Application of flow cytometry to analyze microbial quality of dental unit waterWhy Is This important? by Clifton M. Carey, PhD, Shannon E. Mills, DDS, Richard Vigil, MS, Madison Aungst, BS, DDS, Lacey Favazzo, PhD

“…FCM samples were treated with SYBR Green I fluorescent stain, analyzed and reported as high nucleic acid (HNA) and low nucleic acid (LNA) cell counts. An empirical algorithm was developed using HNA and LNA cell counts compared with the recommended action limit for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s greater than 500 CFU/mL pass or fail. …”
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Enhanced Detection of Mitochondrial Heteroplasmy and DNA Hypomethylation in Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells Using a Novel Adaptive Sampling Protocol by Antonina Gospodinova, Yuliia Mariienko, Diana Pendicheva-Duhlenska, Soren Hayrabedyan, Krassimira Todorova

“…Both methods offer complementary insights into mitochondrial heteroplasmy. In mtDNA, direct sequencing showed extensive hypomethylation, and low levels of non-CpG methylation were detected regardless of sequencing coverage depth. …”
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High-Level Synthesis: Productivity, Performance, and Software Constraints by Yun Liang, Kyle Rupnow, Yinan Li, Dongbo Min, Minh N. Do, Deming Chen

“…FPGAs are an attractive platform for applications with high computation demand and low energy consumption requirements. However, design effort for FPGA implementations remains high—often an order of magnitude larger than design effort using high-level languages. …”
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Non-Destructive Detection and Visualization of Chlorophyll Content in Cherry Tomatoes Based on Hyperspectral Technology and Machine Learning by Peng Huang, Pan Yang, Libiao Yang, Futong Xiao, Yanqi Feng, Yuchao Wang

“…The cherry tomato has an important economic value and an increasingly broad market, and the chlorophyll content of cherry tomato leaves can directly reflect the plant’s photosynthetic ability, thus indirectly reflecting its growth status. …”
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Predicting Calcein Release from Ultrasound-Targeted Liposomes: A Comparative Analysis of Random Forest and Support Vector Machine by Ibrahim Shomope MS, Kelly M. Percival BS, Nabil M. Abdel Jabbar PhD, Ghaleb A. Husseini PhD

“…The type of algorithm employed to predict drug release from liposomes plays an important role in affecting the accuracy. …”
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Outage reduction in 5G uplink cooperative NOMA using PSO-optimized relay selection and successive interference cancelation by David S. Bhatti, M. Asif Haroon, Haeung Choi, Seungmin Kim, Heung-No Lee

“…Previous efforts have focused on selecting cooperative relay nodes to mitigate outages, but most approaches fail to ensure low outage probability under adverse channel conditions. …”
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Implementation of Manchester codec for information transmission systems based on AVR and ARM architecture microcontrollers by Andrey Sadchenko, Oleg Kushnirenko, Nataliia Kushnirenko, Olha Sadchenko, Alexander Troyanskiy

“…The study aimed at solving the engineering problem of implementing the codec (encoder-decoder) of the Manchester code based on the hardware interfaces of low-performance microcontrollers. The direct implementation of the encoding algorithm with the Manchester code using a purely software-driven approach significantly decreases the information transfer rate. …”
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Exploring the synchronization of cortical networks via entrainment to intrinsic frequencies by Sandeep Kumar Agnihotri, Jiang Cai, Zhen Wang

“…The network was structured to generate low-frequency oscillations, particularly within the delta (4 Hz) range. …”
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Securing IoT devices with zero day intrusion detection system using binary snake optimization and attention based bidirectional gated recurrent classifier by Ali Saeed Almuflih, Ilyos Abdullayev, Sergey Bakhvalov, Rustem Shichiyakh, Bibhuti Bhusan Dash, K. B. V. Brahma Rao, Kritika Bansal

“…Conventional ML-based models have been recognized to have low estimate excellence and recognition rates. DL-based models, particularly convolutional neural networks (CNN) with regularization techniques, direct this problem, offer a superior prediction value with unidentified data, and prevent over-fitting. …”
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Preparation of land subsidence susceptibility map using machine learning methods based on decision tree (case study: Isfahan–Borkhar) by Negar Ghasemi, Iman Khosravi, Ali Bahrami

“…All input datasets (as input factors for machine learning algorithms) were co-registered to match the resolution of the InSAR-derived maps (100 meters).Machine learning algorithms: Three machine learning algorithms including decision tree (DT), random forest (RF) and extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) were tested. …”
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Research status and progress on key technologies of intelligent orchard by CUI Hongwei, LU Xiaoxuan, YANG Yaqing, LU Xinyi, MA Hao, JI Jiangtao, JIN Xin, LI Xiuzhen, ZHAO Zimeng, ZENG Ningning

“…With the aging of the rural population, standardized and intelligent orchard production has become a key development direction for modern orchards. Orchard production currently faces several challenges, including labor shortages, low mechanization levels, and inefficient resource utilization. …”
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Retrieval of NO₂ profiles from 3 years of Pandora MAX-DOAS measurements in Toronto, Canada by R. Alwarda, R. Alwarda, K. Bognar, X. Zhao, V. Fioletov, J. Davies, S. C. Lee, D. Griffin, A. Lupu, U. Frieß, A. Cede, A. Cede, Y. Su, K. Strong

“…Compared to HeiPro, the GEM-MACH model profiles are biased high in the lower boundary layer and biased low in the free troposphere.</p>…”
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Isolating Coefficient-Based Framework to Recognize Influential Nodes in Complex Networks by Buran Basha Mohammad, V. Sateeshkrishna Dhuli, Murali Krishna Enduri, Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi

“…The simulation outcomes indicate that one of the proposed methods ISCR, utilizing a lower-complexity algorithm, effectively identifies the most influential nodes with high accuracy. …”
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Food acquisition methods and correlates of food insecurity in adults on probation in Rhode Island. by Kimberly R Dong, Alice M Tang, Thomas J Stopka, Curt G Beckwith, Aviva Must

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Supraglacial Lake Depth Retrieval from ICESat-2 and Multispectral Imagery Datasets by Quan Zhou, Qi Liang, Wanxin Xiao, Teng Li, Lei Zheng, Xiao Cheng

“…On the basis of our results, we recommend the direct use of top-of-atmosphere reflectance products in mapping supraglacial lake bathymetry because of the low performance of atmospheric corrections for water and snow/ice in both the Landsat-8 and Sentinel-2 datasets. …”
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THREE-DIMENSIONAL VELOCITY STRUCTURE OF THE CRUST IN CENTRAL LAKE BAIKAL FROM LOCAL SEISMIC TOMOGRAPHY by L. Yu. Eponeshnikova, A. A. Duchkov, D. P.-D. Sanzhieva, S. V. Yaskevich

“…Synthetic tests provide substantiation for the resolution of the tomographic inversion algorithm. The seismic structure of the crust was obtained to a depth of 35 km and has a direct relationship with the geological structure. …”
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A Deep Learning Approach for Fault Detection and Localization in MT-VSC-HVDC System Utilizing Wavelet Scattering Transform by Manohar Mishra, Debadatta Amaresh Gadanayak, Abha Pragati, Jai Govind Singh

“…This study presents a novel algorithm for automatic fault detection in multi-terminal voltage source converter-based high voltage direct current (MT-VSCHVDC) systems. …”
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Digital Twin-Based Technical Research on Comprehensive Gear Fault Diagnosis and Structural Performance Evaluation by Qiang Zhang, Zhe Wu, Boshuo An, Ruitian Sun, Yanping Cui

“…However, the current gear operation is still faced with problems such as poor monitoring, a single detection index, and low data utilization, which lead to incomplete evaluation results. …”
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Social Network Strategy improves access to HIV testing and harm reduction programs for PWID and their partners in Kazakhstan by Olga Denisiuk, Smyrnov Pavlo, Ainura Batyrbekova, Roman Dudnik, Alfiya Denebayeva, Ainur Zhandybayeva, Yuliya Kuznetsova, Deshko Tetyana

“…The characteristics which had a statistically significant positive association with HIV-positive test results included: age group 15-19 (OR 4.12, 95% CI 1.44-11.7); age group 20-24 (OR 1.97, 95% CI 1.03-3.8); age group 50+ (OR 2.45, 95% CI 1.48-4.1); male sex (OR 1.78; 95% CI 1.2-2.6), participants who have previously received harm reduction services (OR 1.48; 95% CI 1.0-2.2); partners from “other groups” (OR 2.31, 95% CI 1.3-4.2). Conclusions: Low-threshold HIV testing and harm reduction services, like OCF using directly assisted self-testing and social network strategies are essential in reaching key populations with HIV prevention, increasing access to HIV testing and care. …”
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METHOD FOR PLANNING THE OPTIMAL TRAJECTORY OF A THREE-LINK MANIPULATOR IN TRIDIMENSIONAL SPACE WITH AN OBSTACLE by V. O. Antonov, M. M. Gurchinsky, V. I. Petrenko, F. B. Tebueva

“…A literature review on the research problem indicates that universal methods for planning the trajectory of the manipulator's movement are faced with problems of operational low accuracy or the algorithm's large computational complexity. …”
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