Foliar application of humic liquid extract from vermicompost improves garlic (Allium sativum L.) production and fruit quality by D. M. Balmori, C. Y. A. Domínguez, C. R. Carreras, S. M. Rebatos, L. B. P. Farías, F. G. Izquierdo, R. L. L. Berbara, Andrés Calderín García

“…At 125 days after planting, the plants were collected, and growth and production parameters were determined: quantity of garlic cloves, fresh and dry bulb, diameter of garlic cloves and bulb, as well as parameters of fruit quality including caliber, firmness, acidity, brix, pungency, carbohydrate and protein contents. Results The structure of HS in HEVC is composed mainly of carbohydrates and peptides as well as lignin fragments, explaining the stimulus effects on plant metabolism. …”
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Evaluating the governance and preparedness of the Lebanese health system for the COVID-19 pandemic: a qualitative study by Rasha Hamra, Marianne Moussallem, Anna Zein-El-Din, Alissar Rady, Michèle Kosremelli Asmar, Ibrahim R Bou-Orm

“…Objectives This study aimed to assess the capacities and governance of Lebanon’s health system throughout the response to the COVID-19 pandemic until August 2020.Design A qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews.Setting Lebanon, February–August 2020.Participants Selected participants were directly or indirectly involved in the national or organisational response to the COVID-19 pandemic in Lebanon.Results A total of 41 participants were included in the study. …”
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Dynamic recrystallization and mechanical behavior of Mg alloy AZ31: Constraints from tensile tests with in-situ EBSD analysis by Boissonneau, Gaëtan, Tommasi, Andréa, Barou, Fabrice, Lopez-Sanchez, Marco Antonio, Montagnat, Maurine

“…This long incubation period is followed by acceleration of DRX, with faster grain boundary migration allowing for development of a DRX-necklace structure, whose spatial heterogeneity controls the final strain localization at strains > 60%. …”
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ADMNet: adaptive deformable convolution large model combining multi-level progressive fusion for Building Change Detection by Liye Mei, Haonan Yu, Zhaoyi Ye, Chuan Xu, Cheng Lei, Wei Yang

“…Second, we utilize a large model semantically driven to enhance model context awareness and construct long-range feature dependencies from multi-scale edge information, which are then integrated with locally adaptive edge structure features to achieve accurate edge localization. …”
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Enterococcus durans SL70, a Novel Exopolysaccharide Producer from Traditional Sourdough Fermentation of Einkorn (Triticum monococcum L. ssp. monococcum) by Berna Genc, Seyda Merve Karatas, Merve Tuğçe Tunç

“…This anionic heteropolysaccharide had, in addition to the carbohydrate backbone, a protein structure that did not contain nucleic acid. The carbohydrate backbone consisted of mannose, glucose, rhamnose, arabinose, xylose and galactose. …”
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Integrated high-precision real scene 3D modeling of karst cave landscape based on laser scanning and photogrammetry by Congyuan Zhang, Jianping Chen, Ping Li, Sipeng Han, Jie Xu

“…By combining ground-based and aerial remote sensing techniques, and based on 3D laser scanning and photogrammetry, we have successfully constructed a real scene 3D model of the internal structure of a karst cave with a precision better than 4 cm. …”
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Perspectives of push-pull-mooring effects on a desire for switching to alternative crops among tobacco farmers in Thailand: A qualitative study by Chakkraphan Phetphum, Artittaya Wangwonsin, Atchara Prajongjeep, Saksin Simsin

“…This study aims to provide insight into why tobacco farmers desire to switch to alternative crops and the support required for a successful transition. Methods Semi-structured interviews were conducted with 34 tobacco farmers expressing a desire to transition to other crops in two communities in Thailand. …”
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Functional Connectivity and MRI Radiomics Biomarkers of Cognitive and Brain Reserve in Post-Stroke Cognitive Impairment Prediction—A Study Protocol by Hanna Maria Dragoș, Adina Stan, Livia Livinț Popa, Roxana Pintican, Diana Feier, Nicu Cătălin Drăghici, Dragoș-Cătălin Jianu, Diana Chira, Ștefan Strilciuc, Dafin F. Mureșanu

“…Brain reserve refers to the brain’s structural capacity to compensate for damage, with markers like hippocampal atrophy and white matter lesions indicating reduced reserve. …”
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Performance Evaluation and Optimization of 3D Gaussian Splatting in Indoor Scene Generation and Rendering by Xinjian Fang, Yingdan Zhang, Hao Tan, Chao Liu, Xu Yang

“…Firstly, utilizing a self-collected dataset, a comprehensive comparison was conducted among COLLI-SION-MAPping (abbreviated as COLMAP (V3.7), an open-source software based on Structure from Motion and Multi-View Stereo (SFM-MVS)), Context Capture (V10.2) (abbreviated as CC, a software utilizing oblique photography algorithms), Neural Radiance Fields (NeRF), and the currently renowned 3DGS algorithm. …”
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ASD-YOLO: a lightweight network for coffee fruit ripening detection in complex scenarios by Baofeng Ye, Baofeng Ye, Renzheng Xue, Renzheng Xue, Haiqiang Xu, Haiqiang Xu

“…Firstly, a new dot product attention mechanism (L-Norm Attention) is designed to embed attention into the head structure, which enhances the ability of the model to extract coffee fruit features. …”
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Research on the Manufacturing Process of Steel Bridge Piers for Suspended Monorail Transit by YIN Guifang, GONG Wenqiang, CHEN Xiaoshan, KONG Haiyong, WEI Chao, ZHU Gang

“…［Method］ Based on the Tourism Special Line Phase I Project, a supporting facility for Wuhan Optics Valley Ecological Corridor Tourism, the process research is conducted in response to the T-shaped structural characteristics of steel bridge piers for suspended monorail transit and combining the design requirements for the manufacturing accuracy of steel bridge piers. …”
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Psychosocial parameters as determinants of return to work among stroke survivors by Pascal Chidera Uzoh, Adebisi I. Hammed, Ezekiel Onyemechi, Chigozie O. Obaseki, Susan O. Kubeyinje

“…Equally, Health-Related Quality of Life (HRQOL) of the subjects was measured with the Stroke Specific Quality of Life (SS-QOL) scale. Also, a self-structured questionnaire was used to determine return to work of the subjects. …”
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GTPase GPN3 facilitates cell proliferation and migration in non-small cell lung cancer by impeding clathrin-mediated endocytosis of EGFR by Linlin Xu, Jiankun Guo, Xinsheng Xie, Hailong Wang, Alan Jiang, Changhua Huang, Hua Yang, Shiwen Luo, Limin Chen

“…GPN3, an evolutionarily conserved member of the GPN-loop GTPase subfamily classified in 2007 according to its structure, has limited knowledge regarding its cellular functions and molecular mechanisms. …”
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A Mutation in IL4RA Is Associated with the Degree of Pathology in Human TB Patients by Christoph Hölscher, Lisa Heitmann, Ellis Owusu-Dabo, Rolf D. Horstmann, Christian G. Meyer, Stefan Ehlers, Thorsten Thye

“…To validate our results in human TB patients, we here determined the association of distinct variants of the IL4, IL13, IL4RA, IL13RA1, and IL13RA2 genes with cavity formation in a large Ghanaian cohort of HIV-negative individuals with newly diagnosed pulmonary TB. In fact, the structural variant of the IL4RA I50V, previously shown to result in enhanced signal transduction, was significantly associated with greater cavity size, and a variant of IL13RA2 was associated with disease in females. …”
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Optimizing Reversible Phase‐Transformation of FeS2 Anode via Atomic‐Interface Engineering Toward Fast‐Charging Sodium Storage: Theoretical Predication and Experimental Validation... by Wenxi Zhao, Yanbing Zhou, Hao Zhou, Xinqin Wang, Shengjun Sun, Xun He, Yongsong Luo, Binwu Ying, Yongchao Yao, Xiaoqing Ma, Xuping Sun

“…Abstract Sodium‐storage performance of pyrite FeS2 is greatly improved by constructing various FeS2‐based nanostructures to optimize its ion‐transport kinetics and structural stability. However, less attention has been paid to rapid capacity degradation and electrode failure caused by the irreversible phase‐transition of intermediate NaxFeS2 to FeS2 and polysulfides dissolution upon cycling. …”
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Dryland fungi are spatially heterogeneous and resistant to global change drivers by Andrea Lopez, Mark Anthony, Jovani Catalan‐Dibene, Scott Ferrenberg, Samuel E. Jordan, Brooke Osborne, Sasha Reed, Adriana L. Romero‐Olivares

“…Abstract Fungi are considered particularly important in regulating the structure and function of dryland ecosystems, yet the response of dryland fungal communities to global change remains notably understudied. …”
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Development of a 50K SNP array for whole-genome analysis and its application in the genetic localization of eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) fruit shape by Chuying Yu, Qihong Yang, Weiliu Li, Yaqin Jiang, Guiyun Gan, Liangyu Cai, Xinchun Li, Zhiqiang Li, Wenjia Li, Min Zou, Yang Yang, Yikui Wang

“…Principal component, phylogenetic, and population structure analyses divided the 577 eggplants into 7 subgroups, and statistical analysis was performed on the fruit shape and color of the materials in the different subgroups. …”
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Detection of inversion with breakpoints in ARSB causing MPS VI by whole-genome sequencing: lessons learned and best practices by Yufeng Huang, Wenyue Deng, Hui Huang, Xiankai Zhang, Xiaohong Chen, Jian Ye, Sukun Luo, Ting Yu, Hui Yao, Hao Du, Xuelian He

“…Usually, whole exome sequencing (WES) can identify these variants, and if WES failed to detect causative variants, whole-genome sequencing (WGS) may be considered to investigate deep intronic variations and structural alterations in patients.MethodsWhole-exome sequencing (WES) and whole genome sequencing (WGS) were performed in a Chinese family having a boy with suspected diagnosis of MPS with macrocephaly, coarse facial features, broad forehead, thick lips, frontal bossing, craniosynostosis, blue spots, frequent upper respiratory infections, inguinal hernia, and dysostosis multiplex. …”
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Multifunctional Proteins Bridge Mitosis with Motility and Cancer with Inflammation and Arthritis by Jihong Jiang, Rosaely Casalegno-Garduno, Helen Chen, Anita Schmitt, Michael Schmitt, Christopher A. Maxwell

“…For these and other genes/proteins, we will highlight points of structural and functional intersection during cellular division and differentiation, as well as states associated with cancer, such as tumor-initiation and epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT). …”
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Is the Retinal Vasculature Related to β-Peripapillary Atrophy in Nonpathological High Myopia? An Optical Coherence Tomography Angiography Study in Chinese Adults by Jiao Sun, Jialin Wang, Ran You, Yanling Wang

“…There was a negative correlation between β-peripapillary atrophy and the retinal vasculature in highly myopic eyes, especially in radial peripapillary capillaries and deep retinal plexus. β-peripapillary atrophy can be visualized and is a convenient structural feature that can benefit the early diagnosis and detection of chorioretinal atrophy in high myopia.…”
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