Spontaneous Hybridization between Pinus mugo and Pinus sylvestris at the Lithuanian Seaside: A Morphological Survey by Darius Danusevičius, Vitas Marozas, Gediminas Brazaitis, Raimundas Petrokas, Knud Ib Christensen

“…The needle micromorphological traits of the putative hybrids were of intermediate values between P. mugo and P. sylvestris. …”
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Transcriptional Regulation of the rsbV Promoter Controlling Stress Responses to Ethanol, Carbon Limitation, and Phosphorous Limitation in Bacillus subtilis by Soo-Keun Choi, Milton H. Saier

“…These responses proved to be dependent on CcpA, TnrA, and their putative binding sites upstream of the promoter. Induction in response to glucose limitation was largely abolished by loss of CcpA or the upstream region, while induction in response to phosphorous limitation was largely abolished only by the upstream mutations. …”
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Feasibility and acceptability of a virtual learning module for navigating angry conversations in clinical encounters by Valerie Shilling, Rachel Starkings, Lesley Fallowfield

“…Following the module, they completed another study specific survey, with fixed and free responses, the confidence measure, along with the UTAUT2 questionnaire on acceptance and use of technology. …”
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Wnt/β-catenin signalling underpins juvenile Fasciola hepatica growth and development. by Rebecca Armstrong, Nikki J Marks, Timothy G Geary, John Harrington, Paul M Selzer, Aaron G Maule

“…Here, we identify five putative Wnt ligands and five Frizzled receptors in liver fluke transcriptomic datasets and find that Wnt/β-catenin signalling is most active in juveniles, the most pathogenic life stage. …”
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Benchmarking Water-Limited Yield Potential and Yield Gaps of Shiraz in the Barossa and Eden Valleys by Marcos Bonada, Paul R. Petrie, Vinod Phogat, Cassandra Collins, Victor O. Sadras

“…The yield gap was smaller with higher rainfall before budburst, putatively favouring early-season vegetative growth and allocation to reproduction, and with higher rainfall between flowering and veraison, putatively favouring fruit set and berry growth. …”
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Determination of Biological Treatability Processes of Textile Wastewater and Implementation of a Fuzzy Logic Model by Harun Akif Kabuk, Yasar Avsar, S. Levent Kuzu, Fatih Ilhan, Kubra Ulucan

“…Under these conditions, 94% color, 65% COD, and 55% BOD removal efficiencies were obtained in the MBR system. The experimental outputs were modeled with multiple linear regressions (MLR) and fuzzy logic. …”
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APDL: an adaptive step size method for white-box adversarial attacks by Jiale Hu, Xiang Li, Changzheng Liu, Ronghua Zhang, Junwei Tang, Yi Sun, Yuedong Wang

“…Abstract Recent research has shown that deep learning models are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, including gradient attacks, which can lead to incorrect outputs. The existing gradient attack methods typically rely on repetitive multistep strategies to improve their attack success rates, resulting in longer training times and severe overfitting. …”
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Predictive Modeling of Total Real and Reactive Power Losses in Contingency Systems Using Function-Fitting Neural Networks with Graphical User Interface by Alfredo Bonini Neto, Alexandre de Queiroz, Giovana Gonçalves da Silva, André Gifalli, André Nunes de Souza, Enio Garbelini

“…For samples not included in the training set, the network accurately estimated 99% of the real and reactive power losses within the specified range, with residuals around 10⁻³ and an overall accuracy rate of 99% between the desired and obtained outputs. Additionally, a Graphical User Interface (GUI) was implemented to facilitate user interaction, allowing for easy visualization of power-loss predictions and real-time adjustments.…”
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Numerical Simulation of Tornado-like Vortices Induced by Small-Scale Cyclostrophic Wind Perturbations by Yuhan Liu, Yongqiang Jiang, Chaohui Chen, Yun Zhang, Hongrang He, Xiong Chen, Ruilin Zhong

“…Four numerical experiments were conducted: a single cyclonic wind perturbation (EXP1), a single low-geopotential height perturbation (EXP2), a cyclonic wind perturbation with a 0 Coriolis parameter (EXP3), and a single anticyclonic wind perturbation (EXP4). The outputs showed that in a static atmosphere setting, a small-scale cyclonic wind perturbation generated a tornado-like pressure structure. …”
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A New Model for Nowcasting the Aviation Radiation Environment With Comparisons to In Situ Measurements During GLEs by A. D. P. Hands, F. Lei, C. S. Davis, B. J. Clewer, C. S. Dyer, K. A. Ryden

“…Two European neutron monitors (located at Oulu in Finland and Dourbes in Belgium) are used as the primary indicators of GLE intensity in order to maximize accuracy over UK airspace. Outputs from MAIRE+ for the historical GLEs in September and October 1989 are compared to recalibrated empirical data from a solid‐state detector that was carried on Concorde in that period. …”
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Proposal of a Correlation Model Integrating FDRM and CLSCM Practices and Performance Measures: A Case Study from the Automotive Battery Industry in Brazil by Antonio Marco-Ferreira, Reginaldo Fidelis, Francielle Cristina Fenerich, Rafael Henrique Palma Lima, Pedro Paulo De Andrade Junior, Diogo José Horst

“…The field of closed-loop supply chain management (CLSCM) seeks to replace the linear flow of materials and energy with a cyclical model in which the outputs of the production system become inputs to the same system, thus closing the cycle of materials and energy within the supply chain. …”
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Multistability Analysis and Function Projective Synchronization in Relay Coupled Oscillators by Ahmad Taher Azar, Ngo Mouelas Adele, Kammogne Soup Tewa Alain, Romanic Kengne, Fotsin Hilaire Bertrand

“…In the coupling path, the outer dynamical systems show finite-time synchronization of their outputs, that is, displaying the same dynamics at exactly the same moment. …”
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Improving the Implementation of Patient-Reported Outcome Measure in Clinical Practice: Tackling Current Challenges With Innovative Digital Communication Technologies by Kelly M de Ligt, Saar Hommes, Ruben D Vromans, Eva Boomstra, Lonneke V van de Poll, Emiel J Krahmer

“…We explore how existing principles and tools, such as automatic data-to-text generation (including multimodal outputs like text combined with data visualizations) and conversational agents, can enable personalized communication of PROMs in practice.…”
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A Layered Searchable Encryption Scheme with Functional Components Independent of Encryption Methods by Guangchun Luo, Ningduo Peng, Ke Qin, Aiguo Chen

“…Based on this observation, we propose a layered searchable encryption (LSE) scheme, which provides compatibility, flexibility, and security for various settings and functionalities. In this scheme, the outputs of the core searchable component based on either symmetric or asymmetric setting are converted to some uniform mappings, which are then transmitted to loosely coupled functional components to further filter the results. …”
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The Dependence of Water and Gas Breakthrough on the Choice of Model Parameters in Naturally Fractured Reservoirs Using Sector and Full Reservoir Models by Barham Sabir Mahmood, Mohammed Jamal Awl, Farhad Abdulrahman Khoshnaw

“…In this paper, a sector model has been developed based on the studied example field, and its results are compared with the full reservoir model to find out the degree of resemblance between their outputs. The study area has four natural fracture compartments, with an average reservoir height of 95m and WOC and GOC depths of 685 m and 590 m, respectively. …”
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Analysis on Spatio-temporal Change Characteristics of Extreme Precipitation in Hainan Island by ZHANG Shuqi, XIAO Jing

“…The results show that: ① The spatial distribution of extreme precipitation events in Hainan Island is "more in the east and less in the west"; the eastern part has more precipitation and is more prone to rainstorms, and Jianfengling in the western part is also more likely to have short-term heavy rainfall. ② In the past 43 years, the entire island has been tending towards humidification, with short-term precipitation on the 1st and 3rd day increasing in the north and west, and decreasing in the south; consecutive wet days (CWD) increase, consecutive dry days (CDD) decreases, and the trend of rainstorms and heavy rainstorms increases in eastern, northern and western coastal areas. ③ Extreme precipitation indices PRCPTOT, Rx1day, Rx3day, and R99PTOT show an insignificant increase at rates of 45.57, 1.62, 6.08, and 2.80 mm/10a, respectively; among the extreme precipitation day indices, CDD significantly decreases at a rate of 2.07 d/10a, while CWD, R50, and R100 show an insignificant increase at 0.26, 0.22, and 0.02 d/10a, respectively; the extreme precipitation intensity index SDII show an insignificant decrease at 0.18 (mm/d)/10a. ④ In the future, CDD and SDII will continue to increase with strong persistence, and PRCPTOT, Rx1day, Rx3day, R99PTOT, CWD, R50, and R100 will continue to decrease with weak persistence. ⑤ Mutation test shows that mutations in PRCPTOT, Rx1day, Rx3day, R99PTOT, R50, and R100 occurred around 2007, the SDII mutation point appeared in 1988, and the CWD and CDD mutation points appeared around 1995 and 2010, respectively. …”
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Preindustrial-to-present-day changes in atmospheric carbon monoxide: agreement and gaps between ice archives and global model reconstructions by X. Faïn, S. Szopa, V. Naïk, P. Martinerie, D. M. Etheridge, D. M. Etheridge, R. H. Rhodes, C. M. Trudinger, C. M. Trudinger, V. V. Petrenko, K. Fourteau, P. Place, P. Place

“…We analyse how historical (1850–2014) [CO] outputs from 16 ACCMIP (Atmospheric Chemistry and Climate Model Intercomparison Project) models and 7 AerChemMIP (Aerosol Chemistry Model Intercomparison Project) models over Greenland and Antarctica are able to capture both absolute values and trends recorded in multi-site ice archives. …”
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L’intercompréhension : un nouveau souffle pour les langues romanes minoritaires et pour les dialectes ? by Hugues Sheeren

“…L’article se propose d’analyser les atouts de cet apprentissage des langues en « bouquet », qui va à l’encontre de la tradition, et tente de montrer l’intérêt qu’on aurait à exploiter davantage les parlers dialectaux, les langues mineures ainsi que le latin dans la didactique, mais aussi de montrer les limites de cette méthode.…”
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The Role of Mast Cells in Irritable Bowel Syndrome by Kang Nyeong Lee, Oh Young Lee

“…Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is one of the most common functional gastrointestinal disorders, but its treatment is unsatisfactory as its pathophysiology is multifactorial. The putative factors of IBS pathophysiology are visceral hypersensitivity and intestinal dysmotility, also including psychological factors, dysregulated gut-brain axis, intestinal microbiota alterations, impaired intestinal permeability, and mucosal immune alterations. …”
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Impact of Diabetes on Cardiovascular Disease: An Update by Alessandra Saldanha de Mattos Matheus, Lucianne Righeti Monteiro Tannus, Roberta Arnoldi Cobas, Catia C. Sousa Palma, Carlos Antonio Negrato, Marilia de Brito Gomes

“…The purpose of this paper is to describe the association between poor glycemic control, oxidative stress, markers of insulin resistance, and of low-grade inflammation that have been suggested as putative factors linking diabetes and cardiovascular disease.…”
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