Construction of medical scientific data repositories in China: analysis of survey and recommendations by Jia Song, Jia Song, Chunqiu Li, Wirapong Chansanam

“…Twelve Chinese medical open-access repositories were selected from re3data.org and OpenDOAR.org to examine how their information is organized. …”
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The members of zinc finger-homeodomain (ZF-HD) transcription factors are associated with abiotic stresses in soybean: insights from genomics and expression analysis by Hafiz Muhammad Rizwan, Jiayi He, Muhammad Nawaz, Keyu Lu, Mingfu Wang

“…Conclusion Overall, this study reveals comprehensive insights into the ZF-HD genes in soybeans and provides a valuable contribution towards functional studies for soybean improvement under stress conditions.…”
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Flood Forecasting Simulation in Karst Areas——A Case Study of Jinbao River Basin in Yangshuo by YUAN Meng, HU Haiying, TIAN Tian, ZHU Dantong, CHENG Xiangju

“…The sensitivity of the parameters to the objective function decreases with increasing rainfall intensity, and the sensitivity of the parameters to the peak time is less affected by rainfall intensity. …”
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An Interspecies Comparative Analysis of the Predicted Secretomes of the Necrotrophic Plant Pathogens Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Botrytis cinerea. by Steph Heard, Neil A Brown, Kim Hammond-Kosack

“…These detailed in silico analyses of two important necrotrophic pathogens will permit informed choices to be made when candidate effector proteins are selected for function analyses in planta.…”
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Rosaceae phylogenomic studies provide insights into the evolution of new genes by Lan Jiang, Xiaoxu Li, Kun Lyu, Han Wang, Zhiyuan Li, Wang Qi, Lin Zhang, Yunpeng Cao

“…Functional analysis exhibited that newly formed fusion genes can regulate the phenotype traits of plant growth and development, suggesting the functional significance of these genes. …”
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Strategies for Enriching Variant Coverage in Candidate Disease Loci on a Multiethnic Genotyping Array. by Stephanie A Bien, Genevieve L Wojcik, Niha Zubair, Christopher R Gignoux, Alicia R Martin, Jonathan M Kocarnik, Lisa W Martin, Steven Buyske, Jeffrey Haessler, Ryan W Walker, Iona Cheng, Mariaelisa Graff, Lucy Xia, Nora Franceschini, Tara Matise, Regina James, Lucia Hindorff, Loic Le Marchand, Kari E North, Christopher A Haiman, Ulrike Peters, Ruth J F Loos, Charles L Kooperberg, Carlos D Bustamante, Eimear E Kenny, Christopher S Carlson, PAGE Study

“…Studying the frequency distribution of clinically relevant mutations, putative risk alleles, and known functional variants across multiple populations will provide important insight into the genetic architecture of complex diseases and facilitate the discovery of novel, sometimes population-specific, disease associations. …”
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Identification and Analysis of the Plasma Membrane H⁺-ATPase Gene Family in Cotton and Its Roles in Response to Salt Stress by Cong Cheng, Fengyuan Zhang, Li Li, Zhiyong Ni

“…These findings establish a robust foundation for subsequent investigations into the functions of cotton PM H⁺-ATPase genes and may offer valuable insights for selecting genes for resistance breeding programs.…”
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Temporal–Spatial Acupuncture Effects on Poststroke Sensorimotor Cortex via Yanglingquan (GB34) by Ruoyi Liu, Yue Wang, Myadagbadam Boldbayar, Yuanyuan Li, Chen Chen, Xin Yu, Tianjiao Xu, Muzhao Zhang, Yihuai Zou, Hua Zhang

“…Twenty-two brain regions were selected as regions of interest (ROI). Spatial intersubject correlation (spatial ISC), intersubject time point-to-time point correlation (ISTC), and dynamic intersubject functional correlation (dISFC) analysis methods were employed to analyze the intersubject correlation of signal fluctuations in each scan condition. …”
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Walkability Evaluation of Historical and Cultural Districts Based on Multi-Source Data: A Case Study of the Former Russian Concession in Hankou by Haoran She, Jing Sun, Yuchen Zeng, Wenyu Tu, Guang Ao, Wei Shang

“…Key issues such as low spatial quality and functional disorder were identified, and targeted optimization strategies are proposed. …”
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Exploring the microbiome of black soil from central India and the impacts of agricultural practices on soil microbial communities by Sudhir Kumar, Rituja Saxena, Rajesh Saxena, Vineet K. Sharma

“…Here, we investigated the composition, diversity, and functional potential of bacterial communities in black soils from central India. …”
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Empirical Evaluation and Analysis of YOLO Models in Smart Transportation by Lan Anh Nguyen, Manh Dat Tran, Yongseok Son

“…Similarly, YOLOv8 outperforms others with its upgraded CSPDarknet53 backbone, anchor-free mechanism, and efficient loss functions like complete IoU loss and distribution focal loss.…”
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Genetic diversity and GWAS analysis of flesh hardness trait in Xinjiang melon germplasm resources by ZHU Wanting, LI Jiangfeng, ZHAN Qianru, SHUA Zhenyang, ZHU Yingchun, GUO Yanxia, LUO Xiang

“…This study provides new molecular markers for the genetic improvement of melon flesh hardness and other quality traits, laying the foundation for marker-assisted selection in melon breeding.…”
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Nuclear structure study of even-even 24-42Si isotopes using Skyrme - Hartree - Fock and Hartree - Fock - Bogolyubov methods by Ali A. Abdul Hasan, Ehsan M. Raheem, Saad S. Dawood, Aqeel M. Jary, Rasha Z. Ahmed

“…The quadrupole deformations of the selected isotopes have been investigated in terms of the potential energy curves that were deduced as a function of the quadrupole deformation parameters using the axially deformed configurational Hartree-Fock-Bogolyubov calculations with SkM* parameterization.…”
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Multidimensional reference regions is a new tool to optimize the personalized care of patients by Peggy Gandia, Angélo Faget, Thibaut Jamme, Jérôme Ausseil, Didier Concordet

“…The methodology involved constructing reference regions based on level sets of the healthy and diseased distributions and establishing decision boundaries. An example involved selecting diseased liver patients and considering 9 biological variables characterizing liver dysfunction. …”
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Magnification Bias Reveals Severe Contamination in Hubble Frontier Field Photo-z Catalogs by Jiashuo Zhang, Jeremy Lim, Tom Broadhurst, Sung Kei Li, Man Cheung Li, Giorgio Manzoni, Rogier Windhorst

“…Gravitational lensing by massive galaxy clusters enables faint distant galaxies to be more abundantly detected than in blank fields, thereby allowing one to construct galaxy luminosity functions (LFs) to an unprecedented depth at high redshifts. …”
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Gradient Method with Step Adaptation by Vladimir Krutikov, Elena Tovbis, Svetlana Gutova, Ivan Rozhnov, Lev Kazakovtsev

“…Such methods require only the gradient of the function to be calculated at the iteration. Optimization of the parameters of the step adaptation algorithms enables us to obtain methods that significantly exceed the steepest descent method in terms of convergence rate. …”
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Valorization of a Natural Compound Library in Exploring Potential Marburg Virus VP35 Cofactor Inhibitors via an In Silico Drug Discovery Strategy by Mohamed Mouadh Messaoui, Mebarka Ouassaf, Nada Anede, Kannan R. R. Rengasamy, Shafi Ullah Khan, Bader Y. Alhatlani

“…ADMET and drug likeness evaluation identified Mol_01 and Mol_09 as the most promising candidates, both demonstrating good predicted antiviral activity against viral targets. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations, along with relevant quantum chemical descriptors, correlated well with the docking score hierarchy, and molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) mapping confirmed favorable electronic distributions supporting the docking orientation. …”
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Establishing meaningful change thresholds for European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire CLL‐specific module domain scores: An analysi... by Laurie Eliason, Fatoumata Fofana, Lin Wang, Peter A. Riedell, Shien Guo

“…EORTC QLQ‐CLL17 and selected anchor measures were assessed at baseline and multiple postbaseline visits up to 24 months after treatment initiation. …”
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Evaluating the Dependence between Temperature and Precipitation to Better Estimate the Risks of Concurrent Extreme Weather Events by Hussein Wazneh, M. Altaf Arain, Paulin Coulibaly, Philippe Gachon

“…Theoretical and empirical copulas were then compared with each other to select the most appropriate copula family for this region. …”
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Self-micellizing solid dispersion of thymoquinone with enhanced biopharmaceutical and nephroprotective effects by Shimul Halder, Sanjida Afrose, Manik Chandra Shill, Nahid Sharmin, Patricia Prova Mollick, Madhabi Lata Shuma, Md. Abdul Muhit, S. M. Abdur Rahman

“…The present study was designed to develop a self-micellizing solid dispersion (SMSD) containing Thymoquinone (TQM), a phytonutrient obtained from Nigella sativa seeds, aiming to improve its biopharmaceutical and nephroprotective functions. The apparent solubility of TQM in polymer solutions was used to choose an appropriate amphiphilic polymer that could be used to make an SMSD system. …”
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