Exploring and collecting perennial forage and grain legume crop genetic diversity in Voronezh and Tambov provinces (Results of the collecting mission, 2016) by L. L. Malyshev, V. F. Chapurin, T. V. Buravtseva

“…Beauv. collected on the northern border of its area of distribution; three species of lower-growing fescue (Festuca rubra L., F. valesiaca Gaudin. and F. pseudovina Hack. ex Wiesb.); a perennial form of Medicago lupulina L.; a sample of Lotus corniculatus L. found on chalky outcrops of the Kalach Hills; red (Trifolium pratense L.), golden (T. aureum Pollich.) and strawberry (T. fragiferum L.) clovers from the valley of the Khoper River; pisiform vetch (Vicia pisiformis L.) from Kalach District and hairy vetch (V. villosa Roth) from Povorino District of Voronezh Province. …”
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Design of miner type identification mechanism based on reputation management model by Jiaren YU, Youliang TIAN, Hui LIN

“…In the public mining pool, miners can freely enter the mining pool to submit proof of work to obtain rewards, and there are no conditions to restrict different types of miners.There will be malicious miners submitting invalid workloads and miners not submitting workloads in the mining pool, occupying the verification computing resources of the mining pool, reducing the verification efficiency of the mining pool, and causing the mining pool system to collapse.Aiming at the problem that it is difficult to distinguish the type of miners in the mining pool, which leads to the collapse of the mining pool system, a reputation management mechanism was introduced to measure the behavior of miners, and contracts were deployed to prevent miners from colluding with the pool manager.A design of miner type identification mechanism based on reputation management model was proposed.A reputation mechanism was constructed to measure the behavior of miners.When a miner conducts malicious behavior, the miner's reputation value would be lowered.When the miner's reputation value was less than the reputation threshold of the mining pool, the system would remove the miner, so that the miner can no longer enter the mining pool to submit proof of work and get rewards.The miners in the mining pool were dynamically updated by Markov process, so that the miners in the mining pool were conducting honest behaviors and submitting proof of work.At the same time, a reward system was designed to motivate the miners in the mining pool, and smart contracts were deployed in the mining pool to prevent miners from collusion with the mining pool manager.Finally, analyzing the scheme from the perspective of security and performance, the proposed scheme was not only safe in the process of miners submitting proof of workload, but also solved the problem of identifying miner types in public mining pools, thereby solving the problem of malicious miners submitting invalid workloads, eliminating malicious miners, and avoiding mining pools verifying invalid workloads, to improve the verification efficiency of the mining pool.…”
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Memory Buttons in Combination with Mobile Application-Induced Objective and Subjective Effects in Patients with Atopic Dermatitis by Kristina M. Joergensen, Christian Vestergaard, Morten S. Joergensen, Aleksander Eiken, Martin Malmstedt-Miller, Anders N. Ø. Schultz, Mette Deleuran, John R. Zibert

“…EASI and SCORAD scores were lower in all groups at 2nd consultation (p<0.05); however, these were highly significant for group 3 (p<0.005), and for EASI between groups 2 and 3 (p<0.05). …”
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Association between geriatric nutritional risk index and overactive bladder in the elderly population: a cross-sectional study by Wei Zheng, Wei Zheng, Chuanzan Zhou, Jia Miao, Yunkai Yang, Xuanhan Hu, Heng Wang, Xinyu Zhang, Qi Zhang, Yifan Wang

“…The influence of inflammatory response and cognitive function on the interaction between GNRI and OAB was also examined by mediation analysis.ResultsGNRI in the OAB group was significantly lower than that in the non-OAB group. Multifactorial logistic regression analysis revealed that GNRI significantly predicts OAB (p &lt; 0.05). …”
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Elucidating genetic variability between randomly bred domestic cats and Persian domestic cats from different geographical locations using microsatellite markers by Shirin Mahmoodi, Ali Hojabr Rajeoni, Mehrshad Zeinolabedini, Arash Javanmard, Mohammad Hossein Banabazi

“…Overall, the results showed that the degree of differentiation within the population is high in the Turkish population compared to other population groups and lower in the Azerbaijan population. In addition, principal component discriminant analysis‐based analysis based on the ADAGENET package shows the distribution of samples by geographical location. …”
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Multi-thermal recovery layout for a sustainable power and cooling production by biomass-based multi-generation system: Techno-economic-environmental analysis and ANN-GA optimizatio... by Ma Zihao, Naeim Farouk, Pradeep Kumar Singh, Azher M. Abed, Sarminah Samad, Samah G. Babiker, Iskandar Shernazarov, Ahmed Hendy, Ahmad Almadhor, Belgacem Bouallegue, Abdul Rahman Afzal

“…Additionally, employing the sCO2 cycle provides high thermal efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and lower environmental impacts compared to traditional power generation methods. …”
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Association between Corrected QT Interval, QT Dispersion and Clinico-biochemical Severity of Diabetic Ketoacidosis in Children Aged 1-12 Years: A Prospective Cohort Study by Hamritha Ashokkumar, A Suriya, Shreenivas RachakondaPoovazhagi, Shreenivas Rachakonda, Shreenivas Rachakonda

“…Results: Significant correlations were found between prolonged QTc intervals and severe acidosis, with affected patients exhibiting lower bicarbonate levels and higher anion gaps and blood ketone levels. …”
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A randomized controlled trial to compare the effect of oxycodone and sufentanil on postoperative analgesia and immune function for laparoscopic resection of colorectal cancer by Chunmei Lin, Zhiqiao Xu, XinLiang, Hong Wei, Xiaoping Wang

“…Results The VAS scores at cough in Group O at 24 h and 72 h postoperative were lower than those in Group S (p < 0.001). No significant difference was found in VAS scores at rest between the two groups (P > 0.05). …”
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Physical development and sociocultural context influences on children’s physical activity by Alessandro Hervaldo Nicolai Ré, Maria Teresa Cattuzzo, David Stodden, Guilherme dos Santos, Albert Lucas Olinto Tertuliano, Carlos Bandeira de Mello Monteiro, Diogo Henrique Constantino Coledam, Anthony David Okely

“…For boys, maternal education was inversely associated with meeting the PA guidelines. Boys of lower-educated mothers were more likely to have activities with balls as favorite leisure, which was a stronger predictor and enhanced the odds of meeting the guidelines (OR 4.09; 95%CI 1.71–9.79) regardless of maternal education. …”
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The Effect of Sandblast and Plasma Surface Treatment of Titanium Abutment on Tensile Bond Strength with Ultra-translucent Zirconia Crown: A Comparative Study by Amani Abduljabar Altaie, Emad Farhan Alkhalidi

“…The control group's tensile strength was lower. Conclusion: Sandblast and plasma surface treatment had significant effect on retentive force between titanium abutment and zirconia crown, sandblast was the higher effect on tensile bond strength than plasma. …”
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EV‐Elute: A universal platform for the enrichment of functional surface marker‐defined extracellular vesicle subpopulations by Willemijn S. deVoogt, Rowan Frunt, Raul M. Leandro, Casper S. Triesscheijn, Bella Monica, Ioanna Paspali, Mark Tielemans, Jerney J. J. M. François, Cor W. Seinen, Olivier G. deJong, Sander A. A. Kooijmans

“…However, in Cas9/sgRNA delivery assays, CD63+ EVs showed a lower capacity to functionally deliver cargo as compared to CD9+, CD81+ and PS+ EVs. …”
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Effect of right ventricular dysfunction on mortality in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis: a retrospective cohort study by Hiroki Nobayashi, Harui Bamba, Tomomichi Iida, Ryuji Aoyagi, Yukio Maruyama, Takashi Yokoo

“…Kaplan–Meier analyses showed significantly lower survival among patients with RV dysfunction (p < 0.01). …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Conductive Polypyrrole: The Influence of the Oxidants and Monomer on the Electrical, Thermal, and Morphological Properties by Abdirahman Yussuf, Mohammad Al-Saleh, Salah Al-Enezi, Gils Abraham

“…However, FeCl3 has achieved better performance than N2H8S2O8, where it has achieved a lower resistivity of about 60 ohms at room temperature, which indicates higher conductivity of PPy samples with FeCl3 as an oxidant. …”
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Seamless monitoring of marine heatwaves: capability of gap-filled, geostationary satellite sea surface temperature data by Seonju Lee, Myung-Sook Park

“…Notably, the gap-free SST exhibited lower errors even in the high-SST range (above 28 ~ 31 °C), confirming its ability to effectively monitor extreme ocean warming events. …”
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Seed Protein Content Estimation with Bench-Top Hyperspectral Imaging and Attentive Convolutional Neural Network Models by Imran Said, Vasit Sagan, Kyle T. Peterson, Haireti Alifu, Abuduwanli Maiwulanjiang, Abby Stylianou, Omar Al Akkad, Supria Sarkar, Noor Al Shakarji

“…Although, the R² of the CNN approach was lower than of the best performing feature-based method, RF (R² of 0.77), end-to-end prediction capabilities with CNN hold great promise for the automation of wheat protein estimation for breeding. …”
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Comparison of macular retinal thickness measurements using spectral-domain and swept-source optical coherence tomography in healthy eyes by Huan Wan, Zhaode Wu, Ziling Liu, Bo Qin

“…SD-OCT measurements were consistently lower than SS-OCT (p &lt; 0.001), while the two SS-OCT devices showed no significant differences except in the nasal region (p = 0.006). …”
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Associations between parental bonding and health-related quality of life in a clinical sample of youths aged 14–35 years in Singapore by Yoke Boon Tan, Eng Hong Tay, Shazana Shahwan, Yunjue Zhang, Rajeswari Sambasivam, Mythily Subramaniam

“…These individuals often experience lower quality of life as well. This study investigated the associations between aspects of parental bonding and health-related quality of life (HRQOL) in a clinical sample of youths. …”
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A Pilot Study of Hemoglobin A1C Levels in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes after Creation of a Patient Assistance Program Enrollment Committee at a Student-Run Free Clinic by John D. Salvemini, Gregory R. Vance, Amanda Pham, Garner Fincher, Johnny Yang, Harshin Sanjanwala, Leonna Conley, Alan Penman, James Pitcock

“…Some studies provide encouraging results for lowering hemoglobin A1C and increasing medication adherence through patient assistance programs (PAP). …”
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Bearing Defect Detection with Unsupervised Neural Networks by Jianqiao Xu, Zhaolu Zuo, Danchao Wu, Bing Li, Xiaoni Li, Deyi Kong

“…Although the AUC is slightly lower than that of the second experiment, the AUC is high enough for actual use. …”
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dyphAI dynamic pharmacophore modeling with AI: a tool for efficient screening of new acetylcholinesterase inhibitors by Yasser Hayek-Orduz, Dorian Armando Acevedo-Castro, Dorian Armando Acevedo-Castro, Juan Sebastián Saldarriaga Escobar, Brandon Eli Ortiz-Domínguez, María Francisca Villegas-Torres, Paola A. Caicedo, Álvaro Barrera-Ocampo, Natalie Cortes, Edison H. Osorio, Andrés Fernando González Barrios

“…Experimental results revealed that molecules, 4 (P-1894047), with its complex multi-ring structure and numerous hydrogen bond acceptors, and 7 (P-2652815), characterized by a flexible, polar framework with ten hydrogen bond donors and acceptors, exhibited IC₅₀ values lower than or equal to that of the control (galantamine), indicating potent inhibitory activity. …”
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