Contextual Vulnerability Should Guide Fair Subject Selection in Xenotransplantation Clinical Trials by Gianna Strand

“…Injustices in Organ Allocation Solid organ allocation systems are varied but aim for equity and efficiency in granting individuals with similar claims a fair opportunity to access the scarce resource. …”
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Analysis of two Nocardia brasiliensis class A β-lactamases (BRA-1 and BRS-1) and related resistance to β-lactam antibiotics by Aimee Songo, Hervé Jacquier, Maxime Danjean, Fabrice Compain, Delphine Dorchène, Zainab Edoo, Paul-Louis Woerther, Michel Arthur, David Lebeaux

“…BRA-1 showed high catalytic efficiencies against penams (penicillin, ampicillin) and cephems (cephaloridine, cephalothin, and cefamandole), but not against penems (imipenem, meropenem), suggesting that imipenem resistance was mediated by another mechanism. …”
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Lanthanide bioadsorption by the extremophile Exiguobacterium sp.: utilizing microbial extracellular polysaccharides for high-value element recovery by Karem Gallardo, Génesis Serrano, Rodrigo Castillo, Sebastián Michea, Julio I. Urzúa, Dayana Arias, Francisco Remonsellez, Francisco Remonsellez

“…EPS production increased slightly in the presence of metals, with compositional variations dependent on extraction method and pH. Ultrasound-extracted EPS showed higher polysaccharide content at pH 7 and increased nucleic acids at pH 8, while EDTA-extracted EPS had more proteins at pH 7 and nucleic acids at pH 8. …”
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An in vivo systemic massively parallel platform for deciphering animal tissue-specific regulatory function by Ashley R. Brown, Ashley R. Brown, Grant A. Fox, Grant A. Fox, Irene M. Kaplow, Irene M. Kaplow, Irene M. Kaplow, Alyssa J. Lawler, Alyssa J. Lawler, BaDoi N. Phan, BaDoi N. Phan, BaDoi N. Phan, Lahari Gadey, Lahari Gadey, Morgan E. Wirthlin, Morgan E. Wirthlin, Easwaran Ramamurthy, Easwaran Ramamurthy, Gemma E. May, Ziheng Chen, Qiao Su, Qiao Su, C. Joel McManus, Robert van de Weerd, Robert van de Weerd, Andreas R. Pfenning, Andreas R. Pfenning, Andreas R. Pfenning

“…We highlight that sysMPRA effectively uncovers regulatory effects stemming from the disruption of MEF2C transcription factor binding sites, single-nucleotide polymorphisms, and the consequences of genetic variations associated with late-onset Alzheimer‘s disease.Conclusion: SysMPRA is an effective library delivering method that simultaneously determines the transcriptional functions of hundreds of enhancers in vivo across multiple tissues.…”
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Project quality, regulation quality by Elena Mussinelli

“…Hence, it is worth reflecting on the effectiveness and efficiency of a regulatory framework that has been governing territorial, urban and building transformations in an increasingly articulated and specialised manner with a view to improving the quality and sustainability of natural and anthropic habitats. …”
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Ambient Noise Imaging of Western Europe From Combining Linear SOLA Backus–Gilbert Inference and Non‐Linear Probabilistic Approaches by Ahmed Nouibat, Christophe Zaroli, Sophie Lambotte

“…Then, we construct a 2D grid which efficiently accommodates the lateral variations on resolution at period. …”
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Improving Facial Expression Recognition with a Focal Transformer and Partial Feature Masking Augmentation by Liang-Ying Ke, Chia-Yu Liao, Chih-Hsien Hsia

“…In this study, we introduced a focal vision transformer (FViT) with partial feature masking (PFM) into FER. This method was found to efficiently simulate the challenges posed by occlusion and head pose variations by introducing PFM data augmentation. …”
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Groundwater Storage Estimation in the Saskatchewan River Basin Using GRACE/GRACE-FO Gravimetric Data and Machine Learning by Mohamed Hamdi, Anas El Alem, Kalifa Goita

“…To characterize this impact, remote sensing and machine learning are essential tools to analyze the data accurately and efficiently. This study aims to predicting the variations of groundwater storage (GWS) using GRACE/GRACE-FO and multi-source remote sensing data, combined with machine learning techniques. …”
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Remaining Useful Life Interval Prediction for Lithium-Ion Batteries via Periodic Time Series and Trend Filtering Segmentation-Based Fuzzy Information Granulation by Chunsheng Cui, Guangshu Xia, Chenyu Jia, Jie Wen

“…The accurate prediction of remaining useful life (RUL) is crucial in order to reasonably and efficiently utilize lithium-ion batteries (LiBs). In this paper, a construction method of periodic time series is applied to the degradation data of LiBs to address the issues of insufficient training data and smooth degradation in the RUL interval prediction method based on trend filtering segmentation and fuzzy information granulation. …”
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Thermal pure states for systems with antiunitary symmetries and their tensor network representations by Yasushi Yoneta

“…However, their inherently large entanglement makes it difficult to represent efficiently and limits their use in analyzing large systems. …”
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DESIGN OF KIP KULIAH SELECTION SYSTEM AND RECIPIENT DETERMINATION USING SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINE (SVM) by Mozart Winston Talakua, Berny Pebo Tomasouw, Venn Yan Ishak Ilwaru

“…After the training and testing process was carried out using the SVM method with various parameter variations, then the best accuracy rate of 94.59% is obtained in the 80/20 data sharing scheme for the nonlinear SVM model with the RBF kernel. …”
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Anomaly Detection Based on Machine Learning for the CMS Electromagnetic Calorimeter Online Data Quality Monitoring by Harilal Abhirami, Park Kyungmin, Paulini Manfred

“…We introduce a novel method that maximizes the anomaly detection performance making use of the time-dependence of anomalies and the spatial variations in the detector response. …”
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Spatial heterogeneity of menstrual discriminatory practices against Nepalese women: A population-based study using the 2022 Demographic and Health Survey. by Geoffrey Barini, Sharon Amima, Damaris Mulwa, Polycarp Mogeni

“…Policymakers should implement preventive behavioral interventions in the most vulnerable geographic areas to effectively and efficiently reduce the overall prevalence of menstrual discrimination. …”
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A Damage Detection Approach for Cable-Stayed Bridges Using Displacement Responses and Mahalanobis Distance by Mahtab Mohseni Moghaddam, Ehsan Dehghani, Maryam Bitaraf

“…The results demonstrated that this method can efficiently detect the damage location in the cable-stayed bridge and exhibited anti-noise capability in identifying the location of damage, especially for cables. …”
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Advanced transient switching and coordinated power control strategies for flexible interconnection of multiple microgrids by Guoliang Li, Xia Lin, Lingyuan Kong, Wenhua Xia, Shuang Yan

“…Multiple microgrid (MG) distribution systems are facing challenges owing to variations in the operational statuses of the individual MGs, which experience voltage and current fluctuations during transient interconnections. …”
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Influence of Environmental Factors and Aggregates on Concrete Elasticity: Ultrasonic and Strength Testing by Mohammad Reza Hadidi, Yaghoub Mohammadi

“…The study also validates using UPV as a nondestructive method to efficiently evaluate concrete’s structural integrity. …”
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A Hybrid LDA and Fuzzy CRITIC-MABAC Model for Smart City Ranking by Ibrahim Mirac Eliguzel, Nazmiye Eliguzel

“…A smart city is an urban development idea that seeks to efficiently incorporate diverse information and communication technology (ICT) solutions in a safe manner to properly oversee a city’s resources. …”
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Three techniques for 360-degree gonioscopy-assisted transluminal trabeculotomy with iTrack advance by Sean Smith, Jessie Wang, Shivani Kamat, Arsham Sheybani, Ian Patterson, Mary Qiu

“…Use of the iTrack Advance allows the surgeon to efficiently advance the microcatheter in one continuous motion with a slider, an improvement upon previous techniques in which microcatheters or sutures which had to be manually threaded through Schlemm's canal with microforceps. …”
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Conditioned quantum-assisted deep generative surrogate for particle-calorimeter interactions by J. Quetzalcóatl Toledo-Marín, Sebastian Gonzalez, Hao Jia, Ian Lu, Deniz Sogutlu, Abhishek Abhishek, Colin Gay, Eric Paquet, Roger G. Melko, Geoffrey C. Fox, Maximilian Swiatlowski, Wojciech Fedorko

“…We also introduce an adaptive method for efficiently estimating effective inverse temperature, and validate our framework on Dataset 2 of CaloChallenge.…”
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DTCNet: finger flexion decoding with three-dimensional ECoG data by Fufeng Wang, Zihe Luo, Wei Lv, XiaoLin Zhu

“…The method further enables accurate decoding of finger bending by using a 1D convolutional network composed of Dilated-Transposed convolution, which together extract channel band features and temporal variations in tandem. …”
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