Regional and strain-level prevalence of nitrogen-fixing Bradyrhizobium with potential N2O reduction in South Korea by Jaeyoung Ro, Hor-Gil Hur, Sujin Lee

“…Abstract Agricultural practices are the largest anthropogenic source of nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas contributing to global climate change. …”
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Repair-mediated duplication by capture of proximal chromosomal DNA has shaped vertebrate genome evolution. by John K Pace, Shurjo K Sen, Mark A Batzer, Cédric Feschotte

“…These events are thought to be a source of genomic instability and human diseases, but it is unclear whether they have contributed significantly to genome evolution. …”
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Devicology: Expanding fieldwork possibilities for architectural observations in inhabited interiors by Tatiana Knoroz

“…These visually chaotic yet surprisingly functional structures are the only tool of the current dwellers to negotiate with the restricting standard apartment plans that were originally designed for a very different sector of the Japanese population. …”
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Carbon-Based Nanoadsorbents for the Removal of Emerging Pollutants by M. Venkata Ratnam, P. Akilamudhan, K. Senthil Kumar, S. Narasimha Reddy, K. Nagamalleswara Rao, Feroz Shaik, D. M. Reddy Prasad

“…Emerging contaminants (ECs) are substances that have been detected in water but have not been thoroughly tested or regulated. …”
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Conditions for the emergence of circumnutations in plant roots. by Ilya Loshchilov, Emanuela Del Dottore, Barbara Mazzolai, Dario Floreano

“…Here we describe a model capable of replicating root growth behaviors, which we used to analyze the role of circumnuntations, revealing their emergence I) under gravitropic stress, as a combination of signal propagation and sensitivity to the signal carriers; II) as a result of the interplay between gravitropic and thigmotropic responses; and III) as a behavioral strategy to detect and react to resource gradients. The latter function requires the presence of a hypothetical internal oscillator whose parameters are regulated by the perception of environmental resources.…”
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Chromosome-level genome assembly of starry flounder (Platichthys stellatus) by Weiwei Zheng, Changlin Liu, Shenglei Han, Tengteng Wang, Tao Yang, Zhihong Liu, Dong Xu, Huizong Han, Xiaoqing Xi, Changwei Shao, Kaiqiang Liu

“…Approximately 94.02% of assembled sequences were anchored into 24 pseudochromosomes, and a total of 18 telomeres were detected. Totally 22,835 protein-coding genes and 227.87 Mb repetitive sequences were identified. …”
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Large-scale RNA-Seq mining reveals ciclopirox olamine induces TDP-43 cryptic exons by Irika R. Sinha, Parker S. Sandal, Holly Spence, Grace D. Burns, Aswathy Peethambaran Mallika, Fatemeh Abbasinejad, Katherine E. Irwin, Anna Lourdes F. Cruz, Vania Wang, Shaelyn R. Marx, Josué Llamas Rodríguez, Ben Langmead, Jenna M. Gregory, Philip C. Wong, Jonathan P. Ling

“…We previously found that TDP-43 loss-of-function leads to transcriptome-wide inclusion of deleterious cryptic exons, a signature detected in presymptomatic biofluids and postmortem ALS-FTD brain tissue, but the upstream mechanisms that lead to TDP-43 dysregulation remain unclear. …”
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rangr: An R package for mechanistic, spatially explicit simulation of species range dynamics by Katarzyna Markowska, Katarzyna Malinowska, Lechosław Kuczyński

“…Several mechanistic, spatially explicit models have been proposed to address this issue, but they do not cover the full range of potential functionalities. We present a new open‐source R package called rangr, which integrates population dynamics and dispersal into a mechanistic virtual species simulator. …”
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A novel method for accelerating surgical wound healing in rabbits by collagen extraction from carp (Cyprinus carpio) fish skin by Shahbaa Kh. Al-Taee

“…The extracted collagen was characterized by low viscosity, transparency, and a watery consistency; the functional groups of collagens were detected using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy. …”
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Host selection is not a universal driver of phyllosphere community assembly among ecologically similar native New Zealand plant species by Anya S. Noble, Jaber Abbaszadeh, Charles K. Lee

“…Abstract Background A growing body of evidence demonstrates that host-associated microbial communities of plant leaf surfaces (i.e. the phyllosphere) can influence host functional traits. However, it remains unclear whether host selection is a universal driver of phyllosphere community assembly. …”
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The cnf1 gene is associated with an expanding Escherichia coli ST131 H30Rx/C2 subclade and confers a competitive advantage for gut colonization by Landry L. Tsoumtsa Meda, Luce Landraud, Serena Petracchini, Stéphane Descorps-Declere, Emeline Perthame, Marie-Anne Nahori, Laura Ramirez Finn, Molly A. Ingersoll, Rafael Patiño-Navarrete, Philippe Glaser, Richard Bonnet, Olivier Dussurget, Erick Denamur, Amel Mettouchi, Emmanuel Lemichez

“…In addition, functional analysis of the cnf1-positive clinical strain EC131GY ST131-H30Rx/C2 and a cnf1-deleted isogenic strain showed no detectable impact of the CNF1 gene on bacterial fitness and inflammation during the acute phase of bladder monoinfection. …”
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MULTI-MODEL STACK ENSEMBLE DEEP LEARNING APPROACH FOR MULTI-DISEASE PREDICTION IN HEALTHCARE APPLICATION by Bhaskar Adepu, T. Archana

“…These datasets serve two functions: improving illness prediction and examining large data reservoirs to identify previously unknown disease patterns. …”
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User Communities — Drivers for Open Innovation by Gunnar Prause, Thomas Thurner

“…Users best judge what will lead to commercial success, and they have long been recognized as a valuable source of knowledge to harvest for future innovation. …”
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Identification method of roof rock interface based on response characteristics of drilling parameters by LI Dianshang, LIU Cancan, WANG Chuanbing, REN Bo, REN Shuai, KANG Zhipeng

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Repair of aircraft engine parts made of heat-resistant nickel alloys using additive plasma technologies by Konstantin Balushok, Sergey Chigileychik

“…No wear of the labyrinth ridges or cracks was detected. The functionality of the restored disk has been confirmed. …”
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Epidemic preparedness and response capacity against infectious disease outbreaks in 186 countries, 2018–2022 by Paul Eze, Judith Chidumebi Idemili, Friday Onwubiko Nwoko, Nigel James, Lucky Osaheni Lawani

“…From the 2022 submissions, 116 (62%) countries reported functional (Level 4 or 5) prevention capacity, 162 (87%) had functional detection capacity, 118 (63%) had functional response capacity, 121 (65%) had functional enabling resources and coordination capacity, and 133 (72%) had functional operational readiness against public health events. …”
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Study of Complex Impedance Dispersion Model for Two-Phase Laminar Flow by CHENG Linfeng, KE Shizhen, SHI Hongwei, ZHANG Yuhang, LUO Hu, TAO Jie

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Unravelling the Impact of an Additional Sex Chromosome in an Adult Female by Sigin George, Vikas Dagar, Barun Kumar Chakrabarty, N. Nagaraja

“…Chromosomal microarray, which is a more expensive test, substantiated the presence of additional X chromosomes but failed to detect the presence of low level of mosaicism. Our case study emphasised the recommendation of performing a strategy-based cost-effective cytogenetic evaluation of all cases of decreased ovarian reserve or low anti-Müllerian hormone levels in a resource-constrained setting. …”
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IGFBP7 promotes the proliferation and differentiation of primary myoblasts and intramuscular preadipocytes in chicken by Wanzhuo Geng, Yulong Guo, Botong Chen, Xi Cheng, Shuohan Li, Mohammed Kamal Challioui, Weihua Tian, Hong Li, Yanhua Zhang, Zhuanjian Li, Ruirui Jiang, Yadong Tian, Xiangtao Kang, Xiaojun Liu

“…We then examined the expression patterns of IGFBP7 across different stages of proliferation and differentiation in CPMs and intramuscular preadipocytes via qPCR, and explored the biological functions of IGFBP7 through gain- and loss-of-function experiments and a range of techniques including qPCR, CCK-8, EdU, flow cytometry, Western blot, immunofluorescence, and Oil Red O staining to detect the proliferation, differentiation, and lipid deposition in CPMs and intramuscular preadipocytes. …”
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Contrasting temporal dynamics of land surface temperature responses to different types of forest loss by Jing Li, Zhao-Liang Li, Xiangyang Liu, Yitao Li, Meng Liu, Nanshan You, Hua Wu, Lei He, Menglin Si, Ronglin Tang, Chenghu Zhou, Wei Zhao, Si-Bo Duan, Pei Leng, Wenqi Liu, Enyu Zhao, Bo-Hui Tang, Zhenong Jin

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