Autophagy is involved in the toxicity of the biocontrol agent GC16 against Tetranychus pueraricola (Acari: Tetranychidae) based on transcriptomic and proteomic analyses by Yanyan He, Guangzu Du, Guang Wang, Huiming Guan, Shusheng Zhu, Bin Chen, Xiahong He, Youyong Zhu

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The use of German intelligence and sabotage agents on the eve and during Nazi punitive operations period on occupied territory of Belarus in 1942–1944 by S. V. Kulinok

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ABIOTIC STRESS RESPONSE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS IN A SALT TOLERANT STRAIN OF THE CYANOBACTERIUM FREMYELLA DIPLOSIPHON: A POTENTIAL BIOFUEL AGENT by Behnam TABATABAI, Viji SITTHER

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The joint policy of production, maintenance, and product quality in a multi-machine production system by reinforcement learning and agent-based modeling by Mohammad Reza Nazabadi, Seyed Najafi, Ali Mohaghar, Farzad Movahedi Sobhani

“…The production machines have degradation levels from as-good-as-new to the breakdown state. The failures increase the production machine's degradation level, and maintenance activities change the status to the initial state. …”
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Ventricular function assessment using an ultrafast spoiled gradient echo sequence with an intravascular blood pool contrast agent in pediatric patients. by Tayaba Miah, Rithvik Gunda, Gerald Greil, Mohammad Hussain, Qing Zou

“…<h4>Background</h4>Balanced steady-state free processing (bSSFP) MR sequence has long been considered the gold standard method for ventricular function assessment (VFA), and normal values are based on this acquisition. …”
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Spore-Derived Isolates from a Single Basidiocarp of Bioluminescent <i>Omphalotus olivascens</i> Reveal Multifaceted Phenotypic and Physiological Variations by Rudy Diaz, David Bermudes

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LazyAct: Lazy actor with dynamic state skip based on constrained MDP. by Hongjie Zhang, Zhenyu Chen, Hourui Deng, Chaosheng Feng

“…Specifically, each decision made by an agent requires a complete neural network computation, leading to a linear increase in computational cost with the number of interactions and agents. …”
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Imigrantes espanhóis e poloneses como agentes de relações transnacionais entre a Europa e o sul do Brasil by Regina Weber

“…The locus of the presence of the Spanish and Polish immigrants is the Southern Region of Brazil, formed by the states of Rio Grande do Sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná, particularly in the first one. …”
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Forfeiture to the State: Using Grammar to Interpret Section 35 of the Criminal Procedure Act by Terrence R Carney

“… Section 35(1)(a) of South Africa's Criminal Procedure Act 51 of 1977 allows a court of law to declare items forfeited to the state if they were used as weapons or instruments in aid of committing an offence. …”
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Spatial distribution of rotavirus in calves in the state of São Paulo, Brazil: 2006 to 2010 by Heloisa Pinto de Godoy, Ingrid Bortolin Affonso Lux Hoppe

“…Rotavirus is the major causative agent of diarrhea in animals and humans; it causes economic burden and negatively impacts public health. …”
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Incremental Healthcare Costs and Outpatient Antifungal Treatment of Patients with Aspergillosis in the United States by Emily Durden, Donna McMorrow, Paul Juneau, Robert Fowler, Paresh Chaudhari, David Horn

“…**Objectives:** To evaluate the total and outpatient economic burden of aspergillosis, and to describe the outpatient antifungal treatment of aspergillosis within a large, commercially-insured population in the United States. **Methods:** Adults with at least one medical claim with an aspergillosis diagnosis (International Classification of Disease 9th Revision Clinical Modification [ICD-9-CM] code 117.3 or 484.6) between 07/01/04-03/01/11 were identified from the MarketScan Research Databases. …”
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A decepção de Tinker Bell e a luta das classificações: o artesanato, o Governo Federal e o Sebrae by Maria Salete de Souza Nery

“…We outline the role and the power of the State in defining the legitimate meanings that regulate coordinated ac- tions of differenta agencies and also of the individuals who are considered craftsmen. …”
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Composite microbial agent improves cotton yield and resource use efficiency under mild salt stress by optimizing plant resource allocation by Xiao Zhao, Panpan Guo, Xiong Wu, Meng Zhu, Shaozhong Kang, Taisheng Du, Jian Kang, Jinliang Chen, Ling Tong, Risheng Ding, Wanli Xu, Guangmu Tang

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Shared Bacterial and Viral Respiratory Agents in Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis), Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries), and Goats (Capra hircus) in Montana by David S. Miller, Glen C. Weiser, Keith Aune, Brent Roeder, Mark Atkinson, Neil Anderson, Thomas J. Roffe, Kim A. Keating, Phillip L. Chapman, Cleon Kimberling, Jack Rhyan, P. Ryan Clarke

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Effect on Multipotency and Phenotypic Transition of Unrestricted Somatic Stem Cells from Human Umbilical Cord Blood after Treatment with Epigenetic Agents by Foued Ghanjati, Simeon Santourlidis

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Mediação social e agroecologia: trajetórias e desafios dos agentes do Núcleo Missões da Rede Ecovida de Agroecologia by Cristina Bremm, Everton Lazzaretti Picolotto

“…The results of the study reveal that despite the mediators making efforts to reformulate their work practice and make it more dialogic and participatory in the interaction with the ecological farming families, there are asymmetries of power between the agents due to the cultural and symbolic capitals, habitus and different social insertions in agriculture.…”
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Hydrothermal Synthesis of Modified Hydrophobic Zn–Al-Layered Double Hydroxides Using Structure-Directing Agents and Their Enhanced Adsorption Capacity for -Nitrophenol by Yayue Sun, Jiabin Zhou, Ya Cheng, Jiaguo Yu, Weiquan Cai

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Finite-Time Consensus with a Time-Varying Reference State and Switching Topology by Jian-Yong Wang, Zhen Tian, Xu Zhu, Naif D. Alotaibi

“…The proposed protocol ensures that the states of the agents are converged to a weighted-average consensus in finite time if the communication topology is a weighted directed graph with a spanning tree and each strongly connected component is detail-balanced. …”
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An Auto-Tuning Goal-Oriented Dynamic Feature Selection for Non-Stationary Message Stream Classification Using a Multi-Agent Approach by Wenny Hojas-Mazo, Mailyn Moreno-Espino, Francisco Macia-Perez, Jose Vicente Berna-Martinez, Cornelio Yanez-Marquez

“…The proposed solution is applied to the classification of messages within a multi-agent system. The approach employs the iStar modeling language to integrate proactive strategies and adaptive tuning plans, which are then operationalized through the multi-agent system. …”
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Increasing fish production through adoption of improved technologies in Ogun State, Nigeria by Ashley-Dejo Samuel Segun, Oyetunji Opeyemi Temitope, Sule Shakiru Okanlawon, Durojaiye Fadilat Abiola, Ojetayo Asaje Teslim, Ojinni Temitope Ruth

“…The study also found that high production costs were the most significant constraint to the adoption of improved technologies, followed by inadequate contact with extension agents and non-availability of input. The study conclude that the adoption of improved fish production technologies could increase fish production in Ogun State, Nigeria, but there is a need for interventions to address the constraints hindering the adoption of improved fisheries technologies in the study area.…”
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