Ecological space delineation and security analysis in the hilly areas of chongqing, China by Wenyou Han, Wenyou Han, Jie Lei, Jie Lei, Wei Wang, Wei Wang, Runxia Gao, Runxia Gao, Jinglian Tian, Jinglian Tian, Jinhong Wang, Jinhong Wang

“…Taking Chongqing, China as a case study, this paper systematically developed an special evaluation system for ecosystem sensitivity (ES) and ecosystem service function (ESF) in hilly and mountainous areas, utilizing various sources of data from the year 2022 to support the delineation of ecological space types (EST), and analyzing ecological pattern security issues in conjunction with the current land use status. …”
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Droughts and windstorms due to climate change increase variability in species and trait composition of a subtropical monsoon evergreen broadleaf forest in China by Wenjing Chen, Lei Liu, Daijun Liu, Josep Penuelas, Guoyi Zhou, Zhen Yu, Anchi Wu, Zhurong Wu, Langqin Hua

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Comparison of Nutritional and Bioactive Component in Graded Highland Barley Flour by Chongyu LI, Bin DANG, Falin ZHANG, Xijuan YANG

“…Overall, coarse bran of highland barley could be utilized for the development of foods rich in dietary fiber, amino acids, minerals, and polyphenolic compounds, while fine bran can serve as a source material for β-glucan extraction. …”
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Research on site selection and capacity determination problem based on improved particle swarm algorithm by Xiaotong Mi, Qinyang Liu, Bo Geng, Yong Zhu

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Single Mutation in <i>iolT1</i> in <i>ptsG</i>-Deficient <i>Corynebacterium glutamicum</i> Enables Growth Boost in Xylose-Containing Media by Katharina Hofer, Lynn S. Schwardmann, Jung-Won Youn, Volker F. Wendisch, Ralf Takors

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Characteristics and evolution of chemical structural differences between vitrain and durain during anaerobic microbial degradation by Dan LI, Yuan BAO, Fengyin XU, Xiangrong LIU, Yiliang HU, Xiaojing WANG

“…Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction techniques were utilized for analyzing changes in functional group structures as well as microcrystalline structural evolution at different stages (I, II, III) of degraded coals. …”
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Uncertainty management in multiobjective electric vehicle integrated optimal power flow based hydrothermal scheduling of renewable power system for environmental sustainability by Susanta Dutta, Siddhartha Ghosh, Tushnik Sarkar, Provas Kumar Roy, Chandan Paul, Ruba Abu Khurma, Mohd Asif Shah, Saurav Mallik

“…Secondly, renewable energy sources such as wind-solar-EV are integrated with the aforesaid systems for lowering fuel cost, emission, active power loss (APL), aggregated voltage deviation (AVD), voltage stability index (VSI) and also cost, emision, APL, AVD, VSI are reduced simultaneously considering different cases for multi-objective functions.Proposed sine-cosine algorithm (SCA) embedded with quasi-oppositional based learning (QOBL), known as QOSCA is used to balance the exploration and exploitation ability in order to overcome shortcomings and provide global optimal solutions. …”
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MAIT cells launch a rapid, robust and distinct hyperinflammatory response to bacterial superantigens and quickly acquire an anergic phenotype that impedes their cognate antimicrobi... by Christopher R Shaler, Joshua Choi, Patrick T Rudak, Arash Memarnejadian, Peter A Szabo, Mauro E Tun-Abraham, Jamie Rossjohn, Alexandra J Corbett, James McCluskey, John K McCormick, Olivier Lantz, Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro, S M Mansour Haeryfar

“…Accordingly, they upregulate lymphocyte-activation gene 3 (LAG-3), T cell immunoglobulin and mucin-3 (TIM-3), and/or programmed cell death-1 (PD-1), and acquire an anergic phenotype that interferes with their cognate function against Klebsiella pneumoniae and Escherichia coli; vi) MAIT cell hyperactivation and anergy co-utilize a signaling pathway that is governed by p38 and MEK1/2. …”
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Polyhydroxyalkanoate production during electroactive biofilm formation and stabilization in wetland microbial fuel cells for petroleum hydrocarbon bioconversion by Lanmei Zhao, Mengxue Sun, Can Lyu, Long Meng, Jian Liu, Bo Wang

“…During the early phase, the dual-function bacteria, such as Pseudomonas, Bacillus, Acinetobacter and Desulfosarcina, prioritized electron transfer and bioelectricity production using available carbon sources. …”
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Assessment of Fresh Water Reallocation by Treated Wastewater for Irrigation by Mohammad A. Tabieh, Emad K. Al-Karablieh, Tala H. Qtaishat, Amer Z. Salman, Nael H. Thaher, Nehaya K. Al-Karablieh, Madi T. Al-Jaghbir, Tharaa M. Al-Zghoul, Ahmad I. Jamrah

“…Despite its potential to mitigate water scarcity, concerns about soil health, crop yield, and land utilization hinder widespread adoption. The research measures farm profitability and farmers' willingness to embrace TWW through various blending scenarios with traditional surface water sources, incorporating a yield response function to salinity within the profit function. …”
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Linolenic acid-enriched supercritical carbon dioxide extract from seeds of Phyllanthus emblica L., a functional food with quorum quenching and anti-biofilm action, rescues Caenorha... by Acharya Balkrishna, Nem Kumar Ngpoore, Saurabh Bhatti, Yash Varshney, Manisha Kabdwal, Pardeep Nain, Rishabh Dev, Savita Lochab, Anurag Varshney

“…The study is the first comprehensive analysis, positioning PeSSO as a functional food with promising anti-microbial efficacy; and advocating the effective utilization of P. emblica seeds for their therapeutic benefits.…”
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Machine-learning models for Alzheimer’s disease diagnosis using neuroimaging data: survey, reproducibility, and generalizability evaluation by Maryam Akhavan Aghdam, Serdar Bozdag, Fahad Saeed, Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative

“…While advancements in high-throughput technologies have enabled the generation of vast amounts of multimodal clinical, and neuroimaging datasets related to AD, most methods utilizing these data sets for diagnostic purposes have not found their way in clinical settings. …”
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Adult age differences in the integration of values for self and other by Lena Pollerhoff, Anne Saulin, Marcel Kurtz, Julia Stietz, Xue-Rui Peng, Grit Hein, Anita Tusche, Philipp Kanske, Shu-Chen Li, Andrea M.F. Reiter

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Integrating PROSPECT-D physics and adversarial domain adaptation resnet for robust cross-ecosystem plant traits estimation by Hui Zhang, Haoxuan Su, Tie Shen, Guangyao Sun, Qi Wang

“…Plant functional traits, including chlorophyll content (CHL), equivalent water thickness (EWT), and leaf mass per area (LMA), are critical indicators for assessing ecosystem functioning, functional diversity, and their roles in the Earth system. …”
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DEBEcoMod: A dynamic energy budget R tool to predict life-history traits of marine organisms across time and space by A. Giacoletti, M. Bosch-Belmar, G. Di Bona, M.C. Mangano, B. Stechele, G. Sarà

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Efficient Virus-Induced Gene Silencing (VIGS) Method for Discovery of Resistance Genes in Soybean by Kelin Deng, Zihua Lu, Hongli Yang, Shuilian Chen, Chao Li, Dong Cao, Hongwei Wang, Qingnan Hao, Haifeng Chen, Zhihui Shan

“…Soybean (<i>Glycine max</i> L.) is a vital grain and oil crop, serving as a primary source of edible oil, plant-based protein, and livestock feed. …”
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Prognostic value of lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio in acute ischemic stroke: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Chengli Tian, Chengli Tian, Yilin Yang, Yilin Yang, Jun Wan, Ran Wang, Ke Zhou, Yuanli Li, Wenlong Guo, Huijun Li, Yu Zhang

“…To investigate possible sources of variability, we conducted subgroup analyses. …”
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Environmental adaptations in metagenomes revealed by deep learning by Johanna C. Winder, Simon Poulton, Taoyang Wu, Thomas Mock, Cock van Oosterhout

“…In this study, we applied a transfer learning approach using the ESM-2 protein structure prediction model and our own smaller ANN to classify proteins containing the domain of unknown function 3494 (DUF3494) by their source environments. …”
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A Global Attention Mechanism-Based EfficientNet Model for Road Pavement-Type Identification by Zhe-Yuan Ni, Jun-Cheng Wang

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Efficient implementations of a Born Series for computing photoacoustic field from a collection of erythrocytes by Ujjal Mandal, Navroop Singh, Kartikay Singh, Vinit Nana Hagone, Jagpreet Singh, Anshu S. Anand, Ben T. Cox, Ratan K. Saha

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