Exploring Genetic Factors Associated with <i>Moniezia</i> spp. Tapeworm Resistance in Central Anatolian Merino Sheep via GWAS Approach by Yunus Arzik, Mehmet Kizilaslan, Sedat Behrem, Lindsay M. W. Piel, Stephen N. White, Mehmet Ulaş Çınar

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Mechanisms of Aqueous Fluid Infiltration and Redistribution in a Lower‐Crustal Pseudotachylyte‐Bearing Fault by Stephen Paul Michalchuk, Mona Lueder, Nils B. Gies, Markus Ohl, Jörg Hermann, Oliver Plümper, Luca Menegon

“…Pulverization‐style fracturing of the host anorthosite resulted in the comminution of the host plagioclase (plagioclase1) grains and the growth of very fine (<20 μm) grained secondary plagioclase neoblasts (plagioclase2) filling the fractures. …”
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Transcriptome atlas of Striga germination: Implications for managing an intractable parasitic plant by Gilles Irafasha, Sylvia Mutinda, Fredrick Mobegi, Brett Hale, George Omwenga, Asela J. Wijeratne, Susann Wicke, Emily S. Bellis, Steven Runo

“…They only germinate in response to biomolecules emitted from the host's root exudate, strigolactones (SL). But it is now emerging that Striga germination is a much more complex process regulated by crosstalk of hormone signaling pathways. …”
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Iraqi Women in Diasporic Spaces: Political Mobilization, Gender &amp; Citizenship by Nadje Al-Ali

“…The comparative dimension is particularly important since general political climate and culture, as well as historical migration trajectories, gender ideologies and relations vary in the three host countries. The author maps out the existing women’s organizations, groups and networks and discusses impediments and obstacles to a greater involvement in political processes. …”
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Multiwavelength Long-term Studies of Radio Galaxy NGC 1275 by Vera G. Sinitsyna, Vera Y. Sinitsyna

“…It is widely considered that the processes of an interaction between the energy and radiation, which are generated in the active galactic nuclei (AGN) by accretion onto their central massive black hole with the gas in the host galaxy, take a great part in the evolution of the galaxies at all development stages. …”
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Extracellular proteome of Trichoderma harzianum to identify proteins with biotechnological value by Ambrosino P, Scala V, Marra R, Vinale F, Soriente I, Ferraioli S, Carbone V, Ruocco M, Woo S L, Lorito M

“…These include novel enzymes, such as glycosylhydrolases and metalloprotease, proteins with conserved domains involved in pathogen-host interactions, such as Ras that regulates signal transduction pathways or LRRs that is involved in host recognition, etc. …”
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Recurrent targeted genes of hepatitis B virus in the liver cancer genomes identified by a next-generation sequencing-based approach. by Dong Ding, Xiaoyan Lou, Dasong Hua, Wei Yu, Lisha Li, Jun Wang, Feng Gao, Na Zhao, Guoping Ren, Lanjuan Li, Biaoyang Lin

“…Integration of the viral DNA into host chromosomes was found in most of the hepatitis B virus (HBV)-related hepatocellular carcinomas (HCCs). …”
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The Generation of TGO-CaSSIS Stereo Products after six years of scientific mission: The Complete Stereo Chain of INAF by A. Tullo, C. Re, E. Simioni, S. Bertoli, R. La Grassa, G. Cremonese, N. Thomas

“…All the stereo products are available to the scientific community through the INAF-hosted repository. The 3DPD software pipeline includes various stages: pre-processing to remove optical distortions and mosaicking, a matching core and DTM interpolation routines. …”
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YOLOv5-Based Electric Scooter Crackdown Platform by Seung-Hyun Lee, Sung-Hyun Oh, Jeong-Gon Kim

“…The system utilized AWS Relational Database Service (RDS), Simple Storage Service (S3), and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to store violation records and host web applications. The detection performance was evaluated using mean average precision (mAP) metrics. …”
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Geocoding and Development of a Web-Based Water Distribution Geospatial Information System for Ilorin Metropolitan City, Kwara State Nigeria by Oseni Taiwo Amoo, Habib Adedayo Salami, Olayinka Gafar Okeola, Abayomi Sunday, Taofeeq Sholagberu Abdulkadir, Adebayo Wahab Salami

“…Moreso, the proper functioning of water supply systems (WSS) relies on the expertise and experience of field workers who rely on information from maps or field surveys, whose processes and mapping methods are labour-intensive, time-consuming, and are done relatively infrequently. …”
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Structural characterization of the Zalm district, West Saudi Arabia, using aeromagnetic data: An approach for gold mineral exploration by Alzahrani Hassan, Ibrahim Elkhedr

“…In this respect, the data were reduced to the north magnetic pole and processed through two enhancement filters: the analytical signal (AS) and the first vertical derivative (1VD). …”
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Design and Implementation of a High-Throughput Digital Microfluidic System Based on Optimized YOLOv8 Object Detection by Ming Cao, Wufeng Duan, Zuwei Huang, Huihong Liang, Fanrong Ai, Xianming Liu

“…Experimental results demonstrated that the optimized model achieves remarkable accuracy and robustness in droplet detection tasks, with mAP50 increasing from 96.5% to 98.7% and mAP50–90 improving from 65.8% to 68.5%. …”
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The evolutionary analysis of emerging low frequency HIV-1 CXCR4 using variants through time--an ultra-deep approach. by John Archer, Andrew Rambaut, Bruce E Taillon, P Richard Harrigan, Marilyn Lewis, David L Robertson

“…However, when generated from viral populations current mapping software is inadequate for dealing with the high levels of variation present, resulting in the potential for biased data loss. …”
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Building living systematic reviews and reporting standards for comparative microscopic analysis of white diseases in hard corals by C. E. Page, E. Anderson, T. D. Ainsworth

“…Here, we apply a systematic approach to collating, mapping and reviewing histological methods used to study coral diseases with ‘white’ signs (i.e., white diseases) in hard coral taxa and map research effort in this field spanning study design, sample processing and analysis in the 33 publications identified between 1984 and 2022. …”
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Gamma-ray spectrometric evaluation in watersheds with gold anomalies in stream sediments, Passo Feio Complex, Caçapava do Sul region (Brazil) by Luiza Lima Alves, César Augusto Moreira, Ana Flávia da Silva Araújo, Lenon Melo Ilha, João Pedro Prado de Oliveira, Sissa Kumaira, Marco Antonio Fontoura Hansen, Henri Masquelin

“…A total of 715 gamma-ray spectrometric readings were taken, with an average spacing of 40 m between points, followed by data processing and the generation of maps of K (0.5–2.5%) concentrations, eU (0.9–3.9 ppm), and eTh (2.8–24.4 ppm). …”
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Sites of Planet Formation in Binary Systems. II. Double the Disks in DF Tau by Taylor Kutra, Lisa Prato, Benjamin M Tofflemire, Rachel Akeson, G. H. Schaefer, Shih-Yun Tang, Dominique Segura-Cox, Christopher M. Johns-Krull, Adam Kraus, Sean Andrews, Eric L. N. Jensen

“…However, our 1.3 mm ALMA thermal continuum maps show two nearly equal-brightness components in this system. …”
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Conformational variability in the D2 loop of Plasmodium Apical Membrane antigen 1 by Frederick A. Saul, Brigitte Vulliez-Le Normand, Alexander Boes, Holger Spiegel, Clemens H.M. Kocken, Bart W. Faber, Graham A. Bentley

“…Apical Membrane Antigen 1 (AMA1) plays a vital role in the invasion of the host erythrocyte by the malaria parasite, Plasmodium. …”
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Use of Indicator Kriging to Investigate Schistosomiasis in Minas Gerais State, Brazil by Ricardo J. P. S. Guimarães, Corina C. Freitas, Luciano V. Dutra, Carlos A. Felgueiras, Sandra C. Drummond, Sandra H. C. Tibiriçá, Guilherme Oliveira, Omar S. Carvalho

“…This paper is a review of the use the indicator kriging, implemented on the Georeferenced Information Processing System (SPRING) to make inferences about the prevalence of schistosomiasis and the presence of the species of Biomphalaria, intermediate hosts of Schistosoma mansoni, in areas without this information, in the Minas Gerais State, Brazil. …”
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Usutu virus NS4A induces autophagy and is targeted by the selective autophagy receptor p62/SQSTM1 for degradation by Tessa Nelemans, Ali Tas, Nina L. de Beijer, George M. C. Janssen, Peter A. van Veelen, Martijn J. van Hemert, Marjolein Kikkert

“…The virus relies on a multitude of host cell proteins, molecules and cellular processes for its replication, and must subvert host antiviral responses to establish a successful infection. …”
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Detection of viral contamination in cell lines using ViralCellDetector by Rama Shankar, Shreya Paithankar, Suchir Gupta, Bin Chen, Bin Chen, Bin Chen

“…To address this issue, we developed ViralCellDetector, a tool designed to detect viral contamination by mapping RNA-seq data to a comprehensive viral genome library.MethodsViralCellDetector processes RNA-seq data from any host species by first aligning reads to the host reference genome, followed by mapping the unmapped reads to the NCBI viral genome database. …”
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