Isolation of a New Mexican Strain of Bacillus subtilis with Antifungal and Antibacterial Activities by M. G. L. Basurto-Cadena, M. Vázquez-Arista, J. García-Jiménez, R. Salcedo-Hernández, D. K. Bideshi, J. E. Barboza-Corona

“…A native bacterium (Bacillus subtilis 21) demonstrated in vitro antagonistic activity against different plant pathogenic fungi. …”
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Community Structure of Coleoptera Families and Staphylinidae Species as Potential Bioindicators in Atlantic Rain Forest by Taise Cristina Plattau Arenhardt, Marcelo Diniz Vitorino, Sebastião Venâncio Martins

“…The present research aimed to characterize Coleoptera families and Staphylinidae species in areas of native forest and pastures undergoing restoration with nucleation techniques in the Serra do Itajaí National Park. …”
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Wildlife of Florida Factsheet: Introduction by Raoul K. Boughton

“… The Wildlife of Florida Factsheet series was created to provide the public with a quick accurate introduction to Florida’s wildlife, including both native and invasive. We hope these factsheets inspire people to investigate wildlife in their own backyard and communities and understand the amazing biodiversity of wildlife in the state of Florida. …”
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Wildlife of Florida Factsheet: Introduction by Raoul K. Boughton

“… The Wildlife of Florida Factsheet series was created to provide the public with a quick accurate introduction to Florida’s wildlife, including both native and invasive. We hope these factsheets inspire people to investigate wildlife in their own backyard and communities and understand the amazing biodiversity of wildlife in the state of Florida. …”
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Sulfosalts and Sulfates in the Epithermal Au-Ag-Te Emmy Deposit (Khabarovsk Territory, Far East of Russia): Implications for the Mineralization Process by Tamara Yu. Yakich, Panagiotis Voudouris, Darya V. Levochskaia, Alexey K. Mazurov, Mikhail V. Shaldybin, Yuriy M. Lopushnyak, Alexey S. Ruban, Evan Dasi, Prokopiy N. Maximov, Ekaterina A. Sinkina, Ksenia V. Bestemianova, Maxim A. Rudmin

“…The replacement of goldfieldite by mercury, nickel, lead, and copper tellurides indicate a new influx of native gold, native tellurium, and gold–silver tellurides into the open mineral-forming system. …”
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Accounting for microorganisms yields stricter water quality criteria and elevated ecological risks of antibiotics: A case study of sulfonamides in the Yangtze River Delta by Xinyang Zhang, Xiao Yun, Ye Huang, Guofeng Shen, Nan Lin

“…Three WQC types were calculated: based on native species (WQC-n), a combination of native and non-native species (WQC-nn), and a combination of species and microorganisms (WQC-nnm). …”
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A Lingual Agnostic Information Retrieval System by Umar Bn Abdullahi, Godspower Osaretin Ekuobase

“…The exclusion of monolingual natives from cyberspace is a global socioeconomic and cultural problem. …”
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Accentedness Perception in L2: An Investigation of Thai Monophthong Pronunciation of Chinese Students by Peng Hou, Sarawut Kraisame

“…This paper aims to investigate the Thai monophthong pronunciation of Chinese students speaking Thai as a second language (L2), and to examine how native Thai listeners perceived these Chinese-accented Thai monophthongs. …”
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European Wool Carder Bee, Wool Carder Bee Anthidium manicatum (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Megachilidae) by Samantha Gallagher, Andrea Lucky

“…This species has been called the most widely distributed unmanaged bee in the world (Strange et al. 2011) because of its expansive native and non-native range. This document describes its synonymy, distribution, description, life cycle and biology, hosts, economic importance, and includes selected references. …”
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Is musical ability related to second-language acquisition? A meta-analysis by Rachel M. Thompson, Lauren K. Salig, L. Robert Slevc

“…However, there are significant differences in how successfully adults can learn aspects of non-native languages. Given robust relationships between musical ability and native-language processing, musical ability might also contribute to successful second-language acquisition. …”
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Further Reflecting on the Six-Year Primary Project of the Institute of Education, University of Ife: The Key Players by Toyin Falola, Michael Oladejo Afolayan

“…More often than not, it is disempowering rather than empowering if we go by Paulo Freire’s notion of education as being central to empowerment and poor education as the primary agent and metaphoric vehicle for modern day disempowerment, a knowledge base that does not liberate the mind or embrace the cognitive progression of the learner.1 After all, the original goal of colonial education was to train the “natives” in European languages so as to be able to communicate with and, ipso facto, serve their colonial “masters,” and help him to rule the same “natives.” …”
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Past and present of allspice (Pimenta dioica) in Mexico and Guatemala by Paulina Machuca, María Teresa Pulido-Salas, Felipe Trabanino

“…European expansion in the 16th Century produced a worldwide circulation of plants.Spanish colonialism displaced native plant resources while also promoting a mixture of Old and New World food cultures. …”
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L’expression du déplacement en italien et français L2 : influence translinguistique vs tendances communes by Simona Anastasio, Sandra Benazzo

“…French and Italian speakers in their native language, some intratypological variation is also found between the two verb-framed languages in question concerning the distribution of path information within a sentence (locus). …”
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Classical Biological Control of Tropical Soda Apple with Gratiana boliviana by Rodrigo Diaz, Julio Medal, Kenneth Hibbard, Amy Roda, A. Fox, S. Hight, Philip Stansly, Brent Sellers, James Cuda, William A. Overholt

“…Tropical soda apple is a prickly shrub native to South America. First reported in Glades Co., Florida in 1988, it later spread to Georgia, Alabama, Louisiana, Texas, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. …”
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Introduced Spiders in Panama: Species Distributions and New Records by Daniel Murcia-Moreno, Dumas Gálvez

“…Biological invasions occur when organisms are moved from their native range and introduced into new areas, where they can spread and become a potential risk for native organisms. …”
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South Florida Tropicals: Carambola by Amy Simonne, Linda Bobroff

“… The carambola or star fruit is native to Southeast Asia. It was introduced to Florida about 100 years ago. …”
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Size exclusion chromatography as green support for forced degradation study of adalimumab by Kovačić Jelena, Klarić Daniela Amidžić, Turk Nikša, Mornar Ana

“…Size exclusion chromatography (SEC) has become a powerful tool for analysing size variants of biologic drugs in their native form. Modern SEC can be defined by the use of chromatographic columns packed with sub-3 µm particles, allowing an increase in method throughput compared to that of conventional SEC.…”
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South Florida Tropicals: Carambola by Amy Simonne, Linda Bobroff

“… The carambola or star fruit is native to Southeast Asia. It was introduced to Florida about 100 years ago. …”
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The Maryland Amphibian and Reptile Atlas: A Volunteer-Based Distributional Survey by Heather R. Cunningham, Charles A. Davis, Christopher W. Swarth, Glenn D. Therres

“…The MARA will establish a baseline by which future changes in the distribution of populations of native herpetofauna can be assessed as well as provide information for immediate management actions for rare and threatened species. …”
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3D Coaxial Printing of Small‐Diameter Artificial Arteries by Yuxiang Zhu, Siying Liu, Xuan Mei, Zeng Lin, Tiffany V. Pulido, Jixin Hou, Srikar Anudeep Remani, Dhanush Patil, Martin Taylor Sobczak, Arunachalam Ramanathan, Sri Vaishnavi Thummalapalli, Lindsay B. Chambers, Churan Yu, Shenghan Guo, Yiping Zhao, Yang Liu, Xianqiao Wang, Jessica N. Lancaster, Yu Shrike Zhang, Xiangfan Chen, Kenan Song

“…As a treatment for the widely spread cardiovascular diseases (CVD), bypass vascular grafts have room for improvement in terms of mechanical property match with native arteries. A 3D‐printed nozzle is presented, featuring unique internal structures, to extrude artificial vascular grafts with a flower‐mimicking geometry. …”
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