A combined recombinase polymerase amplification CRISPR/Cas12a assay for detection of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense tropical race 4 by Megan Ceris Matthews, Jos van der Linden, Isabelle Robène, Samuel Rozsasi, Beatrix Coetzee, Manuela Campa, Johan Burger, Uzoma Nobel Akwuruoha, Ndubuisi Johnkennedy Madufor, Willem Perold, Umezuruike Linus Opara, Altus Viljoen, Diane Mostert

“…The method can be integrated with inexpensive fluorescent or electronic detection devices to accelerate Foc TR4 in-field detection and, thereby, fast-track disease containment strategies.…”
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Comparative experimental validation of microwave hyperspectral atmospheric soundings in clear-sky conditions by L. Liu, N. Bliankinshtein, Y. Huang, J. R. Gyakum, P. M. Gabriel, S. Xu, M. Wolde

“…Hyperspectral radiance measurements afford a useful means to retrieve these thermodynamic variable fields by harnessing the rich information contained in the electromagnetic wave spectrum of the atmospheric radiation. …”
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Kinetics of Supercritical CO₂ Extraction from Burrito (<i>Aloysia polystachya</i>) Leaves and Sucupira-Preta (<i>Bowdichia virgilioides</i>) Seeds by Gabrielle Vaz Vieira, Michel Rubens dos Reis Souza, Carlos Toshiyuki Hiranobe, José Eduardo Goncalves, Cristiane Mengue Feniman Moritz, Otávio Akira Sakai, Leila Maria Sotocorno e Silva, Michael Jones da Silva, Erivaldo Antônio da Silva, Renivaldo José dos Santos, Edson Antônio da Silva, Lucio Cardozo-Filho, Leandro Ferreira-Pinto

“…Despite their relatively low yields, the extracts contained a diverse range of chemical compounds, including fatty acids (oleic, linoleic, and palmitic acids), squalene, β-carotene, vitamin E, and other bioactive molecules with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and immunomodulatory properties. …”
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Thiazolidinone Steroids Impregnated Polyurethane Foams as a Solid Phase Extractant for the Extraction and Preconcentration of Cadmium(II) from Industrial Wastewater by Mohammad S. Tawfiq Makki, R. Mohammady Abdel-Rahman, K. Ommar Alfooty, Mohammad S. El-Shahawi

“…Compound II were physically immobilized onto polyurethane foams (PUFs) for the preconcentration of cadmium(II) from acidic aqueous media containing iodide ions. The kinetics of the retention step of cadmium(II) from aqueous solutions by compound II treated PUFs was studied. …”
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Using a Herd Profile to Determine Age-Specific Prevalence of Bovine Leukemia Virus in Michigan Dairy Herds by Ronald J. Erskine, Paul C. Bartlett, Todd M. Byrem, Chelsea L. Render, Catherine Febvay, Jessica T. Houseman

“…Enzootic bovine leukosis is a contagious disease of cattle caused by the retrovirus, bovine leukemia virus (BLV) and is the most common cause of malignant neoplasm in cattle. …”
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The use of citrus pulp silage in Diplodus puntazzo nutrition by Silvia Nogales-Mérida, Ana Tomás-Vidal, Miguel Jover Cerdá, Nury B. Sánchez-Lozano, Jorge Velazco-Vargas, Silvia Martínez-Llorens

“…The control diet (CON) contained 421.6 g/kg of protein and 22.6 MJ/kg of energy. …”
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Comparative transcriptome analyses of different orthosiphon aristatus tissues reveal differentially expressed genes associated with flavonoid biosynthesis by Qiaoxue Wang, Huan Long, Shumeng Liu, Xixi Xu, Qin Zhang, Shanyong Yi

“…Recent studies have shown that O. aristatus root contains more flavonoids and has higher antioxidant capacity compared to its medicinal parts. …”
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Low-temperature tribological properties of Si3N4 ceramic composites incorporating nano/microscale graphene and Si3N4 whisker by Fei Chen, Xiaobo Sun, Bin Fang, Ke Yan, Bei Yan

“…At a temperature of 77 K, the friction coefficient of Si3N4 ceramic composites containing 1 wt% MLG and 3 wt% β-Si3N4w, synthesized via spark plasma sintering, dropped to 0.16–0.20, representing a decrease of 39.39–44.83% compared to that at ambient temperature. …”
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Determination of Cefoperazone Sodium in Presence of Related Impurities by Linear Support Vector Regression and Partial Least Squares Chemometric Models by Ibrahim A. Naguib, Eglal A. Abdelaleem, Hala E. Zaazaa, Essraa A. Hussein

“…For best results, a 3-factor 4-level experimental design was used, resulting in a training set of 16 mixtures containing different ratios of interfering moieties. …”
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Elevated SAMD3 expression in T cells predicts improved survival in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma patients by Lingyi Fu, Enliang Zhou, Shuo Li, Ziteng Li, Liyan Wu, Xinxin Zhou, Lang Tian, Bokang Cui

“…This study aimed to demonstrate that elevated sterile alpha motif domain-containing protein 3 (SAMD3) expression in effector CD8+ T cells was associated with improved survival in PDAC patients. …”
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Inversion for Geofluid Discrimination Based on Poroelasticity and AVO Inversion by Lingqian Wang, Hui Zhou, Bo Yu, Yanxin Zhou, Wenling Liu, Yukun Tian

“…Compared with other fluid indicators, the effective pore-fluid bulk modulus is more sensitive to the property of fluid contained in reservoirs. We combine the empirical relations with deterministic models to form a new kind of linearized relationship between the mixed fluid/rock term and the fluid modulus. …”
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Effects of hydrolyzed collagen supplementation for Skin Anti-Aging by Anna Gliwa, Marek Kurowski, Karolina Kuczapska, Monika Ryglewicz, Dariusz Fabian, Elbieta Leszczynska-Knaga, Natalia Jakubczyk, Weronika Rutkowska-Kawalec, Paweł Moczydłowski, Karolina Michhalczuk

“…Overall, it can be concluded that as little as 12 weeks of hydrolyzed fish collagen supplementation improves the quality and appearance of skin in the aging population.Importantly, HC-containing formulations were found to be safe and well-tolerated. …”
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YOLOV9-CBM: An Improved Fire Detection Algorithm Based on YOLOV9 by Xin Geng, Xiao Han, Xianghong Cao, Yixuan Su, Dongxue Shu

“…Secondly, the RepNCSPELAN4 module of the YOLOv9 backbone was replaced with the C3 module containing SE Attention to improve detection efficiency while guaranteeing accuracy. …”
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Pharmacokinetics, biological effects, and distribution of (1→3)-β-D-glucan in blood and organs in rabbits by Minoru Yoshida, Robert I. Roth, Carl Grunfeld, Kenneth R. Feingold, Jack Levin

“…Over 97% of 125I-(1→3)-β-D-glucan was associated with cell-free plasma, and the majority in plasma appeared to be present in the unbound form (not associated with lipoproteins or plasma proteins). The liver contained more than 80% of the 125I-(1→3)-β-D-glucan detected in the six major organs analyzed.…”
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Intratonsillar Immunotherapy: A Convenient and Effective Alternative to Subcutaneous Immunotherapy for Allergic Rhinitis by Tian Gu, Wei Zhang, Lu Tan, Rong Xiang, Peiqiang Liu, Jingyu Huang, Qin Deng, Yuqin Deng, Zezhang Tao, Shiming Chen, Yu Xu

“…Our results indicated that tonsils contained higher levels of allergen-specific IgE compared to peripheral blood. …”
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Erodibility and sedimentation potential of marly formations at the watershed scale by F. Rostami, S. Feiznia, M. Aleali, M. Heshmati, B. Yousefi yegane

“…The results indicated that Kashkan formation comprises siltstone, sandstone, shale, and conglomerate, and Grupi formation contains shale, clay, and limestone with a high erodibility potential. …”
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Progesterone induces meiosis through two obligate co-receptors with PLA2 activity by Nancy Nader, Lama Assaf, Lubna Zarif, Anna Halama, Sharan Yadav, Maya Dib, Nabeel Attarwala, Qiuying Chen, Karsten Suhre, Steven Gross, Khaled Machaca

“…Here, using Xenopus oocyte maturation as a well-established physiological readout of nongenomic P4 signaling, we identify the lipid hydrolase ABHD2 (α/β hydrolase domain-containing protein 2) as an essential mPRβ co-receptor to trigger meiosis. …”
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Extraction approaches for the isolation of some POPs from lipid-based environmental and food matrices: A review by Carriera Fabiana, Di Fiore Cristina, Iannone Alessia, Maio Monica, Avino Pasquale

“…Additionally, it was found that the same technique could extract different contaminants from various matrices, resulting in a loss of selectivity of the method used. …”
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A metagenomic catalogue of the ruminant gut archaeome by Jiandui Mi, Xiaoping Jing, Chouxian Ma, Fuyu Shi, Ze Cao, Xin Yang, Yiwen Yang, Apurva Kakade, Weiwei Wang, Ruijun Long

“…The catalogue contains 42,691 protein clusters, and the clustering and methanogenic pathway analysis reveal strain- and host-specific dependencies among ruminant animals. …”
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Parchment Glutamine Index (PQI): A novel method to estimate glutamine deamidation levels in parchment collagen obtained from low-quality MALDI-TOF data by Nair, Bharath, Palomo, Ismael Rodríguez, Markussen, Bo, Wiuf, Carsten, Fiddyment, Sarah, Collins, Matthew James

“…During liming, collagen peptides containing Glutamine (Q) undergo deamidation resulting in a mass shift of 0.984 Da. …”
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