Gene mapping using linkage analysis by O Sanal, T Foroud, R A Gatti

“…Since the first published reports of linkage over thirty years ago, the use of the "lod score" method to determine the chromosomal location of a disease gene has become widespread. …”
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Validation of a Real-Time PCR Assay for Fully Automated Detection of <i>Bacillus cereus</i> in Donor Human Milk by Gemma Aran, Vanessa Pleguezuelos, Margarita Blanco, Cristina Garcia, Mariama Jallow, Mar López, Sara Monge, Natalia Casamitjana, Eva Alonso-Nogués, Gloria Soria

“…Incorporating this assay into our laboratory workflow improved efficiency and reduced turnaround time.…”
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New approach to the development of tailor-made feed for fish larvae using Zebrafish Danio rerio as a model. by Giovanni S Molinari, Michal Wojno, Macdonald Wick, Karolina Kwasek

“…Electrophoretic analysis showed that the proposed hydrolysis method was able to efficiently hydrolyze the protein within Zebrafish body. …”
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Assessment of Economic Security of Regions. The Case of Ukraine by Daria Arziantseva, Nataliya Zakharkevych

“…The proposed approach includes six consecutive steps: definition of the system of indicators affecting the level of economic security of a region; formation of a statistical array of estimated indicators; standardization of estimated indicators; calculation of weighting coefficients for each of the indicator using the expert method; determination of the intermediate and integral index of the level of economic security of a region; interpretation of the results of assessment and rating of regions by level of economic security. …”
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Exploring the Impact of Resource Management Strategies on Simulated Edge Cloud Performance: An Experimental Study by Nikolaos Kaftantzis, Dimitrios G. Kogias, Charalampos Z. Patrikakis

“…We evaluate four resource management algorithms in a fixed, simulated edge computing environment to determine their performance regarding their CPU usage, memory usage, disk usage, power consumption, and latency performance metrics to determine which method performs better in a fixed scenario. …”
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Dried Blood Spots to Assess Cardiovascular‐Kidney‐Metabolic Health by Tyler A. Jacobson, Kian J. Rahbari, William A. Schwartz, Yeunook Bae, Runze Zhang, Denise A. Nunes, Cathelin Huang, Ramzy P. Issa, Karen Smilowitz, Lily D. Yan, Lisa R. Hirschhorn, Sadiya S. Khan, Mark D. Huffman, Gregory E. Miller, Joseph M. Feinglass, Thomas W. McDade, William E. Funk

“…We categorized assays into categories based on laboratory validation: excellent performance (r>0.95 with gold standard methods and coefficients of variation <5%), very good performance (r>0.90 and coefficients of variation <10%), reasonable performance (r>0.80 and coefficients of variation <15%), and poor performance (r<0.80 or coefficients of variation >15%). …”
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Probabilistic phase labeling and lattice refinement for autonomous materials research by Ming-Chiang Chang, Sebastian Ament, Maximilian Amsler, Duncan R. Sutherland, Lan Zhou, John M. Gregoire, Carla P. Gomes, R. Bruce van Dover, Michael O. Thompson

“…Abstract X-ray diffraction (XRD) is a powerful method for determining a material’s crystal structure in high-throughput experimentation, and is widely being incorporated in artificially intelligent agents for autonomous scientific discovery. …”
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The Potential of Utilizing Cattle (Cow) Manure for Biomethane Production—An Experiment for Photofermentation by Anita Konieczna, Kinga Borek, Jakub T. Hołaj-Krzak, Barbara Dybek, Dorota Anders, Jan Szymenderski, Kamila Klimek, Magdalena Kapłan, Zbigniew Jarosz, Serhiy Syrotyuk, Taras Stanytskyy, Serhii Korobka, Grzegorz Wałowski

“…The novelty of this article is the development of an innovative method of using cow manure, indicating the development of the biomethane industry.…”
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Discriminating the adulteration of varieties and misrepresentation of vintages of Pu’er tea based on Fourier transform near infrared diffuse reflectance spectroscopy by Zhenfa Yang, Zhenfa Yang, Xiaoping Lu, Lucheng Chen

“…These results illustrated the feasibility to identify the adulteration of varieties and misrepresentation of vintages of Pu’er tea with near infrared spectra and RBFNN model, proving an efficient alternative for Pu’er tea quality inspection, and offering a robust method for combating the pervasive issues within the market.…”
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Stepwise self-knowledge distillation for skin lesion image classification by Jian Zheng, Kewei Xie, Dingwen Zhang, Zhiming Lv, Xiangchun Yu

“…However, current self-knowledge distillation methods encounter difficulties in determining appropriate learning objectives for the next stage, which limits the improvement potential of the student model. …”
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GEOCHEMICAL DIFFERENTIATION OF THE LITHOGENIC BASE OF THE LANDSCAPES OF THE GREATER CAUCASUS by Tatyana Vasilyevna Degtyarova, Andrey Aleksandrovich Likhovid, Natalya Gennadievna Likhovid

“…The purpose of the article is to study the specific geochemical differentiation of near-surface (soil-forming) sediments of the landscapes of the Greater Caucasus. Materials and methods: a method was used to compare the chemical composition of the main soil-forming complexes of the physico-geographical subregions of the northern slopes of the Greater Caucasus with a regional lithogeochemical background. …”
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Artificial Intelligence in ECG interpretation - review article by Łukasz Fussek, Jagoda Niewiadomska, Borys Bondos, Aleksandra Stępień, Alicja Paluch, Jakub Skrzypek, Aleksandra Język Polski, Robert Kochan, Ewelina Wieczorek, Kacper Lee

“…Material and methods   A review paper using articles describing the application of artificial intelligence in ECG interpretation from 1997 to 2024. …”
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Harnessing nanoparticles to enhance crop production under drought stress: A quantitative meta-analysis by Hongzhao Li, Zihui Wang, Chengxiang Zhou, Huashuai Wang, Lingyun Chen, Huaiyu Yang, Dunyi Liu

“…We address this gap through a meta-analysis of 83 peer-reviewed investigations, employing effect size calculations (lnRR) to systematically quantify NP-induced improvements in crop drought resistance, while identifying critical determinants including NP types, application methods, and optimal concentrations. …”
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Measurement of Low-Concentration Hydrogen in Inert Gas Within a Small Closed Volume by Georgiy A. Ivanov, Dmitry P. Shornikov, Nikolay N. Samotaev, Konstantin Y. Oblov, Maya O. Etrekova, Artur V. Litvinov

“…The developed measurement technique for determining hydrogen concentration released from metal hydride samples in a system with a closed gas path is cost-effective compared to standardized, resource-intensive open-volume flow measurement methods. …”
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Geochemical Characteristics and Organic Matter Enrichment Mechanism in Late Paleozoic Mudstone, Eastern Margin of Ordos Basin by Jindong YANG, Zhenfeng YU, Xu GUO, Ruixi ZHAO

“…Although the eastern edge of the Ordos Basin is rich in deep coalbed methane and tight sandstone gas, the enrichment characteristics and controlling factors of organic matter in coal-bearing strata are unclear, which is not conducive to the study on the storage law of resource, evaluation of development potential, and selection of favorable areas.OBJECTIVESTo reveal the organic carbon content and its influencing factors of mudstones in the coal measure strata and guide the efficient development of coal-measure gas in the eastern margin of the Ordos Basin.METHODS(1) Analytical method: A total of 26 mudstone samples from the Shihezi, Shanxi and Taiyuan Formations were collected in the Shixi area. …”
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Reduction of Ascites Susceptibility in Broiler Chickens under Cold Stress by Guanidinoacetic Acid Supplementation by Mousa Ezatikia, parviz Farhoomand, Sina Payvastegan, Bahram Pirooz, Negin Delfani

“…Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the effects of replacing different levels of guanidinoacetic acid with arginine on performance, carcass characteristics, susceptibility to ascites, and some blood parameters of broilers reared under cold stress conditions.Materials and Methods: A total of 200 male Ross 308 broiler chicks with an average weight of 42 ± 1.5 g were used. …”
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Development and validation of a nomogram model for sleep disorders in patients with recurrent implantation failure based on physiological and lifestyle factors by You Zhang, Ningxin Qin, Jing Hu, Jie Bai, Mengjia Pan, Yan Xu, Xin Huang, Ke Wang, Ke Wang

“…Lasso regression was used to screen potential predictive variables and multifactor logistic regression analysis was conducted to determine the final predictors. A nomogram model was established, and the model was evaluated using methods such as plotting receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves, calibration curves, Hosmer-Lemeshow goodness of fit test, and decision curve analysis.ResultsThrough Lasso regression and multifactor logistic regression, 7 predictors were identified, including FSH, E2, depression mood (moderate, severe), daily exercise time, sun exposure, caffeine intake, and shift work (&gt;16h/w) for constructing the nomogram model. …”
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Optimizing soybean variety selection for the Pan-African Trial network using factor analytic models and envirotyping by Maurício S. Araújo, João P. S. Pavan, André A. Stella, Bruno F. Fregonezi, Natally F. Lima, Erica P. Leles, Michelle F. Santos, Peter Goldsmith, Godfree Chigeza, Brian W. Diers, José B. Pinheiro

“…Additionally, we applied an environmental kernel approach and the XGBoost method to assess the number of mega-environments. …”
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A gradient-descent-like learning-based framework in surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms for expensive many-objective optimization by Chaoyi Sun, Bo Zhang, Hai Sun, Rui Feng

“…Abstract Surrogate-assisted evolutionary algorithms (SAEAs) commonly depend on traditional offspring generation methods such as simulated binary crossover and polynomial mutation, which often lead to suboptimal search efficiencies. …”
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Psychosocial considerations in pediatric heart transplantation: Initial validation of the Pediatric Psychosocial Assessment Tool at a single center by Michael O. Killian, PhD, MSW, Sonnie E. Mayewski, MSW, Schyler E. Brumm, MSW, Zhe He, PhD, Dipankar Gupta, MBBS, DCH, MD

“…To address this gap, the Pediatric Psychosocial Assessment Tool (PPAT) was developed to provide a structured, semi-quantitative framework for evaluating psychosocial risk in pediatric transplant candidates. Methods: This study presents initial validation data for the PPAT, based on 189 assessments conducted at a large pediatric heart transplant center. …”
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