Retrospective Identification of Herpes Simplex 2 Virus-Associated Acute Liver Failure in an Immunocompetent Patient Detected Using Whole Transcriptome Shotgun Sequencing by Atsushi Ono, C. Nelson Hayes, Sakura Akamatsu, Michio Imamura, Hiroshi Aikata, Kazuaki Chayama

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Effect of Acupuncture on the Expression of Heme Oxygenase 1 and Inflammatory Factors in Rats with Intracerebral Hemorrhage by CHEN Qiuxin, KONG Ying, YU Tingting, ZHANG Yu, LIU Peng, ZHANG Xin

“…Modified Neurological Severity Score （mNSS） was used to evaluate the neurological function of rats after intracerebral hemorrhage on 1 d, 3 d and 7 d. …”
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A Method for Recognizing Dead Sea Bass Based on Improved YOLOv8n by Lizhen Zhang, Chong Xu, Sai Jiang, Mengxiang Zhu, Di Wu

“…Finally, in order to compensate for the weak generalization and slow convergence of the CIoU loss function in detection tasks, the Inner-CIoU loss function was used to accelerate bounding box regression and further improve the detection performance of the model. …”
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Analysis of structural and metabolic changes in surface microorganisms following powdery mildew infection in wheat and assessment of their potential function in biological control. by Zhen Wu, Xiaodong Xue

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A system for assessing the functional state of blood flow in the skin surface layers by the speckle structure of multiply scattered optical radiation by N. D. Abramovich, S. K. Dick

“…The developed system makes it possible to determine the severity of microhemodynamic shifts in relation to metabolic disorders, improve diagnosis and evaluate the treatment efficacy of a number of neurological disorders; it also made it possible to reduce the patient examination time and increase the accuracy of measuring the blood flow microcirculation parameters by 10 % (linear and volumetric blood flow velocities) to detect blood flow disturbances in the surface layers of the skin in the normal and abnormal condition of the nervous system.…”
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Fibrinolytic Activity and Platelet Function in Subjects with Obstructive Sleep Apnoea and a Patent Foramen Ovale: Is There an Option for Prevention of Ischaemic Stroke? by Monica Reggiani, Vesa Karttunen, Ulla Wartiovaara-Kautto, Asko Riutta, Shinichiro Uchiyama, Matti Hillbom

“…As right-to-left shunting can occur through a patent foramen ovale (PFO) during periods of apnoea, we investigated nocturnal changes in fibrinolytic activity and platelet function in subjects who had OSA with or without PFO and in controls. …”
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A Structural Model of Truncated Gaussia princeps Luciferase Elucidating the Crucial Catalytic Function of No.76 Arginine towards Coelenterazine Oxidation. by Nan Wu, Zhi-Chao Xu, Kai-Dong Du, Shen Huang, Naohiro Kobayashi, Yutaka Kuroda, Yan-Hong Bai

“…However, deleting the C-terminal repeat only limited reduces the activity (over 30% residual luminescence intensity detectable), despite being a key part of the cavity. …”
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Impact of mesenchymal stem cell therapy on cardiac function and outcomes in acute myocardial infarction: A meta-analysis of clinical studies by Mei Zhao, Yanpeng Xue, Qingqing Tian, Yan Deng, Tao Tang

“…This meta-analysis evaluated the efficacy of mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) treatment on cardiovascular function and major adverse cardiac events (MACE) in patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) at various follow-up intervals. …”
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BRA-YOLOv7: improvements on large leaf disease object detection using FasterNet and dual-level routing attention in YOLOv7 by Rong Ye, Rong Ye, Quan Gao, Quan Gao, Tong Li, Tong Li

“…In the Neck layer, a dual-level routing dynamic sparse attention mechanism is introduced to enable flexible computation allocation and content awareness, enhancing the model’s ability to capture global information about tea leaf diseases. Finally, the loss function is replaced with MPDIoU to enhance target localization accuracy and reduce false detection cases. …”
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Heart rate transition patterns reveal autonomic dysfunction in heart failure with renal function decline: a symbolic and Markov model approach by Namareq Widatalla, Sona Al Younis, Ahsan Khandoker

“…Abstract Around half of heart failure (HF) patients develop chronic kidney disease (CKD) and early detection of renal impairment in HF remains a clinical challenge. …”
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Label-Free Ratiometric Homogeneous Electrochemical Strategy Based on Exonuclease III-Aided Signal Amplification for Facile and Rapid Detection of miR-378 by Bingyuan Fan, Qian Wang, Shan Wang, Yahui Gao, Yan Liang, Jinru Pan, Xinrui Fu, Li Li, Wei Meng

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Neural correlates of subjective cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease: a systematic review of structural and functional brain changes for early diagnosis and intervention by Giulia Marafioti, Laura Culicetto, Desirèe Latella, Angela Marra, Angelo Quartarone, Viviana Lo Buono

“…Dynamic functional connectivity studies report reduced brain activity efficiency, while graph theory analyses show decreased network integration. …”
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Dynamic Bearing–Angle for Vision-Based UAV Target Motion Analysis by Yu Luo, Hongwei Fu, Tingting Fu, Hao Cha, Bing Tian, Huatao Tang, Feng Liu

“…The Bearing–Angle algorithm effectively improves the observability of vision-based motion estimation for moving targets by combining the dimensional information of target detection frames. However, the robustness of this algorithm will be significantly reduced when the observation error increases due to sudden changes in the target motion state. …”
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PO22 | Early detection and management of PICC-related thrombosis in oncohematologic patients through serial ultrasound monitoring: a prospective observational study

“…Serial CUS enables early detection, allowing prompt anticoagulation and preservation of catheter function. …”
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Improving computer vision for plant pathology through advanced training techniques by Jamie R. Sykes, Katherine J. Denby, Daniel W. Franks

“…Abstract Premise This study investigates advanced training techniques to improve the performance of convolutional neural networks for disease detection in cocoa, Theobroma cacao. Methods Despite recent stagnation in accuracy improvements in computer vision for image classification, our research demonstrates significant advancements in performance through semi‐supervised learning, specialised loss functions, and the inclusion of a non‐cocoa class. …”
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Effect and Mechanism of Action of Pushing Method on Rats with Skeletal Muscle Overuse Injury based on Wnt/β-catenin Signaling Pathway by DUAN Miaomiao, HUANG Bo, RUAN Lei, MU Pangpang, CHEN Yiming, PENG Liang

“…The balance beam test was used to assess the motor function of the rats after skeletal muscle injury at 24 h after the end of modeling and 24 h after the end of the intervention, respectively; hematoxylin-eosin staining (HE) method was used to observe the pathological changes of the gastrocnemius muscle; EM-1400 transmission electron microscope was used to observe the ultrastructure of the skeletal muscle fibers; and fluorescence PCR was used to detect the myogenic regulatory factor myogenic differentiation antigen (Myogenic differentiation antigen (MyoD), myogenin (MyoG) and paired box 7 (Pax7) mRNA transcript levels were detected by fluorescence quantitative PCR; MyoD, MyoG, Pax7, Wnt3a, Axin2 and β-catenin protein expression levels were detected by Western blot. …”
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Effect of bridging units on the detection performance of Cd{P4Mo6}2-based electrochemical sensors for trace chromium(VI) and tetracycline by Xin-Ying Ma, Hao-Xue Bi, Xiu-Juan Zhang, Jing Du, Yuan-Yuan Ma, Zhan-Gang Han

“…Exploring functional electrochemical sensors for the simultaneous detection of inorganic heavy metal ions and organic antibiotic contaminants in aquatic environments is highly significant. …”
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Ultrasensitive label-free ratiometric colorimetric sensor for free chlorine detection in tap water based on a novel brilliant blue-Au NCs by Dongning Li, Yanli Liu, Xin Xu, Wenfang Sun, Haiping Ni, Xiangping Liu

“…The optical properties of BB-Au NCs and the influence of free chlorine were analyzed using computational chemistry methods based on density functional theory (DFT). The ratio of absorbance of BB-Au NCs at 247 and 630 nm was used for accurate quantitative determination of free chlorine in a range from 5 to 50 μM, with the detection limit is 1 μM. …”
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Beet root carbon dots cellulose sulfate film as a novel naked eye pH sensor for chromium and bacterial detection in tomatoes  by Hebat-Allah S. Tohamy

“…Abstract This study presents the development and characterization of a novel nitrogen doped carbon dots cellulose sulfate-carboxymethyl cellulose composite film (N–CDs-CS-CMC) for multifunctional applications in tomato packaging and sensing. Density functional theory (DFT) calculations revealed a significant enhancement in polarity (29.19 Debye) and a reduced energy gap (0.019 eV) for the composite compared to CS-CMC, indicating improved molecular interactions and enhanced charge transfer. …”
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Identification of Low‐Value Defects in Infrared Images of Porcelain Insulators Based on STCE‐YOLO Algorithm by Shaotong Pei, Weiqi Wang, Chenlong Hu, Keyu Li, Haichao Sun, Mianxiao Wu, Bo Lan

“…To solve the above problems, this paper optimizes the small target and complex environment problems in the low‐value defect recognition of insulator infrared images, and proposes the STCE‐YOLO algorithm: based on YOLOv8, the deformable large kernel attention is used to improve the detection ability of small targets; then the cross‐modal contextual feature module is applied to Integrate the features of different scales to reduce the computation of the model. …”
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