Exposure, sensitivity, or adaptive capacity? Reviewing assessments that use only two of three elements of climate change vulnerability by Amanda A. Hyman, Erin R. Crone, Abigail Benson, Jason Dunham, Abigail J. Lynch, Laura Thompson, Meryl C. Mims

“…Climate change vulnerability assessments (CCVAs) are tools to assess species' responses to climate change, detect drivers of vulnerability, and inform conservation planning. CCVAs are commonly composed of three elements: exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity. …”
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Assessing Hand Function in Trans-Radial Amputees Wearing Myoelectric Hands: The Virtual Eggs Test (VET) by M. Controzzi, L. Angelini, P. Randi, P. Mucci, A. Mazzeo, R. Ferrari, E. Gruppioni, C. Cipriani

“…We developed the Virtual Eggs Test (VET): it resembles the task of transporting fragile and robust objects, thus requiring both gross and fine dexterity. The test is composed of 11 Virtual Eggs that collapse if the grasping force exceeds their breaking thresholds, ranging from 0.4 N to 11.5 N. …”
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Non-Linear Signal Analysis Applied to Surface Wear Condition Monitoring in Reciprocating Sliding Testing Machines by Francisco Paulo Lépore Neto, José Daniel Biasoli de Mello, Marcelo Braga dos Santos

“…Validation tests are conducted in a tribological system composed by a sphere in contact with and a prismatic body, which has an imposed harmonic motion. …”
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The Efficacy and Mechanism of Chinese Herbal Medicine on Diabetic Kidney Disease by Zhenzhen Lu, Yifei Zhong, Wangyi Liu, Ling Xiang, Yueyi Deng

“…Although some achievements have been made in the exploration of the pathogenesis of DKD, the currently available clinical treatment methods are still not completely effective in preventing the progress of DKD to ESRD. CHM composed of natural products has traditionally been used for symptom relief, which may offer new insights into therapeutic development of DKD. …”
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In vivo bone regeneration performance of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose hydrogel-based composite bone cements in ovariectomized and ovary-intact rats: a preliminary investigation by Mosharraf Hossain, Tamima Sultana, Ji Eun Moon, Soobin Im, Je Hoon Jeong

“…These findings suggest that the newly developed composite bone cement composed of HG, β-TCP, HA and/or PMMA may be a promising and professional tool for treating osteoporotic and non-osteoporotic vertebral fractures.…”
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First Clinical Nutrition Outpatient Consultation: A Review of Basic Principles in Nutritional Care of Adults with Hematologic Disease by Julia da Silva Goncalves dos Santos, Barbara de Farias Meirelles, Isabela de Souza da Costa Brum, Mariana Zanchetta, Bruna Xerem, Lucas Braga, Marcia Haiut, Renata Lanziani, Taha Hussein Musa, Karen Cordovil

“…In the end, the nutritional approach should be composed of calculation of energy and macronutrient and micronutrient needs, intervention in nutritional status deviations, nutritional guidelines, and nutritional therapeutic planning of return, focusing on adherence to treatment. …”
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Intrastromal autologous implantation of adipose derived adult stem cells for the management of established corneal scars by Jorge L. Alio del Barrio, Alberto Parafita-Fernandez, Daniel Gomez Plaza, Maria Eugenia Fernandez, Jorge L. Alio

“…Observations: ADASC were isolated by elective liposuction, and a solution composed of 3x106 ADASC contained in 1mL saline was used to soak a corneal intrastromal pocket created with femtosecond laser at mid-depth. …”
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Wind Tunnel Testing on Start/Unstart Characteristics of Finite Supersonic Biplane Wing by Hiroshi Yamashita, Naoshi Kuratani, Masahito Yonezawa, Toshihiro Ogawa, Hiroki Nagai, Keisuke Asai, Shigeru Obayashi

“…Two wing models were tested in wind tunnels with aspect ratios of 0.75 (model A) and 2.5 (model B). The models were composed of a Busemann biplane section. The tests were carried out using supersonic and transonic wind tunnels over a Mach number range of 0.3≤M∞≤2.3 with angles of attack of 0°, 2°, and 4°. …”
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Physicochemical, Rheological, Structural, Antioxidant, and Antimicrobial Properties of Polysaccharides Extracted from Tamarind Seeds by Likun Ren, Yang Yang, Xin Bian, Xiaomei Li, Bing Wang, Dangfeng Wang, Dan Su, Linlin Liu, Dehui Yu, Xiaoxue Guo, Xiumin Zhang, Na Zhang

“…The results indicated that the yield of the obtained polysaccharide was 3.42%. TSP was mainly composed of glucose (45.09%), galactose (22.80%), and xylose (28.89%), while it contained characteristic structure of polysaccharides, such as –OH, pyranose, and uronic acid at 3,418, 1,150, and 1,040 cm−1 respectively, which demonstrated that it was a uronic acid heteropolysaccharide. …”
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In Search of an Integrative Method to Study Unconscious Processing: An Application of Bayesian and General Recognition Theory Models to the Processing of Hierarchical Patterns in t... by Antonio Prieto, Pedro R. Montoro, Mikel Jimenez, José Antonio Hinojosa

“…To address this question, we introduced an integrative approach to assess the extent to which masked hierarchical stimuli (i.e., global shapes composed of local elements) can be processed in the absence of awareness. …”
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Low-Resolution Target Detection with High-Frequency Information Preservation by Feng Zhang, Hongyang Bai, Wenlong Yin, Ze Li, Hailong Ma, Lei Chen

“…To tackle this challenge, in this work, we introduce a generic, <i>High-Frequency Information Preservation</i> (<b>HFIP</b>) block as a replacement for existing downsampling operations. It is composed of two key components: (1) the decoupled high-frequency learning component, which extracts the high-frequency information along the vertical and horizontal directions separately, and (2) the dilated frequency-aware channel correlation component, which decomposes the input feature map into multiple smaller ones in a dilated manner, concatenates them by channel, and then correlates the combined channels in the frequency space. …”
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Development of Alginate-Chitosan Bioactive Films Containing Essential Oils for Use in Food Packaging by Carla Guzmán-Pincheira, Arash Moeini, Patricia E. Oliveira, Diana Abril, Yeni A. Paredes-Padilla, Sergio Benavides-Valenzuela

“…The effect on the physical, mechanical, and antibacterial properties of films composed of alginate-chitosan with the incorporation of oregano (EOO) or thyme (EOT) essential oils was evaluated. …”
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Formulation for Muscle Building and Mobility Improvement by Bingbing CAO, Zhengdong LIU, Huan GE, Jiali ZHOU, Xingwang YE, Mingyuan QI, Renyan LIU, Yiqiao XU

“…A formulation composed of vitamin D (VD), calcium β-hydroxy-β-methylbutyrate (HMBCa), and medium-and long-chain triacylglycerols (MLCT) in a precise ratio of 1:350000:200000 was examined for its potential impacts on muscle development and enhancement of mobility. …”
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Differential Immunogenicity and Protective Efficacy Elicited by MTO- and DMT-Adjuvanted CMFO Subunit Vaccines against Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection by Nadeem Ullah, Ling Hao, Yaqi Wu, Yandi Zhang, Qing Lei, Jo-Lewis Banga Ndzouboukou, Xiaosong Lin, Xionglin Fan

“…In this study, we compared the immunogenicity and protective efficacy of CMFO subunit vaccines against primary progressive TB in two different adjuvant systems: the MTO oil-in-water (O/W) emulsion composed of monophosphoryl lipid A (MPL), trehalose-6,60-dibehenate (TDB), and oil in water emulsion MF59 and the DMT liposome containing dimethyldioctadecylammonium bromide (DDA), monophosphoryl lipid A (MPL), and trehalose-6,60-dibehenate (TDB). …”
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High Velocity Impact Response and Damage Analysis of Hybrid Aluminum/Carbon Fiber/Pineapple Leaf Fiber Laminates for Automotive Structure Using TOPSIS Method by Hanyue Xiao, Mohamed Thariq Hameed Sultan, Farah Syazwani Shahar, Suhas Yeshwant Nayak, Muhammad Imran Najeeb, Siti Madiha Muhammad Amir, Sapizah Rahim

“…With the rising demand for lightweight and high-performance materials in automotive applications, this study examines the high-velocity impact (HVI) behavior and damage mechanisms of fiber metal laminates (FMLs) composed of aluminum (A), carbon fiber (C), and pineapple leaf fiber (P). …”
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Animal Species Identification in Historical Parchments by Continuous Wavelet Transform–Convolutional Neural Network Classifier Applied to Ultraviolet–Visible–Near-Infrared Spectros... by Nicolas Roy, Henry Pièrard, Julie Bouhy, Alexandre Mayer, Olivier Deparis, David Gravis

“…The network architecture chosen was CWT-CNN (continuous wavelet transform–convolutional neural network), which, in this case, is composed of a convolutional autoencoder and a single-layer dense network classifier. …”
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Enhanced solar hydrogen production via reconfigured semi-polar facet/cocatalyst heterointerfaces in GaN/Si photocathodes by Wei Chen, Danhao Wang, Weiyi Wang, Xin Liu, Yuying Liu, Chao Wang, Yang Kang, Shi Fang, Xudong Yang, Wengang Gu, Dongyang Luo, Yuanmin Luo, Zongtao Qu, Chengjie Zuo, Yi Kang, Lin Cheng, Wensheng Yan, Wei Hu, Ran Long, Jr-Hau He, Kang Liang, Sheng Liu, Yujie Xiong, Haiding Sun

“…Here, we report a unique photoelectrode composed of reconfigured gallium nitride nanowire-on-silicon wafer loaded with Au nanoparticles as cocatalyst that achieved an impressive applied bias photon-to-current efficiency of 10.36% under AM 1.5G one sun illumination while exhibiting stable PEC hydrogen evolution over 800 h at a high current density. …”
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Alleviation of DSS-induced colitis by Meconopsis polysaccharides correlated with reduced PI3K/AKT signaling and gut microbiome diversity by Jun Dai, Weidong Wang, Fangfang He, Yujuan Wang, Denglang Zou

“…Subsequently, the colitis-alleviating activity of MP was validated through in vivo experiments.ResultsThe results revealed that MP is primarily composed of ten monosaccharides, exhibits good thermal stability, and has a relatively uniform molecular weight distribution. …”
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A Building‐Integrated Hybrid Photovoltaic‐Thermal (PV‐T) Window for Synergistic Light Management, Electricity and Heat Generation by Francesco Polito, Gan Huang, Christos N. Markides

“…In this work, a building‐integrated hybrid photovoltaic‐thermal window (PVTW) is fabricated and tested, composed of a semi‐transparent photovoltaic (PV) layer and a selectively absorptive liquid‐based thermal absorber. …”
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A potential exodus: what is behind dropping out intentions among university students? by Dora Herrera, Lennia Matos, Rafael Gargurevich, Marjhori Gómez, Benjamín Lira, Cecilia Ferreyra

“…This study seeks to identify the socio-demographic, academic and psychological variables that predict dropout intention among university students in Peru.Materials and methodThe sample was composed of 768 students from nine universities, both public and private, across the coastal, highland and rainforest regions of Peru. …”
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