Exotic Laguncularia racemosa drives rapid shifts in pond-to-mangrove restoration communities by Lin Zhang, Yamian Zhang, Yijuan Deng, Pingping Guo, Wenqing Wang, Mao Wang

“…We found that the exotic species Laguncularia racemosa expanded rapidly, significantly suppressing native mangrove species and altering the community structure. The relative abundance of L. racemosa increased from 8 % in the fourth year to 57 % by the eighth year, during which time three native species disappeared from the plot. …”
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Diversity of VIr’s collection of <i>Lupinus angustifolius</i> L. in the inf lorescence color by E. V. Vlasova, G. P. Egorova

“…Background. The phenotypic structure of Lupinus angustifolius L. is dynamically expanding due to genetic recombinations and mutagenesis. …”
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Bioactive Potential of 3D-Printed Oleo-Gum-Resin Disks: B. papyrifera, C. myrrha, and S. benzoin Loading Nanooxides—TiO2, P25, Cu2O, and MoO3 by Diogo José Horst, Sergio Mazurek Tebcherani, Evaldo Toniolo Kubaski, Rogério de Almeida Vieira

“…Thermal analysis shows that plant resins have peculiar characteristics, with a thermal behavior similar to commercial available semicrystalline polymers, although their structure consists of a mix of organic compounds.…”
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Balancing on carbon storage and ecological security in urban areas: The case of Dongguan city, China by Xinyi Wang, Fenzhen Su, Fengqin Yan, Vincent Lyne, Yikun Cui, Bin He, Rong Fan

“…Current and future national urban policies must therefore enhance carbon sink functions of ecosystems while maintaining spatial ecological structure networks. Here, we assessed current policies against future scenarios using systems thinking and land-use change simulation coupled to carbon-storage accounting. …”
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Dust Dynamics in Radially Convective Regions of Protoplanetary Disks by Min-Kai Lin, Marius Lehmann

“…The ensuing turbulence and flow structures are expected to affect dust dynamics directly. …”
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Water Pipeline Leak Detection and Localization With an Integrated AI Technique by Uma Rajasekaran, Mohanaprasad Kothandaraman, Chang Hong Pua

“…A pipeline leak detection and localization technique is crucial in a structural health monitoring system to prevent water wastage at an early stage. …”
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Comparison of New Tau PET-Tracer Candidates With [F]T808 and [F]T807 by Lieven Declercq Pharmacist, Sofie Celen PhD, Joan Lecina PhD, Muneer Ahamed PhD, Thomas Tousseyn Prof, MD, PhD, Diederik Moechars PhD, Jesus Alcazar PhD, Manuela Ariza PhD, Katleen Fierens PhD, Astrid Bottelbergs PhD, Jonas Mariën PhD, Rik Vandenberghe Prof, MD, PhD, Ignacio Jose Andres PhD, Koen Van Laere Prof, MD, PhD, Alfons Verbruggen Prof, PhD, Guy Bormans Prof, PhD

“…Therefore, these data are helpful to identify structural requirements for selective interaction with tau and to compare the performance of new highly selective and specific radiolabeled tau tracers.…”
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Hardware Efficient Speech Enhancement With Noise Aware Multi-Target Deep Learning by Salinna Abdullah, Majid Zamani, Andreas Demosthenous

“…Optimisation techniques, including ternary quantisation, structural pruning, efficient sparse matrix representation and cost-effective approximations for complex computations, were implemented to reduce area, memory, and power requirements. …”
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Rotor Speed Control of a Direct-Driven Permanent Magnet Synchronous Generator-Based Wind Turbine Using Phase-Lag Compensators to Optimize Wind Power Extraction by Ester Hamatwi, Innocent E. Davidson, Michael N. Gitau

“…The proportional-integral (PI), proportional-derivative (PD), and proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controllers have widely been employed in MPPT studies owing to their simple structure and simple design procedure. However, there are a number of shortcomings associated with these controllers; the trial-and-error design procedure used to determine the P, I, and D gains presents a possibility for poorly tuned controller gains, which reduces the accuracy and the dynamic performance of the entire control system. …”
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Experimental and discrete element method study on the mechanical properties of hole-fracture sandstone by Peijie Lou, Peijie Lou, Peijie Lou, Peijie Lou, Lichen Sun, Cheng Pan, Penghui Ji, Huan Liu

“…The formation of micro-fractures progressively adhered to a “clusteringexpansion-coalescence” sequence along the paths of the hole-fracture structures. The maximum strength of the samples declined in a three-phase pattern: gradual decline, steep decline, and gradual decline. …”
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A Rare Case of Immunotactoid Glomerulopathy Associated with Hodgkin Lymphoma by Keiki Nagaharu, Yuka Sugimoto, Keiki Kawakami

“…Electron microscopy showed randomly aligned tubular structures with a diameter of approximately 50 nm. We diagnosed the patient with immunotactoid nephropathy and HL. …”
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Dispersion Performance of Polycarboxylate Terpolymers with Different Alkyl Side-Chain Lengths in Pesticide Suspension Concentrate by Xiaodong Yang, Tianrui Ren, Bo Zhang

“…Terpolymers were characterized by FT-IR and 1H-NMR to confirm their structure. The surface activities of PTs were evaluated according to critical micelle concentration (CMC) and the surface tension at CMC (γCMC). …”
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Satellite-Based Forest Stand Detection Using Artificial Intelligence by Patrik Kovacovic, Rastislav Pirnik, Julia Kafkova, Mario Michalik, Alzbeta Kanalikova, Pavol Kuchar

“…A custom dataset was developed, comprising high-quality satellite images that capture various structures such as forests, fields, roads, buildings, and lakes. …”
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The effect of rust layer damage on the corrosion resistance of Q420 bridge steels by Zexian Wang, Weichen Xu, Binbin Zhang, Junyi Gao, Canming Li, Guobao Li, Rongling Zhang, Baorong Hou

“…The compactness, composition and structure of rust layers are the main factors for the corrosion resistance. …”
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Panoramic analysis of 2D dirubidium telluride monolayer benchmarking the DFT approach by G. Sneha, R. D. Eithiraj

“…Abstract Through the DFT computations, the structural, vibrational, electronic, elastic, optical and thermal (thermoelectric, thermodynamic) properties of the two-dimensional Rb2Te monolayer are briefly contemplated. …”
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The influence of foreign, busy board members, and gender diversity on firm bankruptcy by Abdulaziz S. Al Naim, Abdullah A. Aljughaiman, Abdulateif A. Almulhim, Abdulmohsen K. Alosaimi

“…The findings inform Saudi regulators on enhancing corporate governance and board effectiveness to support the structure of finances in Saudi firms. The positive impact of board busyness challenges common concerns about excessive directorships, suggesting that retaining experienced busy directors could benefit Saudi firms. …”
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Enhancing foundation models for scientific discovery via multimodal knowledge graph representations by Vanessa Lopez, Lam Hoang, Marcos Martinez-Galindo, Raúl Fernández-Díaz, Marco Luca Sbodio, Rodrigo Ordonez-Hurtado, Mykhaylo Zayats, Natasha Mulligan, Joao Bettencourt-Silva

“…Despite this potential, challenges and opportunities remain, including fusing multiple sequential, structural and knowledge modalities and models leveraging the strengths of each; developing scalable architectures for multi-task multi-dataset learning; creating end-to-end workflows to enhance the trustworthiness of biomedical FMs using knowledge from heterogeneous datasets and scientific literature; the domain data bottleneck and the lack of a unified representation between natural language and chemical representations; and benchmarking, specifically the transfer learning to tasks with limited data (e.g., unseen molecules and proteins, rear diseases). …”
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Evidence for Proximity Effect in Superconductor–Organic Semiconductor–Superconductor Stacked Devices by Anna Kremen, Hagit Aviv, Yaakov Raphael Tischler, Amos Sharoni

“…Motivated by this and by the question of whether proximity induced SC is possible in organic light-emitting materials, we studied the electronic properties of stacked SC–organic–SC devices. Our structures consisted of Nb (bottom) and NbN (top) SC electrodes and a spin-coated light-emitting semiconductor polymer, MEH-PPV. …”
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Mobbing process as a psychosocial risk factor in educational groups by Victoria N. Chaika, Vladislav A. Mashtakov, Olga S. Matorina, Oleg V. Streltsov, Oksana G. Meretukova

“…In accordance with the stages of formation and development of mobbing as a socio-psychological phenomenon, the stages in the structure of the mobbing process in educational groups are defined. …”
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Digital Health Interventions to Promote Physical Activity in Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Semiquantitative Analysis by M. Di Pumpo, M. Di Pumpo, A. Miatton, M. T. Riccardi, M. T. Riccardi, E. A. Graps, V. Baldo, A. Buja, G. Damiani, G. Damiani

“…The synthesis of “motivational reminders” and “dynamic exercise programs” showed an overall positive effect, of “PA self-monitoring” showed mixed results and “exercise digital coaching” showed a non-positive effect.DiscussionMotivational reminders and dynamic exercise programs proved more effective in increasing PA in older adults than other interventions and should be more embedded in structured public health programs.…”
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