The influence of vaginal microbiota on ewe fertility: a metagenomic and functional genomic approach by Edgar L. Reinoso-Peláez, María Saura, Carmen González, Manuel Ramón, Jorge H. Calvo, Magdalena Serrano

“…Differential abundance analysis revealed that the genera Histophilus, Fusobacterium, Bacteroides, Campylobacter, Streptobacillus, Gemella, Peptoniphilus, Helococcus, Treponema, Tissierella, and Phocaeicola were more abundant in non-pregnant ewes. …”
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High-Yield Generation of Glucose-Responsive Pseudoislets From Murine Insulinoma Cells for Studies and Longitudinal Monitoring of Graft Survival by Grisell C. Gonzalez, Chris M. Li, Ilaria Pasolini, Sophia I. Pete, Connor Verheyen, Sofia M. Vignolo, Teresa De Toni, Aaron A. Stock, Alice A. Tomei

“…Compared to primary pancreatic islets, insulinoma cell-derived 3D pseudoislets offer a more accessible, consistent, renewable, and widely applicable model system for optimization and mechanistic studies in type 1 diabetes (T1D). …”
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Fed-DPSDG-WGAN: Differentially Private Synthetic Data Generation for Loan Default Prediction via Federated Wasserstein GAN by Padmaja Ramachandra, Santhi Vaithiyanathan

“…We investigate the potential of replacing the original data with statistically similar synthetic data to be used as training data to predict loan defaulters. Generative adversarial networks stand out with the best privacy utility trade-off among the many approaches that can generate synthetic data. …”
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Investigating the Pulmonary Host Response of <i>Acinetobacter baumannii</i> Infection-Associated Pneumonia by Metagenomic Next-Generation Sequencing by Mu-Jung Chou, Chih-Hung Cheng, Hui-Ching Wang, Ming-Ju Tsai, Chau-Chyun Sheu, Wei-An Chang

“…Partek was used for investigating enriched functions and pathways related to the pulmonary host response to pneumonia caused by <i>A. baumannii</i> with NDM infection and <i>A. baumannii</i> without antimicrobial-resistant genes. …”
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Generative spatial artificial intelligence for sustainable smart cities: A pioneering large flow model for urban digital twin by Jeffrey Huang, Simon Elias Bibri, Paul Keel

“…The model enhances decision-making processes, supports evidence-based planning and design, fosters integrated development strategies, and enables the development of more efficient, resilient, and sustainable urban environments. …”
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Endophytic fungal community composition and function response to strawberry genotype and disease resistance by Hongjun Yang, Xu Zhang, Rui Wang, Quanzhi Wang, Yuanhua Wang, Geng Zhang, Pengpeng Sun, Bei Lu, Meiling Wu, Zhiming Yan

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Effect of Multiyear Biodegradable Plastic Mulch on Soil Microbial Community, Assembly, and Functioning by Xiaowei Liu, Zongyu Wen, Wei Zhou, Wentao Dong, Huiqing Ren, Gang Liang, Wenwen Gong

“…A null model analysis revealed that bacterial community assembly was largely shaped by deterministic processes, with stronger environmental selection pressures in PBAT-treated soils, while fungal communities were more influenced by stochastic processes. In addition, multiyear PBAT mulch application also impacted the functionality of the soil microbial communities. …”
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Waveguide-Integrated Plasmonic Photodetectors and Activation Function Units With Phase Change Materials by Jacek Gosciniak

“…With a rapidly growing amount of data generated and processed, a search for more efficient components and architectures such as neuromorphic computing that can perform increasingly complex operations in more efficient way continue. …”
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Assisted Reproduction Technologies (ART): Impact of Mitochondrial (Dys)function and Antioxidant Therapy by Filipa C. Ferreira, José Teixeira, Fernando Lidon, Fernando Cagide, Fernanda Borges, Rosa M. L. N. Pereira

“…It is widely demonstrated that all these changes impair reproductive function. Several studies have connected the increase of reactive oxygen species (ROS) generated in mitochondria to the recently identified decline of fertility due to various factors, including heat stress. …”
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Experimental Verification of Optimized Multiscroll Chaotic Oscillators Based on Irregular Saturated Functions by J. M. Muñoz-Pacheco, D. K. Guevara-Flores, O. G. Félix-Beltrán, E. Tlelo-Cuautle, J. E. Barradas-Guevara, C. K. Volos

“…Multiscroll chaotic attractors generated by irregular saturated nonlinear functions with optimized positive Lyapunov exponent are designed and implemented. …”
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Voxelization and one-dimensional lattice structures for industrial components using function representation by Antonio Bacciaglia, Alfredo Liverani, Alessandro Ceruti

“…The proposed method defines the unit cell geometry using function representation primitives to model cylindrical struts and spheres, followed by isosurface triangulation and spatial replication within a voxelized design space. …”
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The Role of the Surface Functionalities in the Electrocatalytic Activity of Cytochrome C on Graphene-Based Materials by Andrés Felipe Quintero-Jaime, Diego Cazorla-Amorós, Emilia Morallón

“…As we present here, understanding the role of surface functional groups generated by the electrochemical functionalization of graphene-based materials facilitates the design and optimization of effective electroactive bioelectrodes. …”
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Mass Function of Stellar Black Holes as Revealed by the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA Observations by Xiao-Fei Dong, Yong-Feng Huang, Zhi-Bin Zhang, Xiu-Juan Li, Ze-Cheng Zou, Chen-Ran Hu, Chen Deng, Yang Liu

“…The Lynden-Bell C ^− method is further applied to derive the mass distribution and density function of black holes. It is found that the mass distribution can be expressed as a broken power-law function. …”
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Improving Physically Unclonable Functions’ Performance Using Second-Order Compensated Measurement by Jorge Fernández-Aragón, Guillermo Diez-Señorans, Miguel Garcia-Bosque, Raúl Aparicio-Téllez, Gabriel López-Pinar, Santiago Celma

“…In this paper, we study the performance of second-order compensated measurement to generate a multi-bit response in physically unclonable functions (PUFs). …”
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Construction and functional identification of overexpression vector of the peach PpCLH1 gene by LIU Xin, ZHANG Xiaoyu, MENG Junren, LI Ang, DUAN Wenyi, SUN Shihang, PAN Lei, ZENG Wenfang, WANG Zhiqiang, NIU Liang

“…However, there have been no reports on the functional study of the chlorophyll degradation gene PpCLH1 in peach. …”
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A New Class of Extended Hypergeometric Functions Related to Fractional Integration and Transforms by Vandana Palsaniya, Ekta Mittal, D. L. Suthar, Sunil Joshi

“…Here, we are also able to generate more image formulas by keeping some integral transforms on the obtained formulas.…”
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Trade-off between computation time and solution quality for integrated generation and transmission expansion planning with N-1 security criterion by Lucas Y. Okamura, Carmen L.T. Borges, Gianfranco Chicco

“…The main outcome is that one of the proposed methods, in which the future cost function is maintained fixed during the generation and transmission optimization and is recalculated only in the final simulation of the system operation, achieves results very close to the fully integrated generation, transmission, and operation optimization method. …”
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Wearable Wireless Functional Near-Infrared Spectroscopy System for Cognitive Activity Monitoring by Mauro Victorio, James Dieffenderfer, Tanner Songkakul, Josh Willeke, Alper Bozkurt, Vladimir A. Pozdin

“…Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) is an effective optical technique for measuring changes in subdermal hemodynamics, and it has been championed as a more practical method for monitoring brain function compared to MRI. …”
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Functional analysis of metabolic channeling and regulation in lignin biosynthesis: a computational approach. by Yun Lee, Luis Escamilla-Treviño, Richard A Dixon, Eberhard O Voit

“…Interestingly, this comparative analysis not only helps distinguish two most parsimonious mechanisms of crosstalk between the two channels by formulating a targeted and readily testable hypothesis, but also suggests that the G lignin-specific channel is more important for proper functioning than the S lignin-specific channel. …”
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Effective Seed Scheduling for Directed Fuzzing with Function Call Sequence Complexity Estimation by Xi Peng, Peng Jia, Ximing Fan, Cheng Huang, Jiayong Liu

“…The first stage is to select seeds with a higher probability of generating test cases that reach the target function. …”
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