Cliff-dwelling plants: rare and precious species in harsh habitats by Zhengnan Zhao, Hongyan Sun, Si Liu, Xiao Chen, Shiwei Zhao, Jiangang Zhu

“…This review systematically examines five key research domains: (1) The ecological and potential application value of CDPs; (2) cliff habitat ecology, focusing on abiotic factors such as microclimate, edaphic properties, and water conditions, as well as biotic components; (3) adaptive strategies of CDPs, encompassing morphological specializations, physiological resilience mechanisms, early growth stage, reproductive characteristics, molecular-level evolutionary adaptations, and genetic diversity patterns; (4) technological advancements in cliff research methodologies; and (5) CDP conservation strategies by conducting a comparative analysis between in situ protection measures and ex situ preservation approaches. …”
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Extra-Mediterranean glacial refugia and range dynamics in a groundwater amphipod species, Niphargus fontanus Spence Bate, 1859, in western Central Europe by Dieter Weber, Martin Wendt, Thomas Schmitt

“…We sampled the species all over its current distribution and sequenced one mitochondrial and three nuclear gene fragments. We discovered that most records from France were probably misidentifications, and that the species does not occur in central and southern France. …”
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Modeling TGF-β in early stages of cancer tissue dynamics. by Gianluca Ascolani, Pietro Liò

“…The multi scalar behaviours of the TGF-β are described by three coupled models built up together which can approximatively be related to distinct microscopic, mesoscopic, and macroscopic scales, respectively. …”
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Optimal Modeling of Wireless LANs: A Decision-Making Multiobjective Approach by Tomás de Jesús Mateo Sanguino, Jhon Carlos Mendoza Betancourt

“…As a result, we comparatively evaluated three target applications considering small, medium, and large scenarios with a previous approach developed, a monoobjective genetic algorithm.…”
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Molecular Evolution of the Glycosyltransferase 6 Gene Family in Primates by Eliane Evanovich, Patricia Jeanne de Souza Mendonça-Mattos, Maria Lúcia Harada

“…Glycosyltransferase 6 gene family includes ABO, Ggta1, iGb3S, and GBGT1 genes and by three putative genes restricted to mammals, GT6m6, GTm6, and GT6m7, only the latter is found in primates. …”
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Measurement and spatiotemporal evolution characteristics of dietary diversity among Chinese residents by Guangyuan Qin, Miaomiao Li, Shiwen Quan

“…Among the four major geographic regions, the dietary diversity was highest in the southern region, followed by the northern region, northwest region, and Qinghai-Tibet region. Among the three major economic regions, the dietary diversity was highest in the eastern region, followed by the central region and western region. …”
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Risks of exercise addiction and eating disorders among women attending fitness classes by O. V. Felsendorff, A. Y. Egorov

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Cytological Studies of 25 Species and Four Varieties of <i>Artemisia</i> (Asteraceae) from China, Toward a Better Understanding of the Variation Patterns of Chromosomes in the Genu... by Xinqiang Guo, Yiran Jiang, Xianxiang Zeng, Fuhui Tan, Dawei Xue, Yuhuan Wu

“…Among them, twelve species and one variety were found to be diploid, with 2<i>n</i> = 16 or 18; nine species and three varieties were found to be tetraploid, with 2<i>n</i> = 32 or 36; and two species were found to have both diploid and tetraploid cytotypes. …”
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Multiple old differentiation centres around the Alps and complex range expansion patterns in a semi-aquatic insect: the phylogeny and biogeography of the Wormaldia occipitalis spec... by Valentine Mewis, Peter Neu, Thomas Schmitt

“…Genetic analyses revealed four subgroups within W. occipitalis and three within W. subterranea. Several possible postglacial dispersal and differentiation processes are proposed. …”
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SYNTHESIS OF THE THERMALLY COUPLED DISTILLATION SEQUENCES by E. А. Anokhina, А. V. Timoshenko

“…The article considers the main approaches to the synthesis of distillation schemes, including systems with STMP: 1) a method based on the construction of a "superstructure"; 2) a method based on the concept of thermodynamically equivalent configurations; 3) an evolutionary algorithm; 4) a method based on the transformation of distillation scheme graphs. …”
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Plant Growth Regulators: An Overview of WOX Gene Family by Haroon Rasheed, Lin Shi, Chichi Winarsih, Bello Hassan Jakada, Rusong Chai, Haijiao Huang

“…The WOX gene family is divided into three clades: ancient, intermediate, and modern (WUS) based on historical evolution linkage. …”
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Detailed morphological study of the tongue of forest dragon (Gonocephalus chamaeleontinus) by scanning electron and light microscopy by Amanda Dominica Theqla, Srikanth Karnati, Dwi Liliek Kusindarta

“…Results: The tongue of G. chamaeleontinus separated into three distinct parts: the apex, corpus, and radix. …”
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Enhancing 4G/LTE Network Path Loss Prediction with PSO-GWO Hybrid Approach by Messaoud Garah, Nabil Boukhennoufa

“…The best model for estimating the measured path loss is then optimized using three well-known evolutionary algorithms: Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO), Grey Wolf Optimizer (GWO), and Covariance Matrix Adaptation Evolution Strategy (CMA-ES). …”
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Multiagent Collaborative Governance for Targeted Poverty Alleviation from the Perspective of Stakeholders by Na Zhang, XiangXiang Zhang, Ming Lei, Yingjie Yang

“…As a social problem involving a wide range of objects, targeted poverty alleviation governance needs to clearly define stakeholders and identify their behaviour choices, so as to seek a multiagent collaborative governance strategy, and strive to jointly promote the realization of a targeted poverty alleviation goals in an atmosphere to win-win cooperation and benefit sharing. By constructing a three-subject evolutionary game model of local government, social organization, and poverty group in the process of targeted poverty alleviation, this paper discusses the influence of their behavioural decisions on multisubject collaborative governance of targeted poverty alleviation and selects samples to carry out simulation experiments on the model. …”
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GPSOM: group-based particle swarm optimization with multiple strategies for engineering applications by Jialing Yan, Gang Hu, Heming Jia, Abdelazim G. Hussien, Laith Abualigah

“…GPSOM divides the population into three subgroups and adopts targeted strategies based on different phases: sub-swarm 1 focuses on exploration and improves population diversity and local search ability by dynamically adjusting operators; sub-swarm 2 focuses on exploitation, introducing sine cosine factors and adaptive mechanisms to traverse the solution space efficiently; sub-swarm 3 achieves global and local balance, generating high-quality solutions through adaptive factors and position adjustment operators. …”
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Support Vector Regression-Based Optimization for Triple Friction Pendulum Bearings: Achieving Computational Efficiency by Mahnaz Akbarzaghi, Behrooz Ahmadi Nedushan, Hamed Tajammolian

“…To closely investigate the SVR method, three kernel functions (Gaussian, Matérn 3/2, and Matérn 5/2) were compared. …”
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Rare Flora of the Khadzhokh Recreational Area of the Republic Of Adygea by Sirotyuk E., Gunina G., Gergia I.

“…The article shows that the Khadzhokh recreational area of the Republic of Adygea includes three settlements: the villages of Dakhovskaya, Kamennomostsky and Pobeda, which are the most attractive for the local population and tourists from all the regions of Russia and abroad. …”
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Molecular phylogenetics, a new classification, and a new genus of the Neotropical fish family Anostomidae (Teleostei: Characiformes) by Brian L. Sidlauskas, Bruno F. Melo, José L. O. Birindelli, Michael D. Burns, Benjamin W. Frable, Kendra Hoekzema, Casey B. Dillman, Mark H. Sabaj, Claudio Oliveira

“…Abstract Phylogenetic reconstruction of the Neotropical freshwater fish family Anostomidae using multilocus sequence data from 97 species supports the recognition of three subfamilies: Leporellinae with one genus, Anostominae with six genera, and Leporininae with nine genera. …”
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Sexual communication in castniid moths: Males mark their territories and appear to bear all chemical burden. by Carmen Quero, Victor Sarto I Monteys, Gloria Rosell, Marc Puigmartí, Angel Guerrero

“…., they use visual stimuli for mate location and females have apparently lost their pheromone glands in an evolutionary context. In this paper we report for the first time the identification of three new compounds, namely n-octadecyl acetate, (Z)-9-octadecenyl acetate and (E,Z)-2,13-octadecadienyl acetate, in males of the Castniid Palm Borer, Paysandisia archon, which could be involved in its short-range courtship behavior, and also shed light on recent controversies on the sexual behavior of the species. …”
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Community science helps digitize 78 years of fish and habitat data for thousands of lakes in Michigan, USA by Katelyn B. S. King, Justin Schell, Kevin E. Wehrly, Michael Lenard, Randal Singer, Hernán López-Fernández, Andrea K. Thomer, Karen M. Alofs

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