Effect of cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz) varieties on leaf bud sprouting for rapid multiplication of planting materials by Ngakwi Masai Meibuko, Hosea Dunstan Mtui, Anna Baltazari

“…Results showed that variety had significant effects (p < 0.001) on number of nodes, percent sprouting, number of sprouts, and days to 50% sprouting, and a significant difference (p < 0.01) on percent survival rates and days to first sprouting. …”
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Silicon Application Increases Drought Tolerance of Kentucky Bluegrass by Improving Plant Water Relations and Morphophysiological Functions by Shah Saud, Xin Li, Yang Chen, Lu Zhang, Shah Fahad, Saddam Hussain, Arooj Sadiq, Yajun Chen

“…For example, Si application at 400 mg L−1 significantly increased the net photosynthesis by 44%, leaf water contents by 33%, leaf green color by 42%, and turf quality by 44% after 20 days of drought stress. …”
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Stability of a Roadway below a Coal Seam under Dynamic Pressure: A Case Study of the 11123 Floor Gas Drainage Roadway of a Mine in Huainan, China by Pingsong Zhang, Yuanchao Ou, Chang Liu, Binyang Sun, Chong Xu

“…The results of this study can provide guidance for devising suitable procedures for carrying out intelligent green safety mining and for warning about the hazards of roadway damage.…”
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Study protocol for a randomised controlled trial on the use of intraoperative ultrasound-guided laparoscopic ovarian cystectomy (UGLOC) as a method of fertility preservation in the... by Srdjan Saso, Sadaf Ghaem-Maghami, Jan Yvan Jos Verbakel, Benjamin P Jones, Joseph Yazbek, Mona El-Bahrawy, Lorraine S Kasaven

“…Secondary outcomes include assessment of various surgical and histopathological findings, including duration of hospital stay (days), duration of surgery (minutes), presence of intraoperative cyst rupture (yes/no), presence of ovarian tissue within the resected specimen (yes/no) and the grade of follicles excised within the specimen (grade 0–4). …”
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Effects of shrimp chitosan based edible coating on the shelf life of selected vegetables in context of attaining SDGs by Munir Ibn Mahin, Md. Harun-Ar Rashid, Abdul Rabbi Mredul

“…Concentration of chitosan 0.5 % (CS-0.5) resulted in the most significant at shelf-life extension with carrots, green tomatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers and beans showing increases of 12, 21, 21, 21, and 14 days, respectively, signifying the practical potential of chitosan-based edible coatings in vegetables preservation. …”
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Screening fungi for use as biocatalysts in self-healing concrete with protocol simulating concrete environment by Ahsanul Kabir Sumon, Krutika Invally, Lu-Kwang Ju

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An integrated strength-carbon emissions-total cost model for silica fume concrete by Li-Yi Meng, Yi-Sheng Wang, Feng Sun, Runsheng Lin, Xiao-Yong Wang

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A model of the artificial metastasis of human epidermoid carcinoma A431 in nude mice for examination of the oncolytic activity of vaccinia virus by G. V. Kochneva, A. A. Grazhdantseva, G. F. Sivolobova, A. V. Tkacheva, A. N. Shvalov, A. Yu. Unusova, E. I. Ryabchikova, S. V. Netesov

“…Complete destruction of the tumor was registered after 12 days, and that of metastasis, after 20 days post injection of VVdGF-GFP2. …”
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Wildfire danger under changing climates in the southern Great Plains throughout the 21st century by Shanmin Fang, Jia Yang, Chris B. Zou, Erik S. Krueger, Tyson E. Ochsner, Quan Zhang

“…By the end of the 21st century, the southwestern SGP is projected to become a hotspot for increased wildfire danger, its annual high fire danger days are projected to increase by over 25 days (50 %) under the RCP8.5 and more than 15 days (30 %) under the RCP4.5 compared to 1986–2005. …”
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Investigating the encapsulation of lead bromide perovskite with poly(3-bromothiophene) for improved aqua stability and enhanced fluorescence memory by Debasis Brahma, Jit Satra, Sayan Basak, Subhadeep Chakraborty, Rahul Chatterjee, Suman Acharya, Debdipta Basu, Abhijit Bandyopadhyay

“…Photoluminescence studies demonstrated that the encapsulated composites exhibited a mean fluorescence lifetime of 87.4 ns, compared with 12.56% fluorescence retention in unencapsulated FAPbBr₃ after exposure to moisture for 45 days. Moreover, encapsulated FAPbBr₃ retained over 80% of its green light fluorescence intensity even after 1 year, whereas the unencapsulated sample degraded to less than 5%. …”
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Crop and Weed Management Practices of Snap Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) Production Fields in the United States by Pavle Pavlovic, Jed B. Colquhoun, Nicholas E. Korres, Rui Liu, Carolyn J. Lowry, Ed Peachey, Barbara Scott, Lynn M. Sosnoskie, Mark J. VanGessel, Martin M. Williams II

“…Forty cultivars were used across all three regions, primarily of green round podded type (∼90% of all fields). However, it was common for only relatively few cultivars to be widespread in each region. …”
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A proposal of a fecal scoring system based on physicochemical analyses of suckling pig feces by Ana Maria Pons, Blanca González, Joan Pujols, Jordi Serratosa, Joaquim Segalés, Ernesto A. Gómez, Jorge Martínez

“…The aim of the present observational study was to analyze different physicochemical parameters of the feces of suckling piglets aged 0 to 21 days: visual appearance (color and consistency), fecal dry matter (FDM) content and pH. …”
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Phenology analysis for trait prediction using UAVs in a MAGIC rice population with different transplanting protocols by Shoji Taniguchi, Toshihiro Sakamoto, Haruki Nakamura, Yasunori Nonoue, Di Guan, Akari Fukuda, Hirofumi Fukuda, Kaede C. Wada, Takuro Ishii, Jun-Ichi Yonemaru, Daisuke Ogawa

“…However, whether CH parameters are applicable to other rice populations and to different cultivation methods, and whether vegetation indices such as the chlorophyll index green (CIg) can function for phenotype prediction remain to be elucidated. …”
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Plant Growth and Nutritional Quality Attributes of Basella alba Applied with Variable Rates of Nitrogen Fertilizer at Different Planting Dates under Canadian Maritime Climatic Cond... by Nishchitha Hemmige Natesh, Mercy O. Ijenyo, Samuel Kwaku Asiedu, H. P. Vasantha Rupasinghe, Lord Abbey

“…Plant height, number of branches, and stem girth were increased after 45 days after sowing in early and mid-season plantings, but leaf length decreased during the same time by 32.8% in the late planting. …”
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Bone cell differentiation and mineralization in wild-type and osteogenesis imperfecta zebrafish are compromised by per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) by Francesca Tonelli, Cecilia Masiero, Carla Aresi, Camilla Torriani, Simona Villani, Guido Premoli, Antonio Rossi, Antonella Forlino

“…To this purpose Chi/+ and WT zebrafish expressing the green fluorescent protein under the early osteoblast marker osterix were exposed from 1 to 6 days post fertilization to 0.36, 1.5 and 3.0 mg/L PFOS, 0.005 and 0.5 mg/L PFOA and 0.01, 0.48 and 16.0 mg/L PFHxA, and their development and skeletal phenotype investigated. …”
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Improving natural red pigment production by Streptomyces phaeolivaceus strain GH27 for functionalization of textiles with in silico ADME prediction by Gehad H. El Sayed, Mohamed Fadel, Rasha Fouad, Hend M. Ahmed, Ahmed A. Hamed

“…The ideal growth conditions included 1% (w/v) starch, diammonium citrate, dibasic sodium phosphate, 5% (v/v) inoculum, pH 8, a rotation speed of 150 rpm, a temperature of 37 °C, and an incubation period of 9 days. Using ethanol as a solvent, the red pigment was effectively recovered. …”
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Highly Active Carbonic Anhydrase of the Thylakoid Lumen of <i>Chlamydomonas reinhardtii</i> by Vasily V. Terentyev, Liubov I. Trubitsina, Anna K. Shukshina, Ivan V. Trubitsin, Natalia N. Rudenko

“…The green unicellular algae <i>Chlamydomonas reinhardtii</i> contains 12–13 carbonic anhydrases (CAs). …”
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Agronomic performance of curly lettuce seedlings from mill compost substrate under organic cropping system by Luiz Fernando de Sousa Antunes, Adelson Paulo Araújo, Maria Elizabeth Fernandes Correia, Norma Gouvêa Rumjanek, José Guilherme Marinho Guerra

“…This work aimed to evaluate the performance of green curly lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.) using seedlings produced with millicompost, at different levels of nitrogen (N) fertilization at seedling transplant, in an organic production system. …”
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CircRNA profiling reveals the regulatory role of circPAN3 in Hezuo boars Sertoli cell growth by Haixia Shi, Zunqiang Yan, Hong Du, Bo Zhang, Shuangbao Gun

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Exploring sustainable construction: A case study on the potential of municipal solid waste incineration ashes as building materials in San Andres island by Julián David Carmona-Ramírez, Carlos Andrés Bedoya-Henao, Francisco Darío Cabrera-Poloche, Isabella Taborda-Llano, Gustavo Adolfo Viana-Casas, Óscar Jaime Restrepo-Baena, Jorge Iván Tobón

“…The results indicated that the bottom ash does not exhibit pozzolanic activity per ASTM standards at 7 and 28 days. However, mortars and prefabricated concrete items incorporating bottom ash as aggregates showed compressive and flexural strength values greater than those set by the standards. …”
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