Effects of Rumen-Protected Methionine on Meat Quality, Fatty Acid Composition, Volatile Flavor Compounds and Transcriptomics of <i>Longissimus lumborum</i> of Yak (<i>Bos grunniens... by Xia Wu, Zizhen Zuo, Jiajia Li, Jianhui Fu, Jincheng Zhong, Hui Wang, Haitao Shi, Yanling Huang, Haibo Wang

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Secrecy Outage Analysis of Mixed RF-FSO Systems With Channel Imperfection by Hongjiang Lei, Haolun Luo, Ki-Hong Park, Zhi Ren, Gaofeng Pan, Mohamed-Slim Alouini

“…First, the cumulative distribution function and probability density function of FSO links with pointing error and two different detection technologies are derived. …”
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CircRALGPS2 modulates chicken follicle development through promotion of granulosa cell apoptosis and autophagy via the miR-200a-3p/TGFβ2/SMAD pathway by Haorong He, Xinghong Yu, Can Cui, Yao Zhang, Zhuanjian Li, Shunshun Han, Huadong Yin

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Auto-Probabilistic Mining Method for Siamese Neural Network Training by Arseniy Mokin, Alexander Sheshkus, Vladimir L. Arlazarov

“…This paper address these issues by proposing a novel mining method and metric loss function. Firstly, this paper presents an auto-probabilistic mining method designed to automatically select the most informative training samples for Siamese neural networks. …”
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The Assembly of Supermassive Black Holes at z < 1 in Early-type Galaxies from Scaling Relations by D. Farrah, A. Engholm, E. Hatziminaoglou, S. Petty, F. Shankar, A. Efstathiou, K. Ejercito, K. Jones, M. Lacy, C. Lonsdale, C. Pearson, G. Tarlé, R. A. Windhorst, J. Afonso, D. L. Clements, K. S. Croker, L. K. Pitchford

“…We show, however, that this relation depends on the stellar and SMBH mass functions used to compute the selection bias, the virial relation, the virial factor, and the active fraction, which together introduce uncertainty of up to ​​​​​​∼0.6 dex in the z ∼ 0.8 relation. …”
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New insights into ovarian regression-related mitochondrial dysfunction in the late-laying period by Tiantian Gu, Jinyu Liu, Tao Zeng, Li Chen, Yong Tian, Wenwu Xu, Lizhi Lu

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Plastome comparison and phylogenomics of Chinese endemic Schnabelia (Lamiaceae): insights into plastome evolution and species divergence by Shengnan Wei, Jianan Ying, Mengxia Lu, Jie Li, Yanbo Huang, Zhenming Wu, Paul Nevill, Pan Li, Xinjie Jin, Qixiang Lu

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Utilization of Flex Controlled Robotics on Prosthetic Hand instead of Damaged Body Parts by Mohamad Reda A. Refaai, Ashraf Elfasakhany, P. Rajalakshmy, Bikash Chandra Saha, A. S. Prakaash, Dadapeer Basheer

“…Prosthetic hands are limited in functionality and cost. A low-cost anthropomorphic prosthetic hand was designed. …”
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Who Leads Trends on Q&A Platforms? Identifying and Analyzing Trend Discoverers by Yongning Li, Lun Zhang, Ye Wu, Tianlan Wei

“…Q&A platforms are vital sources of information but often face challenges related to their high ratios of passive to active contributors, which can impede knowledge construction and information exchange on the platforms. …”
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SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF TOURIST ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES IN THE HISTORIC CITY: THE CASES OF MALAGA AND PLYMOUTH by Daniel Barrera Fernández, Marco Hernández Escampa

“… The main objective of the research is to analyse the geographical distribution of tourist attractions and services in the historic city in order to understand the tourist system spatially and functionally. Two medium size port cities have been selected as study cases: Plymouth (UK) and Malaga (Spain). …”
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The RBF-FD and RBF-FDTD Methods for Solving Time-Domain Electrical Transient Problems in Power Systems by Duc-Quang Vu, Nhat-Nam Nguyen, Phan-Tu Vu

“…RBFs such as Gaussian (GA), Multiquadric (MQ), Inverse Quadric (IQ), and Inverse Multiquadric (IMQ) are used in these numerical methods to formulate the central finite difference approximations of the first- and second-order derivatives of a function. The algorithm of selecting “optimal” shape parameters for our basis functions is also applied, specifically to increase the accuracy of the suggested methods with regard to high accuracy needs. …”
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Perspective on the Biomimetic Approaches for the Design of Hydrophobic and Antimicrobial Paper Coatings with Hierarchical Surface Structures by Pieter Samyn

“…The enhanced coating functionalities should be incorporated through a combination of selected bio-based materials and the creation of appropriate surface textures enhancing coating performance. …”
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Comparative Analysis of Ca²⁺/Cation Antiporter Gene Family in <i>Rosa roxburghii</i> and Enhanced Calcium Stress Tolerance via Heterologous Expression of RrCA... by Tuo Zeng, Liyong Zhu, Wenwen Su, Lei Gu, Hongcheng Wang, Xuye Du, Bin Zhu, Caiyun Wang, Di Wu

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Safety and Probiotic Evaluation of Lactiplantibacillus plantarum CHEN1 and Its Metabolic Analysis of Soymilk Oligosaccharides by Zhina CHEN, Shiyi CAO, Linlin YIN, Mengyuan SHAO, Tao YE, Zhangrui XU, Xiaochen HUANG

“…The genetic characteristics of the strain were analyzed through genome sequencing and functional annotation. Phenotypic experiments, including hemolytic activity assays, detection of harmful metabolites, antibiotic susceptibility testing, tolerance experiments, hydrophobicity, and autoaggregation assays were conducted to evaluate its safety and probiotic potential. …”
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An Improved Fitting Method for Predicting the Zernike Coefficient&#x2013;Wavelength Curves by Fang Wang, Qiyuan Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Dayong Zhu, Huaikang Zhu, Wenxin Jia, Sen Han

“…Broadband transmitted wavefront measurement is a detection method that uses transmitted wavefronts at a few specific wavelengths though a function of Zernike coefficients and wavelength to predict other transmitted wavefronts at any wavelength within a certain range. …”
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Phonetic minimization of the text corpus in Belarusian for the speech synthesis system training by S. I. Lysy

“…The corpus-based method, unlike previously popular compilation method, uses natural speech database that does not consist of separate specially selected elements of compilation, but represents the corpus of phonograms of natural speech. …”
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CYP2D6 genotype and tamoxifen response for breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Danny W K Lum, Pablo Perel, Aroon D Hingorani, Michael V Holmes

“…In analysis of treatment-only studies, the relative risk (RR) of all-cause mortality (>307 events in 4,936 patients) for carriers of a CYP2D6 reduced function allele was 1.11 (95% confidence interval (CI): 0.94 to 1.31) compared to individuals with normal/increased function CYP2D6 alleles. …”
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A thorough assessment of 10-MDP primers in modern dental adhesive systems by Ahmed A Abduljawad, Harraa SM Salih, Omar F Tawfiq

“…Aims: This paper comprehensively reviewed current knowledge on the functional monomer 10-methacryloyloxydecyl dihydrogen phosphate. …”
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Gold Punning: studying multistable meaning structures using a systematically collected set of lexical blends by Daniel Kjellander

“…It is a well-known fact that conventional dictionaries are poor sources [Cannon 1986], and alternative methodologies are therefore required. …”
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Clarification and Prioritization of Omnichannel Marketing Antecedents: A Meta-Synthesis Approach by Hamid Reza Irani, Elham Ebrahimi, Babak Somi

“…ConclusionAccording to the study's findings, the implementation of omnichannel marketing relies on four key concepts, which are processes and functions, environment, customer interaction, as well as resources and capital. …”
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