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Malware remains a major threat to computer systems, with a vast number of new samples being identified and documented regularly. Windows systems are particularly vulnerable to malicious programs like viruses, worms, and trojans. Dynamic analysis, whi...

A classic and fundamental result about the decomposition of random sequences into a mixture of simpler ones is de Finetti’s Theorem. In its original form, it applies to infinite 0–1 valued sequences with the special property that the distribution is...

Dynamic representation of functional brain networks involved in the sequence analysis of functional connectivity graphs of the brain (FCGB) gains advances in uncovering evolved interaction mechanisms. However, most of the networks, even the event-rel...

Campylobacter spp. are a leading and increasing cause of gastrointestinal infections worldwide. Source attribution, which apportions human infection cases to different animal species and food reservoirs, has been instrumental in control- and evidence...

Protists represent a vast yet underexplored reservoir of enzymatic diversity across the eukaryotic tree of life. In this study, we established axenic strains of diverse protists from four major eukaryotic supergroups using single-cell isolation and g...

Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) are fundamental to many biological processes. The coevolution-based prediction of interacting residues has made great strides in protein complexes that are known to interact. A multiple sequence alignment (MS...

Expressway networks represent evolving complex systems whose topological properties significantly impact regional development. This paper presents a decision support framework for addressing the expressway infrastructure sequencing problem using comp...

Superoxide dismutase (SOD) is the primary enzyme of the cellular antioxidant defense cascade. Misfolding, concomitant oligomerization, and higher order aggregation of human cytosolic SOD are linked to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Although, wi...

RNA-sequencing enables the comprehensive detection of gene expression levels at specific time points and facilitates the identification of stress-related genes through co-expression network analysis. Understanding the molecular mechanisms and identif...

Yangmai-13 (YM13) is a wheat cultivar with weak gluten fractions. In contrast, Zhenmai-168 (ZM168) is an elite wheat cultivar known for its strong gluten fractions and has been widely used in a number of breeding programs. However, the genetic mechan...

Equine rhinitis A (ERAV) and B (ERBV) viruses are respiratory pathogens with worldwide distribution. The current study aimed to determine the frequency of infection of ERAV and ERBV among horses and foals at Polish national studs, and to determine ge...

Massively input and accumulated ammonium is one of the main causes of eutrophication in aquatic ecosystems, which severely deteriorates water quality. Previous studies showed that one of the commonly used macrophytes, Myriophyllum aquaticum, was capa...

As China’s economy grows and travel demand increases, its aviation market has evolved to become the second-largest in the world. This study presents a pioneering analysis of China’s aviation network evolution (1990–2024) by integrat...

“A Mathematical Theory of Communication” was published in 1948 by Claude Shannon to address the problems in the field of data compression and communication over (noisy) communication channels. Since then, the concepts and ideas developed...

In the era of the popularization of the Internet of Things (IOT), analyzing people’s daily life behavior through the data collected by devices is an important method to mine potential daily requirements. The network method is an important means to an...

Chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) is a myeloproliferative disease characterized by a unique BCR-ABL fusion gene. Tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) were developed to target the BCR-ABL oncoprotein, inhibiting its abnormal kinase activity. TKI treatments...

As the amount of malware has grown rapidly in recent years, it has become the most dominant attack method in network security. Learning execution behavior, especially Application Programming Interface (API) call sequences, has been shown to be effect...

Soil microorganisms play important roles in the plant health and agricultural production. However, little is known about the complex responses of microbial communities and interaction networks to different agricultural management practices in tea pla...

In February 2020, the municipality of Vo’, a small town near Padua (Italy) was quarantined due to the first coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19)-related death detected in Italy. To investigate the viral prevalence and clinical features, the entire...

The reduction in costs associated with performing RNA-sequencing has driven an increase in the application of this analytical technique; however, restrictive factors associated with this tool have now shifted from budgetary constraints to time requir...

Campylobacter spp. are the most common cause of bacterial gastrointestinal infection in humans both in Denmark and worldwide. Studies have found microbial subtyping to be a powerful tool for source attribution, but comparisons of different methodolog...

Improved reproductive efficiency could lead to economic benefits for the beef industry, once the intensive selection pressure has led to a decreased fertility. However, several factors limit our understanding of fertility traits, including genetic di...

Extracting opinion expressions from text is an essential task of sentiment analysis, which is usually treated as one of the word-level sequence labeling problems. In such problems, compositional models with multiplicative gating operations provide ef...

Trichoderma is recognized as a prolific producer of nonribosomal peptides (NRPs) known as peptaibols, which have remarkable biological properties, such as antimicrobial and anticancer activities, as well as the ability to promote systemic resistance...

The default mode network (DMN) plays an outstanding role in psychiatric disorders. Still, gene expressional changes in its major component, the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (DMPFC), have not been characterized. We used RNA sequencing in postmortem D...

Avian pathogenic E. coli (APEC) causes severe economic losses in the poultry industry, and O78 serogroup APEC strains are prevalent in chickens. In this study, we aimed to understand the evolutionary pathways and relationships between O78 APEC and ot...

Eukaryotes exist widely in aquatic ecosystems. It is of great importance to study their species composition, diversity, and relationship with environmental factors to protect and maintain ecosystem balance. Salt lakes are essential lakes rich in biol...

The molecular mechanisms and gene regulatory networks sustaining cell proliferation in neuroblastoma (NBL) cells are still not fully understood. In this tumor context, it has been proposed that anti-proliferative drugs, such as the pan-HDAC inhibitor...

The growing attention toward the benefits of single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) is leading to a myriad of computational packages for the analysis of different aspects of scRNA-seq data. For researchers without advanced programing skills, it is ve...

Dynamic voltage restorers (DVRs) are one of the effective solutions to regulate the voltage of power systems and protect sensitive loads against voltage disturbances, such as voltage sags, voltage fluctuations, et cetera. The performance of voltage c...

It is believed that polar regions are influenced by global warming more significantly, and because polar regions are less affected by human activities, they have certain reference values for future predictions. This study aimed to investigate the eff...

Here, the ion-exchangeable form of nitrogen (IEF-N), weak-acid extractable form of nitrogen (WAEF-N), strong-alkali extractable form of nitrogen (SAEF-N), strong-oxidant extractable form of nitrogen (SOEF-N), residue nitrogen (Res-N), and total nitro...

Rhizosphere microflora are key determinants that contribute to plant growth and productivity, which are involved in improving the uptake of nutrients, regulation of plants’ metabolisms and activation of plants’ responses against both biot...

The crest trait is a specific and widely distributed phenotype in birds. However, the shape and function vary in different species of birds. To understand the mechanism of crest formation, the present study used RNA sequencing and weighted gene co-ex...

Retinal neurogenesis is driven by concerted actions of transcription factors, some of which are expressed in a continuum and across several cell subtypes throughout development. While seemingly redundant, many factors diversify their regulatory outco...

Nitrogen (N) is the most important limiting factor for cotton production worldwide. Genotype-dependent ability to cope with N shortage has been only partially explored in cotton, and in this context, the comparison of molecular responses of cotton ge...

Background: Tumors of the pleura, such as metastatic lung cancer and mesothelioma, are amongst the most lethal and therapy-resistant tumors. The first manifestation of the disease is often pleural effusion, the first available material for diagnosis....

Combined organic and inorganic fertilization can improve soil fertility in coal mine reclamation areas. However, the contribution of the bacterial community (especially its occurrence patterns) to soil physicochemical properties and enzyme activity n...

(1) Background: mouse models are fundamental to the study of hematopoiesis, but comparisons between mouse and human in single cells have been limited in depth. (2) Methods: we constructed a single-cell resolution transcriptomic atlas of hematopoietic...

The basic region-leucine zipper (bZIP) transcription factors (TFs) form homodimers and heterodimers via the coil–coil region. The bZIP dimerization network influences gene expression across plant development and in response to a range of enviro...

The prevalence of vancomycin resistant enterococcus (VRE) carrier-state has been increasing in patients of intensive care unit and it would be a public health threat. Different research groups conducted decolonizing VRE with probiotic and the results...

The five members of the mammalian G subfamily of ATP-binding cassette transporters differ greatly in their substrate specificity. Four members of the subfamily are important in lipid transport and the wide substrate specificity of one of the members,...

Recent research has highlighted that a large section of druggable protein targets in the Human interactome remains unexplored for various diseases. It might lead to the drug repurposing study and help in the in-silico prediction of new drug-human pro...

Synergetic elongation of mesocotyl and coleoptile are crucial in governing maize seedlings emergence, especially for the maize sown in deep soil. Studying the genomic regions controlling maize deep-sowing tolerance would aid the development of new va...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome-related coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2), which still infects hundreds of thousands of people globally each day despite various countermeasures, has been mutating rapidly. Mutations in the spike (S) protein seem to play a vi...

Upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) is grown for its elite fiber. Understanding differential gene expression patterns during fiber development will help to identify genes associated with fiber quality. In this study, we used two recombinant inbred lin...

A phenotype is the composite of an observable expression of a genome for traits in a given environment. The trajectories of phenotypes computed from an image sequence and timing of important events in a plant’s life cycle can be viewed as tempo...

Khao Dawk Mali 105 (KDML105) rice is one of the most important crops of Thailand. It is a challenging task to identify the genes responding to salinity in KDML105 rice. The analysis of the gene co-expression network has been widely performed to prior...

The white wax secreted by the male insects of the Chinese white wax scale (CWWS) is a natural high-molecular-weight compound with important economic value. However, its regulatory mechanism of wax biosynthesis is still unclear. In this study, a weigh...

Gram-positive bacteria are some of the earliest known life forms, diverging from gram-negative bacteria 2 billion years ago. These organisms utilize sortase enzymes to attach proteins to their peptidoglycan cell wall, a structural feature that distin...