Development, results and prospects of the spring durum wheat breeding in Russia (post-Soviet states) by P. N. Malchikov, M. G. Myasnikova

“…The article outlines a brief historical background on the introduction to cultivation, distribution and breeding of spring durum wheat in the steppe and forest-steppe regions of Eurasia (the countries of the former USSR: Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan). The approaches and methodology for improving durum wheat during certain scientific selection periods are given. …”
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Effects of reproductive technologies and SPF status on some physiological and behavioral characteristics in rats with arterial hypertension (ISIAH strain) by D. S. Ragaeva, T. O. Abramova, I. N. Rozhkova, E. Yu. Brusentsev, E. V. Kalinichenko, T. N. Igonina, S. Ya. Amstislavsky

“…The behavior of the ISIAH rat offspring resulting from ART was different from that of the naturally born group: the EPM test revealed reduced anxiety in the former. The results of the present study indicate that the rearing conditions as well as reproductive technologies affect some behavioral characteristics in adult ISIAH rats, although they develop arterial hypertension in all the conditions used in this study.…”
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Construction and Application of Enterprise Internal Audit Data Analysis Model Based on Decision Tree Algorithm by Yuna Si

“…Comparing Fuzzy ID3 and Min-Ambiguity fuzzy decision tree algorithms, it is found that the overall performance of the former is better than that of the latter, and the effect of authenticity on the two algorithms is analyzed experimentally. …”
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Demonstration of Participation Networks in Urban Transport Policy of Public and Private Sectors through Social Media: The Case of Bike-Sharing Pricing Strategy in China by Qian Ye, Xiaohong Chen, Hua Zhang, Junjie Cai, Kaan Ozbay

“…Results reveal two types of important actors with unequal roles in terms of information diffusion: the “network root” and the “network bridge.” The former is mainly comprised of organizations and influential individuals who dominate message sharing, whereas the latter is comprised of the general public with various occupational backgrounds who control the efficiency and the scope of information spreading. …”
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Multiscale wildfire and smoke detection in complex drone forest environments based on YOLOv8 by Wenyu Zhu, Shanwei Niu, Jixiang Yue, Yangli Zhou

“…Furthermore, in order to tackle the challenges of detecting flames and smoke at different scales and angles, we have designed the BiFormer module, which adaptively fuses global and local features, significantly enhancing the model’s multi-scale and multi-angle detection capability. …”
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Examination of empirical and Machine Learning methods for regression of missing or invalid solar radiation data using routine meteorological data as predictors by Konstantinos X Soulis, Evangelos E Nikitakis, Aikaterini N Katsogiannou, Dionissios P Kalivas

“…Traditionally, empirical methods have been used for this purpose, but with the increasing accessibility and effectiveness of Machine Learning (ML) methods, it is plausible that the former will be replaced by the latter. In this study, we aimed to provide some insights on the state of this question using the network of meteorological stations installed and operated by the GIS Research Unit of the Agricultural University of Athens in Nemea, Greece as a test site for the estimation of daily average solar radiation. …”
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Differential Characteristics and the Main Controlling Factors of Shale Oil Sweet Spot Reservoirs in Lucaogou Formation, Jimsar Sag, Junggar Basin by Jingmin Wang, Denglin Han, Yuan Deng, Wei Lin, Ao Su, Chenchen Wang, Jizhen Zhang, Juan Zhang

“…The scale and quality of source rocks in the lower sweet spot are better than those in the upper sweet spot. The former has stronger hydrocarbon generation potential, which lays a foundation for the scale difference of organic acid output in the upper and lower sweet spots. …”
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Methane Extraction and Resource Utilization Based on Multisource Data Fusion by Wensheng Chen, Zhongliang Lu

“…The examination ensues showed the following: (1) Compared with the enema of N2, the gasoline-restrain charcoal has more familiar CH4 molecules after CO2 enema, and the constituting force of the CH4-CO2 system is everywhere more humble than that of the CH4-N2 system, the former is more fix. (2) In the same enema pattern, obtained with the CH4-N2 system, the CH4 grout indicated more regular distribution in the CH4-CO2 system. …”
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iTRAQ-Based Proteomic Analysis of Visual Cycle-Associated Proteins in RPE of rd12 Mice before and after RPE65 Gene Delivery by Qinxiang Zheng, Yueping Ren, Radouil Tzekov, Shanshan Hua, Minghan Li, Jijing Pang, Jia Qu, Wensheng Li

“…RALBP-1, RBP-1, and IRBP were reduced in the untreated rd12 eyes and the former two were improved after gene therapy, confirmed by Western blot analysis. …”
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Le bonheur n’est pas l’essentiel ? by Salome Berthon, Yan Bour, Sabine Chatelain, Marie-Noëlle Ottavi, Olivier Wathelet

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Nuclear DNA content variation within four species of Asian catfish of family Pangasidae and their two interspecific hybrids by flow cytometry by Imron, Evi Tahapari, Jadmiko Darmawan, Muhammad Luthfi Abdurachman

“…However, the NDC profiles of both hybrids were different in that the NDC of the former was in between while the latter was below their respective parental lines. …”
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Metabolic Activity of Micromycetes Affecting Urban Concrete Constructions by Galina Yakovleva, Eugene Sagadeev, Viktor Stroganov, Olga Kozlova, Rodion Okunev, Olga Ilinskaya

“…We focused our study on the biodeterioration of concrete specimens widely used as a building material of urban houses by micromycetes isolated from the inner wall surface of the former military hospital in Kazan city, Tatarstan, Russia. …”
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Sociodemographic and Lifestyle Factors in relation to Overweight Defined by BMI and “Normal-Weight Obesity” by Bodil Ohlsson, Jonas Manjer

“…Male sex, age, sick leave/disability, married/cohabitating, divorced/widowed, former smoking, and a high alcohol consumption were associated with higher BMI, whereas higher education and frequent alcohol consumption were inversely associated (all p<0.001). …”
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Heuristic Forest Fire Detection Using the Deep Learning Model with Optimized Cluster Head Selection Technique by Sengottaiyan N., Ananthi J., Rajesh Sharma R., Hamsanandhini S., Sungheetha Akey, Chinnaiyan R., Ketema Adare Gemeda

“…The deep learning model utilizes various environmental data parameters such as humidity, wind speed, temperature and former fire incidents. These parameters are processed through a sophisticated neural network architecture designed to identify patterns and correlations that signify the likelihood of a forest fire. …”
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Russia and NATO’s ‘Open Door’ Policy in the Post-Bipolar Period by P. Ye. Smirnov

“…In this respect, the ongoing NATO enlargement — primarily by accession of the former Warsaw Treaty allies of the USSR — has become one of the key policy tools for Washington after the breakup of the bipolar system in Europe. …”
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Relations between Russia and Lithuania in the contemporary Lithuanian historiography by Nerijus Šepetys

“…During the last five years, the trend of diplomatic historiography has been gradually replaced with the fashion of geopolitical interpretations, which are partly spread by former historians of diplomacy (Č. Laurinavičius, R. …”
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Comparison of anesthetic effects of xylazine combined with alfaxalone or ketamine and maintained with isoflurane in captive Formosan Reeve’s Muntjac (Muntiacus reevesi micrurus) by Li-Jen Chang, Zixuan Wang, Chen-Yeh Lien, Amanda H.C. Wen

“…Hypoxemia (SpO2 < 90%) was more severe in the KX group when compared to the AX group (SpO2 > 92%), and rectal temperatures were higher in the former during the first 15 min. Heart and respiratory rates showed no significant differences between groups. …”
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Prediction of High-Tech Talents Flow Impact on Labor Income Share: Based on DEA and Fractional Hausdorff Grey Model by Wei Cui, Anwei Wan, Yongbo Yang

“…The innovation of this paper is mainly to reveal that the leapfrogging of technological progress is the major cause of the high-tech talents flow rising income inequality gap, while the catching-up of technological progress is the source of the former narrowing the latter. The fractional Hausdorff grey model predicts that the key determinants of income inequality gap are more than labor income share.…”
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Relationship between in ovo feeding and eggshell temperature of breeder eggs during incubation by Maxwell Ansong Okai, Maxwell Ansong Okai, Francis Kruenti, Jacob Alhassan Hamidu, Kokou Tona, Lin Hai

“…This review examined and provides a comprehensive understanding of the relationship of in ovo feeding with eggshell temperature, shedding light on the potential implications of the former for enhanced hatchery operations and poultry production. …”
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The suffix -ee: history, productivity, frequency and violation of stress rules by Ives Trevian

“…The purpose of this paper is (1) to show how this historical process came into being, namely when the change occurred from usage in legal language to other uses; (2) to examine this suffix in terms of its morphological productivity, notably to distinguish well-established nouns from mere nonce words, chiefly used as strictly contrastive (e.g. cutter / cuttee, jester / jestee); (3) to ascertain the frequency of -ee suffixed nouns; to do so we have confronted our corpus of -ee nouns with the word frequency search engine Google Books Ngram Viewer and the Collins Dictionary’s Recorded Usage Charts, the former noting the frequency of words since the 16th century and the latter containing dated sentence examples; (4) to determine how many words in -ee violate the rule proscribing two consecutive stresses (e.g. aˌsyˈlee, aˌwarˈdee), this violation being, in principle, allowed only in compound words (e.g. …”
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