Mammalian cells measure the extracellular matrix area and respond through switching the adhesion state by Xiaole Wang, Pengli Wang, Lihang Zhang, Tianyu Xu, Seungkuk Ahn, Upnishad Sharma, Han Yu, Nico Strohmeyer, Daniel J. Müller

“…Abstract Mammalian cells adjust integrin-mediated adhesion based on the composition and structure of the extracellular matrix (ECM). However, how spatially confined ECM ligands regulate cell adhesion initiation remains unclear. …”
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Investigating an Erupting Metric-decimetric Radio Depression and Its Physical Origin by B. T. Wang, X. Cheng, J. Y. Yan, C. Xing, W. T. Fu, L. Wu, L. Deng, A. L. Lan, Y. Chen, C. Wang, M. D. Ding

“…At the radio band, even though the filament is difficult to identify in its early phase, it rapidly became distinct and formed a continuous loop-like dark structure during the eruption, i.e., so-called radio depression. …”
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Adjustable Rigid-Soft Wearable Hand Robot With Magnetorheological Cable-Driven Mechanism for Grasping Assistance by Ye Lu, Huijun Li, Jianwei Lai, Jiajin Wang, Yating Yu, Tianyi Lu, Xiangshan Wei, Hongxing Wang, Aiguo Song

“…The adjustable rigid-soft coupling ring enhances both comfort and stability, demonstrating significantly improved mechanical performance compared to both the rigid-soft ring and the silicone ring of the same size. The wearable structure integrates the proposed adjustable anchor ring and a ripple strap design for better adaptability. …”
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In vivo determination of sex and reproductive status of Octopus tehuelchus (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) by ultrasound techniques by Mercedes Berrueta, Andrea V. López, Mariela Radonic, Barbara Gorriti Goroso, Eddie Aristizabal

“…In ventral view, the testis had a spherical, homogeneous and compact appearance, while the spermatophore complex appeared as a hyperechoic structure with respect to the testis, highlighting the presence of spermatophores in mature individuals. …”
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Light-Induced Waveguide With Directional Transmission by Xinpu Zhang, Xihua Zou, Bin Luo, Wei Pan, Lianshan Yan

“…Subsequently, the transmission characteristics of the light-induced waveguides with different parameters are investigated, and the experimental results reveal that the (directional) transmission characteristics can be modified by controlling the structure of the light-induced waveguides by controlling the illumination time (single-side) or the ratio of the illumination intensity (dual-side). …”
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Agricultural greenhouses datasets of 2010, 2016, and 2022 in China by Yan Sun, Yuyun Zhang, Jian Hao, Jiang Li, Hengjun Ge, Feifei Jiang, Junna Liu, Xueqing Dong, Jiayuan Guo, Zhanbin Luo, Fu Chen

“…Abstract China has built the world’s largest area of agricultural greenhouse to meet the requirements of climate change and dietary structure changes. Accurate and timely access to information on agricultural greenhouse space is crucial for effectively managing and improving the quality of agricultural production. …”
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Tunable phenotypic variability through an autoregulatory alternative sigma factor circuit by Christian P Schwall, Torkel E Loman, Bruno M C Martins, Sandra Cortijo, Casandra Villava, Vassili Kusmartsev, Toby Livesey, Teresa Saez, James C W Locke

“…Iteration between model and experiment reveals that this tunability can be explained by the autoregulatory feedback structure of the sigV operon. As predicted by the model, genetic perturbations to the operon also modulate the response variability. …”
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Morphometrie research of worker honey bees in the Republic of Chuvashia by A. I. Skvortsov, V. N. Sattarov, V. G. Semyonov, A. A. Fadeev

“…The presence of diversity (within the Apis mellifera mellifera L. breed standard) by the coefficients of variation distinguishes the bees of this population by heterogeneity and, evidently, characterizes the presence of a subpopulation structure in a given territory.…”
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Multiwavelength Constraints on Dust Dynamics and Size Evolution in Protoplanetary Disk Rings. I. Method by Linhan Yang, Ya-Ping Li, Ruobing Dong, Kiyoaki Doi, Hauyu Baobab Liu, Pinghui Huang

“…Building on this finding, we develop a comprehensive, self-consistent analytical theory that describes the dust ring structure while explicitly accounting for size evolution effects. …”
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Activated Carbon Coating Films from Renewable Resources: Advancing Eco-Friendly Food Packaging by Redzuan Mohammad Suffian James, H'ng Paik San, Norwahyuni Mohd Yusof, Seng Hua Lee

“…Activated carbon is recognized for its outstanding adsorption capacity, large surface area, and porous structure, which enable it to capture gases such as oxygen, moisture, and ethylene, all of which contribute to food deterioration. …”
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HKU5 bat merbecoviruses engage bat and mink ACE2 as entry receptors by Mia Madel Alfajaro, Emma L. Keeler, Ning Li, Nicholas J. Catanzaro, I-Ting Teng, Zhe Zhao, Michael W. Grunst, Boyd Yount, Alexandra Schäfer, Danyi Wang, Arthur S. Kim, Aleksandra Synowiec, Mario A. Peña-Hernández, Samantha Zepeda, Ridwan Arinola, Ramandeep Kaur, Bridget L. Menasche, Jin Wei, Gabriel A. Russell, John Huck, Jaewon Song, Aaron Ring, Akiko Iwasaki, Rohit K. Jangra, Sanghyun Lee, David R. Martinez, Walther Mothes, Pradeep D. Uchil, John G. Doench, Alicen B. Spaulding, Ralph S. Baric, Leonid Serebryannyy, Yaroslav Tsybovsky, Tongqing Zhou, Daniel C. Douek, Craig B. Wilen

“…Cryo-electron microscopy analysis of the virus-receptor complex and structure-guided mutagenesis reveal a spike and ACE2 interaction that is distinct from other ACE2-using coronaviruses. …”
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Zooplankton community dynamics in response to water trophic state in integrated multitrophic aquaculture by Adriana Nabil Abdel Fattah Ibrahim, Maria Stela Maioli Castilho-Noll, Wagner Cotroni Valenti

“…This study aimed to verify the dynamics and the structure of the zooplankton community in IMTA (tilapia-prawn), in response to trophic conditions in earthen ponds with different substrates. …”
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Engineering Oilseed Microbiome Synergy for Saline Alkaline Soil Restoration by Shijie Ma, Tong Tang, Chang Du, Zheng Yang, Binjie Gan

“…These crops exhibit unique adaptive strategies, including root architectural plasticity and exudate-mediated recruitment of stress-resilient microbiomes (Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, and Ascomycota), which collectively stabilize soil structure and enhance nutrient cycling, ion homeostasis, and soil aggregation to mitigate soil salinity and alkalinity. …”
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Engineering Design of a Voloxidizer with a Double Reactor for the Hull Separation of Spent Nuclear Fuel Rods by Young-Hwan Kim, Yung-Zun Cho, Jae-Won Lee, Ju-Hoo Lee, Sang-Chae Jeon, Do-Hee Ahn

“…Subsequently, we modularized the main components such as the heater, utility, motor, reactor, valve, and structure. The double reactor was subject to preliminary separation tests of hulls and powder. …”
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Low-temperature Catalytic Oxidation of White Spirit Vapor in Air by Binary Oxides of FeO-MnOx Supported on OMS-2 Material by Ngo Quoc Nguyen, Pham Duy Quang, Nguyen Ha Nhu, Le Thi Van Anh, Nguyen Thi Thuy, Vo Thanh Hang, Le Van Thang, Nguyen Thi Le Lien, Nguyen Trung Thanh, Nguyen Nhat Huy

“…The catalyst retained the cryptomelane-type tunnel structure of OMS-2 and possessed enhanced redox activity due to the synergistic interaction between surface Fe and Mn species. …”
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Regional specialization of movement encoding across the primate sensorimotor cortex by Simon Borgognon, Nicolò Macellari, Alexandra M. Hickey, Matthew G. Perich, Houman Javaheri, Rafael Ornelas-Kobayashi, Maude Delacombaz, Christopher Hitz, Florian Fallegger, Stéphanie P. Lacour, Erwan Bezard, Eric M. Rouiller, Jocelyne Bloch, Tomislav Milekovic, Ismael Seáñez, Grégoire Courtine

“…PMd primarily operated within its task-dependent subspace, while S1, and to a lesser extent M1, largely evolved within their task-independent subspaces. The temporal structure of movement was encoded in the task-independent subspaces, which also dominated the PMd-to-M1 communication as the movement plans were translated into motor commands. …”
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Stem Cells Grown in Osteogenic Medium on PLGA, PLGA/HA, and Titanium Scaffolds for Surgical Applications by Annalia Asti, Giulia Gastaldi, Rossella Dorati, Enrica Saino, Bice Conti, Livia Visai, Francesco Benazzo

“…The higher amount of protein matrix on the Ti scaffold with respect to PLGA and PLGA/HA leads to the conclusion that not only the type of material but the structure significantly affects cell proliferation.…”
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Frustum: achieving high throughput in blockchain systems through hierarchical and pipelined sharding by Yukun Xu, Wenhan Wu, Yili Gong, Kanye Ye Wang, Chuang Hu, Dazhao Cheng

“…Finally, Frustum employs a pipelined structure for enhanced consensus concurrency. Our Frustum prototype demonstrates a substantial performance boost, improving transaction throughput by 2.79 and 1.68 times over existing sharding systems with 16 shards and 1024 nodes.…”
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Cascading Dynamics of Heterogenous Scale-Free Networks with Recovery Mechanism by Shudong Li, Zhongtian Jia, Aiping Li, Lixiang Li, Xinran Liu, Yixian Yang

“…Moreover, the third method is optimal if we only knew the local structure of SF networks and the uniform assignment is the worst. …”
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Research on the Method of Crop Pest and Disease Recognition Based on the Improved YOLOv7-U-Net Combined Network by Wenchao Xiang, Zitao Du, Xinran Liu, Zehui Lu, Yuna Yin

“…For the YOLOv7 network, a self-attention mechanism is integrated into the SPPCSPC module to dynamically adjust channel weights and suppress redundant information while optimizing the PAFPN structure to enhance cross-scale feature fusion and improve small-object detection capabilities. …”
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