A novel multi-timescale comprehensive drought index for drought monitoring in the Xijiang River Basin by Liping Wang, Shufang Wang, Jing Li, Xingnan Zhang

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Diverse ancestral representation improves genetic intolerance metrics by Alexander L. Han, Chloe F. Sands, Dorota Matelska, Jessica C. Butts, Vida Ravanmehr, Fengyuan Hu, Esmeralda Villavicencio Gonzalez, Nicholas Katsanis, Carlos D. Bustamante, Quanli Wang, Slavé Petrovski, Dimitrios Vitsios, Ryan S. Dhindsa

“…These findings highlight the need for enhanced population representation in genomic resources to fully realize the potential of precision medicine and drug discovery. …”
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Assessing the impact of diet formulation and age on targeted bacterial establishment in laboratory and mass-reared Mediterranean fruit fly using full-length 16S rRNA sequencing by Charles J. Mason, Rosalie C. Nelson, Mikinley Weaver, Tyler J. Simmonds, Scott M. Geib, Ikkei Shikano

“…The target bacterial isolate was detected in medfly when inoculated with liquid diet regardless of age, but those fed a slurry-based diet and a separate water source had less establishment. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variation in Aerosol Optical Depth and Its Potential Effects on Snowmelt in High Mountain Asia from 2004 to 2023 by Lichen Yin, Xin Wang, Wentao Du, Jizu Chen, Youyan Jiang, Weijun Sun, Chengde Yang, Bowen Li, Xingyu Xue, Changsheng Lu

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Ecological connectivity of genomic markers of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli in Hong Kong by Xiaoqing Xu, Yunqi Lin, Yu Deng, Lei Liu, Dou Wang, Qinling Tang, Chunxiao Wang, Xi Chen, You Che, Ethan R. Wyrsch, Veronica M. Jarocki, Steven P. Djordjevic, Tong Zhang

“…Additionally, 195 plasmids were shared across all three source-attributed sectors. Conjugation assays confirmed that several plasmids were functionally transmissible across ecological boundaries. …”
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DistB-Condo: Distributed Blockchain-Based IoT-SDN Model for Smart Condominium by Anichur Rahman, Md. Jahidul Islam, Ziaur Rahman, Md. Mahfuz Reza, Adnan Anwar, M. A. Parvez Mahmud, Mostofa Kamal Nasir, Rafidah Md. Noor

“…Condominium network refers to intra-organization networks, where smart buildings or apartments are connected and share resources over the network. Secured communication platform or channel has been highlighted as a key requirement for a reliable condominium which can be ensured by the utilization of the advanced techniques and platforms like Software-Defined Network (SDN), Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Blockchain (BC). …”
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Unraveling the mitochondrial genome of the medicinal Chinese motherwort (Leonurus japonicus, Lamiaceae): structural dynamics, organelle-to-nuclear gene transfer, and evolutionary i... by Xinyu Bai, Xinyu Bai, Tingting Zhu, Huiru Chen, Xiaoqun Wang, Jing Liu, Yuqing Feng, Yuqing Feng, Yanbo Huang, Joongku Lee, Goro Kokubugata, Zhechen Qi, Xiaoling Yan

“…Extensive RNA editing underscores post-transcriptional regulation in mitochondrial function. These findings enrich genomic resources for Leonurus, support phylogenetic and evolutionary studies in Lamiaceae, and lay groundwork for molecular breeding and conservation strategies targeting mitochondrial traits. …”
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Iodine deficiency as an environmental risk factor for thyroid gland diseases in animals by І. P. Ligomina, I. M. Sokulskyi, V. M. Sokolyuk, B. V. Gutyj, L. M. Soloviova

“…It was observed that goiter was established in only three cows out of 90 (3.35%); all were in Narodytsky district (6.7 %). Enophthalmos was detected in 24 out of 90 dairy cows (26.7 %), including 16 out of 45 cows (35.4 %) in the Narodytsky District, while this symptom was not detected in the Popilnya District dairy cows. …”
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Rossby Number Regime, Convection Suppression, and Dynamo-generated Magnetism in Inflated Hot Jupiters by Albert Elias-López, Matteo Cantiello, Daniele Viganò, Fabio Del Sordo, Simranpreet Kaur, Clàudia Soriano-Guerrero

“…Specifically, we obtain the Rossby number Ro as a function of planetary depth and orbital period, after showing that tidal synchronization is likely valid for all HJs. …”
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Hypoglycemic, Antioxidant Activities, and Probiotic Characteristics of <i>Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus</i> LBUX2302 Isolated from Stool Samples of Neonates by Pedro A. Reyes-Castillo, Ana Laura Esquivel-Campos, Edgar Torres-Maravilla, Eduardo Zúñiga-León, Felipe Mendoza-Pérez, Rosa González-Vázquez, María Guadalupe Córdova-Espinoza, María Angélica Gutiérrez-Nava, Raquel González-Vázquez, Lino Mayorga-Reyes

“…Finally, the presence of ferulic acid activity was detected. The results highlight <i>L. rhamnosus</i> LBUX2302 as a promising probiotic with hypoglycemic and antioxidant effects, warranting further in vivo evaluation for its possible inclusion in functional food and health formulations.…”
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Celastrol-loaded ginsenoside Rg3 liposomes boost immunotherapy by remodeling obesity-related immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment in melanoma by Hongyan Zhang, Jingyi Huang, Yujie Li, Wanyu Jin, Jiale Wei, Ninghui Ma, Limei Shen, Mancang Gu, Chaofeng Mu, Donghang Xu, Yang Xiong

“…Obesity usually exacerbates the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (ITME), hindering CD8+ T cell infiltration and function, which further represents a significant barrier to the efficacy of immunotherapy. …”
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Effect of Perfluorane on Electric Pulse-Modified Red Blood Cell Membranes by V. V. Moroz, Ye. K. Kozlova, M. S. Bogushevich, P. Yu. Alekseyeva, A. M. Chernysh

“…The induced calibrated electroporation of the membranes permitted the detection of the masked effects of perfluorane on blood cells. …”
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Quantification of glucagon and oxyntomodulin by protein precipitation-immunoaffinity enrichment-LC-MS/MS by Jessica O. Becker, Sara K. Shijo, Huu-Hien Huynh, Katrina L. Forrest, Michael J. MacCoss, Michelle A. Emrick, Elisha Goonatilleke, Andrew N. Hoofnagle

“…A glucagon calibration material was sourced commercially and characterized for purity and concentration by high-performance liquid chromatography-ultraviolet detection and amino acid analysis. …”
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Digital Twin-Based Technical Research on Comprehensive Gear Fault Diagnosis and Structural Performance Evaluation by Qiang Zhang, Zhe Wu, Boshuo An, Ruitian Sun, Yanping Cui

“…However, the current gear operation is still faced with problems such as poor monitoring, a single detection index, and low data utilization, which lead to incomplete evaluation results. …”
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Unveiling smart contract vulnerabilities: Toward profiling smart contract vulnerabilities using enhanced genetic algorithm and generating benchmark dataset by Sepideh HajiHosseinKhani, Arash Habibi Lashkari, Ali Mizani Oskui

“…This dataset consists of 111,897 Solidity source code samples, ensuring the practical validation of the proposed approach. …”
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Impulse Shaping Method Based on Bayesian Deconvolution by JIA Tonghui, LIU Yi, WANG Ming, MA Yingjie, WANG Bo

“…The initial step of this method entailed expressing the measured pulse signal as the convolution of the current impulse pulse signal and the detection system response function. Then, the measured signal was expressed in the continuous time domain and decomposed into the form of an impulse signal and a double exponential kernel convolution by derivation. …”
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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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Genome-wide identification and expression pattern analysis of NAC family in Taxus yunnanensis and the TyuNAC30 role in paclitaxel production by Jiangtao Fan, Yong Wang, Mengke Dou, Qiuhong Hu, Qing Li, Shengmei Gan, Mingwei Jing, Gang Wang, Xiong Huang

“…Yeast one-hybrid and related assays revealed that TyuNAC30 functions as a negative regulator of TyuDBTNBT, a key enzyme gene in the paclitaxel biosynthetic pathway. …”
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Investigation of high fecundity genes by nanopore sequencing in sheep (Ovis aries) pituitary by Xue Xiao, Zhibin Ji, Tong Wang, Dejie Zhu, Zhonghui Li, Xinming Xu, Fen Li

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Comparative Study of Fish Diversity in Wanquan River Based on Environmental Technology and Traditional Fishing Gear Survey Methods by Jun LEI, Yuanyuan SU, Lianzheng YIN, Ruohan ZENG, Ping LI, Yongqiang QIN, Xingwei CAI, Xiaoping DIAO

“…The rapid economic development of the Wanquan River basin has seriously affected the ecological function of fish in the basin owing to human activities such as dam dredging and highways. …”
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