Characterisation of the Endophytic and Rhizospheric Bacillus licheniformis Strains Isolated from Sweet Potato with Plant Growth-Promoting and Yield Enhancing Potential by Ádám Bordé-Pavlicz, Anuar Rysbekovich Zhumakayev, Henrietta Allaga, Mónika Vörös, Pramod Wasudeo Ramteke, Tamás Monostori, Csaba Vágvölgyi

“…In total, seven Bacillus licheniformis strains were identified and subjected to detailed ecophysiological investigations. Experiments have been conducted to investigate the tolerance of selected strains to different limiting factors such as pH, temperature, and water activity, which affect survivability in various agricultural environments. …”
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Influencing Factors and Prevalence of Anxiety in Medical Students: A Cross-Sectional Study by Huong Thi Nguyen, Yen Thi Hoai Phan, Anh-Vu Nguyen-Hoang, Tri-Bao Nguyen, Gia-Phuoc Tran-Thien

“…This study addresses this gap by investigating the prevalence and contributing factors of anxiety within this population, aiming to gain a deeper understanding of their mental health experiences. Methods: Utilizing a convenience sampling technique, 400 medical students from Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine & Pharmacy were surveyed using the Zung Self-Rating Anxiety Scale and a custom questionnaire assessing factors contributing to anxiety. …”
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Efficient removal of lead (II) from paint factory wastewater using Noug stalk activated carbon: A sustainable adsorption approach by Getasew Yirdaw

“…This study aimed to evaluate the efficiency of Noug stalk activated carbon in removing lead (II) from paint factory effluent under optimized conditions. Laboratory experiments were conducted to assess the performance of Noug stalk activated carbon in treating wastewater from a paint factory. …”
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Du village-station à la station-village. Un siècle d’urbanisme en montagne by Franck Delorme

“…Les stations de sports d’hiver, au gré des modes et des usages, ont pris des aspects différents et ont marqué plus ou moins fortement le paysage. Les expériences architecturales se sont succédé, convoquant ou rejetant tour à tour des modèles établis ou inventés. …”
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Predicting the Viscosity of Petroleum Emulsions Using Gene Expression Programming (GEP) and Response Surface Methodology (RSM) by Abubakar A. Umar, Ismail M. Saaid, Aliyu A. Sulaimon, Rashidah M. Pilus

“…To achieve that, a response surface methodology (RSM) based on Box-Behnken design (BBD) was used to design the experiment. Synthetic emulsions were prepared from an Offshore Malaysian Crude oil based on the DoE design and were aged for 7 days. …”
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Governing of Melt Pool Solidification Parameters and Microstructure Evolution Indicator During SLM‐Ti6Al4V Alloy Through Parametric Sweep Optimization by Kidu Gebrecherkos Weldeanenia, Samuel Kinde Kassegne, Perumalla Janaki Ramulu

“…The optimization of process parameters through experiment is expensive and time‐consuming. On the other hand, computational approaches offer a fast and economical way to predict the contributions of process parameters. …”
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CDSS-Pan: Convolutional Dictionary Learning With State Space Model for Pansharpening by Zixu Li, Jintao Song, Genji Yuan, Jinjiang Li

“…To demonstrate the superiority of our proposed method, we conduct comparative experiments with current state-of-the-art pansharpening methods on three benchmark datasets: QB, GF2, and WV3. …”
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Establishment Methods and Application Evaluation of Animal Models in Reproductive Toxicology Research by HUANG Dongyan, WU Jianhui

“…Given the specificity and importance of reproductive toxicity evaluation, corresponding institutions both domestically and internationally have issued guidelines, national standards, or industry standards, all of which involve animal experiments. In the study of reproductive system diseases, numerous animal models have been developed to investigate key reproductive organs, such as testicles and ovaries. …”
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The use of maize haploidy inducers as a tool in agricultural plant biotechnology by A. V. Ulyanov, A. V. Karlov, E. B. Khatefov

“…Maize haploid inducers are widely used in doubled haploid wheat breeding. The first experiments showed that the most effective haploid inducer for stimulating haploidy in wheat is maize pollen. …”
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Contact-dependent growth inhibition (CDI) systems deploy a large family of polymorphic ionophoric toxins for inter-bacterial competition. by Tiffany M Halvorsen, Kaitlin A Schroeder, Allison M Jones, Disa Hammarlöf, David A Low, Sanna Koskiniemi, Christopher S Hayes

“…Accordingly, the corresponding immunity proteins are also highly polymorphic, typically sharing only ~30% sequence identity with members of the same group. Competition experiments confirm that the immunity proteins are specific for their cognate ionophores and provide no protection against other toxins from the same group. …”
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Study of moisture-induced temperature evolution in an engineered barrier system for a HLW repository by Manish Kumar Jha, Amit Jaiswal, A.K. Verma, Trilok Nath Singh

“…The present paper aims to assess the thermal behaviour of bentonite compaction's engineered barrier system (EBS) to designated dry density. An experiment was carried out on a small (centimetre scale) physical model of the EBS based on the design of the nuclear waste repository proposed by different studies. …”
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Modified Biering-Sorenson Protocol Changes Joint Contributions to Total Support in Individuals with a History of Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction During Drop Vertical Jump... by David M Werner, Maria F Mostaed, Samantha K Price, Joaquin A Barrios

“… # Study Design Quasi-experimental pre-post laboratory experiment # Methods Nineteen participants with a history of unilateral anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction were recruited. …”
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Use of building wastes and red mud as CO2 sorbent and catalyst for the production of hydrogen by Despina Vamvuka, Stavroula Panagiotidou, Agapi Orfanoudaki

“…Selected materials were forest and agricultural wastes as feedstocks, as well as demolition wastes from construction activities and red mud (RM) waste from the aluminum industry as a novel CO2 sorbent and catalyst, respectively. The experiments were carried out in a fixed-bed gasification system under a steam atmosphere and a thermogravimetric-mass spectrometric unit. …”
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The Egyptian Revolution: First Impressions from the Field by Mohammed A. Bamyeh

“…All those common formative experiences of past generations were also grand national moments: whether catastrophic defeats or triumphs against colonial powers or allies.…”
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Modeling performances of maize cultivars under current and future climate scenarios in southern central Ethiopian rift valley by Daniel Markos, Walelign Worku, Girma Mamo

“…The results of normalized root mean square were 1.14–4.2 and 3.0–3.9%, for grain yield during calibration and validation, respectively showing an excellent rating. The simulation experiment produced 5.4–9.2 t ha−1 for grain yield of maize cultivars across the study areas, which is likely to fall close to 63.3% by 2070 if right adaptation options are not introduced necessitating switch in cultivars and production areas. …”
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Interleukin-6 related signaling pathways as the intersection between chronic diseases and sepsis by Jie Yang, Lin Yang, Yanjiao Wang, Lu Huai, Bohan Shi, Di Zhang, Wei Xu, Di Cui

“…This article summarized the inflammatory mechanisms of IL-6 cross-talked with other mediators of some chronic diseases in vitro, animal models, and human experiments, leading to the activation of pathways and accelerating the progression of sepsis. …”
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Leveraging Deep Spatiotemporal Sequence Prediction Network with Self-Attention for Ground-Based Cloud Dynamics Forecasting by Sheng Li, Min Wang, Minghang Shi, Jiafeng Wang, Ran Cao

“…Finally, by embedding gradient highway units and adding skip connection, CloudPredRNN++ is constructed into a hierarchical recursive structure, mitigating the gradient vanishing and enhancing the uniform modeling of temporal–spatial features. Experiments on the sequence ground-based cloud dataset demonstrate that CloudPredRNN++ can predict the future cloud state more accurately and quickly. …”
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Curvature Determination Method for Diverging Acoustic Lens of Underwater Acoustic Transducer by Minze Li, Mingzhen Xin, Fanlin Yang, Yu Luo, Jinpeng Liu, Niuniu Wu

“…Then, the least squares polynomial fitting of the acoustic lens slope at all the refractive positions is carried out to obtain the optimal curvature of the acoustic lens. Experiments are designed to verify the effectiveness of the curvature determination method for the diverging acoustic lens of an underwater acoustic transducer, and the directivity indicators of acoustic lenses under different materials and different marine environments are analyzed. …”
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Motor skills in pre-school education and affects to 5 year old children’s psychomotor development by Atike Yılmaz, Faruk Guven, Hakan Akdenız, Malik Beyleroglu, Ugur Senturk

“…In order to measure the motor performances of control and experiment groups, the motor performance test protocol that, as pre-test, Morris, Atwater Williams and Will more performed in 1980 wasused. …”
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Effect of Electroacupuncture at Shenting and Baihui Acupoints on Ability of Learning and Memory and Expression of Autophagy Related Genes and Proteins in Cerebral Ischemia-reperfus... by Lingli GAO, Xiaodong FENG

“…The improved Zea Longa line embolism method was used to establish a model of ischemia and reperfusion injury in rats, EA was applied for 30 minutes each time, one time per day until the rats were sacrificed after ten days. Morris water maze experiment was used to observe learning and memory ability of rats, TTC staining was used to observe the change of brain infarction area of rats, RT-PCR and Western Blot were used to detect the expression of autophagy related genes and proteins in hippocampus.Results:④Morris water maze outcomes showed that compared with the model group, the escape latency time of rats in the EA group was obviously shortened, the number of across-platform was increased and the distance was shortened (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).④Compared with the model group, the nerve defect scale of brain ischemia-reperfusion injury rats in the EA group was decreased (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).④TTC staining results showed that the area of brain infarction in the EA group and model group was respectively higher than that in the sham operation group, and the volume of brain infarction in the EA group was reduced compared with the model group (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).④Compared with the model group, the levels of Beclin 1, LC3Ⅰ/Ⅱand PI3K mRNA and protein in the left side of hippocampus in the EA group were increased (<italic>P</italic>&lt;0.05).Conclusion:EA at the DU24 and DU20 acupoints can reduce the cerebral infarction, and improve animal behaviors, and protect the neuronal injury. …”
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