Visualizing and quantifying biomineral preservation in fossil vertebrate dental remains by Matthew B. Cowen, Marc de Rafélis, Loïc Ségalen, Benjamin P. Kear, Maïtena Dumont, Živilė Žigaitė

“…Tissue-selective REE values have been obtained using laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS), indicating areas of potential REE enrichment, combined with cathodoluminescence (CL) analysis. …”
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STEPNet: A Spatial and Temporal Encoding Pipeline to Handle Temporal Heterogeneity in Climate Modeling Using AI: A Use Case of Sea Ice Forecasting by Sizhe Wang, Wenwen Li, Chia-Yu Hsu

“…The learning pipeline is designed for flexibility and extendibility, enabling easy integration of different encoders to process diverse data characteristics and meet computational demands. A series of ablation studies and comparative experiments were conducted to validate the effectiveness of our architecture design and the superior performance of the proposed STEPNet model compared to other AI solutions and numerical models.…”
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RF-PSSM: A Combination of Rotation Forest Algorithm and Position-Specific Scoring Matrix for Improved Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions Between Hepatitis C Virus and Human by Xin Liu, Yaping Lu, Liang Wang, Wei Geng, Xinyi Shi, Xiao Zhang

“…The results of various ablation experiments show that on independent datasets, the accuracy and area under curve (AUC) value of RF-PSSM can reach 93.74% and 94.29%, respectively, outperforming almost all cutting-edge research. …”
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Lasers in Esthetic Dentistry: Soft Tissue Photobiomodulation, Hard Tissue Decontamination, and Ceramics Conditioning by Karen Müller Ramalho, Patrícia Moreira de Freitas, Ana Cecília Correa-Aranha, Marina Stella Bello-Silva, Roberta Marques da Graça Lopes, Carlos de Paula Eduardo

“…High power lasers act by increasing temperature and have the potential to promote microbial reduction and ablation of hard and soft tissues. The clinical application of both low and high power lasers requires specific knowledge concerning laser interaction with biological tissues, so that the correct irradiation protocol can be established. …”
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Pushing the boundaries for fuel discovery with a multiview features fusion approach by Dehai Zhang, Di Zhao, Jiashu Liang, Yu Ma, Zheng Chen

“…The results show that the model performance is improved in both after feature fusion. Finally, the ablation experiments demonstrate that the use of this method is effective and provides a new idea for fast and accurate screening of fuels. …”
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Atrial fibrillation and cognitive impairment: mechanisms, influencing factors, and prospects by Li-Juan Huang, Jian-Shu Chen, Yu-Zhe Song, Peng Chang

“…This high incidence of cognitive decline in AF patients may result from various mechanisms, including reduced cerebral perfusion, microembolism, decreased cardiac output, and chronic inflammation.MethodsThis review synthesizes current evidence on the relationship between AF and cognitive impairment, examines underlying mechanisms of cognitive decline in AF, and explores the roles of AF type, treatment approaches, left atrial characteristics, and associated conditions in cognitive function outcomes.ResultsCognitive outcomes in AF are further influenced by a range of factors, such as left atrial structural parameters, AF type and duration, anticoagulation use, catheter ablation, comorbidities, age, and gender.DiscussionThe review highlights the complex interplay between AF and cognitive impairment, emphasizing the importance of understanding the various mechanisms and factors that contribute to cognitive decline in AF patients. …”
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Effect of thermal bridges on the energy performance of Chinese residential buildings by Guojie Chen, Yifan Hou, Hua Ge, Shuyan Zhang, Xiangwei Liu, Xingguo Guo, Dong Xie

“…Thermal bridges may represent up to 50 % of the building's envelope area and may increase the energy consumption of buildings by up to 30 %, however their impact is often not taken into account adequately in China. …”
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DAS to discharge: using distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) to infer glacier runoff by John-Morgan Manos, Dominik Gräff, Eileen Rose Martin, Patrick Paitz, Fabian Walter, Andreas Fichtner, Bradley Paul Lipovsky

“…Here, we present data from a month-long, 9 km DAS deployment extending through the ablation and accumulation zones on Rhonegletscher, Switzerland, during the 2020 melt season. …”
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Hepatocellular Carcinoma: Current Management and Future Development—Improved Outcomes with Surgical Resection by Yoji Kishi, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Yasuhiko Sugawara, Norihiro Kokudo

“…Multimodality approaches combining other local ablation or systemic therapy may help improve the prognosis. …”
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Unsupervised Image Super-Resolution for High-Resolution Satellite Imagery via Omnidirectional Real-to-Synthetic Domain Translation by Minkyung Chung, Yongil Kim

“…The model was evaluated through comparative analyses and ablation studies using real-world LR–HR datasets from WorldView-3 HR satellite imagery. …”
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Smart City Traffic Flow and Signal Optimization Using STGCN-LSTM and PPO Algorithms by Tuxiang Lin, Rongliang Lin

“…Extensive experiments and ablation studies highlight the complementary strengths of STGCN and LSTM, with the hybrid model outperforming standalone variants. …”
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A novel multi-source data-driven energy consumption prediction model for Venlo-type greenhouses in China by Yangda Chen, Aiqun Bao, Yapeng Li, Yingfeng Xiang, Wanlong Cai, Zhaoqiang Xia, Jialei Li, Mingyang Ning, Jing Sun, Haixi Zhang, Xianpeng Sun, Xiaoming Wei

“…Finally, the model was interpreted using SHAP (SHapley Additive exPlanations) values, and ablation experiments were conducted to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method in greenhouse energy consumption prediction, thereby providing strong support for greenhouse management.…”
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Emotional recognition of EEG signals utilizing residual structure fusion in bi-directional LSTM by Yue Xu, Yunyuan Gao, Zhengnan Zhang, Shunlan Du

“…Furthermore, the algorithm attained an average accuracy of 0.9685 for quadruple classification. Additionally, ablation experiments were conducted in this study to affirm the effectiveness of each deep learning component within MRBiL. …”
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Coordinated neuron-specific splicing events restrict nucleosome engagement of the LSD1 histone demethylase complex by Robert S. Porter, Sojin An, Maria C. Gavilan, Masayoshi Nagai, Yumie Murata-Nakamura, Bo Zhou, Katherine M. Bonefas, Olivier Dionne, Jeru Manoj Manuel, Joannie St-Germain, Suzanne Gascon, Jacqueline Kim, Liam Browning, Benoit Laurent, Uhn-Soo Cho, Shigeki Iwase

“…Meanwhile, neuronal PHF21A splicing significantly attenuates histone H3 binding and further ablates the DNA-binding function exerted by an AT-hook motif. …”
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AIR-POLSAR-CR1.0: A Benchmark Dataset for Cloud Removal in High-Resolution Optical Remote Sensing Images with Fully Polarized SAR by Yuxi Wang, Wenjuan Zhang, Jie Pan, Wen Jiang, Fangyan Yuan, Bo Zhang, Xijuan Yue, Bing Zhang

“…Finally, this study performs a performance analysis of typical cloud removal deep learning algorithms based on different categories and cloud coverage on the proposed standard dataset, serving as baseline results for this benchmark. The results of the ablation experiment also demonstrate the effectiveness of the PolSAR data. …”
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A Driver Behavior Detection Model for Human-Machine Co-Driving Systems Based on an Improved Swin Transformer by Junhua Cui, Yunxing Chen, Zhao Wu, Huawei Wu, Wanghao Wu

“…Finally, through the comparison test with other models, an ablation test is performed to verify the performance of the proposed model. …”
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The global RNA-binding protein RbpB is a regulator of polysaccharide utilization in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron by Ann-Sophie Rüttiger, Daniel Ryan, Luisella Spiga, Vanessa Lamm-Schmidt, Gianluca Prezza, Sarah Reichardt, Madison Langford, Lars Barquist, Franziska Faber, Wenhan Zhu, Alexander J. Westermann

“…Through a series of in-vitro and in-vivo assays, we reveal that FopS sRNAs repress the translation of SusC-like glycan transporters when substrates are limited—an effect antagonized by RbpB. Ablation of RbpB in Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron compromises colonization in the mouse gut in a diet-dependent manner. …”
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Dual-mode-driven nanomotors targeting inflammatory macrophages for the MRI and synergistic treatment of atherosclerosis by Min Wei, Qiaoji Jiang, Shuang Bian, Pengzhao Chang, Bangbang Li, Changzhou Shi, Yangang Zhu, Yanchen Wang, Pingfu Hou, Jingjing Li

“…Near-infrared (NIR) laser irradiation promoted the photothermal conversion of Gd-MCNs to generate the thermal propulsion of nanomotor and photothermal ablation of inflammatory macrophages. Meanwhile, the modification of AntiCD36 to bind with inflammatory macrophages further promotes the targeting effect. …”
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The Eastern Mediterranean Sea mean sea level decadal slowdown: the effects of the water budget by Federica Borile, Nadia Pinardi, Nadia Pinardi, Vladyslav Lyubartsev, Mahmud Hasan Ghani, Antonio Navarra, Antonio Navarra, Jacopo Alessandri, Emanuela Clementi, Giovanni Coppini, Lorenzo Mentaschi, Giorgia Verri, Vladimir Santos da Costa, Enrico Scoccimarro, Francesco Misurale, Antonio Novellino, Paolo Oddo

“…The Western Mediterranean shows an accelerating trend, consistent with global sea level rise, while the Eastern Mediterranean has experienced a decadal slowdown, particularly in the semi-enclosed Adriatic and Aegean Seas, where negative trends are observed. …”
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The m6A Methylation-Regulated AFF4 Promotes Self-Renewal of Bladder Cancer Stem Cells by Qian Gao, Jin Zheng, Zegui Ni, Pengli Sun, Congcong Yang, Maosheng Cheng, Mingqing Wu, Xiuhong Zhang, Lin Yuan, Yingyin Zhang, Yang Li

“…Mechanistically, METTL3 regulates the m6A modification and thereby the expression of AF4/FMR2 family member 4 (AFF4), knockdown of which phenocopies the METTL3 ablation and diminishes the tumor-initiating capability of BCSCs in vivo. …”
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