Whole-Genome Resequencing Reveals Phylogenetic Relationships and Sex Differentiation Mechanisms Among Fujian <i>Cycas</i> Species by Xinyu Xu, Yousry A. El-Kassaby, Sijia Liu, Juan Zhang, Lanqi Zhang, Junnan Li, Wenkai Li, Kechang Zhang, Minghai Zou, Zhiru Lai, Likuang Lin, Yongdong Zhang, Shasha Wu, Bihua Chen

“…Based on SNP data, phylogenetic trees and principal component analysis revealed distinct clusters, with the three <i>C. revoluta</i> samples forming one cluster, while the two <i>C. szechuanensis</i> samples and the <i>C. taiwaniana</i> sample were grouped separately. Gene function using COG and GO annotations, and KEGG enrichment analysis, all highlighted differences in genomic structure and functional gene distribution between male and female <i>cycads</i>. …”
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Understanding the political economy of reforming global health initiatives – insights from global and country levels by Sophie Witter, Natasha Palmer, Rosemary Jouhaud, Shehla Zaidi, Severine Carillon, Rene English, Giulia Loffreda, Emilie Venables, Shifa Salman Habib, Jeff Tan, Fatouma Hane, Maria Paola Bertone, Seyed-Moeen Hosseinalipour, Valery Ridde, Asad Shoaib, Adama Faye, Lilian Dudley, Karen Daniels, Karl Blanchet

“…Funders have not collaborated to enable reforms, despite concerns amongst a number of them, because of the helpful functional role of GHIs, which serves funder interests. …”
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Disrupted Circadian Rhythms as a Novel Driver of Sarcopenia: Mechanisms, Evidence, and Future Directions by Alina Deniza Ciubean, Theodor Popa, Viorela Mihaela Ciortea, Gabriela Dogaru, Laszlo Irsay

“…Sarcopenia, a progressive and generalized skeletal muscle disorder characterized by loss of muscle mass, strength, and function, represents a major public health concern in aging populations. …”
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PhotoNeuro: A compact photodetector for synchronization of visual stimulus presentation during behavioural experiments in neuroscience by Xavier Cano-Ferrer, Marcelo J. Moglie, George Konstantinou, Antonin Blot, Gaia Bianchini, Albane Imbert, Petr Znamenskiy, M. Florencia Iacaruso

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Building Strong Foundations: Nonrandomized Interventional Study of a Novel, Digitally Delivered Fall Prevention Program for Older Adults by David Wing, Jeanne F Nichols, Hava Shoshana Barkai, Olivia Culbert, Daniel Moreno, Michael Higgins, Anna O'Brien, Mariana Perez, Hope Davey, Ryan Moran

“…ObjectiveOur objective was to assess the efficacy of the Strong Foundations exercise program to change markers of physical function, posture, balance, strength, and fall risk. …”
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Design Solution for Equipment Layout and Interfaces of Car Washing Tracks at Fully Automatic Operation Depots in Urban Rail Transit Systems by LI Yong

“…In these systems, fully automatic car washing is deemed an important functional component. This paper presents a solution for this function that fully aligns with the design requirements for fully automatic operation systems. …”
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Independent evolution of oleate hydratase clades in Bacillales reflects molecular convergence by Robert J. Neff, Priscilla C. Lages, Shannon K. Donworth, James D. Brien, Christopher D. Radka

“…We also show that the evolutionary divergence in OhyA is likely due to intrinsic sequence variations rather than being strictly linked to functional domain changes. Furthermore, within the Staphylococcus genus, we observed that the evolution of the ohyA gene aligns with the species tree, supporting a common ancestral origin. …”
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HARMONIZATION OF THE AGRICULTURAL POLICY OF THE REPUBLIC OF SERBIA WITH THE AGRICULTURAL POLICY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION by Marija Stojiljković, Jelena Raicevic, Marija Djurkovic

“… This paper focuses on agricultural policy as a set of measures that influence the functioning, growth, and improvement of agriculture in a country like the Republic of Serbia. …”
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Cross-Subject Motor Imagery Electroencephalogram Decoding with Domain Generalization by Yanyan Zheng, Senxiang Wu, Jie Chen, Qiong Yao, Siyu Zheng

“…Decoding motor imagery (MI) electroencephalogram (EEG) signals in the brain–computer interface (BCI) can assist patients in accelerating motor function recovery. To realize the implementation of plug-and-play functionality for MI-BCI applications, cross-subject models are employed to alleviate time-consuming calibration and avoid additional model training for target subjects by utilizing EEG data from source subjects. …”
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Research on Longitudinal Intelligent Control of Autonomous-rail Rapid Tram by TANG Liang, SHEN Mengyu, XIAO Lei

“…And then, it presents the multi-mode division of longitudinal intelligent control designed in the finite-state machine (FSM) pattern and from simulation of drivers' behavior characteristics, and proposes the intelligent longitudinal control strategy and algorithm to enable the intelligent train operation control functions, such as autonomous following, automatic operation at traffic light intersections, automatic deceleration on curves, and parking at stations in high-precision alignment. …”
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Beyond CREA: Evolutionary patterns of non‐allometric shape variation and divergence in a highly allometric clade of murine rodents by Ariel E. Marcy, D. Rex Mitchell, Thomas Guillerme, Matthew J. Phillips, Vera Weisbecker

“…We contrast allometric and non‐allometric variation in the cranium by comparing evolutionary mode, allometry, ordinations, as well as allometry, integration, and modularity in functional modules. We found evidence of stabilising selection in allometry‐containing and size‐free shape, and substantial non‐allometric variation aligned with dietary specialisation in parallel with CREA. …”
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Deep Multi-Component Neural Network Architecture by Chafik Boulealam, Hajar Filali, Jamal Riffi, Adnane Mohamed Mahraz, Hamid Tairi

“…DMCNN dynamically prioritizes task-relevant features through a component-weighting mechanism, which calculates the importance of each component via loss functions and adjusts weights using a SoftMax function. …”
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Financing immunisation in Kenya: examining bottlenecks in health sector planning and budgeting at the decentralised level by Alex Olateju Adjagba, James Odhiambo Oguta, Catherine Akoth, Elvis Omondi Achach Wambiya, Justice Nonvignon, Debra Jackson

“…Kenya adopted a devolved system of government where health services delivery became a function of the 47 semi-autonomous county governments with planning and budgeting functions practised at both levels of government. …”
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High efficiency wideband printed monopole antenna with enhanced gain using artificial magnetic conductor surface by A. E. Farahat, May AboEl-Hassan, K. F. A. Hussein

“…This integration allows the radiating structure to achieve both high gain and wideband functionality in a single design. In this research, a wideband planar monopole printed antenna is developed to function as an omnidirectional radiator, delivering excellent impedance matching and radiation efficiency across the frequency range of 3.9–7.2 GHz (60% bandwidth) in free space. …”
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Genome-Wide Identification of GATA Transcription Factors in <i>Acorus</i> and Expression Patterns Under Abiotic Stress by Liang Ma, Cheng-Yuan Zhou, Chen-Yu Gong, Yao He, Meng-Lin Chang, Hou-Hua Fu, Zhong-Jian Liu, Shi-Pin Chen

“…In recent years, <i>GATA</i> genes have been discovered and functionally characterized in many plant species. However, there is limited annotation information for <i>GATA</i> genes in the genus <i>Acorus</i>. …”
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THE IMPACT OF ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT ON FOREIGN TRADE FLOWS: THE CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA by Nomfundo Portia Vacu-Ngqila

“…A well-functioning economic infrastructure is fundamental for sustainable economic growth in both developing and developed countries. …”
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Application of multilayer network in protein-protein interaction networks (PPI) of rice and cancer by WENG Yuhao, CHEN Ming

“…We divided the rice cell into several organelles to study the relationship between organelles and cell functions. Moreover, we used different cancer tissues and normal tissues in human body to construct two multilayer PPI and study the underlying mechanics of cancer comparing with the normal tissues.We introduced the mathematical theories of multilayer networks along with the concept of mult-idegree, overlap of edge, activity of node, multiplexity, degree correlation, participation coefficient and degree correlation coefficient, which are used to analyze the nontrivial structure and properties in PPIs of rice, cancer and normal tissue.In rice PPIs, we investigated the power-law distribution of edge overlap and node activity, and found important proteins related to functional organelles in cell by analyzing participation coefficient, and organelles of strong correlations or weak correlations by analyzing heat map of layer’s degree. …”
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Soft X-ray tomography reveals variations in B. subtilis biofilm structure upon tasA deletion by Anthoula Chatzimpinou, Anne Diehl, A. Tobias Harhoff, Kristina Driller, Bieke Vanslembrouck, Jian-Hua Chen, Kristaps Kairišs, Valentina Loconte, Mark A. Le Gros, Carolyn Larabell, Kürşad Turgay, Hartmut Oschkinat, Venera Weinhardt

“…This scalable and transferable approach opens new avenues for examining biofilm structure and function across various species, including mixed biofilms, and response to genetic and environmental factors.…”
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Residual stress and deformation analysis considering adhesive material properties to enhance manufacturing of HBM by Jaejin Jeon, Jeonghoon Song, Jun Young Oh, Seok Hwan Lee, Younghun Kim, Yun Ho Kim, Sam-Jong Choi, Sang Won Yoon

“…A sequential die-stacking method, employing the ‘Birth and Death’ function, simulated the actual HBM manufacturing process. …”
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DVF-NET: Bi-Temporal Remote Sensing Image Registration Network Based on Displacement Vector Field Fusion by Mingliang Xue, Yiming Zhang, Shucai Jia, Chong Cao, Lin Feng, Wanquan Liu

“…Additionally, we propose a novel loss function design that combines multiple similarity metrics, ensuring more comprehensive supervision during training. …”
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