A Nonstationary Daily and Hourly Analysis of the Extreme Rainfall Frequency Considering Climate Teleconnection in Coastal Cities of the United States by Lei Yan, Yuhan Zhang, Mengjie Zhang, Upmanu Lall

“…The implications for the time-varying design rainfall in coastal areas are considered, whether this corresponds to a structural design or the duration of a contract for a financial instrument for risk securitization. …”
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Can aid foster Africa's attainment of a just energy transition and external debt sustainability? by Kalimanshi Nsakaza, Talumba Ireen Chilipaine

“…This study evaluated the relationship between Aid and Africa's potential to achieve the Just Energy Transition and external debt sustainability. In contrast to the instrumental variables technique, the paper employed a 2-step system GMM to analyze data from 39 African countries between 2012 and 2022. …”
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Recent Tectonic Deformation of the Lunar Farside Mare and South Pole–Aitken Basin by C. A. Nypaver, T. R. Watters, J. D. Clark

“…In contrast to larger, subsidence-induced lunar wrinkle ridges, recent investigations have identified contractional structures within the nearside lunar maria that are dimensionally small and recently formed via a combination of global stresses. …”
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GenSQLi: A Generative Artificial Intelligence Framework for Automatically Securing Web Application Firewalls Against Structured Query Language Injection Attacks by Vahid Babaey, Arun Ravindran

“…By applying our automated rule-generation methodology, 99% of previously successful attacks were effectively blocked with only 23 new security rules. In contrast, Google Gemini-Pro achieved a lower bypass rate of 56.6%, underscoring performance variability across LLMs. …”
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Spatial Estimation of Trophic State for Reservoir Using Ground Monitoring and Remote Sensing Data by Thong Nguyen Hoang, Van Tran Thi

“…The results of correlation analysis between ground monitoring values and spectral values from remote sensing algorithms showed that the two parameters, SD and TP, correlated best with the NIR/BLUE algorithm. In contrast, the Chl-a parameter correlated best with the NIR/RED algorithm. …”
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Anticancer Activity of Rhizophora mucronata Leaves Extract on Sprague–Dawley Rats: In Vivo Model by Asbin Mary X, Syed Ali Mohamed Yacoob, Anuradha Venkatraman, Ruban Packiasamy, Meivelu Moovendhan, Murugesan Gnanadesigan, Yogananth Nagarajan

“…In acute toxicity trials, the dose of 1000 mg/kg body weight was determined to be safe and nontoxic even at high dose levels and did not result in any indicators of toxicity or death in the tested groups compared to controls for 14 days. In contrast, rats in a subacute toxicity study were given consistent doses of 100 mg/kg, 200 mg/kg, and 300 mg/kg for a total of 28 days along with a control group. …”
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Activation of cannabinoid type 2 (CB2) receptors promotes the maintenance of redox homeostasis and protects against oxidative distress in the Neotropical freshwater fish matrinxã B... by Suzana Luisa Alves Fernandes, Yan Costa Gonçalves, Francisco Tadeu Rantin, Ana Lúcia Kalinin, Diana Amaral Monteiro

“…In both the liver and the heart, CB1+CB2 activation led to significant increases in catalase (CAT) and glutathione peroxidase (GPx) activities, accompanied by decreases in glutathione reductase (GR) activity. In contrast, glutathione S-transferase (GST) activity increased in the liver and decreased in the heart following CB1+CB2 activation. …”
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Endovascular Repair with a Stent Graft in a Patient with Aortoduodenal Fistula after Radiation Therapy by Kazuhiko Morikawa, Hirokazu Ashida, Yosuke Nozawa, Kenji Motohashi, Takao Igarashi, Hiroya Ojiri, Yuji Kanaoka, Takao Ohki

“…Gastroduodenal endoscopy and contrast-enhanced computed tomography findings were unremarkable. …”
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KV1 and KV3 Potassium Channels Identified at Presynaptic Terminals of the Corticostriatal Synapses in Rat by David Meneses, Ana V. Vega, Francisco Miguel Torres-Cruz, Jaime Barral

“…Further experiments with tityustoxin, margatoxin, hongotoxin, agitoxin, dendrotoxin, and BDS-I toxins all rendered a reduction in PPR. In contrast heteropodatoxin and phrixotoxin had no effect. …”
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Modeling and predicting the trend of temperature changes in Hamedan County by Zohreh Maryanji, fatemeh sotoudeh, meysam toulabi nejad, Ziba Zarrin

“…The results indicate that in the optimistic scenario (RCP2.5), no significant trend is observed in the average and minimum temperatures. In contrast, significant trends in temperature data are evident under the RCP4.5 and RCP8.5 scenarios, suggesting that the increase in average minimum temperatures reflects severe climatic changes, particularly affecting precipitation patterns during the cold season. …”
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Autophagy: A New Avenue and Biochemical Mechanisms to Mitigate the Climate Change by Muhammad Abubakkar Azmat, Malaika Zaheer, Muhammad Shaban, Saman Arshad, Muhammad Hasan, Alyan Ashraf, Muhammad Naeem, Aftab Ahmad, Nayla Munawar

“…Cell death is not a stress, which induces autophagy but in contrast, sometimes it is a consequence of autophagy. …”
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Extraction of Protein-Enriched Fractions from Sunflower and Hemp Seeds: Composition and Colloidal Stability of Less Refined Fractions as a Function of Initial pH by Simone Bleibach Alpiger, Sandra Beyer Gregersen, Amanda May Ellermann, Tenna Ji Jing Dissing, Milena Corredig

“…For sunflower seeds, the highest protein recovery (52 %) and purity (55 % dm) were achieved under alkaline conditions. In contrast, hemp seeds showed 30 % protein recovery and 42 % purity, with only yields depending on extraction pH. …”
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Macronutrient balance determines the human gut microbiome eubiosis: insights from in vitro gastrointestinal digestion and fermentation of eight pulse species by Da Bin Lee, In Seon Hwang

“…The interactions between macronutrients, the human gut microbiome, and their metabolites (short-chain fatty acids) were comprehensively investigated via an in vitro digestion and fermentation model subjected to eight pulse species. 16S rRNA sequencing and taxonomic analysis of pulse digesta fermented for up to 24 h revealed an increase in the relative abundance of gut health-detrimental genera represented by Escherichia-Shigella in kidney bean, soybean, cowpea, chickpea, and black bean samples. In contrast, the relative abundance of health-positive genera, including Bacteroides, Eubacterium, and Akkermansia, was elevated in red bean, mung bean, and Heunguseul. …”
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Effect of Intra-Articular Hyaluronic Injection on Postural Stability and Risk of Fall in Patients with Bilateral Knee Osteoarthritis by Nafiseh Khalaj, Noor Azuan Abu Osman, Abdul Halim Mokhtar, John George, Wan Abu Bakar Wan Abas

“…The treatment group showed significant decrease in postural stability and fall risk scores after five hyaluronic acid injections. In contrast, the control group showed significant increase. …”
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Life historytraits of Sirex Noctilio F. (Hymenoptera: Siricidae) canexplain outbreaks independently of environmental factors by Juan Pablo Aparicio, Juan Carlos Corley, Jorge Eduardo Rabinovich

“…Thesechanges may in turn trigger an outbreak. In contrast, healthy,vigorous trees are not suitable for wasp oviposition. …”
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Quantifying Stability in Inverter-Based Weak Grids in the Presence of Synchronous Condensers by Sajjad Hadavi, Nabil Mohammed, Ali Mehrizi-Sani, Behrooz Bahrani

“…The absence of native inertia in inverter-based resources (IBRs), in contrast to fossil-fuel-based generators, can result in sustained oscillations and instability. …”
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The Effect of Different Vegetable Oils on Cedar Wood Surface Energy: Theoretical and Experimental Fungal Adhesion by Fadoua Bennouna, Moulay Sadiki, Soumya Elabed, Saad Ibnsouda Koraichi, Mohammed Lachkar

“…For untreated wood, the experimental adhesion showed a positive relationship with the results obtained by the extended Derjaguin–Landau–Verwey–Overbeek (XDLVO) approach which found that all fungal strains could adhere strongly to the cedar wood material. In contrast, this relationship was not always positive after treatment. …”
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Leitura pública e a possibilidade de modos públicos e comuns para a provisão e fruição dos bens culturais by Amarílis Felizes, Paula Sequeiros

“…Colocamos o foco sobre a economia da leitura pública em Portugal e a provisão de serviços e bens que propiciem o seu uso partilhado e/ou comum, podendo haver pontos de contacto com outras localizações e outras áreas da cultura. …”
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Slowing of Motor Imagery after a Right Hemispheric Stroke by Francine Malouin, Carol L. Richards, Anne Durand

“…Thirty-seven persons with a chronic stroke after a right or left hemispheric lesion (RHL : n=19; LHL : n=18) and 32 age-matched healthy persons (CTL) were administered a motor imagery questionnaire, mental chronometry and working memory tests. In contrast to persons in the CTL group and LHL subgroup, persons with a RHL had longer movement times during the imagination than the physical execution of stepping movements on both sides, indicating a reduced ability to predict movement duration (temporal incongruence). …”
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Dynamics of phase separation from holography by Maximilian Attems, Yago Bea, Jorge Casalderrey-Solana, David Mateos, Miguel Zilhão

“…We show that all four stages are well described by the constitutive relations of second-order hydrodynamics that include all second-order gradients that are purely spatial in the local rest frame. In contrast, a Müller-Israel-Stewart-type formulation of hydrodynamics fails to provide a good description for two reasons. …”
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