Where there’s smoke there is fire: Türkiye and the international illegal wildlife trade by Özgün Emre Can

“…Trafficked wild animals and wildlife products are moving between source and demand regions in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. …”
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Baseline levels of microplastics in agricultural soils obscure the effects of additional microplastics from recycled fertilizers by Collin J. Weber, Dominika Kundel, Andreas Fliessbach, Else K. Bünemann, Moritz Bigalke

“…Whilst it was observed from the fluxes that digestate can be a substantial source of microplastics to soils, the comparatively short time of application and the high background at our investigated sites leads to a obscured effect where digestate inputs serve a limited function.…”
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Efficient Use of Variation in Evolutionary Optimization by John W. Pepper

“…Commonly used selection algorithms contain several sources of inefficiency, some of which are easily avoided and others of which are not. …”
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Modern Concepts of Clinical and Diagnostic Criteria for Premature Ovarian Failure (Literature Review) by M. D. Salimova, Ya. G. Nadelyaeva, I. N. Danusevich

“…An information search was carried out using Internet resources (PubMed, Web of Science, eLibrary.Ru), literary sources for the period 2015–2019 were analyzed. As a result of the analysis of the literature data, a step-by-step diagnosis of pathology was described, the main shortcomings of the main marker for assessing ovarian function – folliclestimulating hormone – were identified and listed. …”
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Faeces, Feathers and Flight: Understanding of Escape Behaviour in Incubating Eurasian Woodcocks (Scolopax rusticola) by Martin Sládeček, Kateřina Brynychová, Lucie Nutilová, Miroslav E. Šálek

“…In this study, we investigate this behaviour in incubating female Eurasian woodcocks (Scolopax rusticola) using a large data set of 399 photographed nests sourced from various open‐source internet platforms. …”
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Design and control of a modular two-stage SST- based bidirectional EV charger by Radhika P, Mohamed Imran A

“…Small signal transfer functions are derived, and controllers are designed accordingly. …”
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Does tinnitus and emotional distress influence central auditory processing? A comparison of acute and chronic tinnitus in normal-hearing individuals. by Qian Zhou, Wenling Jiang, Haibin Sheng, Qinjie Zhang, Dian Jin, Haifeng Li, Meiping Huang, Lu Yang, Yan Ren, Zhiwu Huang

“…<h4>Design</h4>This study compared the auditory afferent and efferent functions of normal-hearing patients with acute tinnitus, chronic tinnitus, and control group using gap detection test, the Mandarin Hearing in Noise Test (MHINT), and contralateral suppression of transient evoked otoacoustic emissions (TEOAEs).…”
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Spontaneous blinking and brain health in aging: Large-scale evaluation of blink-related oscillations across the lifespan by Sujoy Ghosh Hajra, Jed A. Meltzer, Prerana Keerthi, Chloe Pappas, Allison B. Sekuler, Cam-CAN Group, Careesa Chang Liu

“…Crucially, these age-related differences were not observed in the behavioral measures of task performance such as reaction time and accuracy, suggesting that blink-related neural responses during the target detection task are more sensitive in capturing aging-related brain function changes compared to behavioral measures alone. …”
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Impact of UAV-Derived RTK/PPK Products on Geometric Correction of VHR Satellite Imagery by Muhammed Enes Atik, Mehmet Arkali, Saziye Ozge Atik

“…Satellite imagery is a widely used source of spatial information in many applications, such as land use/land cover, object detection, agricultural monitoring, and urban area monitoring. …”
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Digital Twins by Physical Education Teaching Practice in Visual Sensing Training System by Xinran Liu, Ji Jiang

“…The proposed method improves the recognition rate of the camera source to some extent and has important exploration significance in the field of action recognition.…”
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JWST/NIRCam Narrowband Survey of Paβ Emitters in the Spiderweb Protocluster at z = 2.16 by Rhythm Shimakawa, J. M. Pérez-Martínez, Helmut Dannerbauer, Yusei Koyama, Tadayuki Kodama, Pablo G. Pérez-González, Chiara D’Eugenio, Yuheng Zhang, Abdurrahman Naufal, Kazuki Daikuhara

“…The weight-corrected color–magnitude diagram obtained 57 sources showing narrowband excesses, 41 of which satisfy further color selection criteria for limiting the sample to Pa β emitter candidates at z ∼ 2.16, and 24 of them do not have H α emitter counterparts. …”
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Obstacle shape determination by mobile robot sensor system using GP2Y0A (Sharp) type IR distance sensors by V. P. Andreev

“…It is necessary to determine the source of such interference, propose a method for estimating its parameters and a way to minimize its influence.   …”
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Egyptian pediatric kidney transplantation: highlights on post-transplant follow-up and management of complications by the Egyptian Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee... by Bahia Moustafa, Neveen A. Soliman, Ihab Shaheen, Ahmed Badr, Fatma M. Atia, Mohamed K. El Hatw, Engy Adel Mogahed, Mona EL-Ghamrawy, Khaled El Khashab, Noha Shaheen, Mohamad G. Shouman, Abeer Selim, Magdy El-Sharkawy, Tarek Abd El Azeem, Mohamad Esmat, Manal Salman, Bedeir Ali-El-Dein, Mona Abdel Rahim, Muhamed A. El-Hadedy, Moatasem Elsayed Ghoneim, Mai S. Korkor, Tarek E. I. Omar, Yasser Amer, Ashraf Abdel Baky, On Behalf of Egyptian Pediatric Clinical Practice Guideline Committee

“…Infections, rejection, recurrence, malignancy, bone problems, hypertension, and surgical complications are the most important challenges that require prevention, early detection, and management. Chronic allograft nephropathy needs different approaches based on its related causes, allograft pathology, graft function, and availability of re-transplantation. …”
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Heterogeneously integrated light emitting diodes and photodetectors in the metal-insulator-metal waveguide platform by Kwon Kyungmok, Park Junghoon, You Jong-Bum, Yu Kyoungsik

“…We experimentally verify the independent and combined operations of electrically-driven on-chip light sources and photodetectors.…”
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Reconstruction of the object inhomogeneity parameters from near-field measurements in microwave tomography problem using neural networks by A.V. Medvedev, M.Yu. Medvedik

“…The field is induced by a point source located outside the body. Materials and methods. …”

Identification of key genes associated with mesocotyl length through a genome-wide association study in rice by Li Xue, Li Xue, Sen Wang, Sen Wang, Qiuyu Zhang, Qiuyu Zhang, Bing Han, Di Cui, Longzhi Han, Jianxin Deng, Xiaoding Ma

“…In this study, 300 rice germplasm resources with a wide range of sources were selected as experimental materials. Phenotypic traits such as mesocotyl length and seedling emergence rate were systematically determined in each variety by setting different mulch depth treatments. …”
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Big data in visual field testing for glaucoma by Alex T. Pham, Annabelle A. Pan, Jithin Yohannan

“…In this study, we review the use of big data for evaluating the reliability of VF tests, gaining insights into real-world clinical practices and outcomes, understanding new disease associations and risk factors, characterizing the patterns of VF loss, defining the structure–function relationship of glaucoma, enhancing early diagnosis or earlier detection of progression, informing clinical decisions, and improving clinical trials. …”
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Gene expansion in the hawkmoth Manduca sexta drives evolution of food-associated odorant receptors by Megha Treesa Tom, Philipp Brand, Sascha Bucks, Jin Zhang, Mario Ernesto Escobar Huezo, Bill S. Hansson, Sonja Bisch-Knaden

“…Our results suggest a link between the studied OR expansion and enhanced detection of odors emitted by valuable nectar sources in M. sexta.…”
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Blind super-resolution network based on local fuzzy discriminative loss for fabric data augmentation by Ning Dai, Xiaohan Hu, Kaixin Xu, Xudong Hu, Yanhong Yuan, Bo Cao, Luhong Shi

“…In the field of fabric defect detection, the development of algorithms has been hindered by issues such as poor quality and limited quantity of open-source datasets. …”
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Experiments on the application of the infrasound method of remote monitoring of snow avalanches in the Khibiny Mountains by A. V. Fedorov, I. S. Fedorov, V. E. Asming, A. Yu. Motorin

“…Visual slope observations are still the main method of avalanche detection. As a result, avalanche statistics, especially in remote mountain areas, remain incomplete. …”
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