Phenome-wide association studies between SERINC2 and neuropsychiatric disorders by Ping Liu, Xinqun Luo, Liping Cao, Yong Zhang, Jiawu Ji, Xiaoping Wang, Kesheng Wang, Xinghua Pan, Ruilan Yang, Zewen Tan, Yunlong Tan, Chiang-shan Li, Xiaoyun Guo, Zhiren Wang, Xingguang Luo, Xingguang Luo

“…Finally, functional studies on the differential SERINC2 mRNA expression in brains and the potential regulatory effects of disease-risk alleles on SERINC2 mRNA expression, gray matter volumes (GMVs) of subcortical structures, cortical surface area (SA) and average thickness (TH) were conducted.ResultsIn European descent, alcoholism was most significantly associated with SERINC2 variants (245 SNPs with 5.5×10-8≤p ≤ 0.049 and 4.9×10-5≤q ≤ 0.034) that were largely shared across cocaine dependence, marijuana dependence, nicotine dependence, polysubstance dependence, schizophrenia, OCD, and autism (8.2×10-8≤p ≤ 0.050 and 1.9×10-5≤q ≤ 0.049); in Chinese population, bipolar disorder was also significantly associated with SERINC2 variants (10 SNPs: 1.3×10-4≤p ≤ 4.7×10-4 and 0.025≤q ≤ 0.031). …”
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Green synthesis of silver nanoparticles using Padina commersonii: Characterization, hypoglycemic effects, and antimicrobial potential against human pathogenic bacteria by R. Ragavi, P. Sachini Sigera, A.A.E.B. Nirmani, Milan Rathnayake, R.A. Pasindu Eranga, K.K. Dinuhara Theekshana, Dinithi C. Peiris

“…The SEM imaging confirmed a smooth surface with no aggregation, whereas the XRD pattern perceived the crystalline nature of these AgNPs. …”
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Three-stage registration pipeline for dynamic lung field of chest X-ray images based on convolutional neural networks by Yingjian Yang, Jie Zheng, Peng Guo, Qi Gao, Yingwei Guo, Ziran Chen, Chengcheng Liu, Tianqi Wu, Zhanglei Ouyang, Huai Chen, Yan Kang, Yan Kang, Yan Kang

“…Finally, we propose a three-step registration training method to train the AC-RegNet, obtaining the registration network of the dynamic lung field images (AC-RegNet_V3).ResultsThe proposed AC-RegNet_V3 with the four basic segmentation networks achieve the mean dice similarity coefficient (DSC) of 0.991, 0.993, 0.993, and 0.993, mean Hausdorff distance (HD) of 12.512, 12.813, 12.449, and 13.661, mean average symmetric surface distance (ASSD) of 0.654, 0.550, 0.572, and 0.564, and mean squared distance (MSD) of 559.098, 577.797, 548.189, and 559.652, respectively. …”
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Experimental investigation of methane explosion fracturing in bedding shales: Load characteristics and three-dimensional fracture propagation by Yu Wang, Cheng Zhai, Ting Liu, Jizhao Xu, Wei Tang, Yangfeng Zheng, Xinyu Zhu, Ning Luo

“…CGF mass and fractal dimension increase, while average particle size decreases with increasing explosion load. …”
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Photometric Objects Around Cosmic Webs (PAC). VII. Disentangling Mass and Environment Quenching with the Aid of Galaxy–Halo Connection in Simulations by Yun Zheng, Kun Xu, Donghai Zhao, Y. P. Jing, Hongyu Gao, Xiaolin Luo, Ming Li

“…This approach enabled us to measure the excess surface density ${\bar{n}}_{2}{w}_{{\rm{p}}}({r}_{{\rm{p}}})$ of blue and red galaxies surrounding massive central galaxies down to 10 ^9.0 M _⊙ . …”
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Quantifying the Effect of Land Use and Land Cover Changes on Spatial-Temporal Dynamics of Water in Hanjiang River Basin by Hao Xi, Yanbin Yuan, Heng Dong, Xiaopan Zhang

“…Water supply and demand are influenced significantly by land use and cover change (LUCC) which shapes the surface ecosystems by altering their structure and function. …”
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Reliable unmanned aerial vehicle-based thermal infrared target detection method for monitoring Procapra przewalskii in Qinghai by Guoqing Zhang, Wei Luo, Yongxiang Zhao, Quanqin Shao, Lin Li, Keyu Mei, Guohong Li

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Anthocyanin-loaded complexes of glycated dual milk-derived proteins: thermal stability, storage stability, and simulated digestion by Shuangshuang Wang, Zhenzhu Li, Qingshuang Qiu, Huilin Lv, Haokun Zhang, Hang Wang, Rongzu Nie, Wupeng Ge, Peifeng Li

“…Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis revealed that the surface of Complex III displayed an increased overall size and distinct morphological features, characterized by a uniform, regularly spherical shape with a relatively smooth texture. …”
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Water Level Variation Monitoring in East Lake, Wuhan Based on Satellite Altimetry by LIU Huo-sheng, WANG Hai-hong, YU Qian-hui, LU Liang, QIN Peng-cheng, LIU Yi-bing

“…A robust coarse elimination strategy based on the Median Absolute Deviation (MAD) was employed to eliminate outliers from the water level observation data, followed by the calculation of periodic average water levels to construct the lake water level time series. …”
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Advancing offline magnetic resonance-guided prostate radiotherapy through dedicated imaging and deep learning-based automatic contouring of targets and neurovascular structures by Philipp Schubert, Matthias May, Daniel Höfler, Hans-Peter Fautz, Jana Hutter, Ricarda Merten, Sina Mansoorian, Thomas Weissmann, Lisa Deloch, Miriam Schonath, Nathalia Belmas, Felix Grabenbauer, Benjamin Frey, Udo Gaipl, Bernd-Niklas Axer, Juliane Szkitsak, Michael Uder, Christoph Bert, Rainer Fietkau, Florian Putz

“…DL-generated contours were geometrically evaluated (surface Dice Score [sDSC], mean surface distance [MSD]) and validated by blinded expert review. …”
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Retrieval of Internal Solitary Wave Parameters and Analysis of Their Spatial Variability in the Northern South China Sea Based on Continuous Satellite Imagery by Kexiao Lu, Tao Xu, Cun Jia, Xu Chen, Xiao He

“…ISW parameters are retrieved in the northern South China Sea based on the quantitative relationship between sea surface current divergence and ISW surface features in optical imagery. …”
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Film Cooling Performance and Superposition Method of an Actual Turbine Vane at High Freestream Turbulence by Peng Chu, Yongfeng Sui, Bin Dai, Jibing Lan, Wenyang Shao, Binbin Xue, Xiliang Xu, Zhenping Feng

“…Pressure sensitive paint (PSP) testing and Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) simulations were conducted. …”
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Modelling the infiltration rates of different soil under field conditions by Shubham Kindo, Narendra Agrawal, Aryak Shori, M.P Tripathi

“… Infiltration is the process by which water from the ground's surface will flow into the soil.  In the design and evaluation of surface irrigation systems, an infiltration model is extremely useful. …”
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Comparative Study of Transverse Shear Characteristics of Shear-Yielding Bolts and Traditional Bolts Based on Numerical Simulations and Direct Shear Tests by Jianqiang Xu, Xiaohua Yang, Xueming Jia, Haoyu Zhang, Tiangong Zhang

“…The results show that (1) low-modulus material allows a slight displacement between the structural surface layers, which exerts the friction strength between rock mass layers and avoids stress concentration on the bolt. …”
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Magnetotelluric Sampling and Geoelectric Hazard Estimation: Are National‐Scale Surveys Sufficient? by Benjamin S. Murphy, Greg M. Lucas, Jeffrey J. Love, Anna Kelbert, Paul A. Bedrosian, E. Joshua Rigler

“…An underlying assumption in the use of such data is that they adequately sample the spatial heterogeneity of the surface relationship between geomagnetic and geoelectric fields. …”
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An Investigation of the Promotion of the Aerodynamic Performance of a Supersonic Compressor Cascade Using a Local Negative-Curvature Ramp by Yongzhen Liu, Zhen Fan, Weiwei Cui, Qiang Zhou, Jianzhong Xu

“…The first-passage shock was split into a compression wave system of the vane suction surface. The aim of this was to reduce loss from shockwave/boundary layer interactions (SWBLIs). …”
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Effect of paragliding wing dome shape on its aerodynamic characteristics by V. V. Ovchinnikov, Yu. V. Petrov, Sh. F. Ganiev

“…The ideal incompressible liquid flow over the median surface of a stable shape for a double-membrane gliding parachute is regarded. …”
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The Effect of Tectonic Stress and Thermal Evolution on Shale Pores of Devonian and Carboniferous Shales in Southern China by Zhiyao Zhang, Shang Xu, Wanzhong Shi, Fanyang Meng, Qiyang Gou, Mingfang Zhao

“…Reservoir characteristics of both two sets of shale strata are quite different. The averages of porosity, pore volume, and specific surface area of Devonian shale are 3.81%,9.7×10−3 cm3/g and 11.8 m2/g, while those of Carboniferous shale are 3.57%, 17.3×10−3 cm3/g and 19.8 m2/g. …”
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The genome sequence of Trypanosoma brucei gambiense, causative agent of chronic human african trypanosomiasis. by Andrew P Jackson, Mandy Sanders, Andrew Berry, Jacqueline McQuillan, Martin A Aslett, Michael A Quail, Bridget Chukualim, Paul Capewell, Annette MacLeod, Sara E Melville, Wendy Gibson, J David Barry, Matthew Berriman, Christiane Hertz-Fowler

“…Comparison with T. b. brucei showed that sequence identity averages 99.2% in coding regions, and gene order is largely collinear. …”
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Measuring the Temperature and Stress-Strain States of a Tube Sample under the Local Stochastic Temperature Pulsations by S. M. Dmitriev, R. R. Ryazapov, A. V. Mamaev, A. E. Sobornov, A. V. Kotin, M. A. Legchanov, A. V. Lvov

“…Measuring tube samples were equipped with micro thermocouples and strain gauges.The experimental data of temperature pulsations, time-averaged temperature field in the coolant flow and on the outer surface of the sample were obtained, and statistical and spectral correlation characteristics of temperature pulsations were analyzed. …”
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