Extreme Gradient Boosting Beats In-Silico Identification of Proteins Potentially Associated With Alzheimer’s by Sadia Khalil, Wajid Arshad Abbasi, Syed Ali Abbas, Maryum Bibi, Saiqa Andleeb, Amsa Shabir

“…Python code for feature extraction, training, and evaluating our proposed models together with the dataset is available at the URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/alzheimer-associated-proteins/files/.…”
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Aphasia assessment: impact of material on naming performance by José Fonseca, Filipa de Miranda, Gabriela Leal, Teresa Pinho e Melo, Isabel Pavão Martins

“…Naming abilities are usually evaluated by means of real objects or pictures or line drawings that are printed. …”
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Atherosclerotic Extension of Carotid Arteries: An Insertion in Clinical Practice by M. L. Furlanetto, E. F. B. Chagas, Payão SLM

“…The anatomical prevalence of atheromas does not always follow, a sequence by sectors, and in many cases are concomitant. …”
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Vaccinium myrtillus L. ameliorates diabetic nephropathy via modulating metabolites and gut microbiota in rats by Xinxin Cao, Xinxin Cao, Xinxin Cao, Xinxin Cao, Fan Yao, Fan Yao, Fan Yao, Fan Yao, Wenxiu Liu, Wenxiu Liu, Wenxiu Liu, Wenxiu Liu, Yufang Wang, Zhen Zhang, Chongyang Zhang, Chongyang Zhang, Chongyang Zhang, Chongyang Zhang, Zhengqi Dong, Bin Zhang, Bin Zhang, Bin Zhang, Bin Zhang, Ruikun He, Xiaobo Sun, Xiaobo Sun, Xiaobo Sun, Xiaobo Sun

“…Biochemical indicators, histopathology, 16s third generation sequencing and serum metabolomics were used to evaluate the effects of VCE on DN. …”
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PROPERMAB: an integrative framework for in silico prediction of antibody developability using machine learning by Bian Li, Shukun Luo, Wenhua Wang, Jiahui Xu, Dingjiang Liu, Mohammed Shameem, John Mattila, Matthew C. Franklin, Peter G. Hawkins, Gurinder S. Atwal

“…We further show that structure-derived features can be rapidly and accurately predicted directly from sequences by pre-training simple models for molecular features, thus providing the ability to scale these approaches to repertoire-scale sequence datasets.…”
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Vision Transformer and Language Model Based Radiology Report Generation by Mashood Mohammad Mohsan, Muhammad Usman Akram, Ghulam Rasool, Norah Saleh Alghamdi, Muhammad Abdullah Aamer Baqai, Muhammad Abbas

“…Transformer-based models in various sequence prediction tasks such as language translation, sentiment classification, and caption generation have shown remarkable performance. …”
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A Practical Approach to Identifying Processed White Meat of Guinea Fowl, Rabbit, and Selected Fish Species Using End-Point PCR by Anita Spychaj, Kamila Goderska, Emilia Fornal, Magdalena Montowska

“…For this reason, we evaluated in practice the possibilities of identifying selected species of white meat, i.e., guinea fowl and rabbit as well as four fish species, namely, pollock, hake, sole, and panga, in thermally treated samples. …”
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Exploring Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of Australian Passion Fruit Germplasm by Xinhang Sun, Peter Bundock, Patrick Mason, Pragya Dhakal Poudel, Rajeev Varshney, Bruce Topp, Mobashwer Alam

“…Evaluating the genetic variability of germplasms is essential for enhancing and developing superior cultivars. …”
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Numerical Calculation Analysis of the Structural Stability of Cemented Fill under Different Cement-Sand Ratios and Concentration Conditions by Kang Zhao, Qiang Li, Yajing Yan, Keping Zhou, Shuijie Gu, Shengtang Zhu

“…FLAC3D was used to investigate the mechanical properties of cement-filled pillars and the stability of supporting surrounding rocks on the basis of the mine’s current room pillar structure size parameters and mining sequence. The key factors that affect the stability of the goaf were analyzed by evaluating the plastic zone area of the stope, maximum and minimum principal stresses, and displacement change. …”
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Modelling of Severe Accident and In-Vessel Melt Retention Possibilities in BWR Type Reactor by Mindaugas Valinčius, Tadas Kaliatka, Algirdas Kaliatka, Eugenijus Ušpuras

“…Using a model of the entire reactor, a full accident sequence from the large break to core uncover and heat-up as well as corium relocation to the lower head is presented. …”
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Abattoir Countrywide Survey of Dairy Small Ruminants’ Haemonchosis in Greece and Associated Risk Factors by Konstantinos V. Arsenopoulos, Athanasios I. Gelasakis, Elias Papadopoulos

“…Methods: In total, 1004 abomasa of small ruminants were examined to evaluate the prevalence of <i>Haemonchus</i> spp. Moreover, a structured questionnaire was used to obtain relevant information regarding animal and farm characteristics. …”
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Immunoinformatics Design of a Multi-epitope-based Vaccine Against Colorectal Cancer by Zahra Yazdani, Alireza Rafiei

“…The adjuvants of Mycobacterial heparin-binding hemagglutinin and pan DR epitope were inserted in the N and C terminus of the vaccine sequence. Physicochemical properties, immunological characterizations, and prediction of the secondary and tertiary structure of the vaccine were evaluated. …”
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Role of radiotherapy in surgical approaches to pancreatic cancer treatment: A narrative review by Satoshi Yasuda, Minako Nagai, Kota Nakamura, Yasuko Matsuo, Masayuki Sho

“…Recent advances in radiation delivery techniques have improved the therapeutic ratio, although further clinical validation is needed. The optimal sequence and combination of these treatment modalities with surgical strategies continue to be evaluated in ongoing clinical trials. …”
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Analysis and Estimation of Core Damage Frequency of Flow Blockage and Loss of Coolant Accident: A Case Study of a 10 MW Water-Water Research Reactor-PSA Level 1 by F. Ameyaw, R. Abrefah, S. Yamoah, S. Birikorang

“…The estimated values for the frequencies of core damage were within the expected margins of 1.0e − 5/yr to 1.0e − 4/yr and of identical sequence of the extent as found for similar reactors.…”
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Deep Transfer Learning for Lip Reading Based on NASNetMobile Pretrained Model in Wild Dataset by Ashwaq Waleed Abdul Ameer, Pedram Salehpour, Mohammad Asadpour

“…The performance of NASNetMobile is evaluated using several key metrics. The model contains 4,680,739 parameters. …”
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Objective-Oriented Health Systems Reform by Joseph Kutzin, Susan P. Sparkes, Alexandra J. Earle, Agnes Gatome-Munyua, Nirmala Ravishankar

“…The approach and attributes laid out in this paper put forward considerations for policy makers as they design, implement, evaluate, and adapt policies to feasibly improve health system performance. …”
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Genetic divergence and combining ability of mini tomato (Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme) lines from different sources by Liliane Scislowski, Marcos Ventura Faria, Felipe Liss Zchonski, Paulo Roberto da Silva

“…ABSTRACT The objectives were to evaluate genetic divergence in 59 Solanum lycopersicum var. cerasiforme lines correlating with the country of origin, and to estimate the combining ability of 13 selected lines based on high soluble solids contents (°Brix). …”
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Inhibition of complement activation, myeloperoxidase, NET formation and oxidant activity by PIC1 peptide variants. by Pamela S Hair, Adrianne I Enos, Neel K Krishna, Kenji M Cunnion

“…Here we explore a sarcosine substitution scan of the PA peptide to evaluate impacts on solubility in the absence of PEGylation and functional characteristics.…”
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Evolutionary conservation of the functional modularity of primate and murine LINE-1 elements. by Bradley J Wagstaff, Miriam Barnerssoi, Astrid M Roy-Engel

“…The mouse ORF2p retains retrotransposition-competency to support both Alu and L1 mobilization when any of the domain sequences we evaluated were substituted with human counterparts. …”
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Quantifying and Reducing the Operator Effect in LSPIV Discharge Measurements by G. Bodart, J. Le Coz, M. Jodeau, A. Hauet

“…The Large Scale Particle Image Velocimetry (LSPIV) is known to be sensitive to the parameters and computation choices set by the user, but no systematic comparisons with discharge references or intercomparisons have been conducted yet to evaluate this operator effect in LSPIV. In this paper, an analysis of a video gauging intercomparison, the Video Globe Challenge 2020, is proposed to evaluate such operator effect. …”
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