Fusing MODIS and AVHRR products to generate a global 1-km continuous NDVI time series covering four decades by Xiaobin Guan, Huanfeng Shen, Yuchen Wang, Dong Chu, Xinghua Li, Linwei Yue, Wei Li, Xinxin Liu, Liangpei Zhang

“…A multi-step processing fusion framework, containing temporal filtering, normalization, spatiotemporal fusion, and residual error correction, was employed to combine the superior characteristics of the two products, respectively. …”
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Observer Performance in the Use of Digital and Optical Microscopy for the Interpretation of Tissue-Based Biomarkers by Marios A. Gavrielides, Catherine Conway, Neil O’Flaherty, Brandon D. Gallas, Stephen M. Hewitt

“…Eight pathologists reviewed 50 breast cancer whole slides (25 stained with HER2 and 25 with Ki-67) and 2 TMAs (1 stained with HER2, 1 with Ki-67, each containing 97 cores), using digital and optical microscopy. …”
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Non-Destructive Estimation of Paper Fiber Using Macro Images: A Comparative Evaluation of Network Architectures and Patch Sizes for Patch-Based Classification by Naoki Kamiya, Kosuke Ashino, Yasuhiro Sakai, Yexin Zhou, Yoichi Ohyanagi, Koji Shibazaki

“…Additionally, we assessed the efficacy of the method for images containing text, observing consistent improvements in the case of larger patch sizes. …”
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Pectic substances from babassu mesocarp flour: extraction and characterization by Jaine Oliveira, Yves José Souza Santos, Cleber Amaral Mafessoni Liviz, Gisele Teixeira de Souza, Ladyslene Chrístyns de Paula, Luís Fernando Polesi, Gabrieli Oliveira Folador

“… The Amazon region contains distinct fruit species, such as the babassu, which are still little known, but may have great scientific and technological potential. …”
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Biosynthesis of Multicomponent Nanoparticles with Extract of Mortiño (Vaccinium floribundum Kunth) Berry: Application on Heavy Metals Removal from Water and Immobilization in Soils... by Mayra Abril, Hugo Ruiz, Luis H. Cumbal

“…As-prepared nanoparticles were spherical measuring approximately 12 nm in diameter and contained iron oxides and iron sulfides in the crystal structure. …”
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Lead Telluride Doped with Au as a Very Promising Material for Thermoelectric Applications by Pantelija M. Nikolic, Konstantinos M. Paraskevopoulos, Triantafyllia T. Zorba, Zorka Z. Vasiljevic, Eleni Pavlidou, Stevan S. Vujatovic, Vladimir Blagojevic, Obrad S. Aleksic, Aleksandar I. Bojicic, Maria V. Nikolic

“…The properties of these compositions were analyzed and compared with PbTe containing other dopants. The samples of PbTe doped with only 3.3 at% Au were the best among the PbTe + Au samples having the lowest plasma frequency and the highest mobility of free carriers-electrons, while PbTe doped with Cu was the opposite. …”
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Enhancing Microgrid Protection With Impedance-Based Blocking: An Embedded Validation on a Dual-Layer Architecture by Thiago S. Menezes, Ricardo A. S. Fernandes, Denis V. Coury

“…Aiming at improving them, this paper proposes a new blocking strategy to enhance dual-layer protection of the microgrid. The first layer contains the conventional overcurrent protection and the internal protection of the distributed energy resources (DERs). …”
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The Switchmaze: an open-design device for measuring motivation and drive switching in mice by Hartmann, Clara, Mahajan, Ambika, Borges, Vinicius, Razenberg, Lotte, Thönnes, Yves, Karnani, Mahesh Miikael

“…Individual animals access the Switchmaze from the home-cage and choose between entering one of two chambers containing different goal objects or returning to the home-cage. …”
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Simple and Selective HPLC-UV/Vis Bioanalytical Method to Determine Aluminum Phthalocyanine Chloride in Skin Permeation Studies by Thaiene Avila Reis, Ana Elise Jaculi, Rubens da Costa Alves, Tais Gratieri, Ricardo Bentes Azevedo, Graziella Anselmo Joanitti, Guilherme Martins Gelfuso, Marcilio Cunha-Filho

“…Lastly, the developed method was successfully tested in in vitro skin permeation studies of AlPcCl, proving its effectiveness in the development of pharmaceutical delivery systems containing this drug for topical photodynamic therapy of skin cancers.…”
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Complexity and Controversies over the Cytokine Profiles of T Helper Cell Subpopulations in Tuberculosis by Marcos Vinicius da Silva, Monique Gomes Salles Tiburcio, Juliana Reis Machado, Djalma Alexandre Alves Silva, Denise Bertulucci Rocha Rodrigues, Virmondes Rodrigues, Carlo Jose Freire Oliveira

“…Tuberculosis (TB) is a contagious infectious disease caused by the TB-causing bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis and is considered a public health problem with enormous social impact. …”
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Photocatalytic upcycling of polylactic acid to alanine by sulfur vacancy-rich cadmium sulfide by Yue Wu, Phuc T. T. Nguyen, Sie Shing Wong, Minjun Feng, Peijie Han, Bingqing Yao, Qian He, Tze Chien Sum, Tianyong Zhang, Ning Yan

“…However, research on the photocatalytic transformation of plastics into valuable nitrogen-containing chemicals remains limited. In this study, we present a visible-light-driven pathway for the conversion of polylactic acid (PLA) into alanine under mild conditions. …”
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Smoking Exposure and Survival of Patients with Esophagus Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Jun-jie Kuang, Zhi-min Jiang, Yan-xian Chen, Wei-peng Ye, Qiong Yang, Hui-zhong Wang, De-rong Xie

“…In the subgroup analysis, adverse effects on current smoker compared with never smoker were also observed in China and the other countries (HR = 1.5, 95% CI 1.18–1.92, and HR = 1.36, 95% CI 1.12–1.65, resp.). …”
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Variation in Nutritional Qualities and Antioxidant Capacity of Different Leaf Mustard Cultivars by Wenjuan Cheng, Anqi Luo, Hongxia Li, Zhifeng Chen, Zhongrong Guan, Victor Hugo Escalona, Duchen Liu, Yu’nong Zhou, Fen Zhang, Zhi Huang, Yi Tang, Huanxiu Li, Bo Sun, Kehao Liang, Xuena Yu

“…However, green-leaf mustard contained higher levels of total glucosinolates than their purple counterpart. …”
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Transcriptional Regulation of Fucosyltransferase 1 Gene Expression in Colon Cancer Cells by Fumiko Taniuchi, Koji Higai, Tomomi Tanaka, Yutaro Azuma, Kojiro Matsumoto

“…Using the dual luciferase assay, FUT1 gene expression was shown to be regulated at the region −91 to −81 nt to the transcriptional start site, which contains the Elk-1 binding site. Site-directed mutagenesis of this region revealed the Elk-1 binding site to be essential for FUT1 transcription. …”
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Core Cross-linked Star Polymers for Temperature/pH Controlled Delivery of 5-Fluorouracil by Elizabeth Sánchez-Bustos, José M. Cornejo-Bravo, Angel Licea-Claverie

“…The arms consisted of a diblock copolymer containing N-isopropylacrylamide (NIPAAm) and 4-methacryloyloxy benzoic acid (4MBA) in the temperature sensitive block and poly(hexyl acrylate) forming the second hydrophobic block, while ethyleneglycol dimethacrylate was used to form the core. …”
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Improving Passivation Process of Si Nanocrystals Embedded in SiO2 Using Metal Ion Implantation by Jhovani Bornacelli, Jorge Alejandro Reyes Esqueda, Luis Rodríguez Fernández, Alicia Oliver

“…After metal ion implantation (Ag or Au), and a subsequent thermal annealing at 600°C under hydrogen-containing atmosphere, the PL signal exhibits a noticeable increase. …”
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Path Loss Channel Model for Inland River Radio Propagation at 1.4 GHz by Junyi Yu, Wei Chen, Kun Yang, Changzhen Li, Fang Li, Yishui Shui

“…., large buildings, bridges, or some other facilities near the river bank) is also taken into account; mixed-path methodology as another improvement is used for Inland River (IR) model because the actual propagation environment between transmitter (TX) antenna and receiver (RX) antenna contains both land part and water part. The paper presents a set of 1.4 GHz measurements conducted along the Yangtze River in Wuhan. …”
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Myogenesis gone awry: the role of developmental pathways in rhabdomyosarcoma by Annika L. Gustafson, Annika L. Gustafson, Annika L. Gustafson, Adam D. Durbin, Kristin B. Artinger, Heide L. Ford, Heide L. Ford, Heide L. Ford

“…There are two major sub-types of RMS: fusion-positive (FP-RMS) and fusion-negative (FN-RMS); with FP-RMS typically containing chromosomal translocations between the PAX3/7-FOXO1 loci. …”
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Sensitivity analysis of fractional order SVEIR Lumpy Skin Disease model by Savita Rathee, Yogeeta Narwal, Komal Bansal, Homan Emadifar

“…Lumpy skin disease (LSD) is a highly contagious and often fatal infection in cattle, primarily characterized by the formation of skin lumps. …”
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Manufacture and characterization of lightweight sand-plastic composites made of plastic waste and sand: Effect of sand types by Salih Mekideche, Mansour Rokbi, Zine El Abidine Rahmouni, Resego Phiri, Sanjay Mavinkere Rangappa, Suchart Siengchin

“…It is worth noting that the plastic-bonded sand containing Khobana sand showed the highest flexural and compressive strength at 11.56 ± 0.36 and 26.19 ± 0.27 MPa, respectively, along with the lowest water absorption rate of 0.46%. …”
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