Spatiotemporal changes of ecosystem health and the impact of its driving factors on the Loess Plateau in China by Xuepeng Zhang, Taixia Wu, Qiqi Du, Ninglei Ouyang, Wei Nie, Yang Liu, Peng Gou, Guangchao Li

“…The driving impacts exhibit non-monotonic polynomial relationships of third, fourth, second, and fourth degrees, indicating that the mechanisms through which EH is influenced by these factors can change. (3) Counties with higher response to PRE (>0.32) are mainly located in the central region. …”
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Self-adaptive bare-bones differential evolution based on bi-mutation strategy by Hui-yu LIU, Ji-hong HAN, Lin YUAN, Bo YU

“…Bare-bones differentia1 evo1ution（BBDE）can e1egant1y so1ve the se1ection prob1em of contro1 parameters and mutation strategy in differentia1 evo1ution（DE）.MGBDE is a c1assica1 BBDE based on bi-mutation strategy.However，it random1y assigns a mutation strategy to each individua1，not considering their differences during evo1ution process，meanwhi1e it may suffer from premature convergence.To overcome these drawbacks，a modified a1gorithm based on MGBDE was proposed.A mutation strategy choice factor that guided the individua1 to choose a preferab1e mutation strategy at each mutation operation was introduced，avoiding the evo1ution b1indness brought by the random se1ection of mutation strategy.To retain the a1most parameter-free characteristic of bare-bones a1gorithm，the tuning of choice factor to be adapted was invo1ved in the individua1 evo1ution，inspired by the concept of se1f-adaptive DE.The a1gorithm a1so inc1uded a we11-designed stagnation perturbation mechanism to reduce the risk of trapping into the 1oca1 optima1.Experimenta1 resu1ts on 18 benchmark functions show that the proposed a1gorithm genera11y achieves better performance than state-of-the-art BBDE variants and severa1 we11-known DE a1gorithms in terms of convergence and robustness.…”
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PAX6 enhances Nanog expression by inhibiting NOTCH signaling to promote malignant properties in small cell lung cancer cells by Xiao-Fang Guo, Ling-Ling Wang, Fei-Meng Zheng, He-Ping Li

“…Moreover, the inhibition of Nanog expression results in the inability of PAX6 to promote the increase of the ALDEFLUOR+ population, as well as the inability to mitigate apoptosis produced by cisplatin or etoposide in SCLC cells. Mechanically, PAX6 suppresses the activation of the NOTCH pathway to enhance Nanog expression. …”
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Attentive Self-supervised Contrastive Learning (ASCL) for plant disease classification by Getinet Yilma, Mesfin Dagne, Mohammed Kemal Ahmed, Ravindra Babu Bellam

“…The ASCL framework enhances interpretability by incorporating attention mechanisms, such as squeeze-excitation and convolutional block attention module, which highlight key regions in plant images, aiding in transparent decision-making. …”
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Multicenter comparative analysis of local and aggregated data training strategies in COVID-19 outcome prediction with Machine learning. by Carine Savalli, Roberta Moreira Wichmann, Fabiano Barcellos Filho, Fernando Timoteo Fernandes, Alexandre Dias Porto Chiavegatto Filho, IACOV-BR Network

“…This study aims to compare data aggregation strategies of several hospitals in Brazil with a local training strategy in each hospital to predict two COVID-19 outcomes: Intensive Care Unit admission (ICU) and mechanical ventilation use (MV). The study included 6,046 patients from 14 hospitals, with local sample sizes ranging from 47 to 1500 patients. …”
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Impact of Microwave Time on the Structure and Functional Properties of Glycosylated Soy 7S Globulins by Jixin Zhang, Tao Cui, Lan Zhang, Huiqing Xu, Jingguo Xu, Jun Wang

“…This study explores the mechanism of how microwave processing time affects the structure and functional properties of glycosylated soybean 7S protein and identifies 60 s as the optimal microwave processing time. …”
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Carbon finance for forest resilience in California by Micah Elias, Ethan Yackulic, Katharyn Duffy, Katharyn Duffy, Phil Saksa, Daniel L. Sanchez, Nicholas Pevzner, Spencer Plumb, Jillian Dyszynski, Carina Bracer

“…This study shows that carbon revenue from traditional markets or novel carbon contribution programs can help close the funding gap for forest restoration in California while underscoring the need for innovative conservation finance mechanisms to support ecosystem resilience and climate mitigation goals.…”
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Allium cepa L. as a natural antioxidant: Its efficacy in combating heat stress-induced physiological alterations by Ayobami O. Sobanke, Afusat Aiyeola, Frances I. Okwuonu, Wuraola S. Nnaemeka, Jeremiah C. Ndubuisi, Franklin I. Udeoji, Jane N. Adiele

“…Therefore, further research is required to explore the other possible underlying mechanisms.…”
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Genotypic difference in green stem disorder severity and vegetative storage protein accumulation affected by different degrees of sink limitation in soybeans [Glycine max (L.) merr... by Jiuning Zhang, Tatsuhiko Shiraiwa, Tomoyuki Katsube-Tanaka

“…Tc reduced the pod number and pod weight and unchanged the stem weight in depodding treatments from R3 but induced GSD regardless of the treatments. …”
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Efficacy and Safety of Tracnil™ Administration in Patients with Dermatological Manifestations of PCOS: An Open-Label Single-Arm Study by Ezhil Arasan Ramanan, Sailatha Ravi, K. R. Radha Anbu, Margaret Michael

“…Therefore, we attribute the mechanism of action of Tracnil™ to modulation of receptor sensitivity to sex hormones or other downstream processing events. …”
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Electroacupuncture and Tongbian decoction ameliorate CUMS-induced depression and constipation in mice via TPH2/5-HT pathway of the gut-brain axis by Yi Chen, Peihua Shen, Qi Li, Shun Seng Ong, Yunzhi Qian, Hai Lu, Ming Li, Tianshu Xu

“…This study was designed to assess the therapeutic efficacy of electroacupuncture (EA) in conjunction with Tongbian decoction (TB) for the management of both depression and constipation, while also investigating the underlying mechanisms through the lens of the gut-brain axis. Chronic unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) was employed to induce a comorbidity model of depression and constipation in mice, followed by the administration of EA, EA + TB, and fluoxetine (FLX). …”
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Production-living-ecological functions measurement and spatio-temporal evolution of the coastal zone under the perspective of land-sea coordination: a case study of Liaoning Coasta... by Lina Ke, Lei Wang, Quanming Wang, Zhiyu Ren, Yao Lu, Shusheng Yin, Yu Zhao, Qin Tan, Yibo Li

“…At the same time, it analyses the spatio-temporal evolution of PLES using land use transfer matrix, center of gravity transfer and standard deviation ellipse models and explores the interaction mechanism of PLES from the perspective of land-sea coordination. …”
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Consejos a la familia para evitar la aparición de la tartamudez by Dailys García Morales, Yanet Morejón Barrueto

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Plant thionins: structure, biological functions and potential use in biotechnology by T. I. Odintsova, M. P. Slezina, E. A. Istomina

“…They represent an ancient mechanism of innate immunity providing rapid first line of defense against pathogens. …”
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Lnc-EST885 promotes hepatocellular carcinoma metastasis through PI3K / AKT pathway by interaction with TRAF4 by Shaoliang Zhu, Gang Wang, Yuxuan Zhang, Mengjie Zou, Zhi Li, Shenhong Qu, Xiaosu Zou, Wenqian Nong, Weiwei Miao, Qicong Chen, Juanmei Mo, Huibing Chen, Lequn Li, Xiaofeng Dong, Honglin Luo

“…Background: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) represents a major malignancy globally, characterized by high malignancy and intricate molecular mechanisms. This study aims to explore the role of the long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) lnc-EST885 in HCC development. …”
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A Lightweight Network for Ship Detection in SAR Images Based on Edge Feature Aware and Fusion by Yuming Li, Jin Liu, Xingye Li, Xiliang Zhang, Zhongdai Wu, Bing Han

“…Finally, we propose a selective quantization algorithm based on a bit-width selection mechanism to reduce model memory usage without compromising performance. …”
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Automatic detection and counting of wheat spike based on DMseg-Count by Hecang Zang, Yilong Peng, Meng Zhou, Guoqiang Li, Guoqing Zheng, Hualei Shen

“…Secondly, an element-by-element point multiplication mechanism was designed to fuse global and local contextual supervision information of wheat spike. …”
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Selective Americium Separation: New Insights into the Complexation of Trivalent f-Elements with SO3-Ph-BTBP by Sauerwein Fynn S., Sittel Thomas, Geist Andreas, Panak Petra J., Wilden Andreas, Modolo Giuseppe

“…Fundamental extraction mechanism studies revealed an unusual extraction behavior of heavy Ln(III) and Y(III), which provided the motivation to investigate their complexation with SO3-Ph-BTBP using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy and solvent extraction. …”
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Transcriptomic Response in Pseudomonas aeruginosa towards Treatment with a Kaempferol Isolated from Melastoma malabathricum Linn Leaves by Mourouge Saadi Alwash, Wan Syaidatul Aqma, Wan Yaacob Ahmad, Nazlina Ibrahim

“…Herein, an RNA-seq transcriptomic approach was employed to study the effect of KF treatment on P. aeruginosa and to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying the response to KF at two time points (6 h and 24 h incubation). …”
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Design, synthesis and evaluation of benzofuran-acetamide scaffold as potential anticonvulsant agent by Shakya Ashok K., Kamal Mehnaz, Balaramnavar Vishal M., Bardaweel Sanna K., Naik Rajashri R., Saxena Anil K., Siddiqui H. H.

“…The pharmacophore mapping of the examined compounds on standard drugs (phenobarbital, phenytoin, ralitolin and carbamazepine) strongly suggests that these compounds may exert their anticonvulsant activity via the same established mechanism as that of known drugs.…”
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