Genotypic, Phenotypic and Clinical Validation of GeneXpert in Extra-Pulmonary and Pulmonary Tuberculosis in India. by Urvashi B Singh, Pooja Pandey, Girija Mehta, Anuj K Bhatnagar, Anant Mohan, Vinay Goyal, Vineet Ahuja, Ranjani Ramachandran, Kuldeep S Sachdeva, Jyotish C Samantaray

“…Improvements in the assay could offer further improvement in sensitivity of detection in different patient samples; nevertheless it may be difficult to improve sensitivity of Rif resistance detection if only one gene is targeted. …”
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Estimated cost of VEGFR TKI associated adverse events in metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients by Jeffrey Thomas Yorio, Aviva G. Asnis-Alibozek, Vijay Kasturi, Thomas E. Hutson

“…This study estimated the potential impact of differences in VEGFR TKI AE profiles on treatment cost efficiency in the relapsed/refractory (R/R) setting. …”
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Protein-protein interactions between A. aegypti midgut and dengue virus 2: two-hybrid screens using the midgut cDNA library by Hong-Wai Tham, Vinod R. M. T. Balasubramaniam, Miaw-Fang Chew, Hamdan Ahmad, Sharifah Syed Hassan

“…Conclusions: The identified proteins have different biological activities that may aid in the virus replication pathway. …”
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Improving the antimicrobial activity of RP9 peptide through theoretical and experimental investigation by Mahya Anahid, Karim Mahnam, Behnaz Saffar

“…Subsequently, twenty molecular dynamics simulations were conducted for all peptides in pure water and at four different octanol concentrations (30 %, 50 %, 70 %, and 100 %) to evaluate their biophysical attributes. …”
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CFTformer: End-to-End Cross-Frame Multi-Object Tracking With Transformer by Abdollah Amirkhani, Seyed Alireza Khoshnevis

“…This approach allows the encoder-decoder to track the queries more efficiently across the frames. For this model, scalable deformable-attention layers were used to design the encoder and decoder to decrease the computational cost. …”
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LCAT: A Lightweight Color-Aware Transformer With Hierarchical Attention for Leaf Disease Classification in Precision Agriculture by Parkpoom Chaisiriprasert, Khachonkit Chuiad

“…We introduce the Lightweight Color-Aware Transformer (LCAT), a model designed to achieve high accuracy and computational efficiency for practical deployment, particularly in environments with limited hardware resources. …”
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Increased TLR4 expression and downstream cytokine production in immunosuppressed adults compared to non-immunosuppressed adults. by Dana W Dunne, Albert Shaw, Linda K Bockenstedt, Heather G Allore, Shu Chen, Stephen E Malawista, Lin Leng, Yuka Mizue, Marta Piecychna, Lin Zhang, Virginia Towle, Richard Bucala, Ruth R Montgomery, Erol Fikrig

“…IL-8 and TNF-alpha baseline levels did not differ, but were significantly higher in the autoimmune disease group following TLR stimulation. …”
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Nationwide Household Food Waste Generation Rates in Rural and Urban Settings: Evidence in Thailand by Vilasinee Krutprong, Chanathip Pharino

“…Surprisingly, rural households generated more food waste than urban households did, likely due to differences in meal preparation and consumption habits. …”
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An improved model for air–sea exchange of elemental mercury in MITgcm-ECCOv4-Hg: the role of surfactants and waves by L. Li, L. Li, P. Wu, P. Zhang, S. Huang, Y. Zhang

“…Our results also provide a theoretical explanation for the large variances in estimated transfer velocity between different schemes.</p>…”
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Diversity in Notch ligand-receptor signaling interactions by Rachael Kuintzle, Leah A Santat, Michael B Elowitz

“…These components are expressed in diverse combinations in different cell types, interact in a many-to-many fashion, both within the same cell (in cis) and between cells (in trans), and their interactions are modulated by Fringe glycosyltransferases. …”
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3D densely connected CNN with multi-scale receptive fields and hybrid loss for brain tumor segmentation by Fatemehzahra Adib, Maryam Amirmazlaghani, Mohammad Rahmati

“…A key challenge arises from the significant variations in tumor location, structure, and shape across different patients. Our model addresses this by extracting multi-scale contextual features using two receptive field scales to accurately classify each voxel. …”
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Fast and Sensitive Swab-Based Bioluminescent Detection Method for Meat and Chicken Microbiological Contamination Using <i>Amydetes vivianii</i> Firefly Luciferase by Alessandra Freitas Serain, Daniel Rangel de Souza, Vadim R. Viviani

“…This method demonstrated robust interday and intraday precision, an accuracy of 70–71% across different matrices, and a limit of detection of 1.0 × 10⁴ cps for the dilutions and 2.7 × 10³ cps for the swabs, fulfilling all validation criteria and ensuring reliability for routine applications. …”
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Facilitators and Barriers to Implementing AI in Routine Medical Imaging: Systematic Review and Qualitative Analysis by Katharina Wenderott, Jim Krups, Matthias Weigl, Abigail R Wooldridge

“…We then used epistemic network analysis to explore their relationships across different stages of AI implementation. …”
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Study on the Mechanical Properties and Interaction Mechanism of Fractured Rock Subjected to Freeze–Thaw Cycles by Ran Bi, Weijian Gan

“…Grouting material enhances the bonding strength and supporting capacity of the rock sample, roughness improves the anchoring effect of the grout, fracture dip angle improves stress transmission efficiency, and confining pressure increases rock sample density and restricts deformation, all of which exhibit strengthening effects. (2) Interaction analysis revealed three types of interaction mechanisms for the peak stress and elastic modulus of the rock samples: interaction enhancement mechanism, where peak stress or elastic modulus significantly increases when the related factors are at high levels, demonstrating a synergistic strengthening effect; interaction inhibition mechanism, where factors at high levels suppress each other’s strengthening or weakening effects; and interaction reversal mechanism, where the influence trend of certain factors reverses under different conditions. …”
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Prediction for Coastal Wind Speed Based on Improved Variational Mode Decomposition and Recurrent Neural Network by Muyuan Du, Zhimeng Zhang, Chunning Ji

“…Accurate and comprehensive wind speed forecasting is crucial for improving efficiency in offshore wind power operation systems in coastal regions. …”
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The impact of new digital infrastructure on agriculture green development: evidence from China by Yanru Zhao, Chenyu Yang, Sarwar Khan

“…Heterogeneity analysis is also conducted through subgroup regression to explore geographical and institutional differences.ResultsNDI significantly enhances AGTFP, a conclusion that is robust to endogeneity and sensitivity tests. technology level and farmland quality are the dual mediating pathways through which NDI drives AGD. …”
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Determination of Discharge Coefficient for both Semicircular and Triangular Labyrinth Weirs by Tara H. Aurahman, Jehan M. Fattah Sheikh Suleimany, Taban K. Hamad

“…The findings show that the discharge coefficient decreases with the increase of headwater to (Ht /P) for both types of labyrinth weir with different plan forms. It is found that the efficiency of the semicircular and triangular labyrinth is higher than linear weir for (Ht /P ≤ 0.45) and decreases with increasing the value of (Ht /P) due to interference of flow between the layers in downstream. …”
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Silicon Reduce Structural Carbon Components and Its Potential to Regulate the Physiological Traits of Plants by Baiying Huang, Danghui Xu, Wenhong Zhou, Yuqi Wu, Wei Mou

“…However, how ecosystem biomass will respond to different Si addition, especially under a concurrent increase in P fertilization, remains limited. …”
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Segmentation and finite element analysis in orthopaedic trauma by Kevin Y. Wang, Alexander R. Farid, Simon Comtesse, Arvind G. von Keudell

“…These measures aid in evaluating fracture fixation techniques, implant design, and the impact of different fixation strategies. FEA has found applications in femur and proximal humerus fracture fixation, distal femur fracture planning, tibial plateau fractures, and post-traumatic osteoarthritis. …”
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Dual discriminator GAN-based synthetic crop disease image generation for precise crop disease identification by Chao Wang, Yuting Xia, Lunlong Xia, Qingyong Wang, Lichuan Gu

“…We compare the generation performance of different models on ten crop diseases from the PlantVillage dataset. …”
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