Dynamic co-evolution of transposable elements and the piRNA pathway in African cichlid fishes by Miguel Vasconcelos Almeida, Moritz Blumer, Chengwei Ulrika Yuan, Pío Sierra, Jonathan L. Price, Fu Xiang Quah, Aleksandr Friman, Alexandra Dallaire, Grégoire Vernaz, Audrey L. K. Putman, Alan M. Smith, Domino A. Joyce, Falk Butter, Astrid D. Haase, Richard Durbin, M. Emília Santos, Eric A. Miska

“…Orthology inference revealed strong conservation of TE silencing factors in cichlids, and an expansion of piwil1 genes in Lake Malawi cichlids, likely driven by PiggyBac TEs. …”
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Anatomical and chemical characterization of Alstonia boonei for pulp and paper production by Kojo Agyapong Afrifah, Enoch Adjei-Mensah

“…Although the FD was large, the observed adequate FL, thin-wall and large LD implied easy beating of fibres and manufacture of dense, smooth and strong papers. The favourable SF, RR, FR, RC, and LSF values obtained for the fibres would produce papers with suitable burst and tearing strengths and folding endurance. …”
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Comparison of Microstructural and Morphological Properties of Electrodeposited Fe-Cu Thin Films with Low and High Fe : Cu Ratio by Umut Sarac, M. Celalettin Baykul

“…It was observed that the variation of Fe ion concentration in the electrolyte had a very strong influence on the compositional, surface morphological, and microstructural properties of the Fe-Cu films. …”
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Fusion-Learning-Based Optimization: A Modified Metaheuristic Method for Lightweight High-Performance Concrete Design by Ghodrat Rahchamani, Seyed Mojtaba Movahedifar, Amin Honarbakhsh

“…Fusion-learning-based optimization is used in the proposed approach to generate a strong learner by pooling support vector regression models. …”
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Development of cell lines with increased susceptibility to diverse adeno-associated viral vectors to enable in vitro potency assays by James Zengel, Emma S. Esterman, Anitha Ponnuswami, Nicholas R. Wall, Jan E. Carette

“…These improvements enabled the efficient determination of AAV functional titers (also referred to as transducing titers), which can be used to robustly monitor potency across diverse AAV preparations. The strongly enhanced susceptibility of these cell lines to transduction by a variety of divergent AAV vectors could facilitate the development of standardized in vitro quantitative assays for AAV-based gene therapy products.…”
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Fine‐Scale Genetic Structure of Small Fish Populations in Islands: The Case of Brook Charr Salvelinus fontinalis (Mitchill, 1814) in Saint‐Pierre and Miquelon (France) by Julie Viana, Guillaume Evanno, Céline Audet, Fabrice Teletchea

“…A significant difference in allelic richness was also detected among the three islands, indicating a difference in genetic composition across the archipelago, probably induced by historical stocking actions on both Saint‐Pierre and Miquelon. Finally, a strong genetic structure was detected across the archipelago among hydrosystems (overall FST = 0.19) and even within several of them. …”
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Soft Sensor Modeling Method Based on SPA-GWO-SVR for Marine Protease Fermentation Process by Zhu Li, Khalil Ur Rehman, Liu Wenhui, Faiza Atique

“…The marine protease fermentation process is a highly nonlinear, time-varying, multivariable, and strongly coupled complex biochemical reaction process. …”
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(Re-)Positioning and recognising the influence of internal communication on employee engagement for maximum organisational performance by Tsietsi Mmutle

“…By using semi-structured interviews with managers and focus group discussions with employees, the study found that organisational engagement emanating from a strong management philosophy as part of the internal communication strategy empowered employees to perform beyond prescriptive expectations. …”
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Equivalent Permeability Distribution for Fractured Porous Rocks: Correlating Fracture Aperture and Length by Tao Chen

“…However, it is difficult to constrain the permeability distributions for equivalent fracture models as these are strongly influenced by complex fracture properties. …”
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Consumer Protection of Girls from Cybercrime in a Gender Perspective by Susilowati Suparto, Deviana Yuanitasari, Sonny Dewi Judiasih, Yamudin Salaeh

“…This is due to several factors, such as higher emotional vulnerability, still strong gender stereotypes, as well as a lack of education and awareness about cybersecurity among girls. …”
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Zza zamkniętych drzwi. Spektakl kobiecości Petry von Kant by Joanna Chludzińska

“…Zamykając postaci w ciasnym wnętrzu, pozwala na stopniowe zagęszczanie atmosfery, podsycanie napięcia. Z jednej strony intensyfikuje uwagę widza, kierując ją na najmniejsze nawet elementy wystroju i wyglądu osób, a z drugiej przesuwa akcent na dialogi. …”
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Phase I trial on the safety of olprinone for low central venous pressure management aimed at haemorrhage control during open and laparoscopic hepatectomy: a study protocol by Katsuhiko Uesaka, Yuya Miura, Teiichi Sugiura, Ryo Ashida, Katsuhisa Ohgi, Mihoko Yamada, Shimpei Otsuka, Yoshiyasu Kato, Takuya Oyakawa, Eiji Ando, Sunao Tamai

“…This study investigates olprinone, another PDEIII inhibitor with a potentially strong vasodilatory effect, for its safety and efficacy in CVP management during hepatectomy.Methods and analysis This single-centre phase I trial at Shizuoka Cancer Center evaluates the intraoperative administration of olprinone for open and laparoscopic hepatectomy. …”
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Polarimetric image recovery method with domain-adversarial learning for underwater imaging by Fei Tian, Jiuming Xue, Zhedong Shi, Hongling Luo, Wanyuan Cai, Wei Tao

“…Comparison experiments demonstrate that our method is state-of-the-art in terms of visual effect and value metrics and that it has a strong recovery ability in the source and unseen domains, including in water with high turbidity. …”
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Fast ion confinement in quasi-axisymmetric stellarator equilibria by P.J. Bonofiglo, D.W. Dudt, C.P.S. Swanson

“…It is found that NBI born ions in Eos are strongly confined until slowing-down, owing largely to the tangential injection geometry, while 22% of DT-born alpha energy is lost in the scaled device, indicating that any fusion pilot plant design optimization should include metrics for fast ion confinement.…”
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Trošarinski izdelki v Republiki Sloveniji in primerjava z drugimi državami by Ivan Kopina, Stanka Setnikar Cankar

“…Vstop v EU se je odražal tudi na področju pobiranja dajatev, ki postanejo pravica Skupnosti v trenutku knjiženja terjatev v poslovne knjige, država članica pa zadrži 25 % tradicionalnih lastnih sredstev Skupnosti za stroške pobiranja teh dajatev. Po navedenem dejanju so trošarine postale najpomembnejše dajatve, ki jih v državni proračun vplača Carinska uprava Republike Slovenije. …”
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Enhanced Visible Light Photocatalytic Activity for TiO2 Nanotube Array Films by Codoping with Tungsten and Nitrogen by Min Zhang, Juan Wu, DanDan Lu, Jianjun Yang

“…The mechanism of the enhanced photocatalytic activity could be attributed to (i) increasing number of hydroxyl groups on the surface of TNAs after the hydrothermal treatment, (ii) a strong W-N synergistic interaction leads to produce new states, narrow the band gap which decrease the recombination effectively, and then greatly increase the visible light absorption and photocatalytic activity; (iii) W ions with changing valences in all codoped samples which are considered to act as trapping sites, effectively decrease the recombination rate of electrons and holes, and improve the photocatalytic activity.…”
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STRATEGIC MANAGEMENT CONTROLS AND OPERATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF SMALL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES IN SOUTH-WEST NIGERIA by Yusuf Alabi Olumoh

“…The study concluded that strategic management controls are strong predictors of SMEs' operational performance. …”
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Strategies of China and India in the Indo-Pacific region by E. S. Karsanova

“…India has focused on defending its territory with a strong network of allies, which represents an advantage for the country both commercially and militarily, as well as a crucial element in containing Chinese influence in the region. …”
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Unveiling Thrombocytopenia Trends In Pediatric Epilepsy: The Valproate Connection by Kiran Nayab, Qurrat ul Ain, Ayesha Tariq, Israr Liaqat, Samra Javed, Nadia Mumtaz

“…Thrombocytopenia was observed in 31 (24.80%) patients on valproic acid therapy and a strong association between higher dosage of valproic acid and thrombocytopenia was observed (p <0.001). …”
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Predicting Earthquake Casualties and Emergency Supplies Needs Based on PCA-BO-SVM by Fuyu Wang, Huiying Xu, Huifen Ye, Yan Li, Yibo Wang

“…These findings demonstrate that the proposed PCA-BO-SVM model can effectively and scientifically predict earthquake casualties, showcasing strong generalization capabilities and high predictive accuracy.…”
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