AlphaBind, a domain-specific model to predict and optimize antibody–antigen binding affinity by Aditya A. Agarwal, James Harrang, David Noble, Kerry L. McGowan, Adrian W. Lange, Emily Engelhart, Miranda C. Lahman, Jeffrey Adamo, Xin Yu, Oliver Serang, Kyle J. Minch, Kimberly Y. Wellman, David A. Younger, Randolph M. Lopez, Ryan O. Emerson

“…These models enable efficient in silico prescreening and optimization of antibody candidates. …”
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CC-Former: Urban Flood Mapping from InSAR Coherence with Vision Transformer: Libya and Storm Daniel as Test Case by T. Saleh, T. Saleh, T. Saleh, S. Holail, M. Al-Saad, F. Xu, M. Zahran, G.-S. Xia, G.-S. Xia

“…We conclude that the CC-Former model offers a promising solution for accurate and efficient urban flood mapping from InSAR coherence, with the potential for rapid generalization to other affected areas. …”
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Closing Gaps in Chronic Kidney Disease Detection: Evaluating At-Home Targeted Testing in a Safety-Net Population by Megan Schultz, Katelyn Laue, Nicole Bryer, Andrew Bzowyckyj, Anuja Java, Leslie Lake, Elizabeth Talbot-Montgomery, Brit Sovic, Bri’Anna Watson, Joseph A. Vassalotti

“…Methods: Through electronic health record (EHR) data analysis, eligible patients were identified to receive an at-home, semi-quantitative urine albumin-creatine ratio (uACR) testing kit. …”
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The value of using patient‐reported outcomes for health screening during long‐term follow‐up after paediatric stem cell transplantation for nonmalignant diseases by Joëll E. Bense, Nicole Guilonard, Femke Zwaginga, Anne M. Stiggelbout, Marloes Louwerens, Hilda Mekelenkamp, Arjan C. Lankester, Arwen H. Pieterse, Anne P. J. dePagter

“…Additionally, an explorative quantitative approach with patient‐reported experience measures (PREMS) was used, with a pretest–posttest design, to assess whether the use of PROs was accompanied by more patient‐centred care. …”
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Transfer learning and single-polarized SAR image preprocessing for oil spill detection by Nataliia Kussul, Yevhenii Salii, Volodymyr Kuzin, Bohdan Yailymov, Andrii Shelestov

“…The preprocessing technique normalizes SAR intensity values and encodes extracted features into RGB channels.Through an experiment, we have shown that a combination of the LinkNet with an EfficientNet-B4 is superior to pairs of other well-known architectures and encoders.Quantitative evaluation revealed a significant improvement in F1-score of 0.064 compared to traditional dB-scale preprocessing methods. …”
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Acceptability of self-administered acupressure for knee osteoarthritis in middle-aged and older adults: A mixed-method secondary analysis by Shu-Cheng Chen, Nicole Nok Leung, Hui-Lin Cheng, Min-Ru Wu, Denise Shuk-Ting Cheung, Jia-Yin Ruan, Jing Qin, Ge Ren, Wing-Fai Yeung

“…Future research should focus on optimizing intervention implementation by providing professional support and efficient monitoring to address identified challenges.…”
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Additive Manufacturing and Chemical Engineering: Looking for Synergies from a Bibliometric Study by Rodrigo Estévez, Esteban Quijada-Maldonado, Julio Romero, Ricardo Abejón

“…Despite its significant potential, research compiling and evaluating the specific contributions of additive manufacturing in the field of chemical engineering was scarce in both quantitative and qualitative terms. Similarly, the application of chemical engineering tools to additive manufacturing has not been specifically reviewed. …”
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CRISPR-Cas12a/Aurora Deoxyribozyme Cascade: A Label-Free Ultrasensitive Platform for Rapid <i>Salmonella</i> Detection by Cong Shi, Huimin Tan, Zhou Yu, Weilin Li, Yan Man, Qinghai Zhang

“…This cascade ultimately enables quantitative target analysis through fluorescence signal attenuation. …”
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Developing an Operational Approach to Educational Quality Assurance in Colleges under the Office of the Vocational Education Commission in Thailand by Ch. Chianchana, S. Na Wichian

“…This method of analysis can be used to respond to educational quality assurance policy that requires that the demonstrated approach is to be easily applied in practice and requires the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods, thus creating innovations in the field of productivity-enhancing and their application in vocational education. …”
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Sustainable science or business as usual? Exploring awareness and actions in German University Laboratories by Caterina Baars, Patrycja Karwasiecka, João Henrique Paulino Pires Eustachio, Andrea Dobri, Jelena Barbir, Sven Kannenberg, Walter Leal Filho

“…For this purpose, a mixed-method approach was applied, consisting of a quantitative survey answered by 81 laboratories, and a qualitative interview conducted within 9 different universities. …”
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Ivabradine use in critical care: a systematic review and metanalysis of cardiogenic and septic shock patients by Lorenzo Antonino Calabrò, Marco Pasetto, Sabino Scolletta, Filippo Annoni, Zoe Demailly, Katarina Halenarova, Katia Donadello, Fabio Silvio Taccone

“…In addition, the combination of dobutamine with ivabradine has been reported to optimize dobutamine inotropic action, while mitigating its positive chronotropic effects, resulting in a more efficient cardiac cycle and improved hemodynamics. …”
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Identification of Major Bleeding Events in Postoperative Patients With Malignant Tumors in Chinese Electronic Medical Records: Algorithm Development and Validation by Hui Li, Haiyang Yao, Yuxiang Gao, Hang Luo, Changbin Cai, Zhou Zhou, Muhan Yuan, Wei Jiang

“…Feature engineering involved bleeding expressions, high-frequency related expressions, and quantitative logical judgment, resulting in 270 features. …”
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Risk assessment of an Aedes flavivirus and its effect on pathogenic flavivirus replication in mosquitoes by Yumei Fu, Wan Zhao, Shaohui Wu, Jinqian Li, Qing Liu, Feng Jiang, Hong Lu, Le Kang, Qianfeng Xia, Feng Cui

“…Abstract Background Mosquitoes are efficient vectors of medically significant flaviviruses and serve as hosts for insect-specific flaviviruses (ISFs). …”
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Adaptive Path Planning for Multi-UAV Systems in Dynamic 3D Environments: A Multi-Objective Framework by Gregorius Airlangga, Ronald Sukwadi, Widodo Widjaja Basuki, Lai Ferry Sugianto, Oskar Ika Adi Nugroho, Yoel Kristian, Radyan Rahmananta

“…The computational complexities of each algorithm are analyzed, with AMOPP exhibiting a time complexity of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>O</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>k</mi><mo>·</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> and a space complexity of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>O</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>n</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, ensuring scalability and efficiency for large-scale operations. The study also presents a comprehensive qualitative and quantitative comparison of 14 algorithms using 3D visualizations, highlighting their strengths, limitations, and suitable application scenarios. …”
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LLM in the Loop: A Framework for Contextualizing Counterfactual Segment Perturbations in Point Clouds by Veljka Kocic, Niko Lukac, Dzemail Rozajac, Stefan Schweng, Christoph Gollob, Arne Nothdurft, Karl Stampfer, Javier del Ser, Andreas Holzinger

“…By leveraging the reasoning capabilities of LLMs, we generate perturbations that are not only computationally efficient but also semantically meaningful. The proposed framework undergoes rigorous evaluation, combining human inspection of LLM-generated suggestions with quantitative analysis of semantic classification model performance across different LLM variants. …”
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Fault diagnosis method of mine hoist main bearing with small sample based on VAE-WGAN by Fan JIANG, Hongyan SONG, Xi SHEN, Zhencai ZHU, Shuman CHENG

“…At the data level, VAE-WGAN was tested using the Case Western Reserve University dataset, and hyperparameters were optimized by evaluating the generation ability of VAE-WGAN through quantitative indicators. VAE-WGAN was trained using the bearing dataset of the mine hoist simulation test bench to achieve the expansion and expansion of the small sample dataset. …”
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Secondary impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic at a tertiary children’s hospital in Canada: a mixed-methods study by Catherine Diskin, Annie Fecteau, Eyal Cohen, Arpita Parmar, Jeremy Friedman, Blossom Dharmaraj, Tanvi Agarwal, Kelly McNaughton, Alia Sunderji, David Faraoni, Jason Fischer, Jason Maynes

“…Themes including (1) timeliness of care, (2) disruption of patient-centred care, (3) new pressures in the provision of safe and efficient care and (4) inequity in the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic emerged, each impacting patients, their families and healthcare providers.Conclusion Being aware of the breadth of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic across all of the identified themes is important to enable the delivery of timely, safe, high-quality, family-centred paediatric care moving forward.…”
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Scalable Hyperspectral Enhancement via Patch-Wise Sparse Residual Learning: Insights from Super-Resolved EnMAP Data by Parth Naik, Rupsa Chakraborty, Sam Thiele, Richard Gloaguen

“…P²SR is deployable on a high-performance computing (HPC) system with parallel processing, ensuring scalability and computational efficiency for large HSI datasets. Extensive evaluations on three diverse study sites demonstrate that P²SR consistently outperforms traditional and state-of-the-art (SOA) methods in both quantitative metrics and qualitative spatial assessments. …”
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Light Stable Isotopes and Their Ratios in Honey Components by Lev A. Oganesyants, Alexander L. Panasyuk, Dmitriy A. Sviridov, Mikhail Yu. Ganin, Alexey A. Shilkin, Oksana V. Serebryakova

“…Nitrogen isotope ratios in honey proteins proved to be an efficient tool for determining honey authenticity and an additional criterion for identifying bee products. …”
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Genome-wide population-based association study of extremely overweight young adults--the GOYA study. by Lavinia Paternoster, David M Evans, Ellen Aagaard Nohr, Claus Holst, Valerie Gaborieau, Paul Brennan, Anette Prior Gjesing, Niels Grarup, Daniel R Witte, Torben Jørgensen, Allan Linneberg, Torsten Lauritzen, Anelli Sandbaek, Torben Hansen, Oluf Pedersen, Katherine S Elliott, John P Kemp, Beate St Pourcain, George McMahon, Diana Zelenika, Jörg Hager, Mark Lathrop, Nicholas J Timpson, George Davey Smith, Thorkild I A Sørensen

“…This suggests that population-based study designs with enriched sampling of individuals with the extreme phenotype may be an efficient method for identifying common variants that influence quantitative traits and a valid alternative to genotyping all individuals in large population-based studies, which may require tens of thousands of subjects to achieve similar power.…”
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