Learning and Development of Diagnostic Reasoning in Occupational Therapy Undergraduate Students by Pedro Moruno-Miralles, Adriana Reyes-Torres, Miguel-Ángel Talavera-Valverde, Ana-Isabel Souto-Gómez, Luis-Javier Márquez-Álvarez

“…Undergraduate students’ ability to analyse and synthesize information during data collection is poorly organized, so it makes the problem formulation difficult. …”
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A GIS based spatiotemporal modelling approach for cycling risk mapping using crowd-sourced sensor data by Bakhtiar Feizizadeh, Davoud Omarzadeh

“…The proposed approach makes use of crowd-sourced sensor data collected during cycling (speed, bike vibration, distance to other objects), spatial statistics and multi-criteria decision analysis to provide a continuous estimation of cycling discomfort and risk in the traffic network. …”
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Multi-Scale Building Load Forecasting Without Relying on Weather Forecast Data: A Temporal Convolutional Network, Long Short-Term Memory Network, and Self-Attention Mechanism Appro... by Lanqian Yang, Jinmin Guo, Huili Tian, Min Liu, Chang Huang, Yang Cai

“…Subsequently, the self-attention mechanism is employed to strengthen the model’s ability to extract feature information. Finally, load forecasting is carried out through a fully connected network, and a multi-time scale prediction model for building multivariate loads based on TCN–LSTM–self-attention is constructed. …”
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Hierarchical Multi-Communities Energy Sharing Management with Electric Vehicle Integration by Ruengwit Khwanrit, Saher Javaid, Yuto Lim, Chalie Charoenlarpnopparut, Yasuo Tan

“…The widespread adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) in the smart grid is transforming the traditional grid into a more complex system. EVs have the ability to both charge and discharge, acting as loads that draw high power and sources that inject energy back into the grid. …”
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The Study of Viral RNA Diversity in Bird Samples Using De Novo Designed Multiplex Genus-Specific Primer Panels by Andrey A. Ayginin, Ekaterina V. Pimkina, Alina D. Matsvay, Anna S. Speranskaya, Marina V. Safonova, Ekaterina A. Blinova, Ilya V. Artyushin, Vladimir G. Dedkov, German A. Shipulin, Kamil Khafizov

“…Advances in the next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have significantly increased our ability to detect new viral pathogens and systematically determine the spectrum of viruses prevalent in various biological samples. …”
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Biopreservation of Shrimps Using Composed Edible Coatings from Chitosan Nanoparticles and Cloves Extract by Ahmed A. Tayel, Aml F. Elzahy, Shaaban H. Moussa, Mohammed S. Al-Saggaf, Amany M. Diab

“…The scanning micrographs of treated S. typhimurium with CLE/Cht-NPs displayed NPs ability to attach and destroy bacterial cells. The ECs-treated shrimps exhibited sharp decrease in microbial groups load (aerobic microorganisms, E. coli, Enterobacteriaceae, and staphylococci) during refrigerated storage (4 ± 1°C) for 10 days. …”
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A network-based systems genetics framework identifies pathobiology and drug repurposing in Parkinson’s disease by Lijun Dou, Zhenxing Xu, Jielin Xu, Chengxi Zang, Chang Su, Andrew A. Pieper, James B. Leverenz, Fei Wang, Xiongwei Zhu, Jeffrey Cummings, Feixiong Cheng

“…However, current treatments only manage symptoms and lack the ability to slow or prevent disease progression. We utilized a systems genetics approach to identify potential risk genes and repurposable drugs for PD. …”
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Short-Term Bixin Supplementation of Healthy Subjects Decreases the Susceptibility of LDL to Cu2+-Induced Oxidation Ex Vivo by Lisiane Conte, Sabrina Somacal, Sabrina Marafiga Nichelle, Cristine Rampelotto, Silvino Sasso Robalo, Miguel Roehrs, Tatiana Emanuelli

“…Lycopene-based medications and supplements have been developed to prevent atherosclerosis, primarily because of their ability to decrease low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidation. …”
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Pilot Study on AI Image Analysis for Lower-Limb Reconstruction—Assessing ChatGPT-4’s Recommendations in Comparison to Board-Certified Plastic Surgeons and Resident Physicians by Silke Graul, Michael A. Pais, Rafael Loucas, Tobias Rohrbach, Elias Volkmer, Sebastian Leitsch, Thomas Holzbach

“…To our knowledge, this is the first study to examine ChatGPT-4’s ability to analyze images of lower leg defects and assesses its understanding of complex case reports in comparison to the performance of board-certified surgeons and residents. …”
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Novel histone deacetylase-5 inhibitor T2943 exerts an anti-depressive effect in mice by enhancing GRID1 expression by Juan Du, Ruyun Liu, Lin Ma, Yue Liu, Wei Wei, Ning Liu, Qiuhua Cao, Jianqiang Yu

“…Upregulated GRID1 mediates signal transmission in neural pathways, restores the regenerative ability of hippocampal nerve cells, promotes nerve growth and synaptic formation, increases synapse numbers, and enhances synaptic function. …”
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Introducing ‘trident’: a graphical interface for discriminating groups using dental microwear texture analysis by Thiery, Ghislain, Francisco, Arthur, Louail, Margot, Berlioz, Emilie, Blondel, Cécile, Brunetière, Noël, Ramdarshan, Anusha, Walker, Axelle EC, Merceron, Gildas

“…This manuscript introduces trident, an R package for performing dental microwear texture analysis and subsequently classifying variables based on their ability to separate discrete categories. Dental microwear textures reflect the physical properties of the food, the feeding ecology of a given species, and niche partitioning when considering multi-specific communities. …”
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Isolation of a Novel Caprine <i>Eimeria christenseni</i> Strain (GC) in Canary Islands and Analysis of Parasitological, Clinical, and Pathological Findings on Experimentally Infect... by Emilio Barba, José Manuel Molina, Francisco Rodríguez, Otilia Ferrer, María Carmen Muñoz, Liliana M. R. Silva, María Cristina Del Río, José Adrián Molina, Anja Taubert, Carlos Hermosilla, Antonio Ruiz

“…The aim of this study was to isolate an <i>E. christenseni</i> strain and to assess its infectivity, pathogenicity, and ability to develop a protective immune response. After previous collection of <i>E. christenseni</i>-positive faeces, purification of oocysts, and amplification in donor animals, an experimental infection was carried out. …”
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Dietary Fe-Gly supplementation attenuates enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC)-induced inflammation response and intestinal barrier dysfunction in piglets by Qing Gao, Qing Gao, Qing Gao, Yilong Zhang, Yabin Wu, Dianchao Gu, Junzhou Chen, Conghui Yin, Hao Wu, Dan Zhu, Daiwen Chen, Aimin Wu

“…In addition to protecting the health of piglets, adding Fe-Gly can also increase the TIBC level in piglet serum (p &lt; 0.05), enhancing their ability to bind and transport iron. From the gene expression results and tissue section results, adding Fe-Gly can also alleviate the damage to the jejunum caused by ETEC challenge to some extent (p &lt; 0.05). …”
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Comparison of Test Your Memory and Montreal Cognitive Assessment Measures in Parkinson’s Disease by Emily J. Henderson, Howard Chu, Daisy M. Gaunt, Alan L. Whone, Yoav Ben-Shlomo, Veronica Lyell

“…We assessed the discriminant ability of TYM and the equivalence between TYM and MoCA scores and measured the interrater reliability between three raters. …”
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Hybrid Graph Representation Learning for Carotid Artery Stenosis Detection Based on Multimodal Retinal OCTA Images by Wenting Lan, Jinkui Hao, Shengjun Zhou, Jingfeng Zhang, Shaodong Ma, Yitian Zhao

“…We construct a hybrid graph representation by combining arterial and venous features, with the aim of improving the model&#x2019;s ability to extract and integrate diverse anatomical information for more accurate CAS detection. …”
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Differentiation-Associated MicroRNA Alterations in Mouse Heart-Derived Sca-1+CD31− and Sca-1+CD31+ Cells by Qiong Wu, Jinxi Zhan, Yun Li, Xiaoxia Wang, Lu Xu, Juan Yu, Shiming Pu, Zuping Zhou

“…The results indicated that mouse heart-derived Sca-1+CD31− cells were multipotent and retained the ability to differentiate into different cardiac cell lineages, but Sca-1+CD31+ cells did not. …”
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DAB2IP Downregulation Enhances the Proliferation and Metastasis of Human Gastric Cancer Cells by Derepressing the ERK1/2 Pathway by Liang Sun, Yizhou Yao, Ting Lu, Zengfu Shang, Shenghua Zhan, Weiqiang Shi, Guofeng Pan, Xinguo Zhu, Songbing He

“…Silencing DAB2IP activated extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) pathway, and the enhanced proliferation and migration ability induced by DAB2IP knockdown were reduced after incubation with U0126 in SGC7901 gastric cancer cells. …”
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Study on the optimal structure of nonmetallic coiled tubing with cable-laying based on the minimum stress in optical fibers by Houbu Li, Xueru Zhang, Xuemin Zhang, Nan Ding, Lei Li

“…Field tests indicate that the internal optical fiber has good monitoring ability.…”
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Artificial intelligence in dentistry—A review by Hao Ding, Jiamin Wu, Wuyuan Zhao, Jukka P. Matinlinna, Jukka P. Matinlinna, Michael F. Burrow, James K. H. Tsoi

“…Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the ability of machines to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence. …”
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First molecules to reactivate RASG12V GTPase activity by Aneta Wlodarczyk, Cezary Treda, Marcin Pacholczyk, Adrianna Rutkowska, Marta Wegierska, Amelia Kierasinska-Kalka, Katarzyna Wasiak, Damian Ciunowicz, Dagmara Grot, Pawel Glowacki, Ewelina Stoczynska-Fidelus, Piotr Rieske

“…Until now, attempts to obtain such compounds have failed. Compounds with this ability have been defined in our research. Methods The compounds were initially identified through virtual screening, and their optimal binding conformation in the RAS SW-II pocket was determined using the flexible docking technique. …”
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