Plant and soil responses to ground-mounted solar panels in temperate agricultural systems by Fabio Carvalho, Hannah Montag, Laura Bentley, Radim Šarlej, Rosanne C Broyd, Hollie Blaydes, Marta Cattin, Miranda Burke, Abby Wallwork, Sammani Ramanayaka, Piran C L White, Stuart P Sharp, Tom Clarkson, Alona Armstrong

“…Our findings can inform solar farm design and management options (e.g. increase the proportion of land unaffected by solar panels, enhance plant cover under solar panels) to ensure the long-term provision of ecosystem services (e.g. soil carbon storage) within this fast-growing land use.…”
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GANCE: Generative Adversarial Network Assisted Channel Estimation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Empowered 5G and Beyond Wireless Networks by Chirag Gupta, Ramani Kumar Das, Rabindra K. Barik, Shahazad Niwazi Qurashi, Diptendu Sinha Roy, Satyendra Singh Yadav

“…Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have discovered a plethora of societal applications such as remote sensing, disaster management, medical emergency, security and surveillance, etc. UAVs require fast and reliable communication lines, and selecting the appropriate channel estimation (CE) technique is pivotal in reliable communication. …”
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Privacy-preserving approach for IoT networks using statistical learning with optimization algorithm on high-dimensional big data environment by Fatma S. Alrayes, Mohammed Maray, Asma Alshuhail, Khaled Mohamad Almustafa, Abdulbasit A. Darem, Ali M. Al-Sharafi, Shoayee Dlaim Alotaibi

“…In the period of big data, statistical learning has seen fast progressions in methodological practical and innovation applications. …”
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Identifying falsified COVID-19 vaccines by analysing vaccine vial label and excipient profiles using MALDI-ToF mass spectrometry by Benediktus Yohan Arman, Rebecca Clarke, Tehmina Bharucha, Laura Gomez Fernandez, John Walsby-Tickle, Michael Deats, Sara Mosca, Qianqi Lin, Sneha Banerjee, Shrikrishna R. Chunekar, Kundan D. Patil, Sunil Gairola, Susanna Dunachie, Hamid A. Merchant, Robert Stokes, Rutendo Kuwana, Alexandrine Maes, Jean-Philippe Charrier, Fay Probert, Céline Caillet, Pavel Matousek, James McCullagh, Paul N. Newton, Nicole Zitzmann, Bevin Gangadharan

“…In this context, matrix-assisted laser desorption ionisation-time of flight (MALDI-ToF) mass spectrometry (MS) is globally available for fast and accurate analysis of bacteria in patient samples, offering a potentially accessible solution to identify SF vaccines. …”
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Facile green synthesis of silver doped NiO nanoparticles using aloe vera latex for efficient energy storage and photocatalytic applications by S. Alfadhli, Syed Khasim, A.A.A. Darwish, Khoulod Al-nahdi, Mervat Abdelkader, Raghad Gamal, Taymour A. Hamdalla

“…The photocatalytic potential of the 6 % Ag doped NiO has been explored by assessing their effectiveness in degrading fast blue (FB) dye, demonstrating significant activity at 605 nm. …”
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Sepsis in Internal Medicine: blood culture-based subtypes, hospital outcomes, and predictive biomarkers by Gaetano Zizzo, Gabriele Guazzardi, Daniela Bompane, Francesco Di Terlizzi, Giorgio Rotola, Ilario Stefani, Michela Medugno, Mario Bucalo, Antonino Mazzone

“…Blood culture-negative sepses showed shorter stays and higher mortality (acute kidney injury and fast deterioration) compared to culture-positive ones; polymicrobial sepses showed higher ICU transfer rates (acute respiratory distress); while multidrug-resistant (MDR+) and/or polymicrobial sepses showed longer stays and higher mortality (complicated course) compared to drug-sensitive or monomicrobial ones. …”
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Tuberculosis screening among cough suppressant buyers in pharmacies and drug outlets in Guinea: a cross-sectional study by Jonathon R Campbell, Vanessa Veronese, Aboubacar Sidiki Magassouba, Almamy Amara Toure, Boubacar Djelo Diallo, Gnoume Camara, Desire Lucien Dahourou, Aly Badara Nabe, Souleymane Camara, Adama Marie Bangoura, Hugues Asken Traore, Corinne Simone Collette Merle

“…Pharmacists or outlet owners identified and referred all customers with TB symptoms who were purchasing cough suppressants to healthcare workers for sputum collection either at the pharmacy or drug outlet or at a nearby TB diagnosis and treatment centre (CDT); sputum was subjected to bacteriological testing with acid fast bacilli smear or Xpert MTB/RIF. We assessed factors associated with eventual TB diagnosis using logistic regression and time to TB diagnosis using cox regression and used microcosting to estimate the cost of the intervention in 2020 US$.Results From November 2019 to June 2020, we screened 916 people referred from pharmacies or drug outlets with TB symptoms, with median age of 31 years (54% male). …”
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LRRK2 Mutations and Asian Disease-Associated Variants in the First Parkinson’s Disease Cohort from Kazakhstan by Rauan Kaiyrzhanov, Akbota Aitkulova, Chingiz Shashkin, Nazira Zharkinbekova, Mie Rizig, Elena Zholdybayeva, Zharkyn Jarmukhanov, Vadim Akhmetzhanov, Gulnaz Kaishibayeva, Talgat Khaibullin, Altynay Karimova, Serik Akshulakov, Askhat Bralov, Nurlan Kissamedenov, Zhanar Seidinova, Anjela Taskinbayeva, Aliya Muratbaikyzy, Henry Houlden

“…One early-onset PD subject was homozygous for p.Ala419Val who developed fast progression and severe dyskinesias. p.Ala419Val was associated with early-onset PD. …”
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Effects and Mechanisms of Cutting Upper Thoracic Sympathetic Trunk on Ventricular Rate in Ambulatory Canines with Persistent Atrial Fibrillation by Jie Cai, Min Tang, Hao Liu, Shiao Ding, Rongxin Lu, Wei Wang, Nan Ma, Ju Mei, Zhaolei Jiang

“…Cutting upper TST could reduce fast VR during persistent AF. Cutting upper TST induced bilateral SG neural remodeling and reduced sympathetic nerve density in the left atrium, which could contribute to the underlying mechanism of VR control during AF.…”
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Characterization of Myf6 and association with growth traits in swimming crab (Portunus trituberculatus) by Baohua Duan, Weibiao Liu, Chen Zhang, Tongxu Kang, Haifu Wan, Shumei Mu, Yueqiang Guan, Zejian Li, Yang Tian, Yuqin Ren, Xianjiang Kang

“…Expression pattern analysis of Myf6 in fast- and slow-growing groups revealed that the expression level of the latter was significantly higher than that of the former (P < 0.05). qPCR studies revealed that Myf6 was expressed in various tissues with the highest level in muscle. …”
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Population Size Estimation of Men Who Have Sex With Men in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: Google Trends Analysis by Carly M Malburg, Steve Gutreuter, Horacio Ruiseñor-Escudero, Abu Abdul-Quader, Wolfgang Hladik

“…None of the covariates examined had a substantial effect on the GTPSE values (R2 ConclusionsGTPSE for MSM provides a simple, fast, essentially cost-free method. Limitations that impact the certainty of our estimates include a lack of validation of key assumptions and an inability to assign credibility intervals. …”
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RCE-IFE: recursive cluster elimination with intra-cluster feature elimination by Cihan Kuzudisli, Burcu Bakir-Gungor, Bahjat Qaqish, Malik Yousef

“…Furthermore, RCE-IFE surpasses several state-of-the-art FS methods, such as Minimum Redundancy Maximum Relevance (MRMR), Fast Correlation-Based Filter (FCBF), Information Gain (IG), Conditional Mutual Information Maximization (CMIM), SelectKBest (SKB), and eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost), obtaining an average AUC of 0.76 on five gene expression datasets. …”
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AM1241 inhibits chondrocyte inflammation and ECM degradation through the Nrf2/HO-1 and NF-κB pathways and alleviates osteoarthritis in mice by Zhuan Zou, Songmu Pan, Changzheng Sun, Jiyong Wei, Yi Xu, Kaizhen Xiao, Jinmin Zhao, Ronghe Gu

“…In vivo, the impact of AM1241 on OA mice was analyzed through safranin-fast green staining, IHC staining, Mankin score, and microCT. …”
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Silver-based plasmonic nanoparticles for biosensor organophosphate pesticides using a single film containing acetylcholinesterase/choline oxidase by D. Hermanto, N. Ismillayli, H. Muliasari, R. Wirawan, S.R. Kamali

“…Additionally, the proposed biosensor offers several advantages such as ease of use, fast, low-cost, and on-site analysis. Hence, this method is suitable for monitoring and controlling pesticide residues, particularly organophosphate, in agricultural products and the environment.…”
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Cultural aspects of organizational agility affecting digital innovation by Dulce Goncalves, Magnus Bergquist, Richard Bunk, Sverker Alänge

“…In the context of increasing demand for fast-paced digital innovation, organizational agility becomes strategically crucial for large incumbent companies to increase their competitiveness. …”
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Comparison of ZnS(Ag) Scintillator and Proportional Counter Tube for Alpha Detection in Thin-Layer Chromatography by Marc Pretze, Jan Wendrich, Holger Hartmann, Robert Freudenberg, Ralph A. Bundschuh, Jörg Kotzerke, Enrico Michler

“…A difference was observed when measuring TLC with the AR-2000 in different modes; (4) <b>Conclusions</b>: The MiniScanPRO+ is fast, does not require additional equipment and can also measure the gamma spectrum, which may be important for some radiopharmaceutical production sites and regulatory authorities. …”
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Quantifying synthetic bacterial community composition with flow cytometry: efficacy in mock communities and challenges in co-cultures by Fabian Mermans, Ioanna Chatzigiannidou, Wim Teughels, Nico Boon

“…Simultaneously, flow cytometry has been suggested as a cheap and fast alternative. However, since the technique captures the phenotypic state of bacterial cells, accurate determination of community composition could be affected when bacteria are co-cultured. …”
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From Trinidad to Cyberspace: Reconsidering Ernst Toch’s “Geographical Fugue” by Carmel Raz

“…Als vielleicht einziges Beispiel in der Musikgeschichte kann diese quasi elektronische Komposition auf eine fast ausschließlich akustische Aufführungsgeschichte über mehr als acht Jahrzehnte zurückblicken. …”
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Determination of Vibration Properties and Reliable Frequency Estimation for Synchronous Vibrations Through Improved Blade Tip Timing Techniques Without a Once-per-Revolution Sensor by Marios Sasakaros, Luca Mann, Markus Schafferus, Manfred Wirsum

“…Subsequently, the vibration frequencies are accurately estimated, by employing an improved Multi-Sampling method based on Non-Uniform Fast Fourier Transform. This approach enables the blind analysis of BTT measurements and can identify multiple vibration frequencies. …”
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A Quick Method for Appraising Pore Connectivity and Ultimate Imbibed Porosity in Shale Reservoirs by Ziqing Hong, Mianmo Meng, Kong Deng, Jingwen Bao, Qianyou Wang, Xingchen Liu

“…Based on the above results, a quick method for measuring the two parameters with thin samples by spontaneous imbibition is established, providing a fast solution for the evaluation of the sweet spot.…”
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