4-H Florida-Friendly Landscaping™ Workbook by John Pipoly, Angelina Toomey, Sarah Hensley, Esen Momol, Jennifer W. Marvin, Kelly Perez

“… Florida-Friendly LandscapingTM (FFL) protects natural resources through water conservation, waste and nonpoint source pollution reduction, erosion prevention, and creation of wildlife-sustaining habitats by implementing science-based landscaping practices. 4-H Florida-Friendly LandscapingTM Curriculum fosters environmental stewardship among youth and allows them to engage in conserving water, soil, and vegetation resources from an early age. …”
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Jute mills as restorative landscapes: perceptions of environmental aesthetics in living industrial heritage by Abantika Mukherjee, Haimanti Banerji

“…Apart from creating a historic industrial landscape, the elements within each of the heritage jute mills contain aesthetically significant built and natural elements. Urban regeneration proposals for these sites are receiving attention from the stakeholders, where the concept of restorative landscapes may be incorporated. …”
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Analysis and Control of Abnormal Vibration of End Wall on High-Speed Electric Multiple Units by Dan Wang

“…The results show that when the train is running at a high speed, the aerodynamic excitation of the windshield cavity outside the body end wall acts on the end wall, arousing the first-order bending natural frequency of the body end wall, resulting in resonance of the body end wall, and then causing abnormal vibration and noise in the body end wall area. …”
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Multiplex Evaluation of Influenza Neutralizing Antibodies with Potential Applicability to In-Field Serological Studies by Eleonora Molesti, Edward Wright, Calogero Terregino, Rafat Rahman, Giovanni Cattoli, Nigel J. Temperton

“…Sera obtained from chickens vaccinated with a monovalent H5N2 vaccine, chickens vaccinated with a bivalent H7N1/H5N9 vaccine, or turkeys naturally infected with an H7N3 virus were evaluated in this assay and the results correlated strongly with data obtained by HI assay. …”
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Studying the Relationship Between Coal Consumption and Health of Rural Residents: Evidence from China by Zi Cao, Jie Wei, Hang Fan, Jun Liu

“…The empirical results of this study suggest that the gradual promotion of clean energy replacement of coal with electricity and natural gas in rural areas should reduce the probability of exposure to gas emitted from coal combustion for rural residents. …”
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Experimental Study on Performance Influencing Factors and Reasonable Mixture Ratio of Desert Sand Ceramsite Lightweight Aggregate Concrete by Songlin Zhang, Kang Yuan, Jiaming Zhang, Junlin Guo

“…The utilization of desert sand for making ceramsite lightweight aggregate concrete is proposed to make full use of local natural resources in the development of a new type of lightweight and load-bearing wall material with good energy conservation, waste utilization, and thermal insulation performances. …”
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Aortic Blunt Trauma Analysis during a Frontal Impact by Mario Alberto Grave-Capistrán, Arturo Yishai Prieto-Vázquez, Christopher René Torres-SanMiguel

“…In addition, displacement nodes were considered to establish a natural behavior of the artery. The outcomes show significant displacements in the artery wall. …”
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Metabolic Basis for Thyroid Hormone Liver Preconditioning: Upregulation of AMP-Activated Protein Kinase Signaling by Luis A. Videla, Virginia Fernández, Pamela Cornejo, Romina Vargas

“…This is achieved by mechanisms involving direct allosteric activation and reversible phosphorylation of AMPK, in response to signals such as energy status, serum insulin/glucagon ratio, nutritional stresses, pharmacological and natural compounds, and oxidative stress status. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) lead to cellular AMPK activation and downstream signaling under several experimental conditions. …”
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Preparation and characterization of flax, hemp and sisal fiber-derived mesoporous activated carbon adsorbents by Melike Dizbay-Onat, Uday K Vaidya, Jo Anne G Balanay, Claudiu T Lungu

“…The second aim was to compare bast and leaf fibers-derived activated carbon adsorbents by determining physical adsorption properties, chemical compositions, scanning electron microscope, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. Results showed that natural fibers have good candidates to prepare mesoporous activated carbon adsorbents with high surface area (1186–1359 m 2 /g), high mesopore percentage (60–72%), and high C content (80–86%). …”
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The Antimicrobial Effect of Pomegranate Peel Extract versus Chlorhexidine in High Caries Risk Individuals Using Quantitative Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction: A Randomized Tripl... by Benoy Jacob, Nivedhitha Malli Sureshbabu, Manish Ranjan, Aishwarya Ranganath, Riluwan Siddique

“…., baseline and 4 weeks (p=0.043). PPE oral rinse as a natural product or ecological alternative was effective in disrupting activity across all microorganisms tested in this triple-blind RCT; however, the nutraceutical, when compared to chlorhexidine, was not as effective against S. mutans.…”
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Modified water balance model for groundwater recharge estimations using cloud integration by Arup Kumar Das, Saurabh Kumar Gupta, Suraj Kumar Singh, Pradeep Kumar Rawat, Shruti Kanga

“…This is conspicuous over areas like West Bengal, India, which face natural and manmade water resource challenges. This particular study aims at improving the estimation of groundwater recharge using the Modified Water Balance Model (MWBM), which has been integrated with Google Earth Engine (GEE) and high-resolution remote sensing data here in application for groundwater. …”
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Overcoming beta-lactam resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by targeting metallo-beta-lactamase VIM-1: a one-microsecond molecular dynamics simulation study by Mohammed Salleh M. Ardawi, Samar A. Badreddine, Muhammad Yasir, Muhammad Yasir, Aiah M. Khateb, Aiah M. Khateb, Safaa A. Turkistani, Ahmed Afandi, Samah O. Noor, Adhari Alselmi, Adhari Alselmi, Vivek Dhar Dwivedi, Vivek Dhar Dwivedi, Esam I. Azhar, Esam I. Azhar

“…Extensive screening of natural compounds from the COCONUT database was performed to identify the structural analogs of the existing inhibitor of the MBL-VIM-1 protein. …”
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Amur Softshell Turtle (<i>Pelodiscus maackii</i>) Population Size, Structure, and Spatial Distribution by Xiaochen Hou, Haitao Shi

“…Additionally, we explored the influence of environmental variables on turtle distribution by dividing the surveyed sites into seven sections based on their natural characteristics. The ASTs distribution inferred from trapping successes was considerably different among sections, with most turtles (91%) captured at the vegetated shoreline and in water channel 2. …”
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Hot or not? Modulating the functionality of artificial casein micelles with the preparation temperature by Laurens J. Antuma, Yuxuan Si, Vasil M. Garamus, Jan Skov Pedersen, Volker Gräf, Elke Walz, Remko M. Boom, Julia K. Keppler

“…However, casein micelles naturally form under physiological conditions with little variation, rendering it difficult to study how temperature and other factors affect their assembly. …”
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The Study of Environmental Risk Role (Factors) on the Economy of Urban Communities, Case Study: Ahwaz City by sara behvandi, mohammad reza zandmoghadam, abbas arghan, zeinab kekehabadi

“…Today, the huge economic damage of natural hazards, especially of the micro-organisms, to human societies has led the concept of economic sustainability to mitigate the effects of crises to become an important area in crisis management. …”
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MonoMax Suture: A New Long-Term Absorbable Monofilament Suture Made from Poly-4-Hydroxybutyrate by Erich K. Odermatt, Lutz Funk, Rainer Bargon, David P. Martin, Said Rizk, Simon F. Williams

“…A long-term absorbable monofilament suture was developed using poly-4-hydroxybutyrate (P4HB) made from a biosynthetically produced homopolymer of the natural metabolite 4-hydroxybutyrate. The suture, called MonoMax, has prolonged strength retention. …”
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Sensitivity Analysis and Numerical Simulation Study on Main Controlling Factors of Surface Movement and Deformation in Strip Filling Mining under Thick Unconsolidated Layers by Dequan Sun, Quanlin Wu, Xiaoyan Li, Zhaomin Zhang, Xiaotian Xu, Yang Li, Quansen Wu

“…With the passage of time, the natural weathering, flow, and fracture of some coal pillars may lead to the instability and failure of some coal pillars. …”
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Controlling Underwater Robots with Electronic Nervous Systems by Joseph Ayers, Nikolai Rulkov, Dan Knudsen, Yong-Bin Kim, Alexander Volkovskii, Allen Selverston

“…The goal is to realise the adaptive capabilities of the animal models in natural environments. We report feasibility studies of a hybrid architecture that instantiates a command and coordinating level with computed discrete-time map-based (DTM) neuronal networks and the central pattern generators with analogue VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) electronic neuron (aVLSI) networks. …”
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Research progress of GLP-1RAs in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus by Xu He, Xu He, Xu He, Wei Zhao, Wei Zhao, PeiHang Li, PeiHang Li, YinJiang Zhang, YinJiang Zhang, GuoHua Li, HongYu Su, BiNan Lu, BiNan Lu, ZongRan Pang, ZongRan Pang

“…Because of its structural difference from natural GLP-1, it is not easy to be degraded by dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4), thus prolonging the action time. …”
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L’émergence d’une forme de nanopunk au Japon : Gunnm (Ganmu 銃夢) de Kishiro Yukito by Denis Taillandier

“…Building on semiotics and the Greimas square to unravel the symbolic structure of the manga, it shows that Ganmu is articulated around two polarities : between natural and artefactual on the one hand, and between matter and mind on the other. …”
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