Test study on flow field morphology of high-pressure abrasive water jet and erosion and failure characteristics of coal by Bingbing HE, Qiheng REN, Qingxiang WANG, Fucheng ZHANG, Lingjun MA, Yayou XU, Baofu WANG, Xiaolin SONG

“…By precisely regulating the blending ratio of quartz sand in the pre-mixed abrasive water jet system and using the control variable method, the influence laws of three key parameters, namely jet pressure, impact target distance and nozzle diameter, on the morphological characteristics of the abrasive jet and the evolution of coal body damage were mainly investigated. …”
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Realistic in silico generation and augmentation of single-cell RNA-seq data using generative adversarial networks by Matteo Marouf, Pierre Machart, Vikas Bansal, Christoph Kilian, Daniel S. Magruder, Christian F. Krebs, Stefan Bonn

“…Augmenting sparse cell populations with cscGAN generated cells improves downstream analyses such as the detection of marker genes, the robustness and reliability of classifiers, the assessment of novel analysis algorithms, and might reduce the number of animal experiments and costs in consequence. cscGAN outperforms existing methods for single-cell RNA-seq data generation in quality and hold great promise for the realistic generation and augmentation of other biomedical data types.…”
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An aerial point cloud classification using point transformer via multi-feature fusion by Jiechen Pan, Jiayin Cao, Shuai Xing, Mofan Dai, Jikun Liu, Xuying Wang, Yunsheng Zhang, Gaoshuang Huang

“…Our experiments on the SensatUrban and DALES datasets demonstrate significant improvements, achieving mIoU scores of 63.52% and 82.18%, respectively, outperforming existing methods.…”
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The impact of the flipped classroom on the motivation and academic performance of Chinese college English learners. by Zhonger Wang, Jin Lu, Shenchen Yu

“…A four-month quasi-experiment was then conducted, with the experimental group implementing the flipped classroom teaching approach, while the control group adhered to the traditional teaching method. …”
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Patient-centered outcomes on preparing for and undergoing gender-affirming phalloplasty: a qualitative, descriptive study by Daphna Harel, Asa Radix, Rachel Bluebond-Langner, Tenny R Zhang, Carolyn A Berry, Nnenaya Mmonu, Elijah Castle, Lee Zhao, Clarissa Ospina-Norvell, Mark Fendrick

“…Discussions were guided by participant input and focused on goals, experiences, outcomes, satisfaction, and quality of life.Setting This volunteer but purposive sample of patients was recruited directly in clinic, via email, and via social media at NYU Langone Health (primary site), Callen-Lorde Community Health Center (New York, New York, USA) and the San Francisco Community Health Center.Participants We conducted focus groups with 18 patients before/after undergoing gender-affirming phalloplasty/metoidioplasty.Primary and secondary outcome measurements and statistical analysis Transcripts were uploaded into ATLAS.ti, a qualitative data analysis software that facilitates coding for thematic content analysis. …”
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Gestational diabetes mellitus alters neonatal gut microbiota and increases infection susceptibility by Yifei Hu, Shunjie Zheng, Jing Xu, Yufang Zhao, Jianbao Wang, Zenghui Fang, Lanfang Zhou

“…Meconium and blood samples were collected from newborns within 24 h of birth. …”
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Mechanical and corrosion anisotropy of magnesium single crystal by Dmitry L. Merson, Sergey Ya. Betsofen, Evgeny D. Merson, Vitaly A. Poluyanov, Pavel N. Myagkikh, Aleksey V. Danyuk, Vladimir A. Danilov, Ekaterina I. Maksimenko, Aleksandr I. Brilevskiy

“…This requires precise knowledge of the relationship between corrosion processes and certain crystallographic directions, which can be most reliably obtained in experiments on single crystals. In this work, mechanical (compression and tension) and corrosion tests were carried out for the first time on the same magnesium single crystal on samples with different crystallographic orientations. …”
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In-laboratory inactivation of H5N1 in raw whole milk through milk acidification: Results from a pilot study by Beate M. Crossley, Craig C. Miramontes, Daniel Rejmanek, Rodrigo Gallardo, Richard Pereira

“…For evaluation of milk acidification and LP system, milk samples were inoculated with LPAI H6N2, with samples collected before and after treatment at various times. …”
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Plant-Based Biosorbents for Copper(II) Removal: A Comparative Study of Biomass and Essential Oil Residues by Lidia Ivanova, Paunka Vassileva, Albena Detcheva, Violeta Koleva, Ivalina Avramova

“…The present study compared the adsorption properties of two plant materials and the waste products after their essential oil extraction for removing Cu(II) ions from contaminated water. Methods like SEM, XRD, nitrogen adsorption, DTA, TGA, FTIR, and XPS were used for characterization of the materials. …”
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Highly efficient and selective anticancer approach through acrolein-triggered cycloaddition chemistry in patient-derived xenografts: Mechanistic and preclinical investigation by Yuria Takahashi, Kazuki Terashima, Taiji Shimoda, Masayuki Nagahashi, Koji Morimoto, Sayaka Urano, Kozo Kataoka, Hisashi Shinohara, Yasuo Miyoshi, Ambara R. Pradipta, Katsunori Tanaka

“…First, we developed robust chemistry methods for the synthesis of large amounts of prodrug for animal experiments. …”
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Data‐independent acquisition‐based SWATH‐MS for quantitative proteomics: a tutorial by Christina Ludwig, Ludovic Gillet, George Rosenberger, Sabine Amon, Ben C Collins, Ruedi Aebersold

“…Abstract Many research questions in fields such as personalized medicine, drug screens or systems biology depend on obtaining consistent and quantitatively accurate proteomics data from many samples. SWATH‐MS is a specific variant of data‐independent acquisition (DIA) methods and is emerging as a technology that combines deep proteome coverage capabilities with quantitative consistency and accuracy. …”
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Genetic resources as initial material for developing new soft winter wheat varieties by В. М. Кір’ян, М. В. Кір’ян, Р. С. Вискуб

“…To estimate genetic resources collection of soft winter wheat plants (new collection accessions) of Ustymivka Experimental Station for Plant Production and select initial material for breeding of adaptive, productive and qualitative soft winter wheat varieties. Methods. Field experiment, laboratory testing. Results. …”
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Dynamic Knowledge Path Learning for Few-Shot Learning by Jingzhu Li, Zhe Yin, Xu Yang, Jianbin Jiao, Ye Ding

“…Few-shot learning is a challenging task that aims to train a classifier with very limited training samples. Most existing few-shot learning methods mainly focus on mining knowledge from limited training samples as much as possible and ignore the learning order. …”
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Bayesian adaptation in Poisson cognitive systems by Aleksander A. Solodov

“…The aim of the study is to investigate the possibility of applying Bayesian adaptation algorithms to cognitive systems that perceive the Poisson process of external events.The method of research is the use of stochastic description and synthesis of cognitive systems, including the theory of doubly stochastic Poisson processes and the theory of Bayesian adaptation. …”
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In vitro and in vivo evaluation of the leishmanicidal and cytotoxic activities of chitosan and chitosan–amphotericin B by Parisa Mousavi, Bahman Rahimi Esboei, Maryam Pourhajibagher, Azadeh Zolfaghari, Zabihollah Shahmoradi, Fatemeh Namdar, Somayyeh Ahmadi, Seyed Mahmood Mousavi, Fatemeh Parandin, Seyed Hossein Hejazi

“…Additionally, the in vitro hemolytic activity was measured using a spectrophotometric method. The in vitro and in vivo experiments demonstrated that chitosan–amphotericin B exhibited superior inhibitory effects against L. major compared to either chitosan or amphotericin B alone, and even against the positive control, particularly at higher concentrations (P < 0.05). …”
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Isolation and characterization of cyanobacteria and microalgae from a sulfuric pond: Plant growth-promoting and soil bioconsolidation activities by Beatrice Farda, Rihab Djebaili, Enrico Sabbi, Giancarlo Pagnani, Paola Cacchio, Marika Pellegrini

“…The culture-dependent method yielded eight isolates associated with cyanobacteria and microalgae genera. …”
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Restricted Boltzmann machine with Sobel filter dense adversarial noise secured layer framework for flower species recognition by Shyamala Devi M, Sundaravadivazhagan Balasubaramanian, Balasubramaniam S, Mohd Asif Shah

“…The third contribution overcomes the issue of data poisoning attack through Fast Gradient Sign Method (FGSM) to the input data samples. The FGSM attack was addressed by forming the Adversarial Noise Layer in the dense block. …”
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Adaptation of Grain Cleaning Equipment for Kalonji and Sesame Seeds by Ramadas Narayanan, Vu Hoan Tram, Tieneke Trotter, Charissa Rixon, Gowrishankaran Raveendran, Federico Umansky, Surya P. Bhattarai

“…In order to determine the ideal operating parameters, 0.5 kg of threshed seed samples with 10% moisture content were utilised in the experiment. …”
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Effects of Sapindoside-containing concentrate on productive performance and rumen fermentation in heifers by Jiao Yang, Huang Wenming, Guo Haiming, Ye Jun'an

“…The adding level was based on our previous experiment in vitro. At the last week of the trial, a total of 12 heifers, six from each treatment, were randomly selected, and subjected to a digestion trial by index method with acid insoluble ash as index. …”
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Design of the KIMIMIX Learning Management System as a future practicum innovation by Muhamad Firmansya Junus, Asna Istikmalatul Muktamaroh, Henry Praherdhiono, Yerry Soepriyanto

“…This research and development method adapts the ADDIE model at the Analysis and Design stage. …”
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