Manure application increases soil doxycycline and zinc levels and resistance gene abundance by Jian Zhao, Jiangjie He, Yurou Han, Junwei Liang, Yucheng Chen, Yimo Zhang, Jizhen Liu, Qizhong Huang, Weihong Xu

“…The application of livestock and poultry manures amplified the abundance of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and metal resistance genes (MRGs) in the soil, with higher ARG levels in pig manure-treated soil than in soil treated with chicken manure. …”
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Fabrication of Cu: ZnO thin film sensor for ethanol vapor detection by Robin Simkhada, Dalton R. Gibbs, Soma Dhakal, Dipak Oli, Rishi Ram Ghimire, Deependra Das Mulmi, Leela Pradhan Joshi

“… For a long time, metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) based gas sensors have been widely used in domestic, commercial, and industrial sectors to detect harmful gases. …”
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New Insights on Iron-Trimesate MOFs for Inorganic As(III) and As(V) Adsorption from Aqueous Media by Afef Azri, Marwa Ben Amar, Khaled Walha, Clàudia Fontàs, José Elías Conde-González, Victoria Salvadó, Eladia M. Peña-Méndez

“…Interest in the use of Fe-based metal organic frameworks (MOFs) to remove inorganic arsenic species has increased due to their stability and adsorptive properties. …”
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A Study on Cu Thin-Film Electroplated TiO₂ Photoanodes for Applications in Natural Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by M. D. P. A. Shakya, K. M. D. C. Jayathilaka, W. T. R. S. Fernando, W. T. M. A. P. K. Wanninayake, L. S. R. Kumara, O. Seo, J. Tang, O. Sakata, W. P. Siripala, R. P. Wijesundera

“…Improving the performance of TiO₂ photoanodes via the inclusion of metal particles on the electrode surface could provide significant advantages for the development of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). …”
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Late-time Optical and X-Ray Emission Evolution of the Oxygen-rich SN 1996cr by Daniel Patnaude, Kathryn E. Weil, Robert A. Fesen, Dan Milisavljevic, Ralph P. Kraft

“…Most notably, as the shock traverses the H-rich envelope, it begins to interact with metal-rich material. Thus, continued monitoring of bright and nearby SNe provides valuable clues about both the progenitor structure and its pre-SN evolution. …”
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High Catalytic Selectivity of Electron/Proton Dual‐Conductive Sulfonated Polyaniline Micropore Encased IrO2 Electrocatalyst by Screening Effect for Oxygen Evolution of Seawater Ele... by Yuhan Shen, Shengqiu Zhao, Fanglin Wu, Hao Zhang, Liyan Zhu, Mingjuan Wu, Tian Tian, Haolin Tang

“…This structure combines electron conductivity from the organic framework and proton conductivity from ‐SO3H, weakens the Cl− adsorption, and suppresses metal‐chlorine coupling, thus enhancing the catalytic activity and selectivity. …”
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Molecular Characterization of a Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Strain R46 Isolated from a Rabbit by Fei Wu, Yuanyuan Ying, Min Yin, Yi Jiang, Chongyang Wu, Changrui Qian, Qianqian Chen, Kai Shen, Cong Cheng, Licheng Zhu, Kewei Li, Teng Xu, Qiyu Bao, Junwan Lu

“…The whole genome encoded 34 antibiotic resistance genes including a newly identified chromosome-encoded florfenicol resistance gene named mdfA2. pR46-270, besides encoding 26 antibiotic resistance genes, carried four clusters of heavy metal resistance genes and several virulence-related genes or gene clusters. …”
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Genotype-environment interactions on growth and inner shell color variation in Hyriopsis cumingii cultured in different iron-level substrates by Xuefeng Lv, Zhiyan Wang, Quanzhi Bao, Changzhi Li, Tingting Lu, Yuyang Wu, Chuntong Liu, Zhiyi Bai

“…Hyriopsis cumingii is a species that naturally inhabits substrates rich in various metal elements. Iron, essential for several biological processes, significantly influences the growth and development of bivalves. …”
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Synthesis and application of zinc oxide nanoparticles in Pieris brassicae larvae as a possible pesticide effect by Isabella Martins Lourenço, Amedea Barozzi Seabra, Marcelo Lizama Vera, Nicolás Hoffmann, Olga Rubilar Araneda, Leonardo Bardehle Parra

“…Chemically synthesized metal nanoparticles, such as zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs), can find wide applications and success against different types of pests, such as larvae. …”
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Triggering Oxygen Redox Cycles in Nickel Ferrite by Octahedral Geometry Engineering for Enhancing Oxygen Evolution by Yang Peng, Xu Zhao, Yiqun Shao, Xin Yue, Zhuofeng Hu, Shaoming Huang

“…Due to the lower hybridization of metal‐d and oxygen‐p orbitals, the OER process on NixFe3‐xO4 follows the sluggish adsorbate evolution mechanism (AEM). …”
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miR-26a-5p/ADAM17-Mediated Proteolysis of TREM2 Regulates Neuroinflammation in Hypertensive Mice Following Lead Exposure by Yuran Wang, Zeming Wang, Han Hao, Yuwei Zhao, Jian Wang, Weixuan Wang

“…As a traditional neurotoxic heavy metal, Pb exposure results in neuroinflammation as well as neurodegenerative diseases. …”
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Sensory-directed flavor analysis of key odorants compounds development of French fries and oils in the break-in, optimum and degrading frying stage by Lirong Xu, Gangcheng Wu, Jianhua Huang, Hui Zhang, Qingzhe Jin, Xingguo Wang

“…The FF27 had higher hexanoic acid (sweaty odor), heptanoic acid, nonanoic acid, benzene acetaldehyde (stale odor), and trans-4,5-epoxy-(E)-2-decenal (metallic odor) compared with FF4 and FF15, thus leading to the undesirable flavor of FF27. …”
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Fabrication of Cu: ZnO thin film sensor for ethanol vapor detection by Robin Simkhada, Dalton R. Gibbs, Soma Dhakal, Dipak Oli, Rishi Ram Ghimire, Deependra Das Mulmi, Leela Pradhan Joshi

“… For a long time, metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) based gas sensors have been widely used in domestic, commercial, and industrial sectors to detect harmful gases. …”
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Luminescent Iridium–Terpyridine Complexes with Various Bis-Cyclometalated Ligands by Ko Ikeda, Natsumi Yano, Makoto Handa, Yusuke Kataoka

“…The density functional theory calculations revealed that the luminescence originates from the triplet metal–ligand to ligand charge transfer (³MLL′CT) excited state.…”
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Amphiphilic Ruthenium(II) Terpyridine Sensitizers with Long Alkyl Chain Substituted β-Diketonato Ligands: An Efficient Coadsorbent-Free Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells by Ashraful Islam, Surya Prakash Singh, Masatoshi Yanagida, Mohammad Rezaul Karim, Liyuan Han

“…These complexes exhibit a broad metal-to-ligand charge transfer absorption band over the whole visible range extending up to 950 nm. …”
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Amplified impact of contact uniformity on the performance of low-catalyst-loading fuel cells by Yuanzhe Ma, Xuanyu Wang, Ziliang Deng, Yongzhen Wang, Nanfeng Zheng, Kai Han, Zipeng Zhao

“…Reducing platinum group metal (PGM) usage in a proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is essential for its broad implementation. …”
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Dual-Polarized Wideband Filtering Antenna Array Based on Stacked-PCB Structure by Matti Kuosmanen, Sten E. Gunnarsson, Johan Malmstrom, Juha Ala-Laurinaho, Jari Holopainen, Ville Viikari

“…The array employs a novel stacked-PCB structure, where simple two-sided PCBs are stacked on top of each other. The via-connected metal layers of all PCBs form a tapered slotline along the surface normal of the PCBs. …”
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In Vitro Susceptibility and Florfenicol Resistance in Citrobacter Isolates and Whole-Genome Analysis of Multidrug-Resistant Citrobacter freundii by Wangxiao Zhou, Qianqian Chen, Changrui Qian, Kai Shen, Xinyi Zhu, Danying Zhou, Wei Lu, Zhewei Sun, Hongmao Liu, Kewei Li, Teng Xu, Qiyu Bao, Junwan Lu

“…Furthermore, a range of antimicrobial and metal resistance genes associated with mobile genetic elements could be identified in pR47-54 and the other plasmid pR47-309 of C. freundii R47. …”
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Interior and Gravity Field Models for Uranus Suggest a Mixed-composition Interior: Implications for the Uranus Orbiter and Probe by Zifan Lin, Sara Seager, Benjamin P. Weiss

“…Our gravity harmonics model shows that UOP J _2 and J _4 measurements can distinguish between high ( Z ≥ 25%) and low ( Z  = 12.5%) atmospheric metallicity scenarios. The UOP can robustly constrain J _6 and potentially J _8 given polar orbits within rings. …”
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Ultra-low reverse leakage NiOx/β-Ga2O3 heterojunction diode achieving breakdown voltage >3 kV with plasma etch field-termination by Yizheng Liu, Saurav Roy, Carl Peterson, Arkka Bhattacharyya, Sriram Krishnamoorthy

“…This work reports the fabrication and characterization of a NiOx/β-Ga2O3 heterojunction diode (HJD) that uses a metallic nickel (Ni) target to deposit NiOx layers via reactive RF magnetron sputtering and lift-off processing with >3 kV breakdown voltage, ultra-low reverse current leakage under high reverse bias, and a high junction electric field (>3.34 MV/cm). …”
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