First record of Phlebia tremelloidea (Bres.) Parmasto in Italy by Carolina Elena Girometta, Annarosa Bernicchia, Anthea Desiderio, Elena Savino

“…Molecular barcode (ITS region) performed on the dried basidioma confirmed the macro- and micromorphological identification; besides, sequences from LSU, SSU and two sub-regions in RPB2 have been deposited as well in GenBank for the first time. This study increases the knowledge about distribution and ecology of P. tremelloidea and provides new molecular data in support of the taxonomic debate on this species and its relatives.…”
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Use of Fourier-Domain Optical Coherence Tomography to Evaluate Anterior Stromal Opacities in Donor Corneas by Matthew R. Bald, Christopher Stoeger, Joshua Galloway, Maolong Tang, Jeffrey Holiman, David Huang

“…In all cases, the Eye Bank Technicians reported that the location and depth of corneal opacity were more sharply defined by OCT than by slit lamp. …”
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A Programmable Look-Up Table-Based Interpolator with Nonuniform Sampling Scheme by Élvio Carlos Dutra e Silva Júnior, Leandro Soares Indrusiak, Weiler Alves Finamore, Manfred Glesner

“…Interpolation is a useful technique for storage of complex functions on limited memory space: some few sampling values are stored on a memory bank, and the function values in between are calculated by interpolation. …”
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GOVERNMENT EXPENDITURE: A CATALYST FOR ECONOMIC GROWTH IN NIGERIA by Alexander Tunde OGUNTUASE, Temitope Esther OYENEYE, Jayeola OLABISI, Oluwapelumi Damilola OYEDELE

“…The ex-post facto research design was adopted, using historical data extracted from Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) statistical bulletins. Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) unit root test was carried out to test for the stability of data. …”
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Financial and Performance Analyses of Microcontroller Based Solar-Powered Autorickshaw for a Developing Country by Abu Raihan Mohammad Siddique, M. Shamim Kaiser

“…The BAR consists of a rickshaw structure, a battery bank, a battery charge controller, a DC motor driver, and a DC motor whereas the proposed m-SBAR contains additional components like solar panel and microcontroller based DC motor driver. …”
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Econometric Estimates of Russia's Turn to the East by A. A. Baykov, V. A. Gnevasheva

“…The empirical base of the study is the official statistics of World Bank, SIPRI, FSGS. The findings indicate the emerging conditions for Russia's turn to the East. …”
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Genome analysis and prevalence of SARS-CoV-2 Indonesian variants and the correlation with the outbreak timeline by Maria Prevyolita Indra Muliawan, Timotius Christopher Tantokusumo, Amalda Siti Anisa, Kholis Abdurachim Audah

“…Methods: We analyzed whole genome sequences of SARS-CoV-2 wild type and variants isolated from Indonesian samples, sourced from GenBank and the GISAID EpiCoV database. The spike glycoprotein gene sequences were examined using the BLAST to identify nucleotide and amino acid changes. …”
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The EU’s neoliberal constitutionalism(s) by Guillaume Grégoire

“…From ordoliberal Ordnungspolitik to new classical macroeconomics and public choice, from Hayek’s ‘constitution of liberty’ to Vanberg’s ‘constitutional political economy’, an institutional agenda has emerged around a number of key tenets: enhancing the competition between jurisdictions through (state and international) federalism; safeguarding the competitive functioning of the market through supra-legislative rules; limiting fiscal policies and disciplining public spending through balanced budget rules; neutralising monetary policy through independent and price stability-oriented central banks. These key tenets of neoliberal constitutionalism infuse the three layers of the European economic constitution: the fundamental freedoms of movement pave the way to normative competition between national legislations (microeconomic constitution); competition law guarantees the competitive structure of the market (mesoeconomic constitution); European Economic and Monetary Union implements the rules of budgetary discipline and monetary stability (macroeconomic constitution). …”
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An Analysis of the Physical Characteristics of the Summer Low Atmosphere in the Gobi Desert Adjacent to Bosten Lake, Xinjiang, China by Yan Li, Xuejin Sun, Hui Ning, Hongcai Qin, Jiuquan Zhao

“…A month-long field observation campaign was conducted, which covered approximately 100 km2 of the Gobi Desert area on the southeast bank of Bosten Lake during the summer of 2016. The purpose of the study was to examine the physical characteristics of the low atmosphere over land-lake nonuniform underlying surfaces in the Gobi Desert of northwestern China. …”
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Specific detection of pigeon parvovirus with TaqMan real-time PCR technology by Cuiteng Chen, Chunhua Zhu, Shuyu Chen, Zhen Chen, Huanru Fu, YuYi Chen, Mengyan Zhang, Wenyu Zhang, Yu Huang, Longfei Cheng, Chunhe Wan

“…The specific primers and probes used were designed on the basis of the NS gene characterization of PiPV downloaded from GenBank. After optimization, the established TaqMan‒PCR assay provides a sensitive, accurate, reliable and cost-effective platform for PiPV detection. …”
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Molecular Identification of Fungal Communities in a Soil Cultivated with Vegetables and Soil Suppressiveness to Rhizoctonia solani by Silvana Pompéia Val-Moraes, Eliamar Aparecida Nascimbem Pedrinho, Eliana Gertrudes Macedo Lemos, Lucia Maria Carareto-Alves

“…The plasmid inserts were sequenced and compared to known rDNA sequences in the GenBank database. Of the sequenced clones, 22 were obtained from the SMS sample, 18 from the SHC sample, and 6 from the STC sample. …”
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Steady Glide Dynamic Modeling and Trajectory Optimization for High Lift-to-Drag Ratio Reentry Vehicle by Liang Yang, Wanchun Chen, Xiaoming Liu, Hao Zhou

“…Two examples with and without bank reversal are taken to evaluate the performance and applicability of the new method. …”
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Antibiotic resistance gene occurrence in poultry farms in northeast Brazil by Henrique Francisco de Almeida, Paulo Ricardo Conceição Marques Trindade, César Roberto Viana Teixeira, Claudson Oliveira Brito, Silvio Santana Dolabella, Sona Jain, Maíra Pompeu Martins, Ana Andréa Barbosa

“…Sequencing and comparison with the GenBank database confirmed the identity of the ARGs. …”
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A Fully Automated Adjustment of Ensemble Methods in Machine Learning for Modeling Complex Real Estate Systems by José-Luis Alfaro-Navarro, Emilio L. Cano, Esteban Alfaro-Cortés, Noelia García, Matías Gámez, Beatriz Larraz

“…The close relationship between collateral value and bank stability has led to a considerable need to a rapid and economical appraisal of real estate. …”
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Differentiable architecture search-based automatic modulation recognition for multi-carrier signals by LI Jie, LI Jing, LYU Lu, GONG Fengkui

“…., orthogonal frequency division multiplexing, filter bank multi-carrier, and orthogonal time frequency space, were generated over typical urban multipath channels. …”
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Plant Trait Composition in Lowland Calcareous and Acidic Semi-Dry Grasslands by Sonja Škornik

“…Community-weighted means were calculated for nine plant functional traits: life form, growth form, clonal growth organ (CGO) type, persistence of connection in CGO, number of clonal offspring shoots, lateral spreading distance, role of CGO, bud bank, CSR strategy. The results showed that both grassland communities were characterized by high local persistence (perennial plants with long-lived connections between ramets). …”
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RELATIVE EFFICACY OF THE CAPITAL MARKET OVER THE MONEY MARKET IN A GROWTH-FINANCING ECONOMY by Adedeji Daniel Gbadebo

“…The study uses data from the Central Bank of Nigerian and Securities and Exchange Commission Bulletins between from 1981 and 2020. …”
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MIGRATION IN WEST AFRICA: AN ANALYSIS OF PULL AND PUSH FACTORS by OLUWAGBENGA EMMANUEL ADEBAYO, MARY MOMSISURI BOTESO

“…Panel data on variables like net migration, wage rate, and unemployment in four selected West African countries (Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leonne and Senegal), spanning a period of twenty-five years (1997-2021) were collected from secondary sources like the World Bank, and analyzed using the fixed effects model with cluster- robust standard errors. …”
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The Role of Government micro financing in the Development of Rural Entrepreneurship (Case Study: Radkan Rural District) by Shadi khoob, Hamdollah Sojasi Qeidari, Aliakbar Anabestani

“…Most sample entrepreneurs supplemented bank loans with personal funds. Furthermore, insufficient loan amounts, limited credit accessibility, absent insurance support, lengthy loan processing times, and unfavorable repayment terms resulted in low satisfaction levels among entrepreneurs (average 2.32) and rural residents (average 1.91).…”
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Cortical Surface Reconstruction from High-Resolution MR Brain Images by Sergey Osechinskiy, Frithjof Kruggel

“…This field mapping, similarly to a Laplacian mapping, has nice laminar properties in the cortical layer, and helps to identify the unresolved boundaries between cortical banks in narrow sulci. The pial cortical surface is reconstructed by advection along the field gradient as a geometric deformable model constrained by topology-preserving level set approach. …”
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