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In vivo study of the radioadaptive response and low-dose hyper-radiosensitivity for chromosome breaks induced by gamma rays in wild-type Drosophila melanogaster larval neuroblasts: Dose and dose rate dependence
Although the biological effects of low doses/dose rates of ionising radiation have been extensively studied both i n vitro and...
Validation of simulated training sets using a convolutional neural network for isotope identification in urban environments
Real-time isotope identification in urban environments can aid law enforcement by providing additional information about the nature of a potential threat. Neural networks have shown promise in isotope...
SCR-Net: A novel lightweight aquatic biological detection network
Marine biological detection is critical to environmental conservation and the use of marine resources. In actual applications, detecting aquatic species quickly and accurately while using few resource...
Enhanced pedestrian trajectory prediction via overlapping field-of-view domains and integrated Kolmogorov-Arnold networks
Accurate pedestrian trajectory prediction is crucial for applications such as autonomous driving and crowd surveillance. This paper proposes the OV-SKTGCNN model, an enhancement to the Social-STGCNN m...
Comparative evaluation of the utility of two oral examination tools in assessing oral health in stroke patients with indwelling gastric tubes
Purpose To identify the scale that is more suitable for oral health assessment in stroke patient population with indwelling gastric tubes. Methods A total of 198 patients with indent gastric tubes w...
SCARS-LOGISTIC: A novel variable selection approach for binary classification model to identify the significant determinants of sexually transmitted infections
Variable selection methods are very popular, especially in the field of big data with large predictors. These procedures improve the accuracy and performance of the model by eliminating irrelevant and...
Genetic analysis and functional assessment of a TGFBR2 variant in micrognathia and cleft palate
Cleft lip and cleft palate are among the most common congenital anomalies and are the result of incomplete fusion of embryonic craniofacial processes or palatal shelves, respectively. We know that gen...
Characteristics of SLS-made 3D gyroid cubic lattice nanoporous polyamide membrane
A novel membrane can enhance the efficiency of various industrial processes and help address critical issues. Membranes made of polyamide are widely used and successful in membrane separation processe...
Agent-based modeling for personalized prediction of an experimental immune response to immunotherapeutic antibodies
Targeting immune checkpoint pathways to evoke an immune response against tumors has revolutionized clinical oncology over the last decade. Antibodies that block the PD-1/PD-L1 pathway have demonstrate...
Association between smoking status and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease
Background The relationship between cigarette smoking and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) remains controversial. Recent studies have demonstrated that cigarette smoking is a significant risk...
WLreg: A new re-parametrization of the Weighted Lindley distribution and its regression model
A novel re-parametrization of the weighted Lindley distribution is introduced to develop a regression model suitable for skewed dependent variables defined on ℝ+. This new model is called the WL2 regr...
Automated VMAT planning for short-course radiotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer
Purpose This study aims to develop a fully automated VMAT planning program for short-course radiotherapy (SCRT) in Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer (LARC) and assess its plan quality, feasibility, and e...
An exploration of patients’ perceptions and coping strategies for LBP
Background Evidence-based guidelines for managing LBP exist but their recommendations are often not used by health professionals in primary care. A key challenge to address this issue is understanding...
Vaccine effectiveness of inactivated and mRNA COVID-19 vaccine platform during Delta and Omicron wave in Jakarta, Indonesia: A test-negative case-control study
Background Vaccination was included in the Indonesian government policy to address Delta and Omicron waves of SAR-CoV-2 infections. This study assesses the effectiveness of inactivated (CoronaVac, BBI...
Day-ahead optimal dispatch considering demand response compensation and carbon trading under uncertain environment
To fully explore the regulation resources on both sides of the source and load under uncertain environment and collaboratively achieve the energy saving and emission reduction goals, a low-carbon econ...
A multi-assay assessment of insecticide resistance in Culex pipiens (Diptera: Culicidae) informs a decision-making framework
Insecticide resistance (IR) is an increasing problem globally, making control of vector-borne diseases more difficult. Reduced susceptibility to permethrin in Culex pipiens, an important vector for We...
Prediction of air temperature and humidity in greenhouses via artificial neural network
Accurate prediction of greenhouse temperature and relative humidity is critical for developing environmental control systems. Effective regulation strategies can help improve crop yields while reducin...
Developing a stakeholder-informed social responsibility model for translational science
Innovation in biomedical research has increased markedly over the last few decades. However, clinical, therapeutic, and public health advances have often not yielded expected improvements in health ou...
The impact of physical exercise on university students’ life satisfaction: The chain mediation effects of general self-efficacy and health literacy
Objective This study aims to explore the impact of physical exercise on university students’ life satisfaction and analyses the chain mediation effect of general self-efficacy and health literacy, pro...
Development of an H&E on-block staining technique for collagen detection in cryo-fluorescence tomography imaging of frozen breast tissue samples
Hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining is widely considered to be the gold-standard diagnostic tool for histopathology evaluation. However, the fatty nature of some tissue types, such as breast tiss...
Mitochondrial genomic alterations in cholangiocarcinoma cell lines
Cholangiocarcinoma (CCA) is a diverse collection of malignant tumors that originate in the bile ducts. Mitochondria, the energy converters in eukaryotic cells, contain circular mitochondrial DNA (mtDN...
Aggregating soft labels from crowd annotations improves uncertainty estimation under distribution shift
Selecting an effective training signal for machine learning tasks is difficult: expert annotations are expensive, and crowd-sourced annotations may not be reliable. Recent work has demonstrated that l...
Prevalence and contributing factors of executive cognitive dysfunction symptoms in university students
The importance of executive cognition should not be overlooked in the private and academic lives of university students. It includes important constituents of the human mind, including but not limited...
What, when, and how food and beverage are advertised on Ghanian television
Food marketing has increased volume, precision, and reach to influence viewers’ food attitudes, beliefs, and eating behaviors. What and how much people eat has implications for health. While many coun...
Where octagonal geometry meets chaos: A new S-Box for advanced cryptographic systems
Substitution Box (S-Box) has had been a cardinal component of various cryptographic systems. In this paper, we introduce a novel S-Box design that merges octagonal geometry with chaotic dynamics to en...