The Quest for a Stable Disk by J. A. Sellwood, R. G. Carlberg

“…We report that spiral evolution naturally depletes circular orbits and that the radial velocity distribution in the featureless disks of S0 galaxies should have negative kurtosis.…”
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Multicomponent Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Gas Transport in a Coal Reservoir with Dynamic Adsorption by Zhigao Peng, Shenggui Liu, Songlei Tang, Yuechao Zhao, Yingjun Li

“…In the overall process of unconventional natural gas generation, enrichment, storage, and production, this phenomenon plays a significant role. …”
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Molecular phylogeny of Cytospora species associated with canker diseases of fruit and nut crops in California, with the descriptions of ten new species and one new combination by Daniel P. Lawrence, Leslie A. Holland, Mohamed T. Nouri, Renaud Travadon, Ara Abramians, Themis J. Michailides, Florent P. Trouillas

“…Abstract Cytospora species are destructive canker and dieback pathogens of woody hosts in natural and agroecosystems around the world. In this genus, molecular identification has been limited due to the paucity of multi-locus sequence typing studies and the lack of sequence data from type specimens in public repositories, stalling robust phylogenetic reconstructions. …”
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Music Engineering as a Novel Strategy for Enhancing Music Enjoyment in the Cochlear Implant Recipient by Gavriel D. Kohlberg, Dean M. Mancuso, Divya A. Chari, Anil K. Lalwani

“…Normal hearing (NH) adults (N=16) and CI listeners (N=9) evaluated a piece of country music on three enjoyment modalities: pleasantness, musicality, and naturalness. Participants listened to the original version along with 20 modified, less complex, versions created by including subsets of the musical instruments from the original song. …”
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Ecological Conscience and Peace in the Social Doctrine of the Church by Fabio Caporali

“…Innovative conceptual terms, like natural capital, biosphere, noosphere, anthropocene, ecosystem services, sustainability, integral ecology, ecological spirituality and ecological conversion are recognised as typical eco-linguistic emergences arisen within a context of holistic framing of reality. …”
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Acetylation Modification Improves Immunoregulatory Effect of Polysaccharide from Seeds of Plantago asiatica L. by Le-Ming Jiang, Shao-Ping Nie, Dan-Fei Huang, Zhi-Hong Fu, Ming-Yong Xie

“…The current study was conducted to investigate effects of acetylated Plantago asiatica L. polysaccharides (Ac-PLCPs) on their immunoregulatory activities in bone-marrow-derived dendritic cells (DCs) model. Influences of natural Plantago asiatica L. crude polysaccharide (PLCP) and Ac-PLCPs on inducing phenotypic and functional maturation on DCs were determined. …”
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Cathelicidins: Opportunities and Challenges in Skin Therapeutics and Clinical Translation by Lenka Dzurová, Edita Holásková, Hana Pospíšilová, Gabriela Schneider Rauber, Jitka Frébortová

“…Produced by immune and epithelial cells, they serve as natural defenses against a wide range of pathogens, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi. …”
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Valores intangibles del paisaje: alternativas de planificación territorial en bordes metropolitanos de tierras secas (Mendoza, Argentina) by María Marta Tonda, Javier Martín Uceda

“… Las ciudades latinoamericanas crecen hacia las periferias, fragmentando el conector con su contexto natural. Un caso representativo es el área metropolitana de Mendoza (Argentina), con más del 60 % de la población provincial. …”
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Random Mutagenesis of the Aspergillus oryzae Genome Results in Fungal Antibacterial Activity by Cory A. Leonard, Stacy D. Brown, J. Russell Hayman

“…Development of new drugs to combat resistant microorganisms is needed. Natural products of microbial origin are the source of most currently available antibiotics. …”
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The role of agritourism in the development of regions by Gasimova Gunay, Mustafayev Telman, Gasimov Isa

“…Agritourism is a sector that offers visitors an agricultural experience and transforms rural areas into tourist destinations. Natural beauty, traditional agricultural practices and local culture are key elements of agritourism. …”
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Efektivitas Larva Black Soldier Fly (Maggot) dalam Pengomposan Sampah Dapur dan Pemanfaatannya sebagai Buku Petunjuk Praktikum IPA SMP by Ika Lia Novenda, Rohmah Jwita Sari, Erlia Narulita

“…Composting organic waste in a natural way takes 3-4 months, thus composting needs to use an effective decomposer to speed up composting, one of which is with the help of Black Soldier Fly (BSF). …”
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Effect of deep mixed column pattern on the performance of basal reinforced embankment resting on soft soil by Sujata Fulambarkar, Bappaditya Manna, J.T. Shahu

“…The deep mixing method (DMM) a soil solidification technique, involves mechanically blending the natural soft soil with a binder to create stiffer soil columns or panel walls, enhancing stability in soft ground areas. …”
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The Role of Sulfatides in Liver Health and Disease by Lin Chen, Montserrat Elizalde, Gloria Alvarez-Sola

“…Sulfatides are self-lipid antigens presented by cholangiocytes to activate cluster of differentiation 1d (CD1d)-restricted type II natural killer T (NKT) cells. These cells are involved in alcohol-related liver disease (ArLD) and ischemic liver injury and exert anti-inflammatory effects by regulating the activity of pro-inflammatory type I NKT cells. …”
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Beyond buttons: repurposing of casein-based materials in education and industry—a review by Carlo Santulli

“…In general, studies conducted on casein materials have shown considerable promise to replace the use of oil-based plastics or to serve as the matrix for natural fiber composites.…”
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EFT of interacting spin-2 fields by Lasma Alberte, Claudia de Rham, Arshia Momeni, Justinas Rumbutis, Andrew J. Tolley

“…Nevertheless both formulations can be used to consistently describe an EFT of interacting massive spin-2 fields which, for a suitable technically natural tuning of the EFT, have the same strong coupling scale Λ3. …”
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Lugares amados, lugares sombra: éticas y estéticas en tiempos de transición by María Cecilia Roa García, Alejandro Quecedo del Val, Nils Lagrève, Ana Manuela Amaya Morales

“…These towns, disconnected from the national energy grid, have maintained close relationships with natural energy sources—such as the sun, wind, water, and food—despite the lifestyle changes brought by the use of fossil fuels. …”
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Aerobe Fermentation Enhanced Antioxidant Activity Index of Citrus limon Leaves by Santi Herlina, Arif Setiawansyah, Nurul Hidayati

“…The chemical composition and antioxidant activity of a natural product are directly correlated with the preparation process which can alter certain enzymatic pathways, leading to the alteration of the production of secondary metabolites affecting its biological activity. …”
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Humic Acid Removal from Aqueous Environments by Electrocoagulation Process Using Iron Electrodes by Edris Bazrafshan, Hamed Biglari, Amir Hossein Mahvi

“…The maximum efficiency of HA removal which was obtained in voltage of 50 V, reaction time of 75 min, initial concentration 20 mg L-1, conductivity 3000 µS/Cm and pH 5, is equal to 92.69%. But for natural water samples at the same optimum condition removal efficiency was low (68.8 %). …”
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Flexural Behavior of Corroded Reinforced Recycled Aggregate Concrete Beams by Taoping Ye, Wanlin Cao, Yixuan Zhang, Zhengwen Yang

“…The experimental research presented in this paper was performed to investigate the flexural behavior of corroded reinforced RAC beams compared to that of corroded reinforced natural aggregate concrete (NAC) beams and consequently explore the possibility of using RAC beams in corrosive environments. …”
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QTFN: A General End-to-End Time-Frequency Network to Reveal the Time-Varying Signatures of the Time Series by Tao Chen, Yang Jiao, Lei Xie, Hongye Su

“…Nonstationary time series are ubiquitous in almost all natural and engineering systems. Capturing the time-varying signatures from nonstationary time series is still a challenging problem for data mining. …”
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