Decoding respiratory syncytial virus morphology: distinct structural and molecular signatures of spherical and filamentous particles by Manoj K. Pastey, Lewis H. McCurdy, Barney Graham

“…Spherical particles contained on average ~3 genomic RNA copies per virion, whereas filamentous particles contained ~2 copies. …”
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Co-seismic landslides susceptibility evaluation of Bayesian random forest considering InSAR deformation: a case study of the Luding Ms6.8 earthquake by Qiang Lin, Zhihua Zhang, Zhenghua Yang, Xinxiu Zhang, Xing Rong, Shuwen Yang, Yuan Hao, Xinyu Zhu, Wei Wang

“…In this study, the pre-seismic average annual surface deformation rate of the study area was obtained using Small Baseline Subset Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SBAS-InSAR) technology. …”
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Kinematics and mechanism analysis of Tangjiawan landslide on the Xinshi—Jinyang Highway in Sichuan Province by Qiang CHENG, Xingquan ZHOU, Xiao ZHANG

“…This paper demonstrates that multi-period UAV photogrammetry can provide spatiotemporal surface deformation information for landslide areas, serving as an effective tools for landslide deformation monitoring.…”
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Freeze-thaw Effect on the mechanical properties of different wood species: impact of moisture content variations, microscopic morphology, and thermal modification in a selected spe... by Stephen Asare, Megan Stoescu, Luis Balmori, Srinivas Allena, Emmanuel Kidando, Josiah Owusu-Danquah

“…To expound on the possible changes in the wood surface profile and fibers during freeze and thaw cycles of 20, 40, and 60, a scanning electron microscope (SEM) analysis was also conducted. …”
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Dispersion of watermelon rinds as secondary raw materials in technologies of pectin-containing extracts and film structures by G. S. Meshcheryakova, A. H.-H. Nugmanov, I. Yu. Aleksanian, Yu. A. Maksimenko, E. V. Sokolova

“…An important preparatory procedure that determines the efficiency and intensity of extraction processes can be attributed to the operation of dispersing the feedstock, since it directly affects the size of the contact surface area of the phases involved in mass transfer. …”
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Epidemiological analysis over 2 years at the Burn Unit of the Urgency Hospital Governor Otávio Lage de Siqueira, Goiânia, Brazil by Fabiano Calixto Fortes De Arruda, Brunna Cândida de Oliveira Castro, Jean Filipe de Medeiros, Wilson José Valadão, Gilberto Marcos dias dos Reis

“…The mean burned body surface area was 24.67%. A total of 1490 surgical interventions were performed, with an average of 3.97 surgeries per patient. …”
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Effects of Dental Occlusion on Body Sway, Upper Body Muscle Activity and Shooting Performance in Pistol Shooters by Amândio A. Dias, Luís A. Redinha, Luís M. Silva, Pedro C. Pezarat-Correia

“…Results revealed similar centre of pressure (COP) parameters in all conditions, despite a reduction in the average oscillation area caused by the OS. There were also no significant differences in EMG activity between conditions in the five upper limb muscles monitored. …”
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FGS-YOLOv8s-seg: A Lightweight and Efficient Instance Segmentation Model for Detecting Tomato Maturity Levels in Greenhouse Environments by Dongfang Song, Ping Liu, Yanjun Zhu, Tianyuan Li, Kun Zhang

“…Experiments show that this model performs significantly better than mainstream segmentation models in core indicators such as precision (86.9%), recall (76.3%), average precision (mAP_@0.5 84.8%), F1-score (81.3%), and GFLOPs (35.6 M). …”
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Silver nanoparticles biosynthesized from Stenocereus queretaroensis with antiproliferative activity by Ariadna Abigail Villarreal-Amézquita, Ivan Moises Sánchez-Hernández, Eduardo Padilla-Camberos

“…Results: The presence of AgNPs was confirmed by silver surface plasmon resonance at 420 nm. The average size obtained by dynamic light scattering analysis was 98.96 nm, with a spherical and uniform shape according to transmission electron microscopy analysis. …”
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ALEXIS: Recreating the X-Ray Emission from the Full Solar Disk as a Linear Combination of Discrete Regions in the Extreme Ultraviolet and Soft X-Rays by Jorge R. Padial Doble, Kelly Holley-Bockelmann

“…We present an Automatically Labeled EUV and X-Ray Incident SolarFlares (ALEXIS) pipeline, designed to decompose the X-ray flux of the full solar disk into a minimum set of discrete regions on the solar surface. ALEXIS returns an average rms error between the X-Ray Sensor time series and the discrete EUV signals of 0.066 ± 0.036 for a randomly selected test bed sample of 1000 hr-long data segments from 2010 May to 2020 March. …”
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Simulation of lake underwater terrain based on the XGBoost model: a case study of typical lakes on the Tibetan Plateau by Kaixin Hu, Shanlong Lu, Qing Li, Cong Du, Bo Zhang, Peng Du, Harrison Odion Ikhumhen

“…The method leverages the similarity between underwater and surface topography by utilizing a digital elevation model (DEM) as input data. …”
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Trends in academic research on thirdhand smoke using bibliometric analysis by Joseph K. Ahialey, Yubin Lee, Myung-Bae Park, Jimi Huh

“…Results Since 2009, an average growth of 14.09% annually has been observed in THS-related publications. …”
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Efficient methodology for the preparation and fabrication of cation exchange membranes using trichloroacetic acid and cellulose biopolymer by U.F. Kandil, E.O. Taha, E.A. Mahmoud, N.O. Shaker, M. Mahmoud, M.M. Reda Taha

“…The SEM photos showed homogeneously distributed small pores on the entire surface of the membrane, and its cross-section is a multilayer with large pores.…”
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Engineering and design of a COF-coated probe for the detection and removal of flumequine and enrofloxacin antibiotics in foodstuffs: a molecular dynamics simulation approach by Alireza Nakhaei, Heidar Raissi, Maryam Alaei, Farzaneh Farzad

“…Our simulations reveal that the flumequine/COF-316 (FLU/COF-316) complex exhibits the lowest average interaction energy at approximately −478 kJ/mol, while the enrofloxacin/COF-316-COOH (ENR/COF-316-COOH) complex has a higher interaction energy, approximately −220 kJ/mol. …”
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Performance assessment of interpolation methods for orbits of altimetry satellites by Julian Zeitlhöfler, Riva Alkahal, Sergei Rudenko, Mathis Bloßfeld, Florian Seitz

“…Abstract Global and regional sea level variations are important indicators of climate change and are derived from accurate sea surface height measurements and precisely determined orbits of altimetry satellites. …”
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Variability of the Hot Box Method in Assessing Thermal Resistance of a Double Leaf Brick Wall by Manuel Ribas, Eva Barreira, Ricardo M. S. F. Almeida

“…According to EN 1934, a baffle must be positioned between the surface of the specimen and the fans of the climatic chamber to maintain acceptable air temperature gradients and uniform air temperature distribution to minimize the convective effects. …”
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Seasonal change of Burkholderia pseudomallei in paddy field water strongly correlates with ambient temperature: A study in north-central Vietnam. by Thi Ngoc Anh Vu, Thi Le Quyen Tran, Nguyen Hai Linh Bui, Trung Thanh Trinh

“…The positive culture rate of B. pseudomallei showed a strong positive correlation with the average ambient temperature when binned from three days up to a month before the sampling dates, with the strongest correlation observed at the 19-day bin data (rs = 0.905; p = 0.002). …”
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Intrastromal Strengthening of the Cornea by Technology BLOK in Case of Ectasia after LASIK with Limited Thickness and Inefficiency of Cross-Linking (Clinical Observation) by G. A. Osipyan, V. M. Sheludchenko, Yusef Naim Yusef, Kh. Khraystin, R. A. Dzhalili, E. I. Krasnolutskaya, S. V. Ermakova

“…Visual acuity increased from 0.15 to 0.66, the average value of keratometry was 40.35 diopters, with the initial 44.8 diopters. …”
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A Simplified Model Validation for the Energy Assessment of Opaque Adaptive Façades with Variable Thermal Resistance by Ismael Palacios Mackay, Laura Marín-Restrepo, Alexis Pérez-Fargallo

“…Cooling and heating annual energy demand (kWh), peak cooling and heating (kW), and maximum, minimum, and average annual hourly zone temperature variables were compared for both the Adaptive and non-adaptive validated model. …”
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Assessing doming mitigation strategies for enhanced inspection of masonry retaining walls with SfM as a cost-effective 3D imaging solution by Maxwell Wondolowski, Alexandra Hain, Sarira Motaref, Michael Grilliot

“…SfM models not initially exhibiting doming displayed an average of 5.8 mm (0.23 in) root mean square error (RMSE) when compared to TLS baselines. …”
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