Wireworms in Florida Sugarcane by R. H. Cherry, M. Karounos

“… Wireworms, the larval stage of a click beetle, often cause severe damage to numerous crops in Florida. At least twelve species of wireworms have been found in southern Florida, but only the corn wireworm, Melanotus communis, is considered to cause significant economic damage to sugarcane. …”
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Contribution of Gut Bacteria to Liver Pathobiology by Gakuhei Son, Michael Kremer, Ian N. Hines

“…In the setting of tissue injury, whereby the liver is otherwise damaged (e.g., viral infection, toxin exposure, ischemic tissue damage, etc.), these same immune cell populations and their interactions with the infiltrating gut bacteria likely contribute to and promote these pathologies. …”
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Consequences of Hyperoxia and the Toxicity of Oxygen in the Lung by William J. Mach, Amanda R. Thimmesch, J. Thomas Pierce, Janet D. Pierce

“…Understanding the effects of O2 administration is important to prevent inadvertent alveolar damage caused by hyperoxia in patients requiring supplemental oxygenation.…”
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Minimal-Sensing, Passive Force Identification Techniques for a Composite Structural Missile Component by Nick Stites, Jonathan White, Douglas E. Adams, Matt Triplett

“…Therefore, there is a need to develop load and damage identification techniques that utilize only one sensor. …”
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Treatment of Diabetes Mellitus Using iPS Cells and Spice Polyphenols by Qi Ge, Liang Chen, Keping Chen

“…The disease is caused by a metabolic disorder of the endocrine system, and long-term illness can lead to tissue and organ damage to the cardiovascular, endocrine, nervous, and urinary systems. …”
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Investigation of the Dynamic Performance of a Large-Span Suspension Bridge Influenced by Scouring Based on Vehicle-Bridge Coupled Vibration by Qingfei Gao, Biao Wu, Renzhi Wang, Jiaqiang Zhang, Binqiang Guo, Jun Li

“…To study the damage of bridge pile foundations caused by scouring, two damage mechanisms of scouring are proposed in this paper. …”
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Pharmacological inhibition of carbonic anhydrases with a positively charged pyridinium sulfonamide phenocopies the neuroprotective effects of Car9 genetic ablation in a murine sett... by Sara Amiranda, Mariangela Succoio, Serenella Anzilotti, Ornella Cuomo, Tiziana Petrozziello, Valentina Tedeschi, Arianna Finizio, Giorgia Mele, Seppo Parkkila, Lucio Annunziato, Giuseppina De Simone, Giuseppe Pignataro, Agnese Secondo, Nicola Zambrano

“…Our results support the involvement of carbonic anhydrase IX in postischemic damage and pave the way for possible pharmacological interventions with selective inhibitors in the management of brain ischemia.…”
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Methods to Reduce Forest Residue Volume after Timber Harvesting and Produce Black Carbon by Deborah S. Page-Dumroese, Matt D. Busse, James G. Archuleta, Darren McAvoy, Eric Roussel

“…However, one drawback of these restoration treatments is that slash is often burned in piles that may damage the soil and require further restoration activities. …”
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Experimental Investigation of Failure Mode and Energy Evolution under Uniaxial Recompression of Granite Predamaged by Yabin Wu, Xiaosheng Liu

“…The research work aimed at identifying the failure mode and energy evolution of damaged granite by uniaxial compression tests. The predamage specimens were prepared by cyclic loading with high confining pressure under constant upper and lower cyclic limit loading, which were collected from China. …”
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An Improved C-V Model and Application to the Coal Rock Mesocrack Images by Yulong Chen, Hongwei Zhang

“…The improved C-V model is adopted in order to process mesoimages of coal rocks containing single and multiple cracks and obtain high-quality binary images of coal rock mesocracks and the effective characteristic parameters of coal rock mesostructures through quantitative processing, which will lay solid foundations for the follow-up research into coal rock seepage computation and damage calculation. Studies have shown that, compared to the original C-V model, the improved model achieves better image segmentation effects and more accurate quantitative information about coal rock mesostructures for coal rock mesoimages with low contrast ratios and nonuniform grayscale, a fact showing that it can be applied to the calculation of coal rock permeability and damage factors.…”
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Behavior of Concrete Columns Repaired with Polymer Mortar and Epoxy Fiber Panel by Sungnam Hong, Sun-Kyu Park

“…Underwater structures are not easy to check for the degree of damage or to repair and strengthen damaged regions. …”
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Functional Olfactory Nerve Regeneration Demonstrated by Thallium-201 Olfacto-Scintigraphy in Patients with Traumatic Anosmia: A Case Report by Rong-San Jiang, Yu-Yu Lu

“…It is expected to be used to evaluate olfactory nerve regeneration after damage to the olfactory nerves. However, no such result has been reported. …”
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A dual role of Cohesin in DNA DSB repair by Michael Fedkenheuer, Yafang Shang, Seolkyoung Jung, Kevin Fedkenheuer, Solji Park, Davide Mazza, Robin Sebastian, Hiroyuki Nagashima, Dali Zong, Hua Tan, Sushil Kumar Jaiswal, Haiqing Fu, Anthony Cruz, Supriya V. Vartak, Jan Wisniewski, Vittorio Sartorelli, John J. O’Shea, Laura Elnitski, Andre Nussenzweig, Mirit I. Aladjem, Fei-Long Meng, Rafael Casellas

“…Abstract Cells undergo tens of thousands of DNA-damaging events each day. Defects in repairing double-stranded breaks (DSBs) can lead to genomic instability, contributing to cancer, genetic disorders, immunological diseases, and developmental defects. …”
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Estimation of Impact Strength of Kevlar/Basalt and Kevlar/Glass Interwoven Composite Laminate after High-Velocity Bullet Impact by J. Jensin Joshua, Dalbir Singh, Y. Murali Krishna, P. Sivaprakasam, D. Raja Joseph, P. S. Venkatanarayanan

“…The impact strength has been calculated using the damaged area derived using the impact energy absorbed by the laminate. …”
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HA14-1 is Able to Reconstitute the Impaired Mitochondrial Pathway of Apoptosis in Renal Cell Carcinoma Cell Lines by Sebastian Heikaus, Linda van den Berg, Tobias Kempf, Csaba Mahotka, Helmut Erich Gabbert, Uwe Ramp

“…Similarly, etoposide and betulinic acid could not induce mitochondrial damage. In contrast, HA14-1 was able to activate mitochondrial apoptosis, thereby demonstrating functionally inducible signalling pathways downstream of the mitochondria. …”
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Two Sides of the Same Coin: TFIIH Complexes in Transcription and DNA Repair by Alexander Zhovmer, Valentyn Oksenych, Frédéric Coin

“…Following the recruitment of TFIIH to the damaged site, the CAK module is released from the core TFIIH, and the core subsequently associates with DNA repair factors. …”
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Fault Prediction of Centrifugal Pump Based on Improved KNN by YunFei Chen, Jianping Yuan, Yin Luo, Wenqi Zhang

“…A centrifugal pump test rig was established to solve three common faults of centrifugal pumps: cavitation, impeller damage, and machine seal damage, and the method was verified. …”
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Quasistatic Cyclic Tests and Finite Element Analysis of Low-Aspect Ratio Double Steel Concrete Composite Walls by Kaize Ma, Yudong Ma, Boquan Liu

“…The finite element (FE) method was performed to analyze the failure process of the specimens with cyclic analysis. The concrete damage plastic model (CPDM) was selected to simulate the damage progress of concrete. …”
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Neuroprotection and Stroke Rehabilitation: Modulation and Enhancement of Recovery by José Rafael Romero, Viken L. Babikian, Douglas I. Katz, Seth P. Finklestein

“…Recent advances in research are modifying our view of recovery after nervous system damage. New findings are changing previously held concepts and providing promising avenues for treatment of patients after stroke. …”
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Screening Methods for Southern Chinch Bug Resistance in St. Augustinegrass by Huangjun Lu, Ronald Cherry

“… Relying on insecticides for southern chinch bug control raises turfgrass maintenance costs, increases the risk that insects will develop resistance to insecticides, and may damage the environment. Host-plant resistance is a relatively sustainable and environmentally sound option for management of this damaging insect pest.To develop new resistant varieties, plant materials must be screened for new sources of southern chinch bug resistance. …”
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