Confocal Live Imaging of Reproductive Organs Development in Arabidopsis by Binghan Wang, Amélie Bauer, Andrea Gómez-Felipe, Sylvia Silveira, Daniel Kierzkowski

“…Understanding how multicellular organisms are shaped requires high-resolution, quantitative data to unravel how biological structures grow and develop over time. …”
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An automated network-based tool to search for metabolic vulnerabilities in cancer by Luis V. Valcárcel, Edurne San José-Enériz, Raquel Ordoñez, Iñigo Apaolaza, Danel Olaverri-Mendizabal, Naroa Barrena, Ana Valcárcel, Leire Garate, Jesús San Miguel, Antonio Pineda-Lucena, Xabier Agirre, Felipe Prósper, Francisco J. Planes

“…Here, we present gmctool, a freely accessible online tool that allows us to accomplish this task in a simple, efficient and intuitive environment. gmctool exploits the concept of genetic Minimal Cut Sets (gMCSs), a theoretical approach to synthetic lethality based on genome-scale metabolic networks, including a unique database of synthetic lethals computed from Human1, the most recent metabolic reconstruction of human cells. gmctool introduces qualitative and quantitative improvements over our previously developed algorithms to predict, visualize and analyze metabolic vulnerabilities in cancer, demonstrating a superior performance than competing algorithms. …”
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Targeting ocular tissues with intravenously administered aptamers selected by in vivo SELEX by Sonja Korhonen, Katja Stenberg, Umair Seemab, Piia Bartos, Katariina Mäkiniemi, Jørgen Kjems, Daniel Miotto Dupont, Astrid Subrizi

“…Drugs and carrier molecules that penetrate ocular tissues after intravenous administration are needed for more efficient and patient-friendly treatment of ocular diseases. …”
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TPA and PET Photo-Degradation by Heterogeneous Catalysis Using a (Al₂O₃)_0.75TiO₂ Coating by Mónica A. Camacho-González, Alberto Hernández-Reyes, Aristeo Garrido-Hernández, Octavio Olivares-Xometl, Natalya V. Likhanova, Irina V. Lijanova

“…The combination of the catalytic properties of Al₂O_3/TiO₂ formed an efficient system to degrade the ubiquitous pollutants TPA and PET. …”
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Proton-coupled electron transfer controls peroxide activation initiated by a solid-water interface by Jian-Hua Chen, Wan-Ting Li, Kun-Yu Cai, Hui-Jie Tu, Zi-Tong Long, Shoaib Akhtar, Lin-Dong Liu

“…These findings will inform future developments in O–O activation technologies, enabling more efficient redox activity via the tight coupling of protons and electrons.…”
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Cabazitaxel suppresses colorectal cancer cell growth via enhancing the p53 antitumor pathway by Wen Zhang, Ruiqian Sun, Yongjun Zhang, Rong Hu, Qian Li, Weili Wu, Xinyu Cao, Jiajian Zhou, Jianfeng Pei, Ping Yuan

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Quantifying the Detection Sensitivity and Precision of qPCR and ddPCR Mechanisms for eDNA Samples by Gledis Guri, Jessica Louise Ray, Andrew Olaf Shelton, Ryan P. Kelly, Kim Præbel, Elizabeth Andruszkiewicz Allan, Nigel Yoccoz, Torild Johansen, Owen S. Wangensteen, Tanja Hanebrekke, Jon‐Ivar Westgaard

“…ABSTRACT Environmental DNA (eDNA) detection employing quantitative PCR (qPCR) and droplet digital PCR (ddPCR) offers a non‐invasive and efficient approach for monitoring aquatic organisms. …”
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Inner and Internal Areas in the European Cohesion Policies by Giuseppe Scanu, Carlo Donato, Gavino Mariotti, Caterina Madau, Veronica Camerada, Silvia Battino, Cinzia Podda, Salvatore Lampreu

“…This analysis led to policy recommendations for the efficient implementation of measures funded by EU cohesion policies.…”
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Exploring the role of Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) root architecture in enhancing adaptation to climate change for sustainable agriculture and resilient crop production: A review by Yohannes Gelaye, Jihua Li, Huaiyong Luo

“…This review explores the critical role of root architecture in enhancing peanut adaptation to environmental stressors, and evaluates current strategies and future directions for improving root traits through genetic, physiological, and agronomic approaches. Efficient root systems, characterized by deeper rooting and optimized xylem design, significantly improve water and nutrient acquisition under drought conditions. …”
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Aptamer-based Gold Nanoparticles Colorimetric Method for Rapid Detection of Chlorpyrifos by Yao WANG, Xiyan YANG, Yanfei LI, Jiaxiang HUANG, Sijia LI, Kaile WANG, Aoshun HE, Shilin WANG, Yanyan LI, Zhaozhou LI, Xiujin CHEN, Huaibin KANG

“…This study provides a sensitive, specific, and accurate method for visual rapid quantitative detection of chlorpyrifos, which can enhance field detection efficiency and holds reference value for the study of aptamer colorimetric detection methods for organophosphate pesticide residues.…”
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MGLI-Former: a multi-scale and global-local information interactive attention transformer for urban shantytown extraction by Shouhang Du, Shaoyu Wang, Yuhao Hua, Shu Peng, Fei Qin, Xue Li, Yufei Wu

“…Shantytowns, characterized by poor living conditions and simple houses, necessitate efficient extraction and analysis for urban planning. …”
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Development and pre-evaluation of a “DiagNurse” mobile app to support nurses in clinical diagnosis using the ADDIE model by Grzegorz Józef Nowicki, Wiktoria Mazurek, Alicja Waśkowicz, Ewa Kowalczyk, Julia Kozioł, Marek Miłosz, Mariusz Dzieńkowski, Barbara Ślusarska

“…Abstract Healthcare workers are increasingly utilising cutting-edge technology, including mobile apps, to enhance patient health care and ensure efficient professional performance. The aim of this study was to design, develop and evaluate an educational mobile app dedicated towards being employed by nursing students and practicing nurses to support the clinical assessment of a patient’s health condition in nursing care. …”
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Recommendations for optimising pilot and feasibility work in surgery by K. Fairhurst, S. Potter, J. M. Blazeby, K. N. L. Avery

“…Adoption and utilisation of these recommendations will optimise surgical PAFS, facilitating successful and efficient future surgical trials.…”
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Thermal Transport in Polyethylene Reinforced with H/CH₃/C₂H₅ Functionalized Graphene: A Molecular Dynamics Study by Nava Zarkhah, Mostafa Baghani, Daniel George, Ali Rajabpour, Majid Baniassadi, Mohammadreza Aghaei

“…These findings offer quantitative insights into optimizing polymer nanocomposites for thermal management applications, such as microelectronics and energy storage systems, where efficient heat dissipation is important.…”
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Thermal-mechanical coupled stress prediction of printed circuit heat exchanger in the supercritical CO2 Brayton cycle by Junlin Chen, Wenhai Du, Keyong Cheng, Xunfeng Li, Xiulan Huai, Jiangfeng Guo, Pengfei Lv, Hongsheng Dong

“…The proposed models streamline PCHE design verification and dynamic control optimization, ensuring safer and more efficient SCO2 cycle operation. This research advances sustainable energy systems by providing reliable tools for PCHE stress assessment, with potential applications in solar, nuclear, and waste heat recovery systems.…”
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Spatial–Frequency Fusion Network With Learnable Fractional Fourier Transform for Remote Sensing Imaging Enhancement by Wenyu Xu, Maohan Liang, Yuxu Lu, Ruobin Gao, Dong Yang

“…To overcome these challenges, this article proposes a novel spatial–frequency fusion network (termed SFFNet) with a learnable fractional Fourier transform for efficient remote sensing imaging enhancement. In the spatial domain, the SFFNet uses a multiscale spatial pyramid pooling block to capture both fine-grained details and global contextual information, while residual connections ensure robust feature learning and spatial detail preservation. …”
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mtGrasp: Streamlined reference‐grade mitochondrial genome assembly and standardization to enhance metazoan mitogenome resources by Mark Louie D. Lopez, Cecilia L. Yang, Lauren Coombe, René L. Warren, Michael J. Allison, Jacob J. Imbery, Inanc Birol, Caren C. Helbing

“…The present study introduces the Mitochondrial Genome Reference‐grade Assembly and Standardization Pipeline (mtGrasp), a streamlined and memory‐efficient pipeline for assembling complete and standardized mitogenomes from short‐read metazoan DNA libraries (https://github.com/bcgsc/mtGrasp). …”
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Nanofabrication of superhydrophobic fluidic concentrators coupled with metallic plasmonic nano-antennas for SERS analysis in the sub-femtomolar range by Sofien Ramos, Victor Fabre, Mathieu Arribat, Aurélie Lecestre, Adrian Laborde, Frank Carcenac, Philippe Louarn, Emmanuelle Trevisiol, Christophe Vieu

“…Self-assembled silicon nanopillars decorated with metallic nanoparticles have emerged as efficient Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS) substrates. …”
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Participation of Emerging Commercial Farmers in the Strategic Private-Sector Investment Interventions by Sandile Jason Mnikathi, Simphiwe Innocentia Hlatshwayo, Ojo Temitope, Mjabuliseni Simon Cloapas Ngidi

“…Private sector investment interventions serve as essential mechanisms for creating efficient, cost-effective financial solutions and technological support for emerging farmers in developing economies, yet their successful implementation is influenced by various contextual and socioeconomic factors. …”
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From Voxels to Viruses: Using Deep Learning and Crowdsourcing to Understand a Virus Factory by Avery Pennington, Oliver N. F. King, Win Min Tun, Mark Boyce, Geoff Sutton, David I. Stuart, Mark Basham, Michele C. Darrow

“…The application of citizen science–driven crowdsourcing to the generation of instance segmentations of volumetric bioimages is a step towards developing annotation-efficient segmentation workflows for bioimaging data. …”
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