Derivation of Hyperspectral Profiles for Global Extended Pseudo Invariant Calibration Sites (EPICS) and Their Application in Satellite Sensor Cross-Calibration by Juliana Fajardo Rueda, Larry Leigh, Morakot Kaewmanee, Harshitha Byregowda, Cibele Teixeira Pinto

“…This study presents the selection of 20 Extended Pseudo Invariant Calibration Sites (EPICS) for radiometric calibration and the derivation of their hyperspectral profiles using the DLR Earth Sensing Imaging Spectrometer (DESIS) and Hyperion data. …”
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DFT Study and Antiparasitic Activity of Some Azo Dyes Containing Uracil by Nevin Süleymanoğlu, Pınar Kubaşık, Şahin Direkel

“…In vitro antileishmanial activities against Leishmania promastigotes were tested by microdilution broth assay with Alamar Blue in RPMI 1640 medium, and in vitro trichomonacidal activities against Trichomonas vaginalis parasite were tested using TYM medium. …”
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Deep-Learning-Based Land Cover Mapping in Franciacorta Wine Growing Area by Girma Tariku, Isabella Ghiglieno, Andres Sanchez Morchio, Luca Facciano, Celine Birolleau, Anna Simonetto, Ivan Serina, Gianni Gilioli

“…The study focuses on the Franciacorta area, Lombardy Region, leveraging the rich diversity of the dataset to effectively train and evaluate the models. …”
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Menstrual Pattern and Characteristics of One-Rod and Two-Rod Levonorgestrel Implant Users by Eka Rusdianto Gunardi, Sulaeman Andrianto Susilo

“…The maternal mortality ratio (MMR) in Indonesia reaches 359 per 100,000 live births. The long-acting reversible contraceptive (LARC) method is an effective contraceptive choice for reducing MMR. …”
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Does total column ozone change during a solar eclipse? by G. H. Bernhard, G. T. Janson, S. Simpson, R. R. Cordero, R. R. Cordero, E. I. Sepúlveda Araya, J. Jorquera, J. A. Rayas, R. N. Lind

“…The new results augment our understanding of the effect of a solar eclipse on the Earth's upper atmosphere.</p>…”
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Gender inequalities in prescribing and initiation patterns of guideline-recommended drugs after acute myocardial infarction by Irene López-Ferreruela, Sara Malo, Blanca Obón-Azuara, María José Rabanaque, Adriana Gamba, Sara Castel-Feced, Isabel Aguilar-Palacio

“…Methods A population-based observational study of RWD was conducted in the CARhES (CArdiovascular Risk factors for hEalth Services research) cohort. The study included subjects who had experienced a first episode of AMI between 2017 and 2022, had survived the event, and had a minimum follow-up of 180 days. …”
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Exploring Medicinal Plants for Antimicrobial Activity and Synergistic Effects With Doxycycline Against Bacterial Species by Joel Frank Kenmeni, Ibrahim Sifi, Borel Ndezo Bisso, Prudence Ngalula Kayoka-Kabongo, Ulrich Joël Tsopmene, Jean Paul Dzoyem

“…Medicinal plants are rich sources of bioactive compounds with diverse pharmacological properties, including antimicrobial activities. …”
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Near-Field Ground Motion Modal versus Wave Propagation Analysis by Artur Cichowicz

“…The weak underground motion has spectral characteristics similar to the strong ground motion observed on the earth's surface; the drift spectrum has a maximum value less than 0.02%.…”
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Characterization of Integrons and Antimicrobial Resistance in Escherichia coli Sequence Type 131 Isolates by Jiangqing Huang, Fangjun Lan, Yanfang Lu, Bin Li

“…Transfer of integrons was carried out using a broth culture mating method. Clonal relatedness of E. coli ST131 isolates was analyzed by PFGE. …”
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The Ediacaran-Cambrian Radiation of Animals within the Villuercas-Ibores-Jara UNESCO Global Geopark, Spain by Iván Cortijo, Teodoro Palacios, Sören Jensen, José María Barrera

“…Across the Ediacaran to Cambrian transition, some 541 Ma, the Earth's biosphere changed from one dominated by microbial organisms to one where multicellular organisms, including animals, rose to importance. …”
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Antibacterial, Antifungal, and Antidiabetic Effects of Leaf Extracts from Persea americana Mill. (Lauraceae) by Mercy Makopa, Benjamin Mangiza, Benjamin Banda, Winnie Mozirandi, Molly Mombeshora, Stanley Mukanganyama

“…The antidiabetic potential of the extracts was determined against mammalian α-glucosidase in vitro. The broth microdilution method was used to investigate the antibacterial and antifungal susceptibility of the microbial strains towards the leaf extracts. …”
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In vitro inhibition of Xanthomonas vasicola pv. musacearum, the causal agent of banana Xanthomonas Wilt, using medicinal plant extracts from North Kivu, Eastern Democratic Republic... by Franchement Mukeshambala, Angele Ibanda, Ludivine Lassois, Gakuru Semacumu, Dhed’a Djailo, Leon Nabahungu, Guy Blomme, Godefroid Monde

“…A completely randomized design was used for the three inhibition tests (1) on Mueller Hinton Agar (MHA) using disc diffusion with 10 plant extracts; (2) in liquid YPG Broth using 10 plant extracts; and (3) on MHA using disc diffusion with 19 plant extracts. …”
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Stiffness Determination of Backfill-Rock Interface to Numerically Investigate Backfill Stress Distributions in Mine Stopes by Guangsheng Liu, Xiaocong Yang, Lijie Guo

“…Moreover, the plotting methods of stress distributions and the coefficient of lateral earth pressure of backfill in simulated stopes with proposed interface stiffness were discussed to further clarify the reasonable methods to investigate the backfill stresses in mine stopes, especially after considering the effects of the convergence from rock walls, which is a very significant and common phenomenon in practical mining engineering.…”
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Improved cattle farm classification: leveraging machine learning and linked national datasets by Guy-Alain Schnidrig, Guy-Alain Schnidrig, Rahel Struchen, Sara Schärrer, Dagmar Heim, Daniela Hadorn, Gertraud Schüpbach-Regula, Giulia Paternoster

“…Using farm-level data on milk production, age and sex distribution, cattle breeds, calving, births, slaughter, animal movements and antibiotic use, we trained three different machine learning models capable of classifying the five production types. …”
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The Potential of Trichoderma AA1 and AA2 as Local Indonesian Cellulolytic Inoculum in the Fermentation of Gliricidia sepium Leaf Meal by A. M. W. Mulyono, M. Husein

“…Measurement of cellulolytic ability includes qualitative cellulase activity (measurement of clear zone formation around fungal colonies) and quantitative cellulase activity (measurement of the amount of reducing sugar produced by broth enzymes from fungal cultures). Experiments of Gliricidia sepium fermentation using Trichoderma AA1 and AA2 were each designed using Completely Randomized Design. …”
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Deep-TEMNet: A Hybrid U-Net–2D LSTM Network for Efficient and Accurate 2.5D Transient Electromagnetic Forward Modeling by Zhijie Qu, Yuan Gao, Kang Xing, Xiaojuan Zhang

“…The transient electromagnetic (TEM) method is a crucial tool for subsurface exploration, providing essential insights into the electrical resistivity structures beneath the Earth’s surface. Traditional forward modeling approaches, such as the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method and the finite-element method (FEM), are computationally intensive, limiting their practicality for real-time, high-resolution, or large-scale investigations. …”
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Geographical accessibility of emergency neonatal care services in Ethiopia: analysis using the 2016 Ethiopian Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care Survey by Andrew Hayen, Getiye Dejenu Kibret, Daniel Demant

“…We used the 2016 Ethiopian Emergency Obstetric and Neonatal Care survey in addition to several geospatial data sources.Results We estimated that 21.4%, 35.9% and 46.4% of live births in 2016 were within 30, 60 and 120 min of travel time of fully EmNeC services, but there was considerable variation across regions. …”
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Historical and projected forest cover changes in the Mount Kenya Ecosystem: Implications for sustainable forest management by Brian Rotich, Abdalrahman Ahmed, Benjamin Kinyili, Harison Kipkulei

“…Land Use Land Cover (LULC) maps for 2000, 2014, and 2023 were classified using Random Forest (RF) in Google Earth Engine (GEE). Explanatory factors of LULC change (slope, aspect, population density, proximity to rivers, roads, and towns) were used to project LULC for 2035 using Cellular Automata and Markov Chain Analysis (CA-MCA).Six LULC types (open forest, closed forest, cropland, bareland, built-up, shrubland and grassland) were successfully classified with accuracies exceeding 82.5% and Kappa coefficients above 0.77. …”
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Perceived effectiveness and recommendations from a childbirth quality assurance and improvement programme in India’s private sector: a qualitative evaluation using the RE-AIM frame... by Katherine Semrau, Meghna Desai, Lauren Spigel, Somesh Kumar, Megan Marx Delaney, Lauren Bobanski, Suranjeen Pallipamula, Natalie Henrich, Tapas Sadasivan Nair, Hema Divakar, Rajat Chabba, Shweta Jindal, Gulnoza Usmanova, Sukanya Dutta, Aarushi Gupta, Sucheta Kinjawadekar, Priti Kumar, Priyanka Kumari, Prerna Mukharya, Hrishikesh Pai, Ameya Purandare, Pompy Sridhar

“…Introduction Previous studies have revealed inconsistent quality of care in India’s private sector, where nearly one in three facility births take place. Manyata is a quality assurance and improvement programme launched in 2016 by the Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI) that provides training, mentorship and accreditation to private maternity facilities. …”
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Genetic mechanisms of the influence of light and phototransduction on Drosophila melanogaster lifespan by I. A. Solovev, M. V. Shaposhnikov, A. A. Moskalev

“…The light of the visible spectrum (with wavelengths of 380-780 nm) is one of the fundamental abiotic factors to which organisms have been adapting since the start of biological evolution on the Earth. Numerous literature sources establish a connection between the duration of exposure to daylight, carcinogenesis and longevity, convincingly showing a significant reduction in the incidence of cancer in blind people, as well as in animal models. …”
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