Emergence of HCV genotype 6 and its new variants among intravenous drug users in Manipur, a north-eastern state of India by Raina Das, Supradip Dutta, Sagnik Bakshi, Aritra Biswas, Shreyasi Nath, Moumita Majumdar, Priya Verma, Upasana Baskey, Shanta Dutta, Provash Chandra Sadhukhan

“…Objectives: This cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate the impact of certain risk factors enhancing the susceptibility of acquiring HCV. …”
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GNNs surpass transformers in tumor medical image segmentation by Huimin Xiao, Guanghua Yang, Zhuocheng Li, Changhua Yi

“…We analyze the limitations of the Transformer, which models medical images as sequences of image patches, limiting its flexibility in capturing complex and irregular tumor structures. …”
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Three Hour Ahead PV Power Forecasting with Bidirectional Recurrent Networks: Insights into Monthly Variability by Ferial El Robrini, Badia Amrouche

“…This paper focuses on evaluating the monthly performance of four predictive models designed for a three-hour forecast horizon. …”
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Optimally Rating of Biogas, Compost, Vermicompost Facilities to be Installed in Yozgat Province with ARAS and COPRAS Methods by Rahim Arslan, HÜdaverdi Bircan, Hasan Eleroğlu

“…This study was carried out in order to determine the optimal suitability of biogas, compost and vermicompost (worm manure) production facilities obtained from pre-feasibility study in order to determine and evaluate the animal and slaughterhouse wastes that were exposed in Yozgat region. …”
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Mendelian randomization reveals limited causal effects of genetic variants on cervical cancer risk: insights from immune cell populations by Zhang Zhang, FuRong Fu, ShaoLi Zhuang

“…Differential gene expression was analyzed using single-cell RNA sequencing, while forest plots, scatter plots, and funnel plots facilitated comprehensive MR analysis. …”
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Phage derived lytic peptides, a secret weapon against Acinetobacter baumannii—An in silico approach by Abhishek Nandy, Ruchi Yadav, Aditi Singh

“…From the PhaLP database, the sequences of the selected lysins were retrieved in FASTA format and antimicrobial peptides were found among them. …”
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Melodic Contour Training and Its Effect on Speech in Noise, Consonant Discrimination, and Prosody Perception for Cochlear Implant Recipients by Chi Yhun Lo, Catherine M. McMahon, Valerie Looi, William F. Thompson

“…These melodic contours were simple 5-note sequences formed into 9 contour patterns, such as “rising” or “rising-falling.” …”
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Assessment of potential probiotic lactic acid bacteria in rice-based fermented products of Southern Assam, Northeast India by Hanna Yumnam, Soumitra Nath, Pragya Chakraborty, Indu Sharma

“…IntroductionIndigenous ethnic fermented products have gained recognition as valuable sources of probiotic bacteria, which play a crucial role in maintaining the natural balance of the gut microbiota.MethodsTwenty-five samples of rice-based fermented products were analyzed, recovering 16 LAB isolates, preliminarily identified by morphological and biochemical tests, and further confirmed using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Subsequent in vitro assessments, safety evaluations and technological properties were performed on all isolated strains.ResultsThe potential probiotic strains were able to tolerate low pH, gastric juice, bile salts, and pancreatin enzymes; however notable variations in resistance were also observed and several strains demonstrated a significant ability of the strains to adhere to intestinal epithelial cells. …”
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Comparative Transcriptome Analysis of Recessive Male Sterility (RGMS) in Sterile and Fertile Brassica napus Lines. by Cunmin Qu, Fuyou Fu, Miao Liu, Huiyan Zhao, Chuan Liu, Jiana Li, Zhanglin Tang, Xinfu Xu, Xiao Qiu, Rui Wang, Kun Lu

“…Comparative RNA sequencing analysis revealed that 3,199 genes were differentially expressed between WSLA and WSLB. …”
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Flow volume measurement of arterial venous and cerebrospinal fluid in patients with multiple sclerosis by Serpil Aglamis, Murat Gönen

“…Axial T1-weighted, T2-weighted, and PC-MRI sequences were performed for the quantitative investigation of flow volume measurements. …”
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Fibrolytic rumen bacteria of camel and sheep and their applications in the bioconversion of barley straw to soluble sugars for biofuel production. by Alaa Emara Rabee, Amr A Sayed Alahl, Mebarek Lamara, Suzanne L Ishaq

“…The diversity and structure of bacterial communities attached to barley straw was investigated by Illumina Mi-Seq sequencing of V4-V5 region of 16S rRNA genes. The bacterial community was dominated by phylum Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes. …”
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Replication Past the 𝛾-Radiation-Induced Guanine-Thymine Cross-Link G[8,5-Me]T by Human and Yeast DNA Polymerase 𝜂 by Paromita Raychaudhury, Ashis K. Basu

“…For hPol 𝜂, both incorporation and extension were more efficient with the correct nucleotides. To evaluate translesion synthesis in the presence of all four dNTPs, we have developed a plasmid-based DNA sequencing assay, which showed that yPol 𝜂 was more error-prone. …”
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Security-Enhanced Image Encryption: Combination of S-Boxes and Hyperchaotic Integrated Systems by Renjie Song, Haixia Zhao

“…The performance of the proposed encryption algorithm is evaluated and the average values of the calculated metrics are as follows: information entropy value is 7.993, correlation coefficient is 0.008803, NPCR is 99.61%, and UACI is 33.48%. …”
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Fishing operation type recognition based on multi-branch convolutional neural network using trajectory data by Bohui Jiang, Weifeng Zhou

“…Comparative experiments evaluate Geohash encoding lengths and network architectures (single-branch vs. multi-branch, fully-connected vs. 1D-CNN). …”
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Deciphering the interaction between the expression of LRP2 served as a mitochondrial metabolism-related gene and prognosis in colon cancer integrating multi-omics analysis by Jie Zhang, Ziyun Liu, Xiaoqing Ma, Zhenyu Shi, Jing Zhao, Yongjie Xie, Xiaobin Shang, Xia Zhang

“…We validated survival outcome and biological function of the target gene leveraging single-cell sequencing and transcriptomics datasets from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO), and evaluated the value of the target gene in the clinical pathology stage of COAD patients. …”
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Identification of Peptides from Edible <i>Pleurotus eryngii</i> Mushroom Feet and the Effect of Delaying D-Galactose-Induced Senescence of PC12 Cells Through TLR4/NF-κB/MAPK Signal... by Fen Zhao, Ji’an Gao, Haiyan Li, Shuaishuai Huang, Shangmeng Wang, Xinqi Liu

“…Simulated digestion in vitro of <i>Pleurotus eryngii</i> mushroom feet peptides (SID-PEMFPeps) was obtained in order to further evaluate the bioactivity after digestion. The peptide sequences of PEMFPeps and SID-PEMFPeps were detected by LC-MS/MS subsequently. …”
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Regulation of Helicobacter pylori Urease and Acetone Carboxylase Genes by Nitric Oxide and the CrdRS Two-Component System by Madison G. McKinsey, Miranda Y. Bate, Lauren M. Tramonte, Emely Y. Avalos, John Loh, Timothy L. Cover, Mark H. Forsyth

“…Expression of these CrdRS regulon genes was also evaluated under 10 μM nitric oxide (NO) conditions. …”
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Untargeted metabolomics-based study of extracts from Simarouba glauca plant parts for insecticidal effects against Spodoptera frugiperda by Komala G, Shanthi Mookiah, Murugan Marimuthu, Sujayanand G. K, Vellaikumar Sampathrajan, Preetha Gnanadhas, Kavitha Govindasamy, Prakash Kolanchi

“…Abstract The Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) presents a major challenge to global maize production. This study evaluates the insecticidal potential of Simarouba glauca extracts as an eco-friendly alternative to synthetic pesticides. …”
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Cargo Analysis and MRI‐Based Therapeutic Assessment of Iron Oxide Labelled Extracellular Vesicles of Hypoxia Human Stem Cells in Ischemic Stroke by Shannon Helsper, Li Sun, Richard Jeske, Chang Liu, Jacob Athey, Xuegang Yuan, Samuel C. Grant, Yan Li

“…In this study, the therapeutic efficacy of hypoxia hMSCs and the secreted EVs labelled with iron oxides was evaluated in a preclinical model of ischemic stroke. …”
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Investigation of Molecular Mechanisms of Aminoglycoside Resistance in Salmonella by A. V. Zubritskiy, E. N. Ilina, S. A. Strelchenko, M. V. Malakhova, S. V. Lenev, O. D. Sklyarov, A. N. Panin, V. M. Govorun

“…The spread of aminoglycoside resistance phenotype and respective genetic resistance determinants was evaluated in 243 Salmonella strains isolated within 1948-2010 and stored in the Culture Collection of the Russian State Research Institute for Control, Standardization and Certification of Veterinary Preparations (Moscow). …”
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