Snow Leopard habitat vulnerability assessment under climate change and connectivity corridor in Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, China by Wei Cong, Jia Li, Yi Zhang, Taifu Huang, Shuaishuai Gao, Jianhua Yu, Yuguang Zhang, Diqiang Li

“…Currently, suitable habitats are fragmented, with low connectivity among patches, posing threats to the snow leopard population. …”
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Nitrite reverses nitroglycerin tolerance via repletion of a nitrodilator-activated nitric oxide store in vascular smooth muscle cells by Taiming Liu, Meijuan Zhang, Qian Li, Hobe Schroeder, Gordon G. Power, Arlin B. Blood

“…Intraperitoneal nitrite prevented NTG tolerance in coronary arteries of rats that received NTG transdermal patches for 4 days, and potentiated NTG- and GSNO- mediated mesenteric vasodilation in intact rats. …”
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Efficient 3D convolutional neural networks for Sentinel-2 land cover classification with limited ground truth data by Gabriel A. Carneiro, Jan Svoboda, António Cunha, Joaquim J. Sousa, Přemysl Štych

“…The input dataset included S-2 data, along with NDVI, NDVI variance, and SRTM elevation data, all resampled to the 10 m S-2 grid and forming multi-dimensional input 5 × 5 pixel patches. The results show that a 3D CNN with 3 × 3 × 3 spatial-spectral filters and classical training achieved the best F1 score of 0.84, outperforming other proposed CNN architectures and a baseline Random Forest classifier. …”
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Aridity and Soil Properties Drive the Shrub–Herb Interactions Along Drought Gradient in Desert Grassland in Inner Mongolia by Huiyang Hou, Yuzhen Zhang, Jianwei Zhou, Yanjun Guo, Huijuan Liu, Yuanheng Li, Shaobo Gao

“…We investigated the vegetation and soil within 60 shrub patches and their paired interspaces at 20 sites from the northeast to southwest desert steppe of Inner Mongolia, China, encroached by the <i>Caragana microphylla</i> shrub. …”
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Polarization-selective metamaterial absorber using tailored Y-shaped SRR for UWB device and Doppler navigation aids applications by Sayed Mahmud, Apurba Ray Chowdhury, Saif Hannan, Mohammad Tariqul Islam, Ahmed S. Alshammari, Mohamed S. Soliman

“…The proposed bent Y-shaped structure, fabricated on an FR-4 substrate with copper patches, showcases remarkable performance across a diverse frequency spectrum. …”
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Aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase urzymes optimized by deep learning behave as a quasispecies by Sourav Kumar Patra, Nicholas Randolph, Brian Kuhlman, Henry Dieckhaus, Laurie Betts, Jordan Douglas, Peter R. Wills, Charles W. Carter Jr.

“…Urzymes require design to connect disjoint pieces and repair naked nonpolar patches created by removing large domains. Rosetta allowed us to create the first urzymes, but those urzymes were only sparingly soluble. …”
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Characteristics of Ionospheric Irregularities Using GNSS Scintillation Indices Measured at Jang Bogo Station, Antarctica (74.62°S, 164.22°E) by Junseok Hong, Jong‐Kyun Chung, Yong Ha Kim, Jaeheung Park, Hyuck‐Jin Kwon, Jeong‐Han Kim, Jong‐Min Choi, Young‐Sil Kwak

“…Phase scintillation phenomenon is known to occur frequently at high latitudes and primarily related to a significant plasma density gradient, which is due to fast plasma flows in the polar region, energetic particle precipitation in the auroral region, polar cap patches, or several instability mechanisms. Statistical studies are required to understand the characteristics of ionospheric (both phase and amplitude) scintillations at high latitudes. …”
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A core-surface flow model derived from magnetic data of Macau Science Satellite-1 by JinFeng Li, YuFeng Lin, HongBo Yao, JuYuan Xu, Keke Zhang

“…Additionally, the framework infers small-scale magnetic fields at the core-mantle boundary, highlighting split flux concentrations and localized high-latitude patches.…”
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ICT-Net: A Framework for Multi-Domain Cross-View Geo-Localization with Multi-Source Remote Sensing Fusion by Min Wu, Sirui Xu, Ziwei Wang, Jin Dong, Gong Cheng, Xinlong Yu, Yang Liu

“…Furthermore, capitalizing on the Transformer’s flexible input processing mechanism, we develop an attention-guided non-uniform cropping strategy that dynamically eliminates redundant image patches with minimal impact on localization accuracy, thereby achieving enhanced computational efficiency. …”
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Development and Validation of a Smartphone Heart Rate Acquisition Application for Health Promotion and Wellness Telehealth Applications by Mathew J. Gregoski, Martina Mueller, Alexey Vertegel, Aleksey Shaporev, Brenda B. Jackson, Ronja M. Frenzel, Sara M. Sprehn, Frank A. Treiber

“…The Android application provides valid HRs at varying levels of movement free mental/perceptual motor exertion. Lack of electrode patches or wireless sensor telemetric straps make it advantageous for use in mobile-cell-phone-delivered health promotion and wellness programs. …”
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Ecological and Phytochemical Studies on Euphorbia retusa (Forssk.) from Egyptian Habitat by Mohamed Shaaban, Mahmoud Ali, Michel Feussi Tala, Abdelaaty Hamed, Amal Zaki Hassan

“…Ecologically, Euphorbia retusa secretes white sap inhibiting the growth of the other species, so Euphorbia retusa is forming complete patches. Phytochemical study of the plant was visualized intensively based on its extraction with a protic organic solvent, working up and purifying its entire bioactive compounds using a series of different chromatographic techniques. …”
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Seasonal mechanical behaviour of Elymus spec. for the assessment of ecosystem services by Qiyue Liu, Jintian Liu, Steven Kutschke, Viktoria Kosmalla, David Schürenkamp, Nils Goseberg, Markus Böl

“…On the other hand, they are particularly valuable for modelling of coastal erosion, vegetation patches or culm-fluid interactions.…”
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Region‐based fully convolutional networks with deformable convolution and attention fusion for steel surface defect detection in industrial Internet of Things by Meixia Fu, Jiansheng Wu, Qu Wang, Lei Sun, Zhangchao Ma, Chaoyi Zhang, Wanqing Guan, Wei Li, Na Chen, Danshi Wang, Jianquan Wang

“…The average precision of defect crazing, inclusion, patches, pitted‐surface, rolled‐in scale and scratches on NEU‐DET is 58.2%, 82.3%, 95.7%, 85.6%, 75.9%, and 87.9% respectively.…”
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Roughness and Energy Losses Induced by Mussel Growth on the Walls of Hydraulic Structures and Application to a Water Transfer Project by Jiahao Zhang, Mengzhen Xu, Boris Huber, Markus Grünzner, Koen Blanckaert

“…The third contribution is the development of a method based on 3‐D numerical simulations for estimating a Darcy‐Weisbach friction factor f for walls that are only partially covered with patches of mussels. An application example illustrates how the thus obtained f can be used in a 1‐D model for quantifying the additional energy losses in large water transfer projects.…”
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Adaptive Pixel-Level and Superpixel-Level Feature Fusion Transformer for Hyperspectral Image Classification by Wei Huang, Dazhan Zhou, Le Sun, Qiqiang Chen, Junru Yin

“…Despite transformers possess strong long-range dependence modeling capabilities, they primarily extract nonlocal information from patches and often fail to fully capture global information, leading to incomplete spectral-spatial feature extraction. …”
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Perioperative Pain Management for Mastectomy in Dogs: A Narrative Review by Giada Giambrone, Giuseppe Catone, Gabriele Marino, Alessandra Sfacteria, Renato Miloro, Cecilia Vullo

“…Epidural analgesia, paravertebral blocks, and TAP blocks are beneficial in multimodal protocols. Transdermal patches containing fentanyl/buprenorphine offer prolonged analgesia, while electroacupuncture can help reduce the need for rescue analgesics. …”
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Pre-training on high-resolution X-ray images: an experimental study by Xiao Wang, Yuehang Li, Wentao Wu, Jiandong Jin, Yao Rong, Bo Jiang, Chuanfu Li, Jin Tang

“…Our model employs the masked auto-encoder framework, wherein the tokens that have been processed with a high rate are used as input, and the masked image patches are reconstructed by means of the Transformer encoder-decoder network. …”
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Financial Feasibility of Developing Sustained-Release Incrementally Modified Drugs in Thailand’s Pharmaceutical Industry: Mixed Methods Study by Manthana Laichapis, Rungpetch Sakulbumrungsil, Khunjira Udomaksorn, Nusaraporn Kessomboon, Osot Nerapusee, Charkkrit Hongthong, Sitanun Poonpolsub

“…ResultsThe research and development (R&D) process for sustained-release IMDs takes 7 years for phase I–only development, costing US $1.46‐3.09 million, and 11 years for full clinical trials, costing US $18.60‐20.23 million. Process validation batches accounted for 60% of costs in phase I–only scenarios, while clinical trials represented 70% of costs in full clinical trial scenarios. …”
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Quality control of injectable artesunate marketed in Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo by Emile TWENI BARUTI, Jérémie Mbinze Kindenge, Jordan Mwanga Maombi, Luc Shabani Mitongo, Justin Kadima Ntokamunda, Roland Marini Djang'eing'a

“…Methods A prospective qualitative and quantitative study was conducted from February to May 2024, involving 30 batches of injectable artesunate collected from pharmacies across the six municipalities of Kisangani. …”
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Inositol Pyrophosphate Profiling of Two HCT116 Cell Lines Uncovers Variation in InsP8 Levels. by Chunfang Gu, Miranda S C Wilson, Henning J Jessen, Adolfo Saiardi, Stephen B Shears

“…In the current study, we describe two batches of diverged HCT116 cells, which we designate as HCT116NIH and HCT116UCL. …”
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