Do Activity Sensors Identify Physiological, Clinical and Behavioural Changes in Laying Hens Exposed to a Vaccine Challenge? by Hyungwook Kang, Sarah Brocklehurst, Marie Haskell, Susan Jarvis, Victoria Sandilands

“…The experiment comprised 5 replicate batches (4 hens and 12 days per batch) using previously non-vaccinated hens (<i>n</i> = 20). …”
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Development of a Diagnostic Model for Focal Segmental Glomerulosclerosis: Integrating Machine Learning on Activated Pathways and Clinical Validation by Ge Y, Liu X, Shu J, Jiang X, Wu Y

“…This study seeks to enhance the diagnostic accuracy of FSGS by integrating machine learning approaches to identify activated pathways, complemented by robust clinical validation.Methods: We analyzed data from 163 FSGS patients and 42 living donors across multiple GEO cohorts via the ComBat algorithm to address batch effects and ensure the comparability of gene expression profiles. …”
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The application of artificial intelligence models in predicting the risk of diabetic foot: a multicenter study by Yao Li, Siyuan Zhou, Bichen Ren, Shuai Ju, Xiaoyan Li, Wenqiang Li, Bingzhe Li, Yunmin Cai, Chunlei Chang, Lihong Huang, Zhihui Dong

“…An application was developed integrating these models, offering both single and batch prediction options with visualization tools for clinical use. …”
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Fine-tuned deep transfer learning: an effective strategy for the accurate chronic kidney disease classification by Zeshan Aslam Khan, Muhammad Waqar, Hashir Ullah Khan, Naveed Ishtiaq Chaudhary, Abeer TMA Khan, Iqra Ishtiaq, Farrukh Aslam Khan, Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja

“…After the comprehensive hyperparameters tuning with respect to changes in learning rates, batch sizes, and optimizers, it is depicted that the designed fine-tuned EfficientNetV2B0 network of 23.8 MB in size with only 6.2 million architectural parameters shows substantial diagnostic performance by achieving a generalized test accuracy of 99.75% on balanced CT kidney database. …”
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Progress on Effect of Clay Mineral-Biocomposite Colloids on Radionuclides Migration and Mechanism by Qing-feng TANG, Zhen XU, Ya-lou SUN, Qi ZHANG, Qi TAN, Duo-qiang PAN, Wang-suo WU

“…Under laboratory conditions, the interaction mechanism between colloids and nuclides is mainly studied by using aggregation kinetics experiments, static adsorption batch experiments, column migration experiments, and advanced spectroscopic characterization methods such as transmission electron microscopy(TEM), fourier transform infrared spectroscopy(FTIR), and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy(TRLFS), etc. …”
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Identification of immune subtypes associated with CD8+ T cell-related genes providing new treatment strategies of esophageal carcinoma by Youyi Wu, Chen Lin, Chen Lin, Yuchen Qian, Xiaowei Huang, Yajing Xu, Jiayi Li, Youdi He, Congying Xie, Huafang Su

“…Here, we aimed to identify immune subtypes associated with CD8+ T cell-related genes to predict the efficacy of treatment in esophageal cancer (ESCA).MethodsWe obtained 13 immune cell-related datasets from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database and removed batch effects. Weighted correlation network analysis (WGCNA) and co-expression analysis were performed to identify highly correlated CD8+ T cell genes. …”
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OBSCN undergoes extensive alternative splicing during human cardiac and skeletal muscle development by Ali Oghabian, Per Harald Jonson, Swethaa Natraj Gayathri, Mridul Johari, Ella Nippala, David Gomez Andres, Francina Munell, Jessica Camacho Soriano, Maria Angeles Sanchez Duran, Juha Sinisalo, Heli Tolppanen, Johanna Tolva, Peter Hackman, Marco Savarese, Bjarne Udd

“…The differential splicing analysis was adjusted for batch effects. Our comparisons revealed the splicing variations in OBSCN between the human skeletal and cardiac muscle, as well as between post-natal muscle (skeletal and cardiac) and the pre-natal equivalent muscle. …”
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Lightweight pose estimation spatial-temporal enhanced graph convolutional model for miner behavior recognition by WANG Jianfang, DUAN Siyuan, PAN Hongguang, JING Ningbo

“…The generated skeleton sequences were processed by the BN layer for batch normalization, and the miner behavior features were extracted through the multi-dimensional feature-enhanced graph convolution module. …”
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The effect of ultrasonic waves on the amount of total coliform and E-coli in municipal wastewater sludge by Farshad Golbabaei Kootenaei, Nasser Mehrdadi, Mahdi Asadi-Ghalhari, Gholamreza Nabi Bidhendi, Hassan Amini Rad

“…The purpose of this study is to determine the effect of ultrasonic waves with a low wavelength to improve removal rate of total coliform and Escherichia coli in sludge and determine the optimum operating parameters of the ultrasonic method.Materials and methods: This study is a cross-sectional study that was conducted in a laboratory-scale batch. Accordingly, during two seasons, 12 samples were taken at an interval of 15 days. …”
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Douglas fir biochar enriched with plant nutrients as a controlled release fertilizer by Prashan M. Rodrigo, Jac J. Varco, Beatrice Arwenyo, Mary G. Paganucci, Hashani P. Abeysinghe, Joshua A. Hartley, Allie C. Davis, Chanaka M. Navarathna, Rooban V.K.G. Thirumalai, Xuefeng Zhang, Charles U. Pittman, Jr., Todd E. Mlsna

“…The releasing behaviors of NH4+, PO43-, K+, and Mg2+ were investigated through a series of batch leaching experiments at different pHs (1−13), different water matrices, and three different temperatures (5, 25, and 40 °C), as well as fixed-bed continuous flow column experiments. …”
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Production and characterisation of a SARS-CoV-2 S-protein RBD homodimer with increased avidity for specific antibodies by A. A. Derkaev, E. I. Ryabova, V. V. Prokofiev, I. A. Favorskaya, D. M. Grousova, I. B. Esmagambetov, I. V. Dolzhikova, D. V. Shcheblyakov

“…The study demonstrated the recombinant RBD’s ability to homodimerise after fed-batch cultivation of the cell line for more than 7 days due to the presence of unpaired cysteines. …”
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Oligosaccharide production using β-galactosidase from Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Kluyveromyces lactis in sweetened reconstituted nonfat dry milk by Giselle K.P. Guron, Arland T. Hotchkiss, Jr., Brittany H. Bodnar, Andrew Harron, John A. Renye, Jr., Michael J. McAnulty

“…Sucrose (14.4%, wt/wt), corn syrup solids (14.4%, wt/wt), or a mixture of sucrose (9.9%, wt/wt) and corn syrup solids (4.5%, wt/wt) were dissolved with NDM (n = 3), then heated with stirring for 30 min at 70°C for batch pasteurization. For Lactobacillus strains, whole cells were inoculated at 7 log cfu/mL, or the same quantity of cells was lysed before adding to the milk and carbohydrate mixtures, or 1.85 U of KL B-gal was used. …”
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Evaluation of Clavulanic Acid Adsorption in MgAl-Layered Double Hydroxides: Kinetic, Equilibrium and Thermodynamic Studies by Marcus Bruno Soares Forte, Élen Cristina Luna Elias, Heloise O. Pastore, Francisco Maugeri Filho, Maria Isabel Rodrigues

“…Adsorption studies were performed in stirred batch glass reactors. Assays were performed using solutions under different conditions, as well as variable solid/liquid ratios. …”
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Leveraging multiple labeled datasets for the automated annotation of single-cell RNA and ATAC data by Joseba Sancho-Zamora, Akash Kanhirodan, Xabier Garrote, Juan Manuel Silva Rojas, Olivier Gevaert, Mikel Hernaez, Guillermo Serrano, Idoia Ochoa

“…However, assembling these atlases is challenging due to batch effects and the need for accurate and consistent cell annotation. …”
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Combined analysis of embryonic gonadal development differences of mulard duck and muscovy duck using long non-coding RNAs and mRNAs by LI Li, ZHANG Linli, XIN Qingwu, MIAO Zhongwei, ZHU Zhiming, QIU Junzhi, HAO Xiaona, HUANG Qinlou, ZHENG Nenzhu

“…In summary, this study obtains a batch of key mRNAs and lncRNAs that may affect duck embryonic gonadal development, and it is speculated that the differential lncRNAs can regulate the expression of differential genes. …”
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Pilot-scale acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentation from corn stover by Changsheng Su, Di Cai, Honggang Zhang, Yilu Wu, Yongjie Jiang, Yicheng Liu, Changwei Zhang, Chunling Li, Peiyong Qin, Tianwei Tan

“…Results revealed that appropriate pH management during the fed-batch cultivation could largely decrease the inhibition of the toxic components in undetoxified SECSH to the solventogenesis phase of the ABE-P1201 strains, avoiding “acid crash”. …”
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Effective adsorptive removal of triclosan from water using bio-nanocomposite hydrogel beads by Vuyo Moses Mollo, Vuyo Moses Mollo, Mthokozisi Mnguni, Mthokozisi Mnguni, Diseko Boikanyo, Philiswa Nosizo Nomngongo, Philiswa Nosizo Nomngongo, James Ramontja

“…The response surface methodology was used to optimise the experimental parameters affecting the batch adsorption of triclosan onto the surface of the adsorbent. …”
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Long short-term memory (LSTM) networks for precision prediction of Schottky barrier photodiode behavior at different illumination levels by Gökalp Tulum, Sajjad Nematzadeh, İlke Taşçıoğlu, Şemsettin Altındal, Fahrettin Yakuphanoğlu

“…Hyperparameters, including the number of epochs (150) and batch size (64), were determined empirically to balance computational efficiency and model performance. …”
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Metabolic engineering of Komagataella phaffii for enhanced 3-hydroxypropionic acid (3-HP) production from methanol by Sílvia Àvila-Cabré, Joan Albiol, Pau Ferrer

“…The strain combining PYC2, ESBP6, and JEN1 overexpression was further tested in fed-batch cultures at pH 5, achieving a 3-HP concentration of 27.0 g l− 1, with a product yield of 0.19 g g− 1, and a volumetric productivity of 0.56 g l− 1 h− 1 for the methanol feeding phase of the cultivations. …”
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Development and validation of a machine-learning-based model for identification of genes associated with sepsis-associated acute kidney injury by Chen Lin, Meng Zheng, Wensi Wu, Zhishan Wang, Guofeng Lu, Shaodan Feng, Xinlan Zhang

“…Understanding the underlying molecular mechanisms linking sepsis and AKI is critical for the development of effective diagnostic tools and therapeutic strategies.MethodsWe used two sepsis (GSE57065 and GSE28750) and three AKI (GSE30718, GSE139061, and GSE67401) datasets from the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) for model development and validation, and performed batch effect mitigation, differential gene, and functional enrichment analysis using R software packages. …”
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