Adaptive evolution of stress response genes in parasites aligns with host niche diversity by Armando J. Cruz-Laufer, Maarten P. M. Vanhove, Lutz Bachmann, Maxwell Barson, Hassan Bassirou, Arnold R. Bitja Nyom, Mare Geraerts, Christoph Hahn, Tine Huyse, Gyrhaiss Kapepula Kasembele, Samuel Njom, Philipp Resl, Karen Smeets, Nikol Kmentová

“…We comparatively investigated antioxidant, heat shock, osmoregulatory, and behaviour-related genes (foraging) in two model parasitic flatworm lineages with contrasting ecological diversity, Cichlidogyrus and Kapentagyrus (Platyhelminthes: Monopisthocotyla), through whole-genome sequencing of 11 species followed by in silico exon bait capture as well as phylogenetic and codon analyses. …”
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Preferential Water Infiltration Path in a Slow-Moving Clayey Earthslide Evidenced by Cross-Correlation of Hydrometeorological Time Series (Charlaix Landslide, French Western Alps) by Grégory Bièvre, Agnès Joseph, Catherine Bertrand

“…On the contrary, the water table located above the shear surface has a very contrasting behaviour between summer (mainly drainage) and winter (behaviour similar to the phreatic water table with storage of water during a few weeks). …”
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Data Augmentation-Based Enhancement for Efficient Network Traffic Classification by Chang-Yui Shin, Yang-Seo Choi, Myung-Sup Kim

“…We applied two fundamentally contrasting methods to augment traffic data, depending on whether the basis of data augmentation is individual data or the entire data. …”
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Uma reforma trabalhista paralela: a tentativa de aplicação dos princípios da Lei da Liberdade Econômica às relações de trabalho em descompasso com a proteção constitucional conferi... by Daisy Doro Perez, Lourival José de Oliveira

“…Em seguida, foram estudados os novos parâmetros trazidos pela lei, no tocante à ampliação da liberdade contratual, limitação da atuação do Estado e redefinição da função social e sua aplicação às novas relações de trabalho, sob o prisma do princípio da primazia da realidade. …”
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Comprehensive Environmental Monitoring System for Industrial and Mining Enterprises Using Multimodal Deep Learning and CLIP Model by Shuqin Wang, Na Cheng, Yan Hu

“…Addressing the challenges of limited accuracy in anomaly detection within comprehensive environmental monitoring of industrial and mining enterprises, and the constraints posed by singular data modalities, this study proposes an integration of a multimodal Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model with the Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) model. …”
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Refined Mapping of Subsurface Water Ice on Mars to Support Future Missions by G. A. Morgan, N. E. Putzig, D. M. H. Baker, A. Pathare, C. M. Dundas, M. B. Russell, M. R. Perry, M. Chojnacki, H. G. Sizemore, A. M. Bramson, E. I. Petersen, S. Nerozzi, R. H. Hoover, Z. Bain

“…The new mapping incorporates both an enhancement in our mapping of geomorphic features and surveys of thermal contraction crack polygons. Our results demonstrate the highly variable nature of the spatial distribution of the shallowest ground ice, with the most equatorward excursions occurring below 30° latitude N/S, locations thought to be out of equilibrium with the current climate.…”
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Differences in Clinical and Imaging Features between Asymptomatic and Symptomatic COVID-19 Patients by Xi Ma, Zhi-Yan Lu, Yan-Juan Qu, Li-Hong Xing, Yu Zhang, Yi-Bo Lu, Li Dong, Hong-Jun Li, Li Li, Xiao-Ping Yin, Chuan-Jun Xu

“…In early improvement stage, the lesion was rapidly absorbed, and lesions were located primarily at the peripheral area in asymptomatic carriers; contrastingly, lesions were primarily located at both the central and peripheral areas in symptomatic patients. …”
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Adaptive potential of durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) varieties of Azerbaijan by Kh. N. Rustamov, Z. I. Akparov, M. A. Abbasov

“…The experiments were carried out in the foothills of Mountainous Shirvan under unsecured non-irrigation at Gobustan Experiment Station of the Research Institute of Crop Husbandry. In 2012–2014, contrasting in weather conditions, levels and structure of yield were analyzed. …”
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Development of Hybrid Intrusion Detection System Leveraging Ensemble Stacked Feature Selectors and Learning Classifiers to Mitigate the DoS Attacks by P. Mamatha, S. Balaji, S. Sai Anuraghav

“…All the trials in this framework were accompanied utilizing CICDDoS-2019 datasets and contrasted with the other similar models. The validation boundaries such as accuracy, precision, recall, specificity, and F1-score are used to evaluate the proposed framework. …”
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Evaluating climatic warming and the modulating effects of surface water and regional variables in western Bangladesh by Hatef Dastour, Md. Mahbub Alam, Ashraf Dewan, Quazi K. Hassan

“…A clear longitudinal pattern emerged, showing an inverse correlation (-0.80) between maximum air temperature and longitude in March, contrasted by a positive correlation (0.71) for relative humidity during the same period. …”
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A Proposed Keyword Taxonomy for Operations Management Research by Juan A. Marin-Garcia, Julien Maheut, Pilar I. Vidal-Carreras

“…The three authors employed an iterative process to define and validate the first-level terms, contrasting them with sources such as Gass & Fu (2013), Helms (2006), and the APICS thesaurus. …”
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Greenhouse gas emissions from digestate in soil by Maria Dietrich, Monica Fongen, Bente Foereid

“…<br /> <strong>Methods</strong> In an incubation experiment, GHG emissions from two contrasting soils (chernozem and sandy soil) were compared after the application of digestate products sampled from the process chain of a food waste biogas plant: raw substrate, digestate (with and without bentonite addition), digestates after separation of liquid and solid phase and composted solid digestate. …”
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¿Una nación en bosquejos? Procesos de identificación aymara en Chile durante el periodo transicional, 1990-1993 by Cristina Oyarzo

“…This material was triangulated with information obtained from congresses and relevant regulations and contrasted with a specialized bibliography, following the approach of the history of political languages and everyday nationalism. …”
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Neutrophil Gelatinase-Associated Lipocalin in Kidney Transplantation Is an Early Marker of Graft Dysfunction and Is Associated with One-Year Renal Function by Isabel Fonseca, José Carlos Oliveira, Manuela Almeida, Madalena Cruz, Anabela Malho, La Salete Martins, Leonídio Dias, Sofia Pedroso, Josefina Santos, Luísa Lobato, António Castro Henriques, Denisa Mendonça

“…Shortly after KTx (3–6 h), uNGAL values were higher in DGF recipients (on average +242 ng/mL, considering mean dialysis time of 4.1 years) and rose further in following days, contrasting with prompt function recipients. Day-1 uNGAL levels accurately predicted DGF (AUC-ROC = 0.93), with a performance higher than serum creatinine (AUC-ROC = 0.76), and similar to cystatin C (AUC-ROC = 0.95). …”
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SSL-MBC: Self-Supervised Learning With Multibranch Consistency for Few-Shot PolSAR Image Classification by Wenmei Li, Hao Xia, Bin Xi, Yu Wang, Jing Lu, Yuhong He

“…Therefore, a multibranch contrastive SSL framework, without negative samples, is employed to efficiently achieve representation learning. …”
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A Novel Multi-Attribute Decision-Making Method for Supplier Selection in the Health Care Industry Using Cosine Similarity Measures of Single-Valued Neutrosophic Cubic Hypersoft Set... by Muhammad Sajid, Khuram Ali Khan, Jaroslav Frnda, Atiqe Ur Rahman

“…For a given circumstance, no ranking method can ensure trustworthy selection. By contrasting their results with current similarity measures, the suggested decision-making problems involving many criteria and their sub-criteria are verified.…”
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Exploring the sequential structure of students’ physics problem-solving approaches using process mining and sequence analysis by Paul Tschisgale, Marcus Kubsch, Peter Wulff, Stefan Petersen, Knut Neumann

“…Our findings revealed that low-performing problem solvers often lack structure in their problem-solving approaches, contrasting with notably more systematic approaches of the high-performing problem solvers. …”
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Challenges and Opportunities for Maximizing the Utilization of the New Development Bank in Brazil by Bruno De Conti, Cyro Faccin

“…Our hypothesis suggests that despite the recent surge in operations, there remains room for advancement, particularly in light of the political developments unfolding in Brazil in 2023.Methodologically, the study hinges on analyzing NDB financial data, conducting interviews with pertinent stakeholders in Brazil, and scrutinizing and contrasting the financing institutional frameworks of the NDB and the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES). …”
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Compound lactic acid bacteria enhance the aerobic stability of Sesbania cannabina and corn mixed silage by Muhammad Tahir, Tianwei Wang, Jiaqi Zhang, Tianqi Xia, Xian Deng, Xiaofeng Cao, Jin Zhong

“…The high aerobic stability of the LAB-treated mixed silages especially S7C3 contrasted with the low acetic acid concentrations in the CK mixed silages (processed with sterilized water), concomitant with increased Kazachstania humilis abundance. …”
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Tritordeum, barley landraces and ear photosynthesis are key players in cereal resilience under future extreme drought conditions by Ander Yoldi-Achalandabaso, Aitor Agirresarobe, Artūrs Katamadze, Giulia Burini, Omar Vergara-Díaz, Mariana Mota, Cristina Oliveira, Usue Pérez-López, Rubén Vicente

“…For that, we conducted an innovative approach combining a late-sowing field trial with two contrasting water regimes to simulate future extreme drought conditions, the use of high-throughput phenotyping devices and an infrared gas analyser to characterise leaf and ear photosynthesis, biochemistry, growth, and stress responses during the reproductive stage, and a novel linear mixed-effects model to integrate these results with final agronomical data. …”
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