Decoding the trajectory of antibiotic resistance genes in saline and alkaline soils: Insights from different fertilization regimes by Dandan Zhang, Jie Li, Guilong Zhang, Yan Xu

“…We observed that changes in microbial survival strategies under different salinity and alkalinity conditions further affected ARG hosts abundance. Indoor experiments demonstrated that there was a survival trade-off between the growth of resistant bacteria and the evolution of antibiotic resistance in salinity and alkalinity environments. …”
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Phytoreduced gold nanoparticles from vitalmelon promote white adipocyte browning in murine cells by targeting phospholipase D2 by Sun Young Park, He mi Kang, Kangmin Park, Lu Guo, Jin-Woo Oh, Geuntae Park, Nam Jun Kang, Young-Whan Choi

“…Further investigation using pharmacological inhibition and knockdown experiments revealed that phospholipase D2 inhibition synergistically promoted the browning effects of VW-GNPs. …”
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Multi-channel spatio-temporal graph attention contrastive network for brain disease diagnosis by Chaojun Li, Kai Ma, Shengrong Li, Xiangshui Meng, Ran Wang, Daoqiang Zhang, Qi Zhu

“…Finally, a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) is used to classify the brain networks. Experiments on epilepsy and ADNI datasets show that our method outperforms several state-of-the-art approaches in diagnosing performance, and it provides discriminative graph features for related brain diseases.…”
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The Nitrogen Fixation Characteristics of Terrestrial Nitrogen-Fixing Cyanobacteria and Their Role in Promoting Rice Growth by Lei Wu, Ji Dong, Jian Song, Yuan Zhu, Songhao Che, Xueting Qin, Yufeng Xu, Shiqi Tian, Dongchao Wang, Ping Tian, Xiaoshuang Wei, Xue Yang, Meiying Yang, Zhihai Wu

“…The effects of nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria on soil fertility and rice seedling growth were examined through a pot experiment to clarify their growth and nitrogen-fixing characteristics. …”
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Optimizing lipopeptide bioactivity: The impact of non-ionic surfactant dressing by Ágnes Ábrahám, Gergő Gyulai, Judith Mihály, Andrea Horváth, Orsolya Dobay, Zoltán Varga, Éva Kiss, Kata Horváti

“…The physico-chemical properties of poloxamers vary depending on the length of the blocks. In our study, we experimented with different types and systematically investigated the variation of the critical micelle concentration (CMC) of poloxamers at 25 and 37 °C in different media. …”
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Pharmacological Effects of Antioxidant Mycosporine-Glycine in Alleviating Ultraviolet B-Induced Skin Photodamage: Insights from Metabolomic and Transcriptomic Analyses by Kai Wang, Ling Qin, Huan Lin, Mengke Yao, Junhan Cao, Qing Zhang, Changfeng Qu, Yingying He, Jinlai Miao, Ming Liu

“…In this investigation, 30 female ICR mice were divided into four groups: a control group and three Ultraviolet B (UVB)-exposed groups treated with saline or M-Gly via intraperitoneal injection for 30 days. At the end of the experiment, UVB exposure caused erythema, wrinkling, collagen degradation, and mast cell infiltration in mouse dorsal skin. …”
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Two-Step Deep Learning Approach for Estimating Vegetation Backscatter: A Case Study of Soybean Fields by Dong Zhu, Peng Zhao, Qiang Zhao, Qingliang Li, Jinpeng Zhang, Lixia Yang

“…In the second step, limited measured data were utilized to fine-tune the previously pre-trained networks on the basis of TL strategy. Extensive experiments, conducted on both simulated data and in situ measurements, revealed that the proposed two-step TL-based approach yields a significantly better and more robust performance than SS-RTM and other DL schemes, indicating the feasibility of such an approach in estimating vegetation backscatters. …”
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The Application of Fast Fourier Transform Filtering to High Spatial Resolution Digital Terrain Models Derived from LiDAR Sensors for the Objective Mapping of Surface Features and D... by Alberto González-Díez, Ignacio Díaz-Martínez, Pablo Cruz-Hernández, Antonio Barreda-Argüeso, Matthew Doughty

“…Additionally, in this study, it is demonstrated that the footprint of buildings remains uneliminated, indicating that the model is a poorly refined digital surface model (DSM) rather than a true digital terrain model (DTM). Experiments validate the DTM’s capability to highlight contacts and constructions, with water detection showing high precision (≥60%) and varying precision for buildings. …”
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Preparation of recombinant myoglobin and investigation of the liquid antigen stability for quality control materials by Yu-Hui Wang, Xi-Feng Sun, Chun-Xin Xu, Feng-Qiang Sun, Rong-Rong Wang, Xiao-Kun Bian, Zhan-Zhao Wang, Qiang Wu

“…The long-term storage stability was investigated by the thermal acceleration experiment. At 37 °C for one week, Mb concentration decreased by less than 15 %, indicating that the Mb had good long-term storage stability. …”
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A Stochastic Programming Approach for Scheduling Extra Metro Trains to Serve Passengers from Uncertain Delayed High-Speed Railway Trains by Sihui Long, Lingyun Meng, Xiaojie Luan, Alessio Trivella, Jianrui Miao, Francesco Corman

“…We perform extensive numerical experiments using realistic instances based on the Beijing metro network and two HSR lines connected to this network. …”
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Excitation and Propagation of Longitudinal L (0, 2) Mode Ultrasonic Guided Waves for the Detection of Damages in Hexagonal Pipes: Numerical and Experimental Studies by Xiang Wan, Meiru Liu, Xuhui Zhang, Hongwei Fan, Qinghua Mao, Ming Dong, Xing Wang, Hongwei Ma

“…A ring of piezoelectric transducers (PZTs) with the size of 25 mm × 5 mm ×0.5 mm is able to maximize the amplitude of L (0, 2) mode and successfully suppress the undesired L (0, 1) mode in the experiments. Numerical and experimental studies have shown that the displacement field of L (0, 2) mode at 100 kHz is almost uniformly distributed along the circumferential direction. …”
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Improving the efficacy of potato clonal micropropagation by inoculation with the rhizosphere bacteria <i>Azospirillum baldaniorum</i> Sp245 and <i>Ochrobactrum cytisi</i> IPA7.2 by K. Yu. Kargapolova, O. V. Tkachenko, G. I. Burygin, N. V. Evseeva, A. A. Shirokov, L. Yu. Matora, S. Yu. Shchyogolev

“…The dependence of the inoculation eff icacy on potato genotype, growth stage, and inoculum composition was ascertained throughout the experiment. In vitro, A. baldaniorum Sp245 alone and in combination with O. cytisi IPA7.2 promoted the formation of roots on the microplants of both cultivars and the growth of Nevsky shoots. …”
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RMHA-Net: Robust Optic Disc and Optic Cup Segmentation Based on Residual Multiscale Feature Extraction With Hybrid Attention Networks by Mohammad J. M. Zedan, Siti Raihanah Abdani, Jaesung Lee, Mohd Asyraf Zulkifley

“…To validate RMHA-Net&#x2019;s effectiveness, extensive experiments were conducted using five public datasets: Drishti-GS, ORIGA, PAPILA, Chaksu, and REFUGE, and one private dataset, Ibn Al-Haitham. …”
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The effect of mortality salience and early-life maternal care on neuroendocrine, autonomic, and psychological stress responses by Ulrike U. Bentele, Paula Strobel, Maria Meier, Annika B. E. Benz, Raphaela J. Gaertner, Elea S. C. Klink, Bernadette F. Denk, Stephanie J. Dimitroff, Eva Unternaehrer, Jens C. Pruessner

“…Abstract Adverse early-life experiences alter the regulation of major stress systems such as the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. …”
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Esophageal perforation more than 10 years after anterior cervical spine surgery: a case report and literature review by Hua Luo, Zhangfu Wang, Shuang Mi, Wenjun Pan, Xingbing Feng, Zhenghua Hong

“…We reviewed the literature on cases with esophageal perforation occurring more than 10 years after anterior cervical surgery and summarized the treatment experiences. This case underscores the diagnostic challenges and delayed presentation of esophageal perforation post-ACSS. …”
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Augmenter of Liver Regeneration Crotonylation Assists in Mitochondria-ER Contact to Alleviate Hepatic SteatosisSummary by Xiao-lin Wang, Jia-hao He, Ping Xie, Yuan Wu, Ling-yue Dong, Wei An

“…Mitochondrial function and mitochondria-ER interaction (MAM) relevant to ALR-Kcr modification was evaluated for hepatocyte lipid metabolism both in in vivo and in vitro experiments. Results: Global protein crotonylation (Kcr) as well as ALR-Kcr was significantly decreased in liver samples of patients with MASLD and WD mice. …”
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MDTR: a knowledge-guided interpretable representation for quantifying liver toxicity at transcriptomic level by Inyoung Sung, Sangseon Lee, Dongmin Bang, Dongmin Bang, Jungseob Yi, Sunho Lee, Sun Kim, Sun Kim, Sun Kim, Sun Kim

“…Representing each mechanism as a dimension, MDTR is visualized in a radar chart, enabling an effective visual presentation of hepatotoxicity at transcriptomic level.Results and DiscussionIn experiments with the LINCS dataset, we show that MDTR outperforms existing methods for measuring the distance of transcriptome data when describing for dose-dependent drug perturbations. …”
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Inhibition of Anti-Reflection Film Cracks on Plastic Substrates Using Nanolaminate Layer Deposition in Plasma-Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition by Chi-Chieh Wang, Cheng-Fu Wang, Meng-Chi Li, Li-Chen Su, Chien-Cheng Kuo

“…This study used plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) to find the relationship between the intensity of XRD reflection peak and the root-mean-square surface roughness (σ_RMS) of hafnium dioxide (HfO₂) at different thicknesses by reducing the plasma power at different process temperatures. In this experiment, HfO₂ was found to have the highest intensity of XRD at its maximum thickness. …”
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A Deep Learning-Based Approach for the Detection of Various Internet of Things Intrusion Attacks Through Optical Networks by Nouman Imtiaz, Abdul Wahid, Syed Zain Ul Abideen, Mian Muhammad Kamal, Nabila Sehito, Salahuddin Khan, Bal S. Virdee, Lida Kouhalvandi, Mohammad Alibakhshikenari

“…Furthermore, the model’s architecture leverages the high-speed, low-latency characteristics of optical networks, ensuring the efficient processing of large-scale IoT data streams and supporting real-time detection in diverse IoT ecosystems. Comprehensive experiments on benchmark datasets, including KDD CUP99, UNSW NB15, and Bot-IoT, demonstrate XIoT’s exceptional accuracy rates of 99.34%, 99.61%, and 99.21%, respectively, significantly surpassing existing methods in both accuracy and interpretability. …”
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Correlation of Surface Toll-Like Receptor 9 Expression with IL-17 Production in Neutrophils during Septic Peritonitis in Mice Induced by E. coli by Yunjia Ren, Li Hua, Xiuping Meng, Yue Xiao, Xu Hao, Sheng Guo, Peiyan Zhao, Luowei Wang, Boqi Dong, Yongli Yu, Liying Wang

“…After E. coli infection, sTLR9 expression on CD11b+ and CD11b− PMNs and macrophages in the PLCs were increased at early stage and deceased at late stage; IL-17 expression was also increased in CD11b+ PMNs, CD11b− PMNs, macrophages, and CD3+ T cells. Using experiments of in vitro blockage, qRT-PCR and cell sorting, we confirmed that PMNs in the PLCs did increase their IL-17 expression during E. coli infection. …”
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