Trends in Snag Populations in Drought-Stressed Mixed-Conifer and Ponderosa Pine Forests (1997–2007) by Joseph L. Ganey, Scott C. Vojta

“…Snags provide important biological legacies, resources for numerous species of native wildlife, and contribute to decay dynamics and ecological processes in forested ecosystems. …”
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Statistical flaws of the fitness-fatigue sports performance prediction model by Alexandre Marchal, Othmène Benazieb, Yisakor Weldegebriel, Thibaut Méline, Frank Imbach

“…In this article, we leveraged a Bayesian framework involving biologically meaningful priors to diagnose the fit and predictive ability of the FFM. …”
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Social Confrontation with Menstruation: A Feminist Ethnography of Menstrual Experience among Female Instagram Users by Rana Mohammad Taghinejad Esfahani, Majid Movahed, Halimeh Enayat, Aliyar Ahmadi

“…IntroductionPatriarchy has systematically marginalized many issues related to women, including their biological experiences, such as menstruation, pregnancy, and childbirth, by relegating them to personal rather than social matters. …”
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Explicit travelling wave solutions to the time fractional Phi-four equation and their applications in mathematical physics by Ayesha Farooq, Tooba Shafique, Muhammad Abbas, Asnake Birhanu, Y. S. Hamed

“…Using the formulation of the conformable fractional derivative it illustrates some of the recovered solutions and analyze their dynamic behavior. …”
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Nonlinear-Model-Based Analysis Methods for Time-Course Gene Expression Data by Li-Ping Tian, Li-Zhi Liu, Fang-Xiang Wu

“…The application to one real-life biological dataset illustrates that the analysis results of our developed methods are in agreement with the existing results.…”
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Arctos: Community-driven innovations for managing natural and cultural history collections. by Carla Cicero, Michelle S Koo, Emily Braker, John Abbott, David Bloom, Mariel Campbell, Joseph A Cook, John R Demboski, Andrew C Doll, Lindsey M Frederick, Angela J Linn, Teresa J Mayfield-Meyer, Dusty L McDonald, Michael W Nachman, Link E Olson, Dawn Roberts, Derek S Sikes, Christopher C Witt, Elizabeth A Wommack

“…Here we describe Arctos, a scalable community solution for managing and publishing global biological, geological, and cultural collections data for research and education. …”
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Nature of viruses and the radical change in viral taxonomy by V. V. Makarov, L. P. Buchatsky

“…Co-evolution of the viral and cellular genomes includes mutual horizontal gene transfer and joint development of new biological functions, such as the mechanism of phylogenesis and phylodynamics of coactants. …”
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Downregulated Copper Homeostasis-Related Gene FOXO1 as a Novel Indicator for the Prognosis and Immune Response of Breast Cancer by Rong Zeng, Bi Peng, Emin Peng

“…Copper (Cu) is one of the essential microelements for all living systems. Studies have illustrated the biological significance of Cu homeostasis in human cancers, including breast cancer (BRCA). …”
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Quarter-Millimeter-Resolution Molecular Mouse Imaging with U-SPECT by Oleksandra Ivashchenko, Frans van der Have, Jose L. Villena, Harald C. Groen, Ruud M. Ramakers, Harrie H. Weinans, Freek J. Beekman

“…In addition, time-activity curves of the lumbar spine illustrated that tracer dynamics in tiny tissue amounts could be measured. …”
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Finely Tailored Conjugated Small Molecular Nanoparticles for Near-Infrared Biomedical Applications by Xiaozhen Li, Ruohan Zhang, Yanlong Yang, Wei Huang

“…Moreover, the working principles of CSMNs are illustrated from photophysical and photochemical mechanisms and light–tissue interactions. …”
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A Review of Hypothesized Determinants Associated with Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis) Die-Offs by David S. Miller, Eric Hoberg, Glen Weiser, Keith Aune, Mark Atkinson, Cleon Kimberling

“…Consequently, absence of established and universal explanations for outbreaks contributes to conflict among wildlife and livestock stakeholders over land use and management practices. This example illustrates the challenge of developing comprehensive models for understanding and managing wildlife diseases in complex biological and sociological environments.…”
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A New Variant of B-Spline for the Solution of Modified Fractional Anomalous Subdiffusion Equation by M. S. Hashmi, Zainab Shehzad, Asifa Ashraf, Zhiyue Zhang, Yu-Pei Lv, Abdul Ghaffar, Mustafa Inc, Ayman A. Aly

“…The graphical and tabular display of results for the illustrated examples is presented, which stamped the efficiency of the proposed algorithm.…”
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Maximizing Free Energy Gain by Artemy Kolchinsky, Iman Marvian, Can Gokler, Zi-Wen Liu, Peter Shor, Oles Shtanko, Kevin Thompson, David Wolpert, Seth Lloyd

“…Maximizing the amount of work harvested from an environment is important for a wide variety of biological and technological processes, from energy-harvesting processes such as photosynthesis to energy storage systems such as fuels and batteries. …”
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Characterizing the hard and soft nanoparticle-protein corona with multilayer adsorption by Oriol Vilanova, Oriol Vilanova, Alberto Martinez-Serra, Marco P. Monopoli, Giancarlo Franzese, Giancarlo Franzese

“…Nanoparticles (NPs) in contact with biological fluid adsorb biomolecules into a corona. …”
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Exosomes in Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type I Pathogenesis: Threat or Opportunity? by Sin-Yeang Teow, Alif Che Nordin, Syed A. Ali, Alan Soo-Beng Khoo

“…Interestingly, recent reports illustrated that exosomes from body fluids could inhibit HIV infection, which then bring up a new paradigm for HIV/AIDS therapy. …”
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BRM Immunotherapy of Orthotopically Implanted Murine Bladder Tumours: Treatment Response by Monitoring MRI by Salam A Kadhim, Joseph L Chin, Bertha M Garcia, Peeyush K Lala, Chris J Norley, Barbara A McLean, Stephen J Karlik

“…The authors evaluated magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) for monitoring orthotopic bladder tumour growth and treatment response to intravesical immunotherapy with the biological response modifiers (BRMs): recombinant tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNF-α), combination of TNF-α plus interferon gamma (IFN-γ) and interleukin-2 (IL-2). …”
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The Construction of Regulatory Network for Insulin-Mediated Genes by Integrating Methods Based on Transcription Factor Binding Motifs and Gene Expression Variations by Hyeim Jung, Seonggyun Han, Sangsoo Kim

“…Taken together, the results illustrate the benefits of combining completely different methods such as motif-based regulatory factor discovery and expression level-based construction of regulatory network of their target genes in understanding insulin induced biological processes and signaling pathways.…”
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The Importance of Plants in Ancient Cultures Against the Background of New Research Concerning Intelligence of Plants by Agnieszka Tańczuk

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Key features and guidelines for the application of microbial alpha diversity metrics by Ignacio Cassol, Mauro Ibañez, Juan Pablo Bustamante

“…This approach aims to improve the capture of biological diversity, leading to better interpretations and insights.…”
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Time to invest in cholera by Rebecca C. Stout, Nicholas Feasey, Marion Péchayre, Nicholas Thomson, Benson Z. Chilima

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