Bacterial microbiota associated with raw plant-based meat analogue products and their influences on selective enrichment for Escherichia coli O157:H7 by Sabrina Capitani, Liam P. Brown, Catherine D. Carrillo, Calvin Ho-Fung Lau

“…Towards fostering a more sustainable food production system in face of the climate change challenge, alternative protein meat-substitute products that are plant-based and free of animal by-products have been gaining attractions from both food manufacturers and consumers. …”
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Dune, outcrop, and pan sediments from the southern Kalahari Basin: A geoarchaeological case study from the Kgalagadi district, Botswana by Inez Faul, Taylor Grandfield, Stefan Dreibrodt, Sarah Mothulatshipi, Phillip Segadika, Christopher Green, Marine Frouin, Michaela Ecker

“…We investigated the mechanisms involved in the deposition of pan, dune, and sandy outcrop sediment by applying a multi-method analysis to thirty sediment samples. Analysis of pan samples reveals the presence of mostly intergrade duricrusts, with some calcretes present. …”
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Isotopic characteristics of Crimean collection wines by L. A. Oganesyants, A. L. Panasyuk, E. I. Kuzmina, D. A. Sviridov, V. V. Likhovskoy, V. A. Zagoruiko, N. A. Shmigelskaya

“…The composition of the stable carbon isotopes of ethanol in the samples was determined using the analytical complex Delta V Advantage. …”
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Automatic crop type mapping based on crop-wise indicative features by Junru Yu, Longcai Zhao, Yanfu Liu, Qingrui Chang, Na Wang

“…The time series analysis method (i.e., seasonal trend decomposition) and imputation method was then utilized for the discrete time series of CIF extractors, which were separately trained based on training samples on each day. …”
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Waning immunity, prevailing non-vaccine type ptxP3 and macrolide-resistant strains in the 2024 pertussis outbreak in China: a multicentre cross-sectional descriptive studyResearch... by Jiehao Cai, Qiyi Liu, Biquan Chen, Yue Jiang, Xiaoyan Zeng, Jiebin Huang, Daojiong Lin, Huanyou Li, Jinqiang Zhang, Zhiqiang Zhuo, Yanping Zhang, Panpan Lv, Qiang Wang, Wenhong Zhang, Mingliang Chen, Mei Zeng

“…Summary: Background: In the spring and summer of 2024, an unexpected large outbreak of pertussis hit China, with the annual incidence of pertussis (34.03/100,000) more than 12-fold higher than that of 2023 (2.71/100,000). …”
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Chaotic moving video quality enhancement based on deep in-loop filtering by Tong Tang, Yi Yang, Dapeng Wu, Ruyan Wang, Zhidu Li

“…Meanwhile, under close bit rate consumption, the proposed method could reconstruct more texture information, thereby significantly reducing the blocking artifacts and improving the visual quality.…”
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Innovations in Proteomic Technologies and Artificial Neural Networks: Unlocking Milk Origin Identification by Achilleas Karamoutsios, Emmanouil D. Oikonomou, Chrysoula (Chrysa) Voidarou, Lampros Hatzizisis, Konstantina Fotou, Konstantina Nikolaou, Evangelia Gouva, Evangelia Gkiza, Nikolaos Giannakeas, Ioannis Skoufos, Athina Tzora

“…The utilisation of proteomic technologies combined with personalised algorithms creates great potential for a more comprehensive approach to analysing milk samples effectively. …”
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Análise de lesões musculoesqueléticas em praticantes de musculação e corrida (Analisis de lesión musculoesquelética em practicantes de musculación y de las carreras) (Analysis of... by Flavio Boechat de Oliveira, Wallin do Couto Conceição, Rafael Barreto, Igor Carvalho, Giovanne Moraes de L. Ribeiro, Rodrigo Gomes de Souza Vale

“…Objective: To characterize and analyze the prevalence of musculoskeletal injuries in bodybuilders and runners. Methods: The sample consisted of 30 bodybuilders and runners with more than 12 months of practice. …”
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Application of four molecular markers for breeding peach aphid (Myzus persicae Sülzer) resistance by CHEN Xuejia, LIU Mingjie, WU Jinlong, WANG Xinwei, CHEN Changwen, LI Yong, WANG Lirong

“…For each plant in the surveyed population, tender leaves were sampled, and genomic DNA was extracted via the Cetyltrimethylammonium Bromide (CTAB) method. …”
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Study on dispersion of abrasive particles in electro Fenton CMP slurry and design of green polishing fluid in neutral environment by Feng CHENG, Zirui WANG, Rui ZHU, Yongguang WANG, Yang PENG, Tianyu ZHANG, Dong ZHAO, Cheng FAN

“…Meanwhile, STPP can enhance the anti-settling ability of diamond abrasives in the Fenton reaction polishing slurry in a neutral environment, and the alkaline pH regulator weakens the anti-settling ability of diamond abrasives in polishing slurry more significantly than the acidic pH regulator.…”
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Disaster victim identification: the co-utilisation of applied biosystems RapidHIT ID system and DJI Matrice 300 drone for onsite DNA analysis by Natassya Ezzaty Mohd Sabri, Siti Hamimah Sheikh Abdul Kadir, Mansharan Kaur Chainchel Singh, Chong Chin Heo, Lay See Khoo, Mohd Yusmiaidil Putera Mohd Yusof, Mohd Shah Mahmood, Keat Soon Ooi, Muhammad Dzulfiqri Muhammad Nasir, Hapizah Nawawi

“…The drone-assisted procedure exhibits less time to obtain and analyse the samples but can still produce DNA profiles concordant with the conventional method (p > 0.05). …”
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Synthesis, characterization and electrochemical properties of cobalt-doped phosphate tungsten heteropoly acid and its bronze by Acković Jovana S., Petrović Tamara, Senćanski Jelena, Mijatović Aleksandar, Blagojević Stevan, Tančić Pavle, Micić Ružica, Pagnacco Maja

“…However, a “slow” analytical method, chronopotentiometry, in which more places of a crystal lattice are occupied with ions (as compared to cyclic voltammetry), yielded solid and stable discharge capacity, making Co-PWB attractive as a potential electrode material for aqueous Li-ion batteries. …”
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Cyclic testing reliability analysis on a novel light-curable bone fixation technique by Paula M. N. Cameron, Daniel J. Hutchinson, Micheal Malkoch, Peter Varga, Peter Schwarzenberg

“…However, this fixation has yet to be tested cyclically in a more physiological environment, which would represent an important step to assessing the clinical efficacy of this technology. …”
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Biotechnological Potential of Lactic Acid Bacteria Isolated From Ethiopian Honey Wine, Tej by Minyilal Sisay, Asnake Desalegn, Fitsum Tigu, Mogessie Ashenafi, Feng-Yan Bai, Dagim Jirata Birri

“…The antioxidant capacity was assessed by the 1,1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl free radical-scavenging capacity, and the antibiotic susceptibility of isolates was tested by the disk diffusion method. A total of 143 LABs were isolated from Tej samples. …”
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Sticky Trap-Embedded Machine Vision for Tea Pest Monitoring: A Cross-Domain Transfer Learning Framework Addressing Few-Shot Small Target Detection by Kunhong Li, Yi Li, Xuan Wen, Jingsha Shi, Linsi Yang, Yuyang Xiao, Xiaosong Lu, Jiong Mu

“…The information and texture features of small tea pests are more likely to be lost with the layers of a neural network becoming deep. …”
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Spatial heterogeneity of forest carbon stocks in the Xiangjiang river Basin urban agglomeration: analysis and assessment based on the multiscale geographically weighted regression... by Yingfeng Kuang, Xiaolong Chen

“…By constructing and comparing the ordinary least squares model (OLS) and four geographically weighted regression (GWR) models, it is hoped to provide a more reliable method for accurately estimating the spatial distribution of large-scale forest carbon stocks and provide a scientific basis for the construction of the Xiangjiang River Basin forest urban agglomeration.MethodBased on the data of the 10th continuous forest resource inventory and climate data in Hunan Province, this study identified five key variables, including average breast diameter of the stand, stand density, average age of the stand, average tree height of the stand, and average annual precipitation. …”
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DNA metabarcoding of benthic algae and associated eukaryotes from Lake Baikal in the face of rapid environmental changes by Yu. S. Bukin, L. S. Kravtsova, T. E. Peretolchina, A. P. Fedotov, A. E. Tupikin, M. R. Kabilov, D. Yu. Sherbakov, E. V. Mincheva

“…The advantage of this method is the possibility to more fully determine the diversity of eukaryotes taxa, which are difficult to identify by morphology, without involving a large number of specialists, while the disadvantage of the method is the distortion that may occur during the PCR. …”
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Geochemistry of trace and rare earth elements of the productive intrusions in the Kuh-Kapout porphyry copper deposit, Urumieh–Dokhtar magmatic arc by Alireza Zarasvandi, Nasim Haghighatjou, Nader Taghipour, Mohsen Rezaei, Mohammad Amiri hoseini, Ghazal Zarasvandi

“…For analyzing trace and rare earth elements, Samples were analyzed by the multi-acid method and used the Microwave Digest. …”
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Wavefront correction with image-based interferometric focus sensing in two-photon microscopy by Yang Ruiwen, Yang Yanlong, Wu Tengfei, Zhang Yang, Dan Dan, Min Junwei, Yu Xianghua, Dai Taiqiang, Kong Liang, Li Li, Yao Baoli

“…We show that our approach has a large effective field of view as well as more stable optimization results compared to the region of interest based method.…”
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BENEFITS OF USE OF ACOUSTIC EMISSION IN SCRATCH TESTING by Lukáš Václavek, Jan Tomáštík, Hana Chmelíčková, Radim Čtvrtlík

“…What is more, it is a non-destructive and real-time method. …”
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