Effects of collagen and chondroitin sulfate on relaxation at multiple magnetic field strengths by Olli-Pekka Aro, Victor Casula, Nina E. Hänninen, Jouni Karjalainen, Mikko J. Nissi, Miika T. Nieminen, Henning Henschel

“…R1 values generally increased with CS, and at clinically used magnetic fields, namely 1.5 T and 3.0 T, with collagen concentration. …”
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Prognostic assessment of early-stage liver cirrhosis induced by HCV using an integrated model of CX3CR1-associated immune infiltration genes by Haozheng Cai, Jing Zhang, Chuwen Chen, Junyi Shen, Xiaoyun Zhang, Wei Peng, Chuan Li, Haopeng Lv, Tianfu Wen

“…CX3CR1-associated IIGs, namely ACTIN4, CD1E, TMCO1, and WSF1, were identified, showing specific expression in the livers of individuals with post-hepatic cirrhosis and liver failure compared to HC. …”
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DNMT3A Mutations in Patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia in South Brazil by Annelise Pezzi, Lauro Moraes, Vanessa Valim, Bruna Amorin, Gabriela Melchiades, Fernanda Oliveira, Maria Aparecida da Silva, Ursula Matte, Maria S. Pombo-de-Oliveira, Rosane Bittencourt, Liane Daudt, Lúcia Silla

“…We found fusion transcripts in 19 patients, namely, AML1/ETO (n=5; 6.1%), PML/RARα (n=12; 14.6%), MLL/AF9 (0; 0%), and CBFβ/MYH11 (n=2; 2.4%). …”
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Side-Scan Sonar Small Objects Detection Based on Improved YOLOv11 by Chang Zou, Siquan Yu, Yankai Yu, Haitao Gu, Xinlin Xu

“…To address these issues, this study proposes an improved YOLOv11 network named YOLOv11-SDC. Specifically, a new Sparse Feature (SF) module is proposed, replacing the Spatial Pyramid Pooling Fast (SPPF) module from the original YOLOv11 architecture to enhance object feature selection. …”
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The activation of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii alpha amylase 2 by glutamine requires its N‐terminal aspartate kinase–chorismate mutase–tyrA (ACT) domain by Lisa Scholtysek, Ansgar Poetsch, Eckhard Hofmann, Anja Hemschemeier

“…Here, we analyzed three starch metabolism enzymes of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii that we captured by a cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) affinity chromatography approach, namely, soluble starch synthase STA3, starch‐branching enzyme SBE1, and α‐amylase AMA2. …”
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Optimization of Polyphenol Extraction from Purple Corn Pericarp Using Glycerol/Lactic Acid-Based Deep Eutectic Solvent in Combination with Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction by Ravinder Kumar, Sherry Flint-Garcia, Miriam Nancy Salazar Vidal, Lakshmikantha Channaiah, Bongkosh Vardhanabhuti, Stephan Sommer, Caixia Wan, Pavel Somavat

“…After DES characterization, Plackett–Burman design was used to screen five explanatory variables, namely, time, Temp (temperature), water, Amp (amplitude), and S/L (solid-to-liquid ratio). …”
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Parasitic contamination of lettuce: comparison between establishments located in areas with high and low economic values by Gustavo Trentini Barancelli, Larissa Kochenborger, Fernanda Gracieli Machado Brum, Fabiana Tonial, Cassiano Mateus Forcelini

“…Results: Parasitic forms were found in 80% of the samples, namely: ciliated cysts (probable Balantioides coli), larvae of nematode, Ascaris lumbricoides, cestode eggs, Giardia lamblia, Hymenolepis nana, Entamoeba coli, and Fasciola hepatica. …”
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Efficacy of single dose praziquantel against Schistosoma mansoni in East Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Miseganaw Sisay, Tadesse Hailu, Destaw Damtie, Kindu Geta, Lamesgen Zelalem, Degisew Misganaw

“…Excel software was used to extract the name of the authors, the total sample size, number of cured participants, the study area, and the year of publication. …”
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ZenLDA: Large-Scale Topic Model Training on Distributed Data-Parallel Platform by Bo Zhao, Hucheng Zhou, Guoqiang Li, Yihua Huang

“…We propose an LDA training system named ZenLDA, which follows a generalized design for the distributed data-parallel platform. …”
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An annotated high-content fluorescence microscopy dataset with EGFP-Galectin-3-stained cells and manually labelled outlineszenodo by Salma Kazemi Rashed, Malou Arvidsson, Rafsan Ahmed, Sonja Aits

“…In order to develop and benchmark algorithms and neural networks that can perform this task, high-quality datasets with annotated cell outlines are needed.We have created a dataset, named Aitslab_bioimaging2, consisting of 60 fluorescence microscopy images with EGFP-Galectin-3 labelled cells and their hand-labelled outlines. …”
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Betaxanthin Profiling in Beta vulgaris Leaves and Gymnocalycium mihanovichii Grafted Cacti: A Comprehensive Study by Aneta Spórna-Kucab, Anna Tekieli, Magdalena Knapek, Marta Zużałek, Sławomir Wybraniec

“…In G. mihanovichii grafted cacti, four betaxanthins, namely histidine-Bx, histamine-Bx, serine-Bx, and proline-Bx, were tentatively identified in the yellow, orange, pink, and red varieties, with contents ranging from 0.09 to 1.55 mg/kg fresh weight (FW). …”
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In vivo interspecies dissemination of IncM2-type blaNDM-1 carrying plasmid by Mor N. Lurie-Weinberger, Darya Bychenko-Banyas, Meirav Mor, Sivan Laviad-Shitrit, Ella Kaplan, Nadya Rakovitsky, Alona Keren-Paz, Chaim Ben-Zvi, Yehuda Carmeli

“…Here, we describe three separate cases of patients simultaneously colonized by two NDM producing-species (Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae), in which we documented interspecies dissemination of the blaNDM-1 by an 87,450 bp IncM2 type multi-drug resistance plasmid (here named pNCICAN_NDM-01_21-il). This plasmid was found to be highly conjugative. …”
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Profiling Pro‐Inflammatory Proteases as Biomolecular Signatures of Material‐Induced Subcutaneous Host Response in Immuno‐Competent Mice by Nam M.P. Tran, Anh T.H. Truong, Dang T. Nguyen, Tram T. Dang

“…Herein, molecular expression and proteolytic activity of three distinct proteases, namely neutrophil elastase, matrix metalloproteinases, cysteine cathepsins (cathepsin‐K and cathepsin‐B) are comprehensively profiled, in the subcutaneous host response of immuno‐competent mice against different biomaterial implants. …”
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Analysis and Water Quality Control of Alternative Sources in Bangolan, Northwest Cameroon by Nchofua Festus Biosengazeh, Njoyim Estella Buleng Tamungang, Mofor Nelson Alakeh, Mvondo-ze Antoine david

“…Health data in the locality revealed 1389 cases of water-borne diseases, namely, typhoid, diarrhoea, and dysentery between 2016 and 2017 necessitating control.…”
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Ischemic Stroke Lesion Segmentation on Multiparametric CT Perfusion Maps Using Deep Neural Network by Ankit Kandpal, Rakesh Kumar Gupta, Anup Singh

“…<b>Results:</b> The final optimized network takes three image sequences, namely CT, cerebral blood volume (CBV), and time to max (Tmax), as input to perform segmentation. …”
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Parameters Influencing Sulfur Speciation in Environmental Samples Using Sulfur K-Edge X-Ray Absorption Near-Edge Structure by Siwatt Pongpiachan, Kanjana Thumanu, Charnwit Kositanont, Klaus Schwarzer, Jörg Prietzel, Phoosak Hirunyatrakul, Itthipon Kittikoon

“…The sensitivities of sulfur K-edge XANES spectra of ten sulfur compound standards detected by two different detectors, namely, Lytle detector (LyD) and Germanium detector (GeD), were studied and compared. …”
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Uncertainties in Earthquake Risk Assessment for Disaster Planning by Yasin Fahjan, Ferhat Pakdamar, Yaşasın Eryılmaz, Fatma Kara

“…There are two basic approaches for earthquake loss estimation used in disaster planning namely deterministic and probabilistic. Uncertainties of the seismic risk assessment parameters can be generated from ground motion computations, structural inventories and risk methodologies. …”
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Robust Malware identification via deep temporal convolutional network with symmetric cross entropy learning by Jiankun Sun, Xiong Luo, Weiping Wang, Yang Gao, Wenbing Zhao

“…Moreover, word embedding techniques are generally utilised to understand the contextual relationship between the input operation code (opcode) and application programming interface function names. Here, considering the numerous unlabelled samples in real‐world intelligent environments, the authors pre‐train the TCN model on an unlabelled set using a word embedding method, that is, Word2Vec. …”
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Optimizing Rural MG’s Performance: A Scenario-Based Approach Using an Improved Multi-Objective Crow Search Algorithm Considering Uncertainty by Mohammad Hossein Taabodi, Taher Niknam, Seyed Mohammad Sharifhosseini, Habib Asadi Aghajari, Seyyed Mohammad Bornapour, Ehsan Sheybani, Giti Javidi

“…A new optimization method, namely the Improved Multi-Objective Crow Search Algorithm (IMOCSA), is proposed to solve the problem models. …”
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Scent of COVID-19: Whole-Genome Sequencing Analysis Reveals the Role of <i>ACE2</i>, <i>IFI44</i>, and <i>NDUFAF4</i> in Long-Lasting Olfactory Dysfunction by Beatrice Spedicati, Alessandro Pecori, Maria Pina Concas, Aurora Santin, Romina Ruberto, Giuseppe Giovanni Nardone, Andrea D’Alessandro, Giancarlo Tirelli, Paolo Boscolo-Rizzo, Giorgia Girotto

“…An innovative approach was developed, namely the assessment of the association between a “gene score”, defined as the ratio of the number of homozygous alternative variants within the gene to its length, and participants’ olfactory function. …”
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