Chromatin Phenotype Karyometry Can Predict Recurrence in Papillary Urothelial Neoplasms of Low Malignant Potential by Rodolfo Montironi, Marina Scarpelli, Antonio Lopez-Beltran, Roberta Mazzucchelli, David Alberts, James Ranger-Moore, Hubert G. Bartels, Peter W. Hamilton, Janine Einspahr, Peter H. Bartels

“…The other 40 were from patients with a unifocal PUNLMP, with one or more recurrences in the follow-up. A combination of the previously defined classification functions together with a new P-index derived classification method was used in an attempt to classify cases and identify a biomarker of recurrence in PUNLMP lesions. …”
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Scanning by DOVAM-S Detects All Unique Sequence Changes in Blinded Analyses: Evidence that the Scanning Conditions Are Generic by C.H. Buzin, C.Y. Wen, V.Q. Nguyen, G. Nozari, A. Mengos, X. Li, J.S. Chen, Q. Liu, R.A. Gatti, F.K. Fujimura, S.S. Sommer

“…A blinded analysis of the factor IX gene in patients with hemophilia B detected 82 of 82 unique mutations. Since the method was developed and tested on the factor IX gene, it is possible that the conditions selected work more efficiently in the factor IX gene than in other genes. …”
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Dynamic time warping network analysis of posttraumatic stress symptoms in Japanese first responders by Florentine H. S. van der Does, Masato Kitano, Masanori Nagamine, Taku Saito, Nic J. A. van der Wee, Toshinori Chiba, Naoki Edo, Eric Vermetten, Erik J. Giltay

“…In previous research, we identified five distinct Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptom severity trajectories within a cohort of first responders from the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force (JGSDF), deployed following the Great East Japan Earthquake (GEJE) of 2011: Resilient, Recovery, Incomplete Recovery, Late-Onset, and Chronic.Objective: The current study was aimed at investigating differences in symptom dynamics within the four non-resilient PTSD symptom severity trajectories using the innovative method of Dynamic Time Warping (DTW).Method: This study sample was selected from a cohort of 55 632 JGSDF personnel, who completed at least four yearly mental health surveys between 2013 and 2018, and experienced PTSD symptoms over the course of follow-up. …”
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Adverse effects profile of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment in a South African outpatient clinic by T.Q. Jacobs, A. Ross

“…Method: The method was an anonymous, retrospective record review of 350 patients with multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, who were attending the King George V Hospital Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis Clinic (2010-2011). …”
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Association of Smoking with Indicators of the Structure and Function of Blood Vessels in Middle-aged Men by O. Yu. Isaykina, V. B. Rozanov, А. А. Aleksandrov, M. B. Kotova

“…To study the association of smoking with indicators of the structure and function of blood vessels in a sample of middle-aged men.Material and methods. This study is part of a 32-year prospective cohort observation of males starting in childhood (11-12 years). …”
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Metabolite profile and antioxidant activities of Trikatu, black pepper, Javanese long pepper, and red ginger essential oils by Dewa Ayu Ika Pramitha, Tati Herlina, Iman Permana Maksum, Ari Hardianto, Abd. Wahid Rizaldi Akili, Jalifah Latip

“…PCA showed different patterns of compound abundance across the samples. For example, linalool was more abundant in TR samples, while gamma-bisabolene was more in JLP samples. …”
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Combining DNA metabarcoding with macroscopic analysis increases the number of detected prey taxa in the estimated diet for harbour porpoises by Johanna Stedt, Linnea Brokmar, Aleksija Neimanis, Aleksija Neimanis, William F. Englund, Per Carlsson, Anna Roos

“…The diet estimates from the two diet tracing methods are overall in high agreement, but sDNA analysis increased the number of detected prey taxa and also increased the sample size by allowing extraction of dietary data from apparently empty stomachs. …”
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Quantitative evaluation of the molecular marker using droplet digital PCR by Wonseok Shin, Haneul Kim, Dong-Yep Oh, Dong Hee Kim, Kyudong Han

“…We aimed to use ddPCR for more accurate quantification than PCR. We suggest that the ddPCR platform is applicable for the quantitative evaluation of molecular markers.…”
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Architecture and Key Technologies of Hybrid-Intelligence-Based Decision-Making of Operation Modes for New Type Power Systems by Qinglai GUO, Jian LAN, Yanzhen ZHOU, Zhengcheng WANG, Hongtai ZENG, Hongbin SUN

“…The traditional decision-making method based on human experience is facing major challenges. …”
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In vitro feasibility of bovine and canine whole blood and commercially prepared canine packed red blood cells as a source of xenotransfusion in swine (Sus scrofa domestica) by Victoria Diaz, Deanna M. W. Schaefer, Pierre-Yves Mulon, Xiaojuan Zhu, Joe Smith, Luca Giori, Chiara Hampton

“…The accuracy of QS at detecting incompatibilities was 87.5% in CMMa and 98.4% in CMMi in bovine-to-porcine samples. Agreement between SSA and QS methods was fair (k = 0.36) for bovine-to-porcine CMMa but could not be calculated for CMMi due to lack of compatible matches. …”
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Recursive Estimation of the Expectile-Based Shortfall in Functional Ergodic Time Series by Fatimah A. Almulhim, Mohammed B. Alamari, Mustapha Rachdi, Ali Laksaci

“…The estimator is constructed under a functional structure based on the ergodicity assumption. More preciously, we assume that the input-variable is valued in a pseudo-metric space, output-variable is scalar and both are sampled from ergodic functional time series data. …”
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Study on Electric-Magnetic-Acoustic Signal Regularity and Its Correlation during Rock Shear Failure by Huilin Jia, Yue Niu, Xiaofei Liu, Enyuan Wang

“…With the increase of sample size and shear strength, the strength of electric-magnetic-acoustic signals increased. …”
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KINETIC RELEASE OF POTASSIUM RESERVE IN SOME CALCAREOUS SOILS IN NORTHERN OF IRAQ by Hazim. M. Ahmed

“…Fertility evaluation of the results according to amount and rate of K-release from mica-K referred that all soils samples has a moderate reserve with low release rate, therefore the K-reserve of soils could be mapped by soil series using this method of classification such mapping would provide data on the extent availability of reserves in both short term (i.e.) the crop over a growing season and long term.…”
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In Vitro Analysis of the Accuracy of Intraoral Scanning in Children by Eloá Cristina Passucci Ambrosio, Aliny Bisaia, Thiago Cruvinel, Natalino Lourenço Neto, Thais Marchini Oliveira, Maria Aparecida Andrade Moreira Machado

“…Objective: To evaluate the accuracy of intraoral scanning in maxillary dental arches of children. Material and Methods: Twenty-five edentulous dental models (Group 1) and 25 dental models with complete deciduous dentition (Group 2) comprised the sample sets. …”
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The Role of Bio-Enzymes in Achieving Sustainable Development Goal 6: Enhancing Water Quality and Sanitation by Priya K.T. Padma, Motlagh Amin Hossaini, Swarupa M. Lakshmi

“…The 5% bio-enzyme application proved more effective than 2% in water treatment. Therefore, bio-enzyme application presents an eco-friendly and sustainable method for enhancing water quality, contributing to the achievement of SDG 6 and advancing clean water and sanitation efforts.…”
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Validation of Pooled Whole-Genome Re-Sequencing in Arabidopsis lyrata. by Marco Fracassetti, Philippa C Griffin, Yvonne Willi

“…Higher accuracy was achieved by pooling more samples (25 compared to 14) and working with higher sequencing depth (4.1× per individual compared to 1.4× per individual), which increased the concordance correlation coefficient to 0.955. …”
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Mechanical and electromagnetic shielding properties of carbon fabric with graphene nanoplatelets reinforced epoxy composites by R. Suresha, H. K. Sachidananda, B. Shivamurthy, N. Kumar Swamy, Sampath Parasuram

“…Abstract In this work, carbon fabric-reinforced epoxy (CF/E) and carbon fabric/graphene nanoplatelets (1 wt%, 2 wt% and 3 wt%) reinforced epoxy (CF/GNP/E) laminates (one-layer, two-layer, and four-layer) were prepared using the hand layup method. Further, according to ASTM standards, the test samples were machined using abrasive waterjet machining, and tensile properties and hardness were studied. …”
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Improving the friction performance of TiAlSiN-coated hard alloy through pulsed magnetic field treatment by Zhang Lin, Yan Qiaosong, He Asha, Chen Zhe, Wu Mingxia, Yang Yi, Liu Jian

“…Pulse magnetic field treatment, as a novel, fast, and environmentally friendly post-treatment method, can directly modify the finished TiAlSiN-coated tools without causing physical damage. …”
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Turkish scene text recognition: Introducing extensive real and synthetic datasets and a novel recognition model by Serdar Yıldız

“…In addition, we propose the Synthetic Turkish Scene Text Recognition (STS-TR) dataset, an enormous collection of 12 million samples created using a novel histogram-based method, more efficient than common synthetic data generation methods. …”
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LatentPINNs: Generative physics-informed neural networks via a latent representation learning by Mohammad H. Taufik, Tariq Alkhalifah

“…In the second stage, we train a physics-informed neural network over inputs given by randomly drawn samples from the coordinate space within the solution domain and samples from the learned latent representation of the PDE parameters. …”
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