Bolin, Larry Denneau, Laura-May Abron, Robert Jedicke, Kristin Chiboucas, Carl Ingebretsen, Brian C. Lemaux

“…If we assume 2024 PT _5 is from the near-Earth object (NEO) population, its most likely sources are resonances in the inner Main Belt when we compare its orbit with the NEO population model though this does not exclude a lunar origin.…”
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3D‐Printed Talus‐Calcaneus Prosthesis in Treating Ewing's Sarcoma: A Case Report by Weiyi Wang, Jingjing An, Minxun Lu, Xuanhong He, Zhuangzhuang Li, Yitian Wang, Taojun Gong, Yong Zhou, Li Min, Yi Luo, Chongqi Tu

“…ABSTRACT Background Malignant tumors originating in the talus are rare and present significant challenges in reconstruction. …”
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Socioeconomic characteristics and relapse-free and overall survival from childhood cancer – a nationwide study based on data from the Danish Childhood Cancer Registry by Fie Stegenborg, Mathilde Bek, Charlotte Nilsson, Line H. Pedersen, Thomas Scheike, Lisa Hjalgrim, Friederike Erdmann, Kjeld Schmiegelow, Pernille Bidstrup, Line Kenborg, Jeanette Winther, Hanne Larsen, Susanne Dalton

“…Parents, with whom the children resided, were identified, and data on the parents’ education, cohabitation status, affiliation to work market, country of origin, and vital status of the children were obtained through individual-level linkage across Danish nationwide registries. …”
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A scalable multi-modal learning fruit detection algorithm for dynamic environments by Liang Mao, Liang Mao, Zihao Guo, Mingzhe Liu, Yue Li, Linlin Wang, Jie Li

“…A sliding slice method is then employed to predict image targets, thereby reducing the miss rate of small targets.ResultsExperimental results demonstrate that the proposed model improves accuracy, recall, and mean average precision (mAP) by 9.5, 0.9, and 12.3 percentage points, respectively, compared to the original YOLOv5s model. When benchmarked against other models such as YOLOx, YOLOv6, and YOLOv8, the proposed model's AP value increases by 4.0, 6.3, and 3.7 percentage points, respectively.DiscussionThe improved network exhibits distinct improvements, primarily focusing on enhancing the recall rate and AP value, thereby reducing the missed detection rate which exhibiting a reduced number of missed targets and a more accurate prediction frame, indicating its suitability for litchi fruit detection. …”
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Identification of robust and abundant reference transcripts for EV mRNA cargo normalization by Antje M. Zickler, Radosław Grochowski, André Görgens, Erik Bäcklin, Maximilian Kordes, J.-Matthias Löhr, Joel Z. Nordin, Samir EL Andaloussi, Daniel W. Hagey

“…To identify reference messenger RNA (mRNA) transcripts, we analyze oligo-dT primed RNA-sequencing data from EVs originating from twelve different cell sources isolated using differential centrifugation followed by ultrafiltration. …”
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