Variant genotyping with gap filling. by Riku Walve, Leena Salmela, Veli Mäkinen

“…Insertions are the hardest structural variant to genotype, because the insertion sequence must be assembled from the reads, whereas genotyping other structural variants only requires transformations of the reference genome. The current methods for constructing insertion variants are mostly linked to variation calling methods and are only able to construct small insertions. …”
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Exploring employee selection procedures in South African organisations by Juliet I. Townes, Tatenda S. Marange, Molefe J. Maleka

“…Main findings: The study revealed that the most commonly used selection procedures included online competency-based interviews, psychometric assessments and reference checks. …”
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STUDY OF RAPITALAM INFLUENCE ON OXOTREMORINE-INDUCED TREMOR by N. V. Avdeeva

“…Parkinson’s disease is the second most common (after Alzheimer’s) neurodegenerative disease. …”
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Accumulation Characteristics of Bryophytes in Abandoned Disturbed Peatlands: A Case Study From the Kaliningrad Region, Russia by Baymuratov Rashid, Napreenko Maksim, Koroleva Yuliya

“…Aulacomnium palustre can be recommended for passive biomonitoring purposes on bog ecosystems as having most similar accumulation capability to the reference species Pleurozium schreberi that is widely recognized as indicator of atmospheric air pollution.…”
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Assessment of the residential radon concentrations in the Bakony Region, Hungary by Zsolt Homoki, Gergely Tóth, Anita Csordás, Edit Tóth-Bodrogi, Miklós Hegedűs, Tibor Kovács

“…While most of the Region exhibited high radon concentrations in the autumn and winter, two settlements presented inverse seasonal variations. …”
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A New High-Performance Photovoltaic Emulator Suitable for Simulating and Validating Maximum Power Point Tracking Controllers by Ambe Harrison, Njimboh Henry Alombah

“…Using simple linear equations, with the segment boundary coordinates, a reference voltage was generated for the PVE. A nonlinear backstepping controller was designed to exploit the reference voltage and stabilize the power conversion stage (PCS). …”
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Evaluation of the cytotoxic effects of the colchicine compound isolated from the leaves of Calotropis procera (Ait) against MCF-7 and SK-GT-4 cancer cell lines. by Muna A.Y. Al-Mussawii, Emad Y. A. AL-Sultan, Maytham A. AL-Hamdani

“… Alkaloids are regarded as important nitrogen-containing chemical compounds that serve as a rich source for discovering and developing new drugs where most plant-origin alkaloids have antiproliferation effects on different kinds of cancers. …”
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Positive controls with representative materials are essential for the advancement of microplastics research by Hayley K. McIlwraith, Penelope K. Lindeque, Trevor J. Tolhurst, Matthew Cole

“…Therefore, recovery rate experiments with representative reference microplastics should be a requirement to increase quality, harmonization, and comparability.…”
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Entre peste et famine : caractérisation d’une crise de mortalité par l’étude de trois sépultures multiples du site de Kutná Hora – Sedlec (République tchèque, XIVe siècle)... by Auxane de Lépinau, Dominique Castex, Hana Brzobohatá, Jan Frolík, Filip Velímský, Jaroslav Brůžek, Petr Velemínský, Sacha Kacki

“…The general pattern of non-adult mortality, the value of certain demographic indices and the pattern of skeletal lesions in the mass graves investigated align more closely with the reference data for plague mortality, making their link with the Black Death the most likely scenario. …”
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Developing the Design for a Slotted Agricultural Sprayer and Studying Its Output Parameters by V. E. Slavkina, A. S. Sviridov, G. Arumugam, Y. A. Goncharova, R. M. Kasimov

“…It is noted that foreign-made sprayers are most often used in Russia, since there are no domestic analogues providing similar output parameters. …”
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Using topic modeling to detect cellular crosstalk in scRNA-seq. by Alexandrina Pancheva, Helen Wheadon, Simon Rogers, Thomas D Otto

“…Cell-cell interactions are vital for numerous biological processes including development, differentiation, and response to inflammation. Currently, most methods for studying interactions on scRNA-seq level are based on curated databases of ligands and receptors. …”
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Deploying artificial intelligence in the detection of adult appendicular and pelvic fractures in the Singapore emergency department after hours: efficacy, cost savings and non-mone... by John Jian Xian Quek, Oliver James Nickalls, Bak Siew Steven Wong, Min On Tan

“…After hours, when there are fewer reporting radiologists, most radiographs are interpreted by ED physicians. …”
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Transthyretin amyloid cardiomyopathy in France: A cross-sectional multi-centre study (333 patients) by Thibaud Damy, Erwan Donal, Olivier Lairez, Jean-Christophe Eicher, Mounira Karoubi, Jean-Noël Trochu, Jocelyn Inamo, Gilbert Habib, François Roubille, Albert Hagège, Flore Morio, Eve Cariou, Jérôme Adda, Vincent Algalarrondo, Agathe Coste, Mathilde Bartoli, Jérémie Rudant, Lara Salvi, Bruno Francou, Anne Guiochon-Mantel, David Adams, Jean-Christophe Antoine, Shahram Attarian, Pascal Cintas, Raul Juntas Morales, Emmeline Lagrange, Laurent Magy, Martial Mallaret, Yann Péréon, Philippe Petiot, Cécile Cauquil, Céline Labeyrie, Andoni Echaniz-Laguna, Guilhem Sole, Céline Tard, Silvia Oghina, Philippe Charron, Michel Slama

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The Molecular Diagnosis of Invasive Fungal Diseases with a Focus on PCR by Lottie Brown, Mario Cruciani, Charles Oliver Morton, Alexandre Alanio, Rosemary A. Barnes, J. Peter Donnelly, Ferry Hagen, Rebecca Gorton, Michaela Lackner, Juergen Loeffler, Laurence Millon, Riina Rautemaa-Richardson, P. Lewis White

“…<b>Summary</b>: Recent meta-analyses have demonstrated that quantitative PCR (qPCR) offers high sensitivity for diagnosing IFD, surpassing conventional microscopy, culture and most serological tests. The reported specificity of qPCR is likely underestimated due to comparison with imperfect reference standards with variable sensitivity. …”
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Sociodemographic, maternal and clinical conditions of children exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus by Marli Teresinha Gimeniz Galvão, Gilmara Holanda da Cunha, Julyana Gomes Freitas, Elucir Gir, Renata Karina Reis

“…It was concluded that most children had socioeconomic difficulties that negatively influenced their health conditions.…”
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Utilization of Medicinal Plants by the Tapos Village Community, Cijeruk District, Bogor Regency by Naily Fitrotun Ni’mah, Ukhradiya Magharaniq Safira Purwanto, Syamsul Falah

“…Most types of plants are used to cure a group of gastrointestinal diseases, with as many as 23 types of plants. …”
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Acting Styles of the British New Wave by ANNA ŚLIWIŃSKA

“…This sheds new light on the phenomenon of the British New Wave: actors, graduates of renowned schools, known from the most famous theatres and troupes (such as the Royal Court Theatre, the Royal Shakespeare Company or the Old Vic) end up in films where they are supposed to play characters from the lower social classes, speak their language and make reference to their own memories and background.…”
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The Greek Vision of America during the Greek War of Independence (1821-1830) by Konstantinos Diogos

“…American democracy became a basic argument among those liberals who wanted to advocate in favor of an uncrowned republic, as the most suitable political system for Greece. The most prominent of them was Adamantios Korais, who discovered in the perfect function of American institutions an inspirational political model. …”
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« L’âme pense-t-elle toujours ? » Postérité de la théorie de l’intensio et remissio formarum dans la querelle entre empiristes et cartésiens by David Simonetta

“…« Good sense is, of a all things among men, the most equally distributed ». This sentence stands out as one of the most famous in Descartes’ philosophy. …”
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