Evaluation of MODIS and VIIRS BRDF Parameter Differences and Their Impacts on the Derived Indices by Chenxia Wang, Ziti Jiao, Yaowei Feng, Jing Guo, Zhilong Li, Ge Gao, Zheyou Tan, Fangwen Yang, Sizhe Chen, Xin Dong

“…The results confirm that among the three BRDF parameters, the isotropic scattering parameters of MODIS and VIIRS are more consistent, whereas the volumetric and geometric-optical scattering parameters are more sensitive and variable; this performance is more pronounced in the red band. …”
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Metal-Cation-Induced Tiny Ripple on Graphene by Yingying Huang, Hanlin Li, Liuyuan Zhu, Yongshun Song, Haiping Fang

“…In this study, we report that tiny ripples in graphene can be generated by the adsorption of a single metal cation (Na⁺, K⁺, Mg²⁺, Ca²⁺, Cu²⁺, Fe³⁺) onto a graphene sheet, based on the density functional theory calculations. …”
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Multistep Degradation Tendency Prediction for Aircraft Engines Based on CEEMDAN Permutation Entropy and Improved Grey–Markov Model by Wei Jiang, Jianzhong Zhou, Yanhe Xu, Jie Liu, Yahui Shan

“…Aiming at the complexity of intrinsic mode functions (IMFs) generated by CEEMDAN, an IMFs reconstruction strategy based on permutation entropy is developed to better characterize the degradation states. …”
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Cumulative versus Gravity-based Accessibility Measures: Which One to Use? by Manuel Santana Palacios, Ahmed El-geneidy

“…Using data on commute patterns and public transport schedules from Montreal, Canada, we find cumulative opportunities-based measures estimated at the mean transit commute time and gravity-based measures generated through various decay functions are highly correlated -- all above 0.9. …”
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Data processing and exchange tools to facilitate chemical genetic screening processes by Benjamin Leblanc, Adrien Coulet, Estelle André, Franck Molina, Jean-Paul Leonetti

“…Due to the development of chemical genomics, the screening of chemical libraries is used more and more by research laboratories to identify small molecule inhibitors or activators of cell functions. …”
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Generalization to d-dimensions of a fermionic path integral for exact enumeration of polygons on hypercubic lattices by M. Ostilli, G. W. C. Rocha, C. G. Bezerra, G. M. Viswanathan

“…On the cubic and hypercubic lattices the generating function is still unknown and the problem remains open. …”
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Tinnitus and cardiovascular disease: the population-based Tromsø Study (2015–2016) by Laila A Hopstock, Bo Engdahl, Norun Hjertager Krog, Bente Oftedal, Jannike Heyerdahl-Larsen Ausland, Magnar Johnsen

“…We used three separate tinnitus variables as exposures in analyses: (1) ‘tinnitus status’, measured with the question ‘During the last 12 months, have you experienced ringing in your ears lasting more than five min?’; (2) ‘tinnitus symptom intensity’, generated as a function of tinnitus frequentness and tinnitus bother; and (3) ‘tinnitus bother’, analysed only among participants with tinnitus. …”
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Generalization Enhancement Strategies to Enable Cross-Year Cropland Mapping with Convolutional Neural Networks Trained Using Historical Samples by Sam Khallaghi, Rahebeh Abedi, Hanan Abou Ali, Hamed Alemohammad, Mary Dziedzorm Asipunu, Ismail Alatise, Nguyen Ha, Boka Luo, Cat Mai, Lei Song, Amos Olertey Wussah, Sitian Xiong, Yao-Ting Yao, Qi Zhang, Lyndon D. Estes

“…Our U-Net-based workflow successfully generated multi-year crop maps over large areas, outperforming the base model without photometric augmentation or MC-dropout by 17 IoU points.…”
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Mutant p53 induces SH3BGRL expression to promote cell engulfment by Lobsang Dolma, Mary I. Patterson, Antonia Banyard, Callum Hall, Steven Bell, Wolfgang Breitwieser, Sudhakar Sahoo, John Weightman, Maria Pazos Gil, Garry Ashton, Caron Behan, Nicola Fullard, Lewis D. Williams, Patricia AJ. Muller

“…TP53 can be found mutated at nearly every amino acid in cancers and mutant p53 expression is associated with various GOF (Gain-of-function) processes, including cancer cell invasion, metastasis, stemness and drug resistance. …”
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Amino Acid Polymorphisms in the Basic Region of Meq of Vaccine Strain CVI988 Drastically Diminish the Virulence of Marek’s Disease Virus by Jumpei Sato, Yoshinosuke Motai, Shunsuke Yamagami, Aoi Kurokawa, Shwe Yee Win, Fumiya Horio, Hikaru Saeki, Naoya Maekawa, Tomohiro Okagawa, Satoru Konnai, Kazuhiko Ohashi, Shiro Murata

“…This study provides insight into the molecular basis of MDV virulence and informs the strategy for the design of more effective vaccines.…”
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Prediction method of TBM excavation axis deviation for small turning tunnels based on LSTM neural network by Lijie DU, Hongda HAO, Qingwei LI, Yalei YANG, Weidong ZHANG, Jiayi LIU, Hongchao FENG

“…Firstly, the data is preprocessed, including binary discriminant function and other methods, and the 24 dimensional tunneling parameters are selected by Pearson analysis method as the input of prediction model. …”
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PBMC-Humanized Mouse Model for Multiple Sclerosis: Studying Immune Changes and CNS Involvement by Anastasia Dagkonaki, Irini Papazian, Vasileios Gouzouasis, Ariadni Karles, Maria Kourouvani, Theodore Tselios, Eirini Fragkiadaki, Lesley Probert

“…Humanized immune system (HIS) mice are powerful tools for studying human immune system function and dysfunction and developing human-specific immunotherapeutics. …”
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Co-Design of a Health Screening Program Fact Sheet by People Experiencing Homelessness and ChatGPT: Focus Group Study by Nóra Radó, Orsolya Németh, Sándor Békási

“…They shared their insights on how to make the text variants more appealing for the target audience. Moreover, the involvement of generative AI technology revealed that the participants have heard about the concept of AI and text generation as a potential function, and they have not rejected its use in health care settings.…”
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Investigating the properties and antibacterial, antioxidant, and cytotoxicity activity of postbiotics derived from Lacticaseibacillus casei on various gastrointestinal pathogens in... by Asadi, Zahra, Abbasi, Amin, Ghaemi, Ali, Montazeri, Effat Abbasi, Akrami, Sousan

“…Such byproducts provide the host with enhanced biological function as well as specific physiological consequences. …”
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A Label Correction Learning Framework for Gully Erosion Extraction Using High-Resolution Remote Sensing Images and Noisy Labels by Chunhui Zhao, Yi Shen, Nan Su, Yiming Yan, Shou Feng, Wei Xiang, Yong Liu, Tianhao Zhao

“…To achieve this, we introduce three key components in the framework, including an adaptive correction loss function, a multitree refinement module, and a noise correction module. …”
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Prevalence of daily family meals among children and adolescents from 43 countries by José Francisco López‐Gil, Lee Smith, Mark A. Tully, Julio Álvarez‐Pitti, Santiago F. Gómez, Helmut Schröder

“…The meta package was utilized for conducting a meta‐analysis of single proportions, specifically applying the metaprop function. The analysis involved pooling the data using a random‐effects model and presenting the outcomes through a forest plot generated using the inverse variance method. …”
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Classification of Real-World Objects Using Supervised ML-Assisted Polarimetry: Cost/Benefit Analysis by Rui M. S. Pereira, Filipe Oliveira, Nazar Romanyshyn, Irene Estevez, Joel Borges, Stephane Clain, Mikhail I. Vasilevskiy

“…Different sets of attributes are studied using an artificial neural network (ANN), which is optimized in terms of the number of hidden layers and the activation function. After that, an improved machine learning (ML) architecture is built using the K-nearest neighbors (KNN) classifier on each cluster generated by applying the pre-trained ANN to the training set. …”
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Structural and topological analysis of thiosemicarbazone-based metal complexes: computational and experimental study of bacterial biofilm inhibition and antioxidant activity by Doaa S. El‑Sayed, Shaymaa S. Hassan, Liblab S. Jassim, Ali Abdullah Issa, Firas AL-Oqaili, Mustafa k. Albayaty, Buthenia A. Hasoon, Majid S. Jabir, Khetam H. Rasool, Hemmat A. Elbadawy

“…Also, other important topological analyses such as electron localization function and reduced density gradient, to establish the favorable noncovalent interactions, were studied. …”
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Geometrical constraints dictate assembly and phenotype of human iPSC-derived motoneuronal spheroids by Eleonora Mello, Stefano Sorrentino, Alessio Bucciarelli, Ermanno Cordelli, Elisa De Luca, Haakon Nygaard, Stefan Wendt, Alberto Rainer, Giuseppe Gigli, Lorenzo Moroni, Alessandro Polini, Pamela Mozetic

“…Conventional approaches to generate spheroids lack accurate size control, scalability, and customizability. …”
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Genetic diversity within Strongyloides fuelleborni: mitochondrial genome analysis reveals a clear African and Asian division by Travis Richins, Sarah G. H. Sapp, Alexandra Juhasz, Lucas J. Cunningham, E. James La Course, J. Russell Stothard, Joel L. N. Barratt

“…The putative African origin of the UK S. fuelleborni was confirmed and full-length mt genome sequences were assembled to facilitate a more detailed phylogenetic analysis of 14 mt coding regions against all available Strongyloides species. …”
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