Association of C1QTNF6 gene polymorphism with risk and clinical features of type 1 diabetes in Chinese: implications for ZnT8A and beta-cell function by Jinhan Liu, Ying Xia, Zhiguo Xie, Xia Li, Gan Huang, Jingyi Hu, Zhiguang Zhou

“…We aimed to investigate if rs229541 in C1QTNF6 conferred susceptibility to T1D in Chinese, independent of DR-DQ genotypes and if this gene polymorphism affected the clinical profiles of T1D.MethodsIn this case–control study, genotypes of C1QTNF6 rs229541 were obtained from 1278 patients with T1D and 1282 nondiabetic controls using MassARRAY.ResultsGenotypic (P = 0.0210) and allelic (P = 0.0084) frequencies were significantly different between the T1D group and the control group. …”
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A 1Mbps Real-Time NLOS UV Scattering Communication System With Receiver Diversity Over 1km by Guanchu Wang, Kun Wang, Chen Gong, Difan Zou, Zhimeng Jiang, Zhengyuan Xu

“…We design and demonstrate an NLOS UV scattering communication system in this paper, where the receiver-side signal detection is designed based on a discrete-time Poisson channel model. …”
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Development status and key technologies of deep-sea towing autonomous underwater vehicles by Guanyu LU, Tiedong ZHANG, Zhenglin LI, Dapeng JIANG, Ming LEI, Wanzhen LUO

“…Singapore used a digital thin-line towed array sonar on an AUV to invert seabed sediment characteristics. …”
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Whale shark residency and small-scale movements around oil and gas platforms in Qatar by Steffen S. Bach, David P. Robinson, David P. Robinson, Mohammed Y. Al Jaidah, Simon J. Pierce, Simon J. Pierce, Prasad Thoppil, Christoph A. Rohner

“…Tags had a mean retention of 161 ± 186 days (standard deviation, SD) and 32 of the 117 tags were recorded in multiple years in the acoustic array (21 stations). Most detections were recorded from May to September, confirming that this whale shark aggregation is seasonal. …”
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SNP Microarray in FISH Negative Clinically Suspected 22q11.2 Microdeletion Syndrome by Ashutosh Halder, Manish Jain, Amanpreet Kaur Kalsi

“…SNP microarray was carried out using 300 K HumanCytoSNP-12 BeadChip array or CytoScan 750 K array. SNP microarray identified 8 cases of 22q11.2 microdeletions and/or microduplications in addition to cases of chromosomal abnormalities and other pathogenic/likely pathogenic CNVs. …”
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The Importance of Prenatal Whole-Exome Sequencing Testing in the Romanian Population by Ileana-Delia Săbău, Laurentiu-Camil Bohîltea, Viorica Elena Rădoi, Anca Mirela Bardan, Ovidiu Virgil Maioru, Mihaela Țurcan, Viorel Aurel Suciu-Lazar, Iuliana Ceausu

“…This article details ten prenatal cases tested with WES, highlighting its superior diagnostic performance compared to the SNP array. WES detected the genetic diagnostic in 50% of cases that the SNP array did not. …”
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Ultrathin and Highly Conformal Self-Powered Sensors by Liquid-Phase Transferring by Xingyi Dai, Qihua Liang, Yinghui Wu, Jiaxin Han, Yajun Cao, Xuyang Zhang, Junhui Huang, Junle Qu, Long-Biao Huang, Jie Kong, Jianhua Hao

“…Driven by the triboelectric effect, the self-powered sensor and its array exhibit good sensitivity and rapid response time, enabling tactile sensing functions for pressure, material species, surface roughness detection, and motion state. …”
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The role of digital mammography, scintimammography with ^99mTc-methoxyisobutylisonitrile (MIBI) and ultrasound in the diagnosis of multicentric breast cancer by A. V. Chernaya, P. I. Krzhivitskiy, E. A. Busko, P. V. Krivorotko, A. S. Artemyeva, N. S. Popova, V. V. Danilov, V. F. Semiglazov, S. N. Novikov, S. V. Kanaev

“…In 319 of 410 evaluated women we were able to determine results of preoperative US with high-frequency (7—18 MHz), high resolution linear array transducer. The pathological report was used as the gold standard. …”
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Ferro-aluminosilicate composite generated from coal gasification fine slag for the preconcentration and adsorptive removal of selected artificial sweeteners from water by Xoliswa Cingo, Azile Nqombolo, Buhle Xakalashe, Xolisa Goso, Luthando Nyaba, Odwa Mapazi, Philiswa Nosizo Nomngongo

“…Integrating MSPE with high-performance liquid chromatography equipped with a diode array detector (HPLC-DAD) facilitated highly sensitive detection and quantification of these compounds in diverse water matrices. …”
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Intelligent Song Recognition via a Hollow‐Microstructure‐Based, Ultrasensitive Artificial Eardrum by Shaopeng Li, Jiangtao Tian, Ke Li, Kemeng Xu, Jiaqi Zhang, Tingting Chen, Yang Li, Hongbo Wang, Qiye Wu, Jinchun Xie, Yongjun Men, Weiping Liu, Xiaodan Zhang, Wenhan Cao, Zhongjie Huang

“…Abstract Artificial ears with intelligence, which can sensitively detect sound—a variant of pressure—and generate consciousness and logical decision‐making abilities, hold great promise to transform life. …”
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All Puffed Up: Exploring Ultra-diffuse Galaxy Origins Through Galaxy Interactions by Catherine Fielder, Michael G. Jones, David J. Sand, Paul Bennet, Denija Crnojević, Ananthan Karunakaran, Burçin Mutlu-Pakdil, Kristine Spekkens

“…Using Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys F555W and F814W imaging, we identify 8 ± 2 globular clusters in KUG 0203-Dw1 and 6 ± 2 in KDG 013, abundances typical for normal dwarf galaxies of similar stellar mass. Jansky Very Large Array data reveal a clear H i detection of KUG 0203-Dw1 with a gas mass estimate of $\mathrm{log}{M}_{{\rm{H}}\,{\rm{I}}}/{M}_{\odot }\lesssim 7.4$ and evidence of active stripping by the host, while KDG 013 has no clear gas detection. …”
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A Deep Search for Complex Organic Molecules toward the Protoplanetary Disk of V883 Ori by Abubakar M. A. Fadul, Kamber R. Schwarz, Merel L. R. van ’T Hoff, Jane Huang, Jennifer B. Bergner, Tushar Suhasaria, Jenny K. Calahan

“…Using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array Band 7 observations in spectral scanning mode, we carried out a deep search for COMs within the disk of V883 Ori, covering a frequency range of ∼348–366 GHz. …”
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A Novel Triboelectric–Electromagnetic Hybrid Generator with a Multi-Layered Structure for Wind Energy Harvesting and Wind Vector Monitoring by Jiaqing Niu, Ribin Hu, Ming Li, Luying Zhang, Bei Xu, Yaqi Zhang, Yi Luo, Jiang Ding, Qingshan Duan

“…The TEHG comprises three functional layers corresponding to three modules: a soft-contact rotary triboelectric nanogenerator (S-TEHG), an electromagnetic generator (EMG), and eight flow-induced vibration triboelectric nanogenerators (F-TENGs), which are arranged in a circular array to enable low-wind-speed energy harvesting and multi-directional wind vector monitoring. …”
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Towards clinical molecular diagnosis of inherited cardiac conditions: a comparison of bench-top genome DNA sequencers. by Xinzhong Li, Andrew J Buckton, Samuel L Wilkinson, Shibu John, Roddy Walsh, Tomas Novotny, Iveta Valaskova, Manu Gupta, Laurence Game, Paul J R Barton, Stuart A Cook, James S Ware

“…The protein-coding regions of six genes associated with inherited arrhythmia syndromes were amplified from 15 human samples using parallelised multiplex PCR (Access Array, Fluidigm), and sequenced on the MiSeq (Illumina) and Ion Torrent PGM (Life Technologies). …”
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Solitary waves, bifurcation, chaos, sensitivity, and multistability of electrical transmission line model by Muhammad Abdaal Bin Iqbal, Muhammad Zubair Raza, Maasoomah Sadaf, Ghazala Akram, Muhammad Yousaf, Homan Emadifar, Wael W. Mohammed, Karim K. Ahmed

“…Through the application of a novel multivariate generalized exponential differential function technique and generalized logistic equation approach, we have successfully generated a diverse array of new structures, particularly characterized by bright soliton, bright-singular soliton, kink soliton, and periodic waveforms. …”
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IDENTIFICATION OF SMALL LAKES IN KAZAKHSTAN USING REMOTE SENSING DATA by Akmaral Tolepbayeva, Dinara Abiyeva, Roza Karagulova, Aigerim Tanbayeva, Zhanerke Sharapkhanova

“…The study applied the Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI), Modified Normalized Difference Water Index (MNDWI), and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) to enhance surface water detection, reduce noise from vegetation, and improve the accuracy of lake boundary delineation from multi-temporal Sentinel-2 imagery. …”
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Cannabis in cosmetics: regulatory and scientific insights into hemp seed extracts for skincare by Abhilash Aditya, Too Jae Min, Sornkanok Vimolmangkang, Namsoo P. Kim

“…Methods: Traditional methods were used to extract hemp seed oil, ensuring that sixteen cannabinoids, particularly THC, remained within safe limits as analyzed by high-performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array detection under the PK-16 (Perkin Elmer protocol). …”
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Development and validation of an HPLC-DAD analytical method for quantitative and simultaneous determination of cefoperazone and prednisolone in intramammary ointment by Patrícia Espinosa dos Santos, Jefferson Annunciatto, Teófilo Fernando Mazon Cardoso, Marcos Serrou do Amaral, Nájla Mohamad Kassab

“…An analytical method capable of simultaneously determining the association between CPZ and PRED by High Performance Liquid Chromatography coupled with a Diode Array Detector (HPLC-DAD) was developed. The method was applied in intramammary ointments, showing linearity, for CPZ, from 0.25 to 25 μg mL-1 (r=0.9999); and, for PRED, from 0.75 to 30 μg mL-1 (r=0.9997), with low limits of detection and quantification, precision with coefficients of variation less than 2%, in accuracy, presented recovery close to 100% for both drugs, in addition to demonstrating their robustness by the Youden test, which evaluated the effects and concluded that the altered parameters in the test were not sufficient to change the values obtained in the determinations. …”
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A Simple and Sensitive RP-UPLC Method for the Simultaneous Determination of N-Hydroxybenzotriazole, Cinchonidine and 1,3-Dicyclohexyl Urea Contents in Fosinopril Sodium Drug Substa... by M. Narendra Kumar, V. Krishna Reddy, Hemant Kumar Sharma, T. Kaleemullah, T. Chandra Sekhar Reddy, G. Thirupathi Reddy, N. Sreenivas, Goutam Sen

“…The analytes were monitored by photodiode array (PDA) detector set at 205 nm. The drug substance was subjected to stress conditions of hydrolysis, oxidation, photolysis, thermal and humidity degradation. …”
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Development and validation of microwave-assisted extraction for phenolic compound profiling in diverse oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus spp.) sourced from various geographical regions by M Umar Harun, Miguel Palma, Widiastuti Setyaningsih

“…Seven phenolic compounds—p-coumaric acid, t-cinnamic acid, p-hydroxybenzaldehyde, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, quercetin-3-glucoside, gallic acid, and vanillic acid—were effectively extracted and quantified using ultra-performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array detection. Application of this method across oyster mushroom samples from different geographical sources revealed significant variation in phenolic compound concentrations, with Pleurotus pulmonarius exhibiting the highest level of gallic acid at 433.90 ± 7.77 μg g−1 (DM) and Pleurotus ostreatus var. …”
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