Exploration of virulence and immune evasion functions of the candidate vaccine antigen SpyAD in the globally disseminated M1T1 group A Streptococcus strain by Alexandra Stream, Samira Dahesh, Lamar Thomas, Nina J. Gao, Elisabet Bjånes, Kalisa Kang, Truman Koh, Neeraj Kapoor, Victor Nizet

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Granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor may contribute to spondyloarthritis development in HLA-B27 transgenic rat by affecting conventional dendritic cells function by Amel Ait Ali Said, Chiara Rizzo, Hendrick Mambu Mambueni, Félicie Costantino, Maxime Breban, Simon Glatigny

“…Serum levels of granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), a key growth factor for DC generation and functions, are significantly increased during SpA. …”
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Tumor cell-released autophagosomes (TRAPs) induce PD-L1-decorated NETs that suppress T-cell function to promote breast cancer pulmonary metastasis by Jing Chen, Ning Pan, Li-Xin Wang, Xiaohe Zhou, Chengdong Wu, Xuru Wang, Xiaotong Sun, Bohao Chen, Shiya Zheng, Yiting Wei, Yuyang Wu, Fengjiao Zhu, Jinpeng Chen, Huabiao Chen

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Three-year course of clinical high-risk symptoms for psychosis in the community: a latent class analysis by C. Michel, N. Osman, G. Rinaldi, B. G. Schimmelmann, J. Kindler, F. Schultze-Lutter

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Genome-wide identification and functional characterization of the LBD transcription factor gene family in Zanthoxylum armatum DC. reveal its potential role in leaf variation by Yifei Deng, Chong Sun, Xueqian Fu, Yuan Guo, Yongxing Zhu, Chongyu Liu, Ruxin Xu, Han Liu, Qiang Li, Ning Tang, Mi Kuang, Wenying Yang, Xia Liu, Zexiong Chen

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Missionary Brotherhood of the Holy Cross in Nizhny Novgorod Diocese in 1875-1916 by N. E. Arkhipova

“…In the analysis it was found out that for more than forty-year term functioning the brotherhood of the Holy cross had significantly expanded the scope of its activities, covering all the deanery districts of the diocese with its branches, attracting new forces to its ranks. …”
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Estilometría TIP: enhanced text analysis tool with customisable metrics for Spanish texts by Francisco J. Carreras-Riudavets, Zenón J. Hernández-Figueroa

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Introducing a Novel Clustering Method for Distribution Networks to Enhance Network Performance and Ensure Load Supply in the Event of Contingencies: A Fuzzy Function-Based Approa... by Mohamad Reza Mohamadi, Mohammad Sadegh Ghazizadeh, Mohamad Abedini

“…To improve the resiliency of the distribution system during normal and emergency conditions, approaches for planning and operating are required so that the network can supply more loads during normal and emergency times. Thus, with the cellular approach in network planning, according to the production and consumption, the cellularization of the network to supply more loads can be considered. …”
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AI-based Personalization of Social Media Thumbnails Using the Stacked ID Embedding Method by Meivi Kartikasari, Hashfi Andira Putra, Mukhlis Amien

“…In tests, it was observed that how relevant and good the generated thumbnails were very much a function of how specific the input image was and how clear the prompt was. …”
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MCBA-MVACGAN: A Novel Fault Diagnosis Method for Rotating Machinery Under Small Sample Conditions by Wenhan Huang, Xiangfeng Zhang, Hong Jiang, Zhenfa Shao, Yu Bai

“…Finally, the objective function is reconstructed by independent classification loss to improve the ability of model data generation. …”
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Bank data protection and fraud identification based on improved adaptive federated learning and WGAN by Yunjiao Zheng

“…Then, a fraud recognition model is designed based on generative adversarial networks. The experiment outcomes show that the adaptive data protection architecture designed in this study notably raises the convergence performance of the loss function after introducing adaptive gradient pruning and noise differentiation strategies, with a minimum loss value of 0.09 and excellent learning ability. …”
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Enhancing Microwave Disinfection: Impact of Sodium Chloride on Microbial Inactivation by Saleh A. Alfawaz, Ibrahim N. Alquaydheb, Amirreza Ghadimi Avval, Sara Ghayouraneh, Samir M. El-Ghazaly, Jianhong Zhou, Yuchun Du

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Modeling eye gaze velocity trajectories using GANs with spectral loss for enhanced fidelity by Shailendra Bhandari, Pedro Lencastre, Rujeena Mathema, Alexander Szorkovszky, Anis Yazidi, Pedro G. Lind

“…This study introduces a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) framework employing Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) generators and discriminators to generate high-fidelity synthetic eye gaze velocity trajectories. …”
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A new Maxwell-Log logistic distribution and its applications for mortality rate data by Uthumporn Panitanarak, Aliyu Ismail Ishaq, Alfred Adewole Abiodun, Hanita Daud, Ahmad Abubakar Suleiman

“…We discussed some essential properties of the Max-LL distribution, including moments, moment generating function, probability weighted moments, stress-strength, and order statistics. …”
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Determination of the Stage of Periodontitis with 20 ng/mL Cut-Off aMMP-8 Mouth Rinse Test and Polynomial Functions in a Mobile Application by Miika Penttala, Timo Sorsa, Julie Toby Thomas, Andreas Grigoriadis, Dimitra Sakellari, Vaibhav Sahni, Shipra Gupta, Pirjo Pärnänen, Tommi Pätilä, Ismo T. Räisänen

“…Third, one more function was created that divided stage II and III patients from each other. …”
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Chitosan and its derivatives-based nanostructures in conjunction with their versatile applications in bio-medicine for alleviating contiguous diseases by Ayesha Anwar, Ayesha Anwar, Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Farooq Warsi, Ibrahim A. Alsafari, Roberto Parra-Saldívar, Roberto Parra-Saldívar, Guadalupe Gutiérrez-Soto, Hafiz M. N. Iqbal

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Reconstructing higher-resolution four-dimensional time-varying volumetric data by Ji Ma, Jinjin Chen

“…Our method can be applied in the context of in-situ visualisation to aid domain scientists in analysing more time-varying volumetric data more efficiently. …”
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An earned presence: studying the effect of multi-task improvisation systems on cognitive and learning capacity by Pil Hansen, Robert J. Oxoby

“…Our team set out to test the following hypothesis: Active participation in performance generating systems has a positive effect on advanced student performers’ working memory capacity, executive functions, and learning. …”
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FINANCIAL SECURITY OF SOCIAL COOPERATIVES IN THE CATERING INDUSTRY: FINDINGS FROM THE FINANCIAL ANALYSIS VS. THE MANAGEMENT’S VIEWS by Patrycja Tomczyk, Dorota Czerwińska-Kayzer, Joanna Florek

“…Managing these areas better can help ensure financial security and enable a more efficient functioning of cooperatives when faced with new economic hurdles.…”
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Breaking Seed Dormancy in Wild Lentil Species Using an Abscisic Acid Antagonist to Explore and Utilize Wild Relatives as Genetic Resources by L. Y. Gorim, O. R. Enesi, S. R. Abrams, S. Banniza

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