Probing into Native and Nonnative Students’ Mental Lexicon: a Case of Word Association Comparison by Afrooz Marzban, Mohammad Sadegh Bagheri, Firooz Sadighi, Ehsan Rassaei

“…The present study compared British English speakers’ (native) and Iranian EFL learners’ (nonnative) mental lexicon structure focusing on how words are selected and used by the two groups. …”
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Inoculation of Native Arbuscular Mycorrhizae and Bacillus subtilis Can Improve Growth in Vegetable Crops by Sara Gebreslassie, Mulissa Jida, Mariana Laura Puente, Fernanda Covacevich, Zerihun Belay

“…The experimental setup was a randomized complete block design with three replications of the following treatments: (i) inoculation with a consortium of AMF, (ii) co-inoculation with a consortium of AMF and the Bacillus subtilis, (iii) inoculation with Rhizophagus clarus, (iv) co-inoculation with R. clarus and B. subtilis, (v) inoculation with B. subtilis, (vi) plants without inoculation (negative control), and (vii) plants treated with chemical fertilizer (positive control). …”
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Estimation of Longitudinal and Transverse Elastic Moduli of Native Brazilian Woods by Static Bending Tests by Fabricio da Silva Aguiar, Guilherme dos Santos Silva, Herisson Ferreira dos Santos, Elvys Dias Reis, Francisco Antonio Rocco Lahr, André Luis Christoforo

“…This study aims to estimate both E and G based on the Euler-Bernoulli and Timoshenko beam theories through three-point and four-point static bending tests. …”
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Carbon and Nitrogen Stocks in Soil under Native Pastures in the Pantanal Wetland Biome, Brazil by Diego Antonio França de Freitas, Marx Leandro Naves Silva, Evaldo Luis Cardoso, Dener Marcio da Silva Oliveira, Mara Regina Moitinho, Nilton Curi

“…Soil samples from three native pastures differentiated by the predominance of <i>Hymenachne amplexicaulis</i>, <i>Axonopus purpusii</i>, and <i>Mesosetum chaseae</i> under different land use systems (continuous grazing and no grazing for five years) were collected and used to quantify the contents of carbon, nitrogen, and humic fractions. …”
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Denoising very low-field magnetic resonance images using native noise modeling by Tonny Ssentamu, Tonny Ssentamu, Alvin Kimbowa, Alvin Kimbowa, Ronald Omoding, Edgar Atamba, Pius K. Mukwaya, George W. Jjuuko, Sairam Geethanath, Sairam Geethanath

“…A U-Net based denoising autoencoder was trained on this dataset and evaluated on three low-field datasets: the M4Raw dataset (0.3T), in vivo brain MRI (0.05T), and phantom images (0.05T). …”
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Neural basis of linguistic factors involved in thought: an fMRI study with native signers by Rimi Hino, Rimi Hino, Keita Umejima, Natsumi Wada, Wataru Takei, Yoshiko Kawasaki, Kuniyoshi L. Sakai

“…We thus successfully identified three critical systems for both language and thought processes.…”
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The ecological role of native‐plant landscaping in residential yards to birds during the nonbreeding period by Noriko L. Smallwood, Eric M. Wood

“…We had three objectives for our study. First, we compared avifaunal communities, including feeding and nonfeeding behaviors, and habitat features between native and non‐native‐landscaped yards. …”
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Determination of the ability of native potential probiotic lactobacillus strains in nanoplastic bioremoval in an in-vitro Model by Nayereh Rezaie Rahimi, Mohammad Hoseini, Hasan Hashemi, Abooalfazl Azhdarpoor, Hamid Gholami Pourbadie, Mansooreh Dehghani, Mahdi Rohani

“…Three resistant strains L. plantarum RP13, RP134, and RP225—were selected based on disk diffusion screening. …”
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Blending in or standing out? The disclosure dilemma of ad cues of social media native advertising by Maike Hübner, Maike Hübner, Julia Thalmann, Jörg Henseler, Jörg Henseler

“…In this study, we aimed to disentangle the dynamics of the “disclosure dilemma” in native advertising, examining whether ad cues blend into the content flow unnoticed or stand out and prompt rapid disengagement.MethodsThis study adopted a mixed-methods design with 152 participants randomly assigned to one of three mock-up Instagram feeds containing both sponsored and organic posts. …”
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Spatial and temporal variations of soil microbial respiration under native and exotic tree species by Lameck Davie Nyirenda, James Majamanda, Anas Khalif, Mana Kanjanamaneesathian

“…In 2019 (March and October), soil samples were taken at 0.5m, 1.5m, 2.5 m, and 3.5m intervals from the trunks of the chosen tree species at depths of 0–10 cm and 10–20 cm. …”
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Length-weight relationship and condition factors of native freshwater fishes in the Hajar Mountain, Oman by Saud M. Al Jufaili, Aziza Saud Al Adhoobi, Humaid Darwish Al Mamari, Sara Yahya Al Hinai

“…The b-values ranged from 2.833 to 3.352 where the majority of species at all the sites revealed positive allometeric (b &gt; 3) except for Garra shamal at Wadi Al Amirat, Aphaniops spp. at Wadi Al Khoud and Wadi Fanja, and Cyprinion muscatense at Wadi Surur, which displayed an isometric growth (b ≈ 3). …”
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Properties and structural features of native and modified proteins of concentrates from white and brown rice by V. V. Kolpakova, Q. Ch. Fan, I. S. Gaivoronskaya, L. V. Chumikina

“…Proteins from white rice had lower molecular weights (MW) than proteins from brown rice: 1.3–199.5 kDa versus 1.5–251.1 kDa. Most proteins were grouped in three low-molecular-weight fractions (МW 11.7–27.5 kDa) in PC from white rice and in one fraction with the high molecular weight (182–251.1 kDa) in PC from brown rice. …”
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The cultural adaptation and psychometric evaluation of the Mothers on Respect Index for Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders by Rebecca Delafield, Eunjung Lim, Ann Chang, Crystal VangTung, Jocelyn Howard, Adrienne Dillard, Sunny Chen, Princess Lei Ebbay, Joseph Keawe‘aimoku Kaholokula

“…Abstract Background Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (NHPI) are disproportionately burdened by pregnancy-related deaths in the United States and have the lowest engagement in prenatal care compared to all other US racial groups. …”
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Myocardial native T1 and extracellular volume measurements at 5T: Feasibility study and initial experience by Yubo Guo, Lu Lin, Keting Xu, Shihai Zhao, Gan Sun, Yuyan Chen, Ke Xue, Yuxin Yang, Shuo Chen, Yan Zhang, Yanjie Zhu, Yining Wang

“…T1 mapping was acquired using a motion-corrected modified Look–Locker inversion recovery sequence [5(3)3 scheme for pre-contrast, (4(1)3(1)2) scheme for post-contrast] in three short-axis planes (base, middle, and apex). …”
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Phenotypic and physiological evaluation of drought resistance in seedling populations of Xinjiang native peach germplasm by LU Caihong, LI Yong, WU Jinlong, XU Mengqi, YU Ju, ZHU Gengrui, WANG Lirong

“…[Objective] The Xinjiang native peach, referred to as Tutao, serves as the primary rootstock for seedling breeding in China. …”
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Native Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium probiotics modulate autophagy genes and exert anti-inflammatory effect by Fatemeh Haririzadeh Jouriani, Mahdi Torkamaneh, Mahnaz Torfeh, Fatemeh Ashrafian, Shadi Aghamohammad, Mahdi Rohani

“…The results of the current study showed that our native potential probiotic cocktails could upregulate the expression level of the autophagy genes including pik3c3, atg14, beclin, pik3r4, atg5, atg16, atg7, and atg3 compared with sonicated pathogen treatments, and also these native potential probiotic strains could exert anti-inflammatory effects, especially before inflammation induction. …”
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Implementation of Rucah Fish Meal as a Substitute for Fish Meal in the Native Chicken Ration by Nurhayati Nurhayati, Nelwida Nelwida, Berliana Berliana, Lisna Lisna, Fauzan Ramadan

“…The treatments included substituting fish meal in the ration with rucah fish meal at various levels: P0= 12% FM and 0% RFM, P1= 9% FM and 3% RFM, P2= 6% FM and 6% RFM, P3= 3% FM and 9% RFM, and P4= 0% FM and 12% RFM. …”
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Evaluation of Scrapie Test Results of Native and Endangered Hungarian Sheep Breeds for Further Breeding by Eszter Ilona Bácsi, Renáta Klein, András Lévai, Fiona Kenyon, János Oláh

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Compositional Variability of Essential Oils and Their Bioactivity in Native and Invasive <i>Erigeron</i> Species by Asta Judžentienė

“…A paucity of data concerning <i>E. incanus</i> EOs was revealed, with the prevalence of 3-hydroxy-4-methoxy cinammic acid and thymol acetate noted in the oils. …”
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Neuropsychiatric symptoms following the consumption of Lanmaoa asiatica, a poisonous mushroom native to Yunnan by Ruanxian Dai, Zhantao Duan, Jing Yang, Deyuan Ning, Yu Liu, Bing Gong, Qiang Meng

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