A rare haplotype of the GJD3 gene segregating in familial Meniere’s disease interferes with connexin assembly by Alba Escalera-Balsera, Paula Robles-Bolivar, Alberto M. Parra-Perez, Silvia Murillo-Cuesta, Han Chow Chua, Lourdes Rodríguez-de la Rosa, Julio Contreras, Ewa Domarecka, Juan Carlos Amor-Dorado, Andrés Soto-Varela, Isabel Varela-Nieto, Agnieszka J. Szczepek, Alvaro Gallego-Martinez, Jose A. Lopez-Escamez

“…Mutations in the connexin gene family, which encodes gap junction proteins, can also cause hearing loss, but their role in FMD is largely unknown. …”
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StrideHD: A Binary Hyperdimensional Computing System Utilizing Window Striding for Image Classification by Dehua Liang, Jun Shiomi, Noriyuki Miura, Hiromitsu Awano

“…Hyper-Dimensional (HD) computing is a brain-inspired learning approach for efficient and fast learning on today’s embedded devices. HDC first encodes all data points to high-dimensional vectors called hypervectors and then efficiently performs the classification task using a well-defined set of operations. …”
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Performance and design of OCDMA spectral-amplitude-coding with optical orthogonal codes by LI Chuan-qi, SUN Xiao-han, ZHANG Ming-de, DING Dong

“…The scheme of FBGs-based OCDMA spectral-amplitude-coding（SAC） for OCDMA system with optical orthogonal code is discussed; The designing and the achievement process of SAC encoder/decoder with)1,1,1（）,,(2+++=qqqwNlare firstly submitted; The performance of this system, the SIR and BER resulted from multi-access interference （MAI）, are also analyzed in detail under the condition that the powers of code chips are not uniform; the applied foreground of this system is predicted.…”
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Scavenger Receptor Class B, Type I, a CD36 Related Protein in Macrobrachium nipponense: Characterization, RNA Interference, and Expression Analysis with Different Dietary Lipid Sou... by Zhili Ding, Na Luo, Youqin Kong, Jingfen Li, Yixiang Zhang, Fang Cao, Jinyun Ye

“…In the present study, we report a cDNA encoding M. nipponense scavenger receptor class B, type I (designated as MnSR-BI), obtained from a hepatopancreas cDNA library. …”
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Lymphoproliferation and hyper-IgM as the first manifestation of activated phosphoinositide 3-kinase δ syndrome: A case report by Mónica Fernandes-Pineda, Andrés F. Zea-Vera

“…Gainof-function mutations in the gene PIK3R1 (encoding p85α, p55α, and p50α) lead to the development of the activated PI3K δ syndrome. …”
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Infrared Small Target Detection Based on Weak Feature Enhancement and Target Adaptive Proliferation by Xiaoyu Xu, Weida Zhan, Yichun Jiang, Depeng Zhu, Yu Chen, Jinxin Guo, Ziqiang Hao, Deng Han

“…Then, we introduced a multiscale feature enhancement module that used vertical-horizontal bidirectional attention and multiscale feature encoding to establish stable feature interaction channels between the encoder and decoder, further enhancing key features of small targets. …”
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Combining Region-Guided Attention and Attribute Prediction for Thangka Image Captioning Method by Fujun Zhang, Wendong Kang, Wenjin Hu

“…The image feature enhancement encoder, guided by regions, introduces a region-guided module with a distance-weighted strategy to enhance the feature representation of the central sacred elements in Thangka images. …”
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Towards accurate anomaly detection for cloud system via graph-enhanced contrastive learning by Zhen Zhang, Zhe Zhu, Chen Xu, Jinyu Zhang, Shaohua Xu

“…The weight parameters of the encoder are optimized using a contrastive learning mechanism. …”
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Explainable attention based breast tumor segmentation using a combination of UNet, ResNet, DenseNet, and EfficientNet models by Shokofeh Anari, Soroush Sadeghi, Ghazaal Sheikhi, Ramin Ranjbarzadeh, Malika Bendechache

“…The findings denote that combining advanced encoder architectures, attention mechanisms, and the UNet framework can yield more reliable and accurate breast tumor segmentation. …”
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WCMU-net: An Effective Method for Reducing the Impact of Speckle Noise in SAR Image Change Detection by Yu Duan, Kaimin Sun, Wangbin Li, Jinjiang Wei, Song Gao, Yingjiao Tan, Wanghui Zhou, Jun Liu, Junyi Liu

“…In the decoder phase, valuable encoder features from multiscale attention gates are concatenated with corresponding upsampled features to select encoder features based on different resolutions adaptively. …”
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MLDFNet: A Multilabel Dual-Flow Network for Change Detection in Bitemporal Remote Sensing Images by Daniyaer Sidekejiang, Panpan Zheng, Liejun Wang

“…However, existing DL-based CD networks still face two significant issues: 1) the lack of adequate supervision during the encoding process; and 2) the coupling of overall information with edge information. …”
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RenalSegNet: automated segmentation of renal tumor, veins, and arteries in contrast-enhanced CT scans by Rashid Khan, Chao Chen, Asim Zaman, Jiayi Wu, Haixing Mai, Liyilei Su, Yan Kang, Bingding Huang

“…RenalSegNet has an innovative encoder-decoder architecture, including the FlexEncoder Block for efficient multivariate feature extraction and the MedSegPath mechanism for advanced feature distribution and fusion. …”
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Designing Gold Nanoparticle-Ensembles as Surface Enhanced Raman Scattering Tags inside Human Retinal Cells by Sanda Boca, Dumitrita Rugina, Adela Pintea, Nicolae Leopold, Simion Astilean

“…Typically, SERS tags are hybrid nanoconstructs consisting in a unique plasmonic nanoobject encoded with specific reporter molecules and enveloped in a protective shell that provides both biocompatibility and targeting function. …”
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The Chloroplastic Small Heat Shock Protein Gene KvHSP26 Is Induced by Various Abiotic Stresses in Kosteletzkya virginica by Xiaohua Liu, Lizi Zhao, Jianzhao Li, Lijun Duan, Kai Zhang, Xuqiang Qiao, Weihuan Li, Chengchao Zheng, Xiaoli Tang, Hongxia Zhang

“…Bioinformatics analyses revealed that KvHSP26 encoded a chloroplastic protein with the typical features of sHSPs. …”
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A lung nodule segmentation model based on the transformer with multiple thresholds and coordinate attention by Tianjiao Hu, Yihua Lan, Yingqi Zhang, Jiashu Xu, Shuai Li, Chih-Cheng Hung

“…With the rapid development of deep learning, lung nodule segmentation models based on the encoder-decoder structure have become the mainstream research approach. …”
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Secure fault-tolerant code for cloud storage by Peng-xu TAN, Yue CHEN, Ju-long LAN, Hong-yong JIA

“…A secure regenerating code,called SRCS was proposed to solve the security problem during the process of the fault-tolerant of storage systems,especially the storage system in an extremely open environment such as cloud computing and cloud storage.SRCS achieves the security of the encoding matrix in the regenerating code using the threshold public-key encryption with low redundancy and high efficiency.It is proven that SRCS is secure in the semi-adaptive model using decisional BDHE assumption.…”
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Modulation of Host Cell Signal Transduction Pathways by Helicobacter Pylori Infection by Peter JM Ceponis, Nicola L Jones

“…The purpose of the present summary, first presented at the Canadian Helicobacter Study Group meeting, is to discuss current knowledge of specific Helicobacter pylori factors, including the vacuolating cytotoxin, cytotoxin-associated gene A and the type four secretion system encoded by the cytotoxin-associated gene pathogenicity island and review the host cell signal transduction cascades that they modulate.…”
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Identification of Dietzia spp. from Cardiac Tissue by 16S rRNA PCR in a Patient with Culture-Negative Device-Associated Endocarditis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Praveen Sudhindra, Guiqing Wang, Robert B. Nadelman

“…Here we describe the identification of Dietzia natronolimnaea/D. cercidiphylli by PCR amplification and sequencing of the 16S rRNA encoding gene from cardiac tissue in a patient with culture-negative device-associated endocarditis.…”
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A Helicobacter pylori flagellar motor accessory is needed to maintain the barrier function of the outer membrane during flagellar rotation. by Kyle Rosinke, Shoichi Tachiyama, Jan Mrásek, Jun Liu, Timothy R Hoover

“…The Helicobacter pylori flagellar motor contains several accessory structures that are not found in the archetypal Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica motors. H. pylori hp0838 encodes a previously uncharacterized lipoprotein and is in an operon with flgP, which encodes a motor accessory protein. …”
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Building a Framework for Visual Question Answering Systems by Maya Abu Hamoud, Wasim Safi

“…We employed the VGG19 model to extract image features, while questions and answers were encoded using GloVe and Label Encoding techniques. …”
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