Insights into the Regulatory Roles of miRNAs in the Salivary Glands of the Soft Ticks <i>Ornithodoros moubata</i> and <i>Ornithodoros erraticus</i> by Ana Laura Cano-Argüelles, Ricardo Pérez-Sánchez, Cristian Gallardo-Escárate, Rocío Vizcaíno-Marín, María González-Sánchez, Ana Oleaga

“…MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNAs that regulate gene expression by inhibiting or degrading messenger RNAs (mRNAs). …”
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Unveiling pressure-driven tunability of structural, electronic, mechanical and optical characteristics in CsPbBr3 based on a DFT study by Sheeza Mumtaz, M. Rizwan, M. Abaid Ullah, S.S. Ali, Z. Usman, T. Mahmood

“…Numerous beneficial optoelectronic characteristics of perovskites like lead halide have gained much attention due to their light-based and solar cell applications. …”
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A Whole-Genome Survey and the Mitochondrial Genome of <i>Acanthocepola indica</i> Provide Insights into Its Phylogenetic Relationships in Priacanthiformes by Weihua Mao, Ziyi Xu, Qi Liu, Na Li, Lu Liu, Biyan Ren, Tianxiang Gao, Chuan Liu

“…Population size dynamics analysis indicated that <i>A. indica</i> experienced a bottleneck effect during the Pleistocene Glacial Epoch, likely due to the changes in glacial cycles and sea level fluctuations since ~800 Kya.…”
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Identification and analysis of miRNA - mRNA regulatory modules associated with resistance to bacterial leaf streak in rice by Baowei Wu, Xiaoyu Zhang, Jialiang Zhao, Bohong Zeng, Zhibin Cao

“…Abstract Background B acterial leaf streak (BLS) is a bacterial disease that severely affects rice leaves, leading to significant yield reductions. microRNAs (miRNAs) are short non-coding RNAs extensively involved in the growth, development, and stress responses of plants and animals. …”
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Complete mitogenomes reveal high diversity and recent population dynamics in Antarctic krill by Shuai Sun, Shuo Li, Inge Seim, Xiao Du, Xianwei Yang, Kaiqiang Liu, Zhanfei Wei, Changwei Shao, Guangyi Fan, Xin Liu

“…Haplotype network analysis and demographic reconstructions suggest a recent population expansion, likely driven by favorable environmental conditions during the late Pleistocene. …”
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Insights into dentatorubral-pallidoluysian atrophy from a new Drosophila model of disease by Matthew V. Prifti, Oluwademilade Nuga, Ryan O. Dulay, Nikhil C. Patel, Truman Kula, Kozeta Libohova, Autumn Jackson-Butler, Wei-Ling Tsou, Kristin Richardson, Sokol V. Todi

“…As a member of the polyglutamine family of diseases, DRPLA is caused by abnormal CAG triplet expansion beyond 48 repeats in the protein-coding region of ATROPHIN 1 (ATN1), a transcriptional co-repressor. …”
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Selection and Characterisation of Elite <i>Mesorhizobium</i> spp. Strains That Mitigate the Impact of Drought Stress on Chickpea by María Camacho, Francesca Vaccaro, Pilar Brun, Francisco Javier Ollero, Francisco Pérez-Montaño, Miriam Negussu, Federico Martinelli, Alessio Mengoni, Dulce Nombre Rodriguez-Navarro, Camilla Fagorzi

“…Whole-genome sequencing of the elite strains revealed diverse taxonomic affiliations—ISC11 as <i>Mesorhizobium ciceri</i>, ISC15 as <i>Mesorhizobium mediterraneum</i>, and ISC25 likely representing a novel species. Genome mining identified plant growth-promoting traits including ACC deaminase genes (in ISC11 and ISC25) and genes coding for auxin biosynthesis-related enzymes. …”
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Lenguas artificiales y universos femeninos by Carmen Galán Rodríguez

“…Artificial languages created by women have hardly been relevant to the masculine writing of linguistic ideas. Like so many other productions, they have been relegated to the nebulous space of the psychotic. …”
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Artificial Intelligence and Moral intelligence by Laura Pana

“…Implementation of such characteristics does not necessarily suppose efforts to design, construct and educate machines like human beings. The human moral code is irremediably imperfect: it is a morality of preference, of accountability (not of responsibility) and a morality of non-liberty, which cannot be remedied by the invention of ethical systems, by the circulation of ideal values and by ethical (even computing) education. …”
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Editorial by Christian Gütl

“…In a continuous effort to further strengthen our journal, I would like to expand the editorial board: If you are a tenured associate professor or above with a strong publication record, you are welcome to apply to join our editorial board. …”
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Modern vision of Roman Jakobson’s classical theory of indexical symbols by A. Voronova

“…Indexical symbols overlap code and message.In Jakobson’s theory a code is a sign system, so a pronoun can be any sign. …”
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Self-Esteem as a Complex Dynamic System: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Microlevel Dynamics by Naomi M. P. de Ruiter, Tom Hollenstein, Paul L. C. van Geert, E. Saskia Kunnen

“…Kohonen’s self-organizing maps were used to derive attractor-like patterns: repeated higher-order patterns of adolescents’ self-esteem components. …”
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Nursing students’ experiences of clinical teaching: A qualitative study by Parand Pourghane

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Peter Newmark's influence on my world of languages: a personal perspective by Jan Cambridge

“…In those days most people who were not PSI practitioners believed that public service interpreting only took place in the courts (like the International Court of Justice at The Hague or somewhere posh like that). …”
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DVAEGMM: Dual Variational Autoencoder With Gaussian Mixture Model for Anomaly Detection on Attributed Networks by Wasim Khan, Mohammad Haroon, Ahmad Neyaz Khan, Mohammad Kamrul Hasan, Asif Khan, Umi Asma Mokhtar, Shayla Islam

“…Deep learning approaches like graph autoencoders are utilized to perform anomaly detection through obtaining node embeddings while dealing with the network nonlinearity and sparsity issues. …”
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Perceptions of nurse-physician interactions: insights from medical students’ clinical internships by Anna Bovo, Mayra Veronese, Renzo Zanotti, Matteo Danielis

“…Additionally, qualitative analysis software facilitated the coding process, with Bales’ category integrated into ATLAS® Search&Code for text analysis. …”
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Fine-mapping and initial characterization of QT interval loci in African Americans. by Christy L Avery, Praveen Sethupathy, Steven Buyske, Qianchuan He, Dan-Yu Lin, Dan E Arking, Cara L Carty, David Duggan, Megan D Fesinmeyer, Lucia A Hindorff, Janina M Jeff, Liviu Klein, Kristen K Patton, Ulrike Peters, Ralph V Shohet, Nona Sotoodehnia, Alicia M Young, Charles Kooperberg, Christopher A Haiman, Karen L Mohlke, Eric A Whitsel, Kari E North

“…Linkage disequilibrium (LD) patterns in African Americans assisted in narrowing the region likely to contain the functional variants for several loci. …”
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Decolonizing global health: Africa’s pursuit of pharmaceutical sovereignty by Moses Mulumba, Jessica Oga, Nana Koomson, Tasha-Aliya Kara, Adanze Nge Cynthia, Lisa Forman

“…This review distils the latest evidence on the barriers that still block that transition and maps the regulatory, financial, technological, and civic opportunities most likely to accelerate it. Methodology A critical narrative literature review was conducted. …”
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Evaluation of Presumably Disease Causing SCN1A Variants in a Cohort of Common Epilepsy Syndromes. by Dennis Lal, Eva M Reinthaler, Borislav Dejanovic, Patrick May, Holger Thiele, Anna-Elina Lehesjoki, Günter Schwarz, Erik Riesch, M Arfan Ikram, Cornelia M van Duijn, Andre G Uitterlinden, Albert Hofman, Hannelore Steinböck, Ursula Gruber-Sedlmayr, Birgit Neophytou, Federico Zara, Andreas Hahn, Genetic Commission of the Italian League against Epilepsy, EuroEPINOMICS CoGIE Consortium, Padhraig Gormley, Felicitas Becker, Yvonne G Weber, Maria Roberta Cilio, Wolfram S Kunz, Roland Krause, Fritz Zimprich, Johannes R Lemke, Peter Nürnberg, Thomas Sander, Holger Lerche, Bernd A Neubauer

“…<h4>Objective</h4>The SCN1A gene, coding for the voltage-gated Na+ channel alpha subunit NaV1.1, is the clinically most relevant epilepsy gene. …”
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Allelic expression patterns of imprinted and non-imprinted genes in cancer cell lines from multiple histologies by Julia Krushkal, Travis L. Jensen, George Wright, Yingdong Zhao

“…We analyzed allelic expression of the entire genes, individual isoforms, and each exon of 59,283 autosomal protein-coding and ncRNA genes, with a focus on 94 genes previously reported to be imprinted. …”
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