Meaning in Life Among Aged People: A Qualitative Study of an Institutionalized Elderly Sample by Lăcrămioara Cojocaru, Camelia Soponaru, Daniela Muntele-Hendreș, Ciprian Ceobanu

“…The research utilized thematic analysis within a qualitative methodology to investigate the subjective sources of meaning among elderly people living in Romanian institutional settings. …”
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Progress in the synthesis, characterization, and biological activity of polyphenol pectin complexes by LI Peijun, CAO Xingye, XIE Runsheng, TANG Hui, ZHONG Ruimin

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Identification of Candidate Genes for Cold Tolerance at Seedling Stage by GWAS in Rice (<i>Oryza sativa</i> L.) by Huimin Shi, Wenyu Zhang, Huimin Cao, Laiyuan Zhai, Qingxin Song, Jianlong Xu

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Reducing frost heave and salt migration in saline soil foundations of channels in seasonal frozen regions using solidification by KANG Xinrui, LI Hongbo, TIAN Juncang, ZHANG Zhe, WANG Zi

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Investigation of HCPro-Mediated Ethylene Synthesis Pathway Through RNA-Seq Approaches by Xinpeng Jiang, Lan Dong, Renjing Wan, Changli Zeng, Ting Yang

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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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Bioprospecting the Endophytic Fungus, <i>Lasiodiplodia theobromae</i> MMPI, for the Integrated Production of Mycoprotein and Exocellular (1→6)-β-Glucan by Marcelo Luis Kuhn Marchioro, Gabrielli Aline Pietro Bom Candeia, Luana Malaquias Bertoleti, Aneli M. Barbosa-Dekker, Robert F. H. Dekker, Mário Antônio Alves da Cunha

“…In response to the growing demand for alternative protein sources and functional biomolecules for industrial applications, this study investigated the production of mycoprotein and extracellular (1→6)-β-D-glucan (lasiodiplodan) by the fungus <i>Lasiodiplodia theobromae</i> MMPI, establishing an integrated biotechnological platform. …”
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Defects in Silicon Carbide as Quantum Qubits: Recent Advances in Defect Engineering by Ivana Capan

“…A key challenge in utilizing these defects for quantum applications is their precise and controllable creation. …”
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Lambda-PFLOTRAN 1.0: a workflow for incorporating organic matter chemistry informed by ultra high resolution mass spectrometry into biogeochemical modeling by K. A. Muller, P. Jiang, G. Hammond, T. Ahmadullah, H.-S. Song, R. Kukkadapu, N. Ward, M. Bowe, R. K. Chu, Q. Zhao, V. A. Garayburu-Caruso, A. Roebuck, X. Chen

“…Two test cases are provided to demonstrate the functionality of the Lambda-PFLOTRAN workflow. The first test case uses laboratory incubation data of temporal oxygen depletion to fit lambda parameters (i.e., maximum utilization rate and microbial carrying capacity). …”
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From Development to Regeneration: Insights into Flight Muscle Adaptations from Bat Muscle Cell Lines by Fengyan Deng, Valentina Peña, Pedro Morales-Sosa, Andrea Bernal-Rivera, Bowen Yang, Shengping Huang, Sonia Ghosh, Maria Katt, Luciana Andrea Castellano, Lucinda Maddera, Zulin Yu, Nicolas Rohner, Chongbei Zhao, Jasmin Camacho

“…These cells exhibit frequent spontaneous contractions, suggesting robust functional integrity at the neuromuscular junction. …”
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TabMoE: A General Framework for Diverse Table-Based Reasoning with Mixture-of-Experts by Jie Wu, Mengshu Hou

“…Each expert within the model specializes in a distinct logical function and is trained through the utilization of a hard Expectation–Maximization algorithm. …”
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Genomic signatures of SnRKs highlighted conserved evolution within orchids and stress responses through ABA signaling in the Cymbidium ensifolium by Ruiyue Zheng, Kai Zhao, Jiemin Chen, Xuanyi Zhu, Yukun Peng, Mingli Shen, Zhong-Jian Liu, Donghui Peng, Yuzhen Zhou

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Role of secondary char on the fuel properties and pyrolysis behaviors of hydrochars: Effect of temperature and liquid-solid ratio by Hongyue Fu, Fang Wang, Zhenfei Liu, Xiaoning Duan, Lihong Wang, Weiming Yi, Deli Zhang

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Anti‐seasonal flooding drives substantial alterations in riparian plant diversity and niche characteristics in a unique hydro‐fluctuation zone by Ye Liu, Xiaodie Duan, Xiaoling Li, Wenxiong Yi, Gong Chen, Jin Yang, Danli Deng, Xiaojuan Guo, Zhengjian Yang, Guiyun Huang, Meixiang Hu, Chen Ye

“…The results showed anti‐seasonal flooding precipitated the gradual disappearance of the original diverse niches, resulting in the reduction of plant species richness and functional diversity and more obvious competition among plant species with similar resource requirements. …”
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Does renewable energy reduce energy intensity? A matter of income inequality by Rongrong Li, Zhuang Yang, Qiang Wang

“…Abstract This study investigates the complex relationships between income inequality, renewable energy utilization, and energy efficiency across 104 countries from 2010 to 2020. …”
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The Character and Economic Preference of City Network of China: A Study Based on the Chinese Global Fortune 500 Enterprises by Xinzheng Zhao, Jing Su, Jing Chao, Xiaoqiong Liu, Tongsheng Li, Yang Rui

“…The city network structure shows three tendencies, with a concentration in political centers, a concentration in coastal areas, and a concentration in resource-based cities. The external economic dependence of each node city in national city network is high, and the city network structure has distinctly flattening characteristics. (2) Network function of cities is obviously different in multiscale region. …”
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Dietary Black Soldier Fly Larvae Meal and Its Impact on the Growth Performance and Gut Health of Broilers Under an Intestinal Challenge by Yuri Katagiri Dalmoro, Guilherme Librelotto de Godoy, Jessica Cristina Agilar, Glauco Anderson Raddatz, Fernanda de Candido de Oliveira, Natieli Witt, Catarina Stefanello

“…Background/Objectives: The use of black soldier fly (BSF) larvae meal in poultry nutrition is gaining attention as a sustainable protein source with a high nutritional value, an efficient bioconversion of organic waste, and potential functional benefits for intestinal health. …”
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Identification of EXPA4 as a key gene in cotton salt stress adaptation through transcriptomic and coexpression network analysis of root tip protoplasts by Qiankun Liu, Pengtao Li, Muhammad Jawad Umer, Mubashir Abbas, Yongqing Zhao, Yu Chen, Yanfang Li, Aiming Zhang, Yuling Liu, Yangyang Wei, Quanwei Lu, Mengying Yang, Yiman Liu, Xiaoyan Cai, Zhongli Zhou, Shuxun Yu, Fang Liu, Renhai Peng

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Kernel-based response extraction approach for efficient configurable ring oscillator PUF by Enas Abulibdeh, Hani Saleh, Baker Mohammad, Mahmoud Al-Qutayri, Asif Hussain

“…Abstract The Physically Unclonable Function (PUF) is an emerging hardware security primitive that provides a promising solution for lightweight security. …”
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Alternative ‘block and delivery’ approach for alcohol septal ablation in hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with ischemia: a case report by S. M. Mamun Iqbal, Neuton Mondal, Mafuza Tabassum Khan, Ashir Faishal Hamim, Nurullah Mujahid Majumder, Anindita Das Barshan, Mohammad Jahid Hasan

“…Here, we present a case in which a modified 'block and delivery' alcohol septal ablation technique was utilized, instead of the conventional OTW approach, in a patient with concurrent HCM and CAD within a resource-limited setting. …”
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