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The genetic parameters for the survival of Holstein cows, analysed in nine consecutive time periods during the first three calving intervals, were estimated. The earlier the animals are culled, the more they are informationally underestimated. This u...

A great deal of work has been done to develop techniques for odor analysis by electronic nose systems. These analyses mostly focus on identifying a particular odor by comparing with a known odor dataset. However, in many situations, it would be more...

Aspect-based sentiment analysis is a fine-grained sentiment analysis that focuses on the sentiment polarity of different aspects of text, and most current research methods use a combination of dependent syntactic analysis and graphical neural network...

This paper presents a supervised feature extraction method called weighted kernel entropy component analysis (WKECA) for fault diagnosis of rolling bearings. The method is developed based on kernel entropy component analysis (KECA) which attempts to...

The main part of the study will be to demonstrate that models taking into account spatial heterogeneity (Geographically Weighted Regression and Mixed Geographically Weighted Regression) which reproduce housing market determinants better reflect marke...

Studies of the health effects of the microbiome often measure overall associations by using diversity metrics, and individual taxa associations in separate analyses, but do not consider the correlated relationships between taxa in the microbiome. In...

Graph theory is a crucial branch of mathematics in fields like network analysis, molecular chemistry, and computer science, where it models complex relationships and structures. Many indices are used to capture the specific nuances in these structure...

The Kaplan–Meier (KM) estimator is widely used in medical research to estimate the survival function from lifetime data. KM estimation is a powerful tool to evaluate clinical trials due to simple computational requirements, its use of a logrank...

Land development processes are driven by complex interactions between socio-economic and spatial factors. Acquiring an understanding of such processes and the underlying procedures helps urban and regional planners, environmental scientists, and poli...

Many factors influence the evaluation process of thief zones. The evaluation index contains very complex information. How to quickly obtain effective information is the key to improve the evaluation quality for thief zones. Considering that the corre...

HIV-1 viruses, which are predominant in the family of HIV viruses, have strong pathogenicity and infectivity. They can evolve into many different variants in a very short time. In this study, we propose a new and effective alignment-free method for t...

The parameters considered in structural dynamic reliability analysis have strong uncertainties during machinery operation, and affect analytical precision and efficiency. To improve structural dynamic fuzzy reliability analysis, we propose the weight...

Objectives: The diagnostics of chronic kidney disease (CKD) consist of three basic groups of examinations: laboratory tests, radiological imaging and histopathological examinations. However, in the most severe clinical cases, where a fast, undisputed...

This research focuses on a decomposed-weighted-sum particle swarm optimization (DWS-PSO) approach that is proposed for optimal operations of price-driven demand response (PDDR) and PDDR-synergized with the renewable and energy storage dispatch (PDDR-...

A Probabilistic Weighted Archetypal Analysis method with Earth Mover’s Distance (PWAA-EMD) is proposed to extract endmembers from hyperspectral imagery (HSI). The PWAA-EMD first utilizes the EMD dissimilarity matrix to weight the coefficient matrix i...

This study proposes a site location assessment model for citrus cropland using multi-criteria evaluation (MCE) and the combination of a set of factors for suitability mapping and delineating the suitable areas for citrus production in Ramsar, Iran. I...

In the hot strip rolling process, many process parameters are related to the quality of the final products. Sometimes, the process parameters corresponding to different steel grades are close to, or even overlap, each other. In reality, locating over...

The RNA-Seq and gene expression data of mature leaves under high temperature stress of Paeonia suffruticosa ‘Hu Hong’ were used to explore the key genes of heat tolerance of peony. The weighted gene co-expression network analysis (WGCNA)...

On-farm experimentation (OFE) is a farmer-centric process that can enhance the adoption of digital agriculture technologies and improve farm profitability and sustainability. Farmers work with consultants or researchers to design and implement experi...

Although wireless sensor networks (WSNs) have been widely used, the existence of data loss and corruption caused by poor network conditions, sensor bandwidth, and node failure during transmission greatly affects the credibility of monitoring data. To...

As the ability to collect profiling data in metabolomics increases substantially with the advances in Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS) instruments, it is urgent to develop new and powerful data analysis approaches to match the bi...

The underlying mechanisms of eating disorders (EDs) are very complicated and still poorly understood. The pathogenesis of EDs may involve the interplay of multiple genes. To investigate the dysregulated gene pathways in EDs we analyzed gene expressio...

Factors related to catering distribution are typically characterized by local changes, but few studies have quantitatively investigated the inherent spatial nonstationarity correlations. In this study, a multiscale geographically weighted regression...

Objectives: Functional connectivity triggered by naturalistic stimuli (e.g., movie clips), coupled with machine learning techniques provide great insight in exploring brain functions such as fluid intelligence. However, functional connectivity is mul...

High-quality semen is an essential factor for the success of artificial insemination, and revealing the genetic structure of pig semen traits helps improve semen quality. This study aimed to identify candidate genes associated with semen traits in th...

Demodulation is one of the most useful techniques for the fault diagnosis of rotating machinery. The commonly used demodulation methods try to select one sensitive sub-band signal that contains the most fault-related components for further analysis....

Feather follicle density plays an important role in appealing to consumers’ first impressions when making purchasing decisions. However, the molecular network that contributes to this trait remains largely unknown. The aim of this study was to...

Nanjing city is taken as a case in this urban rainstorm disaster risk research. Using the data of meteorology and social-economy statistics of Nanjing area, the paper selected ten indicators to establish the risk assessment system of urban rainstorm...

Communities in urban space are the most basic living units. Community visual features directly reflect the local living quality and influence the perception of residents and visitors. The evaluation of the community visual features is of great signif...

Precise prediction of short-term electric load demand is the key for developing power market strategies. Due to the dynamic environment of short-term load forecasting, probabilistic forecasting has become the center of attention for its ability of re...

An effective feature extraction method is key to improving the accuracy of a prediction model. From the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) database, which includes 13,487 genes, we obtained microarray gene expression data for 238 samples from colorectal c...

The recovery of surface spectral reflectance using the quadcolor camera was numerically studied. Assume that the RGB channels of the quadcolor camera are the same as the Nikon D5100 tricolor camera. The spectral sensitivity of the fourth signal chann...

Trichomes are attractive cells for terpenoid biosynthesis and accumulation in Artemisia annua. However, the molecular process underlying the trichome of A. annua is not yet fully elucidated. In this study, an analysis of multi-tissue transcriptome da...

ESG ratings are data-driven indices, focused on three key pillars (Environmental, Social, and Governance), which are used by investors in order to evaluate companies and countries, in terms of Sustainability. A reasonable question which arises is how...

Urban flooding poses a significant problem in arid regions, where unusual rainfall events can lead to disastrous consequences. This study used geographic information systems (GIS) to identify and predict potential flood risk zones in Riyadh City, Sau...

Nowadays, parallel mechanisms are widely used in many fields because of their excellent structural performance. In order to improve the comprehensive performance of 6-UPS parallel mechanism, this article proposes a multi-objective optimization design...

Drought severely affects the growth and production of pecan (Carya illinoinensis), while genes conferred drought adaptation are yet to be fully elucidated. Here, an in-depth exploration of the two different RNA-seq projects regarding drought stress (...

Poplar (Populus × xiaohei T. S. Hwang et Liang) is an excellent model plant, with a known genome sequence, for studying woody plant developmental processes, such as seed germination. Here, we report the transcriptional profiling of poplar seeds...

Solanum melongena L. (eggplant) bacterial wilt is a severe soil borne disease. Here, this study aimed to explore the regulation mechanism of eggplant bacterial wilt-resistance by transcriptomics with weighted gene co-expression analysis network (WGCN...

Sepsis is a life-threatening condition driven by dysregulated immune responses, resulting in organ dysfunction and high mortality rates. Identifying key genes and pathways involved in sepsis progression is crucial for improving diagnostic and therape...

(1) Background: As Kaplan–Meier (KM) analysis is limited to single unidirectional endpoints, most advanced cancer randomized clinical trials (RCTs) are powered for either progression-free survival (PFS) or overall survival (OS). This discards e...

Pre-surgical diffusion weighted imaging (DWI) is increasingly important in the context of thyroid cancer for identification of the optimal treatment strategy. It has exemplarily been shown that DWI at 3T can distinguish undifferentiated from well-dif...

The R-R interval (RRI) fluctuation in electrocardiogram (ECG) is called heart rate variability (HRV), which reflects activities of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) and has been used for various health monitoring services. Accurate R wave detection...

Medulloblastoma (MB) is considered the most common and highly malignant posterior fossa tumor (PFT) in children. The accurate preoperative diagnosis of MB is beneficial in choosing the appropriate surgical methods and treatment strategies. Diffusion-...

Sporisorium scitamineum is a biotrophic fungus responsible for sugarcane smut disease. To investigate the key genes involved in S. scitamineum infection, we conducted RNA sequencing of sugarcane sprouts inoculated with S. scitamineum teliospores. A w...

Determination of time-weighted average (TWA) concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in air using solid-phase microextraction (SPME) is advantageous over other sampling techniques, but is often characterized by insufficient accuracies, pa...

Patch budding (bud grafting) is a commonly used method for pecan reproduction; however, the grafting survival rate varies with cultivars. Clarifying the underlying mechanisms of successful grafting is pivotal for graft technique improvement. Here, we...

Plant height (PH) is a vital agronomic trait that significantly affects cotton yield and facilitates mechanized harvesting. Gaining insights into the genetic regulatory mechanisms governing plant height is fundamental to advancing cotton breeding. In...

Determinants of health care quality and efficiency are of importance to researchers, policy-makers, and public health officials as they allow for improved human capital and resource allocation as well as long-term fiscal planning. Statistical analyse...

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...