Optical Properties of the Urban Aerosol Particles Obtained from Ground Based Measurements and Satellite-Based Modelling Studies by Genrik Mordas, Nina Prokopciuk, Steigvilė Byčenkienė, Jelena Andriejauskienė, Vidmantas Ulevicius

“…Analysis shows such increase in the aerosol light scattering coefficient (276 Mm−1) during the 3rd of July 2012 was attributed to a major Sahara dust storm. Aerosol size distribution with pronounced coarse particles dominance was attributed to the presence of dust particles, while resuspended dust within the urban environment was not observed.…”
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Melatonin Promotes Yield Increase in Wheat by Regulating Its Antioxidant System and Growth Under Drought Stress by Xue Li, Jia Liu, Cuiping Zhang, Ze Liu, Xiang Guo, Shaoxiang Li, Hongsheng Li, Kun Liu, Kunzhi Li, Mingliang Ding

“…Drought stress constitutes a major challenge to wheat production. Melatonin plays a vital role in plants’ resistance to drought stress. …”
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Bone Marrow-Derived Multipotent Stromal Cells Attenuate Inflammation in Obliterative Airway Disease in Mouse Tracheal Allografts by Alicia Casey, Fabian Dirks, Olin D. Liang, Hakima Harrach, Katharina Schuette-Nuetgen, Kristen Leeman, Carla F. Kim, Craig Gerard, Meera Subramaniam

“…Tracheas from BALB/c mice were implanted into the subcutaneous tissue of major histocompatibility complex- (MHC-) disparate C57BL/6 mice. …”
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Global value chains and intra-BRICs trade in value-added by José Firmino de Sousa Filho, Gervásio Ferreira dos Santos, Luiz Carlos de Santana Ribeiro, Rodrigo Barbosa de Cerqueira, Larissa Lopes Lima

“…While India and China demonstrate strong vertical specialization, Brazil and Russia concentrate major component exports on domestic value-added. …”
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Building Credibility with Comprehensive Citation Practices by Pavithra Subramanian, Raghuraman Soundararajan, Jyotsna Makol

“…It analyses the different types of citations, including direct quotes, paraphrases, and summaries, and discusses the major citation systems such as the Vancouver and Harvard styles. …”
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Deep(er) reconstruction of imaging Cherenkov detectors with swin transformers and normalizing flow models by C Fanelli, J Giroux, J Stevens

“…This advancement addresses a major bottleneck in Cherenkov detector simulations involving photon tracking through complex optical elements. …”
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Researching Organic Solar Cells from the Perspective of Literature Big Data Analysis by Qing Wang, Zhixin Liu, Shengda Zhao, Yangjun Yan, Xinyi Li, Yajie Zhang, Xinghua Zhang

“…As an example, a knowledge base of organic solar cells (OSCs) is extracted including topic analysis of literature, numerical characteristics of performance, and material information. Seven major research directions of OSCs are identified. …”
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Determination of Volatile Compounds in Four Commercial Samples of Japanese Green Algae Using Solid Phase Microextraction Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry by Masayoshi Yamamoto, Susanne Baldermann, Keisuke Yoshikawa, Akira Fujita, Nobuyuki Mase, Naoharu Watanabe

“…Our research, based on solid phase microextraction gas chromatography mass spectrometry (SPME-GC-MS), has revealed that volatile compounds differ intensely in the four varieties of commercial green algae. Accordingly, 41 major volatile compounds were identified. Heptadecene was the most abundant compound from Okayama (Ulva prolifera), Tokushima (Ulva prolifera), and Ehime prefecture (Ulva linza). …”
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Donor Complications Following Laparoscopic Compared to Hand-Assisted Living Donor Nephrectomy: An Analysis of the Literature by Whitney R. Halgrimson, Jeffrey Campsen, M. Susan Mandell, Mara A. Kelly, Igal Kam, Michael A. Zimmerman

“…Investigators did not report a significant difference in the rate of major postoperative complications between the two groups (LDN 0.5% versus HALDN 0.7%, 𝑃=.111). …”
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Identifying the Research Trend of Sport Biomechanics over the Last 20 Years: A Bibliometric Analysis of the Scopus Journal Database by Muchamad Arif Al Ardha, Nurhasan, Dwi Cahyo Kartiko, Chung Bing Yang, Sauqi Sawa Bikalawan, Ainun Zulfikar Rizki, Sevesti Violin Wilujeng Herista

“…This study provides insight into the major developments and focal aspects in sports biomechanics over the past two decades, as well as highlighting the diversity of research subjects within this field. …”
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Numerical Calculations of Charging Threshold at GEO Altitudes With Two Temperature Non‐Extensive Electrons by Saba Javed, Nazish Rubab, Sadia Zaheer, Stefaan Poedts, Ghulam Jaffer

“…Abstract Surface charging at geosynchronous altitude is one of the major concerns for satellites and spacecrafts. Spacecraft anomalies are often associated with extreme surface charging events, especially during substorms in which the GEO plasma is better modeled as two temperatures non‐Maxwellian plasma. …”
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Mitochondrial genome and nuclear ribosomal RNA analysis place Alveonasus lahorensis within the Argasinae and suggest that the genus Alveonasus is paraphyletic by Ben J. Mans, Lidia Chitimia-Dobler, Ronel Pienaar, Minique de Castro, Mehran Khan, Mashal M. Almutairi, Abdulaziz Alouffi, Abid Ali, Ala Tabor

“…Two major families exist in ticks, the Argasidae and Ixodidae. …”
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Porphyromonas gingivalis affects neutrophil pro-inflammatory activities by Agnieszka Zimny, Alicja Płonczyńska, Alicja Płonczyńska, Wiktor Jakubowski, Natalia Zubrzycka, Natalia Zubrzycka, Jan Potempa, Jan Potempa, Maja Sochalska

“…Although gingipains are the major virulence factor of the pathogen, their role in impairing apoptosis and immune cell function is not fully understood. …”
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Contributions of distractor dwelling, skipping, and revisiting to age differences in visual search by Iris Wiegand, Mariska van Pouderoijen, Joukje M. Oosterman, Kay Deckers, Gernot Horstmann

“…In conclusion, under conditions of poor guidance, dwelling and revisiting have a major contribution to search times and age-related slowing in difficult visual search, while skipping is largely negligible.…”
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Hepatic Cerebroside Sulfotransferase Is Induced by PPARα Activation in Mice by Takefumi Kimura, Takero Nakajima, Yuji Kamijo, Naoki Tanaka, Lixuan Wang, Atsushi Hara, Eiko Sugiyama, Eiji Tanaka, Frank J. Gonzalez, Toshifumi Aoyama

“…Sulfatides are one of the major sphingoglycolipids in mammalian serum and are synthesized and secreted mainly from the liver as a component of lipoproteins. …”
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World informatization in conditions of international globalization: Factors of influence by V. Babenko, I. Perevozova, O. Mandych, T. Kvyatko, O. Maliy, I. Mykolenko

“…Accordingly, for example, from Innovations and Improvement Factors the major ones were only for the second cluster: Government efficiency and Efficiency of goods market and for the third cluster was the Global Competitiveness Index. …”
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Efficiency and Safety of Prolonged Levosimendan Infusion in Patients with Acute Heart Failure by Georgios Aidonidis, Ioannis Kanonidis, Vasileios Koutsimanis, Till Neumann, Raimund Erbel, Georgios Sakadamis

“…Apart from two deaths due to advanced heart failure, no major complications were observed. Conclusion. Prolonged infusion of levosimendan without a loading dose is associated with an acceptable clinical and neurohumoral response.…”
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Experimental Investigation of Thermal Modal Characteristics for a Ship’s Foundation under 300°C by Zheyu Ding, Hongbai Bai, Yiwan Wu, Yue Zhu, Yichuan Shao

“…How to further reduce vibration and noise is a major challenge for modern ship design. High-temperature environment will significantly influence the mechanical properties (such as elastic modulus and stiffness) of the ship’s foundation. …”
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Secrecy-Constrained UAV-Mounted RIS-Assisted ISAC Networks: Position Optimization and Power Beamforming by Weichao Yang, Yajing Wang, Dawei Wang, Yixin He, Li Li

“…To address this non-convex, multivariate, and coupled problem, we decompose it into three subproblems, which are solved iteratively using particle swarm optimization (PSO), semi-definite relaxation (SDR), majorization–minimization (MM), and alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithms. …”
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Modeling of winter wheat yield prediction based on solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence by machine learning methods by Minxue Zheng, Han Hu, Yue Niu, Qiu Shen, Feng Jia, Xiaolei Geng

“…The results highlighted the benefits of combining multiple sources of data and revealed the advantages of RF and XGB models in crop yield prediction in the major grain production region.…”
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