The prevalence and genetic characteristics of human bocavirus in patients with acute respiratory infection in China during 2012–2021 by Haoran Jiang, Baicheng Xia, Xujing Chi, Liwei Sun, Hongmei Xu, Wenhui Wang, Min Mu, Pengbo Yu, Xingyu Xiang, Feng Zhang, Hui Zhang, Caixiao Jiang, Linqing Zhao, Zhenguo Gao, Kongxin Hu, Yan Zhang, Aili Cui

“…The age group with the highest detection rate shifted from infants under 2 years in 2012–2019 to children aged 2–4 years in 2020–2021. …”
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The regulatory role of ZmSTOMAGEN1/2 in maize stomatal development is elucidated via gene editing and metabolic profiling. by Juan-Juan Xu, Qing-Yun Chen, Li-Fang Qin, Yuan Liu, You-Zhi Li, Xian-Wei Fan

“…Stomatal development is mediated by EPIDERMAL PATTERNING FACTORs (EPFs), a family of secreted peptides including STOMAGEN/EPFL9 in Arabidopsis. …”
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Diet-induced obesity dampens the temporal oscillation of hepatic mitochondrial lipids by Rashi Jain, Rajprabu Rajendran, Sona Rajakumari

“…Also, our data emphasized that acrophase of mitochondrial lipids synchronized with increased oxygen consumption rate and Parkin levels at ZT16 in chow-fed mice. …”
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Approximate Thermal Calculation of the Superheated Steam Condenser of Heat Pumps by V. I. Volodin, S. V. Zditovetskaya

“…In the first approach, the flow rate and temperature of the heated water are limited by the saturation temperature of the condensing refrigerant, regardless of the flow pattern of the working media. …”
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Analysis of factors, associated with the probability of antihypertensive medication in the population of patients with arterial hypertension by V. S. Kaveshnikov, V. N. Serebryakova, I. A. Trubacheva

“…The highest medication rate was found at very high CVR. Men with high CVR have showed lower medication rate than expected. …”
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Tumor Area Positivity (TAP) score of programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1): a novel visual estimation method for combined tumor cell and immune cell scoring by Chunyan Liu, Fang Fang, Ying Kong, Ehab A. ElGabry

“…Conclusions Our study showed the TAP scoring method to be straightforward, significantly less time-consuming, and highly reproducible with a high concordance rate between TAP score and CPS.…”
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Infant rat ultrasonic vocalizations in the neurodevelopmental model of schizophrenia by Agnieszka Potasiewicz, Zuzanna Mincikiewicz, Piotr Popik, Agnieszka Nikiforuk

“…Unlike controls, which showed an increasing USV rate associated with proper vocal development, MAM-exposed pups displayed a stable emission rate across days and emitted fewer USVs on the 12th PND. …”
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The epidemic trend of rhinovirus in children from 2013 to 2023: a large sample study in China by Ting Shi, Yiwen Ni, Weiming Li, Linlin Huang

“…It was significant that the positive rate of HRV was gradually increasing with time(P<0.05). …”
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Crop yield and water productivity modeling using nonlinear growth functions by Iman Hajirad, Khaled Ahmadaali, Abdolmajid Liaghat

“…Furthermore, the absolute growth rate followed a bell-shaped pattern in the Logistic model and a right-skewed distribution in the Gompertz model. …”
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Mechanistic computational modeling of sFLT1 secretion dynamics. by Amy Gill, Karina Kinghorn, Victoria L Bautch, Feilim Mac Gabhann

“…Comparison between simulation predictions and additional experimental data of the outcomes of chemical inhibitors and genetic perturbations suggest that intermediate values of the secretion rate constant best match the simulation with experiments, which would completely constrain the model. …”
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Seroprevalence of scrub typhus among patients with acute febrile illness: A study from northern districts of West Bengal by Santanu Hazra, Arpita P. Dutta, Sumana Moitra, Shampa Das, Sanjoy K. Mallick, Arunabha Sarkar, Binita Pradhan, Ayan Chakraborty, Debapriya Bhowmick, Arnab Saha

“…Background: Scrub typhus is a re-emerging acute febrile illness with a high case fatality rate. Early clinical features are nonspecific and resemble any acute febrile illness, with or without skin rash creating clinical dilemmas. …”
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Influence of bulking materials on the organic matter degradation during composting of cattle manure by Md. Mukhlesur Rahman

“…This study aimed to understand the degradation pattern of cattle manure with different types of bulking materials during composting. …”
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A Parameter-Optimized DBN Using GOA and Its Application in Fault Diagnosis of Gearbox by Jingbo Gai, Junxian Shen, He Wang, Yifan Hu

“…After several tests with the remaining samples, the diagnosis rate of the model could reach over 99.5%, which is far better than the traditional fault diagnosis method based on feature extraction and pattern recognition. …”
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Comparison of growth, photosynthetic, and chlorophyll fluorescence characteristics of different native cultivars in Castanea henryi by XU Bin, WU Jingyi, WU Jianfeng, SU Xinyu, ZHAO Junru, ZHU Zhoujun, LI Jianxin

“…The target leaves were marked and subsequently photoinduced at a light intensity of 1200 μmol·m-2·s-1 for at least 20 minutes until stabilization of the net photosynthetic rate (Pn). The light-response curves were fitted through a rectangular hyperbolic correction model, with parameters recorded including maximum net photosynthetic rate (Pnmax), light saturation point (LSP), apparent quantum efficiency (AQY), light compensation point (LCP), and dark respiration rate (Rd). …”
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Joint Transmit-receive Beam Design of FDA-MIMO Dual-function Radar-communication Systems for Radio-frequency Stealth by Haozheng WU, Chenguang SHI, Jianjiang ZHOU

“…Simultaneously, this method can provide high clutter and interference suppression performance as well as a low communication bit error rate.…”
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Assessing Patients with Chronic Pain Using the Basic Personality Inventory as a Complement to the Multidimensional Pain Inventory by Howard J Burton, Stephen A Kline, Robin Hargadon, Barry S Cooper, Roger D Shick, May C Ong-Lam

“…It was anticipated that this pattern would be independent of sex. In addition, validity of the BPI as a measure of psychological distress among patients with pain was examined using psychiatric diagnostic ratings as independent criteria.…”
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A Novel Deployment Scheme Based on Three-Dimensional Coverage Model for Wireless Sensor Networks by Fu Xiao, Yang Yang, Ruchuan Wang, Lijuan Sun

“…Experimental results show that, compared with traditional random method, sensor nodes number is reduced effectively while coverage rate of monitor area is ensured using our coverage pattern and deterministic deployment scheme.…”
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Mutation Spectrum of the ABCA4 Gene in a Greek Cohort with Stargardt Disease: Identification of Novel Mutations and Evidence of Three Prevalent Mutated Alleles by Kamakari Smaragda, Kokkinou Vassiliki, Koutsodontis George, Stamatiou Polixeni, Giatzakis Christoforos, Anastasakis Anastasios, Aslanides Ioannis Minas, Koukoula Stavrenia, Panagiotoglou Theoni, Datseris Ioannis, Tsilimbaris K. Miltiadis

“…To evaluate the frequency and pattern of disease-associated mutations of ABCA4 gene among Greek patients with presumed Stargardt disease (STGD1). …”
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Effect of acupuncture on endometrial receptivity in women with thin endometrium: study protocol for a single-centre, randomised, sham-controlled trial by Xin Liu, Li Yang, Xiaoyan Wang, Huanfang Xu, Yigong Fang, Pengfei Du, Chenchen Su, Jiashan Li, Weixin Li, Tian Hang, Yaoyao Zhu

“…Secondary outcomes are endometrial pattern, uterine arterial blood flow parameters (Pulsatility Index, Resistance Index and the ratio of peak systolic to end-diastolic blood flow velocities), endometrium blood flow, serum oestradiol concentration, clinical pregnancy rate and Self-Rating Anxiety Scale Scores.Ethics and dissemination This study has been approved by the ethics committee of the Institute of Acupuncture and Moxibustion, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences (approval no.: S2024-04-23-1). …”
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Clinical and brain functional correlates of instrumental rigidity measurement in Parkinson’s disease by Yoshikazu Nakano, Shigeki Hirano, Mitsuyoshi Tamura, Yume Koizumi, Yoshihisa Kitayama, Michiko Izumi, Masahide Suzuki, Kosuke Yamagishi, Yutaro Suzuki, Shinobu Ikeda, Ayaka Arase, Tatsuya Yamamoto, Yoshitaka Yamanaka, Atsuhiko Sugiyama, Kazumoto Shibuya, Takuro Horikoshi, Takashi Uno, David Eidelberg, Satoshi Kuwabara

“…Twentynine patients underwent brain perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), and expression of PD-related covariance pattern (PDRP) was computed. Bias difference and elastic coefficient showed positive correlations with physician-rated rigidity (P < 0.002). …”
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