Development of the novel gene chip and restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) methods for rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex in broth culture by Wen-Hung Wang, Chun-Yu Lin, Shu-Huei Jain, Po-Liang Lu, Yen-Hsu Chen

“…This study aimed to create and evaluate a new, fast, highly reliable, and cost-effective TB detection method using a gene chip and Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism (RFLP) analysis on Mycobacteria Growth Indicator Tubes (MGIT) specimens. …”
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A sterol panel for rare lipid disorders: sitosterolemia, cerebrotendinous xanthomatosis and Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome by Alexander Bauer Westbye, Lili L. Dizdarevic, Sandra R. Dahl, Emil Andreas Asprusten, Yngve Thomas Bliksrud, Anita Lövgren Sandblom, Ulf Diczfalusy, Per M. Thorsby, Kjetil Retterstøl

“…The reported method is a relatively simple and fast LC-MS/MS method capable of quantitating diagnostically important sterols and differentiated patients with three rare lipid disorders from controls.…”
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Separation of Inorganic Forms of Tellurium Using On-Site SPE Followed by ICP-MS or ICP-OES—The Right Solution for Water Monitoring by Katarzyna Kińska, Barbara Żelazko, Olga Gajewska, Magdalena Borowska, Monika Sadowska, Beata Krasnodębska-Ostręga

“…Hydride generation inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (HG-ICP-OES) was used to control possible changes in tellurium speciation occurring during species isolation using SPE. The simple and fast water pretreatment proposed here offers the possibility of separating Te(IV) and Te(VI) at the sampling site, and the elution of Te(IV) does not have to be conducted on-site. …”
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Prediction of α-Solanine and α-Chaconine in Potato Tubers from Hunter Color Values and VIS/NIR Spectra by Shimeles Tilahun, Hee Sung An, In Geun Hwang, Jong Hang Choi, Min Woo Baek, Han Ryul Choi, Do Su Park, Cheon Soon Jeong

“…Taken together, although it requires further studies to improve the prediction power of the developed models, the results of this study revealed the possibility of using VIS/NIR spectra and color variables for the prediction of α-solanine and α-chaconine contents from intact unpeeled potato tubers with chemical-free, fast, and cheap assessment methods.…”
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Intraindividual variation in histone acetylation and its impact on autoimmune thyroid diseases by Emi Haga, Naoya Inoue, Yoshinori Iwatani, Yuya Arakawa, Emi Morita, Hidemi Hashimoto, Yusuke Noguchi, Yoh Hidaka, Mikio Watanabe

“…In this study, we analyzed histone H3 acetylation levels in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) using a histone H3 total acetylation detection fast kit. Blood samples were collected before meals, between 8:30–9:00 am, daily for 10 weeks to evaluate the daily variation. …”
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UK Biobank MRI data can power the development of generalizable brain clocks: A study of standard ML/DL methodologies and performance analysis on external databases by Marco Capó, Silvia Vitali, Georgios Athanasiou, Nicole Cusimano, Daniel García, Garth Cruickshank, Bipin Patel

“…For our analysis we used T1-weighted MRI scans and processed de novo all images via FastSurfer, transforming them into a conformed space for deep learning and extracting image-derived phenotypes for our machine learning approaches. …”
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Pasithea-1: An Energy-Efficient Sequential Reconfigurable Array With CPU-Like Programmability by Tobias Kaiser, Esther Gottschalk, Kai Biethahn, Friedel Gerfers

“…Combined with dedicated, uniform processing elements, this enables fast compilation from C source code (1.4 s mean compile time). …”
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Impact Angle Control of Local Intense dB/dt Variations During Shock‐Induced Substorms by Denny M. Oliveira, James M. Weygand, Eftyhia Zesta, Chigomezyo M. Ngwira, Michael D. Hartinger, Zhonghua Xu, Barbara L. Giles, Daniel J. Gershman, Marcos V. D. Silveira, Vítor M. Souza

“…THEMIS all‐sky imager data show a fast and clear poleward auroral expansion in the first case, which does not clearly occur in the second case. …”
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Simultaneously Enhanced Permeability and Selectivity of Pebax-1074-Based Mixed-Matrix Membrane for CO₂ Separation by Rujing Hou, Junwei Xie, Yawei Gu, Lei Wang, Yichang Pan

“…Both the strengthened CO₂ solubility coefficients coming from the additional CO₂ adsorption sites of amino groups in BPEI and the reinforced CO₂ diffusivity coefficients originating from the fast transport channels created by KAUST-8 led to the promising CO₂ separation performance for KAUST-8@BPEI/Pebax-1074 MMM. …”
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Evaluation of a Commercial Multiplex Real-Time PCR with Melting Curve Analysis for the Detection of <i>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</i> Complex and Five Nontuberculous Mycobacterial... by Keun Ju Kim, Yunhee Chang, Seung Gyu Yun, Myung-Hyun Nam, Yunjung Cho

“…The NeoPlex assay could simultaneously detect and differentiate MTBC from five other NTM species: <i>Mycobacterium intracellulare</i>, <i>Mycobacterium avium</i>, <i>Mycobacterium kansasii</i>, <i>Mycobacterium abscessus</i>, and <i>Mycobacterium massiliense</i>. A total of 91 acid-fast bacillus culture-positive samples, comprising 36 MTBC and 55 NTM isolates, were collected from the Korea University Anam Hospital. …”
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Monitoring the Maize Canopy Chlorophyll Content Using Discrete Wavelet Transform Combined with RGB Feature Fusion by Wenfeng Li, Kun Pan, Yue Huang, Guodong Fu, Wenrong Liu, Jizhong He, Weihua Xiao, Yi Fu, Jin Guo

“…This study provides a fast and reliable method for monitoring maize growth in field conditions. …”
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Automatic Segmentation of Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm From Computed Tomography Angiography Using a Patch-Based Dilated UNet Model by Merjulah Roby, Juan C. Restrepo, Haehwan Park, Satish C. Muluk, Mark K. Eskandari, Seungik Baek, Ender A. Finol

“…Through the integration of advanced deep learning architectures and the precision of NURBS for segmentation refinement, coupled with the fast processing time and accurate segmentation, the the proposed model represents a promising clinical tool that can be used in the clinical management of AAAs.…”
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Comparison of three recent discrete stochastic inversion methods and influence of the prior choice by Juda, Przemysław, Straubhaar, Julien, Renard, Philippe

“…ESMDA showed initially a very fast convergence which reaches a plateau, contrary to the remaining methods. …”
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High‐stability two‐dimensional perovskite LaNb2O7 for high‐performance wide‐temperature (80–780 K) UV light detection and human motion detection by Yong Zhang, Jian Yao, Lin Wang, Long Chen, Junyi Du, Pin Zhao, Qing Guo, Zhen Zhang, Lixing Kang, Xiaosheng Fang

“…Importantly, it shows high responsivity (171 A W−1), extraordinary detectivity (4 × 1012 Jones), fast speed (0.3/97 ms), and long‐term stability under ambient conditions. …”
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The Timing and Spectral Properties of the 2022 Outburst of SGR J1935+2154 Observed with NICER by Fu Yu-Cong, Lin Lin, Ge Ming-Yu, Enoto Teruaki, Hu Chin-Ping, Younes George, Göǧüş Ersin, Malacaria Christian

“…While a flare is evident on the light curve, a fast radio burst (FRB) was detected immediately following the peak of this flare. …”
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A Cohesive Deep Drilling Field Strategy for LSST Cosmology by Philippe Gris, Humna Awan, Matthew R. Becker, Huan Lin, Eric Gawiser, Saurabh W. Jha, The LSST Dark Energy Science Collaboration

“…Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will image billions of astronomical objects in the wide–fast–deep primary survey and in a set of minisurveys including intensive observations of a group of deep drilling fields (DDFs). …”
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A multi-task model for failure identification and GPS assessment in metro trains by Pratik Vinayak Jadhav, Sairam V. A, Siddharth Sonkavade, Shivali Amit Wagle, Preksha Pareek, Ketan Kotecha, Tanupriya Choudhury

“…On the whole, the proposed framework can be effective for fast and accurate fault analysis in metro trains.…”
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An Enhanced Active Disturbance Rejection Control Scheme for DC Voltage Regulation in Photovoltaic Grid-Connected Four-Leg Inverter Using a Sliding Mode Observer by Chebabhi Ali, Defdaf Mabrouk, Syphax Ihammouchen, Nicu Bizon, Benbouhenni Habib, Kessal Abdelhalim, Rekioua Toufik, Benkhoris Mohamed Fouad

“…The STSMO is incorporated in the ADRC method for its fast uncertainties and external disturbances estimations, high resilience against uncertainties, and good immunity to measurement noise. …”
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Universal Synthesis of Core–Shell‐Structured Ordered Mesoporous Transition Metal Dichalcogenides/Metal Oxides Heterostructures with Active Edge Sites by Zhenliang Li, Yujian Rao, Zhehan Wang, Tuo Zhang, Guodong Wu, Litao Sun, Yuan Ren, Li Tao

“…The chemiresistive gas sensor based on OM‐WS2/WO3 shows excellent NO2‐sensing performances at room temperature, with high sensitivity, ultrahigh selectivity ( S NO 2 /S gas > 20), and fast response speed (6 s). Theoretical study reveals that the strong adsorption capacity of WS2/WO3 heterostructure and edge sites of WS2 for NO2 molecules and the high charge transfer between them contribute to high selectivity and sensitivity of the sensor. …”
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Predicting the clinical subcutaneous absorption rate constant of monoclonal antibodies using only the primary sequence: a machine learning approach by Ronghua Bei, Justin Thomas, Shiven Kapur, Mahlet Woldeyes, Adam Rauk, Jason Robarge, Jiangyan Feng, Kaoutar Abbou Oucherif

“…In this study, we built a model to predict the absorption rate constant (ka), which denotes how fast a mAb is absorbed from the site of administration. …”
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