Allelopathic effects of six alfalfa varieties at three stubbles on the germination, seedling and root growth of green foxtail and barnyardgrass. by Meixuan Li, Xiaohan Gai, Qian Bai, Fanru Xu, Shipu Cheng, Fuhong Miao, Qingwei Liang, Juan Sun, Yufang Xu

“…The study may help to comprehensively reveal the allelopathic effect of different alfalfa varieties in the first three stubbles on green foxtail and barnyardgrass, providing scientific evidence for weed control based on natural plant extracts in the future.…”
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Imperialismo, ambigüedad y liberación. Sobre la construcción de la identidad política en Las aventuras de la China Iron (2017), de Gabriela Cabezón Cámara by Andrea Durán Rebollo

“…En consecuencia, la liberación, conseguida tanto de forma individual como colectiva, se ejercerá mediante la asunción de la ambigüedad, cuyo significado se despliega en un paraje recobrado, natural y utópico. …”
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PhyIndBC: Development of a machine learning tool for screening of potential breast cancer inhibitors from phytochemicalsGitHub by Agneesh Pratim Das, Subhash M. Agarwal

“…Further, to predict potential breast cancer inhibitors, ADMET adherent Natural Products (NPs) of plant origin (identified from the COCONUT database) were screened using the developed ML model. …”
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Azospirillum brasilense and organomineral fertilizer co-inoculated with Bradyrhizobium japonicumon oxidative stress in soybean by Fernanda Barros, Reginaldo de Camargo, Regina Maria Lana, Miguel Henrique Franco, Mayara Cristiana Stanger, Vanderley José Pereira, Ernane Lemes

“…Purpose Nitrogen-fixing bacteria (NFB) are essential for biologically fixing nitrogen in natural and soybean crop systems. The use of organomineral fertilizers is a promising crop management tool made from the mixing of an organic source and mineral fertilizers. …”
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Assessing the ecological resilience of Ebola virus in Africa and potential influencing factors based on a synthesized model. by Li Shen, Jiawei Song, Yibo Zhou, Xiaojie Yuan, Samuel Seery, Ting Fu, Xihao Liu, Yihong Liu, Zhongjun Shao, Rui Li, Kun Liu

“…This study quantitatively explores the ecological adaptability of Ebola virus and its response to different potential natural and anthropogenic factors from a spatiotemporal perspective.…”
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Resveratrol Induces Differentiation of Human Umbilical Cord Mesenchymal Stem Cells into Neuron-Like Cells by Li Guo, Liang Wang, Li Wang, Shi Yun-peng, Jing-jing Zhou, Zongmao Zhao, De-Pei Li

“…Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells (hUC-MSCs) potentially differentiate to various types of cells including neuron-like cells. The natural polyphenol resveratrol benefits patients with many diseases including ischemic brain injury. …”
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Seed quality of Aristolochia macrophylla Lam. and A. manshuriensis Kom. in St. Petersburg by K. G. Tkachenko, G. A. Firsov, A. V. Volchanskaya

“…The study and mobilization of natural flora species in botanical gardens allow the curators to save biological resources of useful plant species, and recommend them for urban landscaping. …”
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The Economics of Immortality: The Demi-Immortal Oriental, Enlightenment Vitalism, and Political Economy in Dracula by J. Jeffrey Franklin

“…In Halberstam’s terms, two of the monsters that late-Victorian ideologies wanted to disavow were any form of immortality other than the traditional Christian one and any form of economics other than Adam Smith’s naturally free circulation and exchange. Two monstrous alternatives—demi-immortality and an archaic economy of gold and land—are wedded in/as Dracula. …”
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Intra- and interspecific variability of <i>Mentha arvensis</i> L. and <i>M. Canadensis</i> L. by M. V. Semenova, O. L. Enina, O. V. Shelepova

“…Plants collected in the natural flora of the Russian Far East showed a greater resemblance in essential oil composition and ISSR markers to the European group of M. arvensis than to plants from Indochina, which, according to the data obtained, belonged to M. сanadensis. …”
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Behavior of Low Grade Steel Fiber Reinforced Concrete Made with Fresh and Recycled Brick Aggregates by Md. Shariful Islam, Mohammad Al Amin Siddique

“…In recent years, recycled aggregates from construction and demolition waste (CDW) have been widely accepted in construction sectors as the replacement of coarse aggregate in order to minimize the excessive use of natural resources. In this paper, an experimental investigation is carried out to observe the influence of low grade steel fiber reinforcements on the stress-strain behavior of concrete made with recycled and fresh brick aggregates. …”
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Study on Spatial-temporal Characteristics of Drought Duration and Intensity in Leizhou Peninsula in Recent 50 Years by DU Xiaoxia, TU Xinjun, XIE Yuting, WANG Tian

“…In the background of global warming,drought disasters occur frequently,bringing serious impacts on the natural ecosystem,human production and life and social &amp; economic development.Therefore,it is of great significance to analyze and assess regional drought characteristics and study local drought mitigation and disaster reduction decisions and climate change.Based on the meteorological and hydrological data of 12 sites in Leizhou Peninsula from 1970 to 2019,this paper identifies and evaluates the drought events via standardised precipitation-evapotranspiration index (SPEI) and run theory,and analyzes the temporal and spatial variation characteristics of drought duration and intensity in Leizhou Peninsula in recent 50 years combined with curve fitting method,inverse distance weighted spatial interpolation,etc.The results show that:①The monthly SPEI index of the Leizhou Peninsula in recent 50 years showed a decreasing trend in fluctuation.On the time scale of the recent 50 years,it fluctuated with a period of about 10 years,which is related to the influence of ENSO.The SPEI is relatively high in cold event years,on the contrary,in warm event years,the SPEI is low and the drought is serious.②The greater the intensity of drought disaster in Leizhou Peninsula,the smaller the probability.③Due to regional difference,the spatial distribution of drought frequency,intensity and duration showed a gradually increase trend from the northeast to the southwest.④The regional difference of the occurrence frequency of drought of different grades showed that the frequency of moderate drought and above in the central and southern and northeastern regions of Leizhou Peninsula was higher than that in the central and northern regions.In addition,the drought in the southern part of Leizhou and Xuwen County was severe.⑤Droughts occur frequently in spring and winter.In spring and summer,the drought in the northeast and central-south part of the Leizhou Peninsula was more severe,the drought in autumn was more serious in the central-north part of the peninsula,and the drought in winter seriously affected the central-south part of the peninsula.…”
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Antibacterial Potential of Crude Extracts from <i>Cylindrospermum alatosporum</i> NR125682 and <i>Loriellopsis cavernicola</i> NR117881 by Albert Olufemi Ikhane, Foluso Oluwagbemiga Osunsanmi, Rebamang Anthony Mosa, Andrew Rowland Opoku

“…The challenges of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) to human health have pushed for the discovery of a new antibiotics agent from natural products. Cyanobacteria are oxygen-producing photosynthetic prokaryotes found in a variety of water habitats. …”
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Comparing predictive risk to actual presence of coronary atherosclerosis on coronary computed tomography angiography by Emma Playford, Simon Stewart, Gerard Hoyne, Geoff Strange, Girish Dwivedi, Christian Hamilton-Craig, Gemma Figtree, David Playford

“…Atherosclerosis was extracted using natural language processing of the CCTA report, including the coronary artery calcium score (CACS) and the extent and severity of CAD. …”
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Electrochemical Sensor Based on Co-MOF for the Detection of Dihydromyricetin in <i>Ampelopsis grossedentata</i> by Xiaojing Si, Yue Huang, Mei Han, Liqiang Luo

“…Dihydromyricetin (DMY), as the main active ingredient in <i>Ampelopsis grossedentata</i>, is a naturally occurring flavonoid that has attracted extensive attention for its multiple biological activities. …”
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How can urban expansion and ecological preservation be balanced? A simulation of the spatial dynamics of production-living-ecological spaces in the Huaihe River Eco-Economic Belt by Tonghui Yu, Shanshan Jia, Yu Zhang, Xufeng Cui

“…This disruption highlights the growing tensions between industrial expansion, residential development, and the preservation of natural habitats, thereby escalating environmental challenges in the region. …”
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Utilization of Sanitized Human Excreta and Wood Ash for Establishing Multipurpose <i>Ficus Thonningii</i> Blume in a Degraded Tantalum Technosol by D. Neina

“…Yet, these are indispensable in areas with a limited supply of organic materials and high demand for natural resources. This study evaluated the effects of HE and WA on the growth and establishment of Ficus thonningii Blume (ficus) in a pegmatite-rich tantalum Technosol. …”
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Determining the Amount of Earthquake Displacement Using Differential Synthetic Aperture Radar Interferometry (D-InSAR) and Satellite Images of Sentinel-1 A: A Case Study of Sarpol-... by Jacob Cherian

“…It’s important to determine displacement due to natural disasters such as earthquakes. So, it’s essential to identify height changes occurring on Earth due to these movements. …”
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Conservation of plant biodiversity by biotechnology methods by N. V. Romadanova, S. V. Kushnarenko

“…Several methods of plant preservation are currently used in the Republic of Kazakhstan: 1) field gene banks in natural growing areas and pomological collections; 2) preservation of seeds at +4°С, –18°С, and –196°С; 3) сold storage of in vitro shoots at +4°С and +10 ± 2°С; 4) cryopreservation of plant tissues and organs at –196°C; 5) preservation of plant DNA at –80°C.Ex situ field collections of plants in Kazakhstan are maintained in botanical gardens of the Republic, arboretums, pomological gardens, nurseries, peasant and farm enterprises, and personal plots. …”
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Free Radical Scavenging, Anti-Infectious, and Toxicity Activities from Stenochlaena palustris (Burm.f.) Bedd. Extracts by Rudi Hendra, Rohimatul Khodijah, Muhammad Almurdani, Yuli Haryani, Ari Satia Nugraha, Neni Frimayanti, Hilwan Yuda Teruna, Rizky Abdulah

“…Bedd is a promising source of natural antioxidants and antiplasmodial agents.…”
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Osteoblastic Differentiation and Mitigation of the Inflammatory Response in Titanium Alloys Decorated with Oligopeptides by Aroa Álvarez-López, Raquel Tabraue-Rubio, Rafael Daza, Luis Colchero, Gustavo V. Guinea, Martine Cohen-Solal, José Pérez-Rigueiro, Daniel González-Nieto

“…Critical-sized defects, exceeding the body’s natural healing ability, demand the use of temporary or permanent devices like artificial joints or bone substitutes. …”
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