Tuning the Swelling Behavior of Superabsorbent Hydrogels with a Branched Poly(aspartic acid) Crosslinker by Sunggyu Shin, Sangjin Kim, Sukhyeon Hong, Namhyun Kim, Juhwan Kang, Jaehyun Jeong

“…Superabsorbent hydrogels used in products like diapers, hygiene items, and medical patches depend on their swelling ratio. However, improving the swelling performance across hydrogel assemblies remains challenging. …”
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Deep nightside photoelectron observations by MAVEN SWEA: Implications for Martian northern hemispheric magnetic topology and nightside ionosphere source by Shaosui Xu, David Mitchell, Michael Liemohn, Chuanfei Dong, Stephen Bougher, Matthew Fillingim, Robert Lillis, James McFadden, Christian Mazelle, Jack Connerney, Bruce Jakosky

“…This finding indicates another channel for Martian energy redistribution to the deep nightside and consequently localized ionosphere patches and potentially aurora.…”
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First Iberian aspidothoracid megasecopteran insect and associated plants evidencing herbivory in a tropical Carboniferous forest from León, Spain by ARTAI A. SANTOS, ANTONIO HERNÁNDEZ-ORÚE, ENRIQUE PEÑALVER, STEPHEN MCLOUGHLIN, JOSÉ B. DIEZ

“…The presence of dark patches and spots on the fossil wing, probably represents a camouflage strategy against predators, such as Palaeodictyoptera and other active hunters. …”
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The efficacy of combined phototherapy with topical therapy in vitiligo: a network meta-analysis by Liping Luo, Jinhua Huang, Chuhan Fu, Yibo Hu, Jing Chen, Ling Jiang, Qinghai Zeng

“…Data analysis was based on a random-effects model, and surface under the cumulative ranking (SUCRA) curves employed to assess the efficacy of the interventions.Results This NMA included 27 trials, with a total of 2417 lesions (patches). According to the results of the SUCRA, for achieving ≥50% repigmentation, the top three combination therapies were phototherapy combined with antioxidants (SUCRA 87.7), corticosteroids (SUCRA 69.6), and calcineurin inhibitors (SUCRA 52.5), while for ≥75% repigmentation, the leading therapies were phototherapy combined with antioxidants (SUCRA 89.0), calcineurin inhibitors (SUCRA 70.3), and fractional CO2 laser (SUCRA 63.6).Conclusions This meta-analysis suggests that combining phototherapy with topical antioxidants, corticosteroids, or calcineurin inhibitors may offer superior outcomes for vitiligo patients. …”
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Design and development of a FSS backed high gain UWB MIMO planar antenna for FR-II NR bands by Tej Raj, Ranjan Mishra, Pradeep Kumar, Ankush Kapoor, Piyush Kuchhal

“…The proposed radiator consists of two rectangular patches, a split feed and a defected ground structure (DGS). …”
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Antiskin Cancer and Antioxidant Activities of Formulated Agar from Brown Seaweed Laminaria digitata (Hudson) in Dimethyl Benzanthracene-Induced Swiss Albino Mice by Jeneesha George, A. Thabitha, N. Vignesh, V. Manigandan, R. Saravanan, Ghaji Daradkeh, M. Walid Qoronfleh

“…The histopathological examination of DMBA-induced mice was shown degenerated cervical patches in the skin, cirrhosis in liver, oedema in the renal tissue, and swollen and damage in cardiac tissue, which were reduced for the mice applied with FA. …”
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Eco-epidemiological analysis of Rickettsia parkeri in domestic dogs and Amblyomma ovale ticks in the Atlantic rainforest of Northeast Brazil by Michellin Pereira de Albuquerque, Mauricio Claudio Horta, Daniele Rosa Xavier de Melo, Gabriela Akemi Cardoso Gagliardi Takeda, Ana Isabel Arraes-Santos, Thiago Fernandes Martins, Adriano Pinter

“…A landscape analysis was conducted in all forest patches within 2–10 km from the main forest edge. …”
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A Low-Profile Dual-Polarized High-Gain Low Cross-Polarization Phased Array for Ku-Band Satellite Communications by Yuhan Huang, Jie Zhang, Xiuping Li, Zihang Qi, Fan Lu, Hua Jiang, Xin Xue, Hua Zhu, Xiaobin Guo

“…The stacked octagonal patches loaded with Via-rings are proposed as dual-polarized shared-aperture radiation elements, with the characteristics of wide impedance bandwidth, high gain, and weak coupling. …”
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Life after death: Hidden diversity of orchids across European cemeteries by Jenő Nagy, Viktor Löki, Zoltán Vitál, Krisztina Nótári, S. James Reynolds, Tamás Malkócs, Réka Fekete, Kristóf Süveges, Ádám Lovas-Kiss, Attila Takács, András Balázs Lukács, Attila Molnár V.

“…Although natural habitats sensitive to disturbance in urban areas have mostly declined in availability, patches offer conservation opportunities for wildlife that are fundamental to maintaining biodiversity. …”
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Electrically conductive biopolymer-based hydrogels and fibrous materials fabricated using 3D printing and electrospinning for cardiac tissue engineering by Arnaud Kamdem Tamo, Ingo Doench, Kaveh Roshanbinfar, Alexandra Montembault, Anatoli Serghei, Felix B. Engel, Anayancy Osorio-Madrazo

“…Although typically employed independently, combining these technologies can enable the fabrication of patches with properties closely resembling those of native cardiac tissues. …”
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SpectralEarth: Training Hyperspectral Foundation Models at Scale by Nassim Ait Ali Braham, Conrad M. Albrecht, Julien Mairal, Jocelyn Chanussot, Yi Wang, Xiao Xiang Zhu

“…SpectralEarth comprises 538 974 image patches covering 415 153 unique locations from 11 636 globally distributed EnMAP scenes spanning two years of archive. …”
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Developing a Topographic Model to Predict the Northern Hardwood Forest Type within Carolina Northern Flying Squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus) Recovery Areas of the Southern A... by Andrew Evans, Richard Odom, Lynn Resler, W. Mark Ford, Steve Prisley

“…The northern hardwood forest type is an important habitat component for the endangered Carolina northern flying squirrel (CNFS; Glaucomys sabrinus coloratus) for den sites and corridor habitats between boreo-montane conifer patches foraging areas. Our study related terrain data to presence of northern hardwood forest type in the recovery areas of CNFS in the southern Appalachian Mountains of western North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, and southwestern Virginia. …”
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StarD5 modulates B cell cholesterol synthesis and IgG1 plasma cell differentiation by Anuj Tharakan, Daniel Rodriguez-Agudo, Sheela Damle, Genta Kakiyama, William M. Pandak, Gregorio Gil, Rebecca K. Martin

“…However the full function of the StarD5-25-HC axis is unknown. 25-HC has been recently described as an important suppressor of IgA + plasma cell differentiation in the Peyer's patches, and regulates the switch between germinal center and plasma cells. …”
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Long-term trends in human fatalities from human–elephant conflict in Chhattisgarh, India by Kalpana Roy, Ramesh Kumar Pandey, N. G. Athira, Ananya Dutta, Dheeraj Mittal, Parag Nigam, Anukul Nath, Bilal Habib

“…Additionally, conflict incidents show a decreasing trend in areas with larger forest patches. Village-level analysis revealed that high-conflict areas have higher forest cover (~ 75%) and lower crop cover (< 25%). …”
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Acute ischemic stroke lesion segmentation in non-contrast CT images using 3D convolutional neural networks by A.V. Dobshik, S.K. Verbitskiy, I.A. Pestunov, K.M. Sherman, Yu.N. Sinyavskiy, A.A. Tulupov, V.B. Berikov

“…Robust pre-processing methods were implemented to improve the segmentation accuracy. Moreover, a special patches sampling strategy was used to address the large size of medical images and class imbalance and to stabilize neural network training. …”
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Design of a cost-effective fiberglass-coated thin-film microextraction device for the detection of bendiocarb, carbofuran and atrazine agrochemicals from water by Harshika Poojary, Sophia Koo, Chiranjit Ghosh

“…The results showed that TF-SPME patches were able to extract pesticides with a LOD of 0.1 ng/mL. …”
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Beta Diversity Is Better—Microhabitat Diversity and Multiplet Diversity Offer Novel Insights into Plant Coexistence in Grassland Restoration by Sándor Bartha, Judit Házi, Dragica Purger, Zita Zimmermann, Gábor Szabó, Zsófia Eszter Guller, András István Csathó, Sándor Csete

“…Here, we introduce two simple beta diversity indices: Microhabitat Diversity is the Shannon diversity of patches formed by the locally dominant species, and Multiplet Diversity is the Shannon diversity of subordinate species richness categories detected at a fine scale. …”
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Subtle Changes at the RBD/hACE2 Interface During SARS-CoV-2 Variant Evolution: A Molecular Dynamics Study by Aria Gheeraert, Vincent Leroux, Dominique Mias-Lucquin, Yasaman Karami, Laurent Vuillon, Isaure Chauvot de Beauchêne, Marie-Dominique Devignes, Ivan Rivalta, Bernard Maigret, Laurent Chaloin

“…Apolar contacts made a substantial and complementary contribution in Omicron with the detection of two hydrophobic patches. Contact networks and cross-correlation matrices were able to detect subtle changes at point mutations as the S375F mutation occurring in all Omicron variants, which is likely to confer an advantage in binding stability. …”
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Wildflower Strips Increase Aculeate Pollinator Diversity but Not Abundance in Agricultural Landscapes with Rapeseed in Crop Rotations by Eduardas Budrys, Anna Budrienė, Miglė Lazauskaitė, Jonas A. Skuja, Grita Skujienė

“…Furthermore, both wildflower strips and preserved patches of unmanaged or minimally managed semi-natural grassland habitats can essentially contribute to maintaining pollination ecosystem services within intensive agricultural environments.…”
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Efficient CNN architecture with image sensing and algorithmic channeling for dataset harmonization by Khadija Kanwal, Khawaja Tehseen Ahmad, Aiza Shabir, Li Jing, Helena Garay, Luis Eduardo Prado Gonzalez, Hanen Karamti, Imran Ashraf

“…The goal targets compact efficient image feature vectors that process data in parallel regardless of input color or grayscale consistency and work across different datasets and semantic categories. Image patching techniques with corner straddling and isolated responses help detect peaks and junctions while addressing anisotropic noise through curvature-based computations and auto-correlation calculations. …”
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