Synthesis, Evaluation, and Electrochemical Detection Application of Magnetic Molecularly Imprinted Polymers for 4,4′-Methylenedianiline from Food-Contact Materials by Lijing Lu, Haoyue Ning, Jipeng Guo, Chuang Guo, Liao Pan, Lixin Lu

“…Magnetic molecularly imprinted polymers (MIPs) capable of selectively recognizing and absorbing 4,4′-methylenedianiline (MDA) were successfully synthesized, using Fe3O4 coated with mesoporous silicon (Fe3O4@mSiO2) as the magnetic carrier, 4-vinyl pyridine (4-VP) as the functional monomer, ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EGDMA) as the cross-linking agent, and MDA as the template molecule. …”
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A New Quinone Based Fluorescent Probe for High Sensitive and Selective Detection of Biothiols and Its Application in Living Cell Imaging by Yanju Liu, Manman Li, Keith Man-Chung Wong, Yan Tong, Huaixia Yang, Jinming Kong

“…In addition, the probe has been successfully applied to the detection of biothiols in Eca9706 cells by fluorescence confocal imaging technology.…”
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Sensitive and selective detection of Staphylococcus aureus via a dual-recognition colorimetric platform based on phenylboronic acid and IgY by Yun Zhang, Chunhui Huo, Xiaohong Yang, Yanjie Cui, Yiqing Hou, Qinghe Guo, Qiongzi Wang, Mingyong Wang, Yi Zhang

“…The optimized method can be performed within 120 min, with a detection limit of 9.4 × 102 CFU/mL. The proposed strategy was successfully applied to detection of S. aureus in spring water and apple juice samples. …”
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Fluorescent nanoprobe prepared from hyaluronic acid modified iron selenide nanoparticles for real-time detection of hyaluronidase as tumor marker by Chaoqun Zhang, Jie Song, Xin Shen, Qian Li, Feng Su, Suming Li

“…Analyses by FTIR, XRD, XPS, EDX, TEM, DLS, 1H NMR and TGA confirmed the successful synthesis of the nanoprobe, and fluorescence spectroscopy proved its good detection performance. …”
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Enhanced YOLOv7-Tiny for Small-Scale Fire Detection via Multi-Scale Channel Spatial Attention and Dynamic Upsampling by Shihao Wu, Yi Xia

“…Furthermore, the Focaler-IoU loss function is employed to focus the model on hard samples, enhancing the accuracy of small fire detection. …”
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Heart Rate Variability-Based Stress Detection and Fall Risk Monitoring During Daily Activities: A Machine Learning Approach by Ines Belhaj Messaoud, Ornwipa Thamsuwan

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Identification and Functional Testing of ERCC2 Mutations in a Multi-national Cohort of Patients with Familial Breast- and Ovarian Cancer. by Andreas Rump, Anna Benet-Pages, Steffen Schubert, Jan Dominik Kuhlmann, Ramūnas Janavičius, Eva Macháčková, Lenka Foretová, Zdenek Kleibl, Filip Lhota, Petra Zemankova, Elitza Betcheva-Krajcir, Luisa Mackenroth, Karl Hackmann, Janin Lehmann, Anke Nissen, Nataliya DiDonato, Romy Opitz, Holger Thiele, Karin Kast, Pauline Wimberger, Elke Holinski-Feder, Steffen Emmert, Evelin Schröck, Barbara Klink

“…Ten out of eleven mutations that were tested exemplarily in cell-based functional assays exert diminished excision repair efficiency and/or decreased transcriptional activation capability. …”
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Vibration-Based Damage Detection of a Steel-Concrete Composite Slab Using Non-Model-Based and Model-Based Methods by Liang Fang, Yun Zhou, Yunzhong Jiang, Yilin Pei, Weijian Yi

“…For the non-model-based method, modal flexibility and modal flexibility displacement (MFD) were used to detect the location and extent of the damage. The test results showed that the appearance and location of the damage in defect cases and loading conditions can be successfully identified by the MFD values. …”
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Rapid-Response and Highly Sensitive Boronate Derivative-Based Fluorescence Probe for Detecting H2O2 in Living Cells by Muthusamy Selvaraj, Kanagaraj Rajalakshmi, Yun-Sik Nam, Yeonhee Lee, Byoung Chan Kim, Sung Jin Pai, Sang Soo Han, Kang-Bong Lee

“…The probe was conjugated using the TPIOP functional group acting as an excellent fluorescent enhancer. …”
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Ago HITS-CLIP expands understanding of Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus miRNA function in primary effusion lymphomas. by Irina Haecker, Lauren A Gay, Yajie Yang, Jianhong Hu, Alison M Morse, Lauren M McIntyre, Rolf Renne

“…In summary, we provide an extensive list of cellular and viral miRNA targets representing an important resource to decipher KSHV miRNA function.…”
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Secure ISAC MIMO systems: exploiting interference with Bayesian Cramér–Rao bound optimization by Nanchi Su, Fan Liu, Christos Masouros, George C. Alexandropoulos, Yifeng Xiong, Qinyu Zhang

“…Abstract In this paper, we present a signaling design for secure integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) systems comprising a dual-functional multi-input multi-output base station that simultaneously communicates with multiple users while detecting targets present in their vicinity, which are regarded as potential eavesdroppers. …”
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Discovery of candidate functional non-coding mutations in acute myeloid leukemia using single-cell chromatin accessibility sequencing by Ming Zhu, Jiali Zhu, Zhijuan Zhu, Yiding Yang, Jinxian Dai, Hua Li, Nainong Li, Jialiang Huang

“…Additionally, we develop eMut, an integrated computational pipeline for detecting, imputing, and functionally characterizing non-coding mutations in CREs at the single-cell level. …”
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Effect of melatonin, zinc sulfate, nano-melatonin, and nano-zinc oxide on mitochondria function and developmental competence of buffalo oocytes by Omaima Mohamed Kandil, Heba Elsaeed Elsehy, Nabil Mohamed Baker, Mohamed Asran Elbehiry, Sayed Ahmed Hattab

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High accuracy identification of maize seed varieties based on a lightweight improved YOLOv8 by Siqi Niu, Xiaolin Xu, Ao Liang, Yuliang Yun, Fengqi Hao, Jinqiang Bai, Wenyi Sheng, Dexin Ma

“…Lastly, the loss function was replaced with Inner_SIoU, which was more suitable for small-object detection tasks. …”
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Effect of Forest Species Canopy on the Accumulation of Toxic Metals in the Soil Within and Around Macedonia Airport, Northern Greece by Ioannis Mousios, Marianthi Tsakaldimi, Evangelia Gkini, Theocharis Chatzistathis, Petros Ganatsas

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PAMFPN: Position-Aware Multi-Kernel Feature Pyramid Network with Adaptive Sparse Attention for Robust Object Detection in Remote Sensing Imagery by Xiaofei Yang, Suihua Xue, Lin Li, Sihuan Li, Yudong Fang, Xiaofeng Zhang, Xiaohui Huang

“…Deep learning methods have achieved remarkable success in remote sensing object detection. Existing object detection methods focus on integrating convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and Transformer networks to explore local and global representations to improve performance. …”
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Highly sensitive live-cell imaging-based cytotoxicity assay enables functional validation of rare epitope-specific CTLs by Kathrin Wellach, Kathrin Wellach, Kathrin Wellach, Angelika B. Riemer, Angelika B. Riemer

“…Finally, the assay was successfully applied to functionally validate human papillomavirus (HPV)16 epitopes, by detecting epitope-specific killing of established patient-derived tumor cell lines by rare T-cell populations expanded from peripheral blood. …”
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Nutritional and Functional Characterization of Flour from Seeds of Chañar (<i>Geoffroea decorticans</i>) to Promote Its Sustainable Use by Marisa Ayelen Rivas, Enzo Agustin Matteucci, Ivana Fabiola Rodriguez, María Alejandra Moreno, Iris Catiana Zampini, Adriana Ramon, María Inés Isla

“…A high polyphenol and dietary fiber content was detected. Flavonoids and condensed tannins were the dominant phenolics. …”
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CAZyme analysis and functional characterization of a new GH18 chitin hydrolase from Gelidibacter salicanalis PAMC21136 by Lakshan Paudel, Bashu Dev Pardhe, So-Ra Han, Jun Hyuck Lee, Tae-Jin Oh

“…The gene encoding chitinase (MBJ7879808.1) was successfully cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli BL21 cells. …”
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Saponins from <i>Solanum nigrum</i> L. Fruit: Extraction Optimization, Structural Characterization, and Dual-Functional Efficacy by Shuyuan Chen, Weiyun Guo, Tonghe Zhang, Jianfang Chen, Li Huang, Jihong Huang, Ruqiang Huang

“…., a widely consumed Asian medicinal edible plant, is a promising source of bioactive saponins for functional food applications. …”
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