An Efficient FPGA Implementation of Optimized Anisotropic Diffusion Filtering of Images by Chandrajit Pal, Avik Kotal, Asit Samanta, Amlan Chakrabarti, Ranjan Ghosh

“…Digital image processing is an exciting area of research with a variety of applications including medical, surveillance security systems, defence, and space applications. Noise removal as a preprocessing step helps to improve the performance of the signal processing algorithms, thereby enhancing image quality. …”
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Short tandem repeats delineate gene bodies across eukaryotes by William B. Reinar, Anders K. Krabberød, Vilde O. Lalun, Melinka A. Butenko, Kjetill S. Jakobsen

“…Abstract Short tandem repeats (STRs) have emerged as important and hypermutable sites where genetic variation correlates with gene expression in plant and animal systems. Recently, it has been shown that a broad range of transcription factors (TFs) are affected by STRs near or in the DNA target binding site. …”
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Unloading of Right Ventricle and Clinical Improvement after Ultrasound-Accelerated Thrombolysis in Patients with Submassive Pulmonary Embolism by Sachin Kumar Amruthlal Jain, Brijesh Patel, Wadie David, Ayad Jazrawi, Patrick Alexander

“…The most feared complication of systemic thrombolysis is intracranial or major bleeding. …”
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Dimension Estimation Using Weighted Correlation Dimension Method by Yuanhong Liu, Zhiwei Yu, Ming Zeng, Shun Wang

“…Dimension reduction is an important tool for feature extraction and has been widely used in many fields including image processing, discrete-time systems, and fault diagnosis. As a key parameter of the dimension reduction, intrinsic dimension represents the smallest number of variables which is used to describe a complete dataset. …”
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Extramedullary Plasmacytoma of the Oral Cavity: A Rare Case in the Buccal Mucosa by Armin Khaleghi, Nafise Shamloo

“…These lesions are of clinical significance due to their potential progression to multiple myeloma (MM), a more systemic and serious plasma cell malignancy. Although EMPs primarily arise in the head and neck region, cases involving the oral cavity are particularly rare. …”
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Bilateral Birdshot Retinochoroiditis and Retinal Astrocytoma by Sunil Mamtora, Yun Wong, Dugald Bell, Teresa Sandinha

“…A 36-year-old male presented with 3-month history of bilateral progressive flashing lights and floaters. He was systemically well with no significant past medical history. …”
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A Low-Complexity GA-WSF Algorithm for Narrow-Band DOA Estimation by Haihua Chen, Jialiang Hu, Hui Tian, Shibao Li, Jianhang Liu, Masakiyo Suzuki

“…As a result, the computational complexity of WSF is very high, which prevents its application to real systems. The Genetic Algorithm (GA) is considered as an effective algorithm for finding the global solution of WSF. …”
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Integrating agent-based disease, mobility and wastewater models for the study of the spread of communicable diseases by Néstor DelaPaz-Ruíz, Ellen-Wien Augustijn, Mahdi Farnaghi, Sheheen A. Abdulkareem, Raul Zurita Milla

“…The model addresses differences between resolutions and can potentially support Early Warning Systems (EWS) for future pandemics. …”
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Justification scheme for milling waffle background by E. V. Krivonos

“…In modern conditions, when manufacturing a waffle shell for a fuel tank, reinforcement processing is carried out by milling on a monolithic blank using specialized machine systems. At the same time, the choice of the waffle background processing scheme remains an urgent issue: on a flat panel or on a bent shell. …”
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Support Vector Machine Based on Adaptive Acceleration Particle Swarm Optimization by Mohammed Hasan Abdulameer, Siti Norul Huda Sheikh Abdullah, Zulaiha Ali Othman

“…In the face and iris recognition systems, performance is evaluated using two human face databases, YALE and CASIA, and the UBiris dataset. …”
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Advanced anaplastic thyroid carcinoma with positive expression of PD-L1 response to immune checkpoint inhibitors: A case report by Shanmin Fan, Yang Yuan, Yanfang Su, Die Sang

“…Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is one rare type of thyroid carcinoma without standard systemic treatment for advanced disease. Recent evidence has demonstrated promising efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors, particularly those targeting programmed death-1 (PD-1)/programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1), in a variety of solid tumors. …”
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Evaluating AI performance in nephrology triage and subspecialty referrals by Priscilla Koirala, Charat Thongprayoon, Jing Miao, Oscar A. Garcia Valencia, Mohammad S. Sheikh, Supawadee Suppadungsuk, Michael A. Mao, Justin H. Pham, Iasmina M. Craici, Wisit Cheungpasitporn

“…This study’s findings highlight the potential of AI in enhancing decision-making processes in clinical workflow, and it can inform the development of AI-assisted triage systems tailored to institution-specific practices including multidisciplinary approaches.…”
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Decoupling microbial iron reduction from anoxic microsite formation in oxic sediments: a microscale investigation through microfluidic models by Giulia Ceriotti, Alice Bosco-Santos, Sergey M. Borisov, Jasmine S. Berg

“…However, evidence of Fe reduction in oxic, partially saturated subsurface systems, such as soils and vadose zones, has been reported, with the common explanation being the formation of anoxic microsites that remain undetected by bulk measurements. …”
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Combating antibiotic resistance: mechanisms, challenges, and innovative approaches in antibacterial drug development by Aiswarya M. Rajesh, Shraddha Subhash Pawar, Kruthi Doriya, Rambabu Dandela

“…Innovative approaches, such as structure-based drug design, combination therapies, and new delivery systems, are highlighted for their potential to create compounds with enhanced action against resistant strains. …”
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RAGE Architecture for Reusable Serious Gaming Technology Components by Wim van der Vegt, Wim Westera, Enkhbold Nyamsuren, Atanas Georgiev, Iván Martínez Ortiz

“…Based on the component-based software engineering paradigm the RAGE architecture takes into account the portability of assets to different operating systems, different programming languages, and different game engines. …”
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tRNA-derived small RNAs: their role in the mechanisms, biomarkers, and therapeutic strategies of colorectal cancer by Bo Zhang, Yanru Pan, Zhe Li, Kefeng Hu

“…Consequently, future research should focus on elucidating the clinical significance of tsRNAs concerning base modifications, TIME regulation, cancer immunotherapy, and NPs delivery systems to facilitate their clinical translation.…”
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La gobernanza regional compleja del comercio electrónico latinoamericano: una perspectiva comparada de la Alianza del Pacífico, la Comunidad Andina y el Mercosur by Julissa Castro-Silva

“…Conclusions: The analysis shows that, within systems characterized by growing institutional density and diversity—such as the Latin American e-commerce environment—regional cooperation can be facilitated when regional trade agreements are embedded in a broader trade regime, where there is a clear sequencing among different agreements, and when orchestrators and policy networks are present. …”
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Synthesis of pyranopyrazolo N-glycoside and pyrazolopyranopyrimidine C-glycoside derivatives as promising antitumor and antimicrobial agents by Hafez Hend N., El-Gazzar Abdel-Rhman B. A.

“…As a part of systematic investigation of the synthesis and biological activities of pyrazole analogues linked to various heterocyclic systems, a new series of pyrazolo-N-glycoside derivatives, pyrazolopyranopyrimidine and C-glycoside of pyrazolopyranotriazolo-pyrimidine derivatives was synthesized through the reaction of the key intermediate 6-amino-3-methyl-4-(substituted-phenyl)-1,4-dihydropyrano[2,3-c]pyrazole-5-carbonitrile (3a,b) with different reagents. …”
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A Biologically Inspired and Protein-Based Bio-Cyber Interface for the Internet of Bio-Nano Things by Pit Hofmann, Juan A. Cabrera, Gunnar Schulte, Frank H.P. Fitzek

“…In the IoBNT, the role of Bio-Cyber Interfaces (BCIs) is still underscored, representing necessary building blocks that ensure the bidirectional information exchange between biological and digital communication systems. The application area of the IoBNT spans diverse domains, e.g., healthcare, personalized medicine, or environmental monitoring. …”
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The Danger Model Approach to the Pathogenesis of the Rheumatic Diseases by César Pacheco-Tena, Susana Aideé González-Chávez

“…Here, we review the pathogenesis of rheumatic diseases such as systemic lupus erythematous, rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthritis including ankylosing spondylitis, psoriasis, and Crohn’s disease and provide realistic approaches based on the logic of the danger model. …”
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