Development of a Novel KCNN4-Related ceRNA Network and Prognostic Model for Renal Clear Cell Carcinoma by Hengtao Bu, Qiang Song, Jiexiu Zhang, Yuang Wei, Bianjiang Liu

“…Finally, quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction and western blot were conducted for KCNN4 expression detection in cell lines and clinical samples. Small interfering RNA was employed to knock down KCNN4, and corresponding functional experiments were conducted on ccRCC cells as well. …”
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Identifying Disinformation on the Extended Impacts of COVID-19: Methodological Investigation Using a Fuzzy Ranking Ensemble of Natural Language Processing Models by Jian-An Chen, Wu-Chun Chung, Che-Lun Hung, Chun-Ying Wu

“…To enhance performance, we implemented an ensemble learning strategy that incorporated a reparameterized Gompertz function, which assigned fuzzy ranks based on each model’s prediction confidence for each test case. …”
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Gene-Environment Interactions in Stress Response Contribute Additively to a Genotype-Environment Interaction. by Takeshi Matsui, Ian M Ehrenreich

“…To shed light on this problem, we genetically dissected an environment-specific poor growth phenotype in a cross of two budding yeast strains. This phenotype is detectable when certain segregants are grown on ethanol at 37°C ('E37'), a condition that differs from the standard culturing environment in both its carbon source (ethanol as opposed to glucose) and temperature (37°C as opposed to 30°C). …”
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Finding RB/Rpi-blb1/Rpi-sto1-like sequences in conventionally bred potato varieties by O. Y. Antonova, N. S. Klimenko, Z. Z. Evdokimova, L. I. Kostina, T. A. Gavrilenko

“…At the same time there is a high probability of finding geno types with the Rpi-sto1 gene (functional homologues of  Rpi-blb1) among conventionally bred varieties because for about 40 years S. stoloniferum has been used in breeding as a source of the Rysto and Ry-fsto genes of the extreme resistance to the most important viral pathogen PVY. …”
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The Role of High-mass Stellar Binaries in the Formation of High-mass Black Holes in Dense Star Clusters by Ambreesh Khurana, Sourav Chatterjee

“…We study the differences in the demographics of BH–BH mergers and their implications for LIGO–Virgo–Kagra detections as a function of ${f}_{{\rm{b}},15}^{{\prime} }$ .…”
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Patients’ and Health Care Professionals’ Perspectives on Remote Patient Monitoring in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Exacerbation Management: Initiating Cocreation by Atena Mahboubian, Marise J Kasteleyn, Enna Bašić, Niels H Chavannes, Jiska J Aardoom

“…Early diagnosis of exacerbations is crucial for preserving lung function, preventing hospitalizations, and reducing health care costs. …”
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Farmers’ knowledge and perception of finger millet blast disease and its control practices in western Kenya by Wilton Mbinda, Agnes Kavoo, Fredah Maina, Margaret Odeph, Cecilia Mweu, Naomi Nzilani, Mathew Ngugi

“…Abstract Background Finger millet blast disease, caused by Pyricularia oryzae, is a serious constrain of finger millet production which is threatening global food security especially to the resource poor smallholder farmers in arid and semi-arid regions. …”
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On path length, beam divergence, and retroreflector array size in open-path FTIR spectroscopy by C. E. N. Power, C. E. N. Power, A. Wiacek, A. Wiacek

“…<p>Open-path Fourier transform infrared (OP-FTIR) spectroscopy is an established technique used to measure boundary layer trace gas concentrations, consisting (in this work) of a spectrometer with an active mid-IR source coupled to a single transmitting and receiving telescope, as well as a cube-corner retroreflector array separated from the spectrometer and telescope by an atmospheric path. …”
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Submillimeter and Mid-infrared Variability of Young Stellar Objects in the M17 H II Region by Zhiwei Chen, Doug Johnstone, Carlos Contreras Peña, Jeong-Eun Lee, Sheng-Yuan Liu, Gregory Herczeg, Steve Mairs, Geumsook Park, Kee-Tae Kim, Mi-Ryang Kim, Keping Qiu, Yao-Te Wang, Xu Zhang, Megan Reiter, The JCMT Transient Team

“…This mid-IR fractional variability as a function of evolutionary stage result is similar to what has previously been found for YSO variability within the Gould Belt and the intermediate-mass star formation region M17 SWex, though overall less variability is detected in M17 in submillimeter and mid-IR. …”
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Insights from lncRNAs Profiling of MIN6 Beta Cells Undergoing Inflammation by Chuntao Sun, Lihua Xue, Ziyang Zhu, Fan Zhang, Ruixue Yang, Xuewen Yuan, Zhanjun Jia, Qianqi Liu

“…This study may be utilized as a background or reference resource for future functional studies on lncRNAs related to the diagnosis and development of new therapies for T1DM.…”
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Digital Twin-Based Technical Research on Comprehensive Gear Fault Diagnosis and Structural Performance Evaluation by Qiang Zhang, Zhe Wu, Boshuo An, Ruitian Sun, Yanping Cui

“…However, the current gear operation is still faced with problems such as poor monitoring, a single detection index, and low data utilization, which lead to incomplete evaluation results. …”
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Probabilistic linkages of propagation from meteorological to agricultural drought in the North African semi-arid region by Younes Dahhane, Victor Ongoma, Abdessamad Hadri, Mohamed Hakim Kharrou, Oualid Hakam, Abdelghani Chehbouni

“…Statistical measures such as Spearman correlation (R), root mean square error (RMSE), and mean absolute error (MAE), are utilized to assess the performance of the meteorological drought index to detect the agricultural drought. The propagation time from meteorological drought to agricultural drought was identified, and probabilistic linkages between the two types of droughts were investigated using the copula function and Bayesian network. …”
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Identification and outcomes of acute kidney disease in patients presenting in Bolivia, Brazil, South Africa, and Nepal. by Rhys D R Evans, Sanjib K Sharma, Rolando Claure-Del Granado, Brett Cullis, Emmanuel A Burdmann, Fos Franca, Junio Aguiar, Martyn Fredlund, Kelly Hendricks, Maria F Iturricha-Caceres, Mamit Rai, Bhupendra Shah, Shyam Kafle, David C Harris, Mike V Rocco

“…High rates of persistent kidney disease and mortality after discharge highlight the importance of AKD follow-up in low-resource settings.…”
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Model-Based Electroencephalogram Instantaneous Frequency Tracking: Application in Automated Sleep–Wake Stage Classification by Masoud Nateghi, Mahdi Rahbar Alam, Hossein Amiri, Samaneh Nasiri, Reza Sameni

“…A critical component of sleep analysis is detecting transitions between wakefulness and sleep states. …”
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Insect seedling herbivory is influenced by multiple factors, but the plant apparency theory is more supported than other hypotheses – A case study in a subtropical forest by Baozhu Yuan, Bo Wang

“…This, in turn, exerts a significant influence on forest community diversity and structure, as well as ecosystem function and stability. Notable variation in herbivory has been detected both among and within plant species. …”
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Chloroplast genome features and intraspecific variation of Rosa praelucens by WANG Qigang1, CAO Shirui1,2, WANG Huichun1, MA Changle2, YAN Huijun1, QIU Xianqin1, JING Weikun1, JIAN Hongying1*

“…The genomes encoded 132 function genes, mainly related with photosynthesis and self-replication. …”
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Thermally radiative water-based hybrid nanofluid with nanoparticles and gyrotactic microorganisms past a stretching surface with convective conditions and porous media by Humaira Yasmin, Rawan Bossly, Fuad S. Alduais, Afrah Al-Bossly, Anwar Saeed

“…The analysis is done via the bvp4c MATLAB function in order to analyze the current model numerically by implementing convective boundary conditions. …”
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Radiation diagnostics of the state of ventilation and pulmonary circulation in patients with COPD by O. S. Sementsov, S. V. Stepanenko

“…Also a promising area is the use of functional CT (inspiratory-expiratory CT) - which should improve the assessment of respiratory function, including early detection of patients with COPD, which will promote the in time start of specific treatment, reduce episodes of exacerbations during the disease, assess the dynamics of the pathological process and the effectiveness of treatment, as well as improving the prognosis of work and life expectancy of patients. …”
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The burden of intracerebral hemorrhage attributable to ambient particulate matter pollution in five Asian countries: a 32-year comparative analysis by Rui Yang, Xingke Wang, Panpan Hao

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Double-moment normalization of hail size number distributions over Switzerland by A. Ferrone, J. Kopp, M. Lainer, M. Gabella, U. Germann, A. Berne

“…Thanks to its invariance in space and time, a generalized gamma function is used to model the normalized distribution, and its parameters have been determined through a fit over approximately 70 % of the events. …”
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