Author(s): Morrison K; Pottier P; Pollo P; Ricolfi L; Williams C; Yang Y; Beillouin D; Cardoso SJ; Ferreira V; Gallagher B; Gan JL; Hao G; Keikha M; Kozlowsky-Suzuki B; Kiran Kumara TM; Latterini F; Leverkus AB; Macartney EL; Manrique SM; Martinig ...

Meta-analysis is commonly a core component of systematic reviews and has become an important method to reconcile conflicting findings, increase statistical power, and chart new research directions. However, poor reporting practices make it challenging to evaluate the validity of meta-analyses. De ...

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Author(s): Wu C; Chen Z; Peng C; An C;

Plastic pollution in aquatic environments has become a growing global concern, with floating macroplastics posing serious ecological, economic, and health risks from inland water bodies to remote coastal zones. Despite advances in satellite remote sensing, reliable and scalable detection of floating plastics remains limited by spectral confusion and the l ...

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Author(s): Khaled Touati

Effective brine management remains a major challenge for the desalination industry, particularly as plants encounter increasingly high-salinity waste streams. This study presents a comparative performance assessment of advanced reverse osmosis-based technologies, low-salt-rejection reverse osmosis (LSRRO), high-pressure reverse osmosis (HPRO), osmotically ...

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Author(s): Won Kang JR; Kim YJ; Skead K; Soave D; Evans J; Bruat V; Harwood MP; Morris Q; Matovu E; Mulindwa J; Noyes H; McLeod A; Hazelhurst S; Lombard Z; Ramsay M; Fave MJ; Awadalla P;

Clonal hematopoiesis, through the age-associated accumulation of somatic mutations in blood, is strongly associated with hematological malignancies and other chronic diseases. These mutations have largely been characterized in individuals of European ancestry or environments, and consequently, it ...

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Author(s): Lahmiri S; Tadj C; Gargour C;

Voice analysis and classification for biomedical diagnosis purpose is receiving a growing attention to assist physicians in the decision-making process in clinical milieu. In this study, we develop and test deep feedforward neural networks (DFFNN) to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy newborns. The DFFNN are trained with acoustic features measured ...

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Author(s): Thornbury M; Omran RP; Kumar L; Knoops A; Abushahin R; Whiteway M; Martin VJJ;

Organic acids such as fumaric acid are widely used in the food and beverage industry as acidulants and preservatives, while also serving as versatile precursors for industrially relevant compounds. Fumaric acid is still predominantly produced through petroleum-derived processes. To enhance production efficiency and diversify supply, we are engineering Klu ...

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Author(s): Shojaee L; Nafissi N; Roodposhti FN; Shakeriastani K; Shakeriastani K;

Purpose: Idiopathic granulomatous mastitis (IGM) is a chronic, relapsing inflammatory breast disease of unknown etiology. Its unpredictable course and unclear pathogenesis have made treatment a persistent clinical challenge. This study aimed to evaluate treatment outcomes in patients with IGM, focusing on extending remission periods and reducing relapse r ...

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Author(s): Lazzari G; Ferreri L; Cattaneo L; Penhune V; Lega C;

The ability to internally generate and maintain a rhythmic pulse, i.e., beat imagery, is a fundamental aspect of musical cognition. While recent theories propose that premotor regions support internal temporal predictions during rhythm perception and imagery, direct causal evidence remains limited. In this study, we investigated the specific contributions ...

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Author(s): Quirk E; Brouillard M; Ahooja A; Ballinger S; Polka L; Byers-Heinlein K; Kircher R;

Many parents have concerns about raising their children with multiple languages. However, there is a paucity of previous research regarding parental concerns about multilingual child-rearing, particularly in multilingual societies. We address this gap with a corpus-assisted discourse study of parental concerns regarding multilingual child-rearing in Quebe ...

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Author(s): Ranipa K; Zhu WP; Swamy MNS;

Vision Transformers (ViTs), inspired by their success in natural language processing, have recently gained attention for heart sound classification (HSC). However, most of the existing studies on HSC rely on single-stream architectures, overlooking the advantages of multi-resolution features. While multi-stream architectures employing early or late fusion ...

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Author(s): Khademi S; Heidarian S; Afshar P; Mohammadi A; Sidiqi A; Nguyen ET; Ganeshan B; Oikonomou A;

In this study, we propose a novel hybrid framework for assessing the invasiveness of an in-house dataset of 114 pathologically proven lung adenocarcinomas presenting as subsolid nodules on Computed Tomography (CT). Nodules were classified into group 1 (G1), which included atypical adenomatous hyp ...

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