The male germ unit association is independently regulated of GUM in Arabidopsis thaliana by Abdur Rauf, Anbang Wang, Yujia Li, Zhihao Lian, Shouxing Wei, Kashmala Jabbar, Muhammad Wisal, Ikramullah Khan, Muhammad Khalid, Jingyang Li

“…Our findings demonstrated the striking importance of live imaging to verify the broad conservation of the persistent MGU contact in all the angiosperms and its important role in successful double fertilization.…”
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Leveraging deep feature learning for handwriting biometric authentication by Parvaneh Afzali, Abdoreza Rezapour, Ahmad Rezaee Jordehi

“…The designed model is trained with pairs of images, each comprising one authentic and one questioned handwritten word. …”
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Trends and drivers of dissolved organic carbon in major Arctic rivers by Mingxin Song, Jue Huang, Desong Zhao, Yulei Mu

“…In this study, in situ measured datasets and Landsat images were used to construct an efficient remote sensing retrieval model for DOC in Arctic rivers. …”
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Impaired network organization in mild age‐related hearing loss by Zhaopeng Tong, Chunhua Xing, Xiaomin Xu, Jin‐Jing Xu, Yuanqing Wu, Richard Salvi, Xindao Yin, Fei Zhao, Yu‐Chen Chen, Yuexin Cai

“…With resting‐state functional magnetic resonance imaging from 66 individuals with ARHL and 54 healthy controls, group spatial independent component analyses, sliding window analyses, graph‐theory methods, multilayer networks, and correlation analyses were used to identify ARHL‐induced disturbances in static and dynamic functional network connectivity (sFNC/dFNC), alterations in global network switching and their links to cognitive performances. …”
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Lumbar Ureteral Stenosis due to Endometriosis: Our Experience and Review of the Literature by Salvatore Butticè, Antonio Simone Laganà, Valeria Barresi, Antonino Inferrera, Giuseppe Mucciardi, Antonina Di Benedetto, Carmela Emanuela D'Amico, Carlo Magno

“…Urologic ultrasound showed hydronephrosis of first degree in the left kidney and absence of images related to stones bilaterally. Uro-CT scan evidenced ureteral stenosis at the transition between the iliac and pelvic tracts. …”
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Exploring the potential of aerial drone imagery to distinguish breeding Adélie (Pygoscelis adeliae), chinstrap (Pygoscelis antarcticus) and gentoo (Pygoscelis papua) penguins in An... by Christian Pfeifer, Stefan Knetsch, Jakob Maercker, Osama Mustafa, Marie-Charlott Rümmler, Alexander Brenning

“…Our findings indicate that differentiation is feasible for nearly all the investigated distinguishing features, although the reliability and spatial resolution requirements of the aerial images vary significantly. Consequently, these results enable specific flight planning for optimal species discrimination under the given conditions and serve as the basis for future automated mapping of penguin species using machine learning, facilitating early detection of changes.…”
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Diffusion-Weighted MRI and FDG-PET in Diagnosis of Endometrial Stromal Nodule by Shunsuke Maruyama, Yukiyasu Sato, Yumiko Satake, Hiroko Mise, Tomoko Kim

“…T2-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (T2W-MRI) showed polypoid tumor occupying the entire uterine cavity. …”
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Rapid iPSC-derived neuromuscular junction model uncovers motor neuron dominance in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis cytopathy by Hsiao-Chien Ting, Yun-Ting Guo, Hong-Lin Su, Yu-Shuan Chen, Shinn-Zong Lin, Horng-Jyh Harn, Chia-Yu Chang

“…Quantitative analysis of 3D confocal microscopy images revealed a critical role of MNs in initiating ALS-related NMJ cytopathies, characterized by alterations in the volume, number, intensity, and distribution of acetylcholine receptors, ultimately leading to impaired muscle contractions. …”
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Circle of Willis Variants: Fetal PCA by Amir Shaban, Karen C. Albright, Amelia K. Boehme, Sheryl Martin-Schild

“…Patients without intracranial vascular imaging were excluded. We compared patients with complete fPCA, partial fPCA, and without fPCA in terms of demographics, stroke severity, distribution, and etiology and factored in whether the stroke was ipsilateral to the fPCA. …”
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Plasmonic Polarization Sensing of Electrostatic Superlattice Potentials by Shuai Zhang, Jordan Fonseca, Daniel Bennett, Zhiyuan Sun, Junhe Zhang, Ran Jing, Suheng Xu, Leo He, S. L. Moore, S. E. Rossi, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, David Cobden, Pablo Jarillo-Herrero, M. M. Fogler, Philip Kim, Efthimios Kaxiras, Xiaodong Xu, D. N. Basov

“…The evolution of polarization textures in t-BN under uniform electric fields is tomographically examined via plasmonic imaging. Strikingly, no noticeable polarization switching is observed under applied electric fields up to 0.21  V/nm, at variance with transport reports. …”
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A Social Media Dataset and H-GNN-Based Contrastive Learning Scheme for Multimodal Sentiment Analysis by Jiao Peng, Yue He, Yongjuan Chang, Yanyan Lu, Pengfei Zhang, Zhonghong Ou, Qingzhi Yu

“…In this paper, we constructed a new dataset, SM-MSD, for sentiment analysis in social media (SAS) that differs significantly from conventional corpora, comprising 10K instances of diverse data from Twitter, encompassing text, emoticons, emojis, and text embedded in images. This dataset aims to reflect authentic social scenarios and various emotional expressions, and provides a meaningful and challenging evaluation benchmark for multimodal sentiment analysis in specific contexts. …”
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Somatostatin Treatment for Ectopic ACTH Syndrome due to Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors: Review of the Literature by Da Zhang, Lin Lu, Hui-Juan Zhu, Yu Xiao, Xian-Lin Han, Shun-Da Du, Hua-Dan Xue, Qing-Xing Liu, Zhao-Hui Zhu, Ming-Ming Hu, Xiao Zhai, Xiao-Ping Xing, Zhao-Lin Lu

“…Clinical characteristics, laboratory data, imaging studies, histopathologic results, the effect of SSA treatment, and the prognosis of these EAS-p-NET patients were evaluated. …”
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Virtual Care in Rhinology by Kristine A. Smith, Andrew Thamboo, Yvonne Chan, Christopher J. Chin, Megan Werger, Brian Rotenberg

“…History taking and reviewing results (lab work, imaging) were reported to be equivalent in virtual care. …”
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Diagnosis and Treatment of a Symptomatic Posterior Cruciate Ganglion Cyst in a Child with Autism by Valerio Andreozzi, Edoardo Monaco, Fabio Conteduca, Raffaele Iorio, Daniele Mazza, Piergiorgio Drogo, Andrea Ferretti

“…Intra-articular ganglion cysts of the knee joint are rare and mostly incidental findings in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or arthroscopy. Posterior cruciate ligament (PCL) ganglion cyst in a child is an extremely rare finding, and to the best of our knowledge, only one case has been described in the literature. …”
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MambaShadowDet: A High-Speed and High-Accuracy Moving Target Shadow Detection Network for Video SAR by Xiaowo Xu, Tianwen Zhang, Xiaoling Zhang, Wensi Zhang, Xiao Ke, Tianjiao Zeng

“…To handle these issues, this paper proposes MambaShadowDet, a novel lightweight deep learning (DL) detector based on a state space model (SSM), dedicated to high-speed and high-accuracy moving target shadow detection in video SAR images. By introducing SSM with the linear complexity into YOLOv8, MambaShadowDet effectively captures the global feature dependencies while relieving computational load. …”
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Pancreatic Tail Schwannoma in a 44-Year-Old Male: A Case Report and Literature Review by Ahmed Abu-Zaid, Ayman Azzam, Hussam Abou Al-Shaar, Abdullah M. Alshammari, Tarek Amin, Shamayel Mohammed

“…At a postoperative 6-month followup, patient was completely asymptomatic and CT scan imaging showed no evidence of tumor recurrence. Moreover, a literature review on pancreatic schwannomas is presented.…”
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Unusual Etiology of Chronic Posterior Leg Pain in a Running Athlete: Could It Be a Schwannoma? A Case Report and Review of the Literature by Naoufal Elghoul, Omar Zaddoug, Mohammed Tbouda, Mohammed Benchakroun, Abdeloihab Jaafar

“…Therefore, magnetic resonance imaging was performed, and a hemangioma or schwannoma was suspected. …”
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Managing natural disasters: An analysis of technological advancements, opportunities, and challenges by Moez Krichen, Mohamed S. Abdalzaher, Mohamed Elwekeil, Mostafa M. Fouda

“…We provide an overview of how different technologies such as Remote Sensing, Radars and Satellite Imaging, internet-of-things (IoT), Smartphones, and Social Media can be utilized in the management of NDs. …”
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Effect on the Process of Biomethanogenesis of Pre-Treatment of Wheat Straw by the High Intensity High-Frequency Electromagnetic Field by Zablodsky N., Klendiy P., Dudar O.

“…The purpose of the researches is the experimental determination of the effect of pre-treatment with the high-frequency electromagnetic field of high intensity on the appearance of deformations and structural rearrangements in the cells of wheat straw and on the intensity of biogas output.The set goal is achieved by the way of solving the following issues: obtaining chopped straw when it is grinding on a laboratory grinder to the fraction with average sizes of 5.2 mm x 1.5 mm and soaking in tap water for 15 minutes; measurement of distribution of the specific power of the electromagnetic field in the area where the samples of crushed wheat straw are located; comparison of images of the structure of straw under a light microscope for samples after influence by the high-frequency electromagnetic field of high intensity and control samples that were not exposed to such influence; carrying out fermentation experiments and researches of the process of biogas output within 20 days of a mixture of straw and inoculum for options with pre-treatment of wheat straw by the electromagnetic field of a Tesla’s transformer and without treatment by field. …”
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Assessment of changes in vitamin content and morphological characteristics in strawberries modified with a pulsed electric field using chromatography and optical coherence tomograp... by Ewa Korzeniewska, Ilona Gałązka-Czarnecka, Joanna Sekulska-Nalewajko, Jarosław Gocławski, Tomasz Dróźdż, Paweł Kiełbasa

“…Experiments have shown that PEF treatment with an intensity of 1 kV/cm and 10 pulses for 10 s resulted in a significant improvement in vitamin content and extraction efficiency of vitamin C by 22 %, folic acid by 24 %, thiamine by more than 50 % and riboflavin by more than 60 %.Optical coherence tomography imaging revealed texture changes in fruit pulp under the influence of PEF, related to the release of additional vitamins detected by chromatography methods.Additionally, PEF treatment offers significant benefits in fruit processing, including improved dehydration characteristics, reduced time and energy required for freeze-drying, increased extraction efficiency, and potential improvements in bioactive compound content and antioxidant properties.The research results may have practical applications in the analytical determination of vitamins C and B by improving the extraction efficiency. …”
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