Collaborative Effort Towards a FAIR and OPEN Indo-Pacific Pollen Database (IPPD) by Annika V. Herbert, Simon G. Haberle, Henry Munack, Alexandru T. Codilean

“…The Indo-Pacific Pollen Database (IPPD) is a collection of modern and fossil Australian, Southeast Asian, and Oceanian pollen assemblages collected from Quaternary period depositional contexts. This compilation has been in the making since the late 1980s and is now being made available as a constituent database of Neotoma, thereby providing much needed palaeo-data coverage of the previously often underrepresented Indo-Pacific region. …”
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Assessing bnAb potency in the context of HIV-1 envelope conformational plasticity. by Caio Foulkes, Nikolas Friedrich, Branislav Ivan, Emanuel Stiegeler, Carsten Magnus, Daniel Schmidt, Umut Karakus, Jacqueline Weber, Huldrych F Günthard, Chloé Pasin, Peter Rusert, Alexandra Trkola

“…While loss of potency on SENSE-19 was registered for bnAbs from several classes recognizing quaternary epitopes on pre-triggered Env, structural destabilization benefitted MPER bnAbs and other inhibitors known to have post-CD4 attachment neutralization activity. …”
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Investigation of Hydrogeochemical Characteristics and Quality of the Water Resources in Şiran (Gümüşhane) District Center, Turkey by Ümmühan Semiz, Mehmet Ali Gücer, Selçuk Alemdağ

“…In the study area, the basement rocks are represented by Eocene Kelkit formation, which is composed of sandstone, claystone, marl, shale and tuff, and this unit is covered unconformably by the Quaternary aged alluvium. These units form granular porous unconfined aquifers according to the hydrogeological features. …”
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Analyzing water uptake of apple trees using isotopic techniques in the Shandong Peninsula, China by Tianze Pang, Ying Zhao, María Poca, Jianjun Wang, Hongchen Li, Jinzhao Liu

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Quantitative Analysis and Band Gap Determination for CIGS Absorber Layers Using Surface Techniques by Yun Jung Jang, Jihye Lee, Kang-Bong Lee, Donghwan Kim, Yeonhee Lee

“…Thanks to a simple approach using the Ga/(In + Ga) ratio, the optical band gap energy of the Cu(InXGa(1−X))Se2 quaternary layer was monitored in the entire CIGS layer. …”
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Risk Factors for Mortality in Melioidosis: A Single-Centre, 10-Year Retrospective Cohort Study by Raviraj Menon, Poornima Baby, Anil Kumar V., Sandeep Surendran, Manu Pradeep, Aiswarya Rajendran, Gaayathri Suju, Arathy Ashok

“…This was a retrospective cohort study conducted at a quaternary care centre in South India. Clinical, demographic, and biochemical data in patients diagnosed with melioidosis with cultures were collected between January 2011 and December 2020 from medical records. …”
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On the phase behavior of sorbitol/water/H2/CO2 mixtures at high pressures and temperatures by in situ infrared spectroscopy by Bonnin, Isaline, Mereau, Raphaël, De Oliveira Vigier, Karine, Tassaing, Thierry 

“…Our study focuses on the gas phase of binary, ternary, and quaternary systems at temperatures ranging from 40 °C to 220 °C and at CO2 pressures between 30 and 120 bar, while maintaining a constant pressure of H2 at 30 or 60 bar. …”
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Mechanism of sensor kinase CitA transmembrane signaling by Xizhou Cecily Zhang, Kai Xue, Michele Salvi, Benjamin Schomburg, Jonas Mehrens, Karin Giller, Marius Stopp, Siegfried Weisenburger, Daniel Böning, Vahid Sandoghdar, Gottfried Unden, Stefan Becker, Loren B. Andreas, Christian Griesinger

“…This triggers a piston-like pulling of TM2 and a quaternary structure rearrangement in the cytosolic PAS domain (PASc). …”
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New Insights on the Seismic Activity of Ostuni (Apulia Region, Southern Italy) Offshore by Pierpaolo Pierri, Marilena Filippucci, Vincenzo Del Gaudio, Andrea Tallarico, Nicola Venisti, Vincenzo Festa

“…The analysis of the 2018 event shows that the ambiguity of the solution of the fault plane reported by INGV (Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia) on the Italian National Earthquake Centre website can be solved considering existing seismic profiles, exploration well logs and the Quaternary activity of faults in the epicentral area. …”
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Wear Resistance of Ceramic Cutting Inserts Using Nitride Coatings and Microtexturing by Electrical Discharge Machining by Marina A. Volosova, Anna A. Okunkova, Elena Y. Kropotkina, Enver S. Mustafaev, Khasan I. Gkhashim

“…Today, the machining of heat-resistant alloys based on triple, quad, or penta equilibria high-entropy alloy systems of elements (ternary, quaternary, quinary iron-, titanium-, or nickel-rich alloys), including dual-phase by Gibb’s phase rule, steels of the austenite class, and nickel- and titanium-based alloys, are highly relevant for the airspace and aviation industry, especially for the production of gas turbine engines. …”
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Spatial-temporal evolution of habitat quality in tropical monsoon climate region based on “pattern–process–quality” – a case study of Cambodia by Kang Junmei, Yang Fengshuo, Wang Jun, Liu Yang, Fang Dengmao, Jiang Chengcheng

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The Enigmatic Upper Ordovician of the Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark (Portugal) by Sofia Pereira, Jorge Colmenar, Cristiana Esteves, Ícaro Dias da Silva, Miguel Pires, Carlos Neto de Carvalho

“…Naturtejo UNESCO Global Geopark (Portugal) area includes deposits from the Neoproterozoic to the Quaternary. Despite its limited exposure area in major Variscan folded structures, the Ordovician series hosts some of its most famous geological heritage features, such as the Penha Garcia Ichnological Park.  …”
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Smelting of low-grade saprolitic nickel ore in DC-arc furnace by Nurjaman F., Hakim H.Z., Septiansyah B., Arham L.O., Handoko A.S., Bahfie F., Suherman I., Haryadi H., Suseno T., Sari Y., Suharno B.

“…The basicity of the quaternary slag of 0.8 and the stoichiometric carbon of 0.8 of the reductant resulted in an optimum smelting process of nickel ore in a DC-arc furnace, producing ferronickel with a Ni content of 14.59% with 92.26% recovery.…”
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Patient Perspectives on Evolving Diverticulitis Treatment: An Assessment of Patient Willingness to Enroll in a Randomized Controlled Trial by Annie Altman-Merino, MD, Kemberlee Bonnet, MA, David Schlundt, PhD, Jesse Wrenn, MD, PhD, Wesley H. Self, MD, MPH, Elisa J. Gordon, PhD, MPH, Alexander T. Hawkins, MD, MPH

“…This mixed-methods study conducted semi-structured interviews of patients presenting to a quaternary care emergency department with acute diverticulitis and a web-based survey of a larger cohort. …”
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Geological, alteration, mineralogy and geochemical studies of the Copper deposit in the Kalatehno prospect area, northwest of Gonabad (Khorasan Razavi province) by Sedigheh Zirjanizadeh, Roohollah Miri Bydokhti

“…The geology of the area includes subvolcanic units with monzonite, monzodiorite and diorite porphyry, volcanic units, pyroclastic and Quaternary units. Mineralization occurred epigenetically and as vein, in volcanic and pyroclastic units. …”
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Real-time seizure detection in paediatric intensive care patients: the RESET child brain protocol by Kristen Gibbons, Andreas Schibler, Anthony Slater, Louise Sparkes, Michaela Waak, Stephen Malone, Jane Harnischfeger, Sandra Gurr

“…The setting will be a 36-bed quaternary PICU with medical, cardiac and general surgical cases. cEEG studies in PICU patients identified as ‘at risk of seizures’ will be analysed. …”
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Retrospective trend analysis of biocides in suspended particulate matter of major German rivers by Georg Dierkes, Susanne Schmidt, Christiane Meier, Korinna Ziegler, Jan Koschorreck, Arne Wick

“…Highest concentrations were found for quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs, the sum of four analyzed QACs were up to 8.7 µg/g) and methyl-triclosan (up to 280 ng/g), a transformation product of the bactericide triclosan. …”
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Determination of Cenozoic Sedimentary Structures Using Integrated Geophysical Surveys: A Case Study in the Hebei Plain, China by Yi Yang, Jie Zhang, Junjie Wu, Pei Li, Xingchun Wang, Qingquan Zhi, Guojiang Hao, Jianhua Li, Xiaohong Deng

“…Through the combination of geology and comprehensive geophysics, we have obtained the undulating patterns of Paleogene and Quaternary bottom interfaces, the structural styles of the basement and the distribution of faults in the survey area, which provide strong support for the study of neotectonic movement and sedimentary environment evolution since the Cenozoic. …”
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Predicting Outcomes for Interhospital Transferred Patients of Emergency General Surgery by Brandon Cave, Daniel Najafali, William Gilliam, Jackson F. Barr, Christian Cain, Chris Yum, Jamie Palmer, Safura Tanveer, Emily Esposito, Quincy K. Tran

“…We conducted a retrospective analysis of all adult patients transferred to our quaternary academic center’s EGS service from 01/2014 to 12/2016. …”
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Tuberculous pericarditis due to silicon oxide exposure. A case report with an imaging approach by Andrés Felipe Donado-Moré, Jorge Ignacio Arrieta-Castaño, Lina Fernanda Acevedo-Forero, Jorge Alberto Carrillo-Bayona, Alejandro Vega-Molina, Wilmer Orlando Aponte-Barrios, Oscar Andrés Franco-Tavera

“…Case presentation: A 52-year-old man previously exposed to silicon oxide who was referred to the Intensive Care Unit of a quaternary care hospital in the city of Bogotá (Colombia) due to hyperdense pericardial effusion, which was initially considered to have a neoplastic etiology. …”
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