Genetic Transformability of Selected Kenyan Groundnut (Arachis hypogaea L.) Genotypes with IPT Gene Using Cotyledonary Node Explants by Purity G. Limbua, Mathew P. Ngugi, Richard O. Oduor

“…The cotyledonary nodes of six Kenyan adapted groundnuts genotypes (ICGV 12991, CG 7, Red Valencia, ICGV 90704, Chalimbana, and JL 24) were transformed using Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain EHA 101 carrying PNOV-IPT binary vector containing an IPT gene, which was driven by SARK promoter and terminated by TNOS terminator. …”
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Assessment of Aerosol Radiative Impact over Oceanic Regions Adjacent to Indian Subcontinent Using Multisatellite Analysis by S. K. Satheesh, V. Vinoj, K. Krishnamoorthy

“…High as well as seasonally invariant aerosol single scattering albedos (~0.98) were observed over the southern Indian Ocean region far from continents. …”
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3D Curvelet-Based Segmentation and Quantification of Drusen in Optical Coherence Tomography Images by M. Esmaeili, A. M. Dehnavi, H. Rabbani

“…The proposed algorithm consists of three parts: (1) preprocessing, which includes creating binary mask and removing possible highly reflective posterior hyaloid that is used in accurate detection of inner segment/outer segment (IS/OS) junction layer and Bruch’s membrane (BM) retinal layers; (2) coarse segmentation, in which 3D curvelet transform and graph theory are employed to get the possible candidate drusenoid regions; (3) fine segmentation, in which morphological operators are used to remove falsely extracted elongated structures and get the refined segmentation results. …”
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Impact of Baseline Central Retinal Thickness on Outcomes in the VIVID-DME and VISTA-DME Studies by Edoardo Midena, Mark Gillies, Todd A. Katz, Carola Metzig, Chengxing Lu, Yuichiro Ogura

“…At weeks 52 and 100, outcomes with intravitreal aflibercept 2q4 and 2q8 were superior to those in laser control-treated patients regardless of baseline CRT. When looked at in a binary fashion, the treatment effect of intravitreal aflibercept versus laser was not significantly better in the ≥400 μm than the <400 μm group; when looked at as a continuous variable, baseline CRT seemed to have an impact on the treatment effect of intravitreal aflibercept versus laser. …”
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An Examination of International Humanitarian Law of Armed Conflict: Perspective from the Legal Issues on War Crimes in Africa by NWALA Paul

“…Furthermore, the study posits that any violations of these prescribed rules in the conduct of armed conflict simply known as war, invariably constitutes war crime and that offenders should not go unpunished. …”
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Severity and mortality of COVID-19 among people with disabilities: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis by Abay Woday Tadesse, Abubeker Alebachew Seid, Aragaw Asfaw Hasen

“…This systematic review and meta-analysis aims to determine the severity and mortality of COVID-19 among people with different types of disabilities.Methods and analysis We will search PubMed, HINARI, ScienceDirect, PEDro and Cochrane Library databases. …”
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Ferroelectric memory: state-of-the-art manufacturing and research by D. A. Abdullaev, R. A. Milovanov, R. L. Volkov, N. I. Borgardt, A. N. Lantsev, K. A. Vorotilov, A. S. Sigov

“…New approaches to further scaling and new devices based on ferroelectrics are reviewed, including binary ferroelectrics deposited by ALD techniques, piezoelectronic transistors, ferroelectric/2D-semiconductor transistor structures, and others. …”
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On improving interoperability for cross‐domain multi‐finger fingerprint matching using coupled adversarial learning by Md Mahedi Hasan, Nasser Nasrabadi, Jeremy Dawson

“…In this study, to address this issue, the authors propose a coupled adversarial learning framework to learn a fingerprint representation in a low‐dimensional subspace that is discriminative and domain‐invariant in nature. In fact, using a conditional coupled generative adversarial network, the authors project both the contactless and the contact‐based fingerprint into a latent subspace to explore the hidden relationship between them using class‐specific contrastive loss and ArcFace loss. …”
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LENDING RATE AND COMMERCIAL BANK LENDING IN NIGERIA by Lateef Adewale Yunusa, Mayowa Ebenezer Ariyibi, Kehinde Isiaq Olaiya, Tolulope Oyakhilome Williams

“… The increase in the lending rate in Nigeria has affected the borrowers in the financial system and it has invariably reduced the pace of economic activities in the country.  …”
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Primary scalar hair in Gauss–Bonnet black holes with Thurston horizons by Luis Guajardo, Julio Oliva

“…The quadratic part of the scalar field action corresponds to a conformally coupled scalar in five dimensions -an invariance of the matter sector that is explicitly broken by the introduction of a quartic self-interaction. …”
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Factors Influencing Precision Agriculture Technology Adoption Among Small-Scale Farmers in Kentucky and Their Implications for Policy and Practice by Shreesha Pandeya, Buddhi R. Gyawali, Suraj Upadhaya

“…The data were analyzed using the binary logistic regression method. The results revealed that farm size and longer years of farming experience increased the likelihood of PAT adoption, whereas farmers’ age negatively affected adoption. …”
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Scaling Properties of ∅-Meson and Light Charged Hadron Production in Small and Large Systems at PHENIX by Nouicer Rachid

“…These measurements are presented through the invariant transverse-momentum (pT ) and transverse-mass (mT) spectra for different collision centralities. …”
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Risk Prediction Using Genome-Wide Association Studies on Type 2 Diabetes by Sungkyoung Choi, Sunghwan Bae, Taesung Park

“…In this report, we evaluated the performance of several statistical methods for predicting a binary trait: stepwise logistic regression (SLR), least absolute shrinkage and selection operator (LASSO), and Elastic-Net (EN). …”
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Layered metal carbo–selenide Nb2CSe2 with van der Waals interlayer coupling by Junchao Wang, Renfei Cheng, Tao Hu, Xinyue Tang, Yan Liang, Min Tian, Ting Xiong, Qiuhong Lu, Qi Zhu, Zhiqing Yang, Xiaohui Wang, Yanchun Zhou

“…These characteristics indicate that Nb2CSe2 is an analog of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), which is a typical binary van der Waals (vdW) solid. Moreover, vibrational properties are reported, which may offer an optical identification standard for new ternary vdW solids in spectroscopic studies, including Raman scattering and infrared absorption.…”
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A retrospective clinical study on the influencing factors of Clostridium difficile infection in elderly patients by Yang Chen, Yingjun Gong, Cui Li, Huan Li, Jia Chen, Hui Su, Xiaoming Wang, Xiaoxuan Ning

“…[Results] The use rate of proton pump inhibitors, antibiotics and glucocorticoids in the positive group was higher than that in the negative group (P<0.05), the hemoglobin, alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase, albumin, alkaline phosphatase and γ-glutamyl transferase and vitamin D levels in the positive group were lower than those in the negative group (P < 0.05), and the serum creatinine level in the positive group was higher than that in the negative group(P<0.05).Multivariate binary logistic regression analysis showed that hemoglobin, albumin, and vitamin D were protective factors for Clostridium difficile infection (P < 0.05), and antibiotic use and serum creatinine were independent risk factors for Clostridium difficile infection(P<0.05). …”
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Measurement of multidifferential cross sections for dijet production in proton–proton collisions at $$\sqrt{s} = 13\,\text {Te}\hspace{-.08em}\text {V} $$ s = 13 Te V by CMS Collaboration

“…Cross sections are measured double-differentially (2D) as a function of the largest absolute rapidity $$|y |_{\text {max}} $$ | y | max of the two jets with the highest transverse momenta $$p_{\textrm{T}}$$ p T and their invariant mass $$m_{1,2} $$ m 1 , 2 , and triple-differentially (3D) as a function of the rapidity separation $$y^{*} $$ y ∗ , the total boost $$y_{\text {b}} $$ y b , and either $$m_{1,2} $$ m 1 , 2 or the average $$p_{\textrm{T}}$$ p T of the two jets. …”
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Computational analysis for efficient thermal transportation of ternary hybrid nanofluid flow across a stretching sheet with Cattaneo-Christov heat flux model by Wei Li, Shan Ali Khan, Muhammad Shafqat, Qamar Abbas, Taseer Muhammad, Muhammad Imran

“…Hybrid nanomaterials greatly improve thermal systems by increasing thermal conductivity, storing energy more efficiently, and customizing thermo-mechanical features. Binary/ternary hybrid nanofluids are important in industries such as biomedicine, transportation, and pharmaceuticals because of their excellent thermophysical properties. …”
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Geochemical-based appraisal of karst groundwater quality, west Nile Valley, central Egypt, for drinking and irrigation by Hassan Alzahrani, Abdullah Basaloom, Sayed Mosaad

“…The water types are characterized by Na-Cl-SO4 and Ca-Mg-SO4-Cl. Binary diagrams and factor analysis identified key mechanisms regulating major ion chemistry, including silicate weathering and ion exchange, with a minor contribution from carbonate and gypsum dissolution. …”
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Application of spectrophotometry in novel simultaneous dissolution profiling of a single pill triple therapy of amlodipine, perindopril and indapamide; whiteness evaluation by Aya T. Soudi

“…The spectrum was then multiplied by the AM divisor to yield a corrected spectrum of the PE and ID binary mixture, allowing their quantification. Various approaches were used to quantify both drugs, including measurement of their second (2DD) and first derivative (1DD) spectra at 231.30 nm and 251.00 nm, respectively. …”
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Automated Fillet Weld Inspection Based on Deep Learning from 2D Images by Ignacio Diaz-Cano, Arturo Morgado-Estevez, José María Rodríguez Corral, Pablo Medina-Coello, Blas Salvador-Dominguez, Miguel Alvarez-Alcon

“…The study demonstrated high performance in three experiments, achieving top results in both binary classification (in the first two experiments) and multiclass classification (in the third experiment). …”
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