An Ethnobotanical Survey of Indigenous Knowledge on Medicinal Plants Used by Communities to Treat Various Diseases around Ensaro District, North Shewa Zone of Amhara Regional State... by Mikias Teshome, Firew Kebede, Tamene Yohannes

“…A total of 100 informants were sampled from four study sites, and questionnaire surveys, semistructured interviews, ranking, and transect walk techniques were employed for data collection in midland, lowland, and highland agroecology and natural forests, riverine forests, and farmlands. …”
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Three-stage automatic operational modal analysis using mathematical mode elimination by density-based clustering method by A. Salar Mehrabad, A. Shooshtari

“…Modal parameters are a structure's natural frequencies, mode shapes, and damping ratios. …”
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TRPV4 modulates inflammatory responses and apoptosis in enteric glial cells triggered by Clostridioides difficile toxins A and B by Dvison de Melo Pacífico, Deiziane Viana da Silva Costa, Maria Lucianny Lima Barbosa, Conceição Silva Martins Rebouças, Simone de Goes Simonato, Cirle Alcantara Warren, Maria Luana Gaudencio dos Santos Morais, Renata Ferreira de Carvalho Leitao, Gerly Anne de Castro Brito

“…Findings reveal that EGCs naturally express TRPV4, increasing its expression by TcdA and TcdB exposure. …”
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African Activism Through Pugwash by Nola Dippenaar, Joelien Pretorius

“… The Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs grew from the Russell-Einstein Manifesto initiative in 1955 to become an amorphously structured transnational movement of natural and social scientists with a primary focus on the dangers of nuclear weapons. …”
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Extending the Shelf Life of Apples After Harvest Using Edible Coatings as Active Packaging—A Review by Magdalena Mikus, Sabina Galus

“…There has been growing attention to protective edible coatings or active packaging films based on biopolymers and natural bioactive substances. Edible coatings and films allow for combination with functional ingredients or compounds, affecting the maintenance of the postharvest quality of fruits and vegetables. …”
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Land Reforms in Post-Socialist Mountain Regions and their Impact on Land Use Management: a Case Study from the Caucasus by Alexey Gunya

“…Along with the political factors – such as the level of centralisation and economic liberalisation – that have led to differences in the pace of land reforms, local natural and cultural conditions and communities play an important role. …”
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Phenolic Profile, Sugar Composition, and Antioxidant Capacities of Some Common Date Palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) Cultivars as a Potential Nutraceutical and Functional Food Ingredi... by Imen Bettaieb, Ahlem Kilani, Khadija Ben Othman, Mohamed Ali Benabderrahim, Walid Elfalleh

“…These findings highlight the high potential of neglected date palm varieties and confirm their richness with nutraceuticals and natural antioxidants.…”
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Association of polymorphism <i>TP53</i> Arg72Pro with radon-induced lung cancer in the Kazakh population by O. Bulgakova, A. Kussainova, A. Kakabayev, А. Kausbekova, R. Bersimbaev

“…According to the experts, the contribution of natural sources to the average annual radiation dose of the Kazakh population currently stands at 80 %, including 50 % from radon. …”
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Long-Term Trends and Ecological Risks of Heavy Metal Accumulation in Cultivated Land of Songnen Plain, China by Zonglai Liu, Jinying Li, Yanan Chen, Fengjun Zhang, Wei Feng

“…Zn and As are likely associated with agricultural practices, and Mn predominantly stems from natural environmental sources. The geo-accumulation index suggests relatively high, accumulation levels for Zn, Cu, Mn, and Pb. …”
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Micro CT evaluation of marginal discrepancies of endocrown restored molars with different intrapulpal depths and materials of fabrication. (in-vitro study) by Mohamed Aly Mohamed Badr Elagwany, Amina Mohamed Hamdy, Maged Mohamed Zohdy, Aliaa Mahrous, Ahmed Tawfik, Soha Osama Nabih

“…Materials and methods Sixty mandibular natural molars were collected as abutments for the restorations of this study, and grouped in three main groups of different cavity depths (0, 2 and 4). …”
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The presence of risk factors in the home environment that influences the fall of people of the third age by Ratko Zlatičanin, Amila Jaganjac, Arzija Pašalić, Amra Mačak Hadžiomerović

“… Introduction: Aging is a natural, irreversible physiological process that depends on genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors. …”
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Picking interstitial lung disease out of the myositis haystack by Jennifer Hannah, Harsha Gunawardena

“…Although patients may be diagnosed as having polymyositis (PM) or dermatomyositis (DM) under the IIM spectrum, it is quite clear that risk, pattern of ILD and disease course between subgroups of patients is different. The natural history may be asymptomatic and slowly progressive or stable, chronically progressive or fulminant rapidly progressive depending on ILD subtype. …”
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Heterogeneity of Clostridioides difficile asymptomatic colonization prevalence: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Daniel De-la-Rosa-Martínez, Rodrigo Villaseñor-Echavarri, Diana Vilar-Compte, Virna Mosqueda-Larrauri, Paola Zinser-Peniche, Seth Blumberg

“…This highlights the need to identify high-risk groups to improve infection control strategies, decrease transmission dynamics, and better understand the natural history of this disease.…”
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Research on the Impact of Coastal Land Reclamation on Geomorphic Complexity and Tidal Energy Dissipation—A Case Study of Zhoushan Islands, Hangzhou Bay by Shixia Zhang, Qiankun Hong, Huifang Guo

“…However, large‐scale coastal reclamation changes the natural landscape properties of sea areas, triggering alterations in the surrounding hydrodynamic and ecological environments. …”
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LE « SICKNESS COUNTRY » (PARC DE KAKADU, AUSTRALIE): ENTRE MYTHE, RÉALITÉ ET MISE EN VALEUR TOURISTIQUE by ERIC FOUACHE, CÉCILE FOUACHE, CHRISTINE SYREN

“…So, when it comes to protected natural sites, the problem is to make a decision between using information, or upholding the traditional representation to boost tourism.…”
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Peculiarities of the examination of citrus fruits (mandarins) during the forensic examination by M. V. Harbuz, L. Yu. Ulybina

“…Systematization of information data on characteristic defects of citrus fruits (tangerines), namely: rot, mold, mechanical damage, weak skin color, increased acidity, defects in shape or size (identified defects are of natural origin) is presented. Defects that are characteristic of low-quality products with signs of deterioration: rot, mold, mechanical damage, signs of drying or desiccation, heterogeneity in color and texture. …”
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Continuous Sign Language Recognition With Multi-Scale Spatial-Temporal Feature Enhancement by Zhen Wang, Dongyuan Li, Renhe Jiang, Manabu Okumura

“…Continuous Sign Language Recognition (CSLR) seeks to interpret the gestures used by people who are hard of hearing-mute individuals and translate them into natural language, thereby enhancing communication and interaction. …”
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SVR model and OLCI images reveal a declining trend in phycocyanin levels in typical lakes across Northeast China by Changchun Song, Yipei Xu, Chong Fang, Chi Zhang, Zhuohang Xin, Zhihong Liu

“…The contribution rates of natural and anthropogenic factors were determined using spatiotemporal data on PC concentrations from 2016 to 2022 and redundancy analysis. …”
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Trypsin inhibitor activity in representatives of the genus Hedysarum (Fabaceae): the polyvariance of seasonal dynamics in Southern Siberia by E. V. Zhmud, N. S. Zinner, O. V. Dorogina

“…The studies were conducted with H. theinum in 2010 under natural conditions (Altai Republic) and in cultivation (forest zone of Western Siberia). …”
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Ad Hoc Data Foraging in a Life Sciences Community Ecosystem Using SoDa by Kallol Naha, Hasan M. Jamil

“…SoDa helps biologists to discover resources based on analysis requirements and generate resource access plans, as well as storing cleaned data and knowledge for community use. SoDa includes a natural language-powered resource discovery tool, a tool to retrieve data from remote databases, organize and store collected data, query stored data, and seek help from the community when things do not work as anticipated. …”
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