Percutaneous implantation of self-expandable aortic valve in high risk patients with severe aortic stenosis: The first experiences in Serbia by Nedeljković Milan A., Beleslin Branko, Tešić Milorad, Vukčević Vladan, Stanković Goran, Stojković Siniša, Orlić Dejan, Bilbija Ilija, Matković Miloš, Simić Tijana, Menković Nemanja, Mrdović Igor, Ussia Gian Paolo, Perišić Zoran, Babić Momčilo

“…After 6 months, the survival was 100% with New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional improvement in all the patients. Conclusion. …”
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Influence of coal macerals on carbonization process and sodium storage behavior by Rundong HE, Hang GUO, Zhongchao SUN, Wencui LI

“…The excellent electrochemical properties attributed to its increased interlayer sodium storage sites and concentration of oxygen-containing functional groups.…”
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Sampling biases across interaction types affect the robustness of ecological multilayer networks by Sandra Hervías-Parejo, Anna Traveset, Manuel Nogales, Ruben Heleno, John Llewelyn, Giovanni Strona

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Altered high-density lipoprotein particle structure and antioxidant capacity in preeclampsia by Banjac Gorica, Ardalić Daniela, Cabunac Petar, Ivanišević Jasmina, Vekić Jelena, Miković Željko, Stefanović Aleksandra

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the structural and functional modifications of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) particles during high-risk pregnancies (HRP) for PE development. …”
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Biodiversity gains can be achieved with coastal wetland restoration for plants, invertebrates, birds, and bats by Valerie Hagger, Mathew A Vanderklift, Kieren P. Beaumont, Andrew Olds, Sabine Dittman, Catherine E. Lovelock

“…Plant species composition, species richness in functional groups of birds and bats, bat activity in functional groups, and benthic macroinvertebrate species diversity are promising metrics that could be refined as indicators for a standardised biodiversity method for coastal wetland restoration that could inform biodiversity crediting.…”
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YOLO-SRMX: A Lightweight Model for Real-Time Object Detection on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Shimin Weng, Han Wang, Jiashu Wang, Changming Xu, Ende Zhang

“…Finally, the Wise-IoU loss function is adopted to replace the traditional bounding box loss. …”
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Study of the spatiotemporal evolution of the stress, deformation and creep characteristics of pillars in solid potash mines by Luwei Zhang, Gaofeng Ren, Yongxiang Ge, Congrui Zhang, Xin Wang

“…The exponential function can also effectively characterize the variation in the radial displacement and axial displacement. …”
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Regulation of mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation through tight control of cytochrome c oxidase in health and disease – Implications for ischemia/reperfusion injury, inflammato... by Lucynda Pham, Tasnim Arroum, Junmei Wan, Lauren Pavelich, Jamie Bell, Paul T. Morse, Icksoo Lee, Lawrence I. Grossman, Thomas H. Sanderson, Moh H. Malek, Maik Hüttemann

“…Mitochondria are essential to cellular function as they generate the majority of cellular ATP, mediated through oxidative phosphorylation, which couples proton pumping of the electron transport chain (ETC) to ATP production. …”
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Predicting grip strength-related frailty in middle-aged and older Chinese adults using interpretable machine learning models: a prospective cohort study by Lisheng Yu, Lisheng Yu, Shunshun Cao, Botian Song, Yangyang Hu

“…The SHAP summary plot showed that all features predicted frailty in order of importance, with cognitive function being considered the most important predictive feature. …”
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SLC3A2 as a key anoikis−related gene for prognosis and tumor microenvironment remodeling in melanoma by Xiaojin Liu, Jiaheng Xie, Yingying Xiao

“…The clinical relevance and functional role of SLC3A2 were further validated using the BEST database and in vitro experiments, including shRNA-mediated knockdown, colony formation, and Transwell migration assays. …”
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Effect of SB Addition on Mechanical, Electronic and Thermodynamic Properties of Intermetallic B2-Nial: First Principles Study by Bouchentouf Mohamed Amine, Abdiche Ahmed, Ghaffor Djamel, Mokadem Azzeddine, Beloufa Nabil, Bekheira Samir

“…The calculations were conducted using the WIEN2k code based on the full potential linearized augmented plane wave (FP-LAPW) method within the density functional theory (DFT) framework. Generalized Gradient Approximation (GGA) was employed to approximate the exchange-correlation energy. …”
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Dude, everyone wants pattern analysis tools (DEWPAT): Tools for measuring visual pattern complexity from digital images by Jillian A. Sanderson, Tristan Aumentado‐Armstrong, Charles‐Olivier Dufresne‐Camaro, D. Luke Mahler

“…Abstract Understanding the diversity and function of complex colour patterns is a fundamental interest in ecology and evolutionary biology, but progress on many questions is limited by our ability to quantify diverse visual patterns. …”
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Frequency and Buckling Analysis of FG Beams with Asymmetric Material Distribution and Thermal Effect by Xiaokang Du, Liang Yin, Xian Guo, Yuanzhao Chen, Liang Li, Dingguo Zhang, Sijia Chen

“…The frequency and buckling characteristics of functional gradient (FG) beams with asymmetric material distribution in the temperature field are analyzed in this paper. …”
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Quantifying the regulatory potential of genetic variants via a hybrid sequence-oriented model with SVEN by Yu Wang, Nan Liang, Ge Gao

“…Abstract Deciphering how noncoding DNA determines gene expression is critical for decoding the functional genome. Understanding the transcription effects of noncoding genetic variants are still major unsolved problems, which is critical for downstream applications in human genetics and precision medicine. …”
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Effect of Exercise Preconditioning on Myocardia Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury in Aged Rats by Hongyu LI, Xia YIN, Shiqiang ZHANG, Luwen ZHU, Qiang TANG

“…The changes of cardiac function were recorded by multi-channel physiological recorder before reperfusion and after reperfusion for 30, 60 and 120 minutes; the TTC staining was used to determine infarct area, the colorimetry was used to determine the activity of LDH in coronary effluent, MDA content and SOD activity in myocardial tissue.Results:①Indexes of cardiac function: compared with the Con group at the same time, the indexes of cardiac function[heart rate (HR), left ventricular developed pressure (LVDP), ±dp/dt_max, coronary flow (CF) ]decreased significantly in the IR group before reperfusion and after reperfusion for 30, 60 and 120 min. …”
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A Protocol to Purify Human Mediator Complex From Freestyle 293-F Cells by Hui- Tang, Kuang- Tsai, Ti- Chao

“…The complex is isolated from nuclear extracts through immunoaffinity purification and further purified by glycerol gradient to enhance its homogeneity. This protocol provides a time- and cost-efficient way to purify the endogenous Mediator complex for structural- and functional-based studies.…”
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Multi-dimensional spatial and temporal dynamics of environmental stress and driving factors in the Baiyangdian Basin, China by Siyao Li, Zihua Yuan, Xiao Liu, Xing Gao, Hui Du

“…Furthermore, the Baiyangdian Basin is delineated into four ecological functional zones, providing a scientific basis for refined basin-scale ecological management and sustainable development. …”
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Carbon Emissions From Low‐Order Streams in a Tropical, High‐Elevation, Peatland Ecosystem Are Mediated by Catchment Morphology by Keridwen M. Whitmore, Amanda G. DelVecchia, Elizabeth Farquhar, Gerard Rocher‐Ros, Esteban Suárez, Diego A. Riveros‐Iregui

“…More notably, we found marked, predictable spatial organization in aquatic carbon fluxes as a function of landscape position. For example, pCO2 was consistently high (>10,000 ppm) at locations close to groundwater sources and just downstream of hydrologically connected wetlands, but consistently low (<1,000 ppm) in high gradient locations or river segments with larger drainage areas. …”
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PdYOLO: A Lightweight Algorithm for Detecting Peach Fruits Against a Peach Tree Background by Jiajun Zhang, Jialin Zhang, Kazuki Kobayashi

“…First, the CIOU regression loss function in YOLOv8s is replaced with the WIoUv2 regression loss function, effectively alleviating the negative impact of uneven distribution of positive and negative samples during model training through a more balanced gradient gain distribution strategy, which significantly improves detection accuracy. …”
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Properties of single layer potentials for a pseudo- differential equation related to a linear transformation of a rotationally invariant stable stochastic process by Kh. V. Mamalyha, M. M. Osypchuk

“…The density of this potential is a continuous function. It is bounded with respect to the spatial variable and, probably, has an integrable singularity with respect to the time variable at zero. …”
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