A single-cell atlas of the Culex tarsalis midgut during West Nile virus infection. by Emily A Fitzmeyer, Taru S Dutt, Silvain Pinaud, Barb Graham, Emily N Gallichotte, Jessica L Hill, Corey L Campbell, Hunter Ogg, Virginia Howick, Mara K N Lawniczak, Erin Osborne Nishimura, Sarah Hélène Merkling, Marcela Henao-Tamayo, Gregory D Ebel

“…However, studies of midgut physiology and virus infection dynamics are scarce, and in Culex tarsalis-an extremely efficient vector of West Nile virus (WNV)-nonexistent. …”
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IMPLICATION OF COMMUNALISM IN CHILD-TRAINING IN ANCIENT ISRAEL AND TRADITIONAL YORUBA SETTING FOR MORAL EDUCATION IN CONTEMPORARY NIGERIA by FABAREBO SAMUEL IDOWU, IYANDA ABEL OLATOYE

“… It is a known fact, from the available data, that Nigeria as a nation is extremely riddled with corrupt practices, violence, crimes, and lack of peace, mutual faith and trust. …”
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Spatial Differentiation in Urban Thermal Environment Pattern from the Perspective of the Local Climate Zoning System: A Case Study of Zhengzhou City, China by Jinghu Pan, Bo Yu, Yuntian Zhi

“…The main urban area’s heat island varies with the seasons, pooling in the urban area during the summer and peaking in the winter, with strong or extremely strong heat islands centered in the suburbs and a distribution of hot and cold spots aggregated with observable features. …”
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Mannitol and the blood-labyrinth barrier by Trung N. Le, Brian W. Blakley

“…Abstract Background Characterization of the blood labyrinth barrier (BLB) is extremely important to determine whether the BLB can be manipulated pharmacologically. …”
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Role of sirtuins in epigenetic regulation and aging control by E. M. Samoilova, S. E. Romanov, D.  A. Chudakova, P. P. Laktionov

“…At the same time, the diversity of sirtuin functions and biochemical substrates makes it extremely complicated to identify cause­and­effect relationships and the direct role of SIRT in controlling the functional state of the body. …”
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Long-duration energy storage in transmission-constrained variable renewable energy systems by Andrew K. Chu, Ejeong Baik, Sally M. Benson

“…In this system, unless LDES is extremely inexpensive, short-duration energy storage (SDES) delivers 6–10× more electricity and has a consistently lower levelized cost. …”
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Pore Structure Characteristics, Genesis, and Its Controlling Effect on Gas Migration of Quaternary Mudstone Reservoir in Qaidam Basin by Shijie He, Xianglu Tang, Zeyu Shao, Zhenxue Jiang, Bo Wang, Xiaoxue Liu, Yuchao Wang, Mingli Xu

“…The development characteristics of loose mudstone reservoirs are restricted by extreme heterogeneity. Therefore, the Quaternary Qigequan Formation mudstone in Qaidam Basin is selected as the research object. …”
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Exceptional Enlargement of the Mitochondrial Genome Results from Distinct Causes in Different Rain Frogs (Anura: Brevicipitidae: Breviceps) by Keitaro Hemmi, Ryosuke Kakehashi, Chiaki Kambayashi, Louis Du Preez, Leslie Minter, Nobuaki Furuno, Atsushi Kurabayashi

“…Unusual elongation (12.5 kbp) of the control region (CR), a single major noncoding region of the vertebrate mt genome, is responsible for the extremely large mt genome in B. poweri. Based on the current Breviceps phylogeny and estimated divergence age, it can be concluded that the genome enlargements occurred independently in each species lineage within relatively short periods. …”
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Rapid Identification of Potassium Nutrition Stress in Rice Based on Machine Vision and Object-Oriented Segmentation by Lisu Chen, Shihan Huang, Yuanyuan Sun, Enyan Zhu, Ke Wang

“…In this research study, two years of hydroponic experiments on rice (providing 5 levels of potassium nutrition from extremely short to normal) were carried out and the leaf images were acquired by optical scanning at four growth periods. …”
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Effect of Board Accountability on Financial Performance of Selected SACCOs in Kiruhura District, Uganda. by Kyabarongo, Benon, Agaba, Moses, Byamukama, Eliab Mpora, Sunday, Arthur, Sekiwu, Denis

“…These statistics included multicollinearity, mean and standard deviation, outliers and extreme values, and missing values in the second phase, the structural relationships between the variables in the suggested conceptual model were tested and examined using structural equation modeling (SEM). …”
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Supervision and Employee Performance: A Case Study of Lyamujungu SACCO Kabale District. by Atukunda, Emily

“…Lastly, the study revealed that there is a relationship between supervision and employee performance as supervision is an extremely vital part of a workplace, poor supervision leads to limited responsibility for taking action for the prevention of problems, mistakes, accidents, and injuries, poor supervision also opens the door for unethical behaviors within a company, effective supervision in workplaces acts as a motivating factor and increases job satisfaction, offering employee’s feedback on their work is an effective way of monitoring their progress, individual meetings between supervisors and their employees, poor supervision doesn’t only mean that there isn’t enough supervision, supervision entails overseeing the activities of the junior members to ensure that they are in line with an organization’s policies, supervision for subordinates increases employee productivity and overall performance. …”
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The Effect of Board Risk Management on Financial Performance of Selected Saccos in Kiruhura District, Uganda. by Kyabarong, Benon, Agaba, Moses, Munyabonera, Francisis, Byamukama, Eliab Mpora, Kikawa, Cliff, Ahabwe, Oliver

“…These statistics included multicollinearity, mean and standard deviation, outliers and extreme values, and missing data. SEM was implemented using Jaffrey's Amazing Statistical Program (JASP) version 0.17.2.0. …”
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Effect of Board Accountability on Financial Performance of Selected SACCOs in Kiruhura District, Uganda. by Kyabarongo, Benon, Agaba, Moses, Byamukama, Eliab Mpora, Sunday, Arthur, Sekiwu, Denis

“…These statistics included multicollinearity, mean and standard deviation, outliers and extreme values, and missing values and in the second phase, the structural relationships between the variables in the suggested conceptual model were tested and examined using structural equation modeling (SEM). …”
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Investigating the Effect of Wood Ash–Lime Blend in the Stabilization of Reclaimed Asphalt Pavement for Road Construction. by Byamugisha, Mark

“…Extremely large volumes of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) aggregates are generated during pavement rehabilitation and reconstruction and disposed of along road alignments while large quantities of wood ash are generated from burning eucalyptus (eucalyptus grandis specie) logs under controlled combustion at 10000C. …”
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Identification and functional characterization of the MYB transcription factor GmMYBLJ in soybean leaf senescence by Guohua Bao, Xiao Xu, Jing Yang, Juanjuan Liu, Tianran Shi, Xiaoxuan Zhao, Xuyan Li, Shaomin Bian

“…However, our knowledge regarding the functional roles of soybean MYBs in leaf senescence is extremely limited. In this study, GmMYBLJ, a CCA1-like MYB, was identified and functionally characterized with respect to leaf senescence. …”
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Identification of heat tolerant lentil genotypes through stress tolerance indices by Rohit Sarkar, Gyan Prakash Mishra, Premakumar, Ankita Singh, Jenia Roy, Kumbarahally Murthigowda Shivaprasad, Shashidhar B. Reddappa, Sudhir Kumar, Ruchi Bansal, Uttarayan Dasgupta, Soma Gupta, Susheel Kumar Sarkar, Sanjeev Gupta, Shiv Kumar, Harsh K. Dikshit, Prachi Sripathrao Yadav, Muraleedhar S. Aski

“…Abstract With climate change projections indicating an increase in the frequency of extreme heat events and irregular rainfall patterns globally, the threat to global food security looms large. …”
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Prediction of Winter Wheat Parameters with Planet SuperDove Imagery and Explainable Artificial Intelligence by Gabriele De Carolis, Vincenzo Giannico, Leonardo Costanza, Francesca Ardito, Anna Maria Stellacci, Afwa Thameur, Sergio Ruggieri, Sabina Tangaro, Marcello Mastrorilli, Nicola Sanitate, Simone Pietro Garofalo

“…The ML models tested were random forest (RF), support vector regressor (SVR), and extreme gradient boosting (XGB). RF outperformed the other ML algorithms in the prediction of RCC when using VIs as predictors (R² = 0.81) and in the prediction of the RWC and DM when using spectral bands data as predictors (R² = 0.71 and 0.87, respectively). …”
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Is dry needling an effective treatment for tennis elbow? A literature review by Filip Grabowski, Natalia Rulewska, Dagmara Neska, Jakub Siemko, Jakub Chodkowski, Dominika Prystacka-Szar, Justyna Stadler-Szajda, Adrianna Czyżnikiewicz, Wenancjusz Stołowski, Magdalena Bujak, Magdalena Waśniowska

“…This method is safe, cost-effective, and can be carried out by practitioners skilled in upper extremity anatomy and rehabilitation, but further extensive research with larger sample sizes, randomization, and control groups is needed to more accurately assess the effectiveness of dry needling for treating tendinopathies. …”
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Unpacking the Mood States of Children and Youth in Saskatchewan, Canada, in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Insights from the “See Us, Hear Us 2.0” Study by Nahin Shakurun, Tamara Hinz, Daniel A. Adeyinka, Nazeem Muhajarine

“…Results: The participants reported mood symptoms (“moderate” to “extreme”) ranging from 23% to 38% on the CRISIS scale. …”
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Study on the Mechanism of Organic Matter Enrichment in Early Cambrian Marine Shales in the Lower Yangtze Area, South China: An Example Using Well JXY1 by Sihong Cheng, Bin Li, Kun Zhang, Weiwei Liu, Jun Peng, Mingcai Hou, Ming Wen, Qingsong Xia, Xin Wang, Xiaoxue Liu, Li Zhong, Yizhou Huang, Yongyang Liu, Muhe Yuan, Yue Yao

“…Active hydrothermal activities promoted high biological productivity and an anaerobic environment, both of which were conducive to the preservation and enrichment of organic matter, resulting in extremely high TOC content in the Wangyinpu shales (from 6.5% to approximately 16%).…”
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