Ground-Penetrating Radar Evaluation of Moisture and Frost across Typical Saskatchewan Road Soils by Curtis Berthelot, Diana Podborochynski, Timo Saarenketo, Brent Marjerison, Colin Prang

“…All three systems differentiated between coarse-grained and fine grained soils. In addition, at temperatures below freezing, all three systems identified an increase in water content in soils; however, when frozen, the sensitivity of dielectric constant across soil type and moisture content was significantly reduced. …”
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Transient cortical beta-frequency oscillations associated with contextual novelty in high density mouse EEG by Callum Walsh, Luke Tait, Maria Garcia Garrido, Jonathan T. Brown, Thomas Ridler

“…This was true across the cortex but most notable in recording channels situated above the retrosplenial cortex. Additionally, novelty was associated with greater connectivity between retrosplenial areas and the rest of the cortex, specifically in the beta frequency range. …”
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A Testing Framework for Joint Communication and Sensing in Synthetic Aperture Radars by Alex Piccioni, Roberto Alesii, Fortunato Santucci, Fabio Graziosi

“…Besides, code transparency reduces the contribution of the target with low additive interference into the final SAR images. However, ISAC testing in real SAR systems poses numerous challenges. …”
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Distribution and Health Risk Assessment on Dietary Exposure of Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Vegetables in Nanjing, China by Minmin Wu, Zhonghuan Xia, Qianqian Zhang, Jing Yin, Yanchi Zhou, Hao Yang

“…The calculated total mean MOE in the case of BaP and PAH4 (sum of BaA, CHR, BbF, and BaP) was 14960 and 7723, respectively, for local residents. In addition, the MOEs in PAH4 for some groups of both male and female were below the critical limit of 10 000 proposed by EFSA. …”
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Assessing spacer acquisition rates in E. coli type I-E CRISPR arrays by Luke J. Peach, Haoyun Zhang, Brian P. Weaver, James Q. Boedicker, James Q. Boedicker

“…Subsequent experiments revealed that this was due to a mean fitness reduction linked to array-expanded populations. In addition, the expression of heterologous non-homologous end-joining DNA-repair genes was found to augment spacer acquisition rates, translating to enhanced phage infection defense. …”
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A Technique to Predict Bankruptcy Using Ultimate Ownership Network as Key Indicators by Dyah Sulistyowati Rahayu, Zaäfri Ananto Husodo, Jan Pidanic, Xue Li, Heru Suhartanto

“…The findings indicate a significant impact of the directors’ degree of centrality and the direct bankruptcy rate of director and executive networks on the likelihood of bankruptcy. Additionally, the predictions for one and two years ahead are significantly influenced by the strength or weighted degree of centrality and betweenness centrality of directors. …”
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Iron ore-petcoke briquettes as complementary burden for blast furnaces by Beatriz Fausta Gandra, Arthur Felipe Lino Oliveira, Maurício Covcevich Bagatini, Eduardo Osório

“…Although the briquettes exhibited low compressive strength, they did not generate fines during testing, even at 15% by mass of PC. …”
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Regulation of viral replication by host restriction factors by Ying Lin, Ying Lin, Ying Lin, Yun Zhu, Yun Zhu, Ling Jing, Ling Jing, Ling Jing, Xiaobo Lei, Xiaobo Lei, Zhengde Xie, Zhengde Xie

“…This review summarizes the current understanding of how host restriction factors inhibit viral replication, with a primary focus on their diverse antiviral mechanisms against a range of viruses, including SARS-CoV-2, influenza A virus, enteroviruses, human immunodeficiency virus, hepatitis B virus, and human papillomavirus. In addition, we highlight the crucial role of these factors in shaping the host-virus interactions and discuss their potential as targets for antiviral drug development.…”
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Sinistroporomonorchis bolini n. sp. (Trematoda: Monorchiidae) from the Ocellated killifish, Floridichthys polyommus (Cyprinodontidae) in the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico based on an i... by Leopoldo Andrade-Gómez, Juan F. Espínola-Novelo, Brenda Solórzano-García, Gerardo Pérez-Ponce de León

“…The new species can be differentiated by the presence of an overall large pharynx including the proportion of pharynx width to oral sucker width, a uterus arranged in 2 main lateral fields, and by presenting robust caeca. In addition, sequences of the 28S of large subunit of nuclear ribosomal RNA and cox1 of the mitochondrial DNA were obtained. …”
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Impacts of Water Consumption in the Haihe Plain on the Climate of the Taihang Mountains, North China by Jing Zou, Chesheng Zhan, Ruxin Zhao, Peihua Qin, Tong Hu, Feiyu Wang

“…The impacts of water consumption activities in the Haihe Plain were more obvious during the irrigation seasons (primarily spring and summer). In addition, the land surface variables in the Taihang Mountains, e.g., sensible and latent heat fluxes, were less sensitive to the climatic impacts due to the water consumption activities in the Haihe Plain because they were strongly affected by local surface energy balance.…”
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OCH Ameliorates Bone Marrow Failure in Mice via Downregulation of T-Bet Expression by Xiaohong Qiao, Xiaotian Xie, Wei Shi, Jinqing Tang, Yuexia Shao, Fuxing Li

“…However, T-bet expression level was lower in OCH than in BMF. In addition, OCH treatment increased NKT cell fractions of bone marrow and the colonies of CFU-GM. …”
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SSATNet: Spectral-spatial attention transformer for hyperspectral corn image classification by Bin Wang, Gongchao Chen, Juan Wen, Linfang Li, Songlin Jin, Yan Li, Ling Zhou, Weidong Zhang

“…Specifically, SSATNet utilizes 3D and 2D convolutions to effectively extract local spatial, spectral, and textural features from the data while incorporating spectral and spatial morphological structures to understand the internal structure of the data better. Additionally, a transformer encoder with cross-attention extracts and refines feature information from a global perspective. …”
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Venlafaxine-induced serotonin syndrome causing bilateral cerebral strokes: a case report by Nils Mein, Khadija Mammadli, Felix Luessi, Timo Uphaus, Timo Uphaus

“…Furthermore, we aim to increase awareness of hypoglycemia and epileptic seizures as complications of venlafaxine intoxication. In addition, we demonstrate important pitfalls in the diagnostic procedure and propose a treatment regimen for the underlying serotonin syndrome.…”
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Evaluation of Three New Strategies to Fight Obesity in Families by C. Luley, A. Blaik, S. Aronica, J. Dierkes, S. Kropf, S. Westphal

“…On top of this diet, the families were randomized in a three-factorial design to one or more of three weight-loss strategies: (1) an additional diet preferring carbohydrates having a low glycemic index (dual diet), (2) financial incentive, and (3) telemonitoring of weight and physical activity. …”
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Investigation into UAV Applications for Environmental Ice Detection and De-Icing Technology by Qingying Li, Zhijie Chai, Rao Yao, Tian Bai, Huanyu Zhao

“…Subsequently, the implementation and effectiveness of chemical, mechanical, and thermal de-icing methods delivered via UAV platforms are evaluated, focusing on their operational efficiency and adaptability. In addition, key operational requirements are reviewed, including environmental adaptability, mission planning and execution, and command transmission, as well as system design and manufacturing. …”
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Research on the Mechanical Properties of a Glass Fiber Reinforced Polymer-Steel Combined Truss Structure by Pengfei Liu, Qilin Zhao, Fei Li, Jinchun Liu, Haosen Chen

“…The study shows that the design and fabrication for the node of an assembled truss panel are convenient, safe, and reliable; because of the creep control design of the rods, not only does the short-term structural stiffness meet the design requirement but also the long-term creep deformation tends towards stability. In addition, no significant change is found in the elastic modules, so this structure can be applied in actual engineering. …”
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Ensemble Methods with Voting Protocols Exhibit Superior Performance for Predicting Cancer Clinical Endpoints and Providing More Complete Coverage of Disease-Related Genes by Runyu Jing, Yu Liang, Yi Ran, Shengzhong Feng, Yanjie Wei, Li He

“…In genetic data modeling, the use of a limited number of samples for modeling and predicting, especially well below the attribute number, is difficult due to the enormous number of genes detected by a sequencing platform. In addition, many studies commonly use machine learning methods to evaluate genetic datasets to identify potential disease-related genes and drug targets, but to the best of our knowledge, the information associated with the selected gene set was not thoroughly elucidated in previous studies. …”
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Protective mechanism of Coprinus comatus polysaccharide on acute alcoholic liver injury in mice, the metabolomics and gut microbiota investigation by Jinyan Yu, Jianguang Sun, Min Sun, Weidong Li, Dongmei Qi, Yongqing Zhang, Chunchao Han

“…Metabolites pathways analysis showed that hepatoprotective effect of CCP was related to energy metabolism, biosynthesis of unsaturated fatty acids, amino acids metabolism and lipid metabolism. Additionally, CCP inhibited an increase in the number of Clostridium perfringens, Enterobacteriaceae and Enterococcus, and a decrease in the number of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium in the gut of ALD mice. …”
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Power allocation optimization strategy for multiple virtual power plants with diversified distributed flexibility resources by Zejian Qiu, Xin Zhang, Zhanyuan Han, Fengchao Chen, Yuxin Luo, Kuan Zhang

“…Abstract The virtual power plant integrating the flexible resources in the distribution network can provide additional adjustment capacity for the auxiliary services of distribution network. …”
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Transformation of the CIRC (Cooperative Integrated Reading and Composition) Model to Enhance Qira'ah by Rita Diana, Agung Setiyawan, Boby Bagas Purnama, Siska Nanda Safitri, Mumammad Ziad Al-Fain, Hanif Wazkia, Riskiyah Riskiyah

“…The results of the study indicate that the CIRC model increases students' active participation and cooperation, as reflected in their enthusiasm and motivation during learning. In addition, students' reading comprehension increases, as reflected in interviews and observations that show students find it easier to understand the text. …”
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