Metatranscriptomics as a tool to identify fungal species and subspecies in mixed communities – a proof of concept under laboratory conditions by Vanesa R. Marcelino, Laszlo Irinyi, John-Sebastian Eden, Wieland Meyer, Edward C. Holmes, Tania C. Sorrell

“…Bulk RNA-seq (metatranscriptomics) has several advantages over DNA-based amplicon sequencing: it is less susceptible to amplification biases, it captures only living organisms, and it enables a larger set of genes to be used for taxonomic identification. …”
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Integrating attention mechanism and boundary detection for building segmentation from remote sensing images by Ping Liu, Yu Gao, Xiangtian Zheng, Hesong Wang, Yimeng Zhao, Xinru Wu, Zehao Lu, Zhichuan Yue, Yuting Xie, Shufeng Hao

“…The attention mechanism module combines attention in the channel and spatial dimensions. The module captures image feature information in the channel dimension using a one-dimensional convolutional cross-channel method and automatically adjusts the cross-channel dimension using adaptive convolutional kernel size. …”
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First fluctuation measurements using an Imaging Neutral Particle Analyzer on DIII-D by K.R. Gage, X.D. Du, W.W. Heidbrink, J. Gonzalez-Martin, D. Liu, A.C. Brown

“…The INPA signal tracked the mode over 150 ms as the mode frequency dropped to zero, capturing both the NTM with poloidal and toroidal mode numbers $m/n = 2/1$ and a $3/2$ mode at double the frequency. …”
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MA-VoxelMorph: Multi-scale attention-based VoxelMorph for nonrigid registration of thoracoabdominal CT images by Qing Huang, Lei Ren, Tingwei Quan, Minglei Yang, Hongmei Yuan, Kai Cao

“…To alleviate the large deformation problem, a multi-scale axial attention mechanism is utilized by using a residual dilated pyramid pooling for multi-scale feature extraction, and position-aware axial attention for long-distance dependencies between pixels capture. To further improve the large deformation and fine structure registration results, a multi-scale context channel attention mechanism is employed utilizing content information via adjacent encoding layers. …”
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A multi-criteria framework for enhancing decision-making in the risk management strategies of a global IT project by Nicoleta-Madalina Stan, Constantin Dorin Olteanu, Aurel Mihail Titu

“…The integration of multiple criteria ensures that the framework captures the intricacies of global IT projects, addressing both tangible and intangible aspects of risk. …”
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Numerical Simulations of GFRP-Reinforced Columns Having Polypropylene and Polyvinyl Alcohol Fibers by Liaqat Ali, Ahsan Nawaz, Yong Bai, Ali Raza, Muhammad Kashif Anwar, Syyed Adnan Raheel Shah, Syed Safdar Raza

“…The comparative study solidly substantiates the validity and applicability of the newly developed FEA models for capturing the AS of GFHF columns by considering the axial involvement of longitudinal GFRP bars and the confinement effect of transverse GFRP spirals. …”
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Evaluation of the Influence of Sensor Geometry and Physical Parameters on Impedance-Based Structural Health Monitoring by L.V. Palomino, K.M. Tsuruta, J.R.V. Mour Jr, D.A. Radea, V. Steffen Jr., D.J. Inman

“…Through these piezoceramic sensor-actuators, the electromechanical impedance, which is directly related to the mechanical impedance of the structure, is obtained as a frequency domain dynamic response. …”
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The nonlinear viscoelasticity and its asymmetry of UV-cured resin under large amplitude oscillatory axial (LAOA) loading by Qiang Zhang, Yangguang Xu, Rui Xiao, Xiangyu Li

“…Besides, the influences of oscillatory frequency and UV exposure time on asymmetric nonlinear viscoelasticity of UV-cured resin under LAOA loading can be captured as well. These approaches are suitable for evaluating the asymmetric nonlinear viscoelasticity of a large category of viscoelastic solid materials under LAOA loading, which is crucial for analyzing the nonlinear viscoelastic mechanism and for corresponding engineering applications.…”
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Predicting Response of Constructed Tunnel to Adjacent Excavation with Dewatering by Panpan Guo, Feifei Liu, Gang Lei, Xian Li, Cheng-wei Zhu, Yixian Wang, Mengmeng Lu, Kang Cheng, Xiaonan Gong

“…Moreover, a parametric analysis is also performed to capture the effects of excavation depth, tunnel-to-excavation distance, initial water level, excavation plan view size, and specific yield on the responses of the constructed tunnels. …”
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Discovery of a sushi domain-containing protein 2-positive phenotype in circulating tumor cells of metastatic breast cancer patients by Kai Bartkowiak, Parinaz Mossahebi Mohammadi, Paula Nissen, Stefan Werner, David Agorku, Antje Andreas, Maria Geffken, Sven Peine, Karl Verpoort, Thomas M. Deutsch, Laura L. Michel, Andreas Schneeweiss, Verena Thewes, Andreas Trumpp, Olaf Hardt, Volkmar Müller, Sabine Riethdorf, Hartmut Schlüter, Klaus Pantel

“…SUSD2-positive CTCs could be captured specifically by a MACS-based approach. We overexpressed SUSD2 in the poorly-metastatic cell line MCF-7. …”
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Carboxylated Graphene: An Innovative Approach to Enhanced IgA-SARS-CoV-2 Electrochemical Biosensing by Luciana de Souza Freire, Ariamna María Dip Gandarilla, Yonny Romaguera Barcelay, Camila Macena Ruzo, Barbara Batista Salgado, Ana P. M. Tavares, Francisco Xavier Nobre, Julio Nino de Souza Neto, Spartaco Astolfi-Filho, Ștefan Țălu, Pritesh Lalwani, Niranjan Patra, Walter Ricardo Brito

“…Biosensors harness biological materials as receptors linked to transducers, enabling the capture and transformation of primary biorecognition signals into measurable outputs. …”
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DeepTGIN: a novel hybrid multimodal approach using transformers and graph isomorphism networks for protein-ligand binding affinity prediction by Guishen Wang, Hangchen Zhang, Mengting Shao, Yuncong Feng, Chen Cao, Xiaowen Hu

“…The model combines the Transformer encoder to extract sequence features from protein and protein pocket, while integrating graph isomorphism networks to capture features from the ligand. This model addresses the limitations of existing methods in exploring protein pocket and ligand features.…”
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Delusions of Glass Under Skin: An Unusual Case of Somatic-Type Delusional Disorder Treated with Olanzapine by Nicholas Comardelle, Amber Edinoff, Juliana Fort

“…The patient has been evaluated by several physicians in the past without any evidence of glass being found. She was able factually able to describe that others viewed her complaints as irrational, but she refused to accept this as truth. …”
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Clinical Outcomes and Patient Experience of Biosimilar to Biosimilar Infliximab Switching in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Prospective, Single-Centre, Phase IV Interv... by Clare Harris, Richard James Harris, David Young, Martin McDonnell, Bridget Clancy, Justin Harvey, Carlos Araujo, Ines Iria, Joao Goncalves, Susan Latter, J. R. Fraser Cummings

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We Are on the Verge of Breakthrough Cures for Type 1 Diabetes, but Who Are the 2 Million Americans Who Have It? by Rebecca Smith, Samara Eisenberg, Aaron Turner-Phifer, Jacqueline LeGrand, Sarah Pincus, Yousra Omer, Fei Wang, Bruce Pyenson

“…We combined this data with information from national population growth projections and literature to construct an actuarial model to project growth of the T1DM population based on current trends and scenarios for 2024, 2029, and 2033. …”
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Enhanced Intrusion Detection in Drone Networks: A Cross-Layer Convolutional Attention Approach for Drone-to-Drone and Drone-to-Base Station Communications by Mohammad Aldossary, Ibrahim Alzamil, Jaber Almutairi

“…Contextual attribute transformation captures the nuanced network behaviors needed for anomaly identification. …”
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Tigers in their new territory: intraspecific interactions among the reintroduced tiger population in Panna Tiger Reserve, Central India by Supratim Dutta, Ramesh Krishnamurthy

“…To investigate spatial interactions, we used Autocorrelated Kernel Density Estimator methods. To capture dynamic interactions at different scales, we calculated Benhamou’s Movement Interaction index and a Correlation Coefficient (Cr) at two critical distance thresholds (Δ500m and 100m). …”
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Gamification Application for Promoting and Encouraging Physical Activity in the Elderly by Narmin Mohammed Noori, Awaz Naaman Saleem, Muhammed Anwar

“…Specifically, the study explores the needs, motivations, and obstacles healthcare workers face concerning this approach. qualitative description method was followed to understand the fundamental perspectives of healthcare professionals, capture the experiences of patients and professionals to ensure reliable and trustworthy results and contribute to the credibility and validity of the study. …”
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Environmental Disinfection Based on Mobile Intelligent Networking Highly Efficient Ultraviolet Light Machines by Chun-Yen Chung, Wen-Tsai Sung, Lin-Chi Wang, Lailatus Siami, John Paul Santos

“…At the same time, a camera on the sterilizer would capture an image and notify the relevant personnel through a LINE notification, to prevent the human body from being exposed to ultraviolet light, causing harm to the teachers and students on campus. …”
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