To flow or to grow? Impacts of tapping on sugar maple by Hannah Grace McNulty, Roberto Silvestro, Minhui He, Fabio Gennaretti, Sergio Rossi

“…We showed evidence of a trade-off among sap extraction, resource depletion and reduced tree growth. The repeated reduction of resources through tapping can have a detrimental effect on tree growth, even if the effect on the hydraulic function remains marginal. …”
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Power Allocation Technology of Long Time Multi-Star Hopping Beam for LEO Satellite by Ziyi LIU, Xiaoning ZHANG, Zesong FEI

“…LEO satellites have superior development prospects due to their low cost, low latency and small path loss, and are widely used in IoT, B5G and other fields.For the LEO satellite and its coverage area will be in a moving state, a convex optimization-based long-time multi-star beam hopping power allocation algorithm was proposed to maximize the system capacity.Focused on the multi-star hopping beam scenario over a period of time, a system model was developed based on the long-time co-orbital multi-star hopping beam scenario and the long-time heterodyne multi-star hopping beam scenario respectively.The resource allocation algorithm was designed for the two long-time multi-star hopping beams with the weighted objective function as the optimization objective, considered the influence factors of inter-star interference, load balancing and inter-star resource allocation priority, a long-time skipping beam resource allocation algorithm based on convex optimization was proposed.The simulation results showed that the proposed scheme could improve the resource utilization of the system compared with the conventional schemes.…”
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Xyloglucan endotransglucosylase/hydrolase 25 positively regulates the lead tolerance in Raphanus sativus by Tong Han, Yongmei Cui, Yang Jing, Meiying Liu, Xuanchao Chen, Yinghui Song, Xinping Gu, Jiahao Wang, Long Wang, Long Wang

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Response of streamflow components and evapotranspiration to changes in tree species composition in a subboreal permafrost watershed in the Greater Khingan Mountains of Northeastern... by Peng Hu, Zhipeng Xu, Xiuling Man, Liangliang Duan, Tijiu Cai

“…Changes in watershed water resources are often linked to land use changes, but the influence of forest structure, especially the composition of tree species, plays a crucial role in hydrological processes. …”
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Asymmetric cyanoesterification of vinylarenes by electrochemical copper catalysis by Kehan Zhou, Niankai Fu

“…Abstract The heterodifunctionalization of alkenes is an efficient and straightforward method for the preparation of highly functionalized molecules. However, enantioselective introduction of two different carbon-based functional groups in a single step using readily accessible and inexpensive starting materials presents a significant challenge. …”
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Viscosity modelling of chlorinated brines in three-component systems with a continuously variable temperature range between 293-323 K by Andrés Soto-Bubert, Rashmi Bhardwaj, Satheeshkumar Rajendran, Roberto Acevedo

“…Overall, the development of a new and refined model for viscosity in chlorinated brines in three-component systems, as presented in the current article, can be seen as a valuable contribution to the mining sector, offering potential benefits in terms of process optimization, resource utilization, and operational efficiency.…”
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Ethnomedicine Knowledge Among Iranian Patients With Gastrointestinal And Liver Disorders: A Cross-Sectional Study by Fatemeh Sadat Hasheminasab, MD,Ph.D, Yasaman Zamanian, MD, Saiedeh Haji-Maghsoudi, Ph.D, Alireza Bakhshipour, MD, Maryam Azimi, MD,Ph.D

“…The majority of consumers relied on friends and family, making up 41.6% of the sources of information on CAM, with only 14.9% disclosing their CAM usage to physicians. …”
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Unraveling Fish Community Diversity and Structure in the Yellow Sea: Evidence from Environmental DNA Metabarcoding and Bottom Trawling by Jinyong Zhang, Xiaoyu Cui, Lin Lin, Yuan Liu, Jinqing Ye, Weiyue Zhang, Hongjun Li

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Study on the Feasibility and Performance Evaluation of High-Orbit Spacecraft Orbit Determination Based on GNSS/SLR/VLBI by Zhengcheng Wu, Shaojie Ni, Wei Xiao, Zongnan Li, Huicui Liu

“…Deep space exploration utilizing high-orbit vehicles is a vital approach for extending beyond near-Earth space, with orbit information serving as the foundation for all functional capabilities. …”
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Efficient Single-Exposure Holographic Imaging via a Lightweight Distilled Strategy by Jiaosheng Li, Haoran Liu, Zeyu Lai, Yifei Chen, Chun Shan, Shuting Zhang, Youyou Liu, Tude Huang, Qilin Ma, Qinnan Zhang

“…In this study, we first design a lightweight model with fewer parameters through the synergy of deep separable convolution and Swish activation function and then employ it as a teacher to distill a smaller student model. …”
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Integrated Analysis of the Metabolome and Transcriptome During Apple Ripening to Highlight Aroma Determinants in Ningqiu Apples by Jun Ma, Guangzong Li, Yannan Chu, Haiying Yue, Zehua Xu, Jiaqi Wu, Xiaolong Li, Yonghua Jia

“…This study aimed to elucidate the metabolic regulatory mechanisms underlying volatile aroma biosynthesis in Malus domestica “Ningqiu” apples, thereby providing theoretical support for the comprehensive utilization of aroma resources. Our methodological framework integrated headspace solid-phase microextraction gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (HS-SPME-GC-MS), ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography–orbitrap mass spectrometry (UHPLC-OE-MS), and Illumina high-throughput sequencing to generate comprehensive metabolomic and transcriptomic profiles of peel and pulp tissues. …”
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Biomining of lunar regolith simulant EAC-1 A with the fungus Penicillium simplicissimum by João Figueira, Stella Koch, Daniel W. Müller, Sebastian Slawik, Aidan Cowley, Ralf Moeller, Marta Cortesão

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An expressivist response to the infinite regress of interpretation argument against legal interpretivism by Michał Wieczorkowski

“…To counter this argument, the paper employs the division of linguistic labour thesis, which holds that the meaning of interpretive rules depends on what legal experts mean by them. Additionally, it utilizes a sceptical solution to the rule-following problem, suggesting that the function of meaning ascriptions is expressive rather than descriptive, which implies that meaning ascriptions do not require any foundational justifiers. …”
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Isovalerylspiramycin I Reprograms the Immunosuppressive and Temozolomide-Resistant Microenvironment by Inhibiting the Frizzled-5/Wnt/β-Catenin Pathway in Glioblastoma by Xin Luo, Xiangyang Zhong, Tianci Zeng, Xiaodie Li, Tao Yang, Qu Yue, Yufei Lan, Sui Chen, Zhao Wang, Manqing Zhang, Boming Zuo, Yuankai Wang, Yixiong Shen, Jiankun Lu, Boyang Liu, Hongbo Guo

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Prediction of thickening efficiency of olefin copolymers and kinematic viscosities of the blended base oils by determining intrinsic viscosities of the copolymers in cyclohexane by M.S. Negi, K. Naresh Kumar, Anil Bhardwaj, G.S. Kapur, S.S.V. Ramakumar

“…These correlation studies enable prediction of performance of olefin copolymer in blended base oil based on an easily and quickly measurable intrinsic viscosity parameter, leading to faster screening of large number of olefin copolymers for their utility as viscosity index improver in lubricants, in a short span of time with limited resources.…”
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A Mutual Information Constrained Multitask Learning Method for Very High-Resolution Building Segmentation by Yongchuang Wu, Yingchun Wang, Hui Yang, Peng Zhang, Yanlan Wu, Biao Wang

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Determinants and geographic distribution of unimproved sanitation facilities in sub-Saharan Africa, spatial and multilevel analysis using demographic and health survey (DHS) data by Lidetu Demoze, Mitkie Tigabie, Eshetu Abera Worede, Helen Brhan, Zemichael Gizaw, Amensisa Hailu Tesfaye, Gelila Yitageasu

“…Several individual and community level factors were significantly associated with the utilization of unimproved sanitation facilities. At the individual level, female-headed households and those with access to improved drinking water source were less likely to use unimproved sanitation. …”
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Real time wire rope detection method based on Rockchip RK3588 by Mengpeng Qian, Yong Wang, Shaoqing Liu, Zhanghou Xu, Zhenshan Ji, Ming Chen, Hailong Wu, Zuchao Zhang

“…Conventional model training and algorithmic computations rely on server-based systems, requiring significant computational resources. This study proposes a real-time wire rope detection system utilizing the Rockchip RK3588 platform. …”
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STAR-YOLO: A High-Accuracy and Ultra-Lightweight Method for Brain Tumor Detection by Liyan Sun, Linxuan Zheng, Zhiguo Xiao, Yi Xin, Linqing Jiang

“…It also integrates SimAM, a parameter-free attention mechanism, and utilizes ShapeIoU as the localization loss function. …”
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Fe-bearing magnesium silicate glasses for potential supplementary cementitious applications by Chuqing Jiang, Hellen Silva Santos, Juho Yliniemi, Johan Lindén, D. D. Ramteke, Mirja Illikainen, Christopher Cheeseman, Paivo Kinnunen

“…However, their global supply is insufficient to meet the growing market demand for cement and concrete, being essential to develop alternative SCMs based on abundant waste streams and low-cost resources. Fe-bearing Mg-based glasses are promising candidates with the potential to utilize high-volume feedstocks rich in Fe and Mg, but their effectiveness relies on deep understanding of the relationship between glass composition, reactivity, and pozzolanic properties. …”
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