Health and Characteristics of Australian Apple Growing Soils by Marcus Hardie, Garth Oliver, William Cotching, Brianna Walker, Rachel Lancaster, Nigel Swarts

“…Around one-third to half of all sites showed evidence of poor aeration or impeded drainage, whilst 10 of the 34 sites were prone to nutrient leaching. …”
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Decreased SynMuv B gene activity in response to viral infection leads to activation of the antiviral RNAi pathway in C. elegans. by Ashwin Seetharaman, Himani Galagali, Elizabeth Linarte, Mona H X Liu, Jennifer D Cohen, Kashish Chetal, Ruslan Sadreyev, Alex J Tate, Taiowa A Montgomery, Gary Ruvkun

“…Many synMuv B genes encode dREAM complex chromatin-regulatory proteins found in nearly all animals and plants. We show that mRNAs which are highly induced in synMuv B mutants are congruent with those induced by Orsay RNA virus infection, suggesting that the enhanced RNAi of synMuv B mutants may also be triggered by down-regulation of synMuvB gene activity in an Orsay virus infection of wild type. …”
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Biomarker Profiling for Pyridoxine Dependent Epilepsy in Dried Blood Spots by HILIC-ESI-MS by Elizabeth Mary Mathew, Sudheer Moorkoth, Leslie Lewis, Pragna Rao

“…The method demonstrated a LOD of 10 ng/mL, LOQ of 50 ng/mL, linearity of r2 ≥ 0.990, and recovery of 92-101.98% for all analytes. The intra- and interday precision CVs were < 8% and 6%, respectively. …”
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EU-TIRADS-Based Omission of Fine-Needle Aspiration and Cytology from Thyroid Nodules Overlooks a Substantial Number of Follicular Thyroid Cancers by Tamas Solymosi, Laszlo Hegedüs, Miklos Bodor, Endre V. Nagy

“…Fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNA) was performed in all nodules >1 cm irrespective of US findings (n = 25,025) and in nodules between 5 mm and 10 mm with suspicious US characteristics (n = 1,883). …”
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A HOMER-Aided Study for PV System Design and Cost Analysis for a College Campus in Baghdad by Luqman Q. Ibrahim, Ahmed J. Abid, Adel A. Obed, Ameer L. Saleh, Reheel J. Hassoon

“…Forty-five different scenarios were analyzed for all possible cases. The existence of backup generators on the campus was also taken into consideration; G1-350kVA and G2-500kVA. …”
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A Vegetable-Price Forecasting Method Based on Mixture of Experts by Chenyun Zhao, Xiaodong Wang, Anping Zhao, Yunpeng Cui, Ting Wang, Juan Liu, Ying Hou, Mo Wang, Li Chen, Huan Li, Jinming Wu, Tan Sun

“…Experimental results demonstrate that large language models generally outperform other methods, but do not have consistent performance for all kinds of vegetables across different time scales. …”
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Effect of Repetitive Glucose Spike and Hypoglycaemia on Atherosclerosis and Death Rate in Apo E-Deficient Mice by Kenichi Nakajima, Tomoya Mita, Yusuke Osonoi, Kosuke Azuma, Toshiyuki Takasu, Yoshio Fujitani, Hirotaka Watada

“…Atherosclerosis was evaluated in all mice by oil red O staining. Administration of ipragliflozin, a selective inhibitor of sodium-glucose cotransporter 2, in the mouse model of repetitive glucose spikes inhibited the progression of atherosclerosis, whereas long-term repetitive glucose spikes, repetitive hypoglycaemia, and their combination had no significant impact on atherosclerosis. …”
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Unveiling the Emission Mechanisms of Blazar PKS 1510−089. II. Jet−BLR Connection and Black Hole Mass Estimation by Alfredo Amador-Portes, Vahram Chavushyan, Víctor M. Patiño-Álvarez, José Ramón-Valdés

“…Our results show an anticorrelation between the FWHM and the luminosity of the H β emission line across all data sets. This indicates that variations in H β luminosity consistently reflect the canonical broad-line region (BLR), irrespective of whether the primary ionizing source is the accretion disk or the jet. …”
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Biomechanical Analysis of Truncated Cone Implants for Maxillary Sinus Lift: An In Vitro Study on Polyurethane Laminas by Luca Comuzzi, Tea Romasco, Carlos Fernando Mourão, Giulia Marchioli, Adriano Piattelli, Natalia Di Pietro

“…SLC implants achieved significantly higher IT and RT across all tested conditions (<i>p</i> < 0.0001), reporting the highest values at the 30 PCF/3 mm lamina (IT: 34.09 ± 0.32 Ncm; RT: 32.15 ± 0.29 Ncm) and the lowest at the 20 PCF/1 mm lamina (IT: 11.86 ± 0.22 Ncm; RT: 10.28 ± 0.22 Ncm). …”
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Spatiotemporal variation of high-temperature events and its relation to coral bleaching in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan by Sayaka Yasunaka, Haruko Kurihara, Takeshi Doi

“…More than 99% of the high-temperature events occurred from June to October, and more than 80% occurred from July to September, whereas high-temperature anomaly events occurred all year round. Corresponding with high-temperature events, more than 10% of the data reported overall bleaching, and more than 25% reported partial bleaching from June to October. …”
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Remote and Anesthetic-Induced Myocardial Preconditioning Is Preserved in Atherosclerotic LDL Receptor-/- Mice In Vivo by Walter Petermichl, Kathrin Eglmeier, Henriette Hesse, Michael Gruber, Bernhard Graf, Andre Bredthauer, Andreas Redel

“…LDLR-/- and wild-type mice were randomly assigned to anesthetic-induced, remote ischemic, or no preconditioning. All mice were subjected to 45 minutes of coronary artery occlusion and 180 minutes of reperfusion. …”
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Oral HIV-Associated Kaposi Sarcoma: A Clinical Study from the Ga-Rankuwa Area, South Africa by Razia A. G. Khammissa, Liron Pantanowitz, Liviu Feller

“…The aim of this study was to characterize the features of oral HIV-KS in patients from Ga-Rankuwa, South Africa. Methods. All cases with confirmed oral HIV-KS treated at the oral medicine clinic in Ga-Rankuwa from 2004 to 2010 were included in this retrospective study. …”
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Effects of Dietary Yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Costmary, Tanacetum balsamita, Essential Oil on Growth Performance, Digestive Enzymes, Biochemical Parameters, and Disease R... by Hossein Adineh, Morteza Yousefi, Basim S. A. Al Sulivany, Ehsan Ahmadifar, Mohammad Farhangi, Seyyed Morteza Hoseini

“…Then, the fish were intraperitoneally challenged by Aeromonas hydrophila, and blood samples were taken from the fish before and 12 hr postinfection. All experimental groups showed significantly higher growth performance and feed efficiency, compared to the control, and the highest values were related to Sc + Tb treatment (P <0.001). …”
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Chemical Characterization of Sub-micron Aerosols during New Particle Formation in an Urban Atmosphere by Vijay P. Kanawade, Sachchida N. Tripathi, Abhishek Chakraborty, Huan Yu

“…The m/z 57 ion (C4H9+), a tracer of hydrocarbon-like OA (HOA), displayed significantly enhanced signal intensity during all of the NPF event days. Moreover, the increased proportion of organic ions, m/z 44 (CO2+), on these days suggested the presence of less volatile, highly oxidized OAs (LV-OOAs), revealing that the growth of new particles was mainly due to the condensation of low-volatility organic species. …”
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Body Mass Index and Associated Factors of School Absenteeism by School Feeding Program at Selected Primary Schools in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia: A Comparative Study by Solomon Muluken Ayehu, Addisu Tadesse Sahile

“…A comparative cross-sectional study was undertaken on 324 (162 each group) from selected primary schools of Addis Ababa from May 02 to July 30, 2018. All participants and their families provided written informed consent and assent. …”
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Recombinant AAV batch profiling by nanopore sequencing elucidates product-related DNA impurities and vector genome length distribution by Florian Dunker-Seidler, Kathrin Breunig, Magdalena Haubner, Florian Sonntag, Markus Hörer, Rebecca C. Feiner

“…Taken together, nanopore sequencing is a state-of-the-art method for comprehensive, in-depth rAAV vector batch analysis during all stages of gene therapy development.…”
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Violence Detection From Industrial Surveillance Videos Using Deep Learning by Hamza Khan, Xiaohong Yuan, Letu Qingge, Kaushik Roy

“…Unlike traditional methods that process all frames indiscriminately, this targeted filtering mechanism allows computational resources to be allocated more effectively. …”
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“site suitability analysis for integrating large-scale hybrid photovoltaic and concentrated solar power plants in Cameroon using Monte Carlo, analytic hierarchy process, and geogra... by Fotsing Metegam Isabelle Flora

“…The study also conducted a comparative analysis of the three decision-making methods. While all methods showed similar trends, MC-AHP was found to be the most effective in handling uncertainty, providing more reliable results through Monte Carlo simulations. …”
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Systematic Coronary Risk Evaluation 2 (SCORE2), arterial stiffness, and subclinical coronary atherosclerosis in a population-based study by Susanna Strömberg, Andreas Stomby, Jan Engvall, Carl Johan Östgren

“…There was a modest overlap between arterial stiffness and coronary calcification in all SCORE2 risk groups. When comparing the high SCORE2 risk group with the low-moderate risk group, the Odds ratio (OR) was 6.4, 95% confidence interval (CI 5.1–8.0) for arterial stiffness and 4.8 (CI 3.7–6.3) for coronary calcification. …”
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Anesthesia for Open Radical Retropubic Prostatectomy: A Comparison between Combined Spinal Epidural Anesthesia and Combined General Epidural Anesthesia by O. Kofler, S. Prueckner, E. Weninger, R. Tomasi, A. Karl, S. Niedermayer, A. Jovanovic, H. H. Müller, C. Stief, B. Zwissler, V. von Dossow

“…A retrospective analysis was performed by querying the electronic medical records of 1207 consecutive patients from the database of our online documentation software. All patients underwent open radical retropubic prostatectomy from 01/2008 to 08/2011 and met the study criteria. …”
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