Design and Validation of a Simplified Method to Determine Minimum Bactericidal Concentration in Nontuberculous Mycobacteria by Sara Batista, Mariana Fernández-Pittol, Lorena San Nicolás, Diego Martínez, Sofía Narváez, Mateu Espasa, Elena Garcia Losilla, Marc Rubio, Montserrat Garrigo, Griselda Tudó, Julian González-Martin

“…Prospective validation: MBC/MIC ratios revealed differential bactericidal activity for most antibiotics according to the different species, being bactericidal in <i>M. avium</i> and <i>Mycobacterium xenopi</i>, and predominantly bacteriostatic in MAB. …”
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One-step diagnosis of infection and lung cancer using metagenomic sequencing by Shaoqiang Li, Yangqing Zhan, Yan Wang, Weilong Li, Xidong Wang, Haoru Wang, Wenjun Sun, Xuefang Cao, Zhengtu Li, Feng Ye

“…Conclusions Onco-mNGS has exhibited exceptional efficiencies in the detection and differentiation of infection and lung cancer. …”
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Linking intrinsic brain dysfunction to behavioral outcomes in combat-exposed males with PTSD symptoms by Deborah L. Harrington, Deborah L. Harrington, Qian Shen, Qian Shen, Annemarie Angeles-Quinto, Annemarie Angeles-Quinto, Sharon Nichols, Tao Song, Hayden Hansen, Kate A. Yurgil, Kate A. Yurgil, Roland R. Lee, Roland R. Lee, Dewleen G. Baker, Dewleen G. Baker, Dewleen G. Baker, Ming-Xiong Huang, Ming-Xiong Huang

“…Though larger samples are needed for verification, the preliminary results provide new insights into the associations between regional abnormalities and different facets of emotion regulation and cognition, which in turn may impact an individual’s functional abilities in daily life and responsiveness to psychotherapy.…”
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Effects of legume-cover crop rotations on soil pore characteristics and particulate organic matter distributions in Vertisol based on X-ray computed tomography by Tianyu Ding, Zichun Guo, Keke Hua, Zizhou Yu, Jiaqi Li, Yueming Chen, Zhibin Guo, Daozhong Wang, Jianli Liu, Xinhua Peng

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Integration of transcriptome and metabolome reveals regulatory mechanisms of volatile flavor formation during tomato fruit ripening by Zhiqiang Liu, Jianxin Wu, Licai Wang, Xiaonan Lu, Golam Jalal Ahammed, Xiaolan Zhang, Xia Cui, Haijing Wang

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Soil organic carbon estimation using spaceborne hyperspectral composites on a large scale by Xiangyu Zhao, Zhitong Xiong, Paul Karlshöfer, Nikolaos Tziolas, Martin Wiesmeier, Uta Heiden, Xiao Xiang Zhu

“…Spectral reflectance such as multispectral and hyperspectral data could provide efficient and cost-effective retrieval of SOC content. …”
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Nutritional value antioxidant strength and antimicrobial efficacy of fig pastes from eastern morocco by Aziz Tikent, Khawla Bouaouda, Salah Laaraj, Mohamed Chebaibi, Hanane Choubbane, El Hassania Loukili, Kaoutar Elfazazi, Mohamed Bouhrim, Ramzi A. Mothana, Omar M. Noman, Bruno Eto, Ahmed Elamrani, Mohamed Addi

“…Drying figs is the most practical and efficient way to preserve them. Paste is another possibility. …”
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A machine learning-based risk prediction model for diabetic oral ulceration by Wang Xiaoling, Wang BingQian, Zhu Zhenqi, Li Wen, Gu Shuyan, Chen Hanbei, Xin Feng, Chenglong Yang, Jutang li, Guoyao Tang, Jie Wei

“…Data preprocessing involved handling missing values, scaling different range values, and feature selection using techniques such as Variance Threshold (VT), Mutual Information (MI), and Variance Inflation Factor (VIF). …”
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Explainable clinical diagnosis through unexploited yet optimized fine-tuned ConvNeXt Models for accurate monkeypox disease classification by Muhammad Waqar, Zeshan Aslam Khan, Shanzey Tariq Khawaja, Naveed Ishtiaq Chaudhary, Saadia Khan, Khalid Mehmood Cheema, Muhammad Farhan Khan, Syed Sohail Ahmed, Muhammad Asif Zahoor Raja

“…Deep learning (DL) has had an incredible influence on many different scientific areas over the past couple of decades. …”
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Innovations in animal health: artificial intelligence-enhanced hematocrit analysis for rapid anemia detection in small ruminants by Aftab Siddique, Sudhanshu S. Panda, Sophia Khan, Seymone T. Dargan, Savana Lewis, India Carter, Jan A. Van Wyk, Ajit K. Mahapatra, Eric R. Morgan, Thomas H. Terrill

“…The initial findings indicated a detection accuracy of 76.06% after only 10 epochs for recognizing different levels of PCV in relation to anemia, ranging from healthy to severely anemic. …”
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Retrospective Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effectiveness of a New Tanner–Whitehouse-Based Bone Age Assessment Algorithm Trained with a Deep Neural Network System by Meesun Lee, Young-Hun Choi, Seul-Bi Lee, Jae-Won Choi, Seunghyun Lee, Jae-Yeon Hwang, Jung-Eun Cheon, SungHyuk Hong, Jeonghoon Kim, Yeon-Jin Cho

“…A commercialized AI solution built upon the Rotated Single Shot MultiBox Detector (SSD) and EfficientNet-B0 was used. Bone age measurements from the model and radiologists were compared using the paired <i>t</i>-tests. …”
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Heterozygous females from a rat model for creatine transporter deficiency reveal altered behavioral response to stressors, normal body weight and slight metabolic changes by Lara Duran-Trio, Marc Lanzillo, Dunja Simicic, Clothilde Roux-Petronelli, Stephen J. Bruce, Carmen Sandi, Cristina Cudalbu, Cristina Cudalbu, Olivier Braissant

“…They also provide new insights about CTD pathology, revealing sex and zygotic phenotypic differences, highlighting the importance of including females in the study of CTD.…”
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Construction of a transfer learning-based depression detection model for female breast cancer patients: text sentiment analysis by Jiaqi Fu, Shisi Deng, Wanting Zheng, Chunrao Zheng, Jianhong Liu, Wenji Li, Yinghua Zeng, Hongpo Xie, Yuchang Mai, Chaixiu Li, Jie Lai, Yujie Zhang, Zihan Guo, Jianyao Tang, Chuhan Zhong, Huihui Zhao, Yanni Wu

“…To address this, our research team employed transfer learning methods to efficiently process and analyze large-scale text data for depression detection. …”
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Managing Social Condominiums by Luz María Vergara d´Alençon

“…This situation is the result of a multi-causal problem involving the construction and architectural deficiencies of the dwellings provided, the financial and social constraints of the owners, problems of coexistence and cultural differences between residents of different backgrounds, and deteriorated internal organisations. …”
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Effect of straw retention and mineral fertilization on P speciation and P-transformation microorganisms in water- extractable colloids of a Vertisol by S. Bai, S. Bai, Y. Ge, D. Yao, Y. Wang, J. Tan, J. Tan, S. Zhang, Y. Peng, X. Jiang

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Evaluating the Accuracy of Web-Based and In-Clinic Subjective Cognitive Decline Assessments in Detecting Cognitive Impairment: Multicohort Study by Jae Myeong Kang, Manchumad Manjavong, Adam Diaz, Miriam T Ashford, Anna Aaronson, Joseph Eichenbaum, Scott Mackin, Rachana Tank, Melanie J Miller, Bernard Landavazo, Erika Cavallone, Diana Truran, Monica R Camacho, Juliet Fockler, Derek Flenniken, Sarah Tomaszewski Farias, Michael W Weiner, Rachel Nosheny

“… Abstract BackgroundScalable tools to efficiently identify individuals likely to have cognitive impairment (CI) are critical in the Alzheimer disease and related dementias field. …”
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Biological properties of Vibrio parahaemolyticus lytic phages and transcriptome analysis of their interactions with the host by Duanduan Chen, Zhiwei Wang, Xiangkai Li, Hongchi Du, Kaisheng Zhang, Shengliang Cao, Jianbiao Lu, Shuang Zhao, Hui Wang, Yubao Li

“…Host bacteria were collected at different time points (5 min, 20 min, 40 min, 60 min, 100 min) representing incubation, burst, and plateau phases of phage infection, and were depicted as one-step growth curves. …”
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Comparative analysis of convolutional neural networks and transformer architectures for breast cancer histopathological image classification by Bo Yuan, Yudie Hu, Yan Liang, Yutong Zhu, Lingyu Zhang, Shimin Cai, Rui Peng, Xianbin Wang, Zheng Yang, Jinhui Hu

“…In the eight-class classification task, the increased complexity led to more pronounced performance differences among models, with CNN- and Transformer-based architectures performing comparably overall. …”
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New insights into Cretaceous hydrocarbon accumulation and its significance for hydrocarbon exploration in Hashan area, northwestern margin of Junggar Basin by Yansheng QU, Ningning ZHONG, Shengzhu WANG, Bin WANG, Hongzhou YU, Jian ZHOU, Qianqian WU, Hongli LU

“…The inherent spatial configuration of efficiently conductive strike-slip faults and sand bodies distributed along grooves is critical for reservoir formation. …”
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Mental health of Urban Mothers (MUM) study: a multicentre randomised controlled trial, study protocol by Ewa Andersson, Liping Zhu, Ganesh Acharya, Simone Eliane Schwank, Ho-Fung Chung, Mandy Hsu, Shih-Chien Fu, Li Du, Hsuan-Ying Huang

“…The impact of COVID-19 pandemic on maternal stress will be assesed using Impact Event Scale-R. Any differences in outcomes between cities will be addressed in subgroup analyses.Ethics and dissemination The study will be conducted according to the principles of Good Clinical Practice and will follow the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki. …”
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