Using Landscape Metrics of Pixel Scale Land Cover Extracted from High Spatial Resolution Images to Classify Block-Level Urban Land Use by Haofeng Luo, Xiaomei Yang, Zhihua Wang, Yueming Liu, Huifang Zhang, Ku Gao, Qingyang Zhang

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Retinal vein occlusion risk prediction without fundus examination using a no-code machine learning tool for tabular data: a nationwide cross-sectional study from South Korea by Na Hyeon Yu, Daeun Shin, Ik Hee Ryu, Tae Keun Yoo, Kyungmin Koh

“…An easy-to-use oversampling function was employed to address class imbalance, enhancing the usability of the workflow. …”
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Alaskapox amid New Orthopox Viral Infections Mikhail V. Supotnitskiy by M. V. Supotnitskiy

“…There is also a risk of using any detected OPXV as a source of genes for gain-of-function modification of other pathogens or for simulating.Conclusion. …”
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Research progress on in-situ catalytic hydrodeoxygenation of lignin by ZHAO Yuying, ZHAN Jiahui, HU Rui, LUO Gang, ZHANG Shicheng*

“…It utilizes solvents or lignin′s functional groups as hydrogen sources. During the catalytic process, hydrogen is generated in situ and acts on the substrate, achieving efficient value-added conversion. …”
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Phase reconstruction via metasurface-integrated quantum analog operation by Qiuying Li, Minggui Liang, Shuoqing Liu, Jiawei Liu, Shizhen Chen, Shuangchun Wen, Hailu Luo

“…Besides, the consistency of entangled photon pairs in time domain makes it possible to achieve a high SNR imaging by trigger detection. The results may potentially empower the application of metasurfaces in optical chip, wave function reconstruction, and label-free biology imaging.…”
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The Propagation Properties of a Longitudinal Orbital Angular Momentum Multiplexing System in Atmospheric Turbulence by Qinghua Tian, Lei Zhu, Yongjun Wang, Qi Zhang, Bo Liu, Xiangjun Xin

“…The influences of system parameters on the average OAM mode probability densities are analyzed and discussed, such as propagation distance, strength of turbulence, sizes of finite aperture function, OAM mode numbers, and source parameters. …”
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Comparative transcriptome analysis reveals candidate gene for flowering time QTL HvHeading in barley by Nazanin P. Afsharyan, Jens Léon, Ali Ahmad Naz, Agim Ballvora

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Genome-wide landscape of genetic diversity, runs of homozygosity, and runs of heterozygosity in five Alpine and Mediterranean goat breeds by Sara Pegolo, Vittoria Bisutti, Lucio Flavio Macedo Mota, Alessio Cecchinato, Nicolò Amalfitano, Maria Luisa Dettori, Michele Pazzola, Giuseppe Massimo Vacca, Giovanni Bittante

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Development of Adaptive Testing Method Based on Neurotechnologies by E. V. Chumakova, D. G. Korneev, M. S. Gasparian

“…Adam showed the best results in terms of accuracy, while the MSE loss function (mean square error) was used together with the optimizer. …”
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The role of biochar in enhancing soil health & interactions with rhizosphere properties and enzyme activities in organic fertilizer substitution by Aamir Ali, Aamir Ali, Nida Jabeen, Zaid Chachar, Sadaruddin Chachar, Shoaib Ahmed, Shoaib Ahmed, Nazir Ahmed, Azhar Ali Laghari, Zulfiqar Ali Sahito, Rasulov Farruhbek, Zhenping Yang

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Microparticles That Form Immune Complexes as Modulatory Structures in Autoimmune Responses by Catalina Burbano, Mauricio Rojas, Gloria Vásquez, Diana Castaño

“…Initially MPs were considered to be inert cellular products with no biological function. However, an extensive research and functional characterization have shown that the molecular composition and the effects of MPs depend upon the cellular background and the mechanism inducing them. …”
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Enabling beam-scanning antenna technologies for terahertz wireless systems: A review by Dongze Zheng, Geng-Bo Wu, Zhi Hao Jiang, Wei Hong, Chi Hou Chan, Ke Wu

“…While producing a scannable highly-directive antenna beam proves to be indispensable in the period of microwaves, the significance of such functionality is more critical in the THz era, considering that THz waves have more intractable challenges such as the severity of free-space propagation losses, the susceptibility to atmospheric environments, and the unavailability of efficient signal sources. …”
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A Bio-Inspired QoS-Oriented Handover Model in Heterogeneous Wireless Networks by Daxin Tian, Jianshan Zhou, Honggang Qi, Yingrong Lu, Yunpeng Wang, Jian Wang, Anping He

“…Furthermore, the comparative analysis also shows that the bio-inspired model outperforms the utility function based handover decision scheme in terms of ensuring a better QoS satisfaction and a better fairness of network resources allocation in dynamic heterogeneous wireless networks.…”
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Dynamic prostate cancer transcriptome analysis delineates the trajectory to disease progression by Marco Bolis, Daniela Bossi, Arianna Vallerga, Valentina Ceserani, Manuela Cavalli, Daniela Impellizzieri, Laura Di Rito, Eugenio Zoni, Simone Mosole, Angela Rita Elia, Andrea Rinaldi, Ricardo Pereira Mestre, Eugenia D’Antonio, Matteo Ferrari, Flavio Stoffel, Fernando Jermini, Silke Gillessen, Lukas Bubendorf, Peter Schraml, Arianna Calcinotto, Eva Corey, Holger Moch, Martin Spahn, George Thalmann, Marianna Kruithof-de Julio, Mark A. Rubin, Jean-Philippe P. Theurillat

“…Using patient-derived xenograft models, we functionally validate our observations and add single-cell resolution. …”
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Chromosome-level genome sequencing and assembly of the parasitoid wasp Leptopilina myrica by Zhi Dong, Zixuan Xu, Junwei Zhang, Yulong Guo, Qichao Zhang, Lan Pang, Ting Feng, Wenqi Shi, Yifeng Sheng, Jianhua Huang, Jiani Chen

“…Despite their ecological significance, the genomic basis of host selection and parasitism in this genus remains underexplored. …”
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Global Trends and Empirical Metrics in the Evaluation of Code Smells and Technical Debt: A Bibliometric Study by Ronald Henry Diaz Arrieta, Byron Leoncio Diaz Monroy, Luis Javier Castillo Heredia, Alexandra Gabriela Valenzuela Cobos

“…Among the critical factors that affect these attributes are code smells, indicators of structural deficiencies in the source code, which, although they do not directly affect functionality, significantly increase technical debt and maintenance costs. …”
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21 Balmer Jump Street: The Nebular Continuum at High Redshift and Implications for the Bright Galaxy Problem, UV Continuum Slopes, and Early Stellar Populations by Harley Katz, Alex J. Cameron, Aayush Saxena, Laia Barrufet, Nichloas Choustikov, Nikko J. Cleri, Anna de Graff, Richard S. Ellis, Robert A.E. Fosbury, Kasper E. Heintz, Michael Maseda, Jorryt Matthee, Ian McConachie, Pascal A. Oesch

“…First, we provide a theoretical background, showing how different stellar populations (SPS models, initial mass functions (IMFs), and stellar temperatures) and nebular conditions impact observed galaxy spectra. …”
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Lipoprotein N-terminal modification in Bacillus: a new paradigm for extracellular acetylation and species-dependent Toll-like receptor 2 immunomodulation by Gloria Komazin, Rachel M. Wigmore, Aditi M. Ranade, Amena A. Rizk, John H. Gardiner, Timothy C. Meredith

“…While Ac-LP biosynthetic pathway genes appear to be universally conserved in all Bacillus spp., those associated with pathogenic lineages have often lost function. In B. anthracis strains, LhaT has been inactivated by insertion of poly-tyrosine runs of variable length that favors chemotype conversion to lyso-LP and evasion of TLR2 detection. …”
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A directed greybox fuzzer for windows applications by Xin Ren, Peng-fei Wang, Xu Zhou, Kai Lu

“…Abstract Directed greybox fuzzing (DGF) has proven effective in vulnerability discovery, but most efforts focus on the Linux platform, with substantially less attention devoted to Windows platform due to its closed-source and GUI software nature. This paper proposes WinDGF, a novel directed greybox fuzzer for Windows applications that addresses challenges including target function localization in persistent testing, GUI bypassing, and fitness metric calculation. …”
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Performance Analysis of Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface-Assisted Underwater Wireless Optical Communication Systems by Qi Zhang, Dian-Wu Yue, Xian-Ying Xu

“…In the RIS-assisted UWOC systems with intensity modulation and direct detection (IM-DD), we apply the approximate distribution of the sum of Gamma-Gamma random variables to derive the probability density function (PDF) of the instantaneous received signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) for the first time. …”
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