Farmers’ knowledge and perception of finger millet blast disease and its control practices in western Kenya by Wilton Mbinda, Agnes Kavoo, Fredah Maina, Margaret Odeph, Cecilia Mweu, Naomi Nzilani, Mathew Ngugi

“…Abstract Background Finger millet blast disease, caused by Pyricularia oryzae, is a serious constrain of finger millet production which is threatening global food security especially to the resource poor smallholder farmers in arid and semi-arid regions. …”
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Rapid and sensitive determination of bongkrekic acid with molecularly imprinted polymer-coated wooden-tip electrospray ionization mass spectrometry by Chunfei Zhong, Xinyan Li, Fan Zhang, Ning Liu, Jiewei Deng, Yunyun Yang, Tiangang Luan

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Enabling beam-scanning antenna technologies for terahertz wireless systems: A review by Dongze Zheng, Geng-Bo Wu, Zhi Hao Jiang, Wei Hong, Chi Hou Chan, Ke Wu

“…While producing a scannable highly-directive antenna beam proves to be indispensable in the period of microwaves, the significance of such functionality is more critical in the THz era, considering that THz waves have more intractable challenges such as the severity of free-space propagation losses, the susceptibility to atmospheric environments, and the unavailability of efficient signal sources. …”
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Time frequency analysis of elastic wave PSO OMP for defects in flat steel of down conductors by Jing Zhang, Wei Liu, Minghui Bao, Peng Yang, Xuhua Liu, Zhihong Fu

“…Due to environmental factors, cross media propagation, and interference from excitation sources, noise is coupled into the original signal during data acquisition, seriously affecting signal processing. …”
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Chemometrically assisted optimization and validation of the HPLC method for the analysis of alectinib and its related impurity with measurement uncertainty evaluation and whiteness... by Serkan Levent, Abeer Elriş, Hazal Avcı, Saniye Özcan, Nafiz Öncü Can

“…This made it possible to find and measure the sources of uncertainty as well as the factors that affected the chromatographic responses. …”
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Global Trends and Empirical Metrics in the Evaluation of Code Smells and Technical Debt: A Bibliometric Study by Ronald Henry Diaz Arrieta, Byron Leoncio Diaz Monroy, Luis Javier Castillo Heredia, Alexandra Gabriela Valenzuela Cobos

“…Among the critical factors that affect these attributes are code smells, indicators of structural deficiencies in the source code, which, although they do not directly affect functionality, significantly increase technical debt and maintenance costs. …”
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Depressive disorders in women of climacteric age (review of foreign literature for 2012–2016) by N. A. Bokhan, E. V. Lukiyanova, G. G. Simutkin

“…In the abstract-bibliographic and scientometric database Web of Science Core Collection 70 bibliographic sources are selected across foreign journals between 2012 and 2016, including journals with high Impact Factor. …”
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Genomic Signatures of Positive Selection and Local Adaptation in Ethiopian Sheep Populations by B. E. Demissie, G. M. Tarekegn, H. Dadi, Z. Edea, A. A. Woldesemayat, K-S Kim, S. Girma, T. Seyoum, K. Melaku, S. Keskes

“…Fixation index (FST) and cross-population extended haplotype homozygosity (XPEHH) methods were used to detect signatures of positive selection. Functional analysis revealed genes related to plateau adaptation, immune response, and tail fat formation. …”
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Making Blind Robots See: The Synergy Between Fluorescent Dyes and Imaging Devices in Automated Proteomics by Wayne F. Patton

“…Since rare proteins cannot be amplified by any type of PCR method, sensitive detection is critical to proteome projects. Fluorescence methods deliver streamlined detection protocols, superior detection sensitivity, broad linear dynamic range and excellent compatibility with modern microchemical identification methods such as mass spectrometry. …”
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Optimization of the Preparation Process of Flavonoid Solid Beverage from Ficus hirta Vahl. by Lin YANG, Shanyan ZHAO, Fan YANG, Hangying ZHANG, Bocheng HUANG, Juncheng ZHANG

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Genome-Wide Identification and Characterization of SNPs and InDels of <i>Capsicum annuum</i> var. <i>glabriusculum</i> from Mexico Based on Whole Genome Sequencing by Valeria Itzel Moreno-Contreras, Ma. Carmen E. Delgado-Gardea, Jesús A. Ramos-Hernández, Alfonso Mendez-Tenorio, Hugo Varela-Rodríguez, Blanca Sánchez-Ramírez, Zilia Y. Muñoz-Ramírez, Rocío Infante-Ramírez

“…This study provides knowledge of the principal functions associated with high- and moderate-impact variants and supplies a resource for further investigations of the genetic characteristics of these chiltepin peppers.…”
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QTL analysis for plant height and fine mapping of two environmentally stable QTLs with major effects in soybean by Yu TIAN, Lei YANG, Hong-feng LU, Bo ZHANG, Yan-fei LI, Chen LIU, Tian-li GE, Yu-lin LIU, Jia-nan HAN, Ying-hui LI, Li-juan QIU

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Overcoming Stagnation in Metaheuristic Algorithms with MsMA’s Adaptive Meta-Level Partitioning by Matej Črepinšek, Marjan Mernik, Miloš Beković, Matej Pintarič, Matej Moravec, Miha Ravber

“…This study introduces <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>M</mi><mi>s</mi><mi>M</mi><mi>A</mi></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>, a novel meta-level strategy that externally monitors MAs to detect stagnation and adaptively partitions computational resources. …”
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Health-related quality of life, physical and mental capacity at one year follow up of COVID-19 ICU patients: A prospective cohort study by Anders Ersson, Henrik Överengen Reuterborg, Anestis Divanoglou, Richard Levi, Lotti Orwelius

“…Abstract Purpose In 2020 as COVID-19 rapidly overwhelmed ICU resources, patient care capacity was reduced thus increasing the risk of development of post intensive care syndrome (PICS). …”
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Ecotoxicological implications of agricultural ecosystem sedimentary arsenic exposure in benthic organisms: A case study on apple snail by Xiaoyang Bi, Binran Wang, Jingyi Guo, Junhao Qin, Huashou Li, Dongqin Li, Guikui Chen, Rongliang Qiu

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Identification of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) potentially associated with residual feed intake in Qinchuan beef cattle by hypothalamus and duodenum RNA-Seq data by Zonghua Su, Chenglong Li, Chaoyun Yang, YanLing Ding, Xiaonan Zhou, Junjie Xu, Chang Qu, Yuangang Shi, Cong-Jun Li, Xiaolong Kang

“…RNA-Seq data contain an extensive resource of untapped SNPs. Therefore, hypothalamic and duodenal tissues from ten extreme RFI individuals were collected, and transcriptome sequenced in this study. …”
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Untargeted Metabolomics Reveals Distinct Anthocyanin Profiles in Napier Grass (<i>Pennisetum purpureum</i> Schumach.) Cultivars by Zhi-Yue Wang, Pei-Yin Lin, Chwan-Yang Hong, Kevin Chi-Chung Chou, Ting-Jang Lu

“…Plant secondary metabolites regulate plant growth and serve as valuable pharmaceutical resources. Napier grass (<i>Pennisetum purpureum</i> Schumach.), a Poaceae species, shows potential as a functional food. …”
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Whole-Genome Resequencing Reveals Phylogenetic Relationships and Sex Differentiation Mechanisms Among Fujian <i>Cycas</i> Species by Xinyu Xu, Yousry A. El-Kassaby, Sijia Liu, Juan Zhang, Lanqi Zhang, Junnan Li, Wenkai Li, Kechang Zhang, Minghai Zou, Zhiru Lai, Likuang Lin, Yongdong Zhang, Shasha Wu, Bihua Chen

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The Dysregulation of Tuning Receptors and Transcription Factors in the Antennae of <i>Orco</i> and <i>Ir8a</i> Mutants in <i>Aedes aegypti</i> Suggests a Chemoreceptor Regulatory M... by Matthew M. Cooke, Michael S. Chembars, Ronald Jason Pitts

“…Individual tuning receptors in both families require co-receptors for functionality: <i>Orco</i> for all <i>Ors</i>, and <i>Ir8a</i> for many <i>Irs</i>, especially ones that are involved in carboxylic acid detection. …”
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OpenPheno: an open-access, user-friendly, and smartphone-based software platform for instant plant phenotyping by Tianqi Hu, Peng Shen, Yongshuai Zhang, Jiafei Zhang, Xin Li, Chuanzhen Xia, Ping Liu, Hao Lu, Tingting Wu, Zhiguo Han

“…We currently instantiate the use of the platform with tools such as SeedPheno, WheatHeadPheno, LeafAnglePheno, SpikeletPheno, CanopyPheno, TomatoPheno, and CornPheno; each offering specific functionalities such as seed size and count analysis, wheat head detection, leaf angle measurement, spikelet counting, canopy structure analysis, and tomato fruit measurement. …”
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