Recruiting hard-to-reach populations via respondent driven sampling for mobile phone surveys in Colombia: a qualitative study by Camila Solorzano-Barrera, Mariana Rodriguez-Patarroyo, Angélica Tórres-Quintero, Deivis Nicolas Guzman-Tordecilla, Aixa Natalia Franco-Rodriguez, Vidhi Maniar, Prakriti Shrestha, Andrés I. Vecino-Ortiz, George W. Pariyo, Dustin G. Gibson, Joseph Ali

“…We conducted a qualitative study that drew from surveys with open and closed-ended items, semi-structured interviews for feedback, and focus group discussions to explore perceptions of the strategy and barriers to its application amongst MPS participants. …”
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C-IVAL: A Longitudinal Study of Knowledge Retention and Technology Acceptance in Collaborative Virtual Reality-Based Medical Education by Mohammed Kadri, Fatima-Ezzahra Boubakri, Gwo-Jen Hwang, Fatima Zahra Kaghat, Ahmed Azough, Khalid Alaoui Zidani

“…Anatomy education faces challenges in providing engaging, interactive, and collaborative learning experiences, particularly in understanding complex three-dimensional structures and maintaining long-term knowledge retention. …”
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From shadowing to active learning: exploring the impact of supervised teaching clinics on gynecology education by Sangsang Ren, Hong Zhan, Asanga Fernando, Asanga Fernando, Xiangrong Xu, Weiguo Lu

“…Tutors and patients provided positive feedback, noting the STC’s role in fostering effective student-patient interactions and comprehensive learning.ConclusionThe structured design of the STC, with a focus on goal direction, relationships, and supporting services, significantly improved educational outcomes in gynecology. …”
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Early Electrophysiological Disintegration of Hippocampal Neural Networks in a Novel Locus Coeruleus Tau-Seeding Mouse Model of Alzheimer’s Disease by A. Ahnaou, C. Walsh, N. V. Manyakov, S. A. Youssef, W. H. Drinkenburg

“…The ability of the K18 seed in the brainstem LC to elicit such robust functional alterations in distant hippocampal structures in the absence of pathology challenges the classic view that tau pathology spread to an area is necessary to elicit functional impairments in that area.…”
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Evaluation of the potential value of artificial intelligence (AI) in public health using fluoride intake as the example by Wei Wei, Tianshu Gu, Yanhong Cao, Shuqiu Sun, Dan Wei, Minghui Li, Alyce D. Fly, Weikuan Gu, Lan Yao, Dianjun Sun

“…The descriptions provided by ChatGPT on the effects of fluoride intake were comprehensive and well-structured. Six out of 8 answers were graded as excellent and the other 2 as good. …”
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Autophagy: An Overview of Molecular Mechanisms and Its Therapeutic Implications for Health and Disease by Hourolein Arab, Mohammad Reza Mofid, Mahboube Rahmati, Elahe Gharehkhani, Armin Mokhtariye, Mohammad Shokrzadeh

“…This process involves the formation of a structure known as the autophagosome, which sequesters damaged cellular components such as misfolded proteins and dysfunctional organelles. …”
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Mechanical Properties of Bump-Prone Coal with Different Porosities and Its Acoustic Emission-Charge Induction Characteristics under Uniaxial Compression by Xin Ding, Xiaochun Xiao, Xiangfeng Lv, Di Wu, Jun Xu

“…Discreteness of mechanical property affected by the intimal damage, which emerged with various degrees of material composition and geological structure, is the difference in porosity macroscopically. …”
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Signatures of lower respiratory tract microbiome in children with severe community-acquired pneumonia using shotgun metagenomic sequencing by Ting-Yu Yen, Ching Hsu, Ni-Chung Lee, Chao-Szu Wu, Hsin Wang, Kuan-Yi Lee, Chia-Ray Lin, Chun-Yi Lu, Mo-Li Tsai, Tzu-Yu Liu, Che Lin, Chien-Yu Chen, Luan-Yin Chang, Feipei Lai, Li-Min Huang

“…There were significant differences in microbial community structure between different severity groups, and microbial abundance was negatively correlated with disease severity. …”
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Quad-Band 3D Rectenna Array for Ambient RF Energy Harvesting by Fatima Khalid, Warda Saeed, Nosherwan Shoaib, Muhammad U. Khan, Hammad M. Cheema

“…A dual polarized cross-dipole antenna featuring asymmetric slots as well as central ring structure enables multiband response and improved matching at the higher three frequency bands, whereas a loaded monopole wire antenna is used at the lower FM band. …”
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Rare-earth-induced peroxo-phosphotungstates: Enhanced proton conductivity in corresponding membranes by Qianqian Shang, Keqin Shen, Dongyan Zhao, Xiaoyue Wang, Yuting Wei, Haiying Wang, Guan Wang, Dongdi Zhang, Jingyang Niu

“…However, although the original {P3W6(O2)6} building block remained, a completely new structure was achieved in these two lanthanide-based peroxo-POT derivatives that was induced by the rare-earth cations. 2D-Ln2 was composed of {P2W6(O2)4} polyanion units linked by replacing {PW3(O2)3} with {PW3(O2)2}, while 1D-Ln was composed of two symmetric {P2W3(O2)3} cores connected by rare-earth cations. …”
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An improved ShuffleNetV2 method based on ensemble self-distillation for tomato leaf diseases recognition by Shuiping Ni, Yue Jia, Mingfu Zhu, Mingfu Zhu, Yizhe Zhang, Wendi Wang, Shangxin Liu, Yawei Chen

“…The ensemble model, acting as the teacher, dynamically transfers knowledge to ShuffleNetV2 and the shallow models during training, significantly enhancing the performance of ShuffleNetV2 without changing the original structure.ResultsExperimental results show that the optimized ShuffleNetV2 achieves an accuracy of 95.08%, precision of 94.58%, recall of 94.55%, and an F1 score of 94.54% on the test set, surpassing large models such as VGG16 and ResNet18. …”
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Designing and testing novel artificial shelter traps to mass-trap overwintering brown marmorated stink bugs: a proof-of-concept study in Northwestern China by Jin-Ping Zhang, Gonzalo Avila, Gang Ma, Qian-Qian Mi, Adriana Najar-Rodriguez, Ju-Hong Chen, Chun-Sen Ma, Feng Zhang

“…It is also known to be a nuisance pest as it enters artificial structures, including human habitats, to overwinter and releases very unpleasant odours when disturbed. …”
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Electron Push-Pull Effect of Benzotrithiophene-Based Covalent Organic Frameworks on the Photocatalytic Degradation of Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products by Hongguang Guo, Jiaqin He, Yixi Guo, Yunxi Chang, Haidong Ju, Yizhou Li

“…This study confirms that BTT-based COFs are a class of promising photocatalysts for the degradation of PPCPs in water, and their performance can be further optimized by tuning the structure and composition of the frameworks.…”
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Response of Plant Leaf Traits to Environmental Factors in Climax Communities at Varying Latitudes in Karst Regions by Gang Xie, Yang Wang, Zhifeng Chen, Yangyang Ji, Yao Lu, Yi Liang, Ruiyu Zhou, Juan Tao

“…Additionally, we examined the relationship between functional traits and environmental factors, integrating species characteristics and community structure into our analysis. The results indicated that (1) there were significant differences in both the community leaf aspect ratio and the community-specific leaf area. (2) Soil organic carbon content exhibited significant variations across different latitudes, while soil nitrogen content was notably higher in mid-latitude and low-latitude regions compared to high-latitude areas. …”
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The response of soil microbial community to application of organic amendment to saline land by Peifei Cong, Peifei Cong, Peifei Cong, Pengfei Huang, Zhisheng Huang, Zhisheng Huang, Zhisheng Huang, Zhisheng Huang

“…By conducting indoor potted plant experiments, determine the effects of applying microbial organic fertilizer on the physicochemical properties of soil and the structure of soil microbial communities under different salinity concentrations.ResultsCompared with the control, higher OM content, total N, and higher crop biomass were observed in samples with organic amendment at the same salinity level. …”
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Experimental Study on the Effects of Dynamic High Water Pressure on the Deformation Characteristics of Limestone by Dawen Tan, Heng Cheng, Chunyao Hou, Yanan Lei, Chenfang Jiang, Yuntian Zhao, Hongyi Zhang

“…Limestone was subjected to both external water pressure and internal pore water pressure in a cyclic cycle, where pore water pressure promotes pore creation and expansion, while external water pressure prevents water from degrading the pore structure. The periodic change of water pressure has a significant influence on rock mechanics and deformation behavior, and the rock mass will undergo elastic deformation, plastic deformation, and even fracture. …”
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Computational Simulation of Virtual Patients Reduces Dataset Bias and Improves Machine Learning-Based Detection of ARDS from Noisy Heterogeneous ICU Datasets by Konstantin Sharafutdinov, Sebastian Johannes Fritsch, Mina Iravani, Pejman Farhadi Ghalati, Sina Saffaran, Declan G. Bates, Jonathan G. Hardman, Richard Polzin, Hannah Mayer, Gernot Marx, Johannes Bickenbach, Andreas Schuppert

“…However, such heterogeneous datasets can introduce further biases driven by data origin, as data structures and patient cohorts may differ between hospitals. …”
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iMESc – an interactive machine learning app for environmental sciences by Danilo Cândido Vieira, Danilo Cândido Vieira, Fabiana S. Paula, Luciana Erika Yaginuma, Gustavo Fonseca

“…We demonstrate iMESc’s flexibility with four workflows applied to a case study predicting nematode community structure based on environmental data. The classical statistical approaches, the Redundancy Analysis (RDA) and Piecewise RDA (pwRDA), explained 30.7% and 53%, respectively. …”
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A Microfluidic Biosensor for Quantitative Detection of <i>Salmonella</i> in Traditional Chinese Medicine by Yutong Wu, Yang Liu, Jinchen Ma, Shanxi Zhu, Xiaojun Zhao, Huawei Mou, Xuanqi Ke, Zhisheng Wu, Yifei Wang, Sheng Lin, Wuzhen Qi

“…The immune MNBs, immune Au@PtNCs, and bacterial samples were introduced into a novel passive microfluidic micromixer for full mixing, resulting in the formation of a double-antibody sandwich structure due to antigen–antibody immune reactions. …”
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A population genomics approach to unlock the genetic potential of lablab (Lablab purpureus (L.) Sweet), an underutilized tropical forage crop by A. Teshome, E. Habte, J. Cheema, A. Mekasha, H. Lire, M. S. Muktar, J. Quiroz-Chavez, C. Domoney, C. S. Jones

“…The population genetic structure of the lablab accessions, based on ~ 500,000 informative single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), revealed an independent domestication pattern for two-seeded and four-seeded lablab accessions. …”
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