Genetic variation in zona pellucida-3 (ZP3) gene and its association with litter size variation in Kari sheep by Izaz Ali, Muhammad Ibrahim, Sohail Ahmad, Sher Hayat Khan, Ihtesham Ul Haq, Ibrahim A. Alhidary, Rifat Ullah Khan, Naseer Khan Momand, Marco Ragni

“…Two groups of 160 Kari ewes were analysed: one consistently producing singletons and another producing twins, with occasional triplets. Additionally, Madakhlasht sheep, which sometimes produce twins, and Balkhi sheep, which produce only singletons, were used as references. …”
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Sap flow of pecan trees in a US Southeastern orchard by Gengsheng Zhang, Monique Y. Leclerc, Lenny Wells

“…The twin loop happened since the sap flow peak occurred earlier than that of solar radiation, possibly attributed to high morning vapor pressure deficit that year. …”
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Fronteira Brasil-Uruguai: interações espaciais, reivindicações territoriais e políticas públicas de desenvolvimento by Camilo Pereira Carneiro, Gabriel Silva Ribeiro, Letícia Eugênia Pereira de Morais

“…In this sense, this paper brings a contemporary approach, based on Political Geography, of development public policies and spatial interactions in the twin cities on the Brazil-Uruguay border. Initially, the text addresses the historical formation of the Brazil-Uruguay border. …”
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Development of industrial internet platform and its security challenges by Rongrong JIANG, Zhengqiu WENG, Tieming CHEN

“…The deep integration of the internet and traditional industries promotes the rapid development of the industrial internet.Key factors such as digitization,networking,and intelligence have made the industrial internet platform a new infrastructure project,and new technologies like identification systems,edge computing,and digital twin have emerged.Industrial internet platforms also bring new security challenges (e.g.…”
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Research on architecture of novel programmable networks for 6G by Xuliang WANG, Shuo QUAN, Zengyi LIU, Jun ZHANG

“…Starting from the industry’s various business scenarios for 6G networks, and the dynamic network capability adjustment requirements for 6G network equipment were deeply analyzed.A programmable network platform architecture with the characteristics of closed-loop self-optimization based on network state management was proposed.Through this architecture design, the existing technology systems related to SDN, NFV, and network AI can be maximized and network administrators can perform network lifecycle management based on network status statements.This platform can provide a new technical realization idea and method for the digital twin network and on-demand network in the future.…”
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What Is a Healthy Forest? A Supplement to Florida Project Learning Tree by Sarah L. Hicks, Martha C. Monroe, Geetha S. Iyer, Jason A. Smith

“…The activities in this supplement, with the original PLT Guide, help our students rise to these twin challenges. This 84-page handbook was written by Sarah L. …”
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Crack path in liquid metal embrittlement: experiments with steels and modeling by T. Auger, S. Hémery, M. Bourcier, C. Berdin, M. Martin, I. Robertson

“…The main finding is that most of the cracking process takes place at grain boundaries, lath or mechanical twin boundaries while cleavage or plastic flow localization is rarely the observed fracture mode. …”
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What Is a Healthy Forest? A Supplement to Florida Project Learning Tree by Sarah L. Hicks, Martha C. Monroe, Geetha S. Iyer, Jason A. Smith

“…The activities in this supplement, with the original PLT Guide, help our students rise to these twin challenges. This 84-page handbook was written by Sarah L. …”
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Integrated Analysis Approach of Gear Whine of Commercial Vehicle Drive Axle by Jiang Xiao, Niancheng Guo, Shanheng Yan, Wanyu Sun, Yanyan Zhao, Jian Liu

“…The gear whine noise simulation and experiment are carried out on a sample vehicle equipped with a twin drive axle. The calibration results show that there is a good correlation between calculation and test response. …”
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Building a Partnership World: Imagining a Future of Cooperation and Equity by Fang Lei

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Hard-soft-hard layered structure for enhanced mechanical properties in corrugated rolled AZ31 magnesium alloy sheets by Biwu Zhu, Yue Cui, Kang Xu, Xiao Liu, Fan Ye, Wenhui Liu, Pengcheng Guo, Yuanzhi Wu, Xiang Li

“…The corrugated and flat sides primarily consist of twins, necklace grains and recrystallized grains, while the middle layer is dominated by coarse grains with a small amount of twins and necklace grains. …”
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A multi-trait approach identified 7 novel genes for back pain by Nadezhda M. Belonogova, Elizaveta E. Elgaeva, Irina V. Zorkoltseva, Anatoliy V. Kirichenko, Gulnara R. Svishcheva, Maxim B. Freidin, Frances M. K. Williams, Pradeep Suri, Tatiana I. Axenovich, Yakov A. Tsepilov

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A Serious Game to Study Reduced Field of View in Keyhole Surgery: Development and Experimental Study by Phoebe Whitley, Connor Creasey, Matthew J Clarkson, Stephen Thompson

“…MethodsWe implemented an open-source serious game in JavaScript, inspired by the surgical task of selectively cauterizing blood vessels during twin-to-twin transfusion surgery. During the game, the player is required to identify and cut the correct blood vessel under different fields of view and varying levels of vascular complexity. …”
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An investigation of a hemophilia A female with heterozygous intron 22 inversion and skewed X chromosome inactivation by Xiaoyan Tan, Yi Yang, Xia Wu, Jing Zhu, Teng Wang, Huihui Jiang, Shu Chen, Shifeng Lou

“…The proband’s mother and monozygotic twin sister are also Inv22 carriers, yet remain asymptomatic with normal FVIII activity. …”
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Réception du 11 septembre 2001 au Québec. Persistance des mémoires nationales et émergence de mémoires globalisées by Christian Bergeron

“…Everyone (or almost) remembers the fateful date associated with the collapsing Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York, the terrorist attacks in Washington and Pennsylvania State. …”
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Crystal Growth Behaviors of Silicon during Melt Growth Processes by Kozo Fujiwara

“…In this review, crystal growth mechanisms involving the morphological transformation of the crystal-melt interface, grain boundary formation, parallel-twin formation, and faceted dendrite growth are discussed on the basis of the experimental results of in situ observations.…”
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Production traits of tushin sheep i. reproductive ability and growth by Ali Rıza Aksoy, Mustafa Saatcı, Musa Özbey, Muharrem Taşkın Dalcı

“…Rate of birth and rate of twin born were 70.0% and 14,3% in 1997. and 70.0% and 9.8% in 1998 respectively, and the differences between years were not significant. …”
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Cross-Linguistic Similarity Evaluation Techniques Based on Deep Learning by Jun Li, Jing Zhang, Mengjie Qian

“…For the cross-linguistic similarity problem, a twin network model with ordered neuron long- and short-term memory neural network as a subnet is proposed. …”
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The investigation of the relationships between retained placenta and animal's age, calving season, and type, number of parturition (or parity), and sex of calving in the cows by Yaşar Akar, Hamit Yıldız, Halis Öcal, Ali M. Apaydın

“…Among the cows with retained placenta, abortion, twin birth, dead birth and living birth were in 6.42 %, 7.69 %, 5 % and 88.58 %, respectively. …”
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Optimal control of agent-based models via surrogate modeling. by Luis L Fonseca, Lucas Böttcher, Borna Mehrad, Reinhard C Laubenbacher

“…There is a broad range of applications for such an algorithm, since ABMs are used widely in the life sciences, such as ecology, epidemiology, and biomedicine and healthcare, areas where optimal control is an important purpose for modeling, such as for medical digital twin technology.…”
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