Reference Gene Selection for Quantitative Real-Time RT-PCR Normalization in Iris. lactea var. chinensis Roots under Cadmium, Lead, and Salt Stress Conditions by Chun-Sun Gu, Liang-qin Liu, Chen Xu, Yan-hai Zhao, Xu-dong Zhu, Su-Zhen Huang

“…Quantitative real time PCR (RT-qPCR) has emerged as an accurate and sensitive method to measure the gene expression. However, obtaining reliable result depends on the selection of reference genes which normalize differences among samples. …”
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A transferable machine learning model for real-time forecast of epidemic dynamics and pre-trigger event warning by Enpei Chen, Xiong Yu

“…The developed iterative LSTM models were proven to achieve excellent performance in making clinical case predictions at different stages of COVID-19 pandemic. Early warning threshold of viral surge was defined by moving percentile method and results showed that the model achieved over 90% accuracy in future clinical case prediction and therefore demonstrated high reliability in pre-warning of potential disease outbreaks. …”
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Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles: VVC/H.266 Intra Mode QTMT Based CU Partition Using CNN by Sameena Javaid, Safdar Rizvi, Muhammad Talha Ubaid, Abdullah Tariq

“…The current paper proposes a deep learning technique to predict the QTMT based CU split rather than just the brute-force QTMT method to substantially speed up the time of the encoding process for VVC/H.266 intra mode. …”
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Mechanism of Dynamic Failure in Roadways with Thick and Competent Roof Strata: A Case Study by Jinshuai Guo, Liqiang Ma, Feng Ju, Chengguo Zhang, Fangtian Wang, Shuai Guo

“…Then, the dynamic failure control method of increasing the chain pillar width was proposed. …”
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Dynamical Effect Investigations of Component’s Internal Interface by Using Techniques of Rigid-Flex Coupling Simulation by Te-te Li, Wei Du, Ming-wei Piao, Yong-zheng Guo, Shi-ying Jin, Chun-ge Nie, Ji Fang, Ya-jun Cheng, Jun Fan

“…Therefore, the central hollow tread wear can be self-cleaned in time or regularly by crossing over the dedicated lines of different speed-grades. The modified strategy with strong/weak internal interface transaction of servicing car body was furthermore formulated based on the dynamical condensation method of component interface displacements. …”
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Gross morphological and ultrasonographic dimensions of normal feline kidney with reference to resistive index by Mohamed Ahmed Maher, Laura Palacio, Juan C. Henao, Samar H. Elsharkawy

“…The gross examination and ultrasonography measurements did not have a statistically different effect on the actual renal dimensions. Moreover, 0.69 is considered the standard resistivity index (RI) threshold of the feline inter-lobar artery with no correlation to the animal’s body weight.…”
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Assessment of Health Risk due to Pesticide Residues in Fruits, Vegetables, Soil, and Water by Nikhat Khan, Ghazala Yaqub, Tahreem Hafeez, Madiha Tariq

“…In this study, an analytical method for detecting pesticides in a variety of environmental matrices including fruits, vegetables, water, and the soil is presented and the health risk associated with the presence of pesticides in a wide range of fruits and vegetables is assessed. …”
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Reassessment of public awareness and prevention strategies for HIV and COVID-19 co-infections through epidemic modeling. by Dipo Aldila, Joseph Páez Chávez, Bayu Nugroho, Benjamin Idoko Omede, Olumuyiwa James Peter, Putri Zahra Kamalia

“…Our numerical continuation experiments on the co-infection model reveal a threshold indicating that both HIV and COVID-19 may coexist within the population. …”
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Eco-literate societies: the interplay of education, environmental policy stringency, and digital innovation in BRICS nations by Xiaojuan Zhang, Lingshan Xiao

“…To achieve this, the study employs the Method of Moments Quantile Regression (MMQR) to capture heterogeneous effects across different sustainability levels, Feasible Generalized Least Squares (FGLS) for robustness validation, and Granger causality analysis to establish directional relationships. …”
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Mapping livestock systems, bovine and caprine diseases in Mayo-Kebbi Ouest Province, Chad by Kella Douzouné, Joseph Oloukoi, Ismaila Toko Imorou, Toure Gorgui Ba, Derrick Chefor Ymele Demeveng

“…Thematic maps, tables and charts with a 5% significance threshold visualised risk areas and associated livestock practices. …”
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Does a priming warm-up influence the incidence of [Formula: see text] during a ramp test and verification phase? by JianBo Qiao, Paul Rosbrook, Daniel K Sweet, Riana R Pryor, David Hostler, David Looney, J Luke Pryor

“…The second visit required a priming warm-up (cycling at 50 W for 4 min increasing to 70% difference between the gas exchange threshold [GET] and maximum work rate [WRmax] for 6 min) followed by the same protocol as in the first visit. …”
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Effect of outpatient or home-based cardiac rehabilitation training on cardiopulmonary function and mental health after percutaneous coronary intervention in young and middle-aged p... by LI Jingyuan, LI Haiying, GUO Xiao, QU Fengxia, XIN Yue, ZHOU Yaqun

“…Results After rehabilitation training, both groups had significant increases in anaerobic threshold power, anaerobic threshold metabolic equivalent (ATMets), anaerobic threshold oxygen uptake per kilogram (ATVO2), peak power (PEAKPower), peak oxygen uptake per kilogram (PEAKVO2max), and peak metabolic equivalent (PEAKMets) (t=2.22-6.43,P<0.05), with no significant changes in heart rate, systolic blood pressure, and diastolic blood pressure at resting state (P>0.05), and there were significant differences between the two groups in the changes in ATMets, ATVO2, PEAKPower, PEAKMets, and PEAKVO2max after training (z=2.23-4.10,P<0.05). …”
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Novel active-feedback device improves sleep quality in insomnia disorder: a randomized placebo-controlled trial by Antonia Ypsilanti, Maan van de Werken, Anna Robson, Petra Examilioti, Lambros Lazuras, Lambros Lazuras

“…Participants provided self-reported measures of insomnia severity, sleep continuity, and user experience as main outcome variables.ResultsRepeated measures analysis of variance showed that participants in the experimental group reported significantly greater improvements in insomnia symptom severity than the control group (Time × Treatment). Although the mean difference did not reach the threshold for clinical significance, 37.5% of the participants achieved this threshold within 1 week of treatment. …”
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Perception aspects of a rule system for converting melodies from musical notation into sound by L. FRYDEN, J. SUNDBERG, A. ASKENFELT

“…It seems that the musically useful effects are found in between this threshold of diagnosis and the threshold of perception. …”
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Enhanced mask R-CNN for luminaire detection through brightness balancing and distribution-guided optimization in tunnels by Xiaoqiong Qin, Bintao Xu, Chenchen Wang, Lirui Liu, Linfu Xie, Rong Liu, Mingwei Hu, Xiangsheng Chen

“…Furthermore, considering the differences in luminaire brightness, their backgrounds, and regular spacing, an object brightness enhancement method based on a fixed threshold and an innovative distribution-guided optimization strategy are introduced to effectively reducing missed detections and false alarms while accurately correcting the detected luminaire positions. …”
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GANFlow: A Hybrid Model for SAR Image Target Open-Set Recognition Based on GAN and the Flow-Based Module by Jikai Qin, Jiusheng Han, Zheng Liu, Lei Ran, Rong Xie, Tat-Soon Yeo

“…Most synthetic aperture radar (SAR) automatic target recognition (ATR) methods can achieve good recognition results only under the closed-set assumption. …”
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Phenology-Optimized Drought Index Reveals the Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Vegetation Health and Its Attribution on the Loess Plateau by Zichen Yue, Shaobo Zhong, Wenhui Wang, Xin Mei, Yunxin Huang

“…First, the start and end of the growing season timepoints were extracted from the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) using Savitzky–Golay (S–G) filtering and the dynamic threshold method, determining the growing-time window for each pixel. …”
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Muscle synergies during the walk-run and run-walk transitions by Leonardo Lagos-Hausheer, Samuel Vergara, Victor Munoz-Martel, Germán Pequera, Renata L. Bona, Carlo M. Biancardi

“…Analysing surface electromyography using non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) we obtained synergy modules and temporal activation profiles. Alpha threshold for statistical tests set at 0.05. Results We described four different transition strides, two for increasing speed transitions, and two for decreasing speed transitions. …”
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Clinical Benefits of new Systemic Therapy for Small‐Cell Lung Cancer Over Two Decades: A Cross‐Sectional Study by Yuejing Chen, Honghong Liu, Shaohua Bai, Xuejiao Han, Fei Jin, Bo Cui

“…The ESMO‐MCBS framework was applied in 29 RCTs reporting positive results, and only 8 (27.6%) met the threshold for a clinical benefit. The RCTs designed to detect differences that would meet the thresholds were more likely to demonstrate meaningful clinical benefit (87.5% vs. 50.0%, p = 0.099). …”
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Providing a model of consumer behavior in creating brand attachment with an emphasis on the packaging component of food industry companies by maziar Ghasemzadeh Sangroudi, karim hamdi, SHADAN VAHABZADEH MUNSHI

“…As shown in Table 3, the coefficients obtained in both methods were higher than the threshold of 0.6; therefore, the reliability and validity of the interviews are confirmed. …”
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