Dynamics and Insights into the Unique Ecological Guild of Fungi in Bacteria-Bioaugmented Anaerobic Digesters by Linda U. Obi, Ashira Roopnarain, Memory Tekere, Jun Zhou, Heng Li, Yuanpeng Wang, Yanlong Zhang, Rasheed A. Adeleke

“…While bacterial and archaeal communities have been well explored using molecular techniques, fungal community structures remain relatively understudied. …”
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Salutary impact of spontaneous oxidation in CH3NH3SnI3 on CZTS-based solar cell by Sonal Santosh Bagade, Piyush K. Patel

“…However, stabilization was not easy to achieve in CH3NH3SnI3-based solar cells. Because CH3NH3SnI3 was used as an absorber, its naturally-occurring self-doping property spontaneously modified band alignment, which increased carrier recombination and decreased the efficiency of solar cell gradually. …”
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Assessing knowledge management and time performance of building construction projects in Ghana by Francis Gyimah, Kheni Nongiba Alkanam, Elijah Kusi, Fredrick Simpeh

“…The questionnaire was administered by Google Forms, and a response rate of 69% was achieved. The study found that Ghanaian building construction firms apply knowledge gained from previous projects to current projects during construction, and the application of this knowledge managed on current projects during construction explains a 30% improvement in project time performance. …”
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Design of low-carbon planning model for vehicle path based on adaptive multi-strategy ant colony optimization algorithm by Qi Guo, Rui Li, Changjiang Zheng, Gwanggil Jeon

“…Hence, strategically planning and optimizing routes within complex traffic milieus are paramount to enhancing transportation efficacy and achieving low-carbon and environmentally sustainable objectives. …”
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VARIATION OF GROWTH AND YIELD OF CHILLI WITH DIFFERENT DOSES OF NITROGEN IN LAMJUNG DISTRICT, NEPAL by Sabin Bhattarai, Seema Adhikari, Shrisha Shrestha, Sagar Manandhar

“…Among varying nitrogen quantities, the most pronounced plant height (82.40 cm), branch count (8.38), fruit length (11.41 cm), fruits per plant (116.55), per-plant yield (475.5 gm), and overall yield (31.70 t/ha) were achieved with the application of 120 kilograms of nitrogen per hectare. …”
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Rural Household Perception of Drought Occurrence and Its Influence on Livelihood Strategy in Northeast Ethiopia by Sisay Demeke Molla, Menberu Teshome Zeleke, Sisay Misganaw Tamiru

“…This study analyses the rural households’ perceptions of drought occurrence and its influence on livelihood strategies in northeast Ethiopia. This was achieved through a mixed-methods approach with a concurrent research design. …”
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DSC-SeNet: Unilateral Network with Feature Enhancement and Aggregation for Real-Time Segmentation of Carbon Trace in the Oil-Immersed Transformer by Liqing Liu, Hongxin Ji, Junji Feng, Xinghua Liu, Chi Zhang, Chun He

“…For a 512 × 512 input, it achieved 84.7% mIoU, which is 6.4 percentage points higher than that of the baseline short-term dense convolution network (STDC), with a speed of 94.3 FPS on an NVIDIA GTX 2050Ti. …”
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Management and outcomes among older adults with generalized epilepsy in routine clinical practice by MarieElena Byrnes, Majed Alzahrany, Vineet Punia

“…Our findings suggest that most older adults with generalized epilepsy achieve years of seizure remission, but the likelihood of epilepsy resolution is low. …”
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New cultivars of vegetable cowpea (<i>Vigna unguiculata</i> (L.) Walp.) developed at VIR by M. V. Gurkina, M. O. Burlyaeva

“…‘Samma Nova’ and ‘Pasta Grin’ were included in the State Register for Selection Achievements (National List). The zones of cultivation and seed production for these cultivars are Astrakhan and Volgograd Provinces, Krasnodar and Stavropol Territories, and the Republic of Crimea.…”
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Impact of Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA) in Nigeria, a Review of the Future of Farming in Africa by Mabel Adaeze Nwanojuo, Christian Kosisochukwu Anumudu, Helen Onyeaka

“…Overall, for CEA to contribute meaningfully to the Nigerian agricultural sector, specific changes including targeted subsidies, policy reforms, renewable energy access, stakeholder engagement, capacity-building programs, and infrastructure development must be instituted to achieve sustainable agricultural growth. Furthermore, strategies such as hybridizing traditional and CEA practices and creating “pay-as-you-grow” financial models for CEA infrastructure can make the transition more viable for smallholder farmers, who dominate Nigeria’s agricultural sector.…”
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Improvement of Citrus Yield Prediction Using UAV Multispectral Images and the CPSO Algorithm by Wenhao Xu, Xiaogang Liu, Jianhua Dong, Jiaqiao Tan, Xulei Wang, Xinle Wang, Lifeng Wu

“…Achieving timely and non-destructive assessments of crop yields is a key challenge in the agricultural field, as it is important for optimizing field management measures and improving crop productivity. …”
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Exploitation of Unconventional CD8 T-Cell Responses Induced by Engineered Cytomegaloviruses for the Development of an HIV-1 Vaccine by Joseph Bruton, Tomáš Hanke

“…These observations in rhesus macaques opened a possibility that MHC-E-restricted CD8⁺ T-cells could achieve similar control of HIV-1 in humans. The potentially game-changing advantage of the human CMV (HCMV)-based vaccines is that they would induce protective CD8⁺ T-cells persisting at the sites of entry that would be insensitive to HIV-1 evasion. …”
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A novel approach to skin disease segmentation using a visual selective state spatial model with integrated spatial constraints by Yu Bai, Hai Zhou, Hongjie Zhu, Shimin Wen, Binbin Hu, Haotian Li, Huazhang Wang, Daji Ergu, Fangyao Liu

“…This efficient model, termed ‘SSR-UNet,’ leverages bidirectional scanning to capture both global and local features in image data, achieving strong performance with low computational complexity. …”
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Analysis of archive formats and program solutions for compression of text files by Artem Perepelitsyn, Alona Chepelevych, Andrii Litvinov

“…The obtained research results allow to propose the use of the open source archive format zpaq for compressing text or a set of project versions and documentation to achieve a compression ratio that is twice better than for rar format, and two percent better than for 7z and txz formats.…”
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Transferability of bioprocessing modes for recombinant protease production: from fed-batch to continuous cultivation with Bacillus licheniformis by Stefan Kittler, Fabian Müller, Mohamed Elshazly, Georg Benjamin Wandrey, Tobias Klein, Andreas Daub, Oliver Spadiut, Julian Kopp

“…Although the space-time yield of fed-batch cultivations has not been surpassed by stable continuous operations—achieving only a third of the highest space-time yield observed in fed-batch—valuable mechanistic insights have been gained. …”
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Cultivation of Grit in Nursing Students: A Qualitative Descriptive Study “Cultivation of Grit” by Carolyn Spriggs Muchna PhD

“…Background Predicted nursing deficits and low nursing student retention rates highlighted the need to investigate cultivation of grit, a malleable trait involving perseverance and passion to achieve long-term goals amidst challenges and difficulties. …”
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Application of Wasted Oolong Tea as a Biosorbent for the Adsorption of Methylene Blue by Yunfei Hu, Yue Zhang, Yuqun Hu, Chen-Yao Chu, Jinke Lin, Shuilian Gao, Dongyi Lin, Jing Lu, Ping Xiang, Tzu-Hsing Ko

“…The optimal tea powder loading weight is suggested to be at 0.1 to 0.2 g, and the highest efficiency of 94.8% is achieved at 333 K. There were no significant changes in adsorption efficiency when the effect of temperature is considered. …”
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Resilience and its relationship with disability in persons with bipolar disorder and schizophrenia: A comparative study by Arnab Datta, Dhrubajyoti Chetia

“…Symptom remission is inadequate to achieve patient-oriented outcome, and positive psychopathology constructs like resilience have emerged as possible mediators. …”
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Developing “You’re History, Pal!”: Employing Role-Playing Games as Pedagogical Instruments by Ștefana Iosif

“…Furthermore, it employs an interdisciplinary approach, trying to avoid the reductionist and limitative isolation of material kept in separate containers, in an attempt to avoid cross-contamination, in reality achieving sterility more often than not. Particularly within the larger framework of decolonization and postcolonialism, we can notice a reconsideration of dominant paradigms – our academic interest, thus, becomes fundamentally contiguous with multiperspectivism, as reality unfolds much like a kaleidoscope, with shifting perceptions. …”
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Comparative safety and effectiveness of cryoballoon versus radiofrequency ablation for atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Muhammad Furqan, Ifrah Inbisat Raza, Shaheera Younus, Hareer Fatima, Hiba Azhar, Sania Kaneez Fatima, Laiba Ali, Sara Khan, Aayat Ellahi

“…Results The results revealed that CBA and RFCA had similar effectiveness and safety profiles in achieving freedom from AF (RR: 1.00; 95% CI: 0.93 to 1.07, p = 0.99) and paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) (RR: 0.99; 95% CI: 0.89 to 1.10, p = 0.79). …”
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