Detecting and Responding to a Dengue Outbreak: Evaluation of Existing Strategies in Country Outbreak Response Planning by Julia Harrington, Axel Kroeger, Silvia Runge-Ranzinger, Tim O'Dempsey

“…Dengue outbreaks are occurring with increasing frequency and intensity. Evidence-based epidemic preparedness and effective response are now a matter of urgency. …”
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Counterfactual choice and learning in a neural network centered on human lateral frontopolar cortex. by Erie D Boorman, Timothy E Behrens, Matthew F Rushworth

“…Although the neural system responsible for tracking the value of choices actually taken is increasingly well understood, whether a neural system tracks counterfactual information is currently unclear. …”
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Cross-border approach to regions’ smart specialization: experience of the EU member states by Olha Demedyuk, Khrystyna Prytula

“…However, lately, European researchers have been paying increasing attention to the issues of regions’ capacity to overcome the boundaries of administrative units inside the country and abroad and to the need to consider regions in the context of their functioning among others, especially from the viewpoint of the growing role of their innovative networks in global value chains. …”
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Presentation of Financial Assets in the Monetary Statistics by V. N. Salin, O. Y. Sitnikova, L. Y. Arhangelskaya

“…The purpose of the study. Currently, the issues of determining, presenting and analyzing indicators of economic assets, in particular, financial ones, are relevant, since financial assets, along with nonfinancial ones, constitute the most important characteristic of national wealth as a level of development of the country and are the basis for constructing national accounts, indicators of monetary statistics and other sections of macroeconomic statistics. …”
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Fast Decision Making of Point Cloud Video Geometry CU Partition Based on Occupied Pixels by Fengqin Wang, Juanjuan Jia, Qiuwen Zhang

“…The experimental results show that when the proposed method is used to process different dynamic point clouds in All Intra (AI) configuration, the average time of geometric graph obtained after coding is saved by 62.76%, while the BD-TotalRate only increases by 0.04% and 0.10%. Compared with other methods, the coding complexity is reduced. …”
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The Role of Hydrogen Sulfide in the Regulation of the Pulmonary Vasculature in Health and Disease by Philip I. Aaronson

“…In light of evidence that a fall in the partial pressure in oxygen (pO₂) increases cellular sulfide levels, it was proposed that a rise in sulfide in pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (PASMCs) is responsible for hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction, the contraction of PAs which develops rapidly in lung regions undergoing alveolar hypoxia. …”
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Numerical Study of Sedimentation and Flow Pattern at the Open Channel Intake by Rana Al-Zubaidy, Ali N. Hilo

“…The passing flow at side intakes is mostly turbulence containing vertical and horizontal spiral currents causing sediment problems. …”
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Responses of the metabolism of the larvae of Pocillopora damicornis to ocean acidification and warming. by Emily B Rivest, Gretchen E Hofmann

“…Rates of citrate synthase, a rate-limiting enzyme in aerobic metabolism, suggested a biochemical limit for increasing oxidative capacity in coral larvae in a warming, acidifying ocean. …”
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ADDITIVES TO BITUMENS by N. A. Belova, L. P. Korotovenko, N. A. Strakhova

“…Improving the quality of road bitumen is currently particularly relevant, since allows you to extend the life of road asphalt coatings with the ever-increasing fleet of cars. …”
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Image fusion algorithm for the collaborative use of unmanned aerial vehicles by N. V. Levshonkov, I. M. Nafikоv, Y. V. Laryukhina

“…Currently, the applicable scope of unmanned aircraft application is increasingly expanding. …”
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Enhancing CO₂ Fixation in Microalgal Systems: Mechanistic Insights and Bioreactor Strategies by Zhongliang Sun, Chenmei Bo, Shuonan Cao, Liqin Sun

“…Microalgae are small, single-celled, or simple multicellular organisms that contain Chlorophyll a, allowing them to efficiently convert CO₂ and water into organic matter through photosynthesis. …”
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A Review: Classification, Chemical Compositions and Antioxidant Properties of Red, Brown and Green Macroalgae by Ngoc Trang Thuy Nguyen, Thanh Men Tran

“…Since algal products' antioxidant properties and nutritional benefits have been increasingly recognized, their properties as antioxidants require further investigative studies. …”
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Precolumn Derivatization High-Performance Liquid Chromatography for Determination of Perfluorocarboxylic Acids in Catalytic Degradation Solutions by Liping Yang, Binbin Sun, Haochen Cui, Lingyan Zhu, Guoqiang Shan

“…There are a lot of measurement requests in currently increasing degradation studies of PFCAs, which usually rely on expensive liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS). …”
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Genetic diversity of the Plasmodium falciparum GTP-cyclohydrolase 1, dihydrofolate reductase and dihydropteroate synthetase genes reveals new insights into sulfadoxine-pyrimethamin... by Anna Turkiewicz, Emilia Manko, Colin J Sutherland, Ernest Diez Benavente, Susana Campino, Taane G Clark

“…Amplifications are more likely to be present in isolates with a greater accumulation of pfdhfr and pfdhps substitutions (median of 1 additional mutations; P<0.00001), and there was evidence that the frequency of pfgch1 variants may be increasing in some African populations, presumably under the pressure of SP for chemoprophylaxis and anti-folate containing antibiotics used for the treatment of bacterial infections. …”
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Determination of Microbial Properties of Freeze Dried Traditional Cheese by Tuba Büyüksırıt Bedir, Hakan Kuleaşan

“…The use of dried cheese in food production and food preparation sectors is becoming increasingly widespread. Dried cheese is preferred because of their longer shelf life at room temperatures, smaller packaging sizes, practical use, and their ease of homogenization in food products. …”
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Engineered extracellular vesicles for delivering functional Cas9/gRNA to eliminate hepatitis B virus cccDNA and integration by Wanjia Zeng, Liwei Zheng, Yukun Li, Jing Yang, Tianhao Mao, Jing Zhang, Yanna Liu, Jing Ning, Ting Zhang, Hongxin Huang, Xiangmei Chen, Fengmin Lu

“…Moreover, vesicular stomatitis virus-glycoprotein (VSV-G) was incorporated onto the EVs membrane, significantly facilitating the endosomal escape of Cas9 protein and increasing its gene editing activity in recipient cells. …”
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Soil Decomposer Can Regulate the Legacy Effect of Photodegradation on Forest Marcescent Litter Decomposition, but Emerging Microplastics Disrupt This by Kai Tian, Xin Wang, Rumeng Ye, Yingqi Wang, Zhicheng Chen, Xiaojing Liu, Wenxia Wang, Lunguang Yao

“…ABSTRACT Photodegradation—photochemical mineralization of standing litters—often exerts a legacy effect aiding biodegradation in soil (PLE), which is overlooked in deciduous forests containing marcescent leaves. Meanwhile, increasing anthropogenic microplastics have deposited in forests, how they would affect the PLE on subsequent litter bio‐decomposition is currently unknown. …”
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Cytomegalovirus-Specific T Cells from Third-Party Donors Successfully Treated Refractory Cytomegalovirus Retinitis after Unrelated Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation by Na Li, Guangyu Sun, Lihua Zhu, Kang Ding, Huilan Liu, Xiaoyu Zhu, Baolin Tang, Wen Yao, Xiang Wan, Liangquan Geng, Ping Qiang, Kaidi Song, Changcheng Zheng, Zimin Sun, Juan Tong

“…Umbilical cord blood (UCB) transplants (UCBTs) are becoming increasingly common in the treatment of a variety of hematologic and nonhematologic conditions. …”
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iPSC models of mitochondrial diseases by Sonja Heiduschka, Alessandro Prigione

“…Consequently, most mitochondrial diseases are currently untreatable. Human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) represent a promising approach for developing human model systems and assessing therapeutic avenues in a patient- and tissue-specific context. iPSCs are being increasingly used to investigate mitochondrial diseases, either for dissecting mutation-specific defects within two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) progenies or for unveiling the impact of potential treatment options. …”
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In silico identification of silent primycin biosynthetic gene clusters within the family Pseudonocardiaceae by Márk Kovács-Valasek, Csaba Fekete, Andrea Kovács-Valasek

“…In the global effort to discover or design new effective antibiotics to fight infectious diseases, the increasingly available multi-omics data with novel bioinformatics tools open up new horizons for the exploration of the genetic potential of bacteria to synthesize bioactive secondary metabolites. …”
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