Reverse mutational scanning of SARS-CoV-2 spike BA.2.86 identifies epitopes contributing to immune escape from polyclonal sera by Najat Bdeir, Tatjana Lüddecke, Henrike Maaß, Stefan Schmelz, Ulfert Rand, Henning Jacobsen, Kristin Metzdorf, Upasana Kulkarni, Anne Cossmann, Metodi V. Stankov, Markus Hoffmann, Stefan Pöhlmann, Wulf Blankenfeldt, Alexandra Dopfer-Jablonka, Georg M. N. Behrens, Luka Čičin-Šain

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Mobile malware detection method using improved GhostNetV2 with image enhancement technique by Yao Du, CaiXia Gao, Xi Chen, MengTian Cui, LiLi Xu, AoJi Ning

“…Second, we make three improvements to GhostNetV2 to more effectively identify malicious code, including introducing channel shuffling in the Ghost module, replacing the squeeze and excitation mechanism with a more efficient channel attention mechanism, and optimizing the activation function. …”
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Stabilization of diastolic calcium signal via calcium pump regulation of complex local calcium releases and transient decay in a computational model of cardiac pacemaker cell with... by Alexander V Maltsev, Victor A Maltsev, Michael D Stern

“…In our simulations the faster SR Ca pumping accelerates action potential-induced Ca transient decay and quickly clears Ca under the cell membrane in diastole, preventing premature releases. Then the SR generates an earlier, more synchronized, and stronger diastolic LCR signal activating an earlier and larger inward NCX current. …”
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MERCURY CONCENTRATION IN MARGIN SOIL OF THE MADEIRA RIVER by Déborah Pereira Linhares, Joiada Moreira da Silva, Tatiane Rodrigues Lima, Ronaldo Cavalcante de Oliveira, João Paulo de Oliveira Gomes, Wanderley Rodrigues Bastos, Ene Glória da Silveira

“…The increase of values of clay makes the function of organic matter in the superficial horizon better (from 20,2 to 19.0 %). …”
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Lightweight Multi-Head MambaOut with CosTaylorFormer for Hyperspectral Image Classification by Yi Liu, Yanjun Zhang, Jianhong Zhang

“…Following this, one branch employs a linear transformer, CosTaylorFormer, to extract global spectral information. More specifically, we propose CosTaylorFormer with a cosine function, adjusting the weights based on the spectral curve distribution, which is more conducive to establishing long-distance spectral dependencies. …”
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Influence of Rib Cage on Static Characteristics of Scoliotic Spine by Liying Lin, Shaowei Jia, Hufei Yang, Ye Li, Shunxin Zhang, Jie Fan, Li Han

“…Under the common postures, intervertebral discs of scoliotic segments are more susceptible to generate stress concentrations compared with the normal spine. …”
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Fibrogenic and fibrolytic potential of differently activated human macrophages by A. A. Maksimova, L. V. Sakhno, A. A. Ostanin

“…One way to perform this function is through the production of profibrotic and fibrolytic factors including fibronectin, laminin, collagen, and extracellular matrix proteases. …”
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Multi-objective optimal scheduling of cascade reservoirs in complex basin systems: Case study of the Jinsha River-Yalong River confluence basin in China by Zhaocai Wang, Zhihua Zhu, Hualong Luan, Tunhua Wu

“…In complex basins with multiple converging rivers, the ''dimensional catastrophe'' effect increases with more decision variables, requiring improved robustness and optimization of the scheduling algorithm. …”
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Autonomous Robotic Path Planning Based on the Gaussian Mixture Model in Complex Manufacturing Environment by Rui Sun, Yuanmin Wang, Wenzheng Zhao, Yinhua Liu

“…Secondly, the initial path is determined using the path generation configuration library, and a segmented path fitness function is introduced to evaluate the quality of the path quantitatively. …”
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Revealing speckle obscured living human retinal cells with artificial intelligence assisted adaptive optics optical coherence tomography by Vineeta Das, Furu Zhang, Andrew J. Bower, Joanne Li, Tao Liu, Nancy Aguilera, Bruno Alvisio, Zhuolin Liu, Daniel X. Hammer, Johnny Tam

“…The combination of two parallel discriminators in P-GAN provides additional feedback to the generator to more faithfully recover both local and global cellular structures. …”
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Multi-scale adversarial diffusion network for image super-resolution by Yanli Shi, Xianhe Zhang, Yi Jia, Jinxing Zhao

“…Furthermore, to mitigate blurring artifacts introduced during the denoising process, a high-frequency loss function is proposed, targeting the residuals of high-frequency features between images. …”
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Joint Resource Allocation for V2X Sensing and Communication Based on MADDPG by Zhiyong Zhong, Zhangyou Peng

“…However, this also demands a more intelligent and efficient resource allocation framework for next-generation vehicular networks. …”
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Optimizing Dendritic Cell-Based Immunotherapy: Tackling the Complexity of Different Arms of the Immune System by Ilse Van Brussel, Zwi N. Berneman, Nathalie Cools

“…A better insight in DC immunobiology and function has stimulated many new ideas regarding the potential ways forward to improve DC therapy in a more fundamental way. …”
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Modern problems of artificial reproduction of sturgeon in the Volga‐Caspian basin by L. M. Vasilyeva, N. I. Rabazanov

“…It is necessary to increase funding for research into the reproductive function of females and for artificial generation, as well as for the maintenance of production herds – a golden fund for restoring natural reserves. …”
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Different properties of the hemodynamic response and its relation to trait mental fatigue and proactive cognitive control by Simon Skau, Lina Bunketorp-Käll, Birgitta Johansson, Hans-Georg Kuhn

“…Method: 30 healthy adults answered the Mental Fatigue Scale (MFS), performed the AX-Continuous Performance Task (AX-CPT), a test of proactive cognitive control which generates the proactive behavioral index (PBI), and underwent functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to measure functional activity in the frontal and parietal cortex while being tested on the AX-CPT. …”
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Evolutionary History With Chronic Malnutrition Enhances Pathogen Susceptibility at Older Ages by Saubhik Sarkar, Biswajit Shit, Joy Bose, Souvik De, Tadeusz J. Kawecki, Imroze Khan

“…However, it is unclear how the evolutionary history of ancestral generations with chronic malnutrition could influence pathogen resistance and infection susceptibility, as well as their age‐specific changes in extant generations. …”
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On Convergence Rate of MRetrace by Xingguo Chen, Wangrong Qin, Yu Gong, Shangdong Yang, Wenhao Wang

“…In recent years, the stability of off-policy learning for value-based reinforcement learning has been guaranteed even when combined with linear function approximation and bootstrapping. Convergence rate analysis is currently a hot topic. …”
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Effect of Casting Conditions on the Fracture Strength of Al-5 Mg Alloy Castings by Fawzia Hamed Basuny, Mootaz Ghazy, Abdel-Razik Y. Kandeil, Mahmoud Ahmed El-Sayed

“…In this work, the Weibull moduli for the ultimate tensile strength (UTS) and % elongation of sand cast bars produced under different casting conditions were compared as indicators of casting reliability which was expected to be a function of the oxide film content. The results showed that the use of a thin runner along with the use of filters can significantly eliminate the surface turbulence of the melt during mould filling which would lead to the avoidance of the generation and entrainment of surface oxide films and in turn produce castings with more reliable and reproducible mechanical properties compared to the castings produced using conventional running systems.…”
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Mechanism study on improving chloropicrin fumigation effect by covering fumigated soil with appropriate thickness film by Chunyan Dai, Chunyan Dai, Minghua Li, Minghua Li, Rongfeng Pu, Rongfeng Pu, Yameng Lin, Yameng Lin, Hualin Liu, Hualin Liu, Yuan Liu, Yuan Liu, Xiuming Cui, Xiuming Cui, Peiran Liao, Ye Yang, Ye Yang

“…F6S increased beneficial microbial phyla and genera such as Bacillus, Sphingomonas, and Mortierella, and reduced harmful Fusarium and Nectriaceae more effectively than F8S. …”
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Background Traffic-Based Retransmission Algorithm for Multimedia Streaming Transfer over Concurrent Multipaths by Yuanlong Cao, Changqiao Xu, Jianfeng Guan, Hongke Zhang

“…The content-rich multimedia streaming will be the most attractive services in the next-generation networks. With function of distribute data across multipath end-to-end paths based on SCTP's multihoming feature, concurrent multipath transfer SCTP (CMT-SCTP) has been regarded as the most promising technology for the efficient multimedia streaming transmission. …”
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