Analysis of Asia-1 foot-and-mouth disease global spread in 1999–2019 by S. A. Kunikov, S. N. Fomina

“…In view of the close trade and economic relations between the Russian Federation and such Asia-Pacific countries as China, India, Japan and Republic of Korea, one should place greater focus on the risk of FMDV introduction into the Russian Federation from these countries. …”
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Diversity, Distribution, and Evolution of Bioluminescent Fungi by Brian A. Perry, Dennis E. Desjardin, Cassius V. Stevani

“…With the caveat that most regions of the world have not been extensively sampled for bioluminescent fungi, the areas with the most known species are Japan (36), South America (30), North America (27), Malesia, South Asia, and Southeast Asia (26), Europe (23), Central America (21), China (13), Africa (10), Australasia, Papua New Guinea, and New Caledonia (11), and the Pacific Islands (5). Recent studies have elucidated the biochemical and genetic pathways of fungal bioluminescence and suggest the phenomenon originated a single time early in the evolution of the Agaricales. …”
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Defensive Mechanisms of <i>Mikania micrantha</i> Likely Enhance Its Invasiveness as One of the World’s Worst Alien Species by David R. Clements, Hisashi Kato-Noguchi

“…<i>Mikania micrantha</i> Kunth is native to tropical America and has invaded tropical and subtropical Asia and numerous Pacific Islands. It forms dense thickets and reduces native species diversity and populations in its introduced range. …”
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Numerical Analysis on the Effects of Binary Interaction between Typhoons Tembin and Bolaven in 2012 by Zhipeng Xian, Keyi Chen

“…In this paper, a typical case of this type, typhoons Tembin and Bolaven, occurred in the western North Pacific in August 2012, was selected to study how one typhoon impacts the track and intensity of the other one. …”
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Modeling of investment attractiveness of countries using entropy analysis of regional stock markets by H. Danylchuk, N. Chebanova, N. Reznik, Y. Vitkovskyi

“…The countries with high, middle or low income in Europe, Central Asia, East Asia, the Pacific, and North America were selected for the study. …”
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A Case of Persistent Generalized Retrograde Autobiographical Amnesia Subsequent to the Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 by Yuji Odagaki

“…On 11 March 2011, the largest earthquake on record in Japan took place, and subsequent huge tsunami devastated the Pacific coast of northern Japan. This case report describes a patient suffering from retrograde episodic-autobiographical amnesia for whole life, persisting for even more than five years after the disaster. …”
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Transforming Alliances: A 20-Year Overview of Singapore-US Relations under Lee Hsien Loong by TRUONG HUE

“…These agreements have cemented Singapore’s role as a crucial partner in U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy. This paper analyzes the key milestones and mechanisms that have bolstered Singapore-U.S. relations under Lee’s leadership, focusing on the creation of the Singapore-U.S. …”
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Elucidating deep-sea thermometric deviations and their consequences for oceanic heat content assessment via high-pressure calibration by Muzi Zhang, Muzi Zhang, Qingquan Sun, Qingquan Sun, Xiaoxue Bai, Xiaoxue Bai, Chi Wu, Chi Wu, Chi Wu

“…Crucially, this study discusses the negative impact of pressure-induced temperature errors on the estimation of ocean heat content in the Pacific, emphasizing the importance of conducting high-pressure calibration tests before and after oceanographic deployments. …”
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LongReadSum: A fast and flexible quality control and signal summarization tool for long-read sequencing data by Jonathan Elliot Perdomo, Mian Umair Ahsan, Qian Liu, Li Fang, Kai Wang

“…While several well-established quality control (QC) tools exist for short-read sequencing data, there is a general paucity of computational tools that efficiently deliver comprehensive metrics across a wide range of long-read sequencing data formats, such as Oxford Nanopore (ONT) POD5, ONT FAST5, ONT basecall summary, Pacific Biosciences (PacBio) unaligned BAM, and Illumina Complete Long Read (ICLR) FASTQ file formats. …”
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Erodibility and sedimentation potential of marly formations at the watershed scale by F. Rostami, S. Feiznia, M. Aleali, M. Heshmati, B. Yousefi yegane

“…The objective of this study was to compare the erosion and sediment yield of Kashkan and Grupi formations in Merk watershed located in southeast Kermanshah, using the Modified Pacific Southwest Inter-Agency Committee model. This model is suitable for estimating erosion and sediment intensity within each geomorphologic unit comprising nine effective environmental factors as geological, pedological, climate, runoff, topography, land cover, land use, surface, and river erosion factors. …”
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A Nonstationary Daily and Hourly Analysis of the Extreme Rainfall Frequency Considering Climate Teleconnection in Coastal Cities of the United States by Lei Yan, Yuhan Zhang, Mengjie Zhang, Upmanu Lall

“…In this paper, we estimate the time-varying probability distributions for hourly and daily extreme precipitation using the Generalized Additive Model for Location Scale and Shape (GAMLSS), employing different climate indices, such as Atlantic Multi-Decadal Oscillation (AMO), the El Niño 3.4 SST Index (ENSO), Pacific Decadal Oscillation (PDO), the Western Hemisphere Warm Pool (WHWP) and other covariates. …”
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Understanding geographical variations in health system performance: a population-based study on preventable childhood hospitalisations by Daniel Exeter, Pushkar Raj Silwal, Arier Lee, Tim Tenbensel

“…No consistent time trend was observed for the adjusted childhood ASH at the national level, but the DHBs demonstrated different trajectories over the years. Ethnicity (being a Pacific child) followed by deprivation demonstrated stronger relationships with childhood ASH than the geography and the health system input variables.Conclusion The variation in childhood ASH is explained only minimal at the DHB level. …”
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Gene Identification and Characterization of Correlations for DEPs_DEGs Same Trend Responding to Salinity Adaptation in Scylla paramamosain by Huan Wang, Hongling Wei, Lei Tang, Junkai Lu, Changkao Mu, Chunlin Wang

“…Scylla paramamosain is a commercially important species distributed along the coast of southern China and other Indo-Pacific countries. Sudden salinity drop exceeding the adjustment capability of S. paramamosain can result in damage or even mortality. …”
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Relationships between Ambient Ozone Concentration Changes in Southwestern Taiwan and Invasion Tracks of Tropical Typhoons by Chung-Hsuang Hung, Kuo-Cheng Lo

“…The results indicated that the high O3 concentration observed in southwestern Taiwan before typhoon arrived was mainly caused by the western Pacific subtropical high (WPSH) shrouding it. On the other hand, the latter increase in ambient O3 concentration about 1 to 2 days before issuing sea warning was mainly due to both contributions of weakening WPSH and intensifying leeward side effects. …”
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Transregionalization in the Context of Globalization by D. A. Kuznetsov

“…If they contradict each other, transregionalization facilitates the creation of new dividing lines.Considering several cases of megaprojects, especially in the Asia-Pacific, the article substantiates the typology of transregionalization, emphasizing its cooperative (inclusive and aimed at global integration) and competitive form (mostly exclusive and impossible to converge with other projects). …”
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Who does technology serve? A critical analysis of sociocultural factors shaping opportunities, practices and barriers faced by a smallholders in south-western Colombia by Marcela Ramos, Natalia Triana, Stefan Burkart, Jhon Freddy Gutiérrez, Diana María Gutiérrez-Zapata, Alejandro Ruden, Lady Sepúlveda, Brian Barrett

“…Using a capability approach lens and qualitative and participatory data collection methods, this study presents and analyses the testimonies of smallholders living on Colombia’s Pacific coast, currently exposed to a series of interventions that promote changes in production decisions to contribute to reducing national greenhouse gas emissions. …”
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CD4 T-Cell-Independent Antibody Response Reduces Enterovirus 71 Lethality in Mice by Decreasing Tissue Viral Loads by Li-Chiu Wang, Chia-Min Kao, Pin Ling, Ih-Jen Su, Tung-Miao Chang, Shun-Hua Chen

“…Enterovirus 71 (EV71) has induced fatal encephalitis in hundreds of thousands of infants and young children in the Asia-Pacific region since the past decade. Lymphocyte and antibody responses have been suspected to aggravate EV71-induced neurological symptoms, so anti-inflammatory agents have been used to treat patients with neurological symptoms. …”
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Airspace closures due to reentering space objects by Ewan Wright, Aaron Boley, Michael Byers

“…This rate rises to 26% for larger but still busy areas of airspace, such as that found in the northeastern United States, northern Europe, or around major cities in the Asia-Pacific region. For a given reentry, the collision risk in the underlying airspace increases with the air traffic density. …”
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Abyssal deposit feeders are secondary consumers of detritus and rely on nutrition derived from microbial communities in their guts by Sonia Romero-Romero, Lee C. Miller, Jesse A. Black, Brian N. Popp, Jeffrey C. Drazen

“…We used compound-specific stable isotope ratios of amino acids (CSIA-AA) to estimate the trophic position of three abundant species of deposit feeders collected from the abyssal plain of the Northeast Pacific (Station M; ~ 4000 m depth), and compared it to the trophic position of their gut contents and the surrounding sediments. …”
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Characterization of the procoagulant phenotype of amniotic fluid across gestation in rhesus macaques and humans by Chih Jen Yang, Lyndsey E. Shorey-Kendrick, Cristina Puy, Ashley E. Benson, Phillip A. Wilmarth, Ashok P. Reddy, Keith D. Zientek, Kilsun Kim, Adam Crosland, Chaevien S. Clendinen, Lisa M. Bramer, Olivia L. Hagen, Helen H. Vu, Joseph E. Aslan, Owen J.T. McCarty, Joseph J. Shatzel, Brian P. Scottoline, Jamie O. Lo

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