Cytotoxic and Apoptosis-Inducing Activity of Plants from the Family Asparagaceae in Relation to Human Alveolar Adenocarcinoma Cells by Y.N. Kamalova, V.V. Shtyreva, Essam Abdul-Hafeez, Omer H.M. Ibrahim, P.V. Zelenikhin, N.S. Karamova, O.N. Ilinskaya

“…Extracts of the leaves of Polianthes tuberosa and Furcraea gigantea, which were cytotoxic at high concentrations, cause cell death at 50 μg/mL in the amount of 21.35 ± 1.86 and 15.6 ± 3.23, respectively. …”
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Respuesta del café a la fertilización con zinc en suelos de la zona cafetera colombiana by Alveiro Salamanca-Jimenez, Luis Fernando Salazar-Gutiérrez, Siavosh Sadeghian-Khalajabadi

“…Por ello, con el objetivo de evaluar la respuesta del café variedad Colombia renovado por zoca a la fertilización con zinc (Zn), se realizó una investigación en tres localidades: Venecia, Gigante y Timbío. Los tratamientos consistieron en tres dosis de Zn (5, 10 y 20 kg.ha-1), aplicadas al suelo en forma de óxido (ZnO), y tres dosis de Zn (0,045, 0,09 y 0,18 kg.ha-1), aplicadas vía foliar como quelato, además de un testigo sin aplicación de Zn. …”
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Diagnóstico clínico y citopatológico del virus del herpes simple bucal en pacientes con trasplante de riñón by Gladys Aída Estrada Pereira, Deysi Rita Martínez Chaswell, Margarita de la Caridad Pullés Fernández, Arsenio Sarmiento Casamayor

“…<br /><strong>Resultados:</strong> en la serie predominó el sexo masculino y el dolor como síntoma clínico, el sitio de mayor ocurrencia fue el bermellón del labio inferior; la presencia de células epiteliales gigantes multinucleadas con cuerpos de inclusiones intranucleares y necrosis de células infectadas, respectivamente, fueron los hallazgos citológicos más importantes. …”
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Empire Seen from Within. Cinema Objects, Spaces and Edifices in the Limelight in Colonial India and Ceylon (1899-1950) by Vilasnee Tampoe-Hautin

“…The well-established film industry in South Asia with its high rate of cinema attendance, largely, though not exclusively in view of the gigantic Indian film industry, justifies that these issues be addressed and resolved urgently, both at the level of research as well as relevant authorities.…”
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Investigation of Machinability Characteristics of EDMed Inconel 825 Alloy under Multidimensional Parametric Modeling by Using Holistic Grey-PCA Statistical Models by Nitin Kumar Sahu, Mukesh Kumar Singh, Bupe Getrude Mutono-Mwanza, Atul Kumar Sahu

“…The authors probed that machining cost and smart machinability index have become the gigantic concern in EDM operation; however, these can be minimized by adapting a conduit of evaluation of the optimum setting among multiple input parameters. …”
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Ten Candidate Genes Were Identified to Be Associated with the Great Growth Differentiation in the Three-Way Cross Hybrid Abalone by Qizhen Xiao, Shihai Gong, Zekun Huang, Wenzhu Peng, Zhaofang Han, Yang Gan, Yawei Shen, Weiwei You, Caihuan Ke, Xuan Luo

“…The three-way cross hybrid abalone ((<i>Haliotis discus hannai</i>♀ × <i>H. fulgens</i>♂)♀ × <i>H. gigantea</i>♂, DF × SS) demonstrated notable diversity in growth traits across the population with genetic differentiation, offering a model for exploring the molecular mechanisms of abalone growth. …”
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Reconstrucción perianal con colgajo V-Y por tumor de Büschke-Löwenstein by Martín Hernández Álvarez, Hernán Oliu Lambert, Natalia Altagracia de la Cruz de Oliu, Juan Elias Cabrera Martínez

“…Introducción: El condiloma acuminado gigante es una rara enfermedad que se manifiesta en el 0,1 % de las personas con vida sexual activa, su tratamiento es variable; la cirugía es el más radical y definitivo, aunque la recurrencia no es despreciable. …”
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Stages of Change for physical activity after a school-based intervention: a cross-sectional study by Luiza Ricardo, Airton Rombaldi, Daniele Kopp, Rodrigo Ferreira, Pedro Hallal, Mario Azevedo

“…To evaluate the SoC, an adaptation of the questionnaire proposed by Dumith, Domingues and Gigante (2009) was used, considering physical activities performed at least three times per week during 20 minutes. …”
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Circadian clock regulation in soybean senescence: a transcriptome analysis of early and late senescence types by Prakash Basnet, Sevin Lee, Ka Hee Moon, Nam-Il Park, Gang-Seob Lee, Seongkon Lee, Taeyoung Um, Ik-Young Choi

“…In addition, to understand interaction between circadian clock and senescence, we analyzed expression patterns of seven circadian clock-related genes during the time period (light and dark condition): CIRCADIAN CLOCK ASSOCIATED 1 (CCA1), LATE ELONGATED HYPOCOTYL (LHY), CONSTANS-LIKE 9 (COL9), LUX ARRHYTHMO (LUX) EARLY FLOWERING 3 (ELF3), PSEUDO-RESPONSE REGULATOR5 (PRR5) and GIGANTEA (GI). The expression patterns of circadian clock-related genes were similar in the ES- and LS-type plants. …”
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Prediction and verification of the influence of the rs367781716 SN P on the interaction of ТАТА -binding protein with the promoter of the human АВСА9 gene by O. V. Arkova, I. A. Drachkova, T. V. Arshinova, D. A. Rasskazov, V. V. Suslov, P. M. Ponomarenko, M. P. Ponomarenko, N. A. Kolchanov, L. K. Savinkova

“…On the other hand, tens of millions of unannotated SNPs correspond to a gigantic number of false positive (false negative) candidate SNP markers that are selected by computer methods for comparison of their frequency in patients with that in healthy people. …”
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A Review on the Nomenclature and Taxonomy of the Old World Thread-Legged Bug Genus <i>Pleias</i> (Hemiptera: Reduviidae: Emesinae) by Zhuo Chen, Hu Li, Wanzhi Cai

“…</b>, <i>P. furcosa</i> (Ribes, 1987) <b>comb. n.</b>, <i>P. gigantea</i> (Lhoste, 1939) <b>comb. n.</b>, <i>P. lucifuga</i> (McAtee & Malloch, 1926) <b>comb. n.…”
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Imagen de China en medios latinoamericanos: análisis periodístico de la Franja y la Ruta by Shiyang Liu, Guyu Zhu

“…En el plano económico, China es retratada como un gigante asiático que promueve la cooperación internacional y el beneficio mutuo, dedicándose al desarrollo sostenible. …”
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Achieving high strength-ductility synergy in Mg-6Sn-3Zn-0.3Zr (wt.%) alloy via a combination of casting, pre-treatment and hot extrusion by Tianshui Zhou, Yaqin Li, Feifei Guo, Qinglin Li, Zhi Jia, Dexue Liu

“…Achieving the strength-ductility synergy in Mg alloys is a gigantic challenge, especially in rare-earth-free Mg alloys. …”
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Analysis of the Rights and Obligations of Stakeholders in China’s National Park Concession System by Le ZHONG, Zhicong ZHAO

“…It identifies the primary stakeholders as concession grantors, concessionaires, supervisory entities, and other pertinent parties such as communities and local governments. …”
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MAMMOTH-Subaru. II. Diverse Populations of Circumgalactic Lyα Nebulae at Cosmic Noon by Mingyu Li, Haibin Zhang, Zheng Cai, Yongming Liang, Nobunari Kashikawa, Ke Ma, Xiaohui Fan, J. Xavier Prochaska, Bjorn H. C. Emonts, Xin Wang, Yunjing Wu, Shiwu Zhang, Qiong Li, Sean D. Johnson, Minghao Yue, Fabrizio Arrigoni Battaia, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Joseph F. Hennawi, Satoshi Kikuta, Yuanhang Ning, Masami Ouchi, Rhythm Shimakawa, Ben Wang, Weichen Wang, Zheng Zheng, Zhen-Ya Zheng

“…The sample contains 117 nebulae with Ly α sizes of 40–400 kpc, and the most gigantic one spans about 365 kpc, and is referred to as the Ivory Nebula. …”
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Anthropometric, Morphometric and Posture Evaluation of The Tallest Living Person In The World: A Case Report by Erhan Kara

“…This study aims to identify the anthropometric and morphometric characteristics and reveal the postural disorder of the male case called S.K who was diagnosed with Gigantism (pituitary gigantism) caused by hypersecretion of pituitary tumor related growth hormone and entitled as the tallest person alive in the world with a height of 2.51 cm in the Guinness World Records in 2009. …”
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Future yield growth in Africa mitigates agricultural greenhouse gas emissions by Saloni Shah, Dan Blaustein-Rejto, Linus Blomqvist

“…If Africa more than doubled yields from 2025 levels to meet future food demand while avoiding cropland expansion, an estimated 2.0 gigatons of carbon-dioxide equivalent per year in emissions could be avoided, equivalent to nearly 81% of all Africa’s emissions from agriculture, forestry, and land use in 2021.…”
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Assessing potential reductions of agricultural GHG in countries with different land productivities: Long-term integrated efficiency in DEA hybrid meta-frontier model. by Bazyli Czyżewski, Łukasz Kryszak

“…Globally, the agricultural sector is responsible for the emission of ca. 9.3 gigatons of CO2 equivalent annually. A realistic efficiency model orientation, considering agricultural policy objectives in a given region of the world, is a crucial premise for finding the optimal path for achieving global targets of emission reduction. …”
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Land use and cover change significantly enhanced evapotranspiration in the Yellow River Delta from 2000 to 2023 by Ziqi Mai, Zhongen Niu, Ying Zhao, Pan Li, Yi Wang, Yan Lv, Bin Wang, Mengyu Zhang

“…New hydrological insight for the region: ET in YRD has significantly increased over the past decades, with an annual rise of 2.13 × 10⁻² gigatons of water per year (P < 0.01). LUCC, particularly the expansion of water areas, have been a major driver, contributing 42.90 % to the ET increase. …”
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Investing in an Olympic agenda: from Rio to Tokyo and beyond by Eduardo Russo, Ariane Roder Figueira, Leonardo Jose Mataruna-Dos-Santos

“…ContextThis study was inspired by the considerable risks and diminishing enthusiasm among societies to invest in Olympic agendas, which traditionally involve billions of dollars, various opportunities, and complexities for host countries.PurposeThe objective of this study was to evaluate the risks and benefits of long-term equity investments for companies and governments engaged in the Olympic movement.MethodQualitative methodologies were employed for this research, utilizing a multi-case approach that included 38 comprehensive interviews with companies and entities impacted by the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.ResultsConsequently, a theoretical framework titled “Risks and Opportunities Related to Olympic Investments” is presented to elucidate the dynamics of investment flows, competitive pressures in specific sectors, and future threats and trends for the Olympic movement.FindingsThe research revealed that the gigantism of past editions exerted significant pressure on organizers and companies to adopt new management practices and enhance investment planning, striving for minimal environmental impact and long-term economic sustainability. …”
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