Towards more efficient, more specific, and safer MRI contrast agents: a Portuguese–French collaborative journey by Pinto, Sara Martinho Almeida, Lacerda, Sara, Morfin, Jean-François, Aroso, Rafael Tiago,  Teixeira, Daniela Sofia de Sousa, Garda, Zoltán, Pereira, Maria Miguens,  Geraldes, Carlos Frederico Gusmão Campos, Tóth, Éva

“…Although complexes of the paramagnetic Gd(III) ion have been used with great success for the past 40 years to enhance image contrast in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), important challenges such as improving the relaxation efficacy, the specificity, the safety, and the environmental impact of these agents remain in this field. …”
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Demarcation of Pollution-Prone Areas around the Manyoni Uranium Project, Tanzania by Farida Lolila, Mohamed S. Mazunga, Ntombizikhona B. Ndabeni

“…Knowing these areas before mining is an important step toward establishing efficient and effective environmental baseline data. This is because resources for collecting the data will be concentrated in areas with higher contamination potential. …”
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GREEN HUMAN RESOURCE PRACTICES AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS IN THE MANUFACTURING SECTOR OF THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY by Oginni Babalola Oluwayemi, Abel Segun Adesanya, Hammed Omotola Ojodu, Victor Ajibayo Adeyeye

“… The effect of climate change has heightened a significant interest in environmental-related areas of human endeavor thus explaining why sustainability is the major concern of stakeholders in the industrial world without any exemptions. …”
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Preventing Escape of Non-Native Species from Aquaculture Facilities in Florida, Part 1: General Considerations and Regulations by Quenton M. Tuckett, Carlos V. Martinez, Jared L. Ritch, Katelyn M. Lawson, Jeffrey E. Hill

“…Escape or release of these non-native cultured organisms is an environmental and legal concern in Florida and therefore a key consideration in aquaculture farm construction and operation. …”
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Building the foundation for polar bear science: fifty years of research on polar bears in Western Hudson Bay by B.A. Biddlecombe, A.E. Derocher, E. Krebs, N.J. Lunn, D. McGeachy, E.S. Richardson

“…Future research should continue to ask key questions on how long-term environmental changes impact the ecology of polar bears. …”
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Application of phytosynthesized silver nanoparticles (SNPs) against Erwinia amylovora causing fire blight disease by Saeed Tarighi, Meysam Soltani Nejad

“…The existing strategies for managing fire blight disease involve the regular use of copper compounds and streptomycin, particularly during periods when environmental factors are conducive to the spread of the infection. …”
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The Effect of Buriti Oil (Mauritia flexuosa L.) as Feed Additive on the Organic and Inorganic Materials Digestibility on Heat Stress Exposed Broilers by Burhanudin, Sunaryo Hadi Warsito, Bodhi Agustono, Nusdianto Triakoso, Ragil Angga Prastiya, Faisal Fikri

“…Heat stress due to high environmental conditions can affect the digestibility of organic and inorganic broilers. …”
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Leucine-Rich Repeat Protein Family Regulates Stress Tolerance and Development in Plants by Hao Zhiqi, Wang Tingyi, Chen Dongdong, Shen Lan, Zhang Guangheng, Qian Qian, Zhu Li

“…Functionally, various LRR proteins are primarily involved in plant development and responses to environmental stress. Notably, the LRR protein family plays a central role in signal transduction pathways related to stress adaptation. …”
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Oxygen-binding proteins aid oxygen diffusion to enhance fitness of a yeast model of multicellularity. by Whitney Wong, Pablo Bravo, Peter J Yunker, William C Ratcliff, Anthony J Burnetti

“…Despite their importance, the precise mechanisms by which oxygen-binding proteins influenced the early stages of multicellular evolution under varying environmental oxygen levels are not yet clear. We address this knowledge gap by heterologously expressing the oxygen-binding proteins myoglobin and myohemerythrin in snowflake yeast, a model system of simple, undifferentiated multicellularity. …”
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Transcriptome atlases of rat brain regions and their adaptation to diabetes resolution following gastrectomy in the Goto-Kakizaki rat by François Brial, Aurélie Le Lay, Claude Rouch, Edouard Henrion, Mathieu Bourgey, Guillaume Bourque, Mark Lathrop, Christophe Magnan, Dominique Gauguier

“…Abstract Brain regions drive multiple physiological functions through specific gene expression patterns that adapt to environmental influences, drug treatments and disease conditions. …”
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Ecological overview of hard ticks (Ixodida: Ixodidae) in Nagasaki prefecture of western Japan during winter 2021–2022 by Tomonori Hoshi, Erina Ishigaki, Thanawat Khongyot, Satoshi Kaneko

“…The research provides valuable insights on tick distributions, ecological groupings and environmental preferences in Nagasaki. These findings contribute to the fundamental understanding of tick ecology and could contribute to design strategies for tick population control and tick-borne disease prevention in Nagasaki or possibility to nearby areas.…”
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Movement traits important to conservation and fisheries management: an example with red snapper by Susan K. Lowerre-Barbieri, Kara Wall, Claudia Friess, Sean Keenan, Chad Lembke, Joseph Tarnecki, Laura Jay Williams-Grove, William F. Patterson

“…These behaviors can change with age, habitat and environmental conditions and our ability to accurately estimate them is affected by a study’s inference power (design components that affect how accurately detection data represents a species’ movements). …”
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Shoreline Stability Analysis At Merah Putih Beach, Bangkalan Regency by Dyah Ambarwati Rieke, Dwi Siswanto Aries

“…Shorelines serve as a key indicator in monitoring environmental changes in coastal areas. Shorelines can change over various time periods, triggering coastal abrasion or accretion which can be detrimental. …”
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Barriers and facilitators of participants and non-participants of physical activity at the workplace by Antonio José Grande, Valter Silva

“…Workplaces, due to their behavioral and environmental particularities, have a great potential to be explored. …”
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Une bactérie multirésistante avant l’ère des antibiotiques : l’agent de la mélioïdose by Buisson, Yves

“…It is fatal in 20 to 50% of cases, the prognosis depending on the delay before the establishment of effective first-line antibiotic therapy, using ceftazidime or carbapenems, and therefore on the speed of bacteriological diagnosis.B. pseudomallei is a saprophytic bacterium, resident of the rhizosphere where it has developed and accumulated capacities to overcome environmental stresses and competition with organisms living in such ecosystem. …”
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The demographic history of the wild crop relative Brachypodium distachyon is shaped by distinct past and present ecological niches by Minadakis, Nikolaos, Williams, Hefin, Horvath, Robert, Caković, Danka, Stritt, Christoph, Thieme, Michael, Bourgeois, Yann, Roulin, Anne C.

“…Consequently, the species faced new environmental conditions which led to clear associations between bioclimatic variables and genetic factors as well as footprints of positive selection in the genome. …”
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HYDROGEN DEFECTS ON THE SURFACE OF LEAD-FREE FERROELECTRIC Na\(_{0.5}\)Bi\(_{0.5}\)TiO\(_3\) MATERIALS by Tien Lam Vu, Hoang Thoan Nguyen, Huu Lam Nguyen, Ngoc Trung Nguyen, Quoc Van Duong, Duc Dung Dang

“…These observations expand our understanding of hydrogen chemisorption and adsorption on defect sites, providing a novel avenue for investigating and potentially developing environmentally friendly multiferroic materials for advanced electronic devices. …”
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Global biogeography and projection of antimicrobial toxin genes by Ya Liu, Yu Geng, Yiru Jiang, Jingyu Sun, Peng Li, Yue-zhong Li, Zheng Zhang

“…Conclusions Our study provides baseline information on the global distribution of antimicrobial toxins by combining community samples, genome sequences, and environmental constraints. Our results highlight the natural environment as a reservoir of antimicrobial toxins, advance the understanding of the global distribution of these antimicrobial weapons, and aid their application in clinical, agricultural, and industrial fields. …”
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The mediating effect of air pollution on the association between meteorological factors and influenza-like illness in China by Qinling Yan, Robert A. Cheke, Sanyi Tang

“…Conclusion When the haze with low temperature, low humidity is forecasted by the meteorological agency, the environmental protection departments can take effective control measures to reduce the concentration of air pollutants, and public health departments should advocate human behavioral changes in order to mitigate and control ILI prevalence.…”
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Effect of eDNA metabarcoding temporal sampling strategies on detection of coastal biodiversity by Maelle Sevellec, Anaïs Lacoursière-Roussel, Eric Normandeau, Louis Bernatchez, Kimberly Lynn Howland

“…IntroductionEnvironmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding of water is increasingly being used to monitor coastal biodiversity shifts. …”
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