Organophosphate esters inhibit enzymatic proteolysis through non-covalent interactions by Zeming Wang, Wei Zhang, Xiaojie Hu, Yanzheng Gao

“…Enzymatic proteolysis is the key process to produce bioavailable nitrogen in natural terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems for microorganisms and plants. …”
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The development of chemical approaches to fossil hominin ecology in South Africa by Julia Lee-Thorp, Matt Sponheimer

“…They include a unique natural and fossil heritage, investment in scientific infrastructure and researchers well-versed in cross-disciplinary science. …”
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A Refractive Index-Based Dual-Band Metamaterial Sensor Design and Analysis for Biomedical Sensing Applications by Lakshmi Darsi, Goutam Rana

“…An MM is a material engineered to have a particular property that is rarely observed in naturally occurring materials with an aperiodic subwavelength arrangement. …”
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Leveraging a time-series event separation method to disentangle time-varying hydrologic controls on streamflow – application to wildfire-affected catchments by H. A. Canham, B. Lane, C. B. Phillips, B. P. Murphy

“…<p>Increasing watershed disturbance regimes, such as from wildfire, are a growing concern for natural resource managers. However, the influence of watershed disturbances on event-scale rainfall–runoff patterns has proved challenging to disentangle from other hydrologic controls. …”
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Cormac McCarthy’s The Road : Rewriting the Myth of the American West by Aitor Ibarrola-Armendariz

“…In spite of his deadpan naturalism and rather laconic language use, the author manages to keep his readers on their toes thanks to the novel’s much accomplished suspense concerning the fate of the two protagonists. …”
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PENGGUNAAN BAP DAN TDZ UNTUK PERBANYAKAN TANAMAN GAHARU (Aquilaria malaccensis Lamk.) by Azwin Azwin

“…The increase of agarwood demand from year to year leads to uncontrolled illegal harvest of this plant from its natural habitat. To encounter this problem, there is an urgent need to develop agarwood plantation. …”
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Short-Term Exercise Approaches on Menopausal Symptoms, Psychological Health, and Quality of Life in Postmenopausal Women by Ayşegül Ağıl, Faruk Abıke, Arzu Daşkapan, Rıdvan Alaca, Handan Tüzün

“…The women aged 45–60 years and experiencing menopause naturally were included in the study. They were randomly divided into aerobic (𝑛=18) and resistance (𝑛=18) exercise groups. …”
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Unlocking the potential of sepiolite: Designing high-performance energy storage materials by Yanhuai Ding, Yizhi Jiang, Dongzhao Jin, Yunhong Jiang, Ana C.S. Alcântara

“…This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the applications of natural fibrous magnesium silicate mineral-sepiolite and its composites in energy storage and conversion, focusing particularly on lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), lithium-sulfur batteries (LSBs), zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs), and fuel cells. …”
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Evaluation of fertilization strategies for the establishment and productivity of Xaraés grass by N. M. Lage Filho, A. R. Lopes, D. F. Araújo, V. H. M. Macedo, C. Faturi, T. C. Silva, A. C. Rêgo, W. L. Silva, F. N. Domingues

“…In the first, three establishment fertilization strategies were tested (strategy 1: without lime/NPK; strategy 2: lime + NPK; strategy 3: natural reactive phosphate), with six replications. …”
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Predicting Depression: a comparative study of machine learning approaches based on language usage. by Luciana Mariñelarena-Dondena, Edgardo Ferretti, Manolis Maragoudakis, Maximiliano Sapino, Marcelo Luis Errecalde

“…Por tal motivo, existe un creciente interés en la aplicación de técnicas de procesamiento del lenguaje natural para predecir la depresión. En este trabajo se presenta un estudio comparativo de diferentes métodos de aprendizaje automático como así también distintas maneras de representación de los documentos con el fin de detectar automáticamente a aquellos usuarios de medios sociales que manifestaron haber sido diagnosticados previamente con depresión. …”
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Effect of storage temperature with vacuum packaging on physicochemical stability of Ulva ohnoi by Wiraz Wicaksana Azwar Naval, Ramadhan Wahyu, Dyah Hardiningtyas Safrina, Fariz Pari Rizfi, Uju

“…Green seaweeds, such as Ulva, are largely untapped by the processing industry despite their abundance and potential natural pigment sources. Ulva undergoes rapid color deterioration in tropical climates, indicating pigment degradation and quality loss. …”
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Detection of Bovine IgG Isotypes in a PPA-ELISA for Johne's Disease Diagnosis in Infected Herds by Bárbara Fernández, Liliana Rosa Gilardoni, Ana Jolly, Silvia Beatriz Colavecchia, Fernando Alberto Paolicchi, Silvia Leonor Mundo

“…The aim of this work was to evaluate the performance of detection of IgG isotypes in a PPA-ELISA to improve the recognition of cattle naturally infected with Map in different stages. A total of 108 animals from Tuberculosis-free herds were grouped as follows: exposed (n=30), subclinically infected (n=26), clinically infected (n=14), and healthy controls (n=38). …”
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FACTORS AFFECTING LISTENING ANXIETY OF SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ENGLISH CLASSROOM by Khairani Ade Guswita, Sugirin Sugirin

“…In the process of listening, anxiety is a natural response that occurs to students who can divert the listening process. …”
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Aonchotheca annulosa and Aonchotheca murissylvatici, which is which? A reappraisal of the gastrointestinal Aonchotheca (Nematoda: Capillariidae) species common in wood mice and ban... by Jerzy M. Behnke, Joseph A. Jackson

“…Wood mice (Apodemus sylvaticus) and bank voles (Myodes glareolus) are often employed as natural study models in infectious disease ecology. …”
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Investigation of Growth Performance, Proximate and Fatty Acid Composition of Freshwater (Euglena gracilis, Chlorella vulgaris) and Marine (Pavlova lutheri, Diacronema vlkanium) Mic... by Kamil Mert Eryalçın, Merve Sayar

“…This work is focused on investigating the nutrient compositions, growth, and fatty acid composition of Chlorella vulgaris, Euglena gracilis, Pavlova lutheri, and Diacronema vlkanium, which are natural diets of bivalve, crustaceans, live prey such as rotifer, copepods, daphnia and feed ingredients in aquaculture nutrition. …”
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Novel defense based on softmax activation transformation by Jinyin CHEN, Changan WU, Haibin ZHENG

“…Deep learning is widely used in various fields such as image processing, natural language processing, network mining and so on.However, it is vulnerable to malicious adversarial attacks and many defensive methods have been proposed accordingly.Most defense methods are attack-dependent and require defenders to generate massive adversarial examples in advance.The defense cost is high and it is difficult to resist black-box attacks.Some of these defenses even affect the recognition of normal examples.In addition, the current defense methods are mostly empirical, without certifiable theoretical support.Softmax activation transformation (SAT) was proposed in this paper, which was a light-weight and fast defense scheme against black-box attacks.SAT reactivates the output probability of the target model in the testing phase, and then it guarantees privacy of the probability information.As an attack-free defense, SAT not only avoids the burden of generating massive adversarial examples, but also realizes the advance defense of attacks.The activation of SAT is monotonic, so it will not affect the recognition of normal examples.During the activation process, a variable privacy protection transformation coefficient was designed to achieve dynamic defense.Above all, SAT is a certifiable defense that can derive the effectiveness and reliability of its defense based on softmax activation transformation.To evaluate the effectiveness of SAT, defense experiments against 9 attacks on MNIST, CIFAR10 and ImageNet datasets were conducted, and the average attack success rate was reduced from 87.06% to 5.94%.…”
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Discussing the Effects of Climate Change and Urbanization through Flood Disaster in Riverside Settlements by Zeynep Özdemir, Merve Özkaynak Yolcu

“…Factors such as increased rainfall due to climate change, destruction of agricultural lands and forest areas, infrastructure deficiencies, unpreparedness of settlements for natural disasters, wrong positioning and unplanned construction are effective in the occurrence of flood disasters. …”
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Pangenome mining of the Streptomyces genus redefines species’ biosynthetic potential by Omkar S. Mohite, Tue S. Jørgensen, Thomas J. Booth, Pep Charusanti, Patrick V. Phaneuf, Tilmann Weber, Bernhard O. Palsson

“…Several thousand complete or nearly complete Streptomyces genome sequences are now available, affording the opportunity to deeply investigate the biosynthetic potential within these organisms and to advance natural product discovery initiatives. Results We perform pangenome analysis on 2371 Streptomyces genomes, including approximately 1200 complete assemblies. …”
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Effect of digital elevation model’s resolution in producing flood hazard maps by J.L. Ogania, G.R. Puno, M.B.T. Alivio, J.M.G. Taylaran

“…Flooding is one of the most devastating natural disasters occurring annually in the Philippines. …”
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Effects of Temperature and Extraguild Prey Density on Intraguild Predation of <i>Coccinella septempunctata</i> and <i>Harmonia axyridis</i> by Xia Wen, Guizhen Gao

“…Intraguild predation (IGP) is prevalent among natural enemies that coexist in shared habitats and prey upon the same extraguild prey. …”
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