Revisiting pangenome openness with k-mers by Parmigiani, Luca, Wittler, Roland, Stoye, Jens

“…Estimating the total size of the pangenome for a given species has been subject of study since the very first mention of pangenomes. …”
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HIV-Associated Oral Mucosal Melanin Hyperpigmentation: A Clinical Study in a South African Population Sample by R. Chandran, L. Feller, J. Lemmer, R. A. G. Khammissa

“…This cross-sectional study included 200 HIV-seropositive Black subjects. The collected data comprised age, gender, CD4+ T cell count, viral load, systemic disease, medications, oral site affected by HIV-OMH, extent (localized or generalized), intensity of the pigmentation (dark or light), and smoking and snuff use. …”
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Explainable vision transformer for automatic visual sleep staging on multimodal PSG signals by Hyojin Lee, You Rim Choi, Hyun Kyung Lee, Jaemin Jeong, Joopyo Hong, Hyun-Woo Shin, Hyung-Sin Kim

“…Abstract Polysomnography (PSG) is crucial for diagnosing sleep disorders, but manual scoring of PSG is time-consuming and subjective, leading to high variability. While machine-learning models have improved PSG scoring, their clinical use is hindered by the ‘black-box’ nature. …”
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The Propensity for Inducing Atrial Fibrillation: A Comparative Study on Old versus Young Rabbits by Hongliang Li, Benjamin J. Scherlag, David C. Kem, Caitlin Zillner, Shailesh Male, Sorkko Thirunavukkarasu, Xiaohua Shen, Alexandria Benbrook, Jan V. Pitha, Ralph Lazzara, Xichun Yu

“…Six old (aged 4–6 years) and 9 young (aged 3-4 months) New Zealand white rabbits were subjected to a catheter-based electrophysiological study. …”
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Promotion of tourist potentials, traffic and investments as the basis of the economic development of Vranjska Banja by Novović Milan, Lukić Aleksandar, Ostojić Bojana, Pećić Milutin

“…Apart from therapeutical waters, this tourist spot has preserved tourist values that qualify it to become an ecological oasis in this part of Serbia. Accordingly, the subject of research in the paper is the tourist potential of Vranjska Banja, which has not been sufficiently utilized for the needs of tourism, nor is it sufficiently promoted through digital media. …”
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High-Strength Hollow Glass Microsphere/Epoxy Resin Composite Insulation Materials for Deep In-Situ Condition Preserved Coring by Jianping Yang, Ling Chen, Zhiqiang He, Cong Li, Bo Yu, Zijie Wei, Zhiyu Zhao, Zongxin Hao

“…Changes in the thermal conductivities and mechanical strengths of the composites were characterized after they were subjected to high water pressure (45 MPa). Verification of the applicability of the thermal insulation material under high water pressure (45 MPa) conditions demonstrated that it met the working requirements for the ICP-coring device.…”
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Pore Geometry Optimization of Titanium (Ti6Al4V) Alloy, for Its Application in the Fabrication of Customized Hip Implants by Sandipan Roy, Debojyoti Panda, Niloy Khutia, Amit Roy Chowdhury

“…To perform a detailed analysis of the response of the porous structure over the entire spectrum of loading conditions that a hip implant is subjected to in vivo, the mechanical responses of 3D finite element models of cubic and rectangular parallelepiped geometries, with porosities varying over a range of 10% to 60%, are simulated under representative compressive, flexural as well as combined loading conditions. …”
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Is the BCG Vaccine Safe for Undernourished Individuals? by Larissa Lumi Watanabe Ishikawa, Larissa Camargo da Rosa, Thais Graziela Donegá França, Raphael Sanches Peres, Fernanda Chiuso-Minicucci, Sofia Fernanda Gonçalves Zorzella-Pezavento, Alexandrina Sartori

“…An experimental model of undernutrition was established by subjecting BALB/c mice to dietary restriction. These animals received 70% of the amount of food consumed by the healthy control group and exhibited physiological alterations compatible with malnutrition, including body weight loss, reduced levels of triglycerides and glucose, and reduced lymphocyte numbers. …”
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Privacy Auditing in Differential Private Machine Learning: The Current Trends by Ivars Namatevs, Kaspars Sudars, Arturs Nikulins, Kaspars Ozols

“…It covers a wide range of topics on the subject and provides comprehensive guidance for privacy auditing schemes based on privacy attacks to protect machine-learning models from privacy leakage. …”
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Association between Truck Crashes due to Mechanical Failure and Truck Age by Jaeyoung Lee, Suyi Mao, Mohamed Abdel-Aty, Yanqi Lian, Lishengsha Yue, Ilsoo Yun

“…In addition to the environmental benefits, it is also possible that the truck age restriction could contribute to the enhancement of traffic safety. Older trucks are subject to longer travel-miles than newer trucks and tend to have higher mechanical failure rates. …”
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Vibration Test and Shock Absorption of Coal Crusher Chambers in Thermal Power Plants (II): Numerical Analysis by Hanquan Yuan, Lihua Zhu, Haoyi Zhou, Dong Jiang, Baoquan Liu, Chunzhu Fan, Liujiu Tang

“…When static design method is adopted to calculate the bearing capacity of the supporting structure subjected to the dynamic load of the coal crusher, the dynamic coefficient of a coal crusher is suggested as 1.5.…”
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Exploring the Impact of Negative Words Used in Online Feedback in Hotel Industry: A Sentiment Analysis, N-gram, and Text Network Analysis Approach by DOI: 10.7172/2449-6634.jmcbem.2023.1.3 Journal of Marketing and Consumer Behaviour in Emerging Markets 1(16)2023 39 (39–50) © 2023 Authors. This is an open access journal distributed under the Creative Commons BY 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Exploring the Impact of Negative Words Used in Online Feedback in Hotel Industry: A Sentiment Analysis, N-gram, and Text Network Analysis Approach Daniel Dan

“…While the negative valence of the feedback can represent a mixture of subjective and objective emotions, there are common features present in their expression. …”
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Color Doppler Score: A New Approach for Monitoring a Large Placental Chorioangioma by Maria Angelica Zoppi, Alessandra Piras, Ambra Iuculano, Maurizio Arras, Federica Mulas, Maria Carmela Fadda, Sergio Cossu, Giovanni Monni

“…We employed color Doppler score as an innovative approach for the prenatal diagnosis and monitoring of a large placental chorioangioma case diagnosed at 26 weeks and the subjective semiquantitative assessment of the vascularization. …”
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Multi‐data classification detection in smart grid under false data injection attack based on Inception network by H. Pan, H. Yang, C. N. Na, J. Y. Jin

“…Abstract During operation, the smart grid is subject to different false data injection attacks (FDIA). …”
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An interactive soft robotic hand-task training system with wireless task boards and daily objects on post-stroke rehabilitation by Xiangqian Shi, Chengyu Yang, Pak Chung Lee, Disheng Xie, Zhongping Ye, Zheng Li, Raymond Kai-yu Tong

“…Evaluation with seven stroke subjects shows significant improvements in upper limb functions (FMA), hand-motor abilities (ARAT, BBT), and maximum grip strengths after 20 sessions of this task-oriented training. …”
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Novel Metrics for High-Density sEMG Analysis in the Time–Space Domain During Sustained Isometric Contractions by Giovanni Corvini, Michail Arvanitidis, Deborah Falla, Silvia Conforto

“…<italic>Methods:</italic> Nine subjects performed a fatiguing isometric contraction of the lumbar erector spinae. …”
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Estimation of the nonlinear dependence of the indications of a fiber Bragg grating on temperature and strain from experimental data by Aleksey Shestakov, Igor Shardakov, Irina Glot, Valery Yepin, Georgiy Gusev, Roman Tsvetkov

“…The article describes an experiment in which an optical fiber with Bragg grating was subjected to loading using three different weights. …”
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Towards a Prototype of a Spherical Tippe Top by M. C. Ciocci, B. Malengier, B. Langerock, B. Grimonprez

“…The commonly used simplified mathematical model for the tippe top is a sphere whose mass distribution is axially but not spherically symmetric, spinning on a flat surface subject to a small friction force that is due to sliding. …”
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Conjugation of LasR Quorum-Sensing Inhibitors with Ciprofloxacin Decreases the Antibiotic Tolerance of P. aeruginosa Clinical Strains by Daria Bortolotti, Claudio Trapella, Alessandra Bragonzi, Paolo Marchetti, Vinicio Zanirato, Andrea Alogna, Valentina Gentili, Carlo Cervellati, Giuseppe Valacchi, Mariangela Sicolo, Giulia Turrin, Anna Fantinati, Dario Di Luca, Roberta Rizzo

“…Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative bacterium that commonly infects subjects with weakened immune system causing deadly infections above all at pulmonary level. …”
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Integrating Wearable Sensor Signal Processing with Unsupervised Learning Methods for Tremor Classification in Parkinson’s Disease by Serena Dattola, Augusto Ielo, Angelo Quartarone, Maria Cristina De Cola

“…Tremor is one of the most common symptoms of Parkinson’s disease (PD), assessed using clinician-assigned clinical scales, which can be subjective and prone to variability. This study evaluates the potential of unsupervised learning for the classification and assessment of tremor severity from wearable sensor data. …”
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