Repeated evolution on oceanic islands: comparative genomics reveals species-specific processes in birds by María Recuerda, Julio César Hernández Montoya, Guillermo Blanco, Borja Milá

“…We estimated the relative (F st ) and absolute (d xy ) differentiation, nucleotide diversity (π), Tajima’s D, gene density and recombination rate. We also searched for selective sweeps and chromosomal inversions along the genome. …”
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Burden and Outcomes of Severe Lower Respiratory Tract Infections with Unknown Etiology: A Retrospective Observational Study on Epidemiological Trends Over an 8-Year Period (2016–20... by Giovanni Scaglione, Marta Canuti, Martina Offer, Valentina Breschi, Antonio Piralla, Fausto Baldanti, Gabriele Del Castillo, Francesco Scovenna, Sabrina Buoro, Federica Morani, Danilo Cereda, Alessandra Bandera, Andrea Gori, Marta Colaneri

“…Results Among 683,741 hospitalizations, 338,211 (49.5%) were of unknown etiology, showing a 12.3% intra-hospital mortality rate (41,627 deaths) and 4.0% intensive care unit admission rate (13,625 admissions). …”
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Salter-Harris Type III and Type IV Combined Fracture of the Distal Femoral Epiphysis: A Case Report by Ali Aydin, Murat Topal, Kutsi Tuncer, Eyüp Şenocak

“…Distal femoral physeal fractures are not common but have a high rate of complications. They generally follow one of the patterns described in the Salter-Harris classification. …”
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High‐speed main protection for multiterminal LCC‐MMC‐UHVDC based on initial wave process comparison by Yan Li, Jun Li, Guiyuan Li, Runbin Cao, Xinjie Zeng, Ning Tong

“…By utilizing the theoretically calculated rate‐of‐change waveform for the backward current traveling wave in an external fault scenario as a reference, a main protection relay grounded in initial wave process comparison is proposed. …”
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Security Paper Design with Frequency-Selective Structure for X-Band Electromagnetic Detection System by Sang-Hwa Lee, Min-Sik Kim, Jong-Kyu Kim, Jong-In Lim, Ic-Pyo Hong

“…When a functional paper embedded with a frequency-selective pattern that selectively reflects a specific frequency is being leaked out of a security zone, the electromagnetic detection system receives and detects the intensity of the electromagnetic wave reflected from the security paper passing through an antenna gate, which transmits/receives RF signals. …”
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Time-series visual representations for sleep stages classification. by Rebeca Padovani Ederli, Didier A Vega-Oliveros, Aurea Soriano-Vargas, Anderson Rocha, Zanoni Dias

“…To address this, we evaluated visual representations of time series data collected from accelerometer and heart rate sensors in smartwatches. Techniques such as Gramian Angular Field, Recurrence Plots, Markov Transition Field, and spectrograms were implemented. …”
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Modeling Cut Rose Yield Over an 18‐Month Period After Compost Amendment Using Repeated Sigmoidal Gompertz Curve Fitting by E. A. deNijs, A. Tietema, R. Bol, E. E. vanLoon

“…As the crop matured, asymptote parameter estimates increased, while growth rate parameter estimates decreased, reflecting a stabilization of growth patterns. …”
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Asymmetric cell division of ALDH1-positive cancer stem cells generates glycolytic metabolically diverse cell populations by Shoma Tamori, Chika Matsuda, Takahiro Kasai, Shigeo Ohno, Kazunori Sasaki, Kazunori Akimoto

“…Here, we revealed that PKCλ-dependent asymmetric division of ALDH1-positive cancer stem cells (CSCs) led to an uneven distribution of glycolytic capacity, which is crucial for understanding metabolic heterogeneity within a tumor. The rate-limiting enzyme PFKP and the metabolic probe CDG in glycolysis codistributed with the ALDH1A3 protein during the post-cell division phase, highlighting a mechanism for acquiring metabolic diversity. …”
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A Hybrid Framework Integrating Traditional Models and Deep Learning for Multi-Scale Time Series Forecasting by Zihan Liu, Zijia Zhang, Weizhe Zhang

“…We evaluate the proposed framework on eight public datasets (electricity, exchange rate, weather, traffic, illness, ETTh1/2, and ETTm1/2) covering diverse domains and scales. …”
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Bayesian spatio-temporal conditional autoregressive localized modeling techniques for socioeconomic factors and stunting in Indonesia by Aswi Aswi, Septian Rahardiantoro, Anang Kurnia, Bagus Sartono, Dian Handayani, Nurwan Nurwan

“…Assuming a Poisson likelihood for stunting counts, the optimal model was estimated using Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods and included two covariates, namely the poverty rate and the incidence of low birth weight, with up to five spatial clusters. …”
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Adaptive malware identification via integrated SimCLR and GRU networks by Faisal S. Alsubaei, Abdulwahab Ali Almazroi, Walid Said Atwa, Abdulaleem Ali Almazroi, Nasir Ayub, N. Z. Jhanjhi

“…An AUC of 98.2%, an F1-score of 96.8%, and a false positive rate of only 0.02% underline the model’s generalizability, accuracy, and resilience. …”
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Saccadic intrusions in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) by Wolfgang Becker, Martin Gorges, Dorothée Lulé, Elmar Pinkhardt, Albert Christian Ludolph, Jan Kassubek

“…Yet, there were clear correlations with parameters such as eye blink rate or errors in a delayed saccade task that suggest an impairment of inhibitory mechanisms, in keeping with the notion of a frontal dysfunction in ALS. …”
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Measuring and Analyzing the Spatiotemporal Evolution of Agricultural Green Total Factor Productivity on the Tibetan Plateau (2002–2021) by Mengmeng Zhang, Jianyu Xiao, Chengqun Yu

“…The main findings are as follows: (1) AGTFP in Tibet rose overall from 0.949 in 2002 to 1.068 in 2021, with a compound annual growth rate of 0.78%, yet remained below the national average; (2) significant regional heterogeneity emerged, with three typical evolution patterns identified: continual improvement (Nagqu, Qamdo), stable fluctuation (Lhasa, Xigazê), and risk of decline (Lhoka, Nyingchi, Ngari); (3) gains in pure technical efficiency were the primary driver of AGTFP growth, while insufficient scale efficiency was a key constraint; (4) AGTFP exhibited a “convergence–divergence–reconvergence” dynamic, with interregional disparities widening but structural patterns stabilizing; and (5) interregional inequality was the main source of overall disparity—its importance grew over the study period, with the largest gap observed between agrarian and pastoral zones. …”
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The emerging threat of multidrug-resistant mecA gene-positive coagulase-negative Staphylococci by Samira Fattah Hamid, Aza Bahadeen Taha, Shler Qasim Hussien

“…The clinical isolation rate of these bacteria has increased in parallel with a rising prevalence of antibiotic resistance. …”
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Histopathological Image Analysis Using Deep Learning Framework by Sudha Rani Vupulluri, Jogendra Kumar Munagala

“…Breast cancer has the highest mortality rate. Therefore, histologic imaging evaluations must detect breast cancer early. …”
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Use of information-fusion deep-learning techniques to detect possible electricity theft: A proposed method by Maria Chuwa, Daniel Ngondya, Rukia Mwifunyi

“…With the SGCC dataset, the method achieved an AUC (area under the curve) of 96.7%, a mAP@100 (mean average precision at 100) of 95.7%, and an FPR (false positive rate) of 8.1%. With the CER dataset, the method achieved an AUC of 96.7%, a mAP@100 of 97.3%, and an FPR of 5.2%. …”
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Epidemic characteristics of measles and efforts to control measles infections in Zhejiang Province, China by Rui Yan, Mengya Yang, Hanqing He, Yan Feng, Yang Zhou, Xuewen Tang, Xuan Deng, Yao Zhu, Yuxia Du, Can Chen, Cao Kexin, Shigui Yang

“…According to data from the National Measles Surveillance System, the annual rate of discarded measles cases from 2009 to 2014, and the annual rate of discarded measles and rubella cases from 2015 to 2022, were both above 2 per 100,000, indicating the high sensitivity of the measles surveillance system. …”
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Performance Prediction of the Gearbox Elastic Support Structure Based on Multi-Task Learning by Chengshun Zhu, Zhizhou Lu, Jie Qi, Meng Xiang, Shilong Yuan, Hui Zhang

“…The adaptive gating mechanism, hierarchical nonlinear transformation, and effective capture of temporal dynamics in the LSTM significantly enhance the model’s ability to model complex nonlinear patterns. …”
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In2Se3 Synthesized by the FWF Method for Neuromorphic Computing by Jaeho Shin, Jingon Jang, Chi Hun Choi, Jaegyu Kim, Lucas Eddy, Phelecia Scotland, Lane W. Martin, Yimo Han, James M. Tour

“…By modulating the degree of polarization in α‐In2Se3 flakes according to the gate electrical pulses, these devices exhibit distinct essential synaptic behaviors. …”
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Two-step skeletization of binary images based on the Zhang-Suen model and the producing mask by J., Ma, V. Yu. Tsviatkou, V. K. Kanapelka

“…The aim of the work is to limit excessive thinning and increase the resistance to contour noise of skeletons resulted from arbitrary binary image shape while maintaining a high skeletonization rate. The skeleton is a set of thin lines, the relative position, the size and shape, which conveys information of size, shape and orientation in space of the corresponding homogeneous region of the image. …”
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