Development and Validation of Quantile Regression Forests for Prediction of Reference Quantiles in Handgrip and Chair‐Stand Test by Giulia Giordano, Luca Mastrantoni, Francesco Landi, The Lookup 8+ Study Group

“…The predictive outputs of these models may serve as surrogate biomarkers of the aging process, capturing functional decline.…”
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Characterizing Performance on a Suite of English-Language NeuroUX Mobile Cognitive Tests in a US Adult Sample: Ecological Momentary Cognitive Testing Study by Emily W Paolillo, Jessica Bomyea, Colin A Depp, Ashley M Henneghan, Anunay Raj, Raeanne C Moore

“…The tests tapped the domains of executive function, processing speed, reaction time, recognition memory, and working memory. …”
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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

“…However, our understanding of the functionalities of the genes involved in the C1-fixing gene cluster and its closely-linked genes is incomplete. …”
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Impact of short-term aircraft noise on cardiovascular disease risk in the area surrounding London Heathrow airport: the RISTANCO epidemiological study by Xiangpu Gong, Nicole Itzkowitz, Calvin Jephcote, Kathryn Adams, Glory O Atilola, John Gulliver, Marta Blangiardo, Anna Hansell

“…To identify areas with high variability in aircraft noise exposure (due to changes in flight paths because of wind direction and airport operations), we used coefficients of variation (CoV). …”
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Optimal control for high-precision repeat ground-track orbits via convex optimization by Yanchao HE, Lei ZHANG, Yijun YANG, Qian CHEN

“…The results show that the design approach enables the realization of high-precision RGT orbit designs and that the orbit control strategy is efficient.…”
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A Fusion Strategy for High-Accuracy Multilayer Soil Moisture Downscaling and Mapping by Xu Zhang, Xin Liu, Xiang Zhang, Aminjon Gulakhmadov, Jiefeng Wu, Xihui Gu, Won-Ho Nam, Panda Rabindra Kumar, Veber Afonso Figueiredo Costa, Mahlatse Kganyago, Berhanu Keno Terfa, Wenying Du, Chao Wang, Peng Wang, Jing Yuan, Nengcheng Chen

“…Soil moisture (SM) is a critical factor influencing plant growth, agricultural yield, ecosystem functions, and water resource management. Existing SM products, such as SMAP, ERA5, and ESA-CCI, provide daily SM data. …”
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Bayesian inference for peak feature extraction and prediction of material property in X-ray diffraction data by Ryo Murakami, Taisuke T. Sasaki, Hideki Yoshikawa, Yoshitaka Matsushita, Keitaro Sodeyama, Tadakatsu Ohkubo, Hiroshi Shinotsuka, Kenji Nagata

“…We challenge peak feature extraction in the situation where only the peak function profile is known a priori, without knowledge of the measurement material or crystal structure factor. …”
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MCL-SWT: Mirror Contrastive Learning with Sliding Window Transformer for Subject-Independent EEG Recognition by Qi Mao, Hongke Zhu, Wenyao Yan, Yu Zhao, Xinhong Hei, Jing Luo

“…Inspired by left/right hand motor imagery inducing event-related desynchronization (ERD) in the contralateral sensorimotor cortex, we develop a mirror contrastive loss function. It segregates feature spaces of EEG signals from contralateral ERD locations while curtailing variability in signals sharing similar ERD locations. …”
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Fast 3D localization of nano-objects in wide-field interferometric scattering microscopy via vectorial diffraction model-derived analytical fitting by Liaoliao Wei, Caroline Livan Anyi, Huakun Li, Haitao Nie, Bihan Wen, Tong Ling

“…The simplified analytic function includes a quadratically scaling amplitude term and a linearly scaling phase term, both of which change with the nano-object’s axial position. …”
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SSR loci potentially associated with high amylopectine content in maize kernel endosperm by S. I. Vakula, O. A. Orlovskaya, L. V. Khotyleva, A. V. Kilchevsky

“…As a component of functional nutrition, maize cultivars with “non-traditional” kernel composition (waxy, oilbearing, sugar, opaque, etc. phenotypic variants) are promising. …”
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Identification and leveling of factors affecting the acceptance of excellence model in Islamic Azad University by Seyedeh Somayeh Mousavi Siah Deleh, Samad Jabbari Asl, Musa Rezvani Chaman Zamin

“…The concept of institutional excellence in higher education institutions as mentioned by Kok & McDonald (2017) refers to behavior that leads to excellence in all research, teaching and social service functions through excellence in strategy and shared values, leadership, Organizational culture. …”
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Characterization and treatment monitoring of ureagenesis disorders using stable isotopes by Gabriella Allegri, Martin Poms, Nadia Zürcher, Véronique Rüfenacht, Nicole Rimann, Déborah Mathis, Beat Thöny, Matthias Gautschi, Ralf A. Husain, Daniela Karall, Karolina Orchel-Szastak, Francesco Porta, Dominique Roland, Barbara Siri, Carlo Dionisi-Vici, René Santer, Johannes Häberle

“…Thus, the method proved to be safe and efficient to monitor UCD patients of variable severity pre- and post-therapy, being suitable as physiological endpoint for development of therapies.…”
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Correlation of Immune Parameters in Breast Cancer Patients Undergoing General Anesthesia: post-hoc Analysis of the TeMP Study by Kristina K. Kadantseva, Valery V. Subbotin, Mikhail Y. Yadgarov, Elizaveta M. Korolenok, Levan B. Berikashvili, Roman A. Akchulpanov, Nikolay S. Karnaukhov, Ksenia S. Korchagina, Polina I. Kukina, Oksana A. Svitich, Artem N. Kuzovlev, Anna S. Barmina, Valery V. Likhvantsev

“…Spearman correlation coefficients and heat maps were used for analysis.Results. …”
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An Hfq-dependent post-transcriptional mechanism fine tunes RecB expression in Escherichia coli by Irina Kalita, Ira Alexandra Iosub, Lorna McLaren, Louise Goossens, Sander Granneman, Meriem El Karoui

“…This fine-tuning Hfq-mediated mechanism might have the underlying physiological function of maintaining RecB protein levels within an optimal range.…”
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Systematic Evaluation of Isolation Techniques and Freeze‐Thaw Effects on Plasma Extracellular Vesicle Heterogeneity and Subpopulation Profiling by Xueqi Li, Xiangyu Li, Lingjun Tong, Liqiao Hu, Yanfen Hong, Ruoyu Zhou, Zonghong Li, Ming Dong, Junjie Hou, Tao Xu, Wen Zhong

“…However, standardizing blood‐derived EV isolation remains challenging due to the heterogeneity of EV populations and variability among isolation techniques. In this study, we systematically evaluated three distinct EV isolation methods, including asymmetrical flow field‐flow fractionation (AF4), size‐exclusion chromatography (SEC) and automated centrifugal microfluidic disc system combined with functionalized membranes (Exo‐CMDS), to compare their efficiency in isolating EVs from both freshly frozen and freeze‐thawed plasma samples. …”
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Spatial pattern of Trees in the Riparian Forests (Case Study: Wildlife Refuge of Karkhe) by Shaieste Gholami

“…This result showed that there was the small-scale variability and important proportion of unexplained variance. …”
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Feasibility of in vivo small animal imaging using a clinical total-body PET/CT system by Julia G. Mannheim, Wenhong Lan, Maurizio Conti, Franziska Siedler, Marcel A. Krueger, Kristina Herfert, Christian la Fougère, Fabian P. Schmidt

“…SUVmax values exhibited greater variability, with significant differences observed in muscle and brain regions. …”
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Investigating the influence of soil organic carbon on pore structure within aggregates by Jingjing Liu, Yu Tian, Chiara Pasut, Mark Farrell, Shenggao Lu

“…The results revealed that the hydrogen peroxide treatment variably reduced organic carbon in soil aggregates, with Cambisol samples showing a higher removal efficiency (38.58–63.31%) compared to Ultisol samples (27.33–45.74%). …”
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FVPNet: A Fuzzy Visual Positioning Perception Network for Small Object Segmentation in Remote Sensing Images by Yu Yan, Jindong Xu, Qianpeng Chong, Guangyi Wei, Zhixiang Wang

“…Furthermore, grayscale variability intensifies boundary uncertainty, complicating accurate segmentation. …”
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Open real-time, non-invasive fish detection and size estimation utilizing binocular camera system in a Portuguese river affected by hydropeaking by Jürgen Soom, Isabel Boavida, Renan Leite, Maria João Costa, Gert Toming, Mairo Leier, Jeffrey A. Tuhtan

“…Nonetheless, employing an automated camera system for underwater monitoring requires that the algorithms function under highly variable environmental conditions, which affect the ability to detect and assess fish size. …”
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