Cadmium and lead uptake by wild swamp eel in the populous river by N. Nurhasanah, L. Sulistyowati, E. Riani, M. Cordova

“…However, cadmium and lead pollution must be handled with extreme caution because it interferes with the physiological processes of the biota, hence decreasing the population of eels and posing a health risk if consumed. …”
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Bayesian joint-regression analysis of unbalanced series of on-farm trials by Turbet Delof, Michel, Rivière, Pierre, Dawson, Julie C, Gauffreteau, Arnaud, Goldringer, Isabelle, van Frank, Gaëlle, David, Olivier

“…To explore methods of overcoming these challenges, this article tests various data analysis scenarios using a Bayesian approach with different models and a real wheat PPB dataset over 11 years. …”
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Modeling Stock High-Low Price Range: Fractional Cointegrating VAR Approach (FCVAR) by Elham Farzanegan

“…Accordingly, one can obtain a non-stationary range-based volatility estimator, which is more efficient than a stationary return-based realized volatility estimator. …”
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Monitoring Moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) forests damage caused by Pantana phyllostachysae Chao considering phenological differences between on-year and off-year using UAV h... by Anqi He, Zhanghua Xu, Yifan Li, Bin Li, Xuying Huang, Huafeng Zhang, Xiaoyu Guo, Zenglu Li

“…The on-year and off-year phenomenon is a distinctive phenological characteristic of Moso bamboo, reflecting variations in nutrient dynamics and endogenous hormonal rhythms during the transition from bamboo shoot to the culm. …”
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Application and comparison of five risk assessment methods in ferrous metal foundry enterprises with silica dust concentration exceeding the limit posts by Qimeng Li, Xiaoying Li, Ge Qin, Yuanmeng Qi, Jie Liu, Xiaocui Tang, Di Wu, Changfu Hao, Sihua Wang

“…The exposure ratio method identified ten jobs of high risk and fifty-seven jobs of extremely high risk. The results obtained from the synthesis index method showed relatively lower levels, except for the index method, there was a certain correlation (r: 0.541–0.798, P < 0.05) and consistency (kapa: 0.521–0.561, P < 0.05) with the remaining four methods.ConclusionThis study shows that although there are some differences in the results of different OHRA methods, there is also some correlation between them, which can corroborate each other and enhance the reliability of the assessment results. …”
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Bacterial communities as bioindicators of climate change in freshwater ecosystems: Tank bromeliads as model systems by Daniel Di Pace Soares Penna, Gustavo Quevedo Romero, Mark P. Nessel, Angélica L. González, Valéria Maia Oliveira

“…Climate change, characterized by rising temperatures and extreme weather events, threatens tropical freshwater ecosystems. …”
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Liquid-based encapsulation for implantable bioelectronics across broad pH environments by He Sun, Xiaoting Xue, Gabriella L. Robilotto, Xincheng Zhang, ChangHee Son, Xingchi Chen, Yue Cao, Kewang Nan, Yiyuan Yang, Gavin Fennell, Jaewook Jung, Yang Song, Huijie Li, Shao-Hao Lu, Yizhou Liu, Yi Li, Weiyi Zhang, Jie He, Xueju Wang, Yan Li, Aaron D. Mickle, Yi Zhang

“…In this work, we report a liquid-based encapsulation approach for bioelectronics under extreme pH environments. …”
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Heat Tolerance Differences Between Hu Sheep and Hu Crossbred Sheep in Microbial Community Structure and Metabolism by Jing-Da Yuan, Li-Wei Wang, Shao-Yin Fu, Ri-Ge-Li-Tu E, Xiao-Qi Ren, Hua Sun, Fang Liu, Biao Wang, Jiang-Hong An, Meng-Ran Zhao, Jiang-Feng He, Xiao-Long He

“…Background: The frequent occurrence of extreme temperature events causes significant economic losses to the livestock industry. …”
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Research Progress in Monitoring Technology of Cold Chain Logistics for Meat Products by Bin HAN, Dongmei LENG, Yuqian XU, Jianyang SHEN, Xin LI, Xiaochun ZHENG, Wei WANG, Dequan ZHANG, Chengli HOU

“…However, temperature fluctuations will inevitably occur in the cold chain logistics process, particularly in long-distance transportation and extreme weather conditions to trigger the "chain breaks""pseudo-cold chains", and other issues, leading to a decrease in meat quality in the cold chain logistics process. …”
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Innate Immune Responses Associated with Resistance against Haemonchus contortus in Morada Nova Sheep by João Henrique Barbosa Toscano, Cintia Hiromi Okino, Isabella Barbosa dos Santos, Luciana Aparecida Giraldelo, Marei Borsch von Haehling, Sérgio Novita Esteves, Ana Carolina de Souza Chagas

“…Briefly, 287 lambs were characterized through fecal egg counts (FEC) and packed cell volume (PCV) after two independent experimental parasitic challenges with 4,000 H. contortus L3. 20 extreme resistance phenotypes (10 most resistant and 10 most susceptible) were selected, subjected to a third artificial infection with 4,000 L3, and euthanized 7 days later. …”
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Optimised fertigation improves yield and quality of cucumbers for resource efficiency and economic return in high-tech greenhouses by Sonali, Jing He, Yuanyuan Wang, Weiguang Liang, Fatemeh Rasouli, Lihua Li, Jayakumar Bose, Michelle Donovan-Mak, Samsul Huda, Vijay Jayasena, Talaat Ahmed, David T. Tissue, Zhong-Hua Chen

“…These findings suggest that optimised fertigation levels could enhance resource sustainability, crop performance, and economic viability in greenhouse cucumber production, particularly in water-scarce and extreme climate regions.…”
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Precision foraging: Bats in organic desert palm plantations hunt where it is most needed by Danilo Russo, Fabiana Soprano, Luca Cistrone, Adi Einav, Jessica Schäckermann, Ioannis Ekklisiarchos, Carmi Korine

“…However, the importance of bats in agriculture in extreme environments, such as deserts, has received far less attention. …”
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Explainable machine learning model for predicting decline in platelet count after interventional closure in children with patent ductus arteriosus by Song-Yue Zhang, Yi-Dong Zhang, Hao Li, Qiao-Yu Wang, Qiao-Fang Ye, Xun-Min Wang, Tian-He Xia, Yue-E He, Xing Rong, Ting-Ting Wu, Rong-Zhou Wu

“…DPC following the intervention is defined as a percentage DPC ≥25% [(baseline platelet count−nadir platelet count)/baseline platelet count]. …”
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Comparison of Tropospheric Horizontal Gradients Modeling Methods in LEO Constellation Augmented GNSS Precise Point Positioning by Xinyu Zhang, Wenwu Ding, Xiaochuan Qu, Hongjin Xu, Xuanzhao Tan, Yunbin Yuan

“…In comparison, the analysis of slant path delays accuracy for elevation below 10° shows that the directional model is more suitable for low elevation observations, but the introduction of too many redundant parameters leads to a decrease in the accuracy at high elevation angles. …”
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Design, defect analysis, compressive strength and surface texture characterization of Laser Powder Bed Fusion processed Ti6Al4V lattice structures by Bruno Zluhan, Shubhavardhan Ramadurga Narasimharaju, Abhijit Cholkar, Ken Thomas, Ramesh Raghavendra, Eder S.N. Lopes

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Spatiotemporal evolution and driving force analysis of drought characteristics in the Yellow River Basin by Meiying Wang, Yangbo Chen, Jingyu Li, Yanjun Zhao

“…Global warming intensifies extreme precipitation events, impacting society significantly, and drought is one of the most important stress factors for the ecological security of the Yellow River Basin (YRB). …”
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Pouvoir politique et pouvoir religieux. L’exploitation de la Sanusiyya au sein de la Libye indépendante (1951-1958) by Carlotta Marchi

“…Hence, in the Libyan case, the establishment of a nation-state, built on and legitimised by the ṭarīqa, radically changed the structure and function of a religious institution, decreeing an adaptation to a model that was no longer theocentric but theocratic. …”
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Identification of standing dead trees in Robinia pseudoacacia plantations across China’s Loess Plateau using multiple deep learning models by Li Zhang, Xiaodong Gao, Shuyi Zhou, Zhibo Zhang, Tianjie Zhao, Yaohui Cai, Xining Zhao

“…Drought-induced tree mortality has increasingly expanded worldwide under the influence of climate warming, with China’s Loess Plateau (CLP) emerging as a critical hotspot for such impacts. As one of the most active tree-planting regions globally, the CLP primarily aims to achieve soil and water conservation despite facing challenges such as limited rainfall and frequent extreme drought events. …”
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Bayesian reinforcement learning models reveal how great-tailed grackles improve their behavioral flexibility in serial reversal learning experiments by Lukas, Dieter, McCune, Kelsey, Blaisdell, Aaron, Johnson-Ulrich, Zoe, MacPherson, Maggie, Seitz, Benjamin, Sevchik, August, Logan, Corina

“…Their estimated association-updating rate was more than twice as high at the end of the serial reversal learning experiment than at the beginning, and their estimated sensitivities to their learned associations declined by about a third. The changes in behavioral flexibility that grackles showed in their experience of the serial reversals also influenced their behavior in a subsequent experiment, where individuals with more extreme rates or sensitivities solved more options on a multi-option puzzle box. …”
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Experimental Study on Electric Resistivity Characteristics of Compacted Loess under Different Loads and Drying-Wetting Cycles by Yu Zhou, Guoyu Li, Wei Ma, Dun Chen, Fei Wang, Yuncheng Mao, Qingsong Du, Jun Zhang, Liyun Tang

“…The electrical resistivity method is a reasonable alternative that provides a nondestructive, sensitive, and continuous evaluation of the soil physical properties. …”
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