Plasma Optimization as a Novel Tool to Explore Plant–Microbe Interactions in Climate Smart Agriculture by Binoop Mohan, Chandrima Karthik, Doni Thingujam, Karolina M. Pajerowska-Mukhtar, Vinoy Thomas, M Shahid Mukhtar

“…Furthermore, we discuss the optimization of plasma parameters for effective microbiome interaction and the role of plasmids in plant–microbe interactions. …”
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Distinct fungal communities associated with different organs of the mangrove Sonneratia alba in the Malay Peninsula by Nicole Li Ying Lee, Danwei Huang, Zheng Bin Randolph Quek, Jen Nie Lee, Benjamin J. Wainwright

“…At each sampling location, we collected leaves, fruits, pneumatophores and sediment samples and performed amplicon sequencing of the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer 1 to characterise the associated communities. …”
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Deterministic Sudden Changes and Stochastic Fluctuation Effects on Stability and Persistence Dynamics of Two-Predator One-Prey Model by Jawdat Alebraheem, Nasser S. Elazab, Mogtaba Mohammed, Anis Riahi, Ahmed Elmoasry

“…In this paper, we present new results on deterministic sudden changes and stochastic fluctuations’ effects on the dynamics of a two-predator one-prey model. …”
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A flexible way to study composites in ecology using structural equation modeling by Xi Yu, Florian Schuberth, Jörg Henseler

“…Specifically, we present different H–O specifications and compare them statistically. …”
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“My team made me do it”: the differential influence of team amotivation on leaders’ destructive leadership behavior, from a gender perspective by Mats Reinhold, Britt-Inger Keisu, Robert Lundmark, Andreas Stenling, Susanne Tafvelin

“…Together with Statistic Sweden, we collected data using a two-wave survey design. …”
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Evaluating Company’s Readiness for Adopting Product Line Engineering: a Second Evaluation Round by Luisa Rincón, Raúl Mazo, Camille Salinesi

“…The results obtained from the evaluation resulted in modifications to the framework content, mainly to simplify the statements and eliminate redundant elements. Also, we detected new functionalities and modifications that we expect to be resolved in the following evaluation iterations. …”
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The Collaborative Search by Tag-Based User Profile in Social Media by Haoran Xie, Xiaodong Li, Jiantao Wang, Qing Li, Yi Cai

“…Recently, we have witnessed the popularity and proliferation of social media applications (e.g., Delicious, Flickr, and YouTube) in the web 2.0 era. …”
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Effective theory approach to new physics with flavour: general framework and a leptoquark example by Marzia Bordone, Oscar Catà, Thorsten Feldmann

“…We study the phenomenological viability of this specific framework performing a fit to low-energy flavour observables.…”
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New linearization and reweighting for simulations of string sigma-model on the lattice by L. Bianchi, V. Forini, B. Leder, P. Töpfer, E. Vescovi

“…Abstract We study the discretized worldsheet of Type IIB strings in the Gubser-Klebanov-Polyakov background in a new setup, which eliminates a complex phase previously detected in the fermionic determinant. …”
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Genomic exploration of pediatric neurological disorders: a case series by Naresh Tayade, Gautham Manoj, Akshay Kewat, Anjali Krishna A, Rajiv Devulapalli, Somesh Kumar, Sunil Kumar Polipalli, Bipin G. Nair, Obul Reddy Bandapalli, Prashanth Suravajhala

“…In this work, we attempt to understand rare neurological disorders in an Indian pediatric cohort using exome studies. …”
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Maximum-Power Stirling-like Heat Engine with a Harmonically Confined Brownian Particle by Irene Prieto-Rodríguez, Antonio Prados, Carlos A. Plata

“…Specifically, we focus on the irreversible, non-quasi-static case—whose finite duration enables the engine to deliver a non-zero output power. …”
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Investigating Low Latency Communications With Link-Layer Rate of NOMA Under Nakagami-<italic>m</italic> Fading Channel in Finite Blocklength Regime by Muhammad Imran, Muhammad Amjad, Muhammad Khalil Afzal, Muhammad Usman, Byung-Seo Kim

“…We investigate the impact of transmit signal-to-noise ratio, delay exponent, transmission error probability, and various blocklength on the achievable effective capacity of each user. …”
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Gorilla habituation and the role of animal agency in conservation and tourism development at Bwindi, South Western Uganda by Christine, Ampumuza, Clemens, Driessen

“…To do so, we use the concept of relational animal agency to trace the various ways in which gorillas interact with each other, various groups of people, and their environment. …”
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An Empirical Study of Bugs in Eclipse Stable Internal Interfaces. by Simon, Kawuma, Nabaasa, Evarist, Bamutura, David Sabiiti, Mabirizi, Vicent

“…We discovered that over 79.8% of classes containing old stable non-API methods have zero bugs. …”
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Mathematical Model for Transmission and Control of Covid-19 in Human Population of Kigezi Sub-region. by Mukamatayebwa, Keneth

“…When analyzing the disease-free equilibrium, we equate the susceptible to zero such that, for the rest, we set them to be zero ie, E = 0, I = 0, and R = 0, and thereafter we obtain {So,Eo, Io,Ro} = { }. …”
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A mechanistic-statistical approach to infer dispersal and demography from invasion dynamics, applied to a plant pathogen by Saubin, Méline, Coville, Jérome, Xhaard, Constance, Frey, Pascal, Soubeyrand, Samuel, Halkett, Fabien, Fabre, Frédéric

“…We first check the identifiability of the parameters and the confidence in the selection of the dispersal process. …”
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Transgressive hybrids as hopeful holobionts by Benjamin Thomas Camper, Andrew Stephen Kanes, Zachary Tyler Laughlin, Riley Tate Manuel, Sharon Anne Bewick

“…Across numerous hybrid microbiota phenotypes, we find widespread evidence of transgressive segregation. …”
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Macroproperties vs. microstates in the classical simulation of critical phenomena in quench dynamics of 1D Ising models by Anupam Mitra, Tameem Albash, Philip Daniel Blocher, Jun Takahashi, Akimasa Miyake, Grant Biedermann, Ivan H Deutsch

“…We study the tractability of classically simulating critical phenomena in the quench dynamics of one-dimensional transverse field Ising models (TFIMs) using highly truncated matrix product states (MPSs). …”
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Pulmonary granuloma formation during latent Cryptococcus neoformans infection in C3HeB/FeJ mice involves progression through three immunological phases by Jovany J. Betancourt, Minna Ding, J. Marina Yoder, Issa Mutyaba, Hannah M. Atkins, Gabriela De la Cruz, David B. Meya, Kirsten Nielsen

“…We found that latent C. neoformans granuloma formation progresses through phases that we described as early, intermediate, and late with different immune response profiles and granulomatous characteristics. …”
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Frailty assessment tools for use by surgeons when evaluating older adults prior to surgery: a scoping review protocol by Duminda N Wijeysundera, Andrea C Tricco, Martine T E Puts, Shabbir M H Alibhai, Teruko Kishibe, Tyler R Chesney, Julian F Daza, Camilla Wong, Karim Shiraz Ladha, Samuel Dubé

“…We will exclude tools not assessed in clinical practice, or using laboratory or radiologic values alone. …”
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