The Impact of a New Specialized Learning Platform on Enhancing Students’ Skills in Designing and Producing Online Educational Talking Books by Mohamed Elsayed Ahmed, Shinobu Hasegawa

“…This platform may be utilized as an ICT teaching tool to enhance instructional technology departments as it is appropriate for constructing online ETBs in various educational areas without coding barriers.…”
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Exploring the longitudinal expression dynamics of midguts in adult female Amblyomma americanum ticks by Stephen Lu, Lucas C. de Sousa-Paula, Jose M. C. Ribeiro, Lucas Tirloni

“…Results Our transcriptome analysis identified 15,599 putative DNA coding sequences (CDS), which were classified into 26 functional groups. …”
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Hepatitis C virus infection inhibits a Src-kinase regulatory phosphatase and reduces T cell activation in vivo. by Nirjal Bhattarai, James H McLinden, Jinhua Xiang, M Meleah Mathahs, Warren N Schmidt, Thomas M Kaufman, Jack T Stapleton

“…One such vsRNA arising from the hepatitis C virus (HCV) E2 coding region impairs T cell receptor (TCR) signaling by reducing expression of a Src-kinase regulatory phosphatase (PTPRE) in vitro. …”
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miR-134 and miR-106b are circulating biomarkers for temporal lobe epilepsy: pilot study results by Kristina D. Lysova, Anna A. Usoltseva, Ekaterina A. Domoratskaya, Irina G. Areshkina, Natalia A. Shnayder, Diana V. Dmitrenko

“…MicroRNAs constitute a class of short (or small) non-coding RNAs that control the level of gene expression affecting the stability of mRNA. …”
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Mapping genetic effects on cell type-specific chromatin accessibility and annotating complex immune trait variants using single nucleus ATAC-seq in peripheral blood. by Paola Benaglio, Jacklyn Newsome, Jee Yun Han, Joshua Chiou, Anthony Aylward, Sierra Corban, Michael Miller, Mei-Lin Okino, Jaspreet Kaur, Sebastian Preissl, David U Gorkin, Kyle J Gaulton

“…Gene regulation is highly cell type-specific and understanding the function of non-coding genetic variants associated with complex traits requires molecular phenotyping at cell type resolution. …”
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De novo characterization of microRNAs in oriental fruit moth Grapholita molesta and selection of reference genes for normalization of microRNA expression. by Xiu Wang, Yisong Li, Jing Zhang, Qingwen Zhang, Xiaoxia Liu, Zhen Li

“…MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are a group of endogenous non-coding small RNAs that have critical regulatory functions in almost all known biological processes at the post-transcriptional level in a variety of organisms. …”
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Barriers for tuberculosis case finding in Southwest Ethiopia: A qualitative study. by Berhane Megerssa Ereso, Solomon Abebe Yimer, Christoph Gradmann, Mette Sagbakken

“…Data obtained from the in-depth interviews were transcribed, coded, categorized and thematized. Atlas.ti version 7.1 software was used for the data coding and categorizing.…”
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Unveiling the interplay of medical professionalism, mental well-being and coping in medical students: a qualitative phenomenological study by Kamran Sattar, Muhamad Saiful Bahri Yusoff

“…Seven FGDs, each with 5–10 participants, were conducted via Zoom©, yielding comprehensive qualitative data. An inductive coding approach was applied through iterative transcript analysis to ensure robust findings. …”
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Unravelling the Genome-Wide Contributions of Specific 2-Alkyl-4-Quinolones and PqsE to Quorum Sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. by Giordano Rampioni, Marilena Falcone, Stephan Heeb, Emanuela Frangipani, Matthew P Fletcher, Jean-Frédéric Dubern, Paolo Visca, Livia Leoni, Miguel Cámara, Paul Williams

“…The pqs quorum sensing (QS) system is crucial for Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence both in vitro and in animal models of infection and is considered an ideal target for the development of anti-virulence agents. …”
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Discovery of oligodendrocyte enhancers that regulate Sox10 expression. by Hongjoo An, Chuandong Fan, Dongkyeong Kim, Huy Bui, Yungki Park

“…We have recently developed an innovative method that rationally links OL enhancers to target genes. This study applied the new method to Sox10, uncovering two OL enhancers for it (termed Sox10-E1 and Sox10-E2). …”
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"It's his cheerfulness that gives me hope": A qualitative analysis of access to pediatric cancer care in Northern Tanzania. by Madeline Metcalf, Happiness D Kajoka, Esther Majaliwa, Anna Tupetz, Catherine A Staton, João Ricardo Vissoci, Pamela Espinoza, Cesia Cotache-Condor, Henry E Rice, Blandina T Mmbaga, Emily R Smith

“…Analysis utilized inductive and deductive coding approaches to identify dominant themes and sub-themes impacting access to pediatric oncology care. …”
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From communication to action: using ordered network analysis to model team performance in clinical simulation by Vitaliy Popov, Lauryn R. Rochlen

“…Conclusions Integrating video coding with ONA provides an innovative approach for examining team behaviors. …”
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A peripheral subepithelial network for chemotactile processing in the predatory sea slug Pleurobranchaea californica. by Tigran Norekian, Yichen Liu, Ekaterina D Gribkova, Jilai Cui, Rhanor Gillette

“…One such, the sea slug Pleurobranchaea californica, uses PNS computations in its chemotactile oral veil (OV) in prey tracking, averaging olfactory stimuli across the OV to target likely source direction, or "stimulus place". …”
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Navigating materials adaptation: English teachers’ experiences in Turkish secondary schools by Müzeyyen Nazlı Güngör, David Read, Mustafa Akın Güngör

“…Content analysis and coding techniques were used to analyze narrations and interviews, while activities were evaluated based on English language skills targeted, alignment with lesson objectives, and responsiveness to student interests and needs. …”
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A Semantically Enhanced Label Prediction Method for Imbalanced POI Data Category Distribution by Hongwei Zhang, Qingyun Du, Shuai Zhang, Renfei Yang

“…Conventional neural network models primarily target balanced data distribution, but they fail to address the issue of imbalanced distribution of POI data labels in terms of quantity. …”
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Investigating Preschool Children’s Metapragmatic Awareness Development Through Force-Dynamics Model by Lulu Cheng, Xiaomeng Xue, Haoran Mao, Yang Gao, Jianxin Zhang, Yanqin Liu

“…The study also provides practical recommendations for educators, speech therapists, and parents, highlighting how targeted interventions can foster children’s communicative competence.…”
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Relationship of MicroRNAs with Transposable Elements in the Type 1 Diabetes Development by R. N. Mustafin

“…Therefore, I assume that the cause of the development of type 1 diabetes mellitus may be an imbalance in transcription activation of transposons, which contributes to changes in the expression of specific microRNAs and protein-coding genes, and also contributes to autoimmune response development. …”
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Nanopore sequencing and hybrid assembly: unraveling the genomic landscape of dollar spot with enhanced annotation and drug resistance profiling by Xiaojing Shi, Shu Zhao, John G. Gibbons, Geunhwa Jung

“…HRI11 genome assembly represents the most contiguous and complete genome assembly reported for Clarireedia to date, spanning 43.6 MB with 12,831 predicted protein-coding genes across 51 scaffolds. In contrast, the HRS10 had an assembly size of 39.6 MB and encoded 12,161 putative proteins distributed over 100 scaffolds. …”
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Identification of ferroptosis-related gene signatures in temporal lobe epilepsy with hippocampal sclerosis by Fan Gao, Jinzi Li

“…The signatures based on four FR-DEGs were found to be a strong predictor of TLE-HS, and they may represent valuable therapeutic targets for TLE-HS.…”
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Experimental swap of Anopheles gambiae's assortative mating preferences demonstrates key role of X-chromosome divergence island in incipient sympatric speciation. by Fred Aboagye-Antwi, Nahla Alhafez, Gareth D Weedall, Jessica Brothwood, Sharanjit Kandola, Doug Paton, Abrahamane Fofana, Lisa Olohan, Mauro Pazmiño Betancourth, Nkiru E Ekechukwu, Rowida Baeshen, Sékou F Traorè, Abdoulaye Diabate, Frédéric Tripet

“…Furthermore, full-genome sequencing confirmed that protein-coding differences between recombinant strains were limited to the experimentally swapped pericentromeric region. …”
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