Design and Statistical Analysis of Pooled Next Generation Sequencing for Rare Variants by Tao Wang, Chang-Yun Lin, Yuanhao Zhang, Ruofeng Wen, Kenny Ye

“…One of them is the high sequencing error rate and its high variability across genomic positions and experiment runs, which, if not well considered in the experimental design and analysis, could lead to either inflated false positive rates or loss in statistical power. …”
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Why is “not infrequent” not always “frequent”? Double negation in political discourse by Osmankadić Merima

“…The aim of this paper is to view double negation in the light of its semantic and pragmatic meaning. While double negation in logic gives a positive value, in natural languages, besides having positive entailment, it can have a range of different implicatures and functions. …”
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The Egyptian Revolution: First Impressions from the Field by Mohammed A. Bamyeh

“…The Egyptian Revolution, starting on January 25, lacked leadership and possessed little organization; its defining events, on Friday, January 28, occurred on a day when all communication technologies, including all internet and phones, were barred; it took place in a large country known for sedate political life, a very long legacy of authoritarian continuity, and an enviable repressive apparatus consisting of more than 2 million members. …”
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Influence of iron ore concentrate on the characteristics of sintering and reduction of sinter by Guo H., Shen F.-M., Jiang X., Xiang D.-W., Zheng H.-Y.

“…However, an excessive amount of SiO2 caused the decrease of fluidity index of iron ore; the main reason was that the fluidity of the liquid phase itself decreased and secondary hematite appeared. …”
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Microbial Quality and Production Methods of Traditional Fermented Cheeses in Lebanon by Mabelle Chedid, Houssam Shaib, Lina Jaber, Youmna El Iskandarani, Shady Kamal Hamadeh

“…This study is aimed at evaluating the quality and safety of two traditional fermented dairy products commonly found in Lebanon (Ambarees and Kishk in its dry and wet forms) by detecting foodborne pathogens and indicator microorganisms. …”
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Determining the Temporal and Spatial Effects of Human Induced Interventions on Some Water Quality Parameters of Murgul Creek by Şenol Osmanaoğlu, Mehmet Özalp

“…Murgul Creek consists of such factors as well, including open pit mining works, multiple run-of-river hydroelectric power plants (RoR-HEPP), new road constructions and expansion of residential areas within its borders. From this point of view, in this research, the aim was to reveal scientific data -both temporal and spatial- on the status of water quality, flow regime and the amount of suspended particles in Murgul Creek caused by these activities. …”
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Olfactory Impairment and Recovery in Zebrafish (<i>Danio rerio</i>) Following Cadmium Exposure by Chiara Maria Motta, Rosa Carotenuto, Chiara Fogliano, Luigi Rosati, Pabitra Denre, Raffaele Panzuto, Rossana Romano, Gianluca Miccoli, Palma Simoniello, Bice Avallone

“…While the toxic effects of cadmium on the organs and tissues of aquatic species are well-documented, little is known about its impact on sensory systems crucial for survival. …”
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Seroepidemiology and comparative diagnosis of bovine herpesvirus type-1 (bhv-1) in bulls using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (elisa), polymerase chain reaction (pcr) and virus... by Oya Bulut, Sibel Yavru

“…In this study, blood, semen and nasal swap samples were taken from 100 clinically healty, indigenous and one year old bulls brought lo Konya Private Konet abbatoir from Konya and its environment with the purpose of slaughter. Semen and nasal swap samples were inoculated into Foetal Bovine Kidney (FBK) and Madin Daiby Bovine Kidney (MDBK) cell cultures. …”
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Understanding recruitment to a perioperative randomised controlled trial: protocol for a mixed-methods substudy nested within a feasibility trial of octreotide infusion during live... by Duncan Wagstaff, S Ramani Moonesinghe, Jez Fabes, Michael Spiro, Edgar Brodkin, Ee-Neng Loh, Vivienne Hannon

“…Findings from both workstreams will be formatively fed back to the trials team to enable iterative improvement to recruitment processes.Ethics and dissemination Approval has been granted by Greater Manchester West Research Ethics Committee (ref 20/NW/0071), the Health Research Authority and the local Research and Development offices. …”
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JEJAK SEJARAH PERGESERAN IDENTITAS AGAMIS MENJADI PUB-KULTUR DI PATI by Fathimatuz Zahra

“…Although religious identity was not completely disappeared; the existence of some Pesantrens till nowadays as its evidence, but growing identity of pub-culture recently; the wide spreading culture of kethoprak and karaoke also used as its historical evidence.…”
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Detection of Emerging Faults on Industrial Gas Turbines Using Extended Gaussian Mixture Models by Yu Zhang, Chris Bingham, Miguel Martínez-García, Darren Cox

“…An advantage of the variational Bayesian method over traditional predefined thresholds is the extraction of steady-state data during both full- and part-load cases, and a primary advantage of the GMM with an outlier component is its applicability for novelty detection when there is a lack of prior knowledge of fault patterns. …”
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Reassessment of disease severity routine laboratory tests in the COVID-19 infection by A. A. Simushev, E. Yu. Medvedeva, Yu. O. Shulpekova, V. M. Nechaev, M. R. Skhirtladze, I. R. Popova, V. T. Ivashkin

“…Seven interrelated parameters (age, body temperature, blood oxygen saturation, the neutrophils count, creatinine, CRP, fibrinogen), for which a reliable relation with other tests has been shown, were assigned with its special index according to their contribution to the assessment of the overall condition severity. …”
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Kommerell’s Diverticulum: An Unusual Cause of Chronic Cough by Rahul Magazine, Charudutt Sambhaji, Ranjan Shetty, Umesh Goneppanavar

“…The enlarged thyroid was not compressing the trachea, and its occurrence in this case could be incidental. …”
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Optimal resource allocation for two-stage connectionless access with collision detection by Xin JIAN, Fang WANG, Jian SONG, Shu FU, Xiaoheng TAN, Xiaoping ZENG

“…Connectionless access allows massive machine type communication (mMTC) devices to transmit small packets without establishment of radio bearers,significantly reducing device power consumption and control signaling overhead.Two-stage connectionless access (TSCLA) improves throughput and resource efficiency by optimally allocating resources between scheduling request (SR) phase and data transmission phase,which can be used for bigger packets and high traffic load.Based on this,a comprehensive theoretical analysis of one kind of TSCLA with collision detection was conducted to investigate its performance limit and devise its optimal resource allocation scheme.In addition,to avoid the complexity of user number estimation,a dynamic resource allocation algorithm with feedback control was proposed.Numerical results are provided to validate the effectiveness of aforementioned theoretical results and show that comparing with the genie aided algorithm known exactly the number of users,the performance loss of the proposed algorithm is within 4%.These works together provide good references for appropriate resource dimensioning for mMTC related protocols.…”
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Uncovering the whole genome silencers of human cells via Ss-STARR-seq by Xiusheng Zhu, Lei Huang, Chao Wang, Guoli Li, Biao Deng, Dashuai Kong, Xiaoxiao Wang, Rongrong Chang, Yi Gu, Qiuhan Wen, Siyuan Kong, Yuwen Liu, Yubo Zhang

“…However, despite their recognized importance, comprehensive identification of these regulatory elements in the genome is still in its early stages. We developed a method called Ss-STARR-seq to directly determine the activity of silencers in the whole genome. …”
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Le lit royal à l’aube de la Renaissance by Caroline Vrand

“…They were indispensable items for the day-to-day organisation of the royal household, but also came to be objects of prestige and even of power.…”
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The Secondary Component of the Extremely Low Mass Ratio Massive Binary HD 165246 Revealed by GHOST by C. N. Rodriguez, T. Ansin, G. A. Ferrero, O. G. Benvenuto, R. Gamen, N. I. Morrell, J. I. Arias, R. E. Higa, C. Putkuri, C. Johnston, K. Chiboucas, E. Deibert, C. R. Hayes, J.-E. Heo, M. Jeong, V. Kalari, E. Martioli, V. M. Placco, K. A. Venn, S. Xu, R. Diaz, M. Gomez-Jimenez, R. Ruiz-Carmona, C. Simpson, A. W. McConnachie, J. Pazder, G. Burley, T. A. M. Berg, J. G. Robertson, K. Labrie, J. Thomas-Osip

“…Stellar evolution models indicate that the system has undergone approximately two million years of evolution since its formation. Moreover, the secondary star is identified as a pre-main-sequence object, progressing toward the zero-age main sequence. …”
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ICOs conceptual unveiled: scholarly review of an entrepreneurial finance innovation by Mayank Joshipura, Rim El Khoury, Muneer M. Alshater

“…It serves as a pivotal reference for researchers, practitioners, and regulators to understand the multifaceted ICO landscape and its implications for the future of finance.…”
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A Particle Filter Localization Method Using 2D Laser Sensor Measurements and Road Features for Autonomous Vehicle by KyungJae Ahn, Yeonsik Kang

“…To navigate an urban environment, an autonomous vehicle should be able to estimate its location with a reasonable accuracy. By detecting road features such as curbs and road markings, a grid-based feature map is constructed using 2D laser range finder measurements. …”
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The Role of Neurokinin-1 Receptor in the Microenvironment of Inflammation and Cancer by Marisa Rosso, Miguel Muñoz, Michael Berger

“…In this paper, we evaluate the recent scientific developments regarding this receptor system, its role in the microenvironment of inflammation and cancer, and its potentials and pitfalls for the usage as part of modern anticancer strategies.…”
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