Comparing Deep Learning models for mapping rice cultivation area in Bhutan using high-resolution satellite imagery by Biplov Bhandari, Timothy Mayer

“…Crop type and crop extent are critical information that helps policymakers make informed decisions on food security. …”
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Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase and carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative bacteria in urinary tract infections in Ethiopia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Mitkie Tigabie, Getnet Ayalew, Lidetu Demoze, Kebebe Tadesse, Yalewayker Gashaw, Muluneh Assefa

“…These catheters often act as reservoirs for multidrug-resistant bacteria, including extended-spectrum beta-lactamase- and carbapenemase-producing pathogens, which significantly limit treatment options and delay appropriate care. …”
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Bridging Land and Sea: Geophysical insights into coastal karstic groundwater dynamics, freshwater plumes and saltwater intrusions in the urban regions of Antalya (Türkiye) by Jasper J.L. Hoffmann, Ercan Erkul, Simon Fischer, Irfan Yolcubal, Pritam Yogeshwar, Wolfgang Rabbel, Amir Haroon, Şerif Bariş, Ahmet Şener, Jens Schneider von Deimling, Ismail Kaplanvural, Bülent Tezkan, Elif Şen, Felix Gross, Ertan Pekşen, Elnur Gasimov, Aaron Micallef

“…Study Focus: Groundwater acts as a critical link between on- and offshore environments, connecting freshwater systems to the saline oceans. …”
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An ultra-simplified protocol for PCR template preparation from both unsporulated and sporulated Eimeria oocysts by Aruto Takano, Dennis V. Umali, April H. Wardhana, Dyah H. Sawitri, Isao Teramoto, Toshimitsu Hatabu, Yasutoshi Kido, Akira Kaneko, Kazumi Sasai, Hiromitsu Katoh, Makoto Matsubayashi

“…Our data revealed that whereas neither pretreatment of oocysts with sodium hypochlorite nor purification of genomic DNA with commercial kits improved the limit of detection of PCR, disruption of oocysts was a critical step in the preparation of PCR templates. …”
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Ethnobotanical survey on anti-tuberculosis plants in Mbujimayi, Democratic Republic of the Congo by Malangu Lambert Muamba, Kitambala Marsi Mbayo, Numbi Evodie Wa Ilunga, Ilunga Eddy Mbuyu, Kabeya Justin Kanda, Otete François Dikala, Ebalantshim Daniel Munakongo, Mwinensenge James Maloba, Nonga Welcome Muyumba, Kalonji Serge Mbuyi, Muya Richard Kalunga, Tsheko Manya, Kihuya Eddy Ngoy, B. J. Kanangila, Mutombo Emery Kalonda, Kankenza Léonard Kalanda, Simbi Jean-Baptiste Lumbu, Clement L. LIYONGO

“…However, the lack of appropriate treatment has led to the emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), which poses a significant public health challenge and complicates the management of the disease. …”
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The PRC2.1 subcomplex opposes G1 progression through regulation of CCND1 and CCND2 by Adam D Longhurst, Kyle Wang, Harsha Garadi Suresh, Mythili Ketavarapu, Henry N Ward, Ian R Jones, Vivek Narayan, Frances V Hundley, Arshia Zernab Hassan, Charles Boone, Chad L Myers, Yin Shen, Vijay Ramani, Brenda J Andrews, David P Toczyski

“…In addition to its core catalytic subunits, mutation of the PRC2.1 accessory protein MTF2, but not the PRC2.2 protein JARID2, rendered cells resistant to palbociclib treatment. We found that PRC2.1 (MTF2), but not PRC2.2 (JARID2), was critical for promoting H3K27me3 deposition at CpG islands genome-wide and in promoters. …”
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Placental trophoblast aging in advanced maternal age is related to increased oxidative damage and decreased YAP by Song Guo, Song Guo, Qihao Pan, Qihao Pan, Baokang Chen, Baokang Chen, Yijuan Huang, Yijuan Huang, Si Li, Si Li, Chenyu Gou, Chenyu Gou, Yu Gao, Yu Gao

“…YAP (Yes-associated protein) was reported to play a critical role in regulation of aging and resisting oxidative damage, yet these roles had not been elucidated in the placenta. …”
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Estimating Suitable Areas for Dry Almond (Amygdalus communis L.) Cultivation Development in Fars Province using Geographic Information System (GIS) by Ayatollah Karami, Alireza Salehi, Vida Aliyari

“…IntroductionDrought stress is one of the major environmental stresses affecting more than 60% of Iran's area. The use of drought resistant plants, especially Almonds (Amygdalus communis L.)  …”
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Blood and Iron: The Rise and Fall of the German Empire 1871 – 1918 by Arzu Melek Ozgumus

“…While she doesn’t mention the Concert of Europe when discussing Bismarck’s foreign policy, she clearly indicates how carefully he keeps a balance between all European powers. She criticizes him, in the following parts of the book, for building all his foreign policy around himself, which was doomed to fail after his resignation. …”
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The Black Ecstatic by Desirée de Jesús

“…Critically lauded as one of 2020’s best films, Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock is an intimate look at black joy during a fraught period of high unemployment and the state-sanctioned criminalization of racialized communities in early 1980s Britain. …”
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Aide au développement : six décennies de trop dits et de non dits by Jean-Michel Servet

“…The article shows how the term “aid” strangely resisted to the wear of time and of the ideas. The list of countries privileged by the aid, its contents and thus its system of justification considerably evolved. …”
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Transcriptional Profiling Reveals Kidney Neutrophil Heterogeneity in Both Healthy People and ccRCC Patients by Yiliang Meng, Kai Cai, Jingjie Zhao, Keyu Huang, Xiumei Ma, Jian Song, Yunguang Liu

“…Neutrophil is known to critically impact the development of renal diseases (e.g., the clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC)), whereas the heterogeneity of neutrophils in ccRCC remains unclear. …”
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“A / music / at rest”: Late Duncan and Objectivist Poetics by Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas

“…This article offers both close readings of specific poems alongside broader comparative discussion of their respective poetic principles to highlight the significance of Zukofsky in Duncan’s late poetry as a critically antagonistic counter to Duncan’s more self-indulgent expansiveness, as well as offering a model for a looser conception of the long poem that defines itself in process rather than driven by the arguments or mythopoetic structures that Duncan found so seductive even while resisting them.…”
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Images of a nation in crisis by Rodwell Makombe

“…These developments show that cartoons can be effective tools of undermining and resisting power. This article critically analyses Zapiro’s Rape of Lady Justice cartoons in the context of South African politics under Zuma’s presidency. …”
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Les enseignants de lycée à l’épreuve de l’éducation à l’orientation by Chloé Pannier, Christophe Michaut

“…Untrained for this, the latter nevertheless have to deal with this mission and the new features induced by the platform, which is the subject of strong criticism due in particular to the inequalities it generates. …”
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Revues qui comptent, revues qu’on compte :produire des classements en économie et gestion by David Pontille, Didier Torny

“…It then becomes a reasoned categorization, solidified through the reviewing of shareable arguments by an internal committee in order to resist to the comparison with other classifications. …”
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Steel Bubbles: Death, Inexhaustibility, and Dickens’s Idea of the Book in Sketches by Boz, First Series (1836) by Jeffrey Jackson

“…Rather than suggesting a return to some pure, unmediated encounter with Dickens’s work, I emphasize textual materiality as a variable that has shaped receptions of both editions of Sketches and read the First Series to show how it, paradoxically, relies on the technology of the book to resist a sense of bookish closure.…”
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Hardy, Galileo and the Art of Transgression by Nathalie Bantz-Gaszczak

“…His life-long appeal for ‘a sincere school of fiction’ to replace what he called ‘a literature of quackery’ thus puts him at the vanguard of writers well bent on resisting censorship and using their art to expose, question, denounce. …”
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Retiming dynamics of harmonically mode-locked laser solitons in a self-driven optomechanical lattice by Xiaocong Wang, Benhai Wang, Wenbin He, Xintong Zhang, Qi Huang, Zhiyuan Huang, Xin Jiang, Meng Pang, Philip. St. J. Russell

“…Abstract Harmonic mode-locking, realized actively or passively, is an effective technique for increasing the repetition rate of ultrafast lasers. It is critically important to understand how a harmonically mode-locked pulse train responds to external perturbations and noise, so as to make sure that it is stable and resistant to noise. …”
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PAI-1 Expression Is Required for HDACi-Induced Proliferative Arrest in ras-Transformed Renal Epithelial Cells by Stephen P. Higgins, Craig E. Higgins, Paul J. Higgins

“…To assess the relevance of PAI-1 induction to growth arrest in this cell system more critically, two complementary approaches were used. …”
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