Effective Use of Novel Auxotrophic <i>Agrobacterium tumefaciens</i> Strains for Transformation and Biocontainment by Lichi Zhong, Huiting Guo, Ling Wu, Qiang Cheng

“…Auxotrophic strains of <i>Agrobacterium tumefaciens</i> have been developed to address the <i>Agrobacterium</i> overgrowth issue in plant genetic transformation; however, their application remains limited. …”
Get full text

Noise Pollution Prediction in a Densely Populated City Using a Spatio-Temporal Deep Learning Approach by Marc Semper, Manuel Curado, Jose Luis Oliver, Jose F. Vicent

Get full text

Ethical and Legal Challenges of Implementing AI in Science and Math Education in Central Asia by Dilfuza M.Makhmudova, Xilola R. Sharipova, Nosirjon K. Hojiyev, Azamat E.Ergashev, Yulduzknon Kh.Satvaldieva, Khosiyat U.Mamatkulova, Egambergan M. Khudoynazarov

“…Additionally, 64% of respondents expressed serious concerns about student data privacy, while 71% supported the need for formal AI ethics training. …”
Get full text

Understanding root causes of homelessness in Marin County, CA and prevention strategies through semi-structured interviews and constant comparative analysis by Michaela F. George, Kelsey M. Bas, Joseph A. Blakely, Naila I. Saghir, Garrett T. Siebels, Liliana Valle-Contreras, Sehrish Khan

“…Substance use and misuse were reported both before and after experiencing homelessness. Many participants expressed current concerns about their relationship with safety and overall health for many years. …”
Get full text

Unraveling site-specific seed formation abnormalities in Picea neoveitchii Mast. trees via widely metabolomic and transcriptomic analysis by Kaiyuan Li, Jiayi Lin, Rong Fan, Sibo Chen, Zhilin Ma, Wenli Ji

“…Picea neoveitchii Mast. is a rare and threatened species of evergreen coniferous tree in China, commonly facing issues such as damaged seeds, abnormal seed growth, and empty seed shells. …”
Get full text

Application of Improved YOLOv8 Image Model in Urban Manhole Cover Defect Management and Detection: Case Study by Yanqiong Ding, Baojiang Han, Hua Jiang, Hao Hu, Lei Xue, Jiasen Weng, Zhili Tang, Yuzhang Liu

“…This structure utilizes bidirectional feature transfer and automatic structure search, significantly enhancing the expressiveness of multi-scale features. A combined loss function design using GIoU loss, dynamically weighted BCE loss, and Distribution Focal Loss (DFL) is adopted to address the issues of sample imbalance and inter-class differences. …”
Get full text

EHAFF-NET: Enhanced Hybrid Attention and Feature Fusion for Pedestrian ReID by Jun Yang, Yan Wang, Haizhen Xie, Jiayue Chen, Shulong Sun, Xiaolan Zhang

“…This study addresses the cross-scenario challenges in pedestrian re-identification for public safety, including perspective differences, lighting variations, occlusions, and vague feature expressions. We propose a pedestrian re-identification method called EHAFF-NET, which integrates an enhanced hybrid attention mechanism and multi-branch feature fusion. …”
Get full text

Navigating ethics in HIV data and biomaterial management within Black, African, and Caribbean communities in Canada by Rusty Souleymanov, Bolaji Akinyele-Akanbi, Chinyere Njeze, Patricia Ukoli, Paula Migliardi, Linda Larcombe, Gayle Restall, Laurie Ringaert, Michael Payne, John Kim, Wangari Tharao, Ayn Wilcox

“…Abstract Background This study explored the ethical issues associated with community-based HIV testing among African, Caribbean, and Black (ACB) populations in Canada, focusing on their perceptions of consent, privacy, and the management of HIV-related data and bio-samples. …”
Get full text

Enhancing the Recommendation of Learning Resources for Learners via an Advanced Knowledge Graph by Chao Duan, Jin Yang, Qiaoling Cui, Wenlong Zhang, Xuelian Wan, Mingyan Zhang

“…In recent years, knowledge-graph-based recommendation systems have brought hope for mitigating these issues and achieving more accurate recommendations. …”
Get full text

Self-Care Practices and Perspectives in Managing Coronary Heart Disease Patients: A Qualitative Study by Setyowati Setyowati, Aria Wahyuni, Hananto Adriantoro, Kasiyah Junus, Eric Umar, Nelsensius Klau Fauk, Hidayat Arifin

“…The support from family and kinship systems is crucial for self-care. Participants expressed a strong desire for culturally tailored health education and better health control to improve heart health outcomes.…”
Get full text

Climate change anxiety in the scientific community: an exploratory study with Chilean climate change-related scholars by Rodolfo Sapiains, Rodolfo Sapiains, Gabriela Azócar, Gabriela Azócar, Gonzalo Palomo-Vélez, Gonzalo Palomo-Vélez, Roberto Rondanelli, Roberto Rondanelli

“…BackgroundEco-anxiety or climate change anxiety can be defined as a chronic fear of environmental doom that for some people might trigger clinical psychological issues. Although the study of this phenomenon is growing, there is not much understanding of the psychological consequences that studying climate change can have on scholars who are overexposed to information that is generally full of negative projections. …”
Get full text

Information manipulation on TikTok and its relation to American users' beliefs about China by Danit Finkelstein, Sonia Yanovsky, Jacob Zucker, Anisha Jagdeep, Collin Vasko, Ankita Jagdeep, Lee Jussim, Joel Finkelstein

“…Results indicated that TikTok users, particularly heavy users, exhibited significantly more positive attitudes toward China's human rights record and expressed greater favorability toward China as a travel destination. …”
Get full text

Enabling Stable Recycling of L-Arabinose Isomerase Through Whole-Cell Immobilization for Efficient and Cost-Effective D-Tagatose Production by Zepeng Li, Runmin Wang, Xiantai Lai, Wenyi Liao, Runfeng Liao, Zhuohong Wu, Guoyan Zhang, Xianghui Qi

“…In particular, the current biosynthesis of D-tagatose suffers from thermal instability and the substrate selectivity issues of L-arabinose isomerase (L-AI) required to convert D-galactose into D-tagatose. …”
Get full text

Infrared dim tiny-sized target detection based on feature fusion by Peng Zhang, Yaman Jing, Guodong Liu, Ziyang Chen, Xiaoyan Wu, Osami Sasaki, Jixiong Pu

“…In this paper, we propose a dual-layer omnidirectional target enhancement (DODTE) module to address the issue of low contrast, which causes the target to be submerged in the background and lose its position information. …”
Get full text

Structural and Metabolic Changes in Pregnant Rat Uterine and Adipose Tissue Induced by a High-Fat High-Sugar Diet by Dina Šišljagić, Senka Blažetić, Milorad Zjalić, Irena Labak, Vedrana Ivić, Kálmán Ferenc Szűcs, Róbert Gáspár, Eszter Ducza, Sandor G. Vari, Andrijana Muller, Marija Heffer

“…Additionally, a decrease in insulin and higher leptin receptor expressions in the myometrium indicated significant physiological alteration. …”
Get full text

Pharmacological underlying mechanisms of the anticancer effect of licorice: Bioinformatics and experimental verification by Mengqi Liu, Lingping Fu, Hao Fu, Yu Chen, Mengxia Wu, Hanchun Liu

“…Purpose: Cancer is the second leading cause of human mortality and has rapidly become a major global issue. According to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) theory, the primary pathogenesis of cancer is the deficiency of ''vital Qi''. …”
Get full text

Higher resolution pooled genome-wide CRISPR knockout screening in Drosophila cells using integration and anti-CRISPR (IntAC) by Raghuvir Viswanatha, Samuel Entwisle, Yanhui Hu, Ah-Ram Kim, Kelly Reap, Matthew Butnaru, Mujeeb Qadiri, Stephanie E. Mohr, Norbert Perrimon

“…The method relies on weak sgRNA promoters to avoid early CRISPR-Cas9 activity causing discrepancies between genome edits and integrated sgRNAs. To address this issue and utilize higher strength sgRNA expression, we introduce a method to co-transfect a plasmid expressing anti-CRISPR protein to suppress early CRISPR-Cas9 activity which we term “IntAC” (integrase with anti-CRISPR). …”
Get full text

Unveiling the wheat-rust battleground: A transcriptomic journey by K.K. Chetan, Vaibhav Kumar Singh, Mohammad Waris Haider, Mahender Singh Saharan, Ravinder Kumar

“…The most viable solution to this issue lies in the development of new resistant wheat varieties. …”
Get full text

Robust Beamforming for Superdirective Antenna Arrays and Experimental Validations by Mengying Gao, Haifan Yin, Liangcheng Han, Jingcheng Xie

“…We first introduce a universal sensitivity measurement applicable to coupled arrays and derive its closed-form expression, termed the degree of sensitivity (DoS). …”
Get full text

Effects of dietary sorghum inclusion on growth performance, liver function, antioxidant capacity and flesh quality in grass carp (Ctenopharyngodon idella) by Xuehan Wang, Xiangqin Lin, Huajing Huang, Wen Jiang, Haifeng Mi, Lu Zhang, Junming Deng

“…In recent years, the issue of food security has gained significant importance. …”
Get full text