Influence of bulking materials on the organic matter degradation during composting of cattle manure by Md. Mukhlesur Rahman

“…This study aimed to understand the degradation pattern of cattle manure with different types of bulking materials during composting. …”
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Leaf Litter Decomposition and Nutrient Dynamics Associated with Common Horticultural Cropland Agroforest Tree Species of Bangladesh by Md. Hasanuzzaman, Mahmood Hossain

“…However, a significant (P<0.05) higher amount of mass loss, rate of decomposition, decay constant, and amount of nutrient return from leaf litter were observed during the wet season.…”
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Antimicrobial resistance and beta-lactamase gene distribution among clinical isolates: a two-year cohort study by Yasser Alraey, Mohammed Mushabub Assiry, Irfan Ahmad, Abdulaziz Alqahtani, Nada Basheer, Mohammed A. M. AlAsiri, Saleh A. M. Alshehri, Saeed M. S. Alhamhhum, Sultan Mohammed Alhefdi, Mohd Shahid Khan, Mohd Saleem, Abdulah A. S. Bawazeer

“…The tests on antimicrobial resistance demonstrated that Imipenem (95%), along with Tigecycline (97%), were effective, but Norfloxacin (97.1%) and Cotrimoxazole (46%) had notable resistance patterns. The results showed an ESBL detection rate of 312 among Escherichia coli isolates, but MBL counts reached 83, and AmpC beta-lactamase production amounted to 142. blaCTX-M emerged as the leading ESBL gene type (38.1%) among a total of 142 collected E. coli strains, which also demonstrated blaOXA-48 (25.3%) and blaNDM (22.7%) as their prevalent MBL genes. …”
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Stomatal–Hydraulic Coordination Mechanisms of Wheat in Response to Atmospheric–Soil Drought and Rewatering by Lijuan Wang, Yanqun Zhang, Hao Li, Xinlong Hu, Pancen Feng, Yan Mo, Shihong Gong

“…We investigated wheat’s hydraulic transport (leaf hydraulic conductance, <i>K</i>_leaf) and gas exchange (stomatal conductance, <i>g_s</i>; photosynthetic rate, <i>A</i>_n) responses to combined drought stress from atmospheric and soil conditions at the heading stage, as well as rewatering 55 days after treatment initiation. …”
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The state of cancer care in Russia: breast cancer. Epidemiology and survival of patients. The impact of the SARS-CoV-2-beta-coronavirus epidemic (clinical and population study) by V. M. Merabishvili, V. F. Semiglazov, A. V. Komiakhov, T. Yu. Semiglazova, P. V. Krivorotko, А. M. Belyaev

“…The one-year and five-year survival rate of breast cancer patients continues to grow.…”
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Dual Task Interference in Young, Middle-Age and Older Adults During Different Functional Mobility Tasks: A Cross Sectional Study by Tamara R. L. P. Tolotti, Ana Paula O. Barbosa, João Vítor E. H. Szortyka, Adriana T. de Lemos, Felipe de S. Stigger

“…The time taken to complete the mobility tasks was measured, while performance on secondary tasks was assessed based on the CTT rate, number of errors (SCWT and DST), and rate of recalled words (SVFT). …”
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Efficacy of Tuina Versus the Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation (PNF) Technique in Patients With Nonspecific Chronic Neck Pain: Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial by Kaiqi Fan, Aicheng Wang, Hainan Gao, Ting Yu, Xiangyu Zhu

“… BackgroundNonspecific chronic neck pain (NCNP), characterized by a long course, a high recurrence rate, and a young age of onset, causes a huge economic burden. …”
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Lifestyle factors associated with being overweight and obesity in children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study in Zhejiang, China by Xiaoting Pan, Chaoyi Jiang, Wenqing Wang, Jianfeng Lin

“…Additionally, the rates among adolescents and children in urban areas were greater than those in rural areas (25.8% vs. 20.5%, p = 0.003). …”
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Synergistic effect of ammonium and potassium on carrot growth, physio-biochemical mechanisms, and water use efficiency under varying irrigation regimes by Ayman M. S. Elshamly, Ahmed D. S. Abaza, Abd El-Zaher M. A. Mustafa, Humaira Rizwana, Javed Iqbal, Shabir Ahmad, Rashid Iqbal, Nazim S. Gruda

“…Carrot plants were treated with two rates of soil ammonium nitrate (200 and 250 kg N ha− 1), foliar potassium humate (200 and 400 g 100 L− 1), and four combinations of these treatments. …”
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Carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa T3SS virulence genes and correlation between virulence and drug resistance and molecular epidemiology studies by Jianhua Tang, Jianhua Tang, Jiekun Pu, Linbo Zhao, Xuli Zhan, Qianqian Pang, Xiangyan Meng, Rui Feng, Haojun Fan

“…The highest detection rate of T3SS virulence genes was for exoT (100%), followed by exoS, exoY (88.9%), and exoU (11.1%). …”
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Trends in Colistin Resistance and Multidrug-Resistant Phenotypes Among Gram-Negative Bacilli: A Retrospective Analysis by Madalina Alexandra Vlad, Maria Dan, Andreea Nicoleta Catana, Sebastian Dumitriu, Cristina Gabriela Tuchilus

“…Resistance in <i>Pseudomonas</i> spp. remained below 1%, while <i>Acinetobacter</i> spp. showed a resistance rate of 5.43%. Several distinct resistance phenotypes were identified among <i>Klebsiella</i> spp., <i>Pseudomonas</i> spp., and <i>Acinetobacter</i> spp. strains, reflecting both endemic and sporadic circulation patterns. …”
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Translation of the UK Pediatric Influenza Vaccination Programme in Primary Schools to 13 European Countries Using a Dynamic Transmission Model by Laetitia Gerlier, Judith Hackett, Richard Lawson, Sofia Dos Santos Mendes, Martin Eichner

“…# Objectives To simulate the impact of a pediatric influenza vaccination programme using quadrivalent live attenuated influenza vaccine (QLAIV) in Europe by applying coverage rates achieved in the United Kingdom during the 2014–2015 season and to compare the model outcomes to the UK results…”
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Repeated evolution on oceanic islands: comparative genomics reveals species-specific processes in birds by María Recuerda, Julio César Hernández Montoya, Guillermo Blanco, Borja Milá

“…We estimated the relative (F st ) and absolute (d xy ) differentiation, nucleotide diversity (π), Tajima’s D, gene density and recombination rate. We also searched for selective sweeps and chromosomal inversions along the genome. …”
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Evaluating Electricity Demand Elasticity From a Social Perspective: Implications for Sustainable Development and Urban Resilience by Yaser A. Nanehkaran, Shixi Tang, Amir Bairami Akhi Jahani, Amir Niromandfam, Tolga Pusatli

“…Given Iran&#x2019;s recent socioeconomic challenges marked by a high inflation rate and inadequate investment in power plants, data from the Iranian power system is employed to validate the efficacy of the proposed model in the numerical analysis. …”
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Slugs hide in the dark: Artificial light at night alters fitness and activity of dominant herbivores with consequences for ecosystem functioning by Vincent Grognuz, Flavienne Landolt, Julia Curty, Eva Knop

“…In one of the two illuminated slug species, we found that ALAN reduced its activity at night, juvenile growth, and survival rate. At the community level, feeding activity of slugs was reduced in artificially illuminated sites, and this was related to reduced herbivory. …”
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Indirect and suboptimal control of gene expression is widespread in bacteria by Morgan N Price, Adam M Deutschbauer, Jeffrey M Skerker, Kelly M Wetmore, Troy Ruths, Jordan S Mar, Jennifer V Kuehl, Wenjun Shao, Adam P Arkin

“…Two common types of indirect control are constitutive expression and regulation by growth rate; these occur for genes with diverse functions and often seem to be suboptimal. …”
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Long Distance Measurement System by Optical Sampling Using a Femtosecond Laser by Tianyu Zhang, Xinghua Qu, Fumin Zhang, Bo Peng

“…By sweeping the repetition rate periodically, stable cross-correlation patterns are acquired, and the unknown distance can be calculated from the interference information. …”
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An adaptive method based on contextual anomaly detection in Internet of Things through wireless sensor networks by Xiang Yu, Hui Lu, Xianfei Yang, Ying Chen, Haifeng Song, Jianhua Li, Wei Shi

“…With the widespread propagation of Internet of Things through wireless sensor networks, massive amounts of sensor data are being generated at an unprecedented rate, resulting in very large quantities of explicit or implicit information. …”
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Identification of Torsional Fatigue Properties of Titanium Alloy Turned Surfaces and Their Distribution Characteristics by Bin Jiang, Dengyun Wang, Peiyi Zhao, Hongchao Sang

“…Through finite element simulation, the plastic deformation, residual stress, and work hardening rate of the machined surface and subsurface of a titanium alloy are quantitatively examined. …”
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Extreme hourly 10m wind speed trends and reduced daily variability during 1940−2024 by Jia-Ning Song, Ming Sun, Zhi-Bo Li

“…Crucially, minimum hourly NSWS has increased at a faster rate than maximum hourly NSWS, resulting in a widespread reduction of the daily NSWS range, particularly prominent across mid- and low-latitude oceans. …”
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