Sexing the sternal rib end in modern Greeks: A virtual osteometric approach using high-resolution 3D surface models by Ioanna Karagiorgou, Ioanna Anastopoulou, Fotios Alexandros Karakostis, Elena Kranioti, Konstantinos Moraitis

“…The cross-validated discriminant functions equations for the current sample, produced results ranging between 74.0–82.9% indicating that population-specific formulas produce results of higher accuracy, that are vital in cases of forensic interest.…”
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LPFFNet: Lightweight Prior Feature Fusion Network for SAR Ship Detection by Xiaozhen Ren, Peiyuan Zhou, Xiaqiong Fan, Chengguo Feng, Peng Li

“…In addition, the enhanced ghost convolution (EGConv) is used to generate more reliable gradient information. And finally, the detection performance is improved by focusing on difficult samples through a smooth weighted focus loss function (SWF Loss). …”
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Residue-Specific Structural and Dynamical Coupling of Protein and Hydration Water Revealed by Molecular Dynamics Simulations by Shuai Wang, Jun Gao, Xiakun Chu

“…To further uncover their coupling mechanism, we elucidate residue-specific coupled fluctuations between protein residues and hydration water by generating scatter plots. These findings provide a comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms underlying protein–water interactions, offering valuable insights into the role of hydration water in protein stability, dynamics, and function.…”
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qTrustNet Virtual Private Network (VPN): Enhancing Security in the Quantum Era by Hyoungsub Shim, Bongho Kang, Haejung Im, Duhyun Jeon, Seok-Min Kim

“…This paper introduces qTrustNet VPN, a next-generation Virtual Private Network (VPN) designed to enhance security in the quantum era. …”
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UFBP1 Ameliorates Heat Stress-Induced Apoptosis via Mitochondria-Mediated Pathway in Bovine Mammary Epithelial Cells by Yuan Li, Ran Yu, Shujing Tan, Yunlong Jiang, Longwei Sun, Manman Shen, Chuanjian Zhang, Kunlin Chen, Chengmin Li

“…Besides increasing body temperature and reducing feed intake, heat stress also compromises mammary gland function by inducing apoptosis in bovine mammary epithelial cells (BMECs). …”
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Positive selection analyses identify a single WWE domain residue that shapes ZAP into a more potent restriction factor against alphaviruses. by Serina Huang, Juliana Girdner, LeAnn P Nguyen, Carina Sandoval, Oliver I Fregoso, David Enard, Melody M H Li

“…Many of them block a diverse range of viruses, suggesting that their antiviral functions might have been shaped by multiple viral families during evolution. …”
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Metagenomic Analyses of Water Samples of Two Urban Freshwaters in Berlin, Germany, Reveal New Highly Diverse Invertebrate Viruses by Roland Zell, Marco Groth, Lukas Selinka, Hans-Christoph Selinka

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A generative adversarial network with multiscale and attention mechanisms for underwater image enhancement by Liquan Zhao, Yuda Li, Tie Zhong

“…In the generative network, we first design a residual convolution module to extract more texture and edge information from underwater images. …”
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Neuron Network Modeling of Intensification of Isogumulone Extraction in a Rotary Pulse Generator by Anton V. Shafrai, Elena A. Safonova, Dmitry M. Borodulin, Yana S. Golovacheva, Sergey A. Ratnikov, Wasfie Barsoom Wasef Kerlos

“…The resulting model had the following parameters: two hidden layers, 30 neurons each; neuron activation function – GELU; loss function – MSELoss; learning step – 0.001; optimizer – Adam; L2 regularization at 0.00001; training set of four batches, 16 records each; 9,801 epochs. …”
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Consumer Responses to Generative AI Chatbots Versus Search Engines for Product Evaluation by Soyoung Kim, Randi Priluck

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Style-VT: Style Conditioned Chord Generation by Variational Transformer With Chord Substitution by Kyowon Song, Dongyoung Seo, Junsu Na, Heecheol Yang

“…We also introduce a newly defined chord substitution into the objective function, allowing for greater flexibility in generated chord progressions. …”
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Simulation framework for generating intratumor heterogeneity patterns in a cancer cell population. by Watal M Iwasaki, Hideki Innan

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Virtual Synchronous Generator Based on Hybrid Multi-Vector Model Predictive Control by Yinyu Yan, Zhiyuan Fan, Yichao Sun, Wei Wang, Dongmei Yang, Zheng Wei

“…In addition, different from the traditional MPC methods, this paper incorporates frequency variation weights into the cost function, which further reduces the harmonic content in the output current. …”
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“Armed in-vitro retina”-generating microglial retinal organoids, where are we now? by Yaohong Liu, Yaohong Liu, Lixiong Gao, Wenqian Chen, Wenqian Chen, Yuhan Yan, Yuhan Yan, Zi Ye, Zi Ye, Zi Ye, Zhaohui Li, Zhaohui Li, Zhaohui Li

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Overall Layout Method of Frame Structure Plane Based on Generative Adversarial Network by ZHONG Yan, LEI Xin, LONG Danbing, FANG Changjian, KANG Yongjun

“…<italic>γ</italic>_all reached 0.88, suggesting that the generated structural layout was sound. The model’s generated frame columns met functional requirements, were well-placed, and had appropriate size and density. …”
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BCDDM: Branch Correction Denoising Diffusion Model for Black Hole Image Generation by Ao Liu, Zelin Zhang, Songbai Chen, Cuihong Wen, Jieci Wang

“…BCDDM offers a novel approach to reducing the computational costs of black hole image generation, providing a faster and more efficient pathway for data set augmentation, parameter estimation, and model fitting.…”
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Sensorless control of the high-speed switched reluctance generator of the micro power plant by P. G. Kolpakhchyan, D. V. Olkhovatov

“…In the distributed and autonomous generation systems using renewable energy sources, low-power generating units (not more than 100-200 kW) based on microturbines function. …”
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CRYPTO-RESISTANT METHODS AND RANDOM NUMBER GENERATORS IN INTERNET OF THINGS (IOT) DEVICES by Petro Klimushyn, Tetiana Solianyk, Oleksandr Mozhaiev, Yurii Gnusov, Oleksandr Manzhai, Vitaliy Svitlychny

“…Research methods: method of structural and functional analysis of RNG and IoT devices, cryptographic methods of information protection, methods of random sequence generation, method of stability analysis of systems, methods of construction of autonomous Boolean networks and Boolean chaos analysis, methods of quality assessment of random sequences. …”
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On Channel Transforms to Enhance Reciprocity and Quantization in Physical-Layer Secret Key Generation by Ghalib Hussain, Syed Junaid Nawaz, Shurjeel Wyne, Mohammad N. Patwary

“…Within the physical layer security (PLS) paradigm, the secret key generation (SKG) technique exploits the wireless channel&#x2019;s randomness to generate symmetric secret keys for message encryption/decryption by legitimate communication nodes. …”
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Generation and transformation of α-oxy carbene intermediates enabled by copper-catalyzed carbonylation by Yang Yuan, Xiao-Feng Wu

“…Recently, copper catalysis has been introduced to the carbonylative functionalization of alkenes, thus enabling the rapid assembly of functionalized carbonyl compounds from simple starting materials. …”
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