Estimating Rooting Depth From Herbarium Specimens Might Be More Accurate Than Using Large Trait Databases by Attila Takács, Attila Molnár V., Anna E‐Vojtkó, Jenő Nagy

“…ABSTRACT Global databases of plant functional traits are facing issues in data heterogeneity and taxonomical or geographical representativeness. …”
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Risk Factors and Hospitalizations Associated with Pediatric Adenovirus and Rotavirus Infections in Northern Lebanon by Sara Khalife, Marwan Osman, Sara Moubayed, Issmat I. Kassem, Dima El Safadi

“…There is a scarcity of data on AGE in North Lebanon, a region profoundly affected by the Syrian refugee crisis and water sanitation issues. This study examines the prevalence, risk factors, and seasonal variations in adenovirus and rotavirus infections in children with AGE in North Lebanon. …”
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Diagnosis of fetal nemaline myopathy by whole-exome sequencing: case report and review of literature by Q.C. Wu, L. Sun, Y.S. Xu, X.M. Yang, L.K. Zheng

“…Method: A pregnant woman with recurrent fetal hydrops and polyhydramnios was recommended to undergo WES before termination of pregnancy in order to find the etiology of these issues. After delivery, we obtained umbilical-cord blood and parental peripheral blood samples for WES. …”
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Evaluating the Carcinogenic and Non-Carcinogenic Health Risks of Heavy Metals Contamination in Drinking Water, Vegetables, and Soil from Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan by Nafeesa Khatoon, Sartaj Ali, Azhar Hussain, Jia Huang, Zengli Yu, Hongyan Liu

“…High levels of harmful metals in drinking water, vegetables, and soil can accumulate in the body, leading to serious health issues. In Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan, the prevalence of cancer is notably high, and heavy metals are considered among the possible risk factors. …”
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Psychosocial needs and outcomes of adults with spina bifida: A scoping review, 1974-2023 by Jennifer Emilie Mannino, Heather Reens, Kathryn Smith, Lynn Kysh, Serge' R. Nelson, Yuding Wang, Manu Raam, Michele Roland, Alexander Van Speybroeck, Cecily L. Betz

“…Limitations associated with the investigations of this review included underpowered samples, lack of longitudinal designs, use of instruments with insufficient psychometrics, and the use of clinical and administrative data sets not designed for research purposes. …”
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A big data driven multilevel deep learning framework for predicting terrorist attacks by Ume Kalsooma, Sahar Arshad, Amerah Albarah, Imran Siddiqi, Saeed Ullah, Abdul Mateen, Farhan Amin

“…The experimental study of the proposed model was carried out on the samples in the global terrorism dataset, and promising results are reported on a number of standard evaluation metrics, accuracy, precision, Recall, and F1 score. …”
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Drilling Condition Identification Method for Imbalanced Datasets by Yibing Yu, Huilin Yang, Fengjia Peng, Xi Wang

“…Secondly, a sliding-window-based Synthetic Minority Oversampling Technique (SMOTE) algorithm is developed, which generates new minority-class samples while preserving temporal dependencies, achieving balanced data distribution among classes. …”
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Modelling the evolutionary dynamics of drug resistance in tuberculosis using hypercube and Baum-Welch algorithm inference: A case study of Tanzania by Leonce Leandry, Egbert Mujuni, Morten Brun, Eunice W. Mureithi, Mbazi Senkoro, Saidi Mfaume

“…Data used in this study were collected in Tanzania at the Central Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory (CTRL) from September 2021 to January 2024. The collected sample consisted of 185 individual samples. Of these, 142 (77%) tested positive for Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB), while 43 (23%) tested negative and were excluded from the analysis. …”
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Practical considerations for DNA sensing using Faradaic electrochemical impedance spectroscopy on ENIG PCB electrodes by Shruti Ahuja, Avani Kulkarni, Richa Pandey, Kiran Kondabagil, Siddharth Tallur

“…We also present preliminary results for utilizing this sensing mechanism to detect E. coli from wastewater samples.…”
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Cold Water Immersion's Role in Enhancing Recovery Speed in Female Soccer Players After Matches: A Study of Physical Performance and Molecular Responses by Mahendra Wahyu Dewangga, Sheena Ramadhia Asmara Dhani, Rinna Ainul Maghfiroh, Ekan Faozi, Sri Indra Kurnia

“…Soccer requires athletes to demonstrate high levels of endurance and physical strength, making them prone to fatigue and inflammation-related issues post-match. Biomarkers such as interleukin-6 (IL-6) and creatine kinase (CK) often increase following intense activity, potentially impairing performance. …”
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Efficiency of aluminium refining on a foundry degassing unit depending on the rotor geometry and the degree of its wear by Jan Kolínský, Ladislav Socha, Jana Sviželová, Tomáš Prášil, Mariola Saternus, Tomasz Merder, Jacek Pieprzyca, Josef Häusler

“…Abstract The article studies the issues involved in refining aluminium alloys when introducing small gas bubbles. …”
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SRNeRF: Super-Resolution Neural Radiance Fields for Autonomous Driving Scenario Reconstruction from Sparse Views by Jun Wang, Xiaojun Zhu, Ziyu Chen, Peng Li, Chunmao Jiang, Hui Zhang, Chennian Yu, Biao Yu

“…High-fidelity driving scenario reconstruction can generate a lot of realistic virtual simulation environment samples, which can support effective training and testing for autonomous vehicles. …”
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GO/Co-MOF/NiMnCu nanocomposite as a possible candidate for the future of the supercapacitor generations by Elham Mazaheri, Ali Bahari, Shahram Ghasemi

“…Some issues of the electroactive materials in supercapacitor devices, such as low specific surface area, lower electron/ion transportation, and undesirable conductivity, are threatening the current components of supercapacitor devices. …”
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Uncovering sediment pollution sources: A comparative assessment of two South African Estuaries by Joshua Idowu Izegaegbe, Leon Vivier, Hendrick Mduduzi Mzimela

“…To provide further insights, sediment samples were acid digested and quantified for metal concentrations using Inductively coupled plasma-optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES). …”
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A Novel Biclustering Algorithm Based on Differential Sparsity Constraints and Dynamic Graph Regularization for Cancer Gene Expression Data by Dan Li, Peicong Song, Jia Wang

“…However, most biclustering algorithms based on sparse singular value decomposition overlook the differences in sparsity between gene and sample dimensions in real cancer gene expression data. …”
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Improving drug–target affinity prediction by adaptive self-supervised learning by Qing Ye, Yaxin Sun

“…The first difficulty lies in the phenomenon of sample mismatch: self-supervised learning processes drug and target samples independently, while actual prediction requires the integration of drug-target pairs. …”
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Chemical and structural analysis of graphene oxide reduced with naringenin: A natural product-based alternative by Antonio Augusto Martins Pereira Junior, Filipe Kayodè Felisberto dos Santos, Filipe de Almeida Araújo, Odilon Souza Leite-Barbosa, Leandra Altoé, Valdir Florêncio Veiga-Junior

“…A strategy to produce graphene is to reduce graphene oxide (GO) to generate reduced GO (RGO) using chemical reducers, such as ascorbid acid, hydrazine and sodium borohydride, that present technical and socio-environmental issues related to the use of hazardous chemical compounds. …”
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The effects of lowering barometric pressure on pain behavior and the stress hormone in mice with neuropathic pain. by Yuki Terajima, Jun Sato, Hideaki Inagaki, Takahiro Ushida

“…For corticosterone measurements, six CCI and six intact mice were exposed to 3LPs (CCI-3LPs and INT-3LPs), and another six CCI and six intact mice were exposed to the no-pressure-change protocol (CCI-NP and INT-NP). Blood samples were collected immediately after exposure. …”
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Clogging and Unclogging of Fine Particles in Porous Media: Micromechanical Insights From an Analog Pore System by Yanzhou Yin, Yifei Cui, Lu Jing

“…Abstract Pore clogging and unclogging in porous media are ubiquitous in subsurface hydrologic processes, which have been studied extensively at various scales ranging from a single pore to porous‐medium samples. However, it remains unclear how fluid flow, particle rearrangement, and the arching effect typical of cone‐shaped pore geometry interact and how they are captured by a pressure drop model at the macroscopic scale. …”
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Moderate degradation does not preclude microarray analysis of small amounts of RNA by Oliver Schoor, Toni Weinschenk, Jörg Hennenlotter, Stefan Corvin, Arnulf Stenzl, Hans-Georg Rammensee, Stefan Stevanović

“…The quality of RNA preparations from such samples constitutes a frequent issue in this context. …”
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