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Open AccessDifferent metazoan parasites, different transcriptomic responses, with new insights on parasitic castration by digenetic trematodes in the schistosome vector snail Biomphalaria glabrata
Gastropods of the genus Biomphalaria (Family Planorbidae) are exploited as vectors by Schistosoma mansoni, the most common causative agent of human intestinal schistosomiasis. Using improved genomic resources, ov...
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Initial structure parameters determination and aberration optimization method for ultra-wide angle optical system with large aperture
Ultra-wide angle optical system is symmetry with respect to sagittal plane and has plane-symmetric imaging performance, and it is widely used for the fields of security and protection monitoring, robot navigat...
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Stretchable on-skin touchless screen sensor enabled by ionic hydrogel
Screen sensors are the most commonly used human-machine interfaces in our everyday life, which have been extensively applied in personal electronics like cellphones. Touchless screen sensors are attracting gro...
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Fifth-order intrinsic aberration and extrinsic aberration of soft x-ray multi-element orthogonal arrangement optical system with large aperture
Based on fifth-order intrinsic aberration theory of plane-symmetric optical system with one-dimension source, the fifth-order intrinsic aberration and extrinsic aberration calculation method of soft x-ray mult...
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A deformable convolutional time-series prediction network with extreme peak and interval calibration
Deep modeling and analysis of human big data deepens our understanding of human activities. Periodic time-series signals, e.g., electrocardiographs, collected by health monitoring sensors reflect human health ...
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Open AccessThe genome and transcriptome of the snail Biomphalaria sudanica s.l.: immune gene diversification and highly polymorphic genomic regions in an important African vector of Schistosoma mansoni
Control and elimination of schistosomiasis is an arduous task, with current strategies proving inadequate to break transmission. Exploration of genetic approaches to interrupt Schistosoma mansoni transmission, th...
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Open AccessEfficacy and safety of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in acute ischaemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis
This study aims to evaluate the efficacy and safety of adjunctive hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) in acute ischaemic stroke (AIS) based on existing evidence.
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Transfer learning-based attenuation correction for static and dynamic cardiac PET using a generative adversarial network
The goal of this work is to demonstrate the feasibility of directly generating attenuation-corrected PET images from non-attenuation-corrected (NAC) PET images for both rest and stress-state static or dynamic [13
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Hydrogenative alkene perdeuteration aided by a transient cooperative ligand
Deuterogenation of unsaturated organic compounds is an attractive route for installing C(sp3)−D bonds, but the existing methods typically use expensive D2 and introduce only two deuterium atoms per unsaturation. ...
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Multimodality radiomics analysis based on [18F]FDG PET/CT imaging and multisequence MRI: application to nasopharyngeal carcinoma prognosis
To determine whether radiomics models developed from 2-deoxy-2-[18F]fluoro-D-glucose ([18F]FDG) PET/CT combined with multisequence MRI could contribute to predicting the progression-free survival (PFS) of nasopha...
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Radiomics prognostic analysis of PET/CT images in a multicenter head and neck cancer cohort: investigating ComBat strategies, sub-volume characterization, and automatic segmentation
This study aimed to investigate the impact of several ComBat harmonization strategies, intra-tumoral sub-volume characterization, and automatic segmentations for progression-free survival (PFS) prediction thro...
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Deep learning–based harmonization of CT reconstruction kernels towards improved clinical task performance
To develop a deep learning–based harmonization framework, assessing whether it can improve performance of radiomics models given different kernels in different clinical tasks and additionally generalize to mit...
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Open AccessPrognostic value of 18F-FDG PET/CT-based radiomics combining dosiomics and dose volume histogram for head and neck cancer
By comparing the prognostic performance of 18F-FDG PET/CT-based radiomics combining dose features [Includes Dosiomics feature and the dose volume histogram (DVH) features] with that of conventional radiomics in h...
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Joint nnU-Net and Radiomics Approaches for Segmentation and Prognosis of Head and Neck Cancers with PET/CT Images
Automatic segmentation of head and neck cancer (HNC) tumors and lymph nodes plays a crucial role in the optimization treatment strategy and prognosis analysis. This study aims to employ nnU-Net for automatic s...
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Study on Low-Carbon Emissions in Vehicle Routing Problems with Split Deliveries and Pickups
To reduce the pollution routing problem (PRP) generated by vehicles during logistics distribution, an approximate calculation method for fuel consumption and carbon emissions is introduced from the perspective...
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Carbon Emissions Reduction in Vehicle Routing Problems with Split Deliveries and Pickups
In order to reduce the carbon emissions generated by vehicles during the logistics distribution, a green vehicle routing problem with split simultaneously deliveries and pickups model is established, by introd...
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Open AccessCompatibility between snails and schistosomes: insights from new genetic resources, comparative genomics, and genetic map**
The freshwater snail Biomphalaria glabrata is an important intermediate host of the parasite Schistosoma mansoni that causes human intestinal schistosomiasis. To better understand vector snail biology and help ad...
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Open AccessComparative mitogenomics of freshwater snails of the genus Bulinus, obligatory vectors of Schistosoma haematobium, causative agent of human urogenital schistosomiasis
Among the snail genera most responsible for vectoring human-infecting schistosomes, Bulinus, Biomphalaria, and Oncomelania, the former is in many respects the most important. Bulinid snails host the most common h...
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A Two-Stage Heuristic Approach for Split Vehicle Routing Problem with Deliveries and Pickups
The vehicle routing problem with split deliveries and pickups is an important research topic in which deliveries and pickups to and from each customer are split into multiple visits. The objective is to minimi...
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Reply to Letter to Editor RE: “Integration of PET/CT Radiomics and Semantic Features for Differentiation Between Active Pulmonary Tuberculosis and Lung Cancer”