Examining the landscape transformation and temperature dynamics in Pakistan by Awais Ali, Bilal Hussain, Riaz Ul Hissan, Khalid M. Al Aiban, Magdalena Radulescu, Cosimo Magazzino

“…To analyze the landscape transformation and temperature dynamics, the study used spectral indices including Land Surface Temperature, Normalized Difference Vegetation Index, Normalized Difference Water Index, Normalized Difference Built-up Index, and Normalized Difference Bareness Index by employing Google Earth Engine cloud computing platform. The results suggest that there are differences in the type of land surface temperature, ranging from 15.58 °C to 43.71 °C during the study period. …”
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Comprehensive review of preclinical evaluation strategies for COVID-19 vaccine candidates: assessing immunogenicity, toxicology, and safety profiles by Delaram Doroud, Mojtaba Daneshi, Fatemeh Kazemi-Lomedash, Zohre Eftekhari

“…Therefore, several vaccine-candidate platforms have been designed, tested, and developed. …”
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Modelling COVID-19 in the North American region with a metapopulation network and Kalman filter by Matteo Perini, Teresa K. Yamana, Marta Galanti, Jiyeon Suh, Roselyn Kaondera-Shava, Jeffrey Shaman

“…This model can serve as a versatile platform for modeling other infectious diseases across the North American region.…”
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Air-liquid interface culture alters the characteristics and functions of monolayers generated from human iPS cell‑derived enterocyte‑like cell organoids by Tatsuya Inui, Yusei Uraya, Yukiko Ueyama-Toba, Hiroyuki Mizuguchi

“…In a previous report, we succeeded in developing a highly functional monolayer platform (ELC-org-mono) from human iPS cell-derived ELCs through an organoid culture and demonstrated its suitability for pharmacokinetic studies. …”
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A New Asymmetric Fully Homomorphic Encryption Scheme for Cloud Banking Data by Zana Thalage Omar, Fadhil Salman Abed, Shaimaa Khamees Ahmed

“…Our current research provides a new algorithm for a publicly-keyed encryption system to keep bank data from tampering and theft when stored on the cloud computing platform, and our new system achieves fully Homomorphic Encryption, which allows mathematical operations to be performed on the encrypted text without the need for the original text. …”
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Impinging Performance of High-Pressure Water Jets Emitting from Different Nozzle Orifice Shapes by Fei Huang, Jianyu Mi, Dan Li, Rongrong Wang

“…In this paper, five different nozzle shapes were designed, and impacting tests were conducted based on a self-designed experimental platform using a PVDF piezoelectric film sensor and a high-speed camera to record the impacting data. …”
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Roles for Exosomes in the Pathogenesis, Drug Delivery and Therapy of Psoriasis by Yuchao Chen, Huazhen Liu, Yuming He, Bin Yang, Weihui Lu, Zhenhua Dai

“…On the other hand, exosomes can be utilized as drug delivery platforms for psoriasis treatment. Especially, engineered exosomes may serve as drug delivery systems for effective delivery of proteins, nucleic acids or other drugs due to their low immunogenicity, good stability and ability to fuse with target cells. …”
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Maternal Aerobic Exercise during Pregnancy Can Increase Spatial Learning by Affecting Leptin Expression on Offspring's Early and Late Period in Life Depending on Gender by Ayfer Dayi, Sinem Agilkaya, Seda Ozbal, Ferihan Cetin, Ilkay Aksu, Celal Gencoglu, Sultan Cingoz, Cetın Pekcetin, Kazim Tugyan, Berkant Muammer Kayatekin, Nazan Uysal

“…All the pups whose mothers exercised during pregnancy learned the platform earlier and spent longer time in the target quadrant. …”
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PhysioDroid: Combining Wearable Health Sensors and Mobile Devices for a Ubiquitous, Continuous, and Personal Monitoring by Oresti Banos, Claudia Villalonga, Miguel Damas, Peter Gloesekoetter, Hector Pomares, Ignacio Rojas

“…Next technical steps include generalization to other mobile platforms and health monitoring devices.…”
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Fully integrated wearable control system for micro/nanorobot navigation by Zhanxiang Zhang, Lin Wang, Fengqi Jiang, Shimin Yu, Fengtong Ji, Tianhao Sun, He Zhang, Yanhe Zhu, Hao Chang, Tianlong Li, Jie Zhao

“…Such a novel, feasible control strategy was validated in the biological experiment in which cancer cells were targeted and killed by photothermal therapy using micro/nanorobots and integrated control platform. This wearable control system could play a crucial role in future intelligent medical applications and could be easily reconfigured toward other medical robots’ control.…”
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Folded pseudochiral Fermi surface in 4Hb-TaSe2 from band hybridization with a charge density wave by Matthew D. Watson, Andrea Tonelli, Mugerabe Zerabza, Sam Hayward, Rebecca Wilkinson, Ettore Carpene, Cephise Cacho, Valentina De Renzi, Simon Crampin, Enrico Da Como

“…In this regard the intrinsic polytypism of tantalum dichalcogenides has emerged as a platform to generate clean and controllable material interfaces. …”
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Increasing attractiveness and image recognition of Bulgaria as a tourism destination by Preslav Mihaylov Dimitrov, Mariya Zlatkova Stankova, Ivanka Vasenska, Dimitria Uzunova

“…For a relatively long period, however, the existing studies show out that they not only did not lead to the creation of a single platform for evaluation, but rather have resulted in a fragmentation of the researchers’ opinions. …”
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GroupFound: An effective approach to detect suspicious accounts in online social networks by Bo Feng, Qiang Li, Xiaowen Pan, Jiahao Zhang, Dong Guo

“…Online social networks are an important part of people’s life and also become the platform where spammers use suspicious accounts to spread malicious URLs. …”
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Anti-microbial cetylpyridinium chloride suppresses mast cell function by targeting tyrosine phosphorylation of Syk kinase by Bright Obeng, Lucas J. Bennett, Bailey E. West, Dylan J. Wagner, Patrick J. Fleming, Morgan N. Tasker, Madeleine K. Lorenger, Dorothy R. Smith, Tetiana Systuk, Sydni M. Plummer, Jeongwon Eom, Marissa D. Paine, Collin T. Frangos, Michael P. Wilczek, Juyoung K. Shim, Melissa S. Maginnis, Julie A. Gosse

“…The inhibitory effect of CPC was independent of signaling platform receptor architecture. Tyrosine phosphorylation events are a trigger of Ca2+ mobilization necessary for degranulation. …”
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Complimentary Imaging Modalities for Investigating Obscure Gastrointestinal Bleeding: Capsule Endoscopy, Double-Balloon Enteroscopy, and Computed Tomographic Enterography by Ye Chu, Sheng Wu, Yuting Qian, Qi Wang, Juanjuan Li, Yanping Tang, Tingting Bai, Lifu Wang

“…Combination of the three diagnostic platforms provides complementary value in the diagnosis of OGIB.…”
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Utilizing AI for the Identification and Validation of Novel Therapeutic Targets and Repurposed Drugs for Endometriosis by Bonnie Hei Man Liu, Yuezhen Lin, Xi Long, Sze Wan Hung, Anna Gaponova, Feng Ren, Alex Zhavoronkov, Frank W. Pun, Chi Chiu Wang

“…Using an artificial intelligence (AI)‐driven target discovery platform, two unreported therapeutic targets, guanylate‐binding protein 2 (GBP2) and hematopoietic cell kinase (HCK) are identified, along with a drug repurposing target, integrin beta 2 (ITGB2) for the treatment of endometriosis. …”
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Shock Response Spectra Reconstruction of Pointwise Explosive-Induced Pyroshock Based on Signal Processing of Laser Shocks by S. Y. Chong, J. R. Lee, C. W. Kong

“…The signal processing algorithm for the laser shock-based pyroshock reconstruction is developed in a LabVIEW platform and consists of subbands decomposition, SRS matching in decomposed bands, and wave synthesizing. …”
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A Compact Broadband Common-Aperture Dual-Polarized Antenna for Drone Applications by Xue-Ping Li, Chao-Liang He, Jun-Fei Ji, Meng-Bing Yang, Yan Zhang, An-Xue Zhang, Wei Li

“…Moreover, the 3 dB axial ratio (AR) bandwidth of the CP antenna is 34.3% and the isolation between the two ports is better than 15 dB, suggesting potential applications in the relay platform or drone detection for signal transmission and reception.…”
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A Virtualization Approach to Correct Systematic Errors in Measured TDOA and FDOA for Low Orbit Dual-Satellite Positioning Systems by Gang Li, Min Zhou, Hongwen Tang, Hongbin Chen

“…The low-orbit dual-satellite passive location system provides a cost-efficient and easy implementation platform, by which positions of unknown emitters on the Earth can be determined through measuring both the time and the frequency differences by two low-orbit satellites in space. …”
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Satellite Observations Reveal Declining Diatom Concentrations in the Three Gorges Reservoir: The Impacts of Dam Construction and Local Climate by Menglan Gan, Lei Feng, Jingan Shao, Li Feng, Yao Wang, Meiling Liu, Ling Wu, Botian Zhou

“…Based on the Google Earth Engine platform, this study uses Sentinel-2 MultiSpectral Instrument imagery to track the comprehensive diatom dynamics in a large reservoir, i.e., the Three Gorges Reservoir, in China during the years 2019–2023. …”
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