In Troubled Waters: Applying DNA Barcoding to Monitor Singapore's Shark Fin Trade by Anya Ramanan, Kimberly H. Quek, Nicole Chung Mae Sze, Nicole Isabel Oo Xinyen, David Kim Hyun Soo, Changjun Sung, Vivien Dimitrov, Rebekah P. Nix, Ming Han Mark Sng, Pei Xuan Jody Lim, Elisa X. Y. Lim, Benjamin J. Wainwright

“…Ninety‐eight percent of all the identifications made in this work belonged to species that are listed on CITES Appendix II. …”
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Evaluating traditional Chinese medicine diagnostic instruments for functional dyspepsia: A systematic review on measurement properties by Leonard TF Ho, Vincent CH Chung, Charlene HL Wong, Irene XY Wu, Kun Chan Lan, Darong Wu, Jerry WF Yeung, Nevin L Zhang, Ting Hung Leung, Justin CY Wu

“…To support the evidence base of the standardization of TCM patterns in ICD-11, TCM diagnostic instruments should be developed and validated rigorously under the COSMIN guidelines. Amendments should be made on the guidelines to accommodate the features and uniqueness of TCM diagnostic process.…”
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Scalability in SLA lattice through lattice orientation and hybrid frame and plate architectures by Mahan Ghosh, Nandika Anne D'Souza, Yunwei Xu, Mohan Sai Kiran Kumar Yadav Nartu, Vignesh Pagadalu, Sina Rastegarzadeh, Jida Huang

“…Cellular structure-inspired lattice truss frame designs made of struts, have been extensively studied. All plate-based lattice designs have superior mechanical performance. …”
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Learning Post-Stroke Gait Training Strategies by Modeling Patient-Therapist Interaction by Seyed Mostafa Rezayat Sorkhabadi, Mason Smith, Roozbeh Khodmbashi, Rachel Lopez, Melissa Raasch, Trent Maruyama, Christina Kwasnica, Wenlong Zhang

“…Lower-limb kinematics of patients and assistive force applied by therapists to the patient’s leg are measured using a wearable sensing system which includes a custom-made force sensing array. The collected data is then used to characterize a therapist’s strategies in response to unique gait behaviors found within a patient’s gait. …”
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Synthesis, modification and antimicrobial potential of biochar and its modifications against water-borne pathogens: A review by Dipro Mukherjee, Moumita Sil, Arunava Goswami, Debasmita Bhattacharya, Moupriya Nag, Dibyajit Lahiri, Kuldeep Sharma, Rajan Verma

“…It is highly flammable and is made from the burning of agricultural and forest-based organic wastes by various controlled processes like pyrolysis. …”
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Management of peripheral ossifying fibroma due to severe periodontitis: Case report by Zisis Stefanos, Zisi Vasileios, Shinas Nikolaos, Poulopoulos Konstantinos, Charisi Christina, Papadopoulos Petros, Kyriakou Nikolaos, Cordahi Joe, Anagnostou Eleftherios, Poulopoulos Athanasios

“…At the site of the tumor, the submarginal incision was made with a No. 15C blade at the mesial papilla of tooth #24 following the gingival contour to the distal papilla of #26. …”
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Understanding the spatial dynamics of values and disvalues in the Kaskaskia River Watershed, USA through a social-ecological lens by Carena J. van Riper, Lorraine Foelske, Ben Leitschuh, Sanghyun Lee, Suresh Sharma, Seunguk Shin, Henry Pollock, Maria L. Chu, William P. Stewart

“…Further complicating the decisions being made about agricultural settings is the variation in social-ecological stressors that shape how diverse community members interpret landscape change. …”
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Water Balance Effect of Urbanization and Countermeasures for Enhancing Urban Water Security Resilience by Qingfang Hu, Jianyun Zhang, Junliang Jin, Xiumin Chen, Xing Su

“…Over the past four decades, the rapid urbanization process in China, coupled with the impact of global climate change, has significantly affected the water balance in urban areas and their adjacent regions. …”
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Three-dimensional reduced graphene oxide support from spheric CaCO3 as sacrificial template applied to in-situ growth of HKUST-1 metal-organic framework by Hassani Lizbeth Camargo-Carmona, Ferdinando Tristan, David Meneses-Rodríguez, Gladis Judith Labrada-Delgado, Sofía Magdalena Vega-Díaz

“…This rGO monolith was used as a support in a solvothermal process to grow the HKUST-1 framework in situ within its pores and on its surface. …”
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Long-term consumption of highland barley tea promotes healthy aging of skeletal muscle by Li Yan, Chenzhipeng Nie, Qingwei Zheng, Mingcong Fan, Waleed AL-Ansi, Haifeng Qian, Li Wang

“…Highland barley tea (HBT) is made from roasted barley seeds and is abundant in β-glucan, amino acids, minerals, phenolics, and other natural active ingredients. …”
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Empathy and resting-state functional connectivity in children by Katherine O. Bray, Elena Pozzi, Nandita Vijayakumar, Sally Richmond, Marc Seal, Christos Pantelis, Vicki Anderson, Sarah Whittle

“…While interpretations should be made cautiously, findings suggest wide-ranging and diffuse connectivity patterns may be related to several components of empathy in children. …”
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Epidemiological Insights and Diagnostic Strategies of Extrarespiratory Tuberculosis: A Five-Year Retrospective Study in Clinic of Pneumology, Târgu Mureș by Gabriela Jimborean, Edith-Simona Ianoși, Dragoș Huțanu, Hédi-Katalin Sárközi, Mara Andreea Vultur, Maria Beatrice Ianosi, Alpár Csipor-Fodor

“…For negative cases, a probabilistic diagnosis was made. Results: Most patients presented pleural TB (38%), osteo-articular TB (26.67%), and ganglionary TB (19%). …”
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Interpretable deep learning for gastric cancer detection: a fusion of AI architectures and explainability analysis by Junjie Ma, Fang Yang, Rong Yang, Yuan Li, Yongjing Chen

“…The usage of LIME presents the critical regions in the Image leading to cancer detection.DiscussionThe enhanced accuracy of Gastric Cancer detection offers high suitability in clinical applications The usage of LIME ensures trustworthiness and reliability in predictions made by the model by presenting the explanations of the decisions, making it useful for medical practitioners. …”
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Development of a model for detection and analysis of inclusions in tomographic images of iron castings using decision trees by Dorota Wilk-Kołodziejczyk, Aleksandra Nowotny, Izabela Krzak, Adam Tchórz, Krzysztof Jaśkowiec, Marcin Małysza, Adam Bitka, Mirosław Głowacki, Marzanna Książek, Łukasz Marcjan

“…Abstract CT images of castings made of ductile iron were analyzed in the paper. …”
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Impact of plasticization temperature on the mechanical properties of sports mouthguards by Ester Stephany Rodrigues da Silva, Thales Ribeiro de Magalhães Filho, Simone Saldanha Ignácio de Oliveira, Karin de Mello Weig, Luise Gomes da Motta, Juliana Nunes da Silva Meirelles Dória Maia

“…Material and Methods: Specimens were made according to different plasticization temperatures (85°C, 103°C, 121°C and 128°C) and different dental brands of EVA sheets (Bio-art and FGM). …”
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Assessing Compliance with Indigenous Self-Determination Standards: A Comparative Analysis of Chile, Colombia, and Mexico by Martha Angélica Ramírez Salazar, Omar Alejandro Guirette Barbosa, Selene Castañeda-Burciaga, Leticia I. García Estrada, Juvenal Villanueva-Maldonado, José M. Celaya-Padilla

“…This study aims to assess the progress made by Chile, Colombia, and Mexico in meeting these criteria. …”
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Inclusion of Hybrid <i>Pennisetum</i> and Probiotics Enhanced Anaerobic Fermentation Quality and Bacterial Diversity of Alfalfa Silage by Jiaqi Tang, Jue Li, Xuelin Han, Jie Qiao, Shuangshuang Bu, Xiaoping Xie, Xin Li, Jing Zhou, Fulin Yang

“…This study aims to assess the impact of <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> (BS) and <i>Lactobacillus buchneri</i> (LB) on the fermentation quality, microbial communities, and predicted metabolic pathways in mixed silage made from alfalfa and hybrid <i>Pennisetum</i>. We prepared mixed silage from fresh alfalfa and hybrid <i>Pennisetum</i> in a 1:1 ratio and inoculated it with BS, LB, or a combination of both (BSLB) or left it untreated as a control. …”
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Granularity at Scale: Estimating Neighborhood Socioeconomic Indicators From High-Resolution Orthographic Imagery and Hybrid Learning by Ethan Brewer, Giovani Valdrighi, Parikshit Solunke, Joao Rulff, Yurii Piadyk, Zhonghui Lv, Jorge Poco, Claudio Silva

“…Concurrent with improved sensor resolutions, recent advancements in machine learning and computer vision have made it possible to quickly extract features from and detect patterns in image data, in the process correlating these features with other information. …”
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Retrospective analysis of the effects of radiotherapy on the areolas reconstructed with a total skin graft by Marcela Caetano Cammarota, Anderson de Azevedo Damasio, Suellen Vieira da Silva, Rafael Sabino Caetano Costa, Carolina Oliveira Paranagua Castro, Tristão Maurício de Aquino, Phabio Claudino Estrela Terra Theodoro, José Carlos Daher

“…Two groups were selected: group 1 (unilateral reconstruction) and group 2 (bilateral reconstruction). Comparisons were made between the reconstructed NAC areola, group 1, with that of the contralateral NAC and in group 2, between the two reconstructed areolas Results: After the inclusion of 56 patients in the study, 71 reconstructed areolar complexes were included. …”
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Supramolecular nanocrystalline membranes with well-aligned subnanochannels for enhanced reverse osmosis desalination by Gang Lu, Wentao Shang, Xinyao Ma, Hengyue Xu, Hubao A, Jiawei Sun, Xiaolu Li, Mingyi Jia, Shuang Lu, Jun Wu, Xi Chen, Shensheng Chen, Jun Fan, Alicia Kyoungjin An

“…Abstract Thin-film composite membranes are integral to the reverse osmosis (RO) process, effectively converting seawater and brackish water into potable water. …”
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