Room temperature CRISPR diagnostics for low-resource settings by Eric A. Nalefski, Selma Sinan, Jason L. Cantera, Anastasia G. Kim, Remy M. Kooistra, Rafael E. Rivera, Jordyn P. Janshen, Sanchita Bhadra, Joshua D. Bishop, Andrew D. Ellington, Ilya J. Finklestein, Damian Madan

“…RPA-TsCas12a reactions performed at 25 °C effectively detected HPV-16 in crudely prepared cervical swab samples with high sensitivity and specificity using both optical and lateral flow readouts. The reactions developed herein reduce the complexity and equipment requirements for affordable diagnostics in low- and middle-income countries.…”
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MHD Analysis of Couple Stress Hybrid Nanofluid Free Stream over a Spinning Darcy-Forchheimer Porous Disc under the Effect of Thermal Radiation by Muhammad Zubair, Muhammad Jawad, Ebenezer Bonyah, Rashid Jan

“…The analysis of such kind of mixed convective flow is most important due to numerous industrial applications such as electronic devices, atomic reactors, central solar energy equipment, and heat transferring devices. …”
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Utilizing Connection Usage Characteristics for Faster Web Data Transport by Gautam Raj Moktan, Nutti Varis, Jukka Manner

“…We discuss the effect of the transport protocol on object transfer, connection duration, idle times during the page load, connections, and concurrency of flows that cumulate into page load times.…”
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Evaluating the environmental effects of Japan's tourism: insights into pandemic-induced changes and driving forces by Yuzhuo Huang, Yosuke Shigetomi, Ken’ichi Matsumoto

“…Accordingly, we used the latest data available from the global multi-regional input–output table of EXIOBASE3 and Japan’s tourist consumption statistics to estimate the TCF from all tourist sources in Japan based on the global economic system, and we visualized the carbon flow caused by population mobility. The decomposition of the environmental impact of the pandemic response further identified the driving forces of TCF changes. …”
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Fighting Another’s War: Imperialist Projections on the Victorian Novel’s Continent by Tamara Wagner

“…They were seen as a threat, spilling over into Britain, as bringing in competing flows of refugees, and most importantly perhaps, as demanding a rethinking of imperialist legacies of guilt. …”
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Comparative analysis of neural network models performance on low-power devices for a real-time object detection task by A. Zagitov, E. Chebotareva, A. Toschev, E. Magid

“…The results of experiments provide insights into trade-offs between accuracy, speed, and computational efficiency of MobileNetV2 SSD, CenterNet MobileNetV2 FPN, EfficientDet, YoloV5, YoloV7, YoloV7 Tiny and YoloV8 neural network models on Raspberry Pi 4B, Raspberry Pi 3B and NVIDIA Jetson Nano with TensorFlow Lite. We fine-tuned the models on our custom dataset prior to benchmarking and used post-training quantization (PTQ) and quantization-aware training (QAT) to optimize the models’ size and speed. …”
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Changes in T-Cell and Monocyte Phenotypes In Vitro by Schistosoma mansoni Antigens in Cutaneous Leishmaniasis Patients by Aline Michelle Barbosa Bafica, Luciana Santos Cardoso, Sérgio Costa Oliveira, Alex Loukas, Alfredo Góes, Ricardo Riccio Oliveira, Edgar M. Carvalho, Maria Ilma Araujo

“…Cells were stained with fluorochrome conjugated antibodies and analyzed by flow cytometry. The addition of rSm29 to the cultures decreased the expression of HLA-DR in nonclassical (CD14+CD16++) monocytes, while the addition of PIII diminished the expression of this molecule in classical (CD14++CD16-) and intermediate (CD14++CD16+) monocytes. …”
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THE PROBLEM OF CORRUPTION OF BASIC SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS IN PARTICULAR: FORMAL-ETHIC AND ECONOMIC ASPECTS by V. O. Lobovikov

“…The submitted definition (criterion) gives a possibility to establish at any moment of time definite borderline between the basic and the applied scientific search (the line undergoes change in the flow of time). The effective criterion of basic scientific researches offered by the author, and also exact specifying of their place and role in lifecycle of knowledge as goods in market economy (at the conceptual level of the Boston Chart) allow to designate an urgent problem of corruption of the scientific sphere in a new perspective. …”
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Parametric Optimization of Abrasive Water Jet Cutting on AA 5083 through Multiobjective Teaching-Learning Method by R. Meenakshi Reddy, K. Logesh, S. V. Alagarsamy, A. Nagaraj, Rishabh Chaturvedi, Mylavarapu Kalyan Ram, A. H. Seikh, M. H. Siddique, Beruk Hailu

“…Water pressure, transverse speed, stand-off distance, and abrasive flow rate are some of the major cutting parameters that may be adjusted such that the output values such as material removal rate and surface roughness are at their optimal levels.…”
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Fragile Histidine Triad (FHIT) Suppresses Proliferation and Promotes Apoptosis in Cholangiocarcinoma Cells by Blocking PI3K-Akt Pathway by Qiang Huang, Zhen Liu, Fang Xie, Chenhai Liu, Feng Shao, Cheng-lin Zhu, Sanyuan Hu

“…The viability and apoptosis of QBC939 cells were then assessed using MTT assays and flow cytometry. Our results revealed that the expression of survivin and Bcl-2 was downregulated, and caspase 3 was upregulated, in cells overexpressing FHIT. …”
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Simulation of a Reverse Electrodialysis–Absorption Refrigeration Integration System for the Efficient Recovery of Low-Grade Waste Heat by Xi Wu, Linjing Yan, Xiaojing Zhu, Mingjun Liu

“…Based on this model, the authors simulated and analyzed the impact of various factors on system performance, including the heat source temperature (90 °C to 130 °C), concentrated solution concentration (3 mol∙L⁻¹ to 9 mol∙L⁻¹), dilute solution concentration (0.002 mol∙L⁻¹ to 0.5 mol∙L⁻¹), condensing temperature of the dilute solution (50 °C to 70 °C), solution temperature (30 °C to 60 °C) and flow rate (0.4 cm∙s⁻¹ to 1.3 cm∙s⁻¹) in the RED stacks, as well as the number of RED stacks. …”
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Revolutionizing urban solid waste management with AI and IoT: A review of smart solutions for waste collection, sorting, and recycling by Abderrahim Lakhouit

“…The integration of IoT-based smart waste management enables municipalities to utilize real-time data to analyze waste flow, predict generation trends, and improve operational efficiency. …”
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Voltage Stability Assessments and Their Improvement Using Optimal Placed Static Synchronous Compensator (STATCOM) by Tebeje Tesfaw Wondie, Teshome Goa Tella

“…In this study, the 400 kV, 230 kV, and 132 kV Ethiopian electric power networks are modeled using Power System Analysis Toolbox (PSAT), and the load flow analysis is carried out using MATLAB source code. …”
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Nonlinear Autoregressive Neural Network for Antimicrobial Waste Water Treatment by Anwer Mustafa Hilal, Mashael M. Asiri, Shaha Al-Otaibi, Faisal Mohammed Nafie, Amal Al-Rasheed, Mohammed Rizwanullah, Ishfaq Yaseen, Abdelwahed Motwakel

“…In addition, the proposed method use the learning under supervision technique of a nonlinear autoregressive for estimating the CO2 concentration and flows in units of rate of a reaction characteristics, an exogenous (NARX) neural network model with two activation functions was used (Log-sigmoid and hyperbolic tangent) and for both the findings of a TC and SMX absorption simulations showed the random forest performed support vector tree and nonlinear autoregressive exogenous neural networks and machine learning methods. …”
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Sources of Forecast Errors for Rainstorms in the South China Monsoon Region by Lin Lin, Chuhan Lu, Feifan Zhou

“…Based on this, we developed a new method (which we refer to as the “guide flow method”) to identify the sensitive area for rainstorm forecasts in the South China monsoon region and then examined the efficiency of the sensitive areas. …”
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Plasma from hypertensive pregnancy patients induce endothelial dysfunction even under atheroprotective shear stress by Sarah Viana-Mattioli, Miriam Helena Fonseca-Alaniz, Iguaracy Pinheiro-de-Sousa, Ricardo Rosa Junior, Moises Henrique Mastella, Ricardo de Carvalho Cavalli, Valeria Cristina Sandrim

“…Previous in vitro studies have not considered the impact of in vivo elements, such as the different patterns of blood flow, and laminar (LSS) vs. oscillatory (OSS) shear stress, on the development of ED. …”
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Spatial Analysis of Flood Hazard in Nirchay River Basin Using HEC-HMS Model and and fuzzy logic by fariba sfandyary darabad, mansour kheirizade, masoud rahimi

“…Rainfall conversion to runoff at the Nirchay River Basin controlled by slope and land-use.The most runoff height and peak flow in Nirchay River Basin are located in the upstream sub-basins. …”
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Spatial Differentiation and Elements Influencing Urban Resilience in the Middle Reaches of the Yangtze River under the COVID-19 Pandemic by Xin Hou, Qianli Ma, Xuan Wang

“…Thus, to upgrade the system cycle mechanism and augment the endogenous power for urban development, we need to focus more on the flow of innovative elements in central cities, the optimization of ecological and safe spatial patterns in Hunan and Hubei Provinces, and the innovation of sustainable supply chain in the entire region.…”
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Development and Validation of a Specific Stability Indicating High Performance Liquid Chromatographic Methods for Related Compounds and Assay of Solifenacin Succinate by B. V. Rami Reddy, B. Srinivasa Reddy, N. V. V. S. S. Raman, K. Subhash Reddy, C. Rambabu

“…The mobile phase-A contains a 0.01 M phosphate buffer pH: 3.5±0.05 with orthophosphoric acid (88%) and mobile phase-B contains a mixture of acetonitrile and water in the ratio of 90 : 10(v/v). The flow rate was 1.0 mL/minute, column temperature was kept at 35°C, and detection was monitored at 220 nm. …”
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Development and Validation of the Quantification Method for Hydroxychloroquine in Volumetric Absorptive Microsampling (VAMS) Using High-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Photodiode... by Yahdiana Harahap, Siti Ardyanti Rohadatul ‘Aisy, Baitha Palanggatan Maggadani

“…Mobile phase consists of acetonitrile-diethylamine 1% (65 : 35, v/v) (isocratic elution) and delivered at a flow rate of 0.8 mL/min throughout the 12 minutes run. …”
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