The apicomplexan parasite Babesia bovis is a tick-borne intracellular hemoprotozoan parasite that is widespread across China. Genetic diversity is an important strategy used by parasites to escape the immune responses of their hosts. In our present s...
Cattle can be severely infected with the tick-borne protozoa Babesia bovis, giving rise to serious economic losses. Invasion of the host’s RBCs by the parasite merozoite/sporozoites depends largely on the MSA (merozoite surface antigens) gene f...
We study how linear probes read Modern Standard Arabic (MSA)–Egyptian Arabic code-switching in Linguistic Code-switching Evaluation (LinCE) tweets using Qwen3-8B-Base, ALLaM-7B-Instruct-preview, Gemma-2-9B and Fanar-1-9B. Probes trained on mono...
Chlorothricin (CHL) belongs to a spirotetronate antibiotic family produced by Streptomyces antibioticus that inhibits pyruvate carboxylase and malate dehydrogenase. For the biosynthesis of CHL, ChlB3 plays a crucial role by introducing the 6-methylsa...
Both Manganese (Mn2+) and MSA-2 can activate the downstream signal pathway through stimulator of interferon genes (STING) and induce the expression of type I interferon, which is important for hosts to protect against DNA viruses. However, its effect...
Cloud-native computing enhances the deployment of microservice architecture (MSA) applications by improving scalability and resilience, particularly in Beyond 5G (B5G) environments such as Sixth-Generation (6G) networks. This is achieved through the...
Surface-modified nano-SiO2 is a common additive in many products. However, the safety of nano-SiO2 products under various modifications is still unclear. In this study, we investigated the genotoxicity and acute pulmonary toxicity of nano-SiO2 with o...
The irradiance of ultraviolet (UV) radiation is a physical parameter that significantly influences biological molecules by affecting their molecular structure. The influence of UV radiation on nanoparticles has not been investigated much. In this wor...
In many activities, chainsaw users are exposed to the risk of injuries and several other hazard factors that may cause health problems. In fact, environmental and working conditions when using chainsaws result in workers’ exposure to hazards su...
Background: Problematic engagement with multiple digital screens may be associated with subjective mental fatigue. This study aimed to investigate this association among adults attending family medicine outpatient clinics. Methods: This single-center...
Far-field narrow-band Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation is a practical challenge in passive and active sonar applications. While the Conventional Beamformer (CBF) is a robust Maximum Likelihood Estimator (MLE), its precision is inherently constra...
Digital platforms are increasingly prevalent among young students in K-12 education, offering significant opportunities but also raising concerns about their effects on self-assessment and academic performance. This study investigates the effectivene...
α-Synucleinopathies are spreading neurodegenerative disorders characterized by the intracellular accumulation of insoluble aggregates populated by α-Synuclein (α-Syn) fibrils. In Parkinson’s disease (PD) and dementia with Lewy...
The mobile satcom antenna (MSA) enables a moving vehicle to communicate with a geostationary Earth orbit satellite. To realize continuous communication, the MSA should be aligned with the satellite in both sight and polarization all the time. Because...
Background and Objectives: Multiple system atrophy (MSA) and progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP) are rare atypical parkinsonian syndromes, characterized by motor and cognitive symptoms. Their clinical diagnosis is challenging because there are no es...
Tokenization affects the efficiency and cost of large language models (LLMs), especially for dialectal Arabic. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first study to evaluate LLM tokenization for the Kuwaiti Arabic dialect. We evaluated twelve LLM...
Metasurface absorbers (MSAs) are of significant importance in a wide range of applications, such as in the field of stealth technology. Nevertheless, conventional designs demonstrate limited flexible characteristics and a lack of transparency, hence...
We demonstrate a distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) system based on phase-sensitive optical time-domain reflectometry (Φ-OTDR) that employs I/Q demodulation and heterodyne detection. The proposed DAS system utilizes a 90° optical hybrid to ob...
This paper aims to study ethnic micro-segregation in Rome, namely, high residential concentrations of ethnic groups at the micro-area level within neighbourhoods with low concentrations of these groups, with a focus on specific situations of spatial...
Daptomycin is one of the last therapeutic resources for multidrug-resistant gram-positive bacteria. Despite its structural similarities with glycopeptides, its mechanisms of action and resistance are different and in some respects are not completely...
The traditional LDPC encoding and decoding system is characterized by low throughput and high resource consumption, making it unsuitable for use in cost-efficient, energy-saving sensor networks. Aiming to optimize coding complexity and throughput, th...
Arabic morphological analysis remains a central challenge for natural language processing (NLP). This challenge is embedded within the complex, rich, and multi-layered morphology of Arabic, where orthographic words encode enclitics, root-and-pattern...
In order to understand the effect of sand type on the rheological properties of self-compacting mortar, four varieties of sand, namely, quartz sand (QS), river sand (RS), and two kinds of manufactured sand, marked as MS-A and MS-B, were studied. As p...
High-Resolution Range Profile (HRRP) radar recognition suffers from data scarcity challenges in real-world applications. We present HRRPGraphNet++, a framework combining dynamic graph neural networks with meta-learning for few-shot HRRP recognition....
This paper examines precise timestamping of LoRaWAN messages (particularly beacons) to enable wide-area synchronization for end devices without GNSS. The need for accuracy demands hardware-level timestamping architectures, possibly using time-domain...
Single-image super-resolution (SR) has long been a research hotspot in computer vision, playing a crucial role in practical applications such as medical imaging, public security and remote sensing imagery. However, all currently available methods foc...
Chainsaw operators are exposed to many hazards that can lead to health problems. The two most frequently documented ergonomics threats in the use of chainsaws are noise and vibration exposure. Since the use of battery chainsaws is increasing due to t...
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) is costly because Arabic needs more tokens than English for the same content, which enlarges the context the generator must hold. We evaluate sentence-level cross-encoder context p...
With the aim of selecting particular frequencies of interest and rejecting others, the waveguiding and filtering properties of a two-dimensional phononic crystal slab are investigated in the context of a filtering application. To this end, we designe...
Bovine babesiosis is a tick-borne disease that poses significant economic losses to global cattle production, and diverse vaccine platforms have been developed to combat it. This work critically evaluates global research on bovine babesiosis vaccines...
The current method for Babesia spp. serodiagnosis based on a crude merozoite antigen is a complex and time-consuming procedure. An indirect enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (iELISA) based on a recombinant multi-antigen of Babesia bovis (rMABbO) was...
Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) is an autoimmune disease involving progressive loss of pancreatic β-cells. Although B cells have been implicated in T1DM progression, the molecular characteristics associated with disease-related B-cell states rem...
Motion blur is a common problem in the field of surveillance scenarios, and it obstructs the acquisition of valuable information. Thanks to the success of deep learning, a sequence of CNN-based architecture has been designed for image deblurring and...
In order to compare the vibration and noise exposure of STIHL’s battery-powered MSA 220 C and the combustion driven MS 201 C, a professional operator was monitored during a pre-commercial thinning operation in a twenty-year-old hardwood stand. The vi...
Easily accessible biomarkers are urgently needed to evaluate immune activation in Juvenile Dermatomyositis (JDM). The goal of this retrospective study is to define immunological and clinical differences between untreated JDM patients with either norm...
In order to reduce the massive heat duty of amine-based CO2 capture technology, an AlOOH/FeOOH composite catalyst (AF-M/N) was synthesized to speed up the CO2 desorption rates and reduce the heat duty of an aqueous MEA solution. The catalysis of AF-M...
Experimental measurement results of a 1.75 mm × 1.75 mm footprint area Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducer (CMUT) planar array fabricated using a bisbenzocyclobutene (BCB)-based adhesive wafer bonding technique has been presented. The arra...
Exploration of multiple priors on observed signals has been demonstrated to be one of the effective ways for recovering underlying signals. In this paper, a new spectral difference-induced total variation and low-rank approximation (termed SDTVLA) me...
Transmembrane proteins (TMPs) constitute approximately 30% of the mammalian proteome and are critical targets in biomedical research due to their involvement in signaling, transport, and drug interactions. However, their unique structural characteris...
Spontaneously fermented soybean foods with sticky-textured and umami-flavor are popular delicacies of multi-ethnic communities of the Eastern Himalayas. Even though species of Bacillus have been reported earlier as pre-dominant bacteria, we hypothesi...
Efficient jamming recognition capability is a prerequisite for radar anti-jamming and can enhance the survivability of radar in electronic warfare. Traditional recognition methods based on manually designed feature parameters have found it difficult...
Staphylococcus aureus is a commensal and pathogenic bacterium that causes infections in humans and animals. It is a major cause of nosocomial infections worldwide. Due to increasing prevalence of multidrug resistance, alternative methods to eradicate...
Property condition assessment is a critical step in residential real estate investment underwriting, motivating after-repair value (ARV) estimates and rehabilitation cost projections. Traditional approaches rely on in-person inspections or manual pho...
Multimodal sentiment analysis (MSA) has attracted growing interest among researchers in recent years, as multimodal user-generated content (e.g., text and images) has become increasingly common on the Internet. In Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABS...
Paclobutrazol (PAC) is a significant inhibitor of gibberellin biosynthesis that profoundly influences grape seed development (GSD) through the modulation of key molecular pathways. Here, we identified 6659 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) in GSD...
Fungal secondary metabolites (SMs) have broad applications in biomedicine, biocontrol, and the food industry. In this study, whole-genome sequencing and annotation of Taiwanofungus gaoligongensis were conducted, followed by comparative genomic analys...