Effects of aspirin and omega-3 fatty acids on age-related macular degeneration in ASCEND-Eye: a randomised placebo-controlled trial in a population with diabetes by Praveen Patel, Rory Collins, Richard Peto, Mark Davies, Sanjiv Banerjee, David Simpson, John Anderson, Louise Bowman, Peter Scanlon, Amanda Adler, Andrew Farmer, Helen Cook, Laura Evans, Elizabeth Williamson, Louis Bolter, Jane Armitage, Peter Sandercock, Richard Gray, Nilesh Samani, Tasso Gazis, Richard Haynes, Arun Sachdev, Eric Wu, Elizabeth Wincott, Peter Sleight, Colin Baigent, Marion Mafham, Sarah Parish, Gavin Brown, Susan Hurley, Lynne Allsop, William Stevens, Theingi Aung, Allen Young, Emily Sammons, Georgina Buck, Imen Hammami, Jill Barton, Jonathan Bodansky, Roger McPherson, Lucy Fletcher, Murphy Kevin, Ryonfa Lee, Sandra Pickworth, Monica Willett, Michael Lay, Ola Murawska, Karen Melham, Jonathan Latham-Mollart, Anna Brewer, Mike Olson, Jude Kay, Alisha Griffiths, Helen Clayton, Philip Kirby, Mike Pennington, Dominic Clarke, Jenny Anslow, Alex Hallam, Jenny Witts, Sarah Egan, Alex Wharton, Amy Derbyshire, Katherine Hepplestone, Sujit Mithra, Su Oliver, Pauline Wiatrak-Olszewska, Kelly Alvey, Nick Gregory, Priyai Parkinson, Prema Maharajan, Rachel McFee, Donna Sowter, John Featonby, Richard Furnival, Helen Lipinski, Hazel Benjamin, Tanisha McAfee, Emma Payne Payne, Liz Still

“…Reports of AMD diagnoses were sourced from 6 monthly ASCEND follow-up questionnaires and a Visual Function Questionnaire.Participants 15 480 UK adults at least 40 years of age with diabetes but no evident cardiovascular disease.Interventions 100 mg aspirin daily versus placebo and, separately, 1 g omega-3 FAs daily versus placebo.Main outcome measure The first post-randomisation reports of AMD.Results During 7.4 years of follow-up, 122 (1.6%) participants randomised to aspirin were reported as having AMD, compared with 138 (1.8%) randomised to placebo (rate ratio 0.88; 95% CI 0.69 to 1.12; p=0.31). …”
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Distribution of β-casein variants and effects on milk composition in Podolian cows reared in Gargano Promontory (Southern Italy) by Antonella Santillo, Francesca d'Angelo, Cristina Lamberti, Maria Gabriella Giuffrida, Francesco Romaniello, Marzia Albenzio

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Environmental DNA as a tool for soil health monitoring and unveiling new ecological frontiers by Yuan Zhang, Weijun Lu, Kaihang Xing, Fen Guo, Qingping Du, Xinfei Zhang, Fan Zhang, Zongyao Qian, Feilong Li

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De novo transcriptome assembly of the Mediterranean sea-rock pool mosquitoes Aedes mariae and Aedes zammitii by Valentina Mastrantonio, Daniele Porretta, Franco Liberati, Roberta Bisconti, Tiziana Castrignanò, Daniele Canestrelli

“…Validation by BUSCO confirmed the high quality of our resources. Homology alignments of predicted ORFs showed that 21,842 sequences from Ae. mariae and 21,944 sequences from Ae. zammitii mapped to the Nr, SwissProt, and TrEMBL databases, while 19,208 and 19,393 predicted ORFs, respectively, were functionally annotated using the COG and KEGG databases. …”
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Short-Term Fertilization with the Nitrogen-Fixing Bacterium (NFB) <i>Kosakonia radicincitans</i> GXGL-4A Agent Can Modify the Transcriptome Expression Profiling of Cucumber (<i>Cuc... by Baoyun Feng, Erxing Wang, Yating Zhang, Lurong Xu, Yanwen Xue, Yunpeng Chen

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Spatial Appraisal of Seasonal Water Yield of the Sokoto-Rima Basin by Shakirudeen Odunuga, Mayowa Fasona, Saheed Adekunle Raji

“…Understanding the dynamics of water yield as relates to water balance is vital for the functioning of ecosystems as well as model-based computation of their respective ecosystem services. …”
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A methodology for quantitatively managing the bug fixing process using Mahalanobis Taguchi system by Boby John, R. S. Kadadevarmath

“…The controlling of bug fixing process during the system testing phase of software development life cycle is very important for fixing all the detected bugs within the scheduled time. The presence of open bugs often delays the release of the software or result in releasing the software with compromised functionalities. …”
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Biodegradation of Phenanthrene by <i>Mycobacterium</i> sp. TJFP1: Genetic Basis and Environmental Validation by Shuyun Li, Jiazhen Liu, Ping Fang

“…This study provides efficient strain resources for the bioremediation of PAH contamination.…”
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New strategies and advancements in the synthesis of metal organic frameworks for PAHs removal by Cong Thanh Nguyen, Edgar N. Tec-Caamal, Arunadevi Natarajan, Nguyen Chi Thanh

“…Advancing an innovative technology for detecting and capturing PAHs is essential for safe, and sustainable living. …”
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The Bio-Uptaking and Fermenting Characteristics of Various Lignocellulose-Digested Mono- and Oligo-Saccharides by <i>Bacillus subtilis</i> by Liang Wu, Yong Xu

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High host specificity of alphacoronaviruses in Nearctic, insectivorous bats by Jonathon D. Kotwa, Arkadeb Bhuinya, Winfield Yim, Giulia Gallo, Pahul Singh, Qiang Liu, Anil Kumar, Emily Chien, Aaron Hou, Hsien-Yao Chee, Juliette Blais-Savoie, Lily Yip, Valerie Von Zuben, K. Aidan Wouters, Vikram Misra, Oliver Lung, Dalan Bailey, Finlay Maguire, Arinjay Banerjee, Samira Mubareka, Christina M. Davy

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HBXIP suppression reduces cell proliferation and migration and its overexpression predicts poor prognosis in non-small-cell lung cancer by Yixuan Wang, Nan Li, Shuanlong Che, Tiefeng Jin, Junjie Piao, Shuangping Liu, Zhenhua Lin

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Molecular Insights into Rice Immunity: Unveiling Mechanisms and Innovative Approaches to Combat Major Pathogens by Muhammad Usama Younas, Bisma Rao, Muhammad Qasim, Irshad Ahmad, Guangda Wang, Quanyi Sun, Xiongyi Xuan, Rashid Iqbal, Zhiming Feng, Shimin Zuo, Maximilian Lackner

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Fish diversity assessment and semi-quantitative biomass estimation through metabarcoding of environmental DNA by Yassine Kasmi, Ismael Núñez-Riboni, Tina Blancke, Benita Möckel, Matthias Bernreuther, Christoph Stransky, Reinhold Hanel

“…A sustainable management of marine fisheries resources requires the continuous development and adaptation of monitoring and tracking techniques, both in terms of species diversity and abundance. …”
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Recent advances in metal-organic frameworks for electrochemical sensing applications by Magesh Kumar Muthukumaran, Muthukumar Govindaraj, Sakthivel Kogularasu, Balasubramanian Sriram, Bharathi Kannan Raja, Sea-Fue Wang, Guo-Ping Chang-Chien, Arockia Selvi J

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Genotype × environment interaction analysis and climatic factors impacts on grain yield in rainfed durum wheat trials in Iran by Reza Mohammadi, Moslem Abdipour, Mahnaz Rahmati, Mohammad Armion, Nastaran Mehri, Asghar Mehraban

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Spatial Variability and Periodicity of Precipitation in the Middle Reaches of the Yellow River, China by Yi He, Xingmin Mu, Peng Gao, Guangju Zhao, Fei Wang, Wenyi Sun, Yuqing Zhang

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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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The biocontrol effects and mechanisms of mycoparasitic Alternaria alternata against Chinese rose powdery mildew by Yanping Tang, Yanping Tang, Ruotian Gao, Ruotian Gao, Changle Ma, Jin Wang, Jing Li, Jing Li

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Screening of anomalies in a double-stranded DNA via global electrical measurements by Sourav Kundu

“…We conduct two-terminal charge transport calculations to detect biological defects in three types of DNA sequences: periodic, quasi-periodic and random. …”
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