Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Bacterial Community Assembly and Co-Occurrence Patterns in Biological Soil Crusts of Desert Ecosystems by Runze Bao, Kai Tang, Yanfu Ji, Shengnan Zhang, Chunying Wang, Yungang Liang, Xiujuan Zhao, Jianyu Meng

“…In contrast, cyano-BSCs exhibited a lower diversity, but Cyanobacteria demonstrated the highest photosynthetic function. Among the different deserts, the community assembly of samples from the eastern Inner Mongolia deserts was largely influenced by environmental selection, whereas stochastic processes were more prominent in the central and western desert regions. …”
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Stability Analysis and Mitigation of Thermo-Hydraulic Oscillations in Multi-Supplier District Heating Systems by Pascal Friedrich, Kirill Kuroptev, Thanh Huynh, Stefan Niessen

“…Through linearization and Laplace transformation, we derive the transfer function of a system with two suppliers. Using pole-zero analysis, we show that transport delay can cause instability. …”
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Influence of nutritional status on rehabilitation efficacy of patients after stroke—a scoping review by Huan Chen, Caihong Fu, Weihao Fang, Zhenyao Wang, Dawei Zhang, Hu Zhang

“…Following a rigorous screening process, 13 studies were selected for detailed analysis. All selected studies were randomized controlled clinical trials. …”
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Key frame extraction algorithm for surveillance videos using an evolutionary approach by Manjusha Rajan, Latha Parameswaran

“…This proposed method leverages an interactive GA with a well-designed Fitness Function and elitism-based survivor selection to enhance performance. …”
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Distinct oligomeric assemblies of STING induced by non-nucleotide agonists by Anant Gharpure, Ariana Sulpizio, Johannes R. Loeffler, Monica L. Fernández-Quintero, Andy S. Tran, Luke L. Lairson, Andrew B. Ward

“…Abstract STING plays essential roles coordinating innate immune responses to processes that range from pathogenic infection to genomic instability. Its adaptor function is activated by cyclic dinucleotide (CDN) secondary messengers originating from self (2’3’-cGAMP) or bacterial sources (3’3’-CDNs). …”
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Trust and AI weight: human-AI collaboration in organizational management decision-making by Yanjun Wen, Jiale Wang, Xiaoxi Chen

“…Study 2 surveyed 210 managers using employee performance evaluation tasks.ResultsThe results of Study 1 indicated that trust in AI enhances the decisional weight attributed to AI agents, and willingness to collaborate with AI mediates trust in AI and the weight of AI in personnel selection. The findings of Study 2 revealed that the perceived free will of AI agents negatively moderates the relationship between trust in AI and willing to collaborate with AI, such that the relationship is weaker when individuals perceive a higher degree of free will in AI agents than a lower degree.DiscussionTheoretically, this paper advances the understanding of the function of trust in human-AI interaction by exploring the trust development from attitude to act in human-AI cooperative decision-making. …”
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Physarum-inspired multi-parameter adaptive routing protocol for coal mine hybrid wireless mesh networks by Guangzhi Han, Haifeng Jiang, Liansheng Lu, Shanshan Ma, Shuo Xiao

“…Mesh clients with application service and routing function in hybrid wireless mesh networks can form a highly robust hybrid network with mesh routers. …”
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Polyphenolic Metabolites and Antioxidant Activities of Alpinia katsumadai Hayata. and Its Adulterants by DING Shuxian, YANG Qing, WANG Qinglong, WANG Zhunian, YUAN Langxing, FENG Shixiu,LIU Mengting, YIN Haiquan, ZHANG Aling, WANG Maoyuan

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WRKY gene family of Licorice (Glycyrrhiza uralensis): identification and expression analysis in response to abiotic stress by Rui Li, Jing Gao, Nan Wang, Yonggang Yan, Gang Zhang, Jiakun Yan

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Integrating Food Preference Profiling, Behavior Change Strategies, and Machine Learning for Cardiovascular Disease Prevention in a Personalized Nutrition Digital Health Interventio... by Hana Fitria Navratilova, Anthony David Whetton, Nophar Geifman

“…Intervention functions were designed using the Behavior Change Wheel, and behavior change techniques were selected for the DHI features. …”
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Application of modern agronomic and biotechnological strategies to valorise worldwide globe artichoke (Cynara cardunculus L.) potential - an analytical overview by Aneta Grabowska, Gianluca Caruso, Ali Mehrafarin, Andrzej Kalisz, Robert Gruszecki, Edward Kunicki, Agnieszka Sękara

“…The growing importance of globe artichoke as modern functional food as well as a source of pharmaceuticals has raised new issues that all producers have to face; hence the necessity of contemporaneous development of new centres of production and new technologies application in traditional regions of growing which can complement the global market. …”
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Efficient Schemes for Optimizing Load Balancing and Communication Cost in Edge Computing Networks by Efthymios Oikonomou, Angelos Rouskas

“…However, the placement of edge servers should match the level of demand for computing resources and the location of user load. Thus, it is necessary to devise schemes that select the most appropriate access nodes to host computing services and associate every remaining access node with the most proper service node to ensure optimal service delivery. …”
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TECHNICAL EFFICIENCY OF SMALLHOLDER POULTRY FARMERS IN AKURE SOUTH LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, ONDO STATE, NIGERIA by Oluwakemi ODUNTAN

“…The study used a multi-stage sampling procedure to select eighty respondents with the aid of structured questionnaire. …”
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The Melilla-Nador cross-border urban complex by Gabino Ponce Herrero, Pablo Martí Ciriquián

“…Old borders are undergoing intense changes – their function of isolation is being altered and some are becoming bridges for trade. …”
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Graphical representation of global water models by H. Müller Schmied, H. Müller Schmied, S. N. Gosling, M. Garnsworthy, L. Müller, C.-E. Telteu, A. K. Ahmed, L. S. Andersen, J. Boulange, P. Burek, J. Chang, H. Chen, L. Gudmundsson, M. Grillakis, L. Guillaumot, N. Hanasaki, A. Koutroulis, R. Kumar, G. Leng, J. Liu, J. Liu, J. Liu, X. Liu, I. Menke, I. Menke, V. Mishra, V. Mishra, Y. Pokhrel, O. Rakovec, O. Rakovec, L. Samaniego, L. Samaniego, Y. Satoh, H. L. Shah, M. Smilovic, T. Stacke, E. Sutanudjaja, W. Thiery, A. Tsilimigkras, Y. Wada, N. Wanders, T. Yokohata

“…Global water models are used to simulate the terrestrial part of the global water cycle, and their outputs contribute to the evaluation of important natural and societal issues, including water availability, flood risk, and ecological functioning. Whilst global water modeling is an area of science that has developed over several decades, and individual model-specific descriptions exist for some models, there has to date been no attempt to visualize the ways that several models work, using a standardized visualization framework. …”
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TOWARDS A SUSTAINABLE POST-WAR RECOVERY: THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITIES IN UKRAINE'S ECONOMIC, ENVIRONMENTAL, AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION by Nataliia Kholiavko

“…The research employed a survey method, with students from Ukrainian higher education institutions selected as the primary target group of respondents. …”
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Structural knowledge-driven meta-learning for task offloading in vehicular networks with integrated communications, sensing and computing by Ruijin Sun, Yao Wen, Nan Cheng, Wei Wang, Rong Chai, Yilong Hui

“…By optimizing the computation mode and network resources, in this paper, we investigate an I-CSC-based task offloading problem to reduce the cost caused by resource consumption while guaranteeing the latency of each task. …”
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Material screening for the development of a photovoltaic module using biodegradable materials from renewable raw materials by Pander Matthias, Koepge Ringo, Jaeckel Bengt, Mordvinkin Anton

“…As result, the materials could no longer fulfill its protective function for the cells.…”
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Gallium oxide (Ga2O3) as a radiation detector distinguishing neutrons and gammas by D. J. Valdes, L. Rendon, J. Winkelbauer, P. Koehler, S. C. Vogel, K.-X. Sun

“…Gallium oxide (Ga2O3) is a promising ultrawide bandgap semiconductor for radiation detection with the potential of integrating electronic and scintillation functions within a single crystal device. …”
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Conservation and Presentation of the Byzantine Period on the Historical Peninsula of Istanbul: Urban Archaeological Values in Ibrahim Pasha Palace and Imaret of Beyazıt Complex by Neşe Karaçay, Aynur Çiftçi

“…Built in the 16th century, Ibrahim Pasha Palace was given the function of the Turk and Islamic Art Museum in 1966. …”
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