Comparison of prognosis for T4b rectal cancer with different pelvic compartment involvement treated using neoadjuvant chemoradiotherapy and implications for refinement of the curre... by Yang-zi Zhang, Maxiaowei Song, Shuai Li, Jian Tie, Xiang-gao Zhu, Yong-heng Li, Ai-wen Wu, Yong Cai, Wei-hu Wang

“…The R0 resection rates were 97.6 % and 89.3 %, respectively. 8.7 % patients (9/104) in group A achieved clinical complete response and adopted watch-and-wait strategy. …”
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CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genomic insertion of functional genes into Lactiplantibacillus plantarum WCFS1 by Kamilla Wiull, Lisa K. Haugen, Vincent G. H. Eijsink, Geir Mathiesen

“…Our system successfully knock-in four expression cassettes varying in length from ~800–1,300 bp with high efficiency and insert an expression cassette encoding a SARS-CoV-2 antigen receptor-binding domain (RBD) with an anchor mediating surface display, which has not been achieved previously using CRISPR/Cas9. We demonstrate the production of the insertion genes. …”
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Social mechanisms for countering corruption in the digital society’s youth environment by M. V. Kibakin, G. G. Korablev

“…The characteristic of sociological research conducted by the authors has been given and also the results of ranking and of determining the weight characteristics of such anti-corruption mechanisms have been outlined, as: the inevitability of responsibility for corruption offenses, publicity and openness of activities of state bodies and bodies of local self-government, implementation of the principles of “legality” and “recognition, maintenance and protection of fundamental human and civil rights and freedoms in Russia”, the integrated use of political, organizational, awareness-raising, socio-economic, legal, special and other measures, priority application of measures to prevent corruption, creating attitudes among the population not to accept corrupt actions as a way to solve their problems, forming a legal consciousness among young people that rejects corruption as an acceptable form of behavior and acceptable social practice for achieving success in life, cooperation between the state and civil society institutions, international organizations and individuals, development of digital technologies and virtual services in the system of corruption prevention, training and training of personnel in the field of theory and practice of corruption prevention, creation of public councils under the authorities with the participation of representatives of civil society, public opinion leaders, scientists, artists to develop measures to prevent corruption. …”
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Discriminant analysis of occupational performance characteristics in patients with major depressive disorders and healthy individuals by Tomonari Hayasaka, Izumi Nagashima, Miku Hoshino, Koji Teruya, Yasuyuki Matumoto, Masami Murao, Taku Maruki, Masako Watanabe, Takeshi Katagiri, Yayoi Imamura, Mariko Kurihara, Yuki Oe, Yoshikazu Takaesu, Takashi Tsuboi, Koichiro Watanabe, Hitoshi Sakurai

“…Discriminant analysis using these variables yielded a Wilks' λ of 0.493 (p < 0.001), achieving an 88.6% accuracy rate. The receiver operating characteristic curve's AUC value was 0.911 (sensitivity = 95.3%, specificity = 77.8%). …”
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Examining Prenylated Xanthones as Potential Inhibitors Against Ketohexokinase C Isoform for the Treatment of Fructose-Driven Metabolic Disorders: An Integrated Computational Approa... by Tilal Elsaman, Magdi Awadalla Mohamed

“…Among these, hit <b>8</b> emerged as the best performer, achieving a binding free energy of −61.30 kcal/mol, 100% predicted oral absorption, enhanced metabolic stability, and stable molecular dynamics. …”
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Evaluation of Rapeseed Leave Segmentation Accuracy Using Binocular Stereo Vision 3D Point Clouds by Lili Zhang, Shuangyue Shi, Muhammad Zain, Binqian Sun, Dongwei Han, Chengming Sun

“…Finally, using the region-growing algorithm during the seedling stage with a normal angle threshold set at 5.0/180.0* M_PI and a curvature threshold set at 1.5 helps to avoid the under-segmentation and over-segmentation issues, achieving complete segmentation of rapeseed seedling leaves, while the LCCP clustering method fully segments rapeseed leaves at the bolting stage. …”
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Colonial legacy and traps in the social-ecological systems of forest management by C.D.A. Depari

“…This study aims to qualitatively interrogate factors that are hindering the swift restoration of Mount Merapi's social-ecological systems. This will be achieved by investigating the intricate dynamics of the area over various time frames, utilizing the panarchy framework developed by Holling and Gunderson. …”
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People with symptoms of depression and those at significant risk of suicide show differences in their personality profile and sense of meaning in life by Kacper Deska, Grzegorz Mirocha, Bartłomiej Bąk, Anna Mirgos-Wierzchowska, Marcin Kosmalski, Monika Różycka-Kosmalska, Tadeusz Pietras

“…The conditions: personal meaning index and life attitude balance in the control group achieved significantly higher values compared to all other groups.ConclusionPeople with depressive symptoms, suicide risk and both of these variables simultaneously differed in terms of personality profile and components influencing the meaning of life.…”
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TecnoContos by Tania Lucía Maddalena

“…Inspirada nos fundamentos teórico-metodológicos da ciberpesquisa-formação (Santos, 2019), da pesquisa narrativa (Ferraroti, 2014) e das pesquisas com os cotidianos (Alves, 2008; Certeau, 2012), a pesquisa priorizou a intervenção direta na sala de aula com o desenvolvimento de projetos narrativos e os usos criativos das tecnologias digitais em rede. Os achados da pesquisa demonstram: 1) O trabalho com sons digitais proporcionou um acesso aos cotidianos habitados pelos estudantes, evidenciando as paisagens sonoras como um recurso narrativo potente; 2) Os usos da invenção ficcional permitem problematizar e pluralizar o presente; 3) Os projetos narrativos funcionam como dispositivos autorais, potencializando o letramento digital; e 4) A criação de uma história digital é atravessada pela hiperescrita de si (Maddalena, 2018) e, em algumas ocasiões, revela a busca por uma narrativa coletiva. …”
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A Simplified, Specific HPLC Method of Assaying Thiamine and Riboflavin in Mushrooms by Mohammad F. Hossain, Mamoon Rashid, Rajjit Sidhu, Randy Mullins, Susan L. Mayhew

“…Chromatographic separation was achieved with a Shimadzu prominence HPLC system using isocratic elution mode on a Waters Xterra® MS C-18 column (4.6mm × 150mm, 5 μm) integrated with a XBridge® BEH C-18 Guard column (2.1mm × 5 mm, 5 μm). …”
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Prophage-DB: a comprehensive database to explore diversity, distribution, and ecology of prophages by Etan Dieppa-Colón, Cody Martin, James C. Kosmopoulos, Karthik Anantharaman

“…Our prophage database is highly representative based on statistical results and contains prophages from a diverse set of archaeal and bacterial hosts which show a wide environmental distribution. …”
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Characteristics and Differences in the Antler Velvet Microbiota During Regeneration by Yongxiang Li, Yuhang Zhu, Bo Yang, Shaochen Yu, Songze Li, André-Denis G. Wright, Rui Du, Huazhe Si, Zhipeng Li

“…The wound formed by antler velvet shedding can naturally achieve regenerative restoration, but the changes in microbial composition that occur during antler velvet regeneration are largely unknown. …”
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Construction of a Real-Scene 3D Digital Campus Using a Multi-Source Data Fusion: A Case Study of Lanzhou Jiaotong University by Rui Gao, Guanghui Yan, Yingzhi Wang, Tianfeng Yan, Ruiting Niu, Chunyang Tang

“…They often rely on costly commercial platforms, struggle with integrating heterogeneous datasets, and require complex workflows to achieve both high precision and comprehensive campus coverage. …”
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Demonstration Exam in Continuing Entrepreneurial Education within the VET and HE Systems by O. A. Romanova, K. V. Anisimova

“…Achieving the national development goals of the Russian Federation and maintaining the sustainability of the economy in the face of sanctions pressure impose special requirements on the development of entrepreneurial competencies among students of postsecondary education. …”
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Combining zinc oxide nanoparticles with green and novel nanocomposites for enhanced oil recovery in porous media by considering asphaltene deposition and production parameters by Meysam Hemmati, Yaser Ahmadi

“…More than 83% oil recovery can be achieved by zinc oxide nanoparticles flooding.…”
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Piezoresistive Cantilever Microprobe with Integrated Actuator for Contact Resonance Imaging by Tianran Ma, Michael Fahrbach, Erwin Peiner

“…Close agreement was achieved by Fano-type line shape fitting of amplitude and phase of the first four vertical bending modes of the cantilever. …”
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مشروعات تخرج طالبات قسم علم المعلومات بجامعة أم القرى : دراسة لاتجاهاتها الکمیة والمنهجیة والمشکلات التى تواجهها الطالبات... by د. محمد محمد النجار

“…The study was conducted during the period of (1434-1435/1435-1436) with a total of70 projects. To achieve this, the researcher used content analysis the frequency statistics and trends of the graduation projects. …”
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Evaluation of synthetic wheat lines (Triticum durum/Aegilops tausсhii) for vegetative period and resistance to diseases by V. P. Shamanin, I. V. Pototskaya, S. S. Shepelev, V. E. Pozherukova, A. Yu. Truschenko, A. S. Chursin, A. I. Morgunov

“…Increase of resistance to stress factors in the emerging varieties can be achieved by utilizing the diversity of the genetic resources of related wild species and genera in crosses. …”
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Efficient Generative-Adversarial U-Net for Multi-Organ Medical Image Segmentation by Haoran Wang, Gengshen Wu, Yi Liu

“…For instance, in evaluations on the CHAOS T2SPIR dataset, EGAUNet achieves approximately <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>2</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> higher performance on the Jaccard metric, <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>1</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> higher on the Dice metric, and nearly <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mn>3</mn><mo>%</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> higher on the precision metric in comparison to advanced networks such as Swin-Unet and TransUnet.…”
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A Pilot Study Investigating the Expression Levels of Pluripotency-Associated Genes in Rectal Swab Samples for Colorectal Polyp and Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis by Ryan Wai-Yan Sin, Dominic Chi-Chung Foo, Deepak Narayanan Iyer, May Sau-Yee Fan, Xue Li, Oswens Siu-Hung Lo, Wai-Lun Law, Lui Ng

“…A panel of c-MYC and CXCR4 achieved CRC/polyp identification with an AUC value of 0.79 (p=0.002), with a sensitivity of 82.8% and specificity of 80.0%. …”
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