Atacama Large Aperture Submillimeter Telescope (AtLAST) science: Probing the transient and time-variable sky [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Pamela Klaassen, Mark Booth, Thomas Stanke, Evanthia Hatziminaoglou, Claudia Cicone, Martin Cordiner, Tony Mroczkowski, Doug Johnstone, Luca Di Mascolo, Minju Lee, Eelco van Kampen, Thomas Maccarone, Daizhong Liu, Matthew Smith, Amélie Saintonge, Sven Wedemeyer, Alexander Thelen, John Orlowski-Scherer, Tomasz Kamiński, Joe Bright, Atul Mohan, Michael Koss, Sigurd Næss, Francisco Miguel Montenegro-Montes, Paola Severgnini, Claudio Ricci, Jochen Greiner, Cristian Vignali

“…In particular, AtLAST’s large field of view will enable serendipitous detections of transient events, while its anticipated ability to get on source quickly and observe simultaneously in multiple bands make it also ideally suited for transient follow-up. …”
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Retrieval of Land Surface Temperature From Passive Microwave Observations Using CatBoost-Based Adaptive Feature Selection by Yang Dai, Yingbao Yang, Xin Pan, Penghua Hu, Xiangjin Meng, Fanggang Li, Zhenwei Wang

“…Passive microwave (PMW) remote sensing is increasingly employed for generating seamless all-weather land surface temperature (LST) data due to its ability to penetrate cloud cover and capture the actual surface conditions underneath. …”
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A Real-Time Human Pose Measurement System for Human-In-The-Loop Dynamic Simulators by Nicola Giulietti, Davide Todesca, Marco Carnevale, Hermes Giberti

“…The possibility of achieving real-time evaluation of human pose enables the ability to control robotic platforms based on user’s pose (or even on user’s inertial properties) in Human-In-The-Loop simulators, for sports and rehabilitation as an example. …”
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Analysis of clinical characteristics and risk factors for patients with heat stroke in western China in 2022: a multicenter retrospective study by Xin Zheng, Yuchun Gao, Qinli Xie, Qiulan Chen, Chuan Guo, Qionglan Dong, Jin Tang, Jun Luo, Ying Ge, Jian He, Xiaolin Hou, Guanghong Zhou, Yuan Chen, Haiquan Cao, Jiujia Xiao, An Lan, Qiu Chen, Yonghong Zeng, Jing Huang, Huaicong Long

“…The poor prognosis group had significantly higher blood pH, HCO3-, Lac, Scr, AST, ALT, DBIL, CKMB, PT, DD, and PLT (all p < 0.05). Furthermore, logistic regression analysis revealed that Lac, Scr, and APACHE II were risk factors for poor prognosis (p < 0.05). …”
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Assessment of Air Pollution Tolerance and Physicochemical Alterations of Alstonia scholaris (L.) R.Br. along Roadsides of Lahore, Pakistan by Zahid Mehmood, Ali Hasnain, Muhammad Luqman, Sohaib Muhammad, Narayan Babu Dhital, Arooba John, Maryam Iqbal, Amna Ejaz, Matiba Tufail, Harma, Hsi-Hsien Yang, Muhammad Umer Farooq Awan

“…It is concluded that the air pollution tolerance ability of A. scholaris was higher along the polluted roads of Lahore than in the background control site. …”
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Simultaneous Determination of Over-the-Counter Pain Relievers in Commercial Pharmaceutical Products Utilizing Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares (MCR-ALS) Mult... by Heba Shaaban, Ahmed Mostafa, Zahra Almatar, Reem Alsheef, Safia Alrubh

“…High values of coefficients of determination ≥0.9995 reflected high predictive ability of the developed model. Good recoveries ranging from 98.0% to 99.7% were obtained for all analytes with relative standard deviations (RSDs) not higher than 1.62%. …”
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Correlation between hemoglobin, albumin, lymphocyte, and platelet score and short-term mortality in critically ill patients by Chong Zhang, Wenjin Peng, Meng Ning, Weiru Liang, Bin Su, Tingting Guo, Kun Hu, Wei Su, Yi Chen, Yingwu Liu

“…Additionally, the HALP score improved the predictive ability of the SOFA score (∆Area under curve: 0.009, p < 0.001). …”
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Contextual Vulnerability Should Guide Fair Subject Selection in Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials by Gianna Strand

“…[xxviii] Subjects have limited ability to avoid exploitation and act as an autonomous moral agents under such circumstances. …”
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Astaxanthin-loaded brain-permeable liposomes for Parkinson’s disease treatment via antioxidant and anti-inflammatory responses by Thai-Duong Nguyen, Shristi Khanal, Eunhee Lee, Jinsol Choi, Ganesh Bohara, Nikesh Rimal, Dong-Young Choi, Soyeun Park

“…Additionally, Lf functionalization enhanced brain penetration ability, as demonstrated by a biodistribution study using nude mice, compared to LPs without Lf conjugation. …”
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Anthropological Dimension of the Philosophical "Literature-Centric" Model of Ukrainian Romanticism by Z. O. Yankovska, L. V. Sorochuk

“…For him or her, the highest value is freedom, the ability to make freely independent fateful decisions. …”
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RETRACTED: Modern Subtype Classification and Outlier Detection Using the Attention Embedder to Transform Ovarian Cancer Diagnosis by S. M. Nuruzzaman Nobel, S M Masfequier Rahman Swapno, Md. Ashraful Hossain, Mejdl Safran, Sultan Alfarhood, Md. Mohsin Kabir, M. F. Mridha

“…This study highlights how machine learning can revolutionize the medical field’s ability to classify ovarian cancer subtypes and identify outliers, giving doctors a valuable tool to lessen the severe effects of the disease. …”
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Quality of Life Philosophy III. Towards a New Biology: Understanding the Biological Connection between Quality of Life, Disease, and Healing by Soren Ventegodt, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…All we can do is describe the cell and the organisms arising from its cells as filled with energy and information as well as an unbeatable ability to organize itself way down to the molecular level, where apparently the cell is in control of almost every single molecule.Our understanding today of how the information is stored and how it flows through living matter is still very limited. …”
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Multiple Comorbidities, Psychiatric Disorders, Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs Among Adults with Essential Tremor: A Retrospective Observational Study in a Large US Comme... by Dingwei Dai, Ali Samiian, Joaquim Fernandes, Henriette Coetzer

“…**Background:** Essential tremor (ET), the most common movement disorder, often impairs patients’ ability to perform activities of daily living, mental health, and quality of life. …”
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Barriers and Predictors of Lyme Disease Vaccine Acceptance: A Cross-Sectional Study in Poland by Dawid Lewandowski, Artur Sulik, Filip Raciborski, Milena Krasnodebska, Joanna Gebarowska, Aleksandra Stalewska, Kacper Toczylowski

“…Willingness to vaccinate was influenced by general positive vaccine attitudes, recognized danger of LD, and belief in the vaccine’s ability to ease fears. Notably, 40.8% of respondents were uncertain about vaccine risks, with this group tending to be younger, less educated, and expressing lower trust in medical professionals. …”
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From consumers to pioneers: insights from thermal energy communities in Denmark, Germany and the Netherlands by Sara Herreras Martínez, Justus Mesman, Daniel Møller Sneum, Lars Holstenkamp, Robert Harmsen, Marijke Menkveld, Sanne Akerboom, André Faaij

“…TECs also rely on additional factors for success, including organisational and entrepreneurial abilities to engage with stakeholders, gain social acceptance, and secure commitment from community members. …”
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Exploring Effects of Mental Stress with Data Augmentation and Classification Using fNIRS by M. N. Afzal Khan, Nada Zahour, Usman Tariq, Ghinwa Masri, Ismat F. Almadani, Hasan Al-Nashah

“…These findings illustrate the ability to detect changes in brain states with high accuracy using fNIRS, underline the need for larger datasets, and demonstrate that data augmentation can significantly help when data are scarce in the case of brain signals.…”
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Noninvasive Predictors of High-Risk Varices in Patients with Non-Cirrhotic Portal Hypertension by Morven E. Cunningham, Gilda Parastandeh-Chehr, Orlando Cerocchi, David K. Wong, Keyur Patel

“…Association of LSM or other clinical features of portal hypertension (spleen size, platelet count, platelet count/spleen length ratio (PSL), LSM-spleen length/platelet count ratio score (LSP)) with HRV and ability of these variables to predict HRV was analysed. …”
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Advancing terrestrial snow depth monitoring with machine learning and L-band InSAR data: a case study using NASA’s SnowEx 2017 data by Ibrahim Olalekan Alabi, Ibrahim Olalekan Alabi, Hans-Peter Marshall, Jodi Mead, Ernesto Trujillo

“…Our findings indicate that L-band InSAR, with its ability to penetrate clouds and cover extensive areas, coupled with machine learning, holds promise for enhancing snow depth estimation. …”
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A Metabolic Gene Signature to Predict Overall Survival in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma by Zeng-Hong Wu, Yun Tang, Yue Zhou

“…The findings showed an AUC of 0.745 and 0.618 in the TCGA and GEO analysis, respectively. Besides, the ability for the genes to predict clinicopathological HNSCC status was analyzed and the data showed that the AUC for age, gender, grade, stage, T, M, and N was 0.520, 0.495, 0.568, 0.606, 0.577, 0.476, and 0.673, respectively, in the TCGA dataset. …”
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Challenges and opportunities for data integration to improve estimation of migratory connectivity by Jeffrey A. Hostetler, Emily B. Cohen, Christen M. Bossu, Amy L. Scarpignato, Kristen Ruegg, Andrea Contina, Clark S. Rushing, Michael T. Hallworth

“…For bidirectional data, integration can lead to more accurate estimates when data are available from all regions in at least one season. The ability to conduct combined analyses that account for the unique limitations and biases of each data type is a promising possibility for overcoming the challenge of range‐wide coverage that has been hard to achieve using single data types. …”
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