Role of total polyphenol content in seed germination characteristics of spring barley varieties amidst climate change by Ivana Jovanović, Nicole Frantová, Jhonny E. Alba-Mejía, Lenka Porčová, Vratislav Psota, Jana Asszonyi, Radim Cerkal, Tomáš Středa

“…Abstract The amount of total polyphenol content (TPC) in the grain could provide insights into the conditions during maturation and might also serve as an indicator of the grain’s ability to germinate in the malting process or as seeds in the field. …”
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A covalent peptide-based lysosome-targeting protein degradation platform for cancer immunotherapy by Youmei Xiao, Zhuoying He, Wanqiong Li, Danhong Chen, Xiaoshuang Niu, Xin Yang, Wenxuan Zeng, Mengfan Wang, Yuzhen Qian, Ye Su, Feiyu Luo, Guanyu Chen, Juan Liu, Xinghua Sui, Xiuman Zhou, Yanfeng Gao

“…However, the synthesis of LYTACs, antibody-small molecule conjugates, is challenging. The ability of antibody-based LYTACs to penetrate solid tumor is limited as well, especially to cross the blood-brain barrier (BBB). …”
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Characterization of visual cognition in pre-manifest, manifest and reduced penetrance Huntington’s disease by Rocio Del Pino, Maria Ángeles Acera, Amaia Ortiz de Echevarrría, Beatriz Tijero, Marta Ruiz-Lopez, Johanne Somme, Javier Ruiz-Martínez, Andrea Gabilondo, Ioana M. Croitoru, Lara Pardina, Naia Ayo-Mentxakatorre, Ane Murueta-Goyena, Iñigo Gabilondo, Rosario Sanchez-Pernaute, Tamara Fernández-Valle, Juan Carlos Gómez Esteban

“…ROC analyses showed that especially visuospatial abilities, visual memory, and visual attention (AUC = 0.927, 0.878, 0.874, respectively) effectively differentiated HC and pre-manifest from early and manifest HD. …”
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Using Generative Adversarial Networks for the synthesis of emotional facial expressions in virtual educational environments by William Villegas-Ch, Alexandra Maldonado Navarro, Araceli Mera-Navarrete

“…This tuning optimizes the discriminator’s ability to identify the minor details in facial expressions by using perceptual losses, allowing for better differentiation between the generated emotions, reducing classification errors, and improving precision in difficult-to-represent emotions. …”
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Cobalt‐Based Materials in Supercapacitors and Batteries: A Review by Jyothi A. Goudar, Thrinethra S. N., Sharanappa Chapi, Murugendrappa M. V., Mohammad Reza Saeb, Mehdi Salami‐Kalajahi

“…Supercapacitors and batteries pose great impact on energy storage and garner a great deal of attention from technologies and researchers alike. The performance of energy saving devices is primarily determined by the electrode material in terms of high specific capacitance, excellent conductivity, remarkable natural abundance, and unique electrochemical qualities, also large surface area. …”
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VULNERABLITY OF RURAL LIVELIHOODS IN NINH THUAN PROVINCE TO DROUGHT by Tan Luc Chau, Ha Anh Hoang, Thai Hiep Vo, Thanh Ha Dang

“…Enhancing human capital by raising awareness and skills in adapting to drought and developing comprehensive abilities to implement drought adaptation strategies is needed. …”
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Light-YOLO: a lightweight detection algorithm based on multi-scale feature enhancement for infrared small ship target by Ji Tang, Xiao-Min Hu, Sang-Woon Jeon, Wei-Neng Chen

“…Furthermore, a novel loss function is designed to dynamically adjust the proportions of its components during training, improving the regression accuracy of small targets towards real annotation boxes and enhancing the localization ability of detection boxes. Experimental results demonstrate that Light-YOLO outperforms YOLOv8n, achieving optimal performance on an infrared ship small target detection dataset with 9.2G FLOPs. …”
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Process-based VOCs Source Profiles and Contributions to Ozone Formation in Typical Organic Solvent-used Industries in Hangzhou by Zhinian Li, Wenjuan Li, Rong Zhou, Xiaoping Miao, Jianhai Lu, Zhongren Wang, Zhongping Yang, Jian Wu

“…Finally, the low-temperature plasma technology and the combined technology of activated carbon adsorption with condensation were found to reduce the OFPs for their ability to preferably removing aromatics or olefins. …”
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Pre-therapeutic efficacy of the CDK inhibitor dinaciclib in medulloblastoma cells by Marta Buzzetti, Sonia Morlando, Dimitrios Solomos, Ammara Mehmood, Alexander W. I. Cox, Mattia Chiesa, Yuri D’Alessandra, Michela Garofalo, Caroline H. Topham, Gianpiero Di Leva

“…We present evidence supporting dinaciclib’s ability to inhibit MB cells in vitro proliferation at considerably lower doses than palbociclib. …”
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Chikungunya intra-vector dynamics in Aedes albopictus from Lyon (France) upon exposure to a human viremia-like dose range reveals vector barrier’s permissiveness and supports local... by Viginier, Barbara, Cappuccio, Lucie, Garnier, Céline, Martin, Edwige, Maisse, Carine, Valiente Moro, Claire, Minard, Guillaume, Fontaine, Albin, Lequime, Sébastian, Ratinier, Maxime, Arnaud, Frédérick, Raquin, Vincent

“…Arbovirus emergence and epidemic potential, as approximated by the vectorial capacity formula, depends on host and vector parameters, including the vector’s intrinsic ability to replicate then transmit the pathogen known as vector competence. …”
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Determinants Affecting Family Commitment and Capability in Preventing Stunting in Children Under Two Years by Taufiqurrahman Taufiqurrahman, Nur Hatijah, Ani Intiyati

“…Approximately 89.89% of a family’s ability to monitor child growth and development could be predicted by the study model. …”
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Time-dependent model for in-situ concrete carbonation depth under combined effects of temperature and relative humidity by Ting Du, Yongjia Cai, Yipu Guo, Jinghao Chen, Sen Chen, Mofang Yuan, Fulin Qu

“…The experimental results align well with the model’s predictions, confirming its ability to accurately forecast carbonation depth of concrete. …”
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Investigating the Capability of Dandelion Greens to Remediate Soils Contaminated with Cadmium by Zokirov Kurbonalijon Gaybullo Ugli, Annigere S Prakash, Sarah Salah Jalal, Dahlia N. Al-Saidi, Zahraa F. Hassan

“…The results indicated that Dandelion greens have a remarkable ability to absorb cadmium from contaminated soils. …”
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Assessment of High-resolution Local Emissions and Land-use in Air Quality Forecasting at an Urban, Coastal, Desert Environment by Christos Fountoukis, Yasir Mohieldeen, Luis Pomares, Ivan Gladich, Azhar Siddique, Adam Skillern, Mohammed A. Ayoub

“…The overall forecast error decreased from –51% to 8% for PM2.5 and from –88% to 20% for NOx while a significant improvement was observed in the diurnal profile of predicted ozone. The ability of the model to forecast the air quality health index in this urban, coastal, hot desert climate is encouraging for future applications of this modeling platform as an early warning system (EWS).…”
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Ultrasonic-assisted Cr3C2 nanoparticle-reinforced aluminum-copper plasma arc brazing process by Congcong Lu, Yuhang Xie, Xiaoquan Yu, Yan Li, Jiankang Huang, Ding Fan

“…The results revealed that the combination of Cr3C2 nanoparticles and ultrasound exerted a synergistic effect, the weld bead formed well, with significantly improved spreading ability of liquid aluminum and wettability on the copper side. …”
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The Role of Morphological Information in Processing Pseudo-words in Italian L2 Learners: It’s a Matter of Experience by Simona Amenta, Francesca Foppolo, Linda Badan

“…Most importantly, the ability to extract and exploit morphological information is linked to language proficiency.…”
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Targeting AI-2 quorum sensing: harnessing natural products against Streptococcus suis biofilm infection by Shuji Gao, Shuo Yuan, Yingying Quan, Wenjie Jin, Yamin Shen, Rishun Li, Baobao Liu, Yuxin Wang, Li Yi, Shaohui Wang, Xiaogai Hou, Yang Wang

“…By inhibiting S. suis AI-2 quorum sensing, these compounds modulate the expression of adhesion genes and the synthesis of extracellular polysaccharides (EPS), reducing the adhesion ability of S. suis and ultimately inhibiting biofilm formation. …”
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The effect of auditory rhythm on the temporal allocation of visual attention in aging by Zhihan Xu, Juan Huang, Yuxuan Shen, Yanna Ren, Yulin Gao, Ting Guo

“…This effect was evident in both younger and older groups and was not influenced by tempo.DiscussionThese findings suggest that the ability to utilize auditory isochronous rhythms to drive the temporal allocation of visual attention can be preserved in normal aging, highlighting the robustness of cross-modal temporal expectations across both younger and older adults.…”
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Prevalence of Temporomandibular Disorders Among Dental Students of College of Dentistry-Hawler Medical University. by Saeed Hameed Tutmayi, Twana Hoshyar Saleem, Sara Aswad Khoshnaw, Sana Khals Hamad, Sonya Nadir Saeed

“… Background: Temporomandibular disorders (TMD) are a group of conditions affecting the jaw joint and the muscles that control jaw movement, can cause pain and discomfort in the jaw, face, and neck, and affect a person's ability to speak, chew, and swallow. Aim: The present study aims to specify the prevalence of temporomandibular joint disorder among dental students of Hawler Medical University. …”
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Cytokine-armed oncolytic herpes simplex viruses: a game-changer in cancer immunotherapy? by Howard L Kaufman, Hongbin Wang, Dipongkor Saha, Samuel D Rabkin, Mia Borlongan, Uyen Le, Hans J Nauwynck

“…A significant advantage of oncolytic viruses is the ability to deliver therapeutic payloads to the tumor site that can help drive antitumor immunity. …”
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