Sap-feeding insects do not respond uniformly to urbanization: The role of urban green spaces and species characteristics by Dávid Korányi, Ádám Kőrösi, András Orosz, Viktor Markó

“…Here, we studied how urbanization (defined as the proportion of impervious surfaces within a 200 and 500-m radius) affected canopy-dwelling phytophagous hemipterans (true bugs, true hoppers, and psyllids) on field maple (Acer campestre) trees. …”
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Crashworthiness Design and Multiobjective Optimization for Hexagon Honeycomb Structure with Functionally Graded Thickness by Ruixian Qin, Junxian Zhou, Bingzhi Chen

“…In addition, three surrogate models, including radial basis function (RBF), response surface method (RSM), and kriging (KRG), are compared in the accuracy of predicting SEA and PCF and capacity for optimization design of FGT honeycomb structure; the Nondominated Sorting Genetic Algorithm (NSGA-II) is applied to obtain the Pareto optimal solutions for the maximum thickness, minimum thickness, and thickness variation gradient exponent of a honeycomb wall. …”
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Structural evolution mechanisms and design strategies of layered cathodes for sodium-ion batteries by Li Zhang, Jun Wang, Wenhai Ji, Nuria Tapia-Ruiz, Martin Winter, Jie Li

“…Based on this structure information, strategies are introduced to optimize the electrochemical performance of layered NaxTMO2 using design of their bulk crystal structures, local configurations around TM atoms and surface structures.…”
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Assessment of Vegetation Temperature Status (VTCI) for monitoring drought in the watershed of Lake Urmia by using MODIS satellite imagery by Adel Nabi Zadeh Balkhanloo, zahra hejazizadeh, Parviz zeaiean Firoozabadi

“…To study climate change and increase of temperature in the catchment area of ​​Lake Urmia, two factors for measuring the temperature and properties of satellite images were used which indicate the importance of land surface temperature changes (LST) and normalized vegetation differences (NDVI). …”
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A Multiple-detection-heads Machine Learning Algorithm for Detecting White Dwarfs by Jiangchuan Zhang, Yude Bu, Mengmeng Zhang, Duo Xie, Zhenping Yi

“…The candidates exhibit a wide range of types, including DA, DB, DC, DQ, and DZ, with surface gravity within 7.8 dex ∼ 8.4 dex, effective temperatures within 10,000 K ∼ 56,000 K, colors within −1 <  u − g  < 1 and −0.8 <  g − r  < 0.4, and reduced proper motion within 20∼35 mag. …”
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Hybrid Modification of Stone Mastic Asphalt with Cellulose and Basalt Fiber by You Huang, Zhaohui Liu, Li Liu, Yunbao Zhang, Qingxiang Xu

“…Results show that material properties of the two fibers are very different, including thermostability, modulus, surface, and microstructure, especially oil absorption. …”
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Antimildew Treatment and Control Effect of Citral on Bamboo by Jingjing Zhang, Chungui Du, Rui Peng, Ailian Hu, Qi Li, Chunlin Liu, Yingying Shan, Shiqin Chen, Wenxiu Yin

“…Also, citral was easy to volatilize, which decreased the citral content of bamboo strips after vacuum drying and showed the trend of a lower surface layer and a higher inner layer. The concentration of citral therefore had a significant effect on the drug loading of the antimildew-treated bamboo strips. …”
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Eco‐friendly ultrasonic‐assisted appraisal of herbal‐based yellow natural colorant for silk dyeing by Noman Habib, Shahid Adeel, Muhammad Ibrahim, Fazal‐ur Rehman, Muhammad Naveed, Aamir Ali, Rony Mia, Rym Mansour

“…Through the utilization of Response Surface Methodology and Central Composite Design, a technique that was optimized was completed to maximize coloring variables using statistical analysis. …”
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Molecular Detection and Determination of Phylogenetic Position of Watermelon Chlorotic Stunt Virus Khouzestan Isolate Based on Coat Protein Gene by Samira Pakbaz, Zahra Jelavi, Ehsan Hasanvand, Hossein Mirzaei Najafgholi

“…In order to detect this virus, in the summer of 2023, samples of watermelon with symptoms of yellowing and severe leaf curl, leathery and blistering of the young leaves surface, chlorotic spots, and dwarf were collected from watermelon fields in the north of Khouzestan province (Dezful, Shoush, and Andimeshk). …”
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Microstructural Evolution and Oxidation Resistance of Fe-30Ni-15Cr Alloy for Internal Combustion Engine Valves Under Long-Term High-Temperature Exposure and Heat Treatment by Yuguo Tu, Xueshan Xiao, Zhiyuan Zhu, Linzhen Zhou

“…The external oxide layer of Ni30 alloy shows a bilayered structure, and no obvious surface porosity or flaking of oxidation products were observed throughout the high-temperature oxidation test. …”
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Decreasing viscosity and increasing accessible load by replacing classical diluents with a hydrotrope in liquid–liquid extraction by Asmae El Maangar, Thomas Zemb, Clément Fleury, Jean Duhamet, Jean-François Dufrêche, Stéphane Pellet-Rostaing

“…Moreover, the maximum load possible is increased by a factor of two to three versus alkanes, allowing more compact design and intensification of extraction processes. Based on SAXS and surface tension measurements, the origin of this gain in Gibbs energy of transfer and tunable selectivity in the family of rare earth elements is further identified by three mechanisms: reduction of the term linked to complexation, more than compensated by a synergistic effect of the hydrotrope and the comlexant, and the intra-aggregate entropy of mixing. …”
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Characteristics of the Interface between Bamboo Grids and Reinforced Soil of High-Filled Embankments in Loess Areas by Jingwei Zhang, Jia Li, Julong Wang, Shuaiqi Xu

“…The results show that bamboo grids enhance the shear strength of loess soils more than geogrids under different vertical stresses because of the passive friction resistance between the vertical and horizontal ribs and soil particles, the bite force of particle skeletons, and the surface friction of grids. Bamboo grids enhance the stability and shear resistance of soils because of their good deformation performance, and thus, the shear rate effect within 7 mm/min can be negligible. …”
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The effectiveness of alluvial gully remediation in Great Barrier Reef catchments by Andrew P. Brooks, John Spencer, Nicholas J.C. Doriean, Robin Thwaites, James Daley, Tim Pietsch, Jorg Hacker, Justin Stout

“…These data support the notion that even high resolution (0.1m) lidar DoD yields are missing erosion driven by rainfall driven downwearing across all internal gully surfaces that is below the limit of detection (LOD) of the lidar. …”
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Gel–sol synthesis of hierarchical CaO using pollen as biotemplate for biodiesel production by Zheng, Jingdi, Tao, Shuang, Yang, Ying, Tang, Ying

“…The results indicate that pollen as a biotemplate could be used to improve the basicity and textural parameters of calcium oxide particles, especially for 1/1-CaO(S)-700, presented by its total basicity of 5.90 mmol/g, the specific surface area of 16.47 m2/g, the pore volume of 0.04 cm3/g, the average pore size of 10.28 nm, and the widespread distribution of pore size (2–12.5 nm). …”
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Aesthetic and Mechanical Suitability of a Clear Synthetic Resin as a Unconventional Binder for Road Pavements by Marco Pasetto, Andrea Baliello, Giovanni Giacomello, Emiliano Pasquini

“…In this sense, clear road pavement surfaces represent an effective technology aimed at guaranteeing environmental-friendly aesthetic pavements. …”
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Unfolded protein response during the progression of colorectal carcinogenesis by Cesar Augusto Sobrinho, Alexandre Moreira de Almeida, Maytana Roberta Taschin Grigolo, Michele Selzler, Antônio Carlos de Abreu, Letícia Silva Fagundes, Almir Souza Martins, Durval Batista Palhares, Rondon Tosta Ramalho

“…Methods: Fifty-six hairless mice were divided into two groups: control (no intervention); and carcinogenesis (treated with two doses of azoxymethane at 10 mg/kg during the third and the fourth week and dextran sodium sulfate at 2.5% for seven days in the second, fifth, and eighth week). …”
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Loss of phosphorus by runoff from soils after amendment with poultry litter co-composted with crop waste by Asma Saleem, Muhammad Irshad, An Ping, Bushra Haroon

“…Soils were packed in wooden trays layered with plastic. The surface soil was mixed with the co-composted PL at rates 200 and 400 kg P ha−1. …”
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End of the world brane dynamics in holographic 4d N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 SU(N) with 3d N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 2 boundary conditions by Jesús Huertas, Angel M. Uranga

“…The systems have explicit gravity duals, given by orientifolds of the AdS4 × S 2 × S 2 fibrations over a Riemann surface dual to the Gaiotto-Witten setups. They describe solutions with an asymptotic AdS5 × S 5 terminating at AdS4 End of the World boundary configurations, whose rich dynamics reproduces the above physical properties. …”
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The Mechanism of Rock Mass Crack Propagation of Principal Stress Rotation in the Process of Tunnel Excavation by Guanfeng Chang, Xinzhu Hua, Jie Zhang, Peng Li

“…The rotation of principal stress direction on the roadway surrounding rock surface is the strongest, which makes the surrounding rock more fragmented, and the middle principal stress and the maximum principal stress rotate about 90° counterclockwise along the Ox axis. …”
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THUMPD3 regulates alternative splicing of ECM transcripts in human lung cancer cells and promotes proliferation and migration. by Marie Klimontova, Han Zhang, Francisco Campos-Laborie, Natalie Webster, Byron Andrews, Kimberley Chung Kim Chung, Ryan Hili, Tony Kouzarides, Andrew J Bannister

“…Additionally, transcriptome-wide analyses reveal that depletion of THUMPD3 from lung cancer cells induces substantial changes in the expression of cell surface proteins, including those comprising the extracellular matrix (ECM). …”
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