Natural Area Weeds: Mexican Petunia (Ruellia simplex) by Sandra B. Wilson, Adrienne Burkhead, Carrie Reinhardt Adams, Rosanna Freyre, Alison M. Fox, Randall Stocker

“…Five species of Ruellia are native to Florida, and three non-native species are listed as naturalized in the state, including R. simplex (Wunderlin et al. 2019). There has been some confusion about the name of this species, commonly referred to as Ruellia brittoniana, Ruellia coerulea, Ruellia tweediana, orRuellia malacosperma (USDA NRCS 2019; Wunderlin et al. 2019). …”
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Data Workers in AI development by Jonas Chagas Lucio Valente

“…The theme of sovereignty in relation to digital technologies has gained growing attention in recent years, as demonstrated by concepts such as data sovereignty (Hummel et al., 2021) and digital sovereignty (Pinto, 2018). …”
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An Intercomparison of GPS RO Retrievals with Colocated Analysis and In Situ Observations within Tropical Cyclones by Henry R. Winterbottom, Qingnong Xiao

“…Observations from four Global Position System (GPS) Radio Occultation (RO) missions: Global Positioning System/Meteorology, CHAallenging Minisatellite Payload, Satellite de Aplicaciones Cientificas-C, and Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere and Climate and Taiwan's FORMOsa SATellite Mission #3 (COSMIC/FORMOSAT-3) are collected within a 600 km radius and ±180 minute temporal window of all observed tropical cyclones (TCs) from 1995 to 2006 that were recorded in the global hurricane best-track reanalysis data set (Jarvinen et al. (1984); Davis et al. (1984)). A composite analysis of tropical cyclone radial mean temperature and water vapor profiles is carried out using the GPS RO retrievals which are colocated with global analysis profiles and available in situ radiosonde observations. …”
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Koi Herpes Virus (KHV) Disease by Kathleen H. Hartman, Roy P.E. Yanong, B. Denise Petty, Ruth Francis-Floyd, Allen C. Riggs

“… Koi herpes virus (KHV), a viral disease highly contagious to fish, may cause significant morbidity (sickness or disease) and mortality in common carp (Cyprinus carpio) (Hedrick et al., 2000; OATA, 2001). This species is raised as a foodfish in many countries and has been selectively bred for the ornamental fish industry, where it is known as koi. …”
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Koi Herpes Virus (KHV) Disease by Kathleen H. Hartman, Roy P.E. Yanong, B. Denise Petty, Ruth Francis-Floyd, Allen C. Riggs

“… Koi herpes virus (KHV), a viral disease highly contagious to fish, may cause significant morbidity (sickness or disease) and mortality in common carp (Cyprinus carpio) (Hedrick et al., 2000; OATA, 2001). This species is raised as a foodfish in many countries and has been selectively bred for the ornamental fish industry, where it is known as koi. …”
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Thermal Modeling of Oxia Planum: Thermophysical Characterization of the Dark Resistant Unit (DRU) in the Germania Lacus by M. Formisano, F. Altieri, A. Frigeri, M. C. De Sanctis, C. Federico, G. Magni, E. Ammannito, S. De Angelis, M. Ferrari

“…The numerical model developed here represents a follow-up of the work recently published by Formisano et al. 2021, and it takes into account a large-scale topography of the site and assumes a diurnal temperature profile for the atmosphere rather than a constant value (unlike Formisano et al. 2021). …”
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The Effects of MHD Flow and Heat Transfer for the UCM Fluid over a Stretching Surface in Presence of Thermal Radiation by M. Subhas Abel, Jagadish V. Tawade, Jyoti N. Shinde

“…For a Maxwell fluid, a thinning of the boundary layer and a drop in wall skin friction coefficient is predicted to occur for the higher elastic number which agrees with the results of Hayat et al. 2007 and Sadeghy et al. 2006. The objective of the present work is to investigate the effect of elastic parameter β, magnetic parameter Mn, Eckert number Ec, Radiation parameter N, and Prandtl number Pr on flow and heat transfer charecteristics.…”
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Ghost Ant, Tapinoma melanocephalum (Fabricius) (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by J. C. Nickerson, C. L. Bloomcamp, Thomas R. Fasulo

“…Field populations were confined to South Florida although active colonies had been reported as far north as Gainesville, in Alachua County (Bloomcamp and Bieman, personal communication) and Duval County, (Mattis et al. 2004). But by 1995, if not before, the ghost ant was common in central and southern Florida and had been elevated to major pest status (Klotz et al. 1995). …”
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Gastric Cancer in the Excluded Stomach 10 Years after Gastric Bypass by Augusto Tinoco, Lorena F. Gottardi, Eduardo D. Boechat

“…Indeed, gastric cancer constitutes the second most common cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide and 95% of such malignancies are adenocarcinomas (De Roover et al., 2006, and Clark et al., 2006). Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) is a procedure frequently employed in bariatric surgery but restricted access to the excluded stomach means that discovery of gastric lesions is difficult, and diagnosis and treatment may be delayed. …”
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Analysis and Enhancement of a Password Authentication and Update Scheme Based on Elliptic Curve Cryptography by Lili Wang

“…Recently, a password authentication and update scheme has been presented by Islam and Biswas to remove the security weaknesses in Lin and Huang’s scheme. Unfortunately, He et al., Wang et al., and Li have found out that Islam and Biswas’ improvement was vulnerable to offline password guessing attack, stolen verifier attack, privilege insider attack, and denial of service attack. …”
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Improving breast cancer treatments using pharmacomicrobiomics by Aswin Anand Pai, Aadra Prashant Bhatt

“…Ortiz de Ora, I. Tamburini, et al., mBio 16:e01679-24, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1128/mbio.01679-24). …”
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Optical Solutions of the Date–Jimbo–Kashiwara–Miwa Equation via the Extended Direct Algebraic Method by Ghazala Akram, Naila Sajid, Muhammad Abbas, Y. S. Hamed, Khadijah M. Abualnaja

“…The results obtained in this article are novel and more general than those contained in the literature (Wang et al., 2014, Yuan et al., 2017, Pu and Hu 2019, Singh and Gupta 2018). …”
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Model of tumour angiogenesis -- analysis of stability with respect to delays by Marek Bodnar, Monika Joanna Piotrowska, Urszula Foryś, Ewa Nizińska

“…The model combines ideas of Hahnfeldt et al. (1999) and Agur et al. (2004) describing the dynamics of tumour, angiogenic proteins and effective vessels density. …”
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Evolution of Cooperation with Moore Neighborhood and Self-Playing Rule by Yanbing Yang, Junhu Ruan, Bin Liu, Yi Liu, Yan Shi

“…Evolutionary spatial game is a promising way to unravel the mystery of cooperation, and it has been well recognized that spatial structure could enable cooperation to persist. Schweitzer et al.’s lattice model provides an innovative method to solve the problem. …”
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A Rare Case of Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma Masquerading as a Forehead Hematoma by Kimberly Sanders, Ashley Thomas, Carmen Isache, Anwer Siddiqi

“…The lung, bone, and lymph nodes are the most frequent sites of metastasis (Balogh et al., 2016, and Becker et al., 2014). On the other hand, metastasis to the skin and cranium is relatively rare. …”
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Optimal control of a mathematical model for cancer chemotherapy under tumor heterogeneity by Shuo Wang, Heinz Schättler

“…The mathematical model, which accounts for different growth and apoptosis rates in the presence of cell densities, is a finite-dimensional approximation of a model originally formulated by Lorz et al. [18,19] and Greene et al. [10,11] with a continuum of possible traits. …”
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Construction of an Integrated Positive Youth Development Conceptual Framework for the Prevention of the Use of Psychotropic Drugs among Adolescents by Tak Yan Lee

“…It further explains how the 15 empirically sound constructs identified by Catalano et al. and used in a positive youth development program, the Project P.A.T.H.S., relate generally to the components of the revised model to formulate an integrated positive youth development conceptual framework for primary prevention of adolescent drug use. …”
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InsectChange: Comment by Gaume, Laurence, Desquilbet, Marion

“…The InsectChange database (van Klink et al. 2021) underlying the meta-analysis by van Klink et al. (2020a) compiles worldwide time series of the abundance and biomass of invertebrates reported as insects and arachnids, as well as ecological data likely to have influenced the observed trends. …”
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Family cohesion, children’s thoughts, and children’s cognitive assessments: Mediating role of sport anxiety by Юмна Али, Сайед М. И. Шах

“…The Family Cohesion Scale (FACES II; Olson et al. 1983), the Children’s Thoughts Questionnaire (CTQ; (Marien et al. 2007)), the Children’s Cognitive Assessment Questionnaire (CCAQ; Zatz, Chassin 1985) and the Sport Anxiety Scale (Smith et al. 2007) were the primary instruments used. …”
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