A novel RNN architecture to improve the precision of ship trajectory predictions by Martha Dais Ferreira, Jessica N. A. Campbell

“…Currently, the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck (OU) model is considered the state-of-the-art for STP. …”
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Optimal dietary vitamin E level facilitates ovarian development of female largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides) broodstock by Qiuyu Gao, Qiao Feng, Dong Zhou, Zhili Ding, Changle Qi, Youqin Kong, Qiyou Xu

“…The current study was designed to explore the effects of dietary vitamin E on the ovarian development and health of female largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides). …”
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In vitro antitumor and immunomodulatory activities of 1,2,4-oxadiazole derivatives by Héverton Mendes Araújo, Gabriel Acácio de Moura, Yasmim Mendes Rocha, Cristian Vicson Pinheiro Gomes, Valentina Nascimento e Melo de Oliveira, Ronaldo Nascimento de Oliveira, Larissa Deadame de Figueiredo Nicolete, Emanuel Paula Magalhães, Ramon R.P.P.B. de Menezes, Roberto Nicolete

“…Exposure to melanoma murine supernatants also promotes M1 polarization. Supernatants containing traces of 1,2,4-oxadiazole derivative 2 (Supernatants B, C, and D) increased the percentage of M1 cells compared to Supernatant A, as well as elevated levels of nitrite, TNF-α, and IL-12. 1,2,4-oxadiazole derivative 2 combined with Supernatant A and 1,2,4-oxadiazole derivative 2 combined with LPS also resulted in higher M1 polarization, suggesting a synergistic effect on M1 polarization and TNF-α production. …”
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Enhancing Acanthamoeba diagnostics: rapid detection of viable Acanthamoeba trophozoites and cysts using viability PCR assay by J. M. J. Veugen, P. H. M. Savelkoul, R. M. M. A. Nuijts, M. M. Dickman, P. F. G. Wolffs

“…The difference in viable Acanthamoeba was determined by subtracting the cycle threshold (Ct) value of the PMAxx-treated sample from the non-PMAxx-treated sample. Mixtures with decreasing concentrations of viable Acanthamoeba trophozoites and cysts showed increasingly lower delta Ct values as the percentage of viable Acanthamoeba decreased, as expected. …”
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Kalirin, a Key Player in Synapse Formation, Is Implicated in Human Diseases by Prashant Mandela, Xin-Ming Ma

“…In Kalirin-7 knockout mice, spine length, synapse number, and postsynaptic density (PSD) size are decreased in hippocampal CA1 pyramidal neurons; these morphological alterations are accompanied by a deficiency in long-term potentiation (LTP) and a decreased spontaneous excitatory postsynaptic current (sEPSC) frequency. …”
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Kavalactones support motivation to move during intensive training in males preparing for military special operations forces by Sheena Y. Smith, Carlos F. Aylwin, Tyler F. Daniels, Jennifer L. Greer, Laura J. Kunces, Loukia Lili, Stephen M. Phipps, Caleb M. Schmidt, Julian C. Schmidt, Michael A. Schmidt

“…Furthermore, the group taking kavalactones first never experienced a significant decrease in Move motivation state (lowest mean score 21.0, highest 28.6, all p ≥ 0.05), while the group receiving kavalactones in the last 2 weeks of the study had Move scores that were statistically lower than baseline (lowest mean score 8.6, highest 25.9, all p ≤ 0.05) at all time points but the last (p = 0.063) after 2 weeks of kavalactones exposure.Conclusions We report a novel finding that kavalactones may support performance by maintaining or rescuing the desire to expend energy in the context of significant physical and mental strain in well-conditioned individuals, even in a context of already normal cortisol, sleep, and mood.…”
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The Effect of Nitrogen as a Co-Dopant in p-Type NiO:Nb Films on the Photovoltaic Performance of NiO/TiO₂ Transparent Solar Cells by Chrysa Aivalioti, Maria Androulidaki, Katerina Tsagaraki, Emmanouil G. Manidakis, Charidimos Koliakoudakis, Nikolaos T. Pelekanos, Mircea Modreanu, Elias Aperathitis

“…The roughness of the films was increased with the increase in N in plasma. Post-deposition thermal treatment improved the crystallinity and reduced the structural disorder of the films. …”
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Wastewater-Based Epidemiology (WBE): Potential Application for Assessing the Use of Conventional and New Generation Tobacco and Nicotine Products by Scherer Gerhard, Pluym Nikola, Scherer Max

“…In a few studies, the minor tobacco alkaloid anabasine (AB) was measured in WW samples as a specific indicator for tobacco-containing products. The currently available results imply that AB in WW is decreasing faster over time than cotinine in WW does, suggesting that the use of tobacco products (mainly combustible cigarettes, CCs) is gradually replaced by tobacco-free nicotine products such as NRT products, ECs and others.…”
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Contaminants in the Urban Environment: Dioxins by Yun-Ya Yang, Gurpal S. Toor

“…Current releases of dioxins by humans are due to the combustion of fuels and burning of household trash. …”
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The krathis lake, one century of evolution. by Maria GROUMPOU, Pavlos AVRAMIDIS, George ILIOPOULOS, Helen PAPAEFTHYMIOU, Ioannis K. KOUKOUVELAS

“…Sedimentological analysis showed that the current sedimentation is dominated by fine grain material and occasional coarse-grained beds. …”
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Contaminants in the Urban Environment: Dioxins by Yun-Ya Yang, Gurpal S. Toor

“…Current releases of dioxins by humans are due to the combustion of fuels and burning of household trash. …”
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The krathis lake, one century of evolution. by Maria GROUMPOU, Pavlos AVRAMIDIS, George ILIOPOULOS, Helen PAPAEFTHYMIOU, Ioannis K. KOUKOUVELAS

“…Sedimentological analysis showed that the current sedimentation is dominated by fine grain material and occasional coarse-grained beds. …”
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الطريقة القادرية الشاذلية كمنهج الدعوة الإسلامية لمعهد "منهل الناشئين" الإسلامي by Nurul Hayati

“…Today the Muslim community in the capital of Indonesia seem to experience decadency, especially in terms of ethics, manners, association, lifestyle and care for fellow Muslim people who are increasingly indifferent. Another negative impact that is very concerning is the change that tends to lead to a moral crisis in Muslim society today, especially in the younger generation, such as the phenomenon of a free lifestyle, television broadcasts containing films that provoke the Muslim to date, pornography and porn-action. …”
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COVID-19 vaccine misinformation in English-language news media: retrospective cohort study by Peter Lurie, Jordan Adams, Mark Lynas, Karen Stockert, Robyn Correll Carlyle, Amy Pisani, Sarah Davidson Evanega

“…Recent increases in fact-checking may counteract some of the misinformation currently circulating.…”
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Hospital-based innovation labs to accelerate digital health transformation: lessons learned from twenty types of experts by Eric R. Edelman, Joost G. E. Verbeek, Perry Hunen, Martijn de Groot, Nicole van Eldik, Marieke D. Spreeuwenberg

“…Often, organizations already contain the expert knowledge needed to help innovators with these challenges, but highly fragmented. …”
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Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic: Simulation of the Tuberculosis Epidemic as a Function of Population Coverage with Screening by A. A. Starshinova, I. F. Dovgalyuk, N. N. Osipov, D. A. Kudlay

“…The adjusted coefficient of determination of the model (adjusted R-squared) was 0.9969, which meant that the model contained almost no random components. It showed that tuberculosis cases missed due to low population coverage with preventive screening lead to future spread of tuberculous infection and a significant increase in the number of new tuberculosis cases. …”
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Optical Identification of Plasmodium falciparum Malarial Byproduct for Parasite Density Estimation by Jerry Opoku-Ansah, Moses Jojo Eghan, Benjamin Anderson, Johnson Nyarko Boampong, Raymond Edziah, Peter Osei-Wusu Adueming, Charles Lloyd Yeboah Amuah

“…Empirical computation of ratio of the ODs for the blood absorption bands revealed reduction in the ODs with increasing PD. Multispectral images containing uninfected red blood cells (u-RBCs) and P. falciparum‐infected red blood cells (i-RBCs) on unstained blood smear slides exhibited spectrally determined decrease in both reflected and scattered pixel intensities and increase in transmitted pixel intensities with increasing PD. …”
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Corporate Governance Code and Earnings Management by Azam Valizadeh Iarijani, Reyhaneh Iranpour

“…Therefore, it is a type of descriptive research. Also, the current research can be considered correlational research; Because it examines the relationship between variables and their explanation. …”
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SOIL ORGANIC CARBON POTENTIAL OF BOZHURISHTE MUNICIPALITY: A CASE STUDY FROM WESTERN BULGARIA by Borislav GRIGOROV

“…The results of the study display several major zones of a large soil organic carbon pool, located to the northeast and the central parts of the municipality. The section, containing the largest soil organic carbon pool, may experience an increase of 376 400 tons/ha for 20 years in the medium scenario and 499 100 tons/ha in the high scenario. …”
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SOIL ORGANIC CARBON POTENTIAL OF BOZHURISHTE MUNICIPALITY: A CASE STUDY FROM WESTERN BULGARIA by Borislav GRIGOROV

“…The results of the study display several major zones of a large soil organic carbon pool, located to the northeast and the central parts of the municipality. The section, containing the largest soil organic carbon pool, may experience an increase of 376 400 tons/ha for 20 years in the medium scenario and 499 100 tons/ha in the high scenario. …”
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