MyosinVIIa interacts with Twinfilin-2 at the tips of mechanosensory stereocilia in the inner ear. by Agnieszka K Rzadzinska, Elisa M Nevalainen, Haydn M Prosser, Pekka Lappalainen, Karen P Steel

“…In vertebrates hearing is dependent upon the microvilli-like mechanosensory stereocilia and their length gradation. …”
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Deep Multi-Component Neural Network Architecture by Chafik Boulealam, Hajar Filali, Jamal Riffi, Adnane Mohamed Mahraz, Hamid Tairi

“…Evaluated on the Multimodal EmotionLines Dataset (MELD) and CIFAR-10, DMCNN achieves state-of-the-art accuracy of 99.22% on MELD and 97.78% on CIFAR-10, outperforming existing methods like MNN and McDFR. The architecture’s efficiency is further demonstrated by its reduced trainable parameters and robust handling of multimodal and variable-length inputs, making it a versatile solution for classification tasks.…”
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Investigation of the Morphometric Diversity of Ali Kazemi Rice in Iran by Seyedeh Mahsa Safiedin Ardebili, Reza Azizinezhad, Sara Saadatmand, Rahim Ahmadvand, Iraj Mehregan

“…Of the three populations, Guilan appeared to be more variable than the Qazvin and Zanjan, as variability was observed among populations for some characters, such as awn length, number of spikelets, blade length, and panicle traits between populations. …”
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A window into the human immune system: comprehensive characterization of the complexity of antibody complementary-determining regions in functional antibodies by Oscar Mejias-Gomez, Andreas V. Madsen, Kerstin Skovgaard, Lasse E. Pedersen, J. Preben Morth, Timothy P. Jenkins, Peter Kristensen, Steffen Goletz

“…Overall, our findings confirm existing knowledge, such as CDRH3‘s high length diversity and amino acid variability, increased aromatic residue usage, particularly tyrosine, charged and polar residues like aspartic acid, serine, and the flexible residue glycine. …”
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Frequency of mortality in patients with high AIMS65 score presenting with upper GI bleed by Javeria Zahid Khan, Saima Ambreen, Sidra Jahangir, Aimen Malik, Bushra Khaar, Muhammad Umar

“… Introduction: Upper gastrointestinal bleeding is a common reason for hospitalisation across the world, with a UK frequency of 10% and a death rate of 8-14 percent. [1] Several risk assessment scores have been created to predict clinically relevant outcomes like death, the requirement for hospital-based care, rebleeding, and hospital stay length Objective: To determine frequency of mortality in patients with high AIMS65 score presenting with upper gastrointestinal bleeding. …”
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Impact Of Wind-Induced Vibrations On Aluminum Conductor Fatigue: A Novel Testing Approach by PAUL EDSON VAINCOEUR, Felipe Maganha De Lima, Jose Alexander Araújo, Remy Kalombo Badibanga, Jorge Luiz de Almeida Fereira

“…Wind loads are variable forces applied by the wind to structures, including conductors. …”
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A new phenotyping method for root growth studies in compacted soil validated by GWAS in barley by Giorgia Carletti, Agostino Fricano, Elisabetta Mazzucotelli, Luigi Cattivelli

“…The panel was evaluated at seedling stage for four traits: total root length, average of diameter width, seminal root number, shoot: root weight ratio and two novel Quantitative Trait Loci (QTLs) associated with total root length were identified on Chr 4 H and 5 H. …”
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Influence of extracellular matrix components on the expression of integrins and regeneration of adult retinal ganglion cells. by Elena Vecino, Janosch P Heller, Patricia Veiga-Crespo, Keith R Martin, James W Fawcett

“…The type of substrate affected the number and length of neurites. L stimulated the longest growth. …”
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An Analysis of Factors Affecting Flowslide Deposit Morphology Using Taguchi Method by Zhao Duan, Yan-Bin Wu, Hao Tang, Jian-Quan Ma, Xing-Hua Zhu

“…As slope angle increases, the maximum width, maximum length, area, and length-width ratio of the deposit first increase and then decrease. …”
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Waveform Design using Second Order Cone Programming in Radar Systems by M. Bagher Alaie, Seyed Ahmad Olamaei

“…We show the proposed algorithm can design long length sequences with a very small ISL values. The proposed framework further can be investigated for the future optimization problems, like Peak Sidelobe Level (PSL) minimization.…”
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Impact of trainability on telomere dynamics of pet dogs (Canis lupus familiaris): An explorative study in aging dogs. by Julia Weixlbraun, Durga Chapagain, Jessica Svea Cornils, Steve Smith, Franz Schwarzenberger, Franz Hoelzl

“…The relative telomere length of 63 dogs was measured, using a qPCR method and a model selection approach was applied to assess which variables can explain the found telomere patterns. …”
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Research on the Influence of the Parameters of the “AO-Shaped” Skywell of Traditional Huizhou Residential Houses on the Indoor Wind Environment by Wenjia Pan, Bin Cheng

“…Finally, the data obtained from these simulations are analyzed using the variable control method, and the simulated indoor wind environments of skywells under different scale combinations in terms of skywell length, width, and length–width coupling effects are summarized and compared. …”
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Convergent evolution of a mobile bony tongue in flighted dinosaurs and pterosaurs. by Zhiheng Li, Zhonghe Zhou, Julia A Clarke

“…In Dinosauria, at least one such narrow, midline element is variably mineralized in some basal paravian theropods. …”
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Path Planning of Intelligent Mobile Robots with an Improved RRT Algorithm by Wenliang Zhu, Guanming Qiu

“…The experimental outcomes demonstrate notable improvements in parameters like average path length, average planning time, average count of effective points, and average sampling points, highlighting the enhanced accuracy and efficiency of the improved algorithm in path planning.…”
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iCLIP predicts the dual splicing effects of TIA-RNA interactions. by Zhen Wang, Melis Kayikci, Michael Briese, Kathi Zarnack, Nicholas M Luscombe, Gregor Rot, Blaž Zupan, Tomaž Curk, Jernej Ule

“…Surprisingly, TIA binding at 5' splice sites silenced distal cassette and variable-length exons without binding in proximity to the regulated alternative 3' splice sites. …”
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Sweet Potato Yield Prediction Using Machine Learning Based on Multispectral Images Acquired from a Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle by Kriti Singh, Yanbo Huang, Wyatt Young, Lorin Harvey, Mark Hall, Xin Zhang, Edgar Lobaton, Johnie Jenkins, Mark Shankle

“…Individual models are trained and tested for different cover crop and nitrogen treatments to capture the relationships between the treatments and the target yield variable. The performance of the ML algorithms is evaluated using various popular model performance metrics like R², RMSE, and MAE. …”
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Impact of COVID-19 vaccinations in India: a state-wise analysis by Abhigayan Adhikary, Manoranjan Pal, Raju Maiti

“…The prediction accuracy of the proposed model with the optimal lag length (in days) after including the impact of vaccination is evaluated and compared with a model without it. …”
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Time-Domain ADC and Security Co-Design for SiP-Based Wireless SAW Sensor Readers by Zhen Mao, Bing Li, Linning Peng, Jinghe Wei

“…The experimental results demonstrate that the integrated security mechanism provides variable-length bit entropy for device authentication, and has a reliability of 97.56 and uniqueness of 49.43, with 53.28 uniformity, effectively addressing vulnerability concerns in distributed sensor networks. …”
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A large-eddy simulation study of water tunnel interference effects for a marine propeller in crashback mode of operation by Thomas Bahati Kroll, Krishnan Mahesh

“…Marine propellers are studied in design and off-design modes of operation like crashback, where the propeller rotates in reverse while the vehicle is in forward motion. …”
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Naive and Memory B Cell BCR Repertoires in Individuals Immunized with an Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine by Renato Kaylan Alves de Oliveira França, Pedro Henrique Aragão Barros, Jacyelle Medeiros Silva, Hitallo Guilherme Costa Fontinele, Andrea Queiroz Maranhão, Marcelo de Macedo Brigido

“…Methodology: Memory B-cells were isolated from five CoronaVac vaccinated and five pre-pandemic individuals and subsequently stimulated in vitro before high-throughput Illumina sequencing of the Heavy Chain Variable repertoire. Results: We observed a shift in the VH repertoire with increased HCDR3 length and enrichment of IGVH 3-23, 3-30, 3-7, 3-72, and 3-74 for IgA BCRs and IGHV 4-39 and 4-59 for IgG BCRs. …”
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