Carbon Dioxide Emissions as Affected by Alternative Long-Term Irrigation and Tillage Management Practices in the Lower Mississippi River Valley by S. F. Smith, K. R. Brye

“…Estimated season-long CO2 emissions were unaffected by irrigation in 2011 (P>0.05); however, during the unusually dry 2012 growing season, season-long CO2 emissions were 87.6% greater (P=0.044) under irrigated (21.9 Mg CO2 ha−1) than under dryland management (11.7 Mg CO2 ha−1). …”
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Autobodies: Detectives, Disorders, and Getting out of the Neighborhood by James Peacock

“…Lionel Essrog, the narrator of Jonathan Lethem’s Motherless Brooklyn (1999), suffers from Tourette’s Syndrome, and Mark Genevich, hero of Paul Tremblay’s The Little Sleep (2009), has narcolepsy. Each character is unusually attached to his home neighborhood: Essrog to Court Street in Brooklyn and Genevich to South Boston. …”
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Genetic polymorphisms and related risk factors of ischemic stroke in a Mongolian population in China by Q. Wu, H. Wu, Yu. L. Orlov, G. Gegentana, W. Huo, A. O. Bragin, N. Wu, S. Suyalatu, F. Zhao, J. Zhao, L. E. Tabikhanova, M. Chen, H. Bai

“…In the present study, we evaluated a hypothesis that a North Asian population living in a geographic area with unusually harsh environmental conditions would develop unique genetic risks. …”
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Geomagnetically Induced Currents and Harmonic Distortion: Storm‐Time Observations From New Zealand by Craig J. Rodger, Mark A. Clilverd, Daniel H. Mac Manus, Ian Martin, Michael Dalzell, James B. Brundell, Tim Divett, Neil R. Thomson, Tanja Petersen, Yuki Obana, Neville R. Watson

“…Previous studies have noted that New Zealand is unusually fortunate in having a comparatively dense, high quality, set of GIC measurements, spanning >60 transformers in >20 substations. …”
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Extreme high temperatures and heatwave events across Europe in 2023 by Yuqing Sun, Gensuo Jia, Xiyan Xu

“…Overall, Europe was unusually warm with prolonged seasons and expanded spatial extent of heatwaves in 2023 compared to the baseline period (1991–2020). …”
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Global Variations in the Time Delays Between Polar Ionospheric Heating and the Neutral Density Response by Daniel R. Weimer, Piyush M. Mehta, R. J. Licata, W. K. Tobiska

“…A puzzling response seen in the CHAMP measurements during the November 2003 storm was that the density at a fixed location near the “Harang discontinuity” remained at unusually low levels during three sequential orbit passes, while elsewhere the density increased. …”
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Long-term Evolution of Sco X-1: Implications for the Current Spin Frequency and Ellipticity of the Neutron Star by Abhijnan Kar, Pulkit Ojha, Sudip Bhattacharyya

“…We find that Sco X-1 is an unusually young (∼7 × 10 ^6 yr) LMXB and constrain the current NS mass to ∼1.4–1.6 M _⊙ . …”
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Targeting the activated allosteric conformation of the endothelin receptor B in melanoma with an antibody-drug conjugate: mechanisms and therapeutic efficacy by Amaury Herbet, Marie Hautière, Frédéric Jean-Alphonse, Delphine Vivier, Christophe Leboeuf, Narciso Costa, Aloïse Mabondzo, Guilhem Bousquet, Franck Denat, Eric Reiter, Didier Boquet

“…Inhibition of their signaling pathways with antagonist drugs has been the subject of numerous clinical trials, but the results have not met expectations probably due to the high endothelin concentrations in the tumor microenvironment and their unusually high affinity for their receptors. Methods We previously reported the rendomab B49 antibody (RB49) exhibiting a preferential affinity for the activated conformation of human endothelin B receptor (ETB), not displaced by high endothelin levels, and without any pharmacological properties that could inhibit the division of melanoma cells. …”
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Reconstruction of climatic events from the 16th century in Transylvania: interdisciplinary analysis based on historical sources by Ovidiu Răzvan Gaceu, Tudor Caciora, Ștefan Baias, Cezar Morar, Mihai Dudaș, Marius Stupariu, Maria Maxim

“…The obtained results were processed using statistical techniques to reconstruct the evolution of the weather during the respective period.Results and discussionThe study identifies multiple pieces of evidence associated with extreme weather events, including 40 unusually warm summers and several years of excess precipitation or drought. …”
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THE DROUGHT OF 2022 IN THE WESTERN PLAIN LOCATED NORTH OF THE MUREȘ RIVER – ROMANIA by Şerban Eugenia, Crainic Ghiță Cristian, Tătar Corina, Linc Ribana, Curilă Mircea, Sabău Nicu Cornel

“…The number of drought days was double or almost double the average of the period 1961-2000, on most of the territory north of Mureș. The drought was unusually long in the north of the plain. The year 2022 had a very intense early spring drought, an intense autumn drought, and an intense summer drought. …”
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The world’s most venomous spider is a species complex: systematics of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atracidae: Atrax robustus) by Stephanie F. Loria, Svea-Celina Frank, Nadine Dupérré, Helen M. Smith, Braxton Jones, Bruno A. Buzatto, Danilo Harms

“…Morphological variability and venom diversity in this species appear to be unusually high, raising questions about species concepts and diversity in these spiders. …”
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Fracture toughness and failure mechanism of high performance concrete incorporating carbon nanotubes by A. Khitab, S. Ahmad, Rao A. Khushnood, Syed A. Rizwan, Giuseppe A. Ferro, L. Restuccia, M. Ali, I. Mehmood

“…., 0.05 and 0.10 wt% of cement to the concrete mixes after insuring there complete dispersion, unusually improve their properties like mechanical strengths and fracture behavior…”
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Possible glendonite mineral pseudomorphs in the aftermath of the end-Permian extinction by Musaab Al-Sarmi, Rachel Wood

“…If these are glendonites, we infer that they could have precipitated due to the unusually elevated alkalinity and pH (> 9) oceanic conditions present in the aftermath of the end-Permian extinction associated with highly disrupted carbon cycle dynamics, possibly accompanied with the upwelling of cold, anoxic oceanic water.…”
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Competitive strategies of internationalization, searching and creating markets by O. V. Mickhailov

“…The combination of specialization (concerning products and know-how) and global broadening of the market/niche has diversity advantages, including of economies on scale, experience curve and temporal monopolization of the market niche.The strategy of revealing and creating new markets and market niches can form and create not only big companies, but middle and small enterprises, having unusually initiatives, invention initiatives, creation capabilities in finding and creating the new markets/niches. …”
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A Two-Fluid Conditional Averaging Paradigm for the Theory and Modeling of Turbulent Premixed Combustion by Vladimir L. Zimont

“…This two-fluid conditional averaging paradigm avoids the challenge in the Favre averaging paradigm of modeling the countergradient scalar transport phenomenon and the unusually large velocity fluctuations in a turbulent premixed flame. …”
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Reconstruction of the Radiation Belts for Solar Cycles 17–24 (1933–2017) by A. A. Saikin, Y. Y. Shprits, A. Y. Drozdov, D. A. Landis, I. S. Zhelavskaya, S. Cervantes

“…Solar cycle 24 (January 2008–2017) has been the least active of the considered solar cycles which resulted in unusually low electron fluxes. Our results show that solar cycle 24 should not be used as a representative solar cycle for developing long term environment models. …”
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Multilocus phylogenies reveal three new truffle-like taxa and the traces of interspecific hybridization in Octaviania (Boletaceae, Boletales) by Takamichi Orihara, Rosanne Healy, Adriana Corrales, Matthew E. Smith

“…Additionally, one O. japonimontana specimen had an unusually divergent TEF1 sequence. Gene-tree comparison and phylogenetic network analysis of the multilocus dataset suggest that these heterogenous sequences are most likely the result of previous inter- and intra-specific hybridization. …”
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Replication-transcription complex of coronaviruses: functions of individual viral non-structural subunits, properties and architecture of their complexes by E. L. Mishchenko, V. A. Ivanisenko

“…CoVs are enveloped (+) RNA viruses with unusually long genomes. Severe acute respiratory syndrome CoV (SARS-CoV), Middle East respiratory syndrome CoV (MERS-CoV), and the novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV, SARS-CoV-2) have been identif ied as causing global pandemics. …”
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Ultrawide bandgap semiconductor h-BN for direct detection of fast neutrons by J. Li, A. Tingsuwatit, Z. Alemoush, J. Y. Lin, H. X. Jiang

“…Among III-nitrides, BN has another unique application as a solid-state neutron detector material because the isotope B-10 is among a few elements that have an unusually large interaction cross section with thermal neutrons. …”
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Diversification and recurrent adaptation of the synaptonemal complex in Drosophila. by Rana Zakerzade, Ching-Ho Chang, Kamalakar Chatla, Ananya Krishnapura, Samuel P Appiah, Jacki Zhang, Robert L Unckless, Justin P Blumenstiel, Doris Bachtrog, Kevin H-C Wei

“…Despite being found in most major eukaryotic taxa implying a deeply conserved evolutionary origin, several components of the complex exhibit unusually high rates of sequence turnover. This is puzzlingly exemplified by the SC of Drosophila, where the central elements and transverse filaments display no identifiable homologs outside of the genus. …”
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