A functional approach to analyze the genetic basis for differences in virulence of monkeypox virus clades by Patricia L. Earl, Jeffrey L. Americo, Sara Reynolds, Wei Xiao, Catherine Cotter, Bernard Moss

“…Recombinant viruses expressing firefly luciferase were constructed in which partially overlapping Z-79 DNA segments of 5,000 to 13,000 bp containing ∼ 40 genes in total from the two ends of MPXV-79 were replaced with corresponding segments of USA-2003. …”
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Image depth estimation assisted by multi-view projection by Liman Liu, Jinshan Tian, Guansheng Luo, Siyuan Xu, Chen Zhang, Huaifei Hu, Wenbing Tao

“…The depth estimation network with single-view input can only extract features from a single 2D image, often neglecting the information contained in neighboring views, resulting in learned features that lack real geometrical information in the 3D world and stricter constraints on the 3D structure, leading to limitations in the performance of image depth estimation. …”
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Fresh-Cut Mango Best Management Practices Manual by Jeffrey K. Brecht, Anne Plotto, Anna Marín-Gozalbo, Renee Goodrich

“…However, NMB makes no warranties, expressed or implied, regarding errors or omissions and assumes no legal liability or responsibility for loss or damage resulting from the use of information contained in this document. Mention of a trademark or proprietary product is for identification only and does not imply a guarantee or warranty of the product by the US Department of Agriculture. …”
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The Czechoslovak Crisis of 1948 in the Perception of American Diplomats and Media by A. V. Zorin

“…It directly impacted the US containment policy towards the USSR and the escalation of the Cold War. …”
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An assessment of physiological and health responses in Catla catla fingerlings after polystyrene microplastic exposure by Eram Rashid, Syed Makhdoom Hussain, Shafaqat Ali, Dariusz Kucharczyk, Joanna Nowosad, Khalid A. Al-Ghanim, Nadia Nazish

“…Six experimental diets were prepared using canola meal (CM) as the base, each containing varying levels of PS-MPs: a control diet without MPs, and diets with 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, 2%, and 2.5% PS-MPs. …”
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Adaptive Neural Network Variable Structure Control for Liquid-Filled Spacecraft under Unknown Input Saturation by Hongwei Wang, Shufeng Lu, Xiaojuan Song

“…Then, adaptive variable structure control technique is designed, which contains hyperbolic tangent function that preserves control smoothness at all times. …”
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Investigation of Sandstone Mesostructure Damage Caused by Freeze-Thaw Cycles via CT Image Enhancement Technology by Hui Liu, Gengshe Yang, Yehui Yun, Jianghao Lin, Wanjun Ye, Huimei Zhang, Yao Zhang

“…Based on the microphysical information contained in these CT images, pseudo-color-enhancement of the CT images of rocks subjected to freeze-thaw cycles was realized. …”
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Stem/Progenitor Cell Niches Involved in Hepatic and Biliary Regeneration by Guido Carpino, Anastasia Renzi, Antonio Franchitto, Vincenzo Cardinale, Paolo Onori, Lola Reid, Domenico Alvaro, Eugenio Gaudio

“…Niches containing stem/progenitor cells are present in different anatomical locations along the human biliary tree and within liver acini. …”
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Genome-wide identification and comparative analysis of the AP2/ERF gene family in Prunus dulcis and Prunus tenella: expression of PdAP2/ERF genes under freezing stress during dorma... by Dongdong Zhang, Bin Zeng, Yawen He, Jiangui Li, Zhenfan Yu

“…The promoter regions of PdAP2/ERF and PtAP2/ERF family members contained numerous important cis-elements related to growth and development, hormone regulation, and stress response. …”
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Alternative Paradigm of Selective Vagus Nerve Stimulation Tested on an Isolated Porcine Vagus Nerve by Polona Pečlin, Janez Rozman

“…A spiral cuff (cuff) containing a matrix of ninety-nine electrodes was developed for selective VNS. …”
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Study on Performance of Mesoscopic Impactor Filters for Aerosol Removal by Wei Zhang, Fenglei Niu, Shiji Wang, Haonan Wang, Zhangpeng Guo

“…The mesoscopic impactor filter is designed to filtrate aerosols in the containment, which has not only high collection efficiency but also small flow resistance. …”
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Toward accurate prediction of carbon dioxide (CO2) compressibility factor using tree-based intelligent schemes (XGBoost and LightGBM) and equations of state by Behnam Amiri-Ramsheh, Aydin Larestani, Saeid Atashrouz, Elnaz Nasirzadeh, Meriem Essakhraoui, Ali Abedi, Mehdi Ostadhassan, Ahmad Mohaddespour, Abdolhossein Hemmati-Sarapardeh

“…To this end, a comprehensive databank from the literature is employed, which contains 2118 data points over extensive ranges of pressures and temperatures. …”
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Fluorine-rich hydrogarnet, prehnite and pumpellyite in monzodioritic basement of the Rhine Rift Valley produced by in-situ low-grade metamorphism at 200 °C and 5 km depth by Kurt Bucher, Moritz Hofer, Florentin Ladner, Ingrid Stober

“…The primary igneous rock is locally altered and contains prehnite, pumpellyite, mica and chlorite as major alteration products. …”
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Cytotoxicity and Induction of Inflammation by Pepsin in Acid in Bronchial Epithelial Cells by Erik Bathoorn, Paul Daly, Birgit Gaiser, Karl Sternad, Craig Poland, William MacNee, Ellen M. Drost

“…Aspiration of gastric fluids may cause damage to airway epithelial cells, not only because acidity is toxic to bronchial epithelial cells, but also since it contains digestive enzymes, such as pepsin. Aim. To study whether pepsin enhances cytotoxicity and inflammation in airway epithelial cells, and whether this is pH-dependent. …”
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Unilocular adipocyte and lipid tracer for immunofluorescent images by Elizabeth K. Johnston, Tal Dassau, Nickia A. Muraskin, Rosalyn D. Abbott

“…Tools available to analyze adipocyte size are finely tuned for hematoxylin-eosin images and tend to be challenged by confocal derived z-stack images which contain intensity gradients. Therefore, ImageJ manual analysis is the commonly utilized tool to measure these images. …”
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Dietary selenium peptide supplementation for increasing the growth of African catfish Clarias gariepinus by Muhammad Agus Suprayudi, Muhammad Roikhan Amanullah, Dedi Jusadi, Hasan Nasrullah, Ahmad Yazid Latif

“…This study aimed to analyze the growth of catfish (Clarias gariepinus) supplemented with feed additives containing selenium peptide through the coating method on feed. …”
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Finding product sets in some classes of amenable groups by Dimitrios Charamaras, Andreas Mountakis

“…We prove that in any group G from the above classes, any $A\subset G$ with positive upper Banach density contains a shifted product set of the form $\{tb_ib_j\colon i<j\}$ , for some infinite sequence $(b_n)_{n\in \mathbb {N}}$ and some $t\in G$ . …”
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Selective Induced Altered Coccidians to Immunize and Prevent Enteritis by Helieh S. Oz

“…Mature induced altered forms of E. tenella and E. necatrix lacked developmental stage of “sporocysts” and contained free sporozoites. In contrast, E. maxima progressed to normal forms or did not mature at all. …”
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Navigating the future of agri-food supply chain: A conceptual framework using bibliometric review by Abdul Kafi, Nizamuddin bin Zainuddin, Mohd Fitri Mansor, Mohamed Najib Bin Salleh, Adam bin Mohd Saifudin, Nurhaizal Azam Arif, Syairah Aimi Shahron, Ravi Ramasamy, Ibrahim Hassan mohamud

“…A rigorous inclusion and exclusion process was carried out by using articles whose titles contained only 'agri-food' and 'supply chain' terms. …”
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A Structurally Flexible Occupancy Network for 3-D Target Reconstruction Using 2-D SAR Images by Lingjuan Yu, Jianlong Liu, Miaomiao Liang, Xiangchun Yu, Xiaochun Xie, Hui Bi, Wen Hong

“…Finally, we construct an experimental dataset containing 2-D SAR images and 3-D ground truth by utilizing the publicly available Gotcha echo dataset. …”
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