A Heuristic Scheduler for Port-Constrained Floating-Point Pipelines by Zheming Jin, Jason D. Bakos

“…The objective of our technique is to maximize functional unit reuse while minimizing the following performance metrics in the generated circuit: (1) maximum multiplexer fanin, (2) datapath fanout, (3) number of multiplexers, and (4) number of registers. …”
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Entanglement-Based Artificial Topology: Neighboring Remote Network Nodes by Si-Yi Chen, Jessica Illiano, Angela Sara Cacciapuoti, Marcello Caleffi

“…Thus, the possibility of implementing unparalleled network functionalities by exploiting entanglement is gaining huge attention. …”
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The Effect of Enhanced External Counterpulsation on the Vascular State, Indicators of Glycemic Control and Quality of Life in Patients with Coronary Artery Disease and Type 2 Diabe... by O. A. Slepova, A. S. Lishuta, E. Yu. Vasiltsova, E. V. Privalova, Yu. N. Belenkov

“…To study the effect of enhanced external counterpulsation (EECP) on the functional status, quality of life, structural and functional state of the vascular bed, and markers of glycemic control in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM).Material and methods. …”
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Microbial metabolism in laboratory reared marine snow as revealed by a multi-omics approach by Lei Hou, Zihao Zhao, Barbara Steger-Mähnert, Nianzhi Jiao, Gerhard J. Herndl, Yao Zhang

“…Abstract Background Marine snow represents an organic matter-rich habitat and provides substrates for diverse microbial populations in the marine ecosystem. However, the functional diversity and metabolic interactions within the microbial community inhabiting marine snow remain largely underexplored, particularly for specific metabolic pathways involved in marine snow degradation. …”
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A Multi-Strategy Visual SLAM System for Motion Blur Handling in Indoor Dynamic Environments by Shuo Huai, Long Cao, Yang Zhou, Zhiyang Guo, Jingyao Gai

“…Typical SLAM systems adhere to the assumption of environment rigidity, which limits their functionality when deployed in the dynamic indoor environments commonly encountered by household robots. …”
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An innovative tool for the evaluation of energy efficiency of merchant ships by Valentina Bortuzzo, Serena Bertagna, Luca Braidotti, Vittorio Bucci

“…The application of the tool to a case study of a tanker ship, designed to validate its functionality, demonstrates that the tool can effectively generate extensive data, which can be used to identify correlations between specific ship factors and GHG emissions. …”
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DEVELOPMENT OF DRY-SCALE CLEANER CUM GRADER FOR STORED ONION BULBS (ALLIUM CEPA L.) by Jamel SALO, Emmanuel SICAT

“…This study sought to develop a dry-scale cleaner cum grader for stored onion bulbs to simplify operations, reduce labor costs, minimize operation losses, and generate more income for the onion farmers. The design of the machine parts was computed based on the onions' average physical (shape, size, surface area, density, colour, and weight) and mechanical (hardness, compressive strength, impact, and shear resistance) properties. …”
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OCT4B2, a novel alternative spliced variant of OCT4, is significantly upregulated under heat-stress condition and downregulated in differentiated cells by Ensieh M Poursani, Majid Mehravar, Bahram Mohammad Soltani, Seyed Javad Mowla

“…In conclusion, we are reporting a new variant of OCT4 , which is expressed under different physiological conditions. The finding shed more light on complexity of OCT4 expression and functions.…”
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Is Clonal Integration a Buffer for the Stress of Resource Acquisition Depletion in <i>Eichhornia crassipes</i> (Pontederiaceae) Ramets? by Guilherme Ramos Demetrio, Dalton Serafim, Flávia de Freitas Coelho

“…Natural selection favors the allocation of finite resources to different functions maximizing fitness. In this sense, some functions may decrease whereas others increase when resources are limited in a process called a trade-off. …”
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Full-length transcriptomes of 25 grassland plant species by Chongyi Jiang, Zixia Huang, Cynthia Meizoso, Gaby Kumpfmüller, Jochen B. W. Wolf, Holger Schielzeth

“…Despite their ecological and economic value, transcriptomic resources for wild grassland species to support eco-evolutionary and functional genomic studies remain limited. Here, we present full-length transcriptomes for shoot tissue from 25 wild grassland plant species collected from a long-term biodiversity experiment (the Jena Experiment). …”
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Le stage dans l’enseignement supérieur, un dispositif riche de promesses difficiles à tenir by Dominique Glaymann

“…Internships are part of a pedagogical system which is attracting more and more interest in Academia. This phenomenon may be explained by the fact that it would seem that they encourage the professionalization of studies and facilitate improved professional insertion of young graduates. …”
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Protein Lactylation: A new jewel in the crown by Ruby Dhar, Arun Kumar, Subhradip Karmakar

“…Lactylation is a newly identified post-translational modification that has emerged as a crucial epigenetic regulator, significantly influencing cellular functions and disease processes. Lactylation involves the addition of lactate, a glycolysis byproduct, to lysine residues in proteins, particularly histones. …”
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Automotive DNN-Based Object Detection in the Presence of Lens Obstruction and Video Compression by Gabriele Baris, Boda Li, Pak Hung Chan, Carlo Alberto Avizzano, Valentina Donzella

“…Recent advances in sensing, processing, machine learning, and communication technologies are accelerating assisted and automated functions development for commercial vehicles. Environmental perception sensor data streams are processed to generate a correct and complete situational awareness. …”
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BGATT-GR: accurate identification of glucocorticoid receptor antagonists based on data augmentation combined with BiGRU-attention by Watshara Shoombuatong, Pakpoom Mookdarsanit, Nalini Schaduangrat, Lawankorn Mookdarsanit

“…Therefore, this study proposes an innovative deep learning-based hybrid framework (termed BGATT-GR) that leverages a data augmentation method, a bidirectional gated recurrent unit (BiGRU), and a self-attention mechanism (ATT) to attain more accurate identification of GR antagonists. In BGATT-GR, we first employed AP2D, CDKExt, KR, Morgan, and RDKIT to extract molecular descriptors of GR antagonists and combined these molecular descriptors to generate multi-view features. …”
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Molecular insights into Solanum sisymbriifolium’s resistance against Globodera pallida via RNA-seq by Raquel Varandas, Cristina Barroso, Isabel Luci Conceição, Conceição Egas

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The relationship between protein-energy wasting and cognitive impairment in patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis by Jun Liu, Jingfang Wan, Kehong Chen, Yani He, Weiwei Zhang, Jiyuan Luo, Dan Li

“…Baseline data, PEW-related indicators, and cognitive function scores were compared between the CI and non-CI groups. …”
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Hardcoded vulnerability detection approach for IoT device firmware by Chao MU, Xin WANG, Ming YANG, Heng ZHANG, Zhenya CHEN, Xiaoming WU

“…With the popularization of IoT devices, more and more valuable data is generated.Analyzing and mining big data based on IoT devices has become a hot topic in the academic and industrial circles in recent years.However, due to the lack of necessary detection and protection methods, many IoT devices have serious information security risks.In particular, device hard-coded information is closely related to system encryption and decryption, identity authentication and other functions, which can provide confidentiality protection for core data.Once this information is exploited by malicious attackers, serious consequences such as sensitive information leakage, backdoor attacks, and unauthorized logins will occur.In response to this problem, a multi-type character recognition and positioning scheme was designed and a hard-coded vulnerability detection method in executable files was proposed based on the study of the characteristics of hard-coded vulnerabilities in IoT devices.The proposed method extracted the firmware of IoT devices and filtered all executable files as the source to be analyzed.Then, a solution to identify and locate three types of hard-coded characters was provided.Further, the reachability of the function, where the hard-coded character was located, was analyzed according to the function call relationship.Meanwhile, the instruction heterogeneity was mitigated by an intermediate representation (IR) model.The character and parameter hard-coded values was obtained through a data flow analysis approach.A symbolic execution method was devised to determine the trigger conditions of the hard-coded vulnerabilities, and then the vulnerability detection result was output.On the one hand, the proposed method introduced the method of symbolic execution based on the use of the intermediate representation model, which eliminated the dependency of instruction architecture and reduces the false positive rate of vulnerabilities; On the other hand, this method can integrate characters, files, and cryptographic implementation to realize the different characteristics of three types of hard-coded characters, which increased the coverage of vulnerability detection and improves the versatility of the detection method.The experimental results show that the proposed method can effectively detect three types of hard-coded vulnerabilities of characters, files and cryptographic implementation in various IoT devices, and has good detection accuracy, which can provide certain guidance for the deployment of subsequent security protection technologies.…”
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Original Personalized Reconstruction Method for Certain Large Tumors of the Lower Lip (Not Including Oral Commissures) by Ovidiu Dan Grigorescu, Marius Irimie, Nadinne Roman, Roxana Steliana Miclaus, Maria-Cristina Cîmpeanu, Bogdan-Radu Necula, Christian-Gabriel Strempel, Simona Grigorescu, Marius Alexandru Moga, Dana Gabriela Festila

“…<i>Background/Objective</i>: Surgical treatment of extensive tumors of the lower lip generates important defects in its structure and functions. …”
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Central Blood Pressure and Chronic Kidney Disease Progression by Debbie L. Cohen, Raymond R. Townsend

“…This has led to the search for less traditional cardiovascular risk factors that will help stratify patients at risk for more rapid kidney disease progression. Among these are noninvasive estimates of vascular structure and function. …”
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L’intuition dans l’apprentissage et l’emploi d’une langue étrangère : pourquoi la notion est-elle importante ? by Wioletta Piegzik

“…The study focuses on the evaluative function of intuition linked to the rapid judgment of the grammatical correctness of sentences and the compensation function, which involves the immediate inference of the meaning of unknown lexical units from the context. …”
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