A Reduced-Order Model of Lithium–Sulfur Battery Discharge by Noushin Haddad, Hosam K. Fathy

“…However, these models’ use of one state variable to represent the mass of each active species tends to furnish high-order models, with many state variables. …”
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From flower to fruit: fruit growth and development in olive (Olea europaea L.)—a review by Adolfo Rosati, Enrico Maria Lodolini, Franco Famiani

“…The review focuses on olive but includes literature on other species when relevant. The review brings the different factors affecting different phases of fruit development, addressed separately in the literature, under a single frame of interpretation. …”
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Numerical Simulation of First-Order Surface Reaction in Open Cavity Using Lattice Boltzmann Method by Cristian Yoel Quintero-Castañeda, María Margarita Sierra-Carrillo, Arturo I. Villegas-Andrade, Javier Burgos-Vergara

“…The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is a finite element and finite volume method for studying the reaction rate, mass diffusion and concentration of species. We are used the LBM to investigate the effect of the Damköhler number (Da) and Reynolds number (Re) on the laminar flow in a channel with an open square cavity and a reactive bottom wall in two dimensions in a first-order chemical reaction. …”
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Passive Protection of Diabetic Rats with Antisera Specific for the Polysaccharide Portion of the Lipopolysaccharide Isolated from Pseudomonas pseudomallei by Larry E Bryan, Sallene Wong, Don E Woods, David AB Dance, W Chaowagul

“…The sera were specific for P pseudomallei in that none of 37 strains of other bacteria, including 20 Gram-negative and three Gram-positive species, were recognized, although cross-reaction occurred using the anticonjugate serum with some strains of Pseudomonas cepacia serotype A, a closely related bacterium. …”
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Spectrophotometric Determination of Lamivudine in Pure and Tablet Forms by A. Biksham Babu, G. Ramu, Ch. Muralikrishna, S. Brahma Reddy, C. Rambabu

“…Method-A is based on oxidation of 3-methyl-2-benzathiazolinone hydrazone (MBTH) in the presence of iodoso benzene diacetate (IBDA) to form electrophilic intermediate which is an active coupling species that reacts with the coupler (LMV) by electrophillic attack on the most nucleophilic site on cyclic ring of the coupler. …”
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Environmental gradients shape genetic variation in the desert moss, Syntrichia caninervis Mitt. (Pottiaceae) by Ugbad A. Farah, Kirsten M. Fisher

“…Abstract The moss Syntrichia caninervis Mitt. is distributed throughout drylands globally, and often anchors ecologically significant communities known as biological soil crusts (biocrusts). The species occupies a variety of dryland habitats with varying levels of drought and temperature stress, suggesting the potential for ecological specialization within S. caninervis. …”
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Redox Signaling in Diabetic Nephropathy: Hypertrophy versus Death Choices in Mesangial Cells and Podocytes by Gina Manda, Alexandru-Ionel Checherita, Maria Victoria Comanescu, Mihail Eugen Hinescu

“…Main topics this review is addressing are biomarkers of oxidative stress in diabetic nephropathy, the sources of reactive oxygen species (mitochondria, NADPH-oxidases, hyperglycemia, and inflammation), and the redox-sensitive signaling networks (protein kinases, transcription factors, and epigenetic regulators). …”
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Application of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) for protozoan analysis: A systematic review by Juan Felipe Ramirez Giraldo, Jorge Enrique Gomez Marin

“…The present systematic review identified a lack of studies in this area and the need to conduct research aimed at developing standardized methods and creating spectral database banks of protozoan species that will allow for the precise identification of protozoa such as Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia spp. in water for human consumption.…”
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Dog recognition in public places based on convolutional neural network by Jianquan Ouyang, Hao He, Yi He, Huanrong Tang

“…First, the image is divided into several grids; then, the dense–scale invariant feature transform algorithm is used to split and combine the descriptors, and the channel information of the eight directions of the image is extracted as the input of the convolutional neural network; and finally, we design a convolutional neural network based on Adam optimization algorithm and cross-entropy to identify the dog species. The experimental results show that the algorithm can fully combine the advantages of dense–scale invariant feature transform and convolutional neural network to achieve dog recognition in public places, and the correct rate is 94.2%.…”
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Malnutrition and Its Influence on Gut sIgA–Microbiota Dynamics by Monica Profir, Robert Mihai Enache, Oana Alexandra Roşu, Luciana Alexandra Pavelescu, Sanda Maria Creţoiu, Bogdan Severus Gaspar

“…Secretory immunoglobulin A (sIgA) plays an important role in maintaining and increasing beneficial intestinal microbiota populations and protecting against pathogenic species. Depletion of beneficial bacterial populations throughout life is also conditioned by malnutrition. …”
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Penile Urethral Hypospadias with Two Fistulae and Diverticulum in a Saanen Kid by Areeg Mohamed Almubarak, Rihab Mohamed Abdelghafar, Ahmed Abdelrahim Gameel, Nuha Muatasim Osman

“…Hypospadias is a rare congenital defect reported in most animal species and humans. This case study reports a hypospadiac case in a goat kid with urethral diverticulum diagnosed in Sudan for the first time. …”
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Iron Limitation Drives the Globally Extreme Fluorescence/Chlorophyll Ratios of the Southern Ocean by Christina Schallenberg, Robert F. Strzepek, Sophie Bestley, Bozena Wojtasiewicz, Thomas W. Trull

“…Abstract The ratio between fluorescence (F) and chlorophyll‐a (Chl)—where fluorescence is measured with a saturating fluorometer—is variable in the world's oceans, with the highest ratios and highest variability observed in the Southern Ocean. While species composition and Chl packaging per cell are strong drivers for the observed variability, additional factors, including iron limitation, have to this date not specifically been evaluated. …”
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Biometric relation between body size and otolith size of Cyprinion kais and C. macrostomum collected from Tigris River, Şirnak Province, Türkiye by Dörtbudak Muhammed Yaşar, Jawad Laith A., Yalçin Hamza, Park Joo Myun

“…The analysis shows that evaluations of the body size of the two fish species investigated through biometric studies of otoliths are trustworthy.…”
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Global Fluoroquinolone Resistance Epidemiology and Implictions for Clinical Use by Axel Dalhoff

“…Global surveillance studies demonstrate that fluoroquinolone resistance rates increased in the past years in almost all bacterial species except S. pneumoniae and H. influenzae, causing community-acquired respiratory tract infections. …”
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Controlling the causative agents of coccidiosis in domestic chickens; an eye on the past and considerations for the future by Elizabeth Attree, Gonzalo Sanchez-Arsuaga, Michelle Jones, Dong Xia, Virginia Marugan-Hernandez, Damer Blake, Fiona Tomley

“…Abstract Coccidiosis is a potentially severe enteritis caused by species of obligate intracellular parasites of the genus Eimeria. …”
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Mycobiota and Natural Incidence of Aflatoxins, Ochratoxin A, and Citrinin in Indian Spices Confirmed by LC-MS/MS by Punam Jeswal, Dhiraj Kumar

“…Aspergillus flavus and Aspergillus niger were the most dominant species isolated from all types of spices. Red chilli samples were highly contaminated with aflatoxins (85.4%) followed by dry ginger (77.7%). 56% Aspergillus flavus from red chilli and 45% Aspergillus ochraceus from black pepper were toxigenic and produced aflatoxins and ochratoxin A, respectively. …”
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Integrated Approach to Investigate the Effect of Leachate on Groundwater around the Ikot Ekpene Dumpsite in Akwa Ibom State, Southeastern Nigeria by N. J. George, A. I. Ubom, J. I. Ibanga

“…The hydrochemical results of some species conform to WHO standards, while some were found to be relatively higher due to dissolution, leaching, and draining of leachate related contaminants in the soil. …”
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Productive Entry Pathways of Human Rhinoviruses by Renate Fuchs, Dieter Blaas

“…Currently, complete or partial genome sequences of more than 150 human rhinovirus (HRV) isolates are known. Twelve species A use members of the low-density lipoprotein receptor family for cell entry, whereas the remaining HRV-A and all HRV-B bind ICAM-1. …”
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Combination of Oxalobacter Formigenes and Veillonella Parvula in Gastrointestinal Microbiota Related to Bile-Acid Metabolism as a Biomarker for Hypertensive Nephropathy by Xin Li, Li Wang, Shaojun Ma, Shaohui Lin, Chunyan Wang, Haiya Wang

“…The relationship between gastrointestinal microbiota and blood pressure has been verified and the intestinal microbiota of chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients in the distribution of bacterial species is different from the flora of people with no CKD. …”
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Lakes of Turkey: Comprehensive Review of Lake Çıldır by Sidar Yaygır, Abuzer Çelekli, Özgür Eren Zariç

“…Detailed sections are dedicated to the fish species, macrophytes, benthic macroinvertebrates, and phytoplankton that inhabit the lake. …”
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