Melatonin induces drought stress tolerance by regulating the physiological mechanisms, antioxidant enzymes, and leaf structural modifications in Rosa centifolia L by Muhammad Ahsan, Adnan Younis, Aftab Jamal, Mohammed O. Alshaharni, Uthman Balgith Algopishi, Abeer Al-Andal, Mateen Sajid, Muhammad Naeem, Jawad Ahmad Khan, Emanuele Radicetti, Mohammad Valipour, Gulzar Akhtar

“…Foliar application of melatonin was carried out on the next day of drought treatment and was repeated weekly, while normal watering was regarded as control. …”
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Exploring the prognostic significance of lactate-mitochondria-related genes in prostate cancer by Yuan Wang, Ronghui Chen, Feng-Le Jiang, Feng-Le Jiang, Xin Jiang, Xin Jiang, Yuehong Zhou, Yingying Zhou, Xinyi Hong, Chaoying Lin, Wei-Jia Wang, Wei-Jia Wang, Sufang Qiu

“…Meanwhile, a nomogram that effectively predicts the prognosis of PCa patients was also constructed. Next, close associations between the lactate-mitochondria-related signature and the immune microenvironment were examined to clarify the role of LMRGs in shaping the immune landscape. …”
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Impact of Edible Insect Polysaccharides on Mouse Gut Microbiota: A Study on White-Spotted Flower Chafer Larva (<i>Protaetia brevitarsis seulensis</i>) and Silkworm Pupa (<i>Bombyx... by Joon-Ha Lee, Hyojung Son, Sathiyamoorthy Subramaniyam, Hyun-Jung Lim, Sohyun Park, Ra-Yeong Choi, In-Woo Kim, Minchul Seo, Hae-Yong Kweon, Yongsoon Kim, Seong-Wan Kim, Jong-Soon Choi, Younhee Shin

“…These results show that among the two insects, <i>Bombyx mori</i> pupa polysaccharides have a greater ability to regulate beneficial probiotics and next-generation probiotics. In particular, <i>Lactococcus garvieae</i>, which has promising effects on the gastrointestinal tracts of humans and animals, was significantly enriched in both <i>Protaetia brevitarsis seulensis</i> larva and <i>Bombyx mori</i> pupa polysaccharides, similar to fracto-oligosaccharide. …”
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Microscopic and Spectroscopic Investigation of (AlxGa1–X)2O3 Films: Unraveling the Impact of Growth Orientation and Aluminum Content by Jith Sarker, Prachi Garg, Abrar Rauf, Ahsiur Rahman Nirjhar, Hsien‐Lien Huang, Menglin Zhu, A. F. M. Anhar Uddin Bhuiyan, Lingyu Meng, Hongping Zhao, Jinwoo Hwang, Eric Osei‐Agyemang, Saquib Ahmed, Baishakhi Mazumder

“…Abstract (AlxGa1–x)2O3 is an ultrawide‐bandgap semiconductor with a high critical electric field for next‐generation high‐power transistors and deep‐ultraviolet photodetectors. …”
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Positional embeddings and zero-shot learning using BERT for molecular-property prediction by Medard Edmund Mswahili, JunHa Hwang, Jagath C. Rajapakse, Kyuri Jo, Young-Seob Jeong

“…In this study, we first conduct pretraining experiments using various PEs to explore diverse methodologies for incorporating positional information into the BERT model for chemical text analysis using SMILES strings. Next, for each PE, we fine-tune the best-performing BERT (masked language modeling) model on downstream tasks for molecular-property prediction. …”
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Adhesion-induced MoS2 layer transfer via in-situ TEM-nanoindentation: Effects of curvature and substrate mediated residual stress by Jhih H. Liang, Mehdi Rouhani, J. David Schall, Takaaki Sato, Christopher Muratore, Nicholas R. Glavin, Robert W. Carpick, Yeau-Ren Jeng

“…However, a significant knowledge gap remains regarding MoS2's interfacial adhesion, a critical aspect for advancing next-generation devices. To address this, we conducted a comprehensive study investigating the interaction forces originating from the bonding between atoms that govern the adhesion of ultra-thin 2D MoS2. …”
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Policies Affecting the Efficiency of Beef Production in Alberta: A Supply Chain Analysis by Derek Brewin

“…With demand for livestock-derived food expected to jump by 38 per cent in the next 30 years, Canadian cattle ranchers need to take advantage of this global increase through freer trade. …”
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Pulse-by-pulse transient thermal deformation in crystal optics under high-repetition-rate FEL by Lin Zhang, Jerome Hastings, Zhirong Huang, Jingyi Tang, Diling Zhu

“…Two critical time scales for the operation of crystal optics in a CBXFEL are (1) first-turn time, i.e. the time for the XFEL pulse to complete the first turn around the cavity so that the crystal sees the recirculated XFEL pulse, and (2) period-end time, i.e. the time that the next electron bunch arrives for the amplification, so that the crystal outcouples the amplified FEL power. …”
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Guía colombiana de tuberculosis genitourinaria by Jhonatan S. Santafé-Galvis, Paula A. Peña-Murcia, Liz K. Solano-Perdomo, Diego A. Riatiga-Ibáñez, Sofía E. Muñoz-Medina

“…La tuberculosis genitourinaria debe sospecharse en pacientes con cuadros inflamatorios o infecciosos urinarios recurrentes, con o sin alteraci&oacute;n estructural del tracto genitourinario, sin respuesta al tratamiento farmacol&oacute;gico convencional, sin causa clara o con nexo y factor de riesgo epidemiol&oacute;gico identificado. …”
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A pilot cluster randomized controlled trial assessing uptake of PrEP and contraception in hair salons in South Africa by Ingrid V. Bassett, Joyce Yan, Sabina Govere, Sthabile Shezi, Lungile M. Ngcobo, Shruti Sagar, Jana Jarolimova, Dani Zionts, Anele Khumalo, Zinhle Zwane, Christina Psaros, Nduduzo Dube, Robert A. Parker

“…Results Among 134 participants in intervention salons, the median age was 26 years (IQR 22–29). 75% reported visiting the salon at least every 2 months. 27% were using hormonal contraception at enrollment, 31% reported a self-perceived moderate or great chance of getting HIV in the next year, 33% thought their primary sex partner had other partners, 65% did not use condoms in the past month, and 11% reported intimate partner violence (IPV). …”
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Informed Design of a Gravity Science Experiment for the Future Geophysical Investigation of the Uranian Moons by Valerio Filice, Gael Cascioli, Sébastien Le Maistre, Rose-Marie Baland, Antony Trinh, Erwan Mazarico, Sander Goossens

“…With a launch window opening in 2029, the Uranus Orbiter and Probe (UOP) mission has been prioritized as a NASA Flagship mission for the next decade (2023–2032) to comprehensively study Uranus and its major moons—Miranda, Ariel, Umbriel, Titania, and Oberon. …”
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Evaluation of Two Different Solvents for Azolla pinnata Extracts on Chemical Compositions and Larvicidal Activity against Aedes albopictus (Diptera: Culicidae) by Rajiv Ravi, Nor Shaida Husna Zulkrnin, Nurul Nadiah Rozhan, Nik Raihan Nik Yusoff, Mohd Sukhairi Mat Rasat, Muhammad Iqbal Ahmad, Zulhazman Hamzah, Intan H. Ishak, Mohamad Faiz Mohd Amin

“…Limited success for Aedes control program has impelled the necessities for new insecticide search. Hence, alternative plant compounds may be competent to overcome the pesticide resistance problem and to lead a chemical-free environment. …”
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Highly proliferating cancer cells function as novel prognostic biomarkers for lung adenocarcinoma with particular usefulness for stage IA risk stratification by Yanlu Xiong, Yongfu Ma, Jie Lei, Jianfei Zhu, Nianlin Xie, Feng Tian, Qiang Lu, Miaomiao Wen, Qian Zheng, Yong Han, Tao Jiang, Yang Liu

“…Then, we quantified the content of HPCs in nine LUAD datasets by single-sample gene set enrichment analysis and evaluated the relationship between the percentage of HPCs and overall survival (OS). Next, we analysed the OS predictive effect of HPCs at different LUAD stages, especially for stage I risk stratification. …”
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Lipid-encapsulated gold nanoparticles: an advanced strategy for attenuating the inflammatory response in SARS-CoV-2 infection by Sanjeevram Dhandapani, Yujeong Ha, Rongbo Wang, Tae Woo Kwon, Ik-Hyun Cho, Yeon-Ju Kim

“…Storage stability studies showed that KGS-NE maintained its size and stability for 6 months at 4 °C. …”
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Optimizing FACTS Device Placement Using the Fata Morgana Algorithm: A Cost and Power Loss Minimization Approach in Uncertain Load Scenario-Based Systems by Mohammad Aljaidi, Pradeep Jangir, Sunilkumar P. Agrawal, Sundaram B. Pandya, Anil Parmar, Ali Fayez Alkoradees, Arpita, Aseel Smerat

“…For gross cost minimization, the FATA algorithm achieved a minimum gross cost of 1366.3727 $/h, which is 0.4799% better than the next best algorithm and 3.2261% better than the worst. …”
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Changes of Lacrimal Puncta by Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography after Topical Combined Antibiotic and Steroid Treatment in Cases of Inflammatory Punctual Stenosis by Islam Awny, Elshimaa A. Mateen Mossa, Tasneem Mohammed Bakheet, Hany Mahmoud, Amr Mounir

“…Both groups were comparable regarding mean age (49 ± 13 vs 53 ± 11 years, P value = 0.2) and sex (males were 38.6% vs 31.8%, female were 61.4% vs 68.2%, P value = 0.6), respectively, with no statistically significant difference between both groups. …”
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Insights from serial cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging show early progress in diastolic dysfunction relates to impaired right ventricular deformation by Sören J. Backhaus, Alexander Schulz, Torben Lange, Simon F. Rösel, Lennart S. Schmidt-Schweda, Shelby Kutty, Johannes T. Kowallick, Julia Treiber, Andreas Rolf, Samuel Sossalla, Gerd Hasenuß, Andreas Schuster

“…These findings should next be explored in adequately powered future research trials. …”
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mbctools: A User-Friendly Metabarcoding and Cross-Platform Pipeline for Analyzing Multiple Amplicon Sequencing Data across a Large Diversity of Organisms by Barnabé, Christian, Sempéré, Guilhem, Manzanilla, Vincent, Millan, Joel Moo, Amblard-Rambert, Antoine, Waleckx, Etienne

“…In our workflow, VSEARCH is utilized for processing fastq files derived from amplicon-based Next-Generation Sequencing data. This software is a versatile open-source tool for processing amplicon sequences, offering advantages such as high speed, efficient memory usage, and the ability to handle large datasets. …”
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Aberrant B cell receptor signaling responses in circulating double-negative 2 B cells from radiographic axial spondyloarthritis patients by Rick Wilbrink, Stefan F.H. Neys, Rudi W. Hendriks, Anneke Spoorenberg, Frans G.M. Kroese, Odilia B.J. Corneth, Gwenny M.P.J. Verstappen

“…Methods: We performed immune gene expression profiling on total peripheral blood B cells from 8 r-axSpA patients and 8 healthy controls (HCs). Next, we explored B cell subset distribution and B-cell receptor (BCR) signaling responses in circulating B cells from 28 r-axSpA patients and 15 HCs, by measuring spleen tyrosine kinase, phosphoinositide 3-kinase and extracellular signal regulated kinase 1/2 phosphorylation upon α-Ig stimulation using phosphoflow cytometry. …”
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Modelling of structural, mechanical, electronic, and optical properties of Rb2TlXF6 (X = Ir, Rh) double perovskite compounds through density functional theory by Wasi Ullah, Nasir Rahman, Mudasser Husain, Wafa Mohammed Almalki, Khamael M. Abualnaja, Ghaida Alosaimi, Soufyane Belhachi, Bashar.M. Al-Khamiseh, Vineet Tirth, Ahmed Azzouz-Rached, Hanan A. Althobaiti, Farooq Ali

“…These findings suggest that Rb2TlIrF6 and Rb2TlRhF6 exhibit advantageous optoelectronic characteristics suitable for semiconductor and next-generation electronic devices.…”
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