Size Variation in Flower Petals of Chinese Animal‐Pollinated Plants in Response to Climatic and Altitudinal Gradients by Siyu Chen, Jiayi Lu, Yuran Dong, Yao Li, Lingfeng Mao

“…ABSTRACT The evolutionary adaptations of plant reproductive structures, including angiosperm petal size, are driven by a combination of natural selection influenced by ecological conditions. …”
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Leishmaniasis in Greece: Prospects of transitioning to a One Health surveillance system by Emmanouil Alexandros Fotakis, Dimitris Papamichail, Sofia Boutsini, Eleni Patsoula, Takis Panagiotopoulos

“…We aimed to provide an overview of the state of leishmaniasis surveillance in Greece, investigating the prospect of transitioning to a One Health surveillance system.We conducted a narrative review describing human and animal leishmaniasis data from Greece, including entomological findings. …”
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Quantifying clinic transfers among people living with HIV in the Western Cape, South Africa: a retrospective spatial analysis by Christopher J Colvin, Mark N Lurie, Ana Lucia Espinosa Dice, Angela M Bengtson, Kevin M Mwenda

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Nanogel drug delivery system loaded with Azadirachta indica A. Juss. (Neem) for potential treatment of wound infection: development and characterization by Nafiu Aminu, Deghinmotei Alfred-Ugbenbo, Oni Moradeke, Momoh Audu Mumuni, Nura Muhammad Umar, Nuhu Tanko, Veera Raghavulu Bitra, Florah Tshepo Moshapa, Thatayaone Monkgogi, Chan Siok-Yee

“…Results Phytochemical screening of ethanolic extract of A. indica leaves indicated the presence of saponins, flavonoids, glycosides, tannins, alkaloids, steroids, terpenoids, and anthraquinones. The characterization data revealed that the developed NG formulations are nanosized in the ranges of 140–440 nm and 190–610 nm for blank NG and A. indica extract-loaded NG, respectively, and have mostly spherical structures. …”
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Callus Culture of <i>Aralia cordata</i> Thunb.: Obtaining, Selection of Cultivating Conditions, Somatic Embryogenesis Induction by D. A. Nekrasova, M. N. Povydysh, N. S. Pivovarova, K. O. Sidorov

“…The Linsmaier – Skoog medium with a reduced amount of sucrose (20 g/l) was recognized as the most suitable medium for long-term maintenance of cultures. Embryoid structures of Aralia cordata have been obtained, now we are continuing to collect analytics data about this process. …”
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Knowledge management practices in oil companies by Yu. A. Bezginova, T. A. Garanina, D. V. Kudryavtsev, A. Yu. Pleshkova

“…KM is traditionally carried out with the help of the following components: information technology, organizational processes and structures, corporate culture and people. In addition, there are complex tools of KM, which usually combine several KM components: a library of documents (knowledge base, corporate memory), communities of practice, lessons learned, etc. …”
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Large-scale shaking table test and numerical analysis of seismic performance of geocell retaining wall by Feifei Jin, Feifei Jin, Feifei Jin

“…After the entire vibration ended, no large-scale collapse or other phenomena occurred in the wall, and it has good seismic performance. (8) Reducing the slope ratio and aspect ratio of the retaining wall significantly improves its stability, and these parameters can be prioritized to 1:0.3 and 1.8, to meet seismic requirements while conserving resources. (9) These findings provide valuable references for the seismic design of geocell retaining wall structures.…”
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Genome content reorganization in the non-model ciliate Chilodonella uncinata: insights into nuclear architecture, DNA content, and chromosome fragmentation during macronuclear deve... by Ragib Ahsan, Xyrus X. Maurer-Alcalá, Laura A. Katz

“…ABSTRACT Ciliates are a model lineage for studies of genome architecture given their unusual genome structures. All ciliates have both somatic macronuclei (MAC) and germline micronuclei (MIC), both of which develop from a zygotic nucleus following sex (i.e., conjugation). …”
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Finite element analysis of the knee joint: a computational tool to analyze the combined behavior after treatment of torn ligaments and menisci in the human knee joint by Vasiliadis Angelo V., Giovanoulis Vasileios, Maris Alexandros, Chytas Dimitrios, Katakalos Konstantinos, Paraskevas George, Noussios George, Vassiou Aikaterini

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Med-DGTN: Dynamic Graph Transformer with Adaptive Wavelet Fusion for multi-label medical image classification by Guanyu Zhang, Yan Li, Tingting Wang, Guokun Shi, Li Jin, Zongyun Gu, Zongyun Gu

“…IntroductionMulti-label classification of medical imaging data aims to enable simultaneous identification and diagnosis of multiple diseases, delivering comprehensive clinical decision support for complex conditions. …”
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Correlation with viruses enhances network complexity and stability of co-occurrence prokaryotes across the oceans by Bo Wang, Yantao Liang, Kaiyue Lian, Chuyu Zhang, Meiaoxue Han, Min Wang, Hongbing Shao, Andrew McMinn, Hualong Wang

“…However, the mechanisms behind the association and structuring of microbiomes with viruses still remain largely unknown. …”
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Fatigue life prediction of hoist drum-rail contact pair based on digital twin by Michael A Zhuravkov, Mikhail A Nikolaitchik, Zengcheng Wang, Guangbin Yu

“…The developed digital twin allows to determine the moving lifting vessel on mine conductors contact interaction forces in real time using data from the motion smoothness monitoring system. …”
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Video-Based Assessment of Surgical Skill in Orthopaedic Surgery by Jillian McNally, MD, David Wilson, MD, MSc, FRCSC, Emma E. Jones, BScH, Neyousha Shahisavandi, MPH, Caroline King, PhD, Chad Coles, MD, FRCSC, Raymond Andrew Glennie, MD, MSc, FRCSC

“…., Bone reduction, dissection of neurovascular structures, radiographic images, etc.) The full cost to produce the 8 surgical videos was $48,934.00 Canadian dollars. …”
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Feasibility analysis and efficacy evaluation of computed tomography–guided microwave ablation combined with radioactive 125I particles in the treatment of lung nodules by Yu-Qing Shan, Fan-Xia Lin, Li Wang, Hai-Yu Wang

“…Microwave ablation (MWA), a minimally invasive technique, is effective in early stages of lung cancer, but may cause complications when applied near sensitive structures. Such cases require the use of 125I seed implantation. …”
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Research Advances and Emerging Trends in the Impact of Urban Expansion on Food Security: A Global Overview by Shuangqing Sheng, Ping Zhang, Jinchuan Huang, Lei Ning

“…The analysis focuses on knowledge production, collaborative structures, and thematic research trends. The results indicate the following: (1) The publication trajectory in this field exhibits a generally increasing trend with three distinct phases: an incubation period (1982–2000), a development phase (2001–2014), and a phase of rapid growth (2015–2024). …”
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Barriers to community engagement during the response to an Ebola virus disease outbreak in Uganda by Ann Robins, David Musoke, Henry Mwebesa, Edwinah Atusingwize, George Upenytho, Seungwoo Nam, Jesse Bonwitt, Chimwemwe Msukwa, Meddy Rutayisire, Henry Kyobe

“…Specifically, these barriers included: limited consultation due to misbelief in community roles; delayed sociocultural discussions; stigma and delayed psychosocial interventions; misinformation, rumours and political influence; poor communication mechanisms; contradictory messages and lack of transparency; language barrier and inappropriate communication media; work overload for CHWs and other community volunteers; failure to prioritise protection of community workers; lack of compensation for CHWs and other community personnel; poor logistical management; inadequate coordination and partner operations; unfavourable institutional structures; and limited funding for emergencies.Conclusion The barriers encountered in community engagement during the 2022-2023 EVD outbreak need to be addressed through strengthening guidelines and standard operating procedures, capacity building for partners and communities, as well as adequate financing to ensure Uganda is better prepared for future health emergencies.…”
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Making, not breaking the young, aspiring athlete: the development of Prep to be PRO (Nærmere Best) – a Norwegian school-based educational programme by Roald Bahr, Grethe Myklebust, Christine Holm Moseid, Hege Heiestad

“…Long-term sustainability will be secured by organisational commitment, resource alignment and integrating the initiative into existing structures.…”
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Evaluation of the Effect of Phase 1 Periodontal Therapy on Serum Procoagulant State of Systemically Healthy Chronic Periodontitis Subjects: A Clinico-Biochemical Study by Sapna Raje, Ruchi Banthia, Pallavi Singh, Anshita Shrivastava, Neha Mehrotra, Santosh Gupta

“…Background: Periodontitis is a chronic inflammatory condition that targets the structures supporting the teeth and has been linked to various systemic diseases, particularly cardiovascular conditions. …”
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Research progress and prospect of medium manganese steel by XU Juan-ping, FU Hao, WANG Zheng, YAN Yu, LI Jin-xu

“…Metastable austenite transforms to martensite under flow stress, resulting in transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP) effect, which may be accompanied by twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP); the steel consequently exhibits good plasticity without sacrificing strength and thus meets the processing requirement of automobile parts with complex structures. The product of tensile strength and elongation of hot-rolled medium manganese steel, with chemical composition of Fe-0.2C-10Mn-4Al, under quenching and tempering can be larger than 70 GPa·%, which is higher than the current literature value. …”
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Comparison of Image Preprocessing Strategies for Convolutional Neural Network-Based Growth Stage Classification of Butterhead Lettuce in Industrial Plant Factories by Jung-Sun Gloria Kim, Soo Chung, Myungjin Ko, Jihoon Song, Soo Hyun Shin

“…Grad-CAM visualizations further confirmed that raw image-trained models consistently attended to meaningful plant structures, whereas segmentation-trained models often failed to localize correctly in cross-domain tests. …”
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