Stable microbial community promotes aerobic methanotrophy in a large river-reservoir system by Qiong Tang, Zhe Li, Lunhui Lu, Yan Xiao, Xinghua Wu, Dianchang Wang

“…ABSTRACT Aerobic methanotrophy, mainly carried out by methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) in freshwater systems, plays a crucial role in reducing methane (CH4) emissions and serves as an additional carbon source (methane-derived carbon) that supports the development of microbial food loops. …”
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Comparative Metabolic Profiling of Lycium Fruits (Lycium barbarum and Lycium chinense) from Different Areas in China and from Nepal by Irma Belinda Yossa Nzeuwa, Baofu Guo, Ting Zhang, Liya Wang, Qian Ji, Hui Xia, Guiju Sun

“…Therefore, Lycium fruits could be used as a dietary source of natural function foods and be worthy of development and utilization.…”
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Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis genome resources and metabolite profiling at the strain level and their ability to alleviate anxiety-like behavior in a sleep-deprived mouse... by Yao-Kun Zhang, Liang Zhang, Xue Ni, Shu-Wen Zhang, Min-Zhi Jiang, Si-Lu Zhang, Guo-Xun Xiao, He Jiang, Ming-Xia Bi, Yu-Lin Wang, Chang Liu, Shuang-Jiang Liu

“…In this study, we characterized 16 B animalis subsp. lactis isolates from fecal samples and probiotic sources. We assessed the genotype-phenotype correlations related to growth, carbon source utilization, and stress tolerance in vitro. …”
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Cucumber Leaf Segmentation Based on Bilayer Convolutional Network by Tingting Qian, Yangxin Liu, Shenglian Lu, Linyi Li, Xiuguo Zheng, Qingqing Ju, Yiyang Li, Chun Xie, Guo Li

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Comparative analysis of Propp’s perspective with Greimas and Bermond about narration from Structuralism viewpoint by Reza Ghanbari Abdolmaleki, Ailin Firoozian Pouresfahani

“…This method in which the functions of narrative design were taken into consideration, was changed in Greimas’s and Bremond’s works. …”
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A comprehensive review on production, surface modification and characterization of nanocellulose derived from biomass and its commercial applications by R. Kumar, B. Rai, S. Gahlyan, G. Kumar

“…However, the hydrophilic nature of nanocellulose restricted its utilization in various applications, but the presence of a functional group on its surface provides a platform for surface modification through various techniques. …”
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Theoretical and technical concept of cemented backfill material for flexible enhanced thermal energy storage in coal underground space by Chao LYU, Wenyu LYU, Qiang SUN, Panshi XIE, Ding LANG, Songtao JI, Jianjun HU

“…The cemented backfill material for enhanced thermal energy storage not only improves the utilization rate of coal-based solid waste resources, but also ensures the efficient consumption and utilization of renewable energy. …”
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Pergeseran Peran dan Eksistensi Al-Quran: Studi Living Quran pada Masyarakat Waido, Pidie, Aceh by Samsul Bahri, Muhammad Nuzul Abraar

“…The findings reveal a significant transformation in the status and function of the Quran, which now extends beyond serving as a source of religious guidance to being utilized in everyday practices, such as agricultural rituals and conflict resolution through oath-taking. …”
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Coğrafyacılar Tarafından Yapılan Arazi Kullanım Çalışmaları Üzerine Kavramsal ve Yöntemsel Öneriler by Ali Özçağlar

“…It is sensitive to natural events and human activities, and if not managed well, it easily breaks down and loses many of its functions. In this article, written in order to bring new conceptual views to the subject of land use, which has applications in many disciplines other than geography, the concepts of land, the nuance between land use and land utilization, natural and functional land division and land ability classification will be discussed.…”
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Few-Shot Unsupervised Domain Adaptation Based on Refined Bi-Directional Prototypical Contrastive Learning for Cross-Scene Hyperspectral Image Classification by Xuebin Tang, Hanyi Shi, Chunchao Li, Cheng Jiang, Xiaoxiong Zhang, Lingbin Zeng, Xiaolei Zhou

“…Unsupervised domain adaptation has proven its effectiveness in tackling this issue, but it has a fatal limitation of intending to narrow the disparity between source and target domains by utilizing fully labeled source data and unlabeled target data. …”
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Implementasi Algoritme Evolusioner NSGA-II pada Optimasi Daya Wireless Power Transfer Multi-Penerlima by Sabriansyah Rizqika Akbar, Eko Setiawan, Agung Setiabudi

“…The main parameters (voltage source, capacitance, inductance, and mutual inductance) are used in the mathematical model and further formulated as power in receivers as a multi-objective function. …”
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The mechanism of acetyl-CoA synthase through the lens of a nickel model system by Shounak Nath, Leonel Griego, Liviu M. Mirica

“…Abstract Given the urgent need to develop new methods of CO2/CO utilization, understanding the mechanism of acetyl-CoA synthase (ACS)—a primordial nickel-containing enzyme that converts these gases into a source of cellular energy—is crucial; however, conflicting hypotheses and a dearth of well-characterized bioorganometallic intermediates have hindered a proper understanding of its mechanism. …”
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Cross-Subject Motor Imagery Electroencephalogram Decoding with Domain Generalization by Yanyan Zheng, Senxiang Wu, Jie Chen, Qiong Yao, Siyu Zheng

“…Decoding motor imagery (MI) electroencephalogram (EEG) signals in the brain–computer interface (BCI) can assist patients in accelerating motor function recovery. To realize the implementation of plug-and-play functionality for MI-BCI applications, cross-subject models are employed to alleviate time-consuming calibration and avoid additional model training for target subjects by utilizing EEG data from source subjects. …”
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Development of an Application Method for Volatile Compounds Derived from Mushroom Fungi Beds as Plant Growth-Promoting Biostimulants by Clever N. Kanga, Yui Okisaka, Shigeru Hanamata, Daijiro Ueda, Tsutomu Sato, Toshiaki Mitsui, Kimiko Itoh

“…Edible mushroom fungi beds (FBs) provide a readily available alternative source of fungal VCs, although their biostimulatory functions remain unvalidated. …”
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Atmospheric Turbulence-Controlled Cryptosystems by Ivan B. Djordjevic

“…The proposed encryption scheme employs the traditional scheme to utilize the atmospheric turbulence as the common source of randomness only in the initialization stage to determine the common parameters to be used in the proposed encryption scheme. …”
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Application of marine bacterial alginate lyases in wastewater treatment, biofilm removal and green technology by M.U.K. Anjung, H. Nursyam, A.A. Prihanto, E. Chasanah

“…In recent years, marine bacteria have emerged as a valuable and diverse source of these enzymes, owing to their unique adaptations to extreme marine conditions such as high salinity, variable potential of hydrogen, and fluctuating temperatures. …”
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Reinforcement learning-based vehicle travel path reconstruction from sparse automatic licence plate recognition data by Qiuping Li, Hui Meng, Li Zhuo

“…Finally, the Q-learning algorithm is utilized to reconstruct vehicle travel paths between adjacent ALPR sensors based on the comprehensive reward function. …”
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CFD investigation and ANN prediction of heat transfer coefficient for fully developed turbulent air flow around double V-baffle turbulators by Abdulaziz Alasiri, H.E. Fawaz

“…This paper presents a numerical study of periodic fully developed turbulent airflow in a rectangular channel with double upstream V-baffles installed on the upper and lower walls of the channel in an in-line manner. Utilizing the OpenFOAM open-source software, this numerical research investigates the impact of Re from 10,000 to 40,000 and BR from 0.3 to 0.5 on flow structure and heat transfer performance. …”
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Sucrose non-fermenting protein kinase gene UvSnf1 is required for virulence in Ustilaginoidea virens by Hui Wen, Shuai Meng, Shuwei Xie, Huanbin Shi, Jiehua Qiu, Nan Jiang, Yanjun Kou

“…Further analyses showed that CWDEs (UvCut1 and UvXyp1) are not only involved in growth, spore production, and virulence but are also required for the utilization of carbon sources. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that UvSnf1 plays vital roles in virulence and carbon source utilization in U. virens, and one of the possible mechanisms is playing a role in regulating the expression of CWDE genes.…”
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Thickness and Wavelength Optimizations of a High-Performance SPR Sensor Employing a Silver Layer and Black Phosphorus in Principal Directions by Jakub Chylek, Dalibor Ciprian, Petr Hlubina

“…In this paper, we propose an innovative approach based on the wavelength optimization of a light source for a simple, high-performance surface plasmon resonance (SPR) sensor utilizing comprehensive reflectance analysis in the angular domain. …”
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