Response of Plant Leaf Traits to Environmental Factors in Climax Communities at Varying Latitudes in Karst Regions by Gang Xie, Yang Wang, Zhifeng Chen, Yangyang Ji, Yao Lu, Yi Liang, Ruiyu Zhou, Juan Tao

“…Additionally, we examined the relationship between functional traits and environmental factors, integrating species characteristics and community structure into our analysis. The results indicated that (1) there were significant differences in both the community leaf aspect ratio and the community-specific leaf area. (2) Soil organic carbon content exhibited significant variations across different latitudes, while soil nitrogen content was notably higher in mid-latitude and low-latitude regions compared to high-latitude areas. …”
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5-HT1A receptor: its role in the regulation of different kinds of behavior by V. S. Naumenko, E. G. Ponimaskin, N. K. Popova

“…The review describes literature and original data on factors affecting the expression and functional activity of 5-HT1А receptors and the involvement of 5-HT1А receptors in the regulation of normal and pathological behavior. The structure of the 5-HT1А receptor gene is described and new data on the posttranslational regulation of 5-HT1А receptor functional activity are provided. …”
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iMESc – an interactive machine learning app for environmental sciences by Danilo Cândido Vieira, Danilo Cândido Vieira, Fabiana S. Paula, Luciana Erika Yaginuma, Gustavo Fonseca

“…We demonstrate iMESc’s flexibility with four workflows applied to a case study predicting nematode community structure based on environmental data. The classical statistical approaches, the Redundancy Analysis (RDA) and Piecewise RDA (pwRDA), explained 30.7% and 53%, respectively. …”
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Time effect of elastic energy release of surrounding rock and evaluation method of reasonable advancing speed by Ruifu Yuan, Qi Ma, Qunlei Zhang, Chun Feng, Chunfu Wei, Yan Gao

“…Based on the simulation, there is a critical advancing speed, the iteration numbers of simulation are less than 15,000 per mining 10 m coal seam, the overburden structure is obvious, the abutment pressure in coal mass is large, and the accumulated energy is large, which is easy to cause strong rock burst. …”
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miRNA-451a and miRNA-125a Expression Levels in Ankylosing Spondylitis: Impact on Disease Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Outcomes by Dina Salem Fotoh, Rasha Ibrahim Noreldin, Mohamed Soliman Rizk, Maha Mohamed Elsabaawy, Heba Ahmed Esaily

“…Plasma levels of both miRNAs were able to distinguish AS patients with structural damage with AUCs 0.775 and 0.692, respectively. …”
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Photocatalytic Degradation of E.Coli Bacteria by Graphitic Carbon Nitride Photocatalysts under Visible Light Irradiation by Zahra Ahmadi Panah, Reyhaneh Dehghan, Mehran Bijari, Afsaneh Shahbazi

“…For comparison, similar samples were synthesized in common atmospheres such as N2 and air. The structure, morphology, and properties of the samples were characterized using various analyses. …”
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« Une femme en Côte d’Ivoire, une femme au Burkina Faso » by François Ruf

“…But these women ‘back in the village’ are also motivated by substantial and diversified investments, the structural determinants around cocoa cultivation, and policy: declining cocoa prices since 1988, falling yields from ageing cocoa farms, political and military crises, and new land-related issues . …”
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Angiotensin receptor neprilysin inhibition versus individualized RAAS blockade: design and rationale of the PARALLAX trial by Rolf Wachter, Sanjiv J. Shah, Martin R. Cowie, Peter Szecsödy, Victor Shi, Ghionul Ibram, Ziqiang Zhao, Jianjian Gong, Sven Klebs, Burkert Pieske

“…Methods PARALLAX is a prospective, randomized, controlled, double‐blind multicentre clinical trial in patients with chronic symptomatic HF with EF >40%, New York Heart Association (NYHA) class II–IV symptoms, elevated natriuretic peptides, and evidence of structural heart disease. Eligible patients are randomized to sacubitril/valsartan vs. …”
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The Managers' Perceptions of Telework Implementation Requirements in the Algerian Companies: A Post Covid-19 Assessment by Riad BENGHEBRID

“…Design/Method/Approach: We opted for an essentially qualitative approach field by conducting semi-structured interviews individually with 11 company managers from different sectors of activity in order for the interviewee to feel sufficiently free and to have as much transparency and credibility as possible, and to obtain in-depth information that is difficult to express quantitatively or statistically, with diversity of the sample in terms of (age, professional experience, sector of activity, legal form etc.). …”
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Liturgic calendars in the Vilnius University Library by Asta Krakytė

“… L'article est consacré à la discussion sur la collection nommée Rubrice/lce du département des livres rares de la Bibliothèque de l'Université de Vilnius. On décrit la structure et l'histoire de la collection. On analyse le contenu et l'usage des publications qui la composent. …”
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Echocardiographic Findings in Patients with Atrial Septal Aneurysm: A Prospective Case-Control Study by Ramazan Atak, Mehmet Ileri, Selcuk Ozturk, Ahmet Korkmaz, Ertan Yetkin

“…Although ASA has been supposed to be an incidental finding in echocardiographic examination, its structural and clinical associations have gained an increasing interest. …”
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Improving the Metal Inert Gas Welding Efficiency and Microstructural Stability in the Butt and Lap Joints of Aluminum Automotive Components Using Sc- and Zr-Enhanced Filler Wires by Hansol Ko, Hye-Jin Kim, Dong-Yoon Kim, Jiyoung Yu

“…In butt joints, Al-4.8Mg-0.7Sc-0.3Zr exhibited a finer and more uniform grain structure with increased tensile strength compared with those welded using Al-5.0Mg. …”
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20 ans d’Observatoire photographique des paysages dans le Parc naturel régional des Vosges du Nord by Romy Baghdadi

“…In summary, the question concerns how to privilege initially resorting to a vertical representation of a part of an area, the visible part, its perspective, successive interpretations and structural elements, rather than resorting to maps or plans, which are more often used but remain less palpable and less evocative for the inhabitants of the area.…”
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Do The Facts of Voting Rights Support Chief Justice Roberts’s Opinion in Shelby County? by Morgan Kousser

“…Laws that changed the political structure – for instance, redistricting laws, annexations, and shifts from district to “at-large” elections for local governments – were restricted, as well as provisions and practices that directly affected individuals’ rights to vote. …”
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Application of Novel Amino-Functionalized NZVI@SiO2 Nanoparticles to Enhance Anaerobic Granular Sludge Removal of 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol by Zeyu Guan, Jinquan Wan, Yongwen Ma, Yan Wang, Yajie Shu

“…NZVI@SiO2-NH2 nanoparticles were synthesized under optimal conditions with the uniform core-shell structure (80–100 nm), high loading of amino functionality (~0.9 wt%), and relatively large specific surface area (126.3 m2/g). …”
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Effects of thermal aging on the performance of ordinary and novel superhydrophobic and oleophobic ultra-fine dry powder extinguishing agent by Yurong Liu, Ruiyu Chen, Wang Zhixuan, Rui Zhang, Hongling Jing, Daheng Yu, Renming Pan

“…This study investigates the effects of thermal aging cycles on various parameters of ordinary dry powder extinguishing agent (ODPEA) and novel superhydrophobic and oleophobic ultra-fine dry powder extinguishing agent (SHOU DPEA), including surface microscopic morphology, D90 (the diameter at which 90% of the cumulative volume of particles are equal to or smaller than this value), chemical structure, hydrophobic and oleophobic angles, flowability, extinguishing time and effectiveness. …”
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Mindfulness-based retreat for mothers of paediatric heart transplant recipients: protocol for a pilot intervention study by Sara Ahola Kohut, Joanna Mitchell, Samantha J Anthony, Taylor Robertson, Heather Telfer, Mirna Seifert-Hansen

“…Qualitative data will be collected from all participants both through semi-structured focus groups at T2 and individual telephone interviews at T3. …”
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Area deprivation and premature cardiovascular mortality: a nationwide population-based study in South Korea by Hyeon Chang Kim, Hokyou Lee, Eunji Kim, Donald Lloyd-Jones, Young Gyu Ko, Byoung Gwon Kim

“…Mortality rates for CVD and its subtypes, namely ischaemic heart diseases, other heart diseases and cerebrovascular diseases, in adults under 65 years were directly standardised by sex and age, referencing the total population structure. Municipalities were categorised by urbanicity, and adjustments for the number of hospitals and geographical area size were made using log-linear regression models.Results The most deprived municipalities showed 41.6% excess mortality for CVD, 30.3% for ischaemic heart diseases, 60.7% for other heart diseases and 36.9% for cerebrovascular diseases compared with the least deprived municipalities. …”
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A 250 °C Low-Power, Low-Temperature-Drift Offset Chopper-Stabilized Operational Amplifier with an SC Notch Filter for High-Temperature Applications by Zhong Yang, Jiaqi Li, Jiangduo Fu, Jiayin Song, Qingsong Cai, Shushan Qiao

“…The circuit features a multi-path nested Miller compensation structure, consisting of a low-speed channel and a high-speed channel, which switch according to the input signal frequency. …”
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Multi-omics analyses identify gut microbiota-fecal metabolites-brain-cognition pathways in the Alzheimer’s disease continuum by Han Zhao, Xia Zhou, Yu Song, Wenming Zhao, Zhongwu Sun, Jiajia Zhu, Yongqiang Yu

“…We also observed progressive gray matter atrophy in broadly distributed gray matter regions and gradual micro-structural integrity damage in widespread white matter tracts along the AD continuum. …”
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