Genome-wide identification and expression profile analysis of the NAC transcription factor family during abiotic and biotic stress in woodland strawberry. by He Zhang, Hao Kang, Chulian Su, Yanxiang Qi, Xiaomei Liu, Jinji Pu

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MeDIP combined with in-solution targeted enrichment followed by NGS: Inter-individual methylation variability of fetal-specific biomarkers and their implementation in a proof of co... by Anna Keravnou, Marios Ioannides, Charalambos Loizides, Kyriakos Tsangaras, Achilleas Achilleos, Petros Mina, Elena Kypri, Michael D Hadjidaniel, Maria Neofytou, Skevi Kyriacou, Carolina Sismani, George Koumbaris, Philippos C Patsalis

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CD79A and GADD45A as novel immune-related biomarkers for respiratory syncytial virus severity in children: an integrated machine learning analysis and clinical validation by Juan Juan Chen, Zhang Ze Lu, Yu Xin Jing, Xing Mei Nong, Yi Qin, Jin Yang Huang, Na Lin, Jie Wei

“…CD79A was significantly downregulated in severe cases, correlating with impaired B-cell responses and cytotoxic immunity, while GADD45A, upregulated in severe infections, linked to oxidative stress and neutrophil-driven inflammation. …”
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Evolution via recombination: Cell-to-cell contact facilitates larger recombination events in Streptococcus pneumoniae. by Lauren A Cowley, Fernanda C Petersen, Roger Junges, Med Jimson D Jimenez, Donald A Morrison, William P Hanage

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Cross-sectional imaging of speed-of-sound distribution using photoacoustic reversal beacons by Yang Wang, Danni Wang, Liting Zhong, Yi Zhou, Qing Wang, Wufan Chen, Li Qi

“…Photoacoustic tomography (PAT) enables non-invasive cross-sectional imaging of biological tissues, but it fails to map the spatial variation of speed-of-sound (SOS) within tissues. While SOS is intimately linked to density and elastic modulus of tissues, the imaging of SOS distribution serves as a complementary imaging modality to PAT. …”
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Translational repression by an RNA-binding protein promotes differentiation to infective forms in Trypanosoma cruzi. by Maria Albertina Romaniuk, Alberto Carlos Frasch, Alejandro Cassola

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Constructing community in the Neolithic of southern Jordan: Quotidian practice in communal architecture. by Cheryl A Makarewicz, Bill Finlayson

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Projections of single-level indirect lumbar interbody fusion volume and associated costs for Medicare patients to 2050 by Kyle A. Mani, BS, Samuel N. Goldman, BS, Noel Akioyamen, MD, Emily Kleinbart, BS, Yaroslav Gelfand, MD, Saikiran Murthy, DO, Jonathan Krystal, MD, Ananth Eleswarapu, MD, Reza Yassari, MD, Mitchell S. Fourman, MD, MPhil

“…ABSTRACT: Background: Anterior, Oblique, and Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusions (ALIF/OLIF/LLIF) are powerful modalities for achieving indirect decompression of lumbar foraminal stenosis while providing a large fusion surface and preserving the posterior vertebral structures. …”
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The DRAGON benchmark for clinical NLP by Joeran S. Bosma, Koen Dercksen, Luc Builtjes, Romain André, Christian Roest, Stefan J. Fransen, Constant R. Noordman, Mar Navarro-Padilla, Judith Lefkes, Natália Alves, Max J. J. de Grauw, Leander van Eekelen, Joey M. A. Spronck, Megan Schuurmans, Bram de Wilde, Ward Hendrix, Witali Aswolinskiy, Anindo Saha, Jasper J. Twilt, Daan Geijs, Jeroen Veltman, Derya Yakar, Maarten de Rooij, Francesco Ciompi, Alessa Hering, Jeroen Geerdink, Henkjan Huisman, On behalf of the DRAGON consortium

“…Abstract Artificial Intelligence can mitigate the global shortage of medical diagnostic personnel but requires large-scale annotated datasets to train clinical algorithms. Natural Language Processing (NLP), including Large Language Models (LLMs), shows great potential for annotating clinical data to facilitate algorithm development but remains underexplored due to a lack of public benchmarks. …”
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Association between hemoglobin glycation index and the risk of cardiovascular disease in early-stage cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome: evidence from the China health and re... by Huiyi Liu, Shuai Mao, Shuai Mao, Yunzhang Zhao, Yunzhang Zhao, Lisha Dong, Lisha Dong, Yifan Wang, Yifan Wang, Chao Lv, Tong Yin, Tong Yin

“…Extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost) algorithm was applied, with the Shapley additive explanation (SHAP) method used to determine feature importance. …”
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Joint analysis of single-cell RNA sequencing and bulk transcriptome reveals the heterogeneity of the urea cycle of astrocytes in glioblastoma by Minfeng Tong, Qi Tu, Lude Wang, Huahui Chen, Xing Wan, Zhijian Xu

“…UCell enrichment method was employed to score each astrocyte. Monocle algorithm was applied for pseudotime trajectory analysis. …”
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Sequential biases on subjective judgments: Evidence from face attractiveness and ringtone agreeableness judgment. by Jianrui Huang, Xianyou He, Xiaojin Ma, Yian Ren, Tingting Zhao, Xin Zeng, Han Li, Yiheng Chen

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Radiation protection measures during endourological therapies by Lazaros Tzelves, Patrick Juliebø-Jones, Ioannis Manolitsis, Themistoklis Bellos, Ioannis Mykoniatis, Marinos Berdempes, Titos Markopoulos, Michael Lardas, Belthangady M. Zeeshan Hameed, Panagiotis Angelopoulos, Amelia Pietropaolo, Bhaskar Somani, Ioannis Varkarakis, Andreas Skolarikos

“…Results: Protection can be achieved initially at the level of diagnosis and follow-up of patients, which should be done following an algorithm and choice of more conservative imaging methods. …”
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Spectroscopic Ages for 4 Million Main-sequence Dwarf Stars from LAMOST DR10 Estimated with a Data-driven Approach by Jia-Hui Wang, Maosheng Xiang, Meng Zhang, Ji-Wei Xie, Jian Ge, Jinghua Zhang, Lanya Mou, Ji-Feng Liu

“…Stellar age determination for large samples of stars opens new avenues for a broad range of astronomical sciences. While precise stellar ages for evolved stars have been derived from large ground- and space-based stellar surveys, reliable age determination for cool main-sequence dwarf stars remains a challenge. …”
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Maternal antibody and the maintenance of a lyssavirus in populations of seasonally breeding African bats. by David T S Hayman, Angela D Luis, Olivier Restif, Kate S Baker, Anthony R Fooks, Clint Leach, Daniel L Horton, Richard Suu-Ire, Andrew A Cunningham, James L N Wood, Colleen T Webb

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Transcriptome sequencing reveals novel Citrus bark cracking viroid (CBCVd) variants from citrus and their molecular characterization. by Yafei Wang, Sagheer Atta, Xuefeng Wang, Fangyun Yang, Changyong Zhou, Mengji Cao

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Development and Optimization of a Novel Deep Learning Model for Diagnosis of Quince Leaf Diseases by A. Naderi Beni, H. Bagherpour, J. Amiri Parian

“…This study employs a novel CNN algorithm alongside two pre-trained models to effectively identify and classify various types of quince diseases.Materials and MethodsImages of healthy and diseased leaves were acquired from several databases. …”
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Integration of YOLOv9 Segmentation and Monocular Depth Estimation in Thermal Imaging for Prediction of Estrus in Sows Based on Pixel Intensity Analysis by Iyad Almadani, Aaron L. Robinson, Mohammed Abuhussein

“…In our previously proposed methodology for estrus detection in sows, we utilized YOLOv8 for segmentation and keypoint detection, while monocular depth estimation was used for camera calibration. …”
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COMPARISON BETWEEN MANUAL AND AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATION OF THE WHOLE-BRAIN AND CEREBELLUM by Marcos Paulo Dias de Sá e Silva, Maria Emília Seren TAKAHASHI, Tiago Pessolo Dos Santos, Carmino Antonio De Souza, Celso Darío Ramos

“…AS yielded higher brain SUVs, while cerebellum MS showed greater variability due to manual adjustments and VOI selection. …”
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Periodontal disease influences osteoclastogenic bone markers in subjects with and without rheumatoid arthritis. by Jeneen Panezai, Ambereen Ghaffar, Mohammad Altamash, Per-Erik Engström, Anders Larsson

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