Massively parallel sequencing and analysis of the Necator americanus transcriptome. by Cinzia Cantacessi, Makedonka Mitreva, Aaron R Jex, Neil D Young, Bronwyn E Campbell, Ross S Hall, Maria A Doyle, Stuart A Ralph, Elida M Rabelo, Shoba Ranganathan, Paul W Sternberg, Alex Loukas, Robin B Gasser

“…Further analyses allowed the prioritization of 18 predicted drug targets which did not have homologues in the human host. These candidate targets were inferred to be linked to mitochondrial (e.g., processing proteins) or amino acid metabolism (e.g., asparagine t-RNA synthetase).…”
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Regional Soil Patterns as Indicators of Late Cenozoic Change in the Critical Zone: A Baseline Synthesis for the Landscapes of Peninsular India by Yanni Gunnell, Nicolas Durand, Shanti Pappu

“…In a region mostly devoid of carbonate rock outcrops, the widely distributed pool of soils hosting abundant accumulations of pedogenic CaCO3 also reveals the magnitude of silicate bedrock weathering as a process for generating secondary calcium carbonate in the rock cycle, thereby highlighting an under-appreciated contribution to inorganic carbon sequestration in the global carbon cycle. …”
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Evaluation of the Development, Implementation, Maintenance, and Impact of 3 Digital Surveillance Tools Deployed in Malawi During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Protocol for a Modified Delp... by Alanna Denny, Isaach Ndemera, Kingston Chirwa, Joseph Tsung Shu Wu, Griphin Baxter Chirambo, Simeon Yosefe, Ben Chilima, Matthew Kagoli, Hsin-yi Lee, Kwong Leung Joseph Yu, John O'Donoghue

“…We will use a modified Delphi process whereby rounds 1 and 2 will be hosted online by Qualtrics and round 3 will encompass a face-to-face workshop held in Malawi. …”
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A comprehensive review of the pathogenic mechanisms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: synergistic effects of virulence factors, quorum sensing, and biofilm formation by Xindan Zhang, Xindan Zhang, Duo Zhang, Duo Zhang, Di Zhou, Di Zhou, Shuai Zheng, Shuai Zheng, Shuang Li, Qinlong Hou, Qinlong Hou, Gen Li, Gen Li, Huiming Han, Huiming Han

“…Beyond cataloging individual factors, we highlight how QS regulators coordinate toxin production and biofilm maturation, and how these processes converge to facilitate immune evasion. We further examine cross-talk between QS circuits (Las, Rhl, and Pqs), their response to environmental cues, and the modulatory role of host signals. …”
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Racial inequality in the production of fresh vegetables and cut flowers in Argentina: an analysis in Greater La Plata by Nuria Caimmi

“…Positive valuations of ultra-processed foods by those living and working in the area reflect the importance of belonging to the host society, running parallel to strategies for preserving food preparations from before migration. …”
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Structural and Functional Characterization of the Bacterial Type III Secretion Export Apparatus. by Tobias Dietsche, Mehari Tesfazgi Mebrhatu, Matthias J Brunner, Patrizia Abrusci, Jun Yan, Mirita Franz-Wachtel, Charlotta Schärfe, Susann Zilkenat, Iwan Grin, Jorge E Galán, Oliver Kohlbacher, Susan Lea, Boris Macek, Thomas C Marlovits, Carol V Robinson, Samuel Wagner

“…However, the in vivo placement of these components in the needle complex and their function during the secretion process remained poorly defined. Here we present evidence that a SpaP pentamer forms a 15 Å wide pore and provide a detailed map of SpaP interactions with the export apparatus components SpaQ, SpaR, and SpaS. …”
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Integrative transcriptomic and proteomic analyses reveal that carbon metabolism and complement system of Madin Darby Bovine Kidney cells are affected by bovine coronavirus infectio... by Hui Zhang, Qisheng Yu, Rui Guo, Qing Zhu, Jin Yu, Zhaohui Zhang, Lan Lan, Cheng Tang, Changqing Yu, Bin Zhang

“…It revealed a regulatory network for analyzing the mechanisms of BCoV-host interactions and provides valuable insights into the pathogenesis of BCoV.…”
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Stress generation, relaxation and size control in confined tumor growth. by Huaming Yan, Daniel Ramirez-Guerrero, John Lowengrub, Min Wu

“…Our study provides insight on how the biophysical properties of the tumor and host microenvironment, mechanical feedback control and diffusion-limited differential growth act in concert to regulate spatial patterns of stress and growth. …”
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Exploring the Dynamics of an Arctic Sea Ice Melt Event Using a Coupled Atmosphere‐Ocean Single‐Column Model (AOSCM) by Kerstin Hartung, Gunilla Svensson, Jareth Holt, Anna Lewinschal, Michael Tjernström

“…Abstract The Arctic climate system is host to many processes which interact vertically over the tightly coupled atmosphere, sea ice and ocean. …”
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Tpc1 is an important Zn(II)2Cys6 transcriptional regulator required for polarized growth and virulence in the rice blast fungus. by Rita Galhano, Adriana Illana, Lauren S Ryder, Julio Rodríguez-Romero, Marie Demuez, Muhammad Badaruddin, Ana Lilia Martinez-Rocha, Darren M Soanes, David J Studholme, Nicholas J Talbot, Ane Sesma

“…The establishment of polarity is a critical process in pathogenic fungi, mediating infection-related morphogenesis and host tissue invasion. …”
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The small RNA complement of adult Schistosoma haematobium. by Andreas J Stroehlein, Neil D Young, Pasi K Korhonen, Ross S Hall, Aaron R Jex, Bonnie L Webster, David Rollinson, Paul J Brindley, Robin B Gasser

“…The present work should facilitate the future curation and experimental validation of sncRNA functions in schistosomes to enhance our understanding of post-transcriptional gene regulation and of the roles that sncRNAs play in schistosome reproduction, development and parasite-host cross-talk.…”
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CD81 is a receptor for equine arteritis virus (family: Arteriviridae) by Sara M. Maloney, Teressa M. Shaw, Kylie M. Nennig, Malorie S. Larsen, Aadit Shah, Ashish Kumar, Joseph Marcotrigiano, Joe Grove, Eric J. Snijder, Robert N. Kirchdoerfer, Adam L. Bailey

“…Bypassing the entry step of the viral life cycle by transfecting the EAV genome into CD81-knockout cells produced infectious EAV, implicating CD81 in the EAV entry process. Screening of CD81 orthologs from natural arterivirus hosts identified the brushtail possum CD81 as unsupportive of EAV entry, indicating that CD81 incompatibility can serve as a barrier to cross-species infection. …”
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Multipurpose watermarking realizing image copyright notification,copyright protection and content authentication by ZHU Cong-xu

“…A multipurpose image watermarking scheme based on chaotic systems and sub-image lifting wavelet transformation（LWT） was proposed.Firstly, the host image was divided into 8×8 sub-images and each sub-image was performed 2-level LWT.Then, the invisible watermarks for copyright protection and content authentication were respectively embedded into low and intermediate frequency LWT components of some sub-images that were randomly selected by general Arnold map.A new kind of quantization technique was adopted in the embedding process and the extracting process was blind.Secondly, the visible watermarks for copyright notification were embedded into the image spatial domain based on image fusion method, in which the embedding coefficients were generated by the 4D hyperchaotic sequences.Experimental results were presented, showing that the proposed watermarking scheme is effective.…”
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Evaluating Grayware Characteristics and Risks by Zhongqiang Chen, Zhanyan Liang, Yuan Zhang, Zhongrong Chen

“…Armed with Support Vector Machines, the framework builds learning models based on training data extracted automatically from grayware encyclopedias and visualizes categorization results with Self-Organizing Maps. The features used in learning models are selected with information gain and the high dimensionality of feature space is reduced by word stemming and stopword removal process. …”
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Transcriptomic insights into Candida albicans adaptation to an anaerobic environment by Karen D. Zeise, John R. Erb-Downward, Gary B. Huffnagle

“…ABSTRACT Candida albicans is a clinically significant fungal pathogen capable of adapting to diverse host environments, including steep oxygen gradients ranging from ~21% oxygen to anaerobic. …”
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Spatial Analysis of the Islands of Kaveri: Exploring landscape themes using placemaking indicators by Balaji Venkatachary, Safiya MD, Shruti Mutalikdesai

“…Besides creating a host of unique landscapes, several of its islands are inhabited and also culturally significant. …”
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The Right to the Museum: From the White Cube to the Critical Museum by Sara Pastore

“…Building on this, the article draws upon institutional critique and critical museology to explore the reconceptualization of the museum as a critical institution: one endowed with social agency and accountability towards the communities that host and engage with it. Focusing on the urban dimension, the article examines the relationship between museums and the premises and practices of critical urbanism, mapping how their interactions with the cities they inhabit have evolved. …”
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Design of multi-channel skid data acquisition system based on FPGA by Yu Jie, Wang Jian, Hou Shuyue, Duan Junping, Zhang Binzhen

“…The PC host can read back the data stored to Flash and map the data. …”
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Convergent origin and accelerated evolution of vesicle-associated RhoGAP proteins in two unrelated parasitoid wasps by Colinet, Dominique, Cavigliasso, Fanny, Leobold, Matthieu, Pichon, Apolline, Urbach, Serge, Cazes, Dominique, Poullet, Marine, Belghazi, Maya, Volkoff, Anne-Nathalie, Drezen, Jean-Michel, Gatti, Jean-Luc, Poirié, Marylène

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A Triple Self-Embedding Fragile Watermarking Scheme for Image Tamper Detection and Recovery by Huseyin Ozkaya, Veysel Aslantas

“…This approach divides the host image into non-overlapping regions according to the block map and further divides each region into <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$5\times 5$ </tex-math></inline-formula> non-overlapping blocks. …”
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