In silico and in vitro comparative analysis of 79 Acinetobacter baumannii clinical isolates by Martina Scarrone, Dann Turner, Moïra Dion, Denise Tremblay, Sylvain Moineau

“…We also found that spacers associated with subtypes I-F1 and I-F2 CRISPR-Cas systems predominantly target prophages, suggesting a role in maintaining genomic stability and contributing to phage-bacteria co-evolution. …”
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Personality's Time Perspective as a Resource for Overcoming the Identity Crisis at Different Stages of Life Realization by E.M. Meshcheryakova, A.V. Seryy, M.S. Yanitskiy

“…It has selective significance at different stages of life realization determining the age-specific features of a possible “therapeutic target” within the framework of psychological influence.…”
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Donor and recipient genetic variants in drug metabolizing enzymes and transporters affect early tacrolimus pharmacokinetics after liver transplantation by Alexandra D. Ladd, Isabella Angeli-Pahim, Duncan Lewis, Curtis Warren, Satyavardhan Nittu, Jatinder Lamba, Sergio Duarte, Ali Zarrinpar

“…These findings demonstrate that genetic polymorphisms in both donor and recipient significantly affect tacrolimus dose requirements and the ability to maintain the target therapeutic tacrolimus levels in the immediate post-transplant period, emphasizing the role of precision medicine in optimizing immunosuppression therapeutic drug dosing.…”
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Dietary protein re-alimentation following restriction improves protein deposition via changing amino acid metabolism and transcriptional profiling of muscle tissue in growing beef... by Jiaqi Wang, Chun Shen, Guangyong Zhao, Mark D. Hanigan, Mengmeng Li

“…Growth performance, digestibility, nitrogen balance, targeted metabolomics of amino acids (AA) in plasma, and transcriptional profiling in muscle tissue were analyzed. …”
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Accurate recognition of UAVs on multi-scenario perception with YOLOv9-CAG by Jincan Zhu, Jian Rong, Weili Kou, Qingyang Zhou, Peichun Suo

“…In validation on real-world visible-light and infrared videos, the YOLOv9-CAG model demonstrated an overall average accuracy improvement of 6.8% and 3.8%, respectively, over the original YOLOv9 model. …”
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Severe plastic cold rolling effects in nickel–vanadium alloy: Microstructure, texture evolution and mechanical properties by Hongyan Wang, Zhiqiang Yang, Qingbiao Zhang, Meiyu Hou, Linqing Yang, Han Xiao, Ming Wen

“…The microstructural characteristics and morphological attributes of the target material, along with its intrinsic properties, can significantly influence the performance of the resultant film. …”
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Improving mental health and well-being of hospital staff: mixed-methods process evaluation of the SEEGEN trial by Bernd Puschner, Maja Stiawa, Martin Peters, Peter Angerer, Felicitas Rapp, Florian Junne, Melanie Genrich-Hasken, Andreas Müller, Imad Maatouk, Madeleine Helaß, Nadine Mulfinger, Harald Gündel

“…Conclusions The high complexity of the intervention with different modules and target groups hindered implementation and effectiveness. …”
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Tissue Distribution and Pharmacokinetic Characteristics of Aztreonam Based on Multi-Species PBPK Model by Xiao Ye, Xiaolong Sun, Jianing Zhang, Min Yu, Nie Wen, Xingchao Geng, Ying Liu

“…Finally, the cross-species validation was performed using the average fold error (AFE) and absolute relative error (ARE). …”
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A Hydroacoustic Assessment of the Density, Size, and Biomass of Fish in a Freshwater Reservoir After Non-Classical Biomanipulation by Aihuan Guo, Qingping Lian, Pengcheng Sheng, Aiju Zhang, Julin Yuan, Kohji Iida

“…No significant difference in fish density was apparent between summer and autumn. Additionally, the average target strength (TS) values in spring (−41.05 dB) were significantly higher than in summer (−44.66 dB) and autumn (−45.55 dB) (<i>p</i> < 0.01), but significantly higher in winter (−38.12 dB) than in the other seasons (<i>p</i> < 0.01); no significant difference was observed between the summer and autumn values (<i>p</i> > 0.01). …”
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Detection of litchi fruit maturity states based on unmanned aerial vehicle remote sensing and improved YOLOv8 model by Changjiang Liang, Changjiang Liang, Dandan Liu, Dandan Liu, Weiyi Ge, Weiyi Ge, Wenzhong Huang, Wenzhong Huang, Yubin Lan, Yubin Lan, Yubin Lan, Yongbing Long, Yongbing Long, Yongbing Long, Yongbing Long

“…The improved model demonstrated robust performance in different application scenarios. The proposed target quantity differential strategy effectively reduced the detection error for semi-mature fruits by 12.58%. …”
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A prediction model for differential resilience to the effects of combat‐related stressors in US army soldiers by Ronald C. Kessler, Robert M. Bossarte, Irving Hwang, Alex Luedtke, James A. Naifeh, Matthew K. Nock, Maria Petukhova, Ekaterina Sadikova, Nancy A. Sampson, Erik Sverdrup, Jose R. Zubizarreta, Stefan Wager, James Wagner, Murray B. Stein, Robert J. Ursano

“…Such a score could be used to target preventive interventions to reduce PTSD or other resilience‐related outcomes.…”
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Osteopontin neutralization increases vitamin D receptors on NKT cells and ameliorates liver fibrosis by promoting their activity by Johnny Amer, Ahmad Salhab, Enas Hussini, Rasha Shweiki, Iman Zahran, Mohammad Far

“…It is also suggested as an immunomodulatory target of liver fibrosis.…”
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Developing data driven framework to model earthquake induced liquefaction potential of granular terrain by machine learning classification models by Kennedy C. Onyelowe, Viroon Kamchoom, Tammineni Gnananandarao, Krishna P. Arunachalam

“…The Phi Correlation Coefficient, with a value of 0.82, indicates a strong positive correlation between predicted and actual values.Furthermore, the model exhibits a Mean Absolute Error (MAE) of 0.2351, reflecting a relatively low average error in predictions. The Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) value of 0.3115 indicates better accuracy in predicting the target variable.Finally, all the developed models exhibit promising performance across various evaluation metrics, with low error measures (MAE and RMSE), high accuracy, and strong performance in correctly identifying both positive and negative instances, as evidenced by sensitivity and specificity. …”
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Ensemble and transfer learning of soil inorganic carbon with visible near-infrared spectra by Yu Wang, Keyang Yin, Bifeng Hu, Yongsheng Hong, Songchao Chen, Jing Liu, Lili Yang, Jie Peng, Zhou Shi

“…Two strategies (hyperparameter-adjusted and −unadjusted) were used to transfer the model to other target areas including Shaya and Wensu Counties on the southern border of China. …”
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<i>Aprostocetus nitens</i> (Hymenoptera: Eulophidae), an Ectoparasitoid Proposed for Biological Control of the Destructive Erythrina Gall Wasp, <i>Quadrastichus erythrinae</i>, in... by Mohsen M. Ramadan, Juliana A. Yalemar, Daniel Rubinoff, Mark G. Wright, Aimé H. Bokonon-Ganta, Xingeng Wang

“…Both choice and no-choice host specificity tests were conducted on seven non-target gall formers in the Hawaii Department of Agriculture, Insect Containment Facility, and showed that the parasitoid was extremely specific to EGW. …”
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Untapped potential of wastewater for animal and potentially zoonotic virus surveillance: Pilot study to detect non-human animal viruses in urban settings by Mustafa Karatas, Mandy Bloemen, Jill Swinnen, Inge Roukaerts, Steven Van Gucht, Marc Van Ranst, Elke Wollants, Jelle Matthijnssens

“…Sequencing was performed on the AVITI sequencing platform, targeting an average of ten million reads per sample. …”
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BRA-YOLOv7: improvements on large leaf disease object detection using FasterNet and dual-level routing attention in YOLOv7 by Rong Ye, Rong Ye, Quan Gao, Quan Gao, Tong Li, Tong Li

“…Finally, the loss function is replaced with MPDIoU to enhance target localization accuracy and reduce false detection cases. …”
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Association of left atrial strain and inflammatory factors in hypertensive patients working in the Arctic by L. I. Gapon, E. P. Samoylova, D. N. Nistryanu, A. V. Kalugin, N. E. Shirokov, N. A. Musikhina, E. I. Yaroslavskaya, T. I. Petelina, E. M. Shapovalova, K. S. Avdeeva

“…To study the association of left atrial (LA) strain and inflammatory factors in hypertensive (HTN) patients without target organ damage working on a rotational basis in the Arctic.Material and methods. …”
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Current and future habitat suitability of northern fur seals and overlap with the commercial walleye pollock fishery in the eastern Bering Sea by Elizabeth A. McHuron, Elliott L. Hazen, Noel A. Pelland, Kelly A. Kearney, Wei Cheng, Albert J. Hermann, Rolf R. Ream, Jeremy T. Sterling

“…We aimed to understand habitat selection of northern fur seals in the eastern Bering Sea, a declining population that is also a key predator of walleye pollock, the target species for the largest U.S. commercial fishery. …”
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A Retrospective Trial Comparing Prediction Accuracy of Three Biometers in Short, Medium, and Long Eyes by Multack S, Plummer N, Marneris A, Hall B

“…Preoperative planning was done with the BUII formula on all biometers, with a target of plano. The primary outcome measure was the mean absolute prediction error for each biometer using BUII. …”
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