Rapid loss of plastid ndh genes in slipper orchids (Cypripedioideae, Orchidaceae) by Victoria E. Ringelmann, Natascha D. Wagner

“…IntroductionThe eleven plastid ndh genes encode for subunits of the ndh (NAD(P)H dehydrogenase-like) complex, which mediates electron flow in photosystem I. …”
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Decoding vocal indicators of stress in laying hens: A CNN-MFCC deep learning framework by Suresh Neethirajan

“…Controlled exposure to realistic auditory stimuli (dog barking) and visual stimuli (umbrella opening) across different developmental stages enabled a critical comparative evaluation of vocal stress responses within a commercial-like experimental setup. …”
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Loss of endocytosis-associated RabGEF1 causes aberrant morphogenesis and altered autophagy in photoreceptors leading to retinal degeneration. by Passley Hargrove-Grimes, Anupam K Mondal, Jessica Gumerson, Jacob Nellissery, Angel M Aponte, Linn Gieser, Haohua Qian, Robert N Fariss, Juan S Bonifacino, Tiansen Li, Anand Swaroop

“…Electron microscopy analyses reveal abnormal accumulation of macromolecular aggregates in autophagosome-like vacuoles and enhanced immunostaining for LC3A/B and p62 in Rabgef1-/- photoreceptors, consistent with compromised autophagy. …”
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EfficientNet B0 Feature Extraction with L2-SVM Classification for Robust Facial Expression Recognition by Ahmad Taufiq Akbar, Shoffan Saifullah, Hari Prapcoyo, Heru Rustamadji, Nur Heri Cahyana

“…Facial expression recognition (FER) remains a challenging task due to the subtle visual variations between emotional categories and the constraints of small, controlled datasets. …”
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Mixed-Species Flock Diversity and Habitat Density Are Associated with Antipredator Behavior in Songbirds by Eric K. Frazier, Zaharia A. Selman, Charles A. Price, Monica Papeş, Todd M. Freeberg

“…Human-caused changes to habitats like forestry practices and traffic noise can negatively influence antipredator and foraging behavior in animals. …”
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FACEDIG automated tool for placing landmarks on facial portraits for geometric morphometrics users by Karel Kleisner, Jaroslav Trnka, Petr Tureček

“…Users are advised to work with standardized facial images and visually inspect the results for potential corrections. …”
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As A Roman City Aelia Capitolina/Jerusalem by Azize Gelir Çelebi, Nuran Kara Pilehvarian

“…Readings were made on the Madaba Mosaic Map and the Crusader Maps, the oldest visual source where the Roman period road texture can be seen. …”
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Evaluation of Instagram’s popularity: Brand cue and message appeal as explanatory variables by Putri Anggraini, Muji Gunarto

“… The internet’s ascent has transformed digital marketing, with social media platforms like Instagram becoming essential tools. The “Instagrammable” trend has gained traction in the food industry, using visual appeal to drive business success and expand markets. …”
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AI-Generated Mnemonic Images Improve Long-Term Retention of Coronary Artery Occlusions in STEMI: A Comparative Study by Zahraa Alomar, Meize Guo, Tyler Bland

“…This study is among the first to investigate generative AI as a tool not for automated diagnosis but as a human-centered educational aid designed to enhance long-term retention in complex visual tasks like ECG interpretation. We conducted a comparative study with 275 first-year medical students across six campuses; an experimental group (<i>n</i> = 40) received a lecture supplemented with AI-generated mnemonic ECG images, while control groups (<i>n</i> = 235) received standard lectures with traditional ECG diagrams. …”
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Public health is Indigenous: design and launch of the NW NARCH research academy for American Indian high school students by Celena Ghost Dog, Amanda Kakuska, Stephanie Craig Rushing, Grazia Cunningham, Allyson Kelley

“…The Research Academy curriculum utilized socioecological models and theoretical frameworks informed by indigenous pedagogies, like the Circle of Courage to further students’ sense of belonging, mastery, independence, and generosity. …”
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Adapted Single Scale Retinex Algorithm for Nighttime Image Enhancement by Mohammad Ismail, Zohair Al-Ameen

“…Therefore, it is difficult to perceive, extract, and analyze important visual information from these images, unless they were properly processed. …”
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A theory of memory for binary sequences: Evidence for a mental compression algorithm in humans. by Samuel Planton, Timo van Kerkoerle, Leïla Abbih, Maxime Maheu, Florent Meyniel, Mariano Sigman, Liping Wang, Santiago Figueira, Sergio Romano, Stanislas Dehaene

“…The data support the hypothesis that, beyond the extraction of statistical knowledge, human sequence coding relies on an internal compression using language-like nested structures.…”
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Copy-move forgery detection using binary discriminant features by Priya Mariam Raju, Madhu S. Nair

“…Hence, falsification of visual content of images is not at all limited to specialists and detection of forged images have become a highly challenging task. …”
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Enhanced medical image segmentation using novel level set evolution and efficient optimization by Samad Wali, Adil Jhangeer, Ariana Abdul Rahimzai, Samina Samina, Mudassar Imran

“…Abstract Accurate and efficient medical image segmentation is a critical yet challenging task due to issues like intensity inhomogeneity, poor contrast, noise, and blur. …”
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Characterization of composting process and chemical composition of compost from recycling centers in Surabaya City, Indonesia by Dwi Haryanta, Tatuk Tojibatus Sa’adah, Indarwati

“…Physically, the compost manifested as a dark brown substance, exhibiting a soil-like softness attributable to grinding, with temperatures oscillating between 41.90 to 55.00°C. …”
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In Silico Knockout Studies of Xenophagic Capturing of Salmonella. by Jennifer Scheidel, Leonie Amstein, Jörg Ackermann, Ivan Dikic, Ina Koch

“…We introduced a new concept of knockout analysis to systematically compute and visualize the results, using an in silico knockout matrix. …”
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From communication to action: using ordered network analysis to model team performance in clinical simulation by Vitaliy Popov, Lauryn R. Rochlen

“…The lack of reliable measures to inform feedback to teams is likely limiting the overall effectiveness of simulation training. …”
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Gene markers of fracture healing in early stage and the regulatory mechanism during the process using microarray analysis by Chengxue Wang, Baochang Qi, Lei Tan, Jieping Cheng

“…Furthermore, protein-protein interaction (PPI) network was established integrating information in STRING database, and visualized by Cytoscape software. Results: We identified a set of 960 DEGs including 509 up-regulated and 451 downregulated genes. …”
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Evidential Reasoning Approach for Predicting Popularity of Instagram Posts by L. Rivadeneira, I. Loor

“…A total of 289 posts from @harvard and 507 from @oxford_uni, posted during 2022, are collected, using the number of likes as the measure of popularity. Two models are developed for each university: one focusing on textual features, including emojis, sentiment, hashtags, mentions, and season, and another on visual elements like image type, time of day, and dominant colour. …”
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Research development of teachers' emotional intelligence in the 21st century: A bibliometric analysis by Dong Wang, Jing Qin

“…This study employs bibliometric analysis to quantitatively and visually analyze 258 academic publications on TEI from the WOS core databases in the 21st century. …”
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