Polysaccharides from sea buckthorn — Ultrasound-assisted enzymatic extraction, purification, structural characterization, and antioxidant activity analysis by Jing Wen, Ruijie Huang, Shi Li, Lin Jiang, Liheng Shao, Qin Zhang, Chunhui Shan

“…The composition and structural characteristics of the SBPRs were identified. …”
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Geophysical delineation of the newly identified Gulmarg fault in the Kashmir Basin, NW Himalaya. Implications for active structural control by Ayaz Mohmood Dar, Syed Kaiser Bukhari

“…Three profiles across the fault exhibit distinctive magnetic variations, highlighting the intricate nature of the fault structure. …”
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Time-Dependent Structural Alteration of Rituximab Analyzed by LC/TOF-MS after a Systemic Administration to Rats. by Yuki Otani, Atushi Yonezawa, Masahiro Tsuda, Satoshi Imai, Yasuaki Ikemi, Shunsaku Nakagawa, Tomohiro Omura, Takayuki Nakagawa, Ikuko Yano, Kazuo Matsubara

“…Therapeutic monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) have heterogeneities in their structures. Multiple studies have reported that the variety of post-translational modifications could affect the pharmacokinetic profiles or pharmacological potencies of therapeutic mAbs. …”
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Structural Evolution and Ionic Conductivity of Al2O3-Doped LLZO via Single Heat Treatment by Endah Yuniarti, Slamet Priyono, Simon Sindhu Hendradjaja, Jan Setiawan, Kusdi Prijono, Brity Femlee R

“…These results indicate that Al doping significantly enhances structural stability and Li-ion transport in LLZO electrolytes processed at moderate temperatures. …”
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SVLearn: a dual-reference machine learning approach enables accurate cross-species genotyping of structural variants by Qimeng Yang, Jianfeng Sun, Xinyu Wang, Jiong Wang, Quanzhong Liu, Jinlong Ru, Xin Zhang, Sizhe Wang, Ran Hao, Peipei Bian, Xuelei Dai, Mian Gong, Zhuangbiao Zhang, Ao Wang, Fengting Bai, Ran Li, Yudong Cai, Yu Jiang

“…Abstract Structural variations (SVs) are diverse forms of genetic alterations and drive a wide range of human diseases. …”
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Effect of structural parameters of active pre-chamber on ammonia/hydrogen premixed combustion process: A numerical investigation by Zhe Kang, Da Peng, Jing Luo, Yang Lv, Lan Li

“…Therefore, in this paper, an active pre-chamber combustion model was established based on a mass-produced gasoline engine, the mixture of ammonia and hydrogen was used as fuel, 8 different pre-chamber structure schemes were proposed, variations such as the angle and number of nozzle holes and the volume ratio of the pre-chamber to engine clearance volume were considered to investigate their influences. …”
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Shock wave dynamics in nanoporous tungsten and molybdenum via molecular dynamics simulations: Insights into thermodynamic and structural evolution by Yiqun Hu, Zhenhai Li, Xiumin Xu, Yuhang Zhang, Re Xia

“…Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are employed for understanding the influences of shock velocity and relative density on the shock responses of NP-W and NP-Mo with stochastic bicontinuous structural features. Thermodynamic simulations reveal that temperature changes exhibit relatively low sensitivity to variations in relative density for a given shock velocity. …”
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Unraveling gender-specific structural brain differences in drug-resistant epilepsy using advanced deep learning techniques by Sema Athamnah, Enas Abdulhay, Firas Fohely, Ammar A. Oglat, Mohammed Ibbini

“…Additionally, it will introduce an innovative preprocessing pipeline, the 3D brain pipeline, and compare it with the standard voxel-based morphometry (VBM) pipeline. the results concluded that there are obvious structural brain differences between genders in epileptic patients, which can be effectively predicted by deep learning approaches, despite the variations that could be raised from age and development of epilepsy. …”
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Structural differences between the Streptococcus agalactiae housekeeping and pilus-specific sortases: SrtA and SrtC1. by B Khare, V Krishnan, K R Rajashankar, H I-Hsiu, M Xin, H Ton-That, S V Narayana

“…To understand the structural basis of sortases involved in such diverse functions, we determined the crystal structures of S. agalactiae SrtC1 and SrtA. …”
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Identification of candidate nsSNPs of the human FNDC5 gene and their structural and functional consequences using in silico analysis by Sadaf Majeed, Hira Moin, Maaz Waseem, Zoya Khalid, Sumra Wajid Abbasi, Kashaf Rasool

“…This study aimed to identify putative non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs) of human FNDC5, potentially impacting FNDC5-FGF21 interaction. Sequence and structure based computational tools were used to identify nsSNPs of FNDC5, which revealed eight nsSNPs as being most deleterious (N39K, R78H, R209H, T124I, L150P, L156V, V83M, and T86I). …”
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Discovery, structural characteristics and evolutionary analyses of functional domains in Acinetobacter baumannii phage tail fiber/spike proteins by Shenshen Liu, Tao Lei, Yujing Tan, Xiaoyi Huang, Wenxin Zhao, Huanhuan Zou, Jianhui Su, Ji Zeng, Haiyan Zeng

“…The G3DSA:2.60.40.3940 domain, exhibiting minor structural variations, was predominantly found in phages of the Obolenskvirus genus. …”
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Structural insights and biomedical potential of biosynthesized silver nanoparticles: antibacterial activity, anti-biofilm and cancer cell inhibition by Ikram Jemel, Najeh Krayem, Hajer Jlidi, Abir Ben Bacha, Mona Alonazi, Raihane Charguia, Areej Ali Alzahrani, Sami Aifa, Sami Mnif

“…Results XRD confirmed the face-centered cubic (fcc) crystal structure of AgNPs, with peaks at (111), (200), (220), and (311) planes. …”
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Assessment of Invariant Moments of Fornix in Brain Structural MR Images to Differentiate Mild Cognitive Impairment from Alzheimer’s Disease by Ali Ahsan, Agastinose Ronickom Jac Fredo, Swaminathan Ramakrishnan

“…In this study, an attempt has been made to analyse the structural variations in the fornix region of MCI and AD using invariant moments. …”
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Comparative analysis of mesozooplankton size fraction structure in bivalve aquaculture embayments in Atlantic and Pacific Canadian coastal regions by Ruben D. Cordero, Anaïs Lacoursière-Roussel, Ramón Filgueira, Julie Arseneau, Jeffrey Barrell, Timothy J. Barrett, Christopher W. McKindsey, Daria Gallardi, Olivia Gibb, Terri Sutherland, Thomas Guyondet

“…This study examines the spatio-temporal variation in mesozooplankton size structure across nine bivalve aquaculture embayments in Atlantic and Pacific Canada from 2020 to 2022. …”
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Assessing the Relationship Between Sedimentary Microbial Community Structure and Pollutants in Stormwater Wetlands Using eDNA Metabarcoding by Anna S. Flynn, Kathryn L. Hassell, A. Mark Osborn, Vincent Pettigrove, Jeff Shimeta, Sara M. Long

“…Here, we used environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding to characterize the sedimentary microbial profiles of nine urban stormwater wetlands and one rural wetland with low levels of contamination and assess the variation in community structures between sites as well as between the inlet and outlet within each site. …”
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SV-MeCa: an XGBoost-based meta-caller approach for structural variant calling from short-read data by Rudel Christian Nkouamedjo Fankep, Arda Söylev, Anna-Lena Kobiela, Jochen Blom, Corinna Ernst, Susanne Motameny

“…Performance of SV-MeCa and four previously published meta-caller approaches were evaluated based on autosomal SV calls in samples curated by the Human Genome Structural Variation Consortium, Phase 2. With regard to F $$_1$$ scores, which were 0.58 on average for deletions and 0.42 on average for insertions, SV-MeCa outperformed the other meta-callers. …”
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Widespread admixture blurs population structure and confounds Lake Trout (Salvelinus namaycush) conservation even in the genomic era by Thaïs A. Bernos, Julie Gibelli, Sozos Michaelides, Hari Won, Hyung-Bae Jeon, Kia Marin, David A. Boguski, Muhammad Yamin Janjua, Colin P. Gallagher, Kimberly L. Howland, Dylan J. Fraser

“…Abstract Intraspecific variation is important for species’ long-term persistence in changing environments. …”
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Temperature Effect on Service Life of Reinforced Concrete (RC) Structure Under Chemical Erosion: Deterministic and Probabilistic Approach by Keun-Hyeok Yang, Hyeon-Woo Lee, Ahmed K. Alkaabi, Seung-Jun Kwon

“…In this study, for the concrete used in a UAE (United Arab Emirates) nuclear power plant structure, the diffusion coefficient of sulfate ions affected by temperature was evaluated through a natural diffusion cell test, and the service life in the structure was calculated through deterministic and probabilistic methods. …”
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Intraspecific variability of social structure and linked foraging behavior in females of a widespread bat species (Phyllostomus hastatus). by María C Calderón-Capote, M Teague O'Mara, Margaret C Crofoot, Dina K N Dechmann

“…Our findings highlight the large intraspecific variation and indicate a strong influence of the local resource landscape and associated benefits of social foraging on the social structure in these bats and possibly many other animals.…”
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Influence of B2O3 and Basicity on Viscosity and Structure of Medium Titanium Bearing Blast Furnace Slag by Lingtao Bian, Yanhong Gao

“…The conventional NBO/T formula was revised to predict the structure variation of relatively complicated medium Ti bearing slag based on the work of Yanhong Gao and other researchers. …”
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