Changes in Gut Microbiota and Serum Metabolites in Patients with Extreme Obesity by Libuša Kubáňová, Adela Penesová, Ivan Hric, Jana Babjaková, Eva Baranovičová, Marián Grendár, Viktor Bielik

“…Interestingly, energy metabolites (citrate and acetate), IR HOMA, and insulin were pinpointed as the most important predictors with exceptional ability to differentiate between EO and HLC participants by the Random Forest machine learning analysis. …”
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Multiplex Real-Time PCR Assay Using TaqMan Probes for the Identification of Trypanosoma cruzi DTUs in Biological and Clinical Samples. by Carolina I Cura, Tomas Duffy, Raúl H Lucero, Margarita Bisio, Julie Péneau, Matilde Jimenez-Coello, Eva Calabuig, María J Gimenez, Edward Valencia Ayala, Sonia A Kjos, José Santalla, Susan M Mahaney, Nelly M Cayo, Claudia Nagel, Laura Barcán, Edith S Málaga Machaca, Karla Y Acosta Viana, Laurent Brutus, Susana B Ocampo, Christine Aznar, Cesar A Cuba Cuba, Ricardo E Gürtler, Janine M Ramsey, Isabela Ribeiro, John L VandeBerg, Zaida E Yadon, Antonio Osuna, Alejandro G Schijman

“…Most of them can be only applied to cultured stocks. …”
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RETRACTED: Combined Effects of Artificial Surface and Urban Blue-Green Space on Land Surface Temperature in 28 Major Cities in China by Liang Chen, Xuelei Wang, Xiaobin Cai, Chao Yang, Xiaorong Lu

“…The two most common land cover types in urban areas, artificial surface (AS) and urban blue-green space (UBGS), interact with land surface temperature (LST) and exhibit competitive effects, namely, heating and cooling effects. …”
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Overview of female healthcare providers’ outlooks on cervical cancer screening: a narrative review by Wubishet Gezimu, Ababo Demeke, Firomsa Bekele, Solomon Seyife Alemu, Lema Fikadu, Addisalem Workie Demsash, Geleta Nenko Dube, Gemeda Wakgari Kitil, Elias Ezo

“…BackgroundCervical cancer is the second most frequent gynecologic cancer. Uniquely, it is easily preventable and treatable cancer if identified early. …”
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Machine learning-based prediction of pervaporation permeation using physicochemical properties of permeant-membrane and process conditions by Muhammad Mujiburohman, Marwen Elkamel, Farzad Hourfar, Ali Elkamel

“…The extent of dependency of output on input variables was determined using Garson's equation. It was found that the most affecting physicochemical properties on the PV permeation flux were glass transition temperature (Tgm), solubility difference of two different permeants (ΔSolij), and molar volume of permeant (vi), consecutively. …”
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Application of principal component analysis and Artificial neural networks for the prediction of QoS in FSO links over South Africa by S.O Adebusola, P.A Owolawi, J.S Ojo, P.S Maswikaneng, A.O Ayo

“…The eigenvalues of the first Principal Component (PC1) and the second Principal Component (PC2) in the PCA across the stations Bloemfontein, Johannesburg, Kimberly, George, and Polokwane are 7.624 and 1.020, 7.234, and 0.984, 6.204 and 1.723, 7.354 and 0.876, and 7.104 and 0.865, respectively, demonstrating that, they are kept as QoS variables to train the Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model as they provide the most compelling interpretation of the original variable data. …”
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Consequences of Hot Electrons for the Structure of the Outer Heliosphere by Ethan Schuyler Bair, Merav Opher, Marc Zachary Kornbleuth, Bertalan Zieger, Gabor Toth, Bart van der Holst

“…The temperature of electrons is largely unknown in the outer heliosphere because there is a gap in Voyager measurements from ∼3 eV to 22 keV. Most models assume that the electrons have the same temperature as the bulk cold thermal solar wind (10 ^4 K beyond about 10 au from the Sun), but some studies argue that the electrons could be orders of magnitude hotter. …”
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Determinant Factors of Knowledge about Obesity among Workers in the Chemical Industry in Surabaya City, East Java Province by Ratih Damayanti, Indah Lutfiya, Nur Septia Handayani, Ratnaningtyas Wahyu Kusuma Wardani, Yunita Putri Linggarwati, Anya Indras Sweri

“…Meanwhile, the dependent variable was knowledge level. The statistical test used was the contingency coefficient test. …”
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Engineering students' perceptions and actual use of AI-based math tools for solving mathematical problems by Kimberly F. Garcia, Ardvin Kester S. Ong, Ma. Janice J. Gumasing, Cesar Romeo V. Delos Reyes

“…The results revealed that hedonic motivation, perceived competence, performance expectancy, and habit are the most significant indicators of both students' behavioral intentions and actual use of AI-based math tools. …”
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Data-driven hybrid SARIMAX-MLP framework for energy consumption prediction in residential micro-grid by Ibrahim Ali Kachalla, Christian Ghiaus, Adeniran Ademuwagun, Olufemi Babajide Odeyinde, Majid Baseer

“…SHapley additive exPlanations (SHAP) analysis depicts hot water consumption as the most influential variable, subsequently hour of the day. …”
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Thyroid disorders in patients with human immunodeficiency virus infection: a meta-analysis by Sagad O. O. Mohamed, Khalid Osman Mohamed, Ayoub A. B. Mohamed, Ali E. A. Mohamed, Solafa S. M. Salih, Duaa A. S. Ibrahim, Samia I. E. Mursal, Aseel E. B. Abdhameed, Ahmed A. O. Mahmoud, Khadeja F. Abdallah, Khalid S. K. Salih, Ahmed S. E. E. Abdelrahman, Mohamed S. K. Salih, Yusra E. A. Elmobashir, Mahmoud A. M. Abdelrahman, Amgad I. A. Mohamed, Hanaa A. M. Fadil

“…Results A total of 30 studies met the eligibility criteria and were further included for the analyses. The most common types of thyroid dysfunction identified among HIV patients were subclinical hypothyroidism (7.7%), overt hypothyroidism (2.7%), sick euthyroid syndrome (2.47%), isolated low FT4 (1.80%), and overt hyperthyroidism (0.7%). …”
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Deletion of genes linked to the C1-fixing gene cluster affects growth, by-products, and proteome of Clostridium autoethanogenum by Ugochi Jennifer Nwaokorie, Kristina Reinmets, Lorena Azevedo de Lima, Pratik Rajendra Pawar, Kurshedaktar Majibullah Shaikh, Audrey Harris, Michael Köpke, Kaspar Valgepea

“…Currently, acetogens that utilise the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway to convert carbon oxides (CO and CO2) into valuable products are the most advanced biocatalysts for gas fermentation. …”
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Characteristics and prognosis in acute myocarditis and unexplained acute chest pain: a nationwide longitudinal cohort study by Elmir Omerovic, Emanuele Bobbio, Marie Björkenstam, Christian L Polte, Clara Hjalmarsson, Niklas Bergh, Entela Bollano

“…Aims Acute myocarditis (AM) is a disease with variable prognosis, ranging from complete recovery to end-stage heart failure (HF) and death but often challenging to differentiate from unexplained acute chest pain (UCP) in the acute setting. …”
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Systematic review and meta-analysis of antimicrobial resistant bacteria in free-ranging wild mammals by Camilla Smoglica, Antonella Carcagnì, Simone Angelucci, Fabrizia Di Tana, Fulvio Marsilio, Jorge Ramón López-Olvera, Cristina Esmeralda Di Francesco

“…The studies covered 37 countries, mostly European. The Enterobacterales Escherichia coli and Salmonella spp., as well as Campylobacter spp., were the most frequently targeted bacterial species, mainly in the Artiodactyla order and specifically in the Suidae and Cervidae families. …”
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Community knowledge, perceptions and practices around COVID-19 in Sierra Leone: a nationwide, cross-sectional survey by Maike Winters, Helena Nordenstedt, Mohammad B Jalloh, Paul Sengeh, Nance Webber, Ibrahim Ngobeh, Thomas Samba, Harold Thomas

“…A majority (70%) of women did not know you can survive COVID-19, compared with 61% of men. 60% of men and 54% of women had already taken action to avoid infection with the coronavirus, mostly washing hands with soap and water (87%). Radio (73%) was the most used source for COVID-19 information, followed by social media (39%). …”
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Genomic epidemiology of erythromycin-resistant Bordetella pertussis in China by Zheng Xu, Zengguo Wang, Yang Luan, Yarong Li, Xiaoguai Liu, Xiaokang Peng, Sophie Octavia, Michael Payne, Ruiting Lan

“…A total of 167 Chinese B. pertussis isolates were used for antibiotic sensitivity testing and multiple locus variable-number tandem repeat (VNTR) analysis (MLVA). …”
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A novel cardiomyopathy phenotype linked to a CHD7 missense variant by In Young Park, Chih-Wei Hsu, Karim Bouazoune, Christina E. Espindola, Madeline Hannah McLaughlin Armond, Cristian Coarfa, Sandra L. Grimm, James F. Martin, Donna M. Martin, Cheryl Lyn Walker

“…Abstract Loss of function in the chromatin remodeler CHD7 causes CHARGE syndrome, characterized by variable penetrance and diverse abnormalities. However, establishing genotype-phenotype correlations has been challenging, as most CHD7 inactivating mutations are null alleles. …”
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Sixteen New Complete Plastid Genomes in the Tribe Loteae (Leguminosae): Structure and Phylogenetic Analysis by Tahir H. Samigullin, Yury O. Kopylov-Guskov, Olga V. Nikitina, Anastasiya A. Krinitsina, Svetlana V. Polevova, Tatiana E. Kramina

“…The Loteae plastomes demonstrated full collinearity; the most variable sites of the studied plastomes were found in <i>pet</i>N-<i>trn</i>C and <i>rps</i>16-<i>acc</i>D spacers from the LSC region and in the <i>ycf</i>1 gene within the SSC. …”
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Regression analysis and artificial neural networks for predicting pine species volume in community forests by Wenceslao Santiago-García

“…These variables were explicitly incorporated into the ANN structure, enabling the model to learn complex, non-linear interactions. …”
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A genetically tractable branch of environmental Pedobacter from the phylum Bacteroidota represents a hotspot for natural product discovery by Yang Liu, Luis Linares-Otoya, Christian Kersten, Michael Marner, Sanja Mihajlovic, Mohamed H. Abdeldayem, Sandra Semmler, Molly C. Bletz, Miguel Vences, Marius Spohn, Celine M. Zumkeller, Till F. Schäberle

“…Through phylogenomic analysis of the genus Pedobacter, we identify a distinct clade enriched in lipopeptide-associated BGCs, most of which lack known chemical products. By developing de novo genetic tools and integrating metabolomics, we linked specific secondary metabolites to their corresponding BGCs. …”
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