Climate Change-Induced Decline in Succulent <i>Euphorbia</i> in Namibia’s Arid Regions by J. J. Marion Meyer, Marie M. Potgieter, Nicole L. Meyer, Anika C. Meyer

“…Two of Namibia’s iconic desert-adapted plant species, <i>Welwitschia mirabilis</i> and the quiver tree <i>Aloidendron dichotomum</i>, have recently been shown to be under threat because of climate change. …”
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Analysis of pulmonary sequestration cases, based on the 11-year birth defects surveillance data of Changsha hospitals by Ruobin Xie, Tao-Sha Wang, Yanling Wang, Wei-Dong Wang

“…Abstract Pulmonary sequestration (PS) is a rare congenital malformation that is characterized by the absence of a connection between a portion of the lung tissue and the tracheobronchial tree, with blood supply from arteries throughout the body. …”
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FPGA-Based Distributed Union-Find Decoder for Surface Codes by Namitha Liyanage, Yue Wu, Siona Tagare, Lin Zhong

“…The implementation employs a scalable architecture called Helios that organizes parallel computing resources into a hybrid tree-grid structure. Using a Xilinx VCU129 FPGA, we successfully implement <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$d$</tex-math></inline-formula> up to 21 with an average decoding time of 11.5 ns per measurement round under 0.1&#x0025; phenomenological noise and 23.7 ns for <inline-formula><tex-math notation="LaTeX">$d=17$</tex-math></inline-formula> under equivalent circuit-level noise. …”
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Overlooking the Obvious during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Dyspnoea with Asymmetric Breath Sounds in a Toddler by Heli Salmi, Heini Harve-Rytsälä, Paula Rautiainen, Sari Pyörälä, Johanna Hästbacka

“…Multiple pieces of cashew nuts were removed from the left bronchial tree in a bronchoscopy. After the procedure, all symptoms promptly resolved. …”
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Classification Based on the Support Vector Machine for Determining Operational Targets for Controlling Electricity Usage With Conventional Meters: A Case Study of Industrial and Bu... by Galih Arisona, Alief Pascal Taruna, Dwi Irwanto, Arif Bijak Bestari, Wildan Juniawan

“…Various SVM kernels were tested, including Radial Basis Function (RBF), Linear, Polynomial (Poly), and Sigmoid, alongside classifiers such as SVM, Logistic Regression, Decision Tree, and Na&#x00EF;ve Bayes. Results show that the SVM model, particularly with the RBF kernel, achieves optimal performance, with balanced precision and recall, especially with 30 months of historical data. …”
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Pinus sylvestris bark extract reduces the impact of Heligmosomoides bakeri infection on C57BL/6 but not on BALB/c mice (Mus musculus) by Berit Marie Blomstrand, Stig Milan Thamsborg, Håvard Steinshamn, Heidi Larsen Enemark, Inga Marie Aasen, Karl-Christian Mahnert, Kristin Marie Sørheim, Francesca Shepherd, Jos Houdijk, Spiridoula Athanasiadou

“…Bark extracts from coniferous tree species have previously been shown to reduce the burden of a range of parasite species in the gastrointestinal tract, with condensed tannins as the potential active compounds. …”
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Evaluation of Four Multiple Imputation Methods for Handling Missing Binary Outcome Data in the Presence of an Interaction between a Dummy and a Continuous Variable by Sara Javadi, Abbas Bahrampour, Mohammad Mehdi Saber, Behshid Garrusi, Mohammad Reza Baneshi

“…MI methods included using predictive mean matching with an interaction term in the imputation model in MICE (MICE-interaction), classification and regression tree (CART) for specifying the imputation model in MICE (MICE-CART), the implementation of random forest (RF) in MICE (MICE-RF), and MICE-Stratified method. …”
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Characterization of a New Immunosuppressive and Antimicrobial Peptide, DRS-DA2, Isolated from the Mexican Frog, Pachymedusa dacnicolor by Claire Lacombe, Estefania Aleman-Navaro, Thierry Drujon, Veronica Martinez-Osorio, Emmanuelle Sachon, Erika Melchy-Pérez, Ludovic Carlier, Lorena Elizabeth Fajardo Brigido, Yannick Fleury, Christophe Piesse, Guadalupe Gutiérrez-Escobedo, Alejandro De las Peñas, Irene Castaño, Florie Desriac, Jose Luis Beristain-Hernandez, Christophe Combadiere, Yvonne Rosenstein, Constance Auvynet

“…We isolated three forms (DRS-DA2N, DRS-DA2NE, and DRS-DA2NEQ) of the same peptide, DRS-DA2, which belongs to the dermaseptin family, from the Mexican tree frog Pachymedusa dacnicolor. Interestingly, DRS-DA2N and DRS-DA2NEQ exhibit a dual activity by inducing the death of leukocytes as well as that of Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, including multiresistant strains, without affecting other cells such as epithelial cells or erythrocytes. …”
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Mt or not Mt: Temporal variation in detection probability in spatial capture-recapture and occupancy models by Sollmann, Rahel

“…An SCR case study for brown tree snakes showed identical estimates of density and σ under models accounting for or ignoring temporal variation in detection. …”
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Assessing Food Waste Compost as a Substrate Amendment for Tomato and Watermelon Seedlings by Allyson N. Hamilton, Matthew B. Bertucci, Kristen E. Gibson, Mary C. Savin, D.E. Kirkpatrick, R.C. Woody-Pumford

“…Source material for the FWC included food scraps from a commercial partner and wood chips from a local tree service company. The FWC was prepared in a controlled environment and combined with wood chips to create experimental substrates. …”
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Fruit size prediction of tomato cultivars using machine learning algorithms by Masaaki Takahashi, Yasushi Kawasaki, Hiroki Naito, Hiroki Naito, Unseok Lee, Koichi Yoshi

“…We aimed to develop a method for early prediction of tomato fruit size at harvest with machine learning algorithm, and three machine learning models (Ridge Regression, Extra Tree Regrreion, CatBoost Regression) were compared using the PyCaret package for Python. …”
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Primena daljinske detekcije u inventuri mešovitih šuma hrasta lužnjaka by Borota Dragan, Pantić Damjan, Ponjarac Radenko, Popović Aleksandar

“…In high, mixed, middle-aged and maturing Penduculate oak stands, the possibility of using aerial photogrammetry in the inventory was tested, both to obtain informa­tion related to site and stand information and to determine numerical elements (number of trees, basal area and volume per hectare) obtained on the basis of data read from the images (crown diameter, height and estimated breast height diameter of the tree based on the selected mathematical model). …”
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Genetic Diversity and Population Structure of <i>Macrobrachium nipponense</i> Populations in the Saline–Alkaline Regions of China by Romaric Iko, Zijian Gao, Sufei Jiang, Yiwei Xiong, Wenyi Zhang, Hui Qiao, Shubo Jin, Hongtuo Fu

“…The cluster analyses and the phylogenetic tree identified two main groups. There is an association among sites by geographic location, and the JS site shows higher diversity. …”
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Effects of Land Use Types on Selected Soil Properties in Central Highlands of Ethiopia by Daniel Jaleta Negasa

“…There was the highest exchangeable sodium percentage on Eucalyptus woodlot soils at the upper layer; it can be due to the less surface nutrient movement and growth characteristics of the tree. The soils in cultivated land was shifted to more acidic and less electric conductivity.This shift can lead to soil quality deterioration that affects the productivity of the soils in the future.Nutrient leaching, application of artificial fertilizer, soil erosion, and continuous farming have affected the soil properties in cultivated land. …”
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Genome-based analysis of the genetic pattern of black sheep in Qira sheep by Wen Zhou, Xiaopeng Li, Xuechen Zhang, Lijun Zhu, Yuwei Peng, Cheng-long Zhang, Zhipeng Han, Ruizhi Yang, Xinyu Bai, Quanfeng Wang, Yuejun Zhao, Shudong Liu

“…Subsequently, our PCA, NJ-tree, and Admixture population structure analyses of the 3 wool color Qira sheep populations showed that the 3 middle wool color populations exhibited the same genetic traits. …”
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Modeling compositional heterogeneity resolves deep phylogeny of flowering plants by Yongli Wang, Yan-Da Li, Shuo Wang, Erik Tihelka, Michael S. Engel, Chenyang Cai

“…Under site-heterogeneous models, the approximately unbiased test favored our preferred tree recovered from various datasets: Ceratophyllales (coontails) are robustly recovered as sister to monocots, and they together are sister to the clade comprising magnoliids, Chloranthales, and eudicots. …”
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Molecular Detection and Genetic Characterization of Avian Leukosis Virus From Field Outbreaks in Bangladesh by Md. Golzar Hossain, Riman Pathan, SM Nazmul Hasan, Anandha Mozumder, Moslema Jahan Mou, Marjana Akter, Chandan Sikder, Riyan Al Islam Reshad, Roni Mia, Sukumar Saha, Tofazzal Islam, Sharmin Akter

“…Sequence analysis of the env genes demonstrated high homology among the identified strains (97%–98%) and with reference strains (92%–96%) at the nucleotide level. The phylogenetic tree revealed close relatedness of the three identified strains to reference strains from India, USA, and China. …”
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Assessing Methods to Measure Stem Diameter at Breast Height with High Pulse Density Helicopter Laser Scanning by Matthew J. Sumnall, Ivan Raigosa-Garcia, David R. Carter, Timothy J. Albaugh, Otávio C. Campoe, Rafael A. Rubilar, Bart Alexander, Christopher W. Cohrs, Rachel L. Cook

“…Individual stem diameter at breast height (DBH) was estimated for 77% of field-measured trees. The root mean square error (RMSE) of DBH estimates was 7–12 cm using stem circle fitting. …”
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Voice pathology detection using machine learning algorithms based on different voice databases by Nurul Mu'azzah Abdul Latiff, Fahad Taha Al-Dhief, Nurul Fariesya Suhaila Md Sazihan, Marina Mat Baki, Nik Noordini Nik Abd. Malik, Musatafa Abbas Abbood Albadr, Ali Hashim Abbas

“…Several algorithms, including Online Sequential Extreme Learning Machine (OSELM), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Decision Tree (DT), and Naïve Bayes (NB), were evaluated using two databases: the Saarbrucken Voice Database (SVD) and the Malaysian Voice Pathology Database (MVPD). …”
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Quality of Life Philosophy IV. The Brain and Consciousness by Søren Ventegodt, Niels Jørgen Andersen, Joav Merrick

“…Unfortunately, science has only just begun to understand these patterns.The Bible’s description of the origin of man is two people eating from the Tree of Knowledge and as punishment they are expelled from the Garden of Eden. …”
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