The dichotomy of human decision-making: An experimental assessment of stone tool efficiency. by David Nora, João Marreiros, Walter Gneisinger, Antonella Pedergnana, Telmo Pereira

“…In addition, it may be pertinent to extend this approach to other blunt artefactssuch as scrapers, burins, anvils, and hammerstones when investigating aspects of interconnected behaviours such as artefact variability, resource economy, group mobility, and site function. …”
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Development of a Recombinase-Mediated Cassette Exchange System for Gene Knockout and Expression of Non-Native Gene Sequences in <i>Rickettsia</i> by Benjamin Cull, Nicole Y. Burkhardt, Benedict S. Khoo, Jonathan D. Oliver, Xin-Ru Wang, Lisa D. Price, Kamil Khanipov, Rong Fang, Ulrike G. Munderloh

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Advancing wind energy potential estimation through multidistribution wind speed analysis in coastal Pakistan by Ghulam Abbas, Arshad Ali, Zohaib Mushtaq, Ateeq Ur Rehman, Seada Hussen, Habib Hamam

“…The assessment of wind energy potential is critical to the optimization of resource application and improvement of technologies. …”
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Rapid Detection of Trace Toxicants in Blood Using Thermal Desorption Coupled to Continuous Atmospheric Pressure Interfaced Ion Trap Mass Spectrometry by Hui-wen RUAN, Gui-yun SONG, Zhi-gang FAN, Suo-suo YANG, Jian KANG, Lei HUA, Wei-guo WANG

“…Conventional laboratory-based techniques, such as gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), have the advantages of high sensitivity and high selectivity, but often require complex sample preparation, specialized operators, and prolonged turnaround times, rendering them unsuitable for rapid on-site detection. …”
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Machine Learning-Driven GLCM Analysis of Structural MRI for Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis by Maria João Oliveira, Pedro Ribeiro, Pedro Miguel Rodrigues

“…<i>MCI</i>, the proposed model outperformed state-of-the-art imaging source studies by 0.1% and non-imaging source studies by 4.6%. …”
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Feeding black soldier fly (Hermetia illucens) larvae with mushrooms and then exposing them to UVB produces larvae extremely rich in vitamins D2 and D3 by Lisa Morand-Laffargue, Florence Charles, Charlotte Sabran, Patrick Borel

“…Black soldier fly larvae (BSFL) are a sustainable source of protein for feed but they can also be a sustainable source of some phytochemicals due to their ability to bioaccumulate them. …”
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Geological Knowledge‐Guided Dual‐Branch Deep Learning Model for Identification of Geochemical Anomalies Related to Mineralization by Ying Xu, Renguang Zuo, Yang Bai

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Preliminary Study on Natural Infection of Shellfish with Movement Disorder Nodavirus (MDNV) by Ping LI, Jitao XIA, Changming BAI, Ruidong XU, Tingting XU, Shuang LIU, Liang YAO, Xingtong YU, Qingli ZHANG

“…Shellfish is an important source of high-quality protein for human beings and simultaneously plays an important ecological service function in the marine ecosystem. …”
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Local nutrient addition drives plant diversity losses but not biotic homogenization in global grasslands by Qingqing Chen, Shane A. Blowes, W. Stanley Harpole, Emma Ladouceur, Elizabeth T. Borer, Andrew MacDougall, Jason P. Martina, Jonathan D. Bakker, Pedro M. Tognetti, Eric W. Seabloom, Pedro Daleo, Sally Power, Christiane Roscher, Peter B. Adler, Ian Donohue, George Wheeler, Carly Stevens, G. F. Ciska Veen, Anita C. Risch, Glenda M. Wardle, Yann Hautier, Catalina Estrada, Erika Hersch-Green, Yujie Niu, Pablo L. Peri, Anu Eskelinen, Daniel S. Gruner, Harry Olde Venterink, Carla D’Antonio, Marc W. Cadotte, Sylvia Haider, Nico Eisenhauer, Jane Catford, Risto Virtanen, John W. Morgan, Michelle Tedder, Sumanta Bagchi, Maria C. Caldeira, Miguel N. Bugalho, Johannes M. H. Knops, Chris R. Dickman, Nicole Hagenah, Anke Jentsch, Petr Macek, Brooke B. Osborne, Lauri Laanisto, Jonathan M. Chase

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Analysis of the Impact of Effectiveness of Media (Seda-va-Sima) Advertisement on the Extent of Consumers’ Urge to Consume National Commodities by Abolfazl Danaei

“…Media plays a vital role in advertising, cultural, and supervisory functions by creating a mental framework for accepting the necessity of reform and revising the allocation and distribution of resources and income (Hayek, 2015). …”
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Worlds Next Door: A Candidate Giant Planet Imaged in the Habitable Zone of α Centauri A. II. Binary Star Modeling, Planet and Exozodi Search, and Sensitivity Analysis by Aniket Sanghi, Charles Beichman, Dimitri Mawet, William O. Balmer, Nicolas Godoy, Laurent Pueyo, Anthony Boccaletti, Max Sommer, Alexis Bidot, Elodie Choquet, Pierre Kervella, Pierre-Olivier Lagage, Jarron Leisenring, Jorge Llop-Sayson, Michael Ressler, Kevin Wagner, Mark Wyatt

“…Additionally, postprocessing with the principal-component-analysis-based Karhunen–Loéve image processing algorithm reveals a point source, called S 1, in 2024 August, detected at signal-to-noise ratio of 4–6 (3.3–4.3 σ ), a projected separation of ≈1 $\mathop{.}…”
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In-vitro transcriptomic profiling of indigenous Gaddi vis-à-vis exotic Labrador dogs: insights from systems biology by Jaswinder Kaur, Manu Mohan, Bilawal Singh, Ram Saran Sethi, Deepti Narang, Simarjeet Kaur, Chandra Sekhar Mukhopadhyay

“…IntroductionThe domestication of dogs is regarded as an evolutionary adaptation influenced by artificial selective pressures, leading to the fruition of diverse canine breeds across regions. …”
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Evaluation of the authenticity of Citri Grandis Exocarpium based on metabolomics and transcriptomics by Haiting Huang, Yu Liu, Jianmu Su, Xiangxiu Liang, Hong Wu, Mei Bai

“…Flavonoids related to medicinal effects, such as naringin and hesperidin, were significantly more abundant in Huazhou pomelo than in Sanhong pomelo, with compounds such as 5-demethylnobiletin detected only in Huazhou pomelo. The integrative metabolomics and transcriptomics analysis identified 11 key structural genes and transcription factors potentially involved in flavonoid biosynthesis, providing candidate targets for functional validation. …”
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Investigating the influence of soil organic carbon on pore structure within aggregates by Jingjing Liu, Yu Tian, Chiara Pasut, Mark Farrell, Shenggao Lu

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A Study on the Possibility of Molecular Communication between Honey Bees and Sunflower through the Interspecies Transfer of Small RNAs by Leila Gharehdaghi, Gholamhosein Tahmasbi, Taher Harkinezhad

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Nanoprobe synchrotron X-ray fluorescence microscopy reveals selenium-rich spherical structure in mouse retinal pigment epithelium by Marta Ugarte, Kalotina Geraki, Elizabeth Bentley, Roger Cox

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REVIEW OF: GOLUBKOVA O.N. FUNDAMENTALS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH IN THE PROFESSIONAL FIELD: TEXTBOOK by A.A. Bilyalova, A.N. Utekhina

“…The textbook serves as a valuable resource for preparing for lectures and practical sessions, as well as for independent study. …”
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De Novo Synthesis of Anticholinergic Hyoscyamine and Scopolamine in <i>Nicotiana benthamiana</i> Based on Elucidating Tropane Alkaloid Biosynthetic Pathway of <i>Anisodus luridus</... by Mengling Wen, Junlan Zeng, Fei Qiu, Fangyuan Zhang, Zhihua Liao

“…Its high yield of hyoscyamine makes <i>A. luridus</i> a valuable plant source for commercially producing TAs. In this study, we conduct homologous gene research across transcriptome data of different tissues together with functionally tested sequences in <i>Atropa belladonna</i> as a reference and identify 13 candidate genes for TAs biosynthesis in <i>A. luridus</i>. …”
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Short light/dark cycles favour photosynthetic efficiency and growth in grapevines by Mariana Gómez Tournier, Laurent Torregrosa, Jana Kändler, Angélique Christophe, Romain Boulord, Anna Medici, Anne Pellegrino

“…Lastly, the efficiency in the use of resources (light and water) over the cycle was similar, regardless of the treatments and genotypes. …”
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Characterization of two novel chia (Salvia hispanica L.) white and black genotypes via DNA barcoding, physiological, and agronomic traits by Clara R. Azzam, Mokhtar Said Rizk, Soha Sayed Mohammad Mostafa, Ramadan A. Arafa, Mohamed Samy Al-Nabawi, Nahid Abdelaty Ali Morsi, Marwa Mahmoud Nasr El-Din, Enass Hassan Taher, Khaled Adly Khaled

“…Aim: This study utilized DNA barcoding to identify and differentiate two novel chia genotypes, CACH-W and CACH-B, providing insights for breeding programs and genetic resource conservation (CA refers to the developer and CH refer to Chia). …”
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