Obstacles and ways of forming effective protection of rice crops from weeds by L. Tsilinko

“…Assessment of the current level of soil contamination in rice checks with weed seeds and determination of the reasons for insufficient efficiency of herbicide application to ensure high yields of rice sown in the south of our country. …”
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Harnessing Filamentous Fungi for Enzyme Cocktail Production Through Rice Bran Bioprocessing by Ana M. Yélamos, Jose F. Marcos, Paloma Manzanares, Sandra Garrigues

“…The <i>Aspergillus</i> species displayed the highest efficiency in cellulase and xylanase activities, especially <i>A. niger</i> var. …”
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A High-Accuracy Underwater Object Detection Algorithm for Synthetic Aperture Sonar Images by Jiahui Su, Deyin Xu, Lu Qiu, Zhiping Xu, Lixiong Lin, Jiachun Zheng

“…The proposed C2fD module integrates spatial differential feature extraction, dynamic feature fusion, and Enhanced Efficient Channel Attention (Enhanced ECA). Furthermore, an underwater multi-scale contextual attention mechanism, named UWA, is introduced to enhance the model’s discriminative ability for multi-scale objects and complex backgrounds. …”
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Electronic Microenvironment Regulation of Bismuth‐salophen Single‐site Catalysts for Enhanced Selectivity in CO2 Electrolysis to Formic Acid by Tianxing Wang, Tian (Leo) Jin, Zhiping Liu, Jingtao Wang, Yue Gong, Ming Ma, Jie Chen, Shaohua Shen, Rongqian Wu, Yu‐Cheng Huang, Ying Rui Lu, Yi Lyu, Xiaofei Liu

“…Despite progress, developing selective and efficient catalysts for CO2RR remains challenging. …”
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Genomic Insights and Plant Growth-Promoting Potential of Rhizobial Strains from <i>Agave americana</i> by Luis Galdino García-Pérez, Clara Ivette Rincón-Molina, Esperanza Martínez-Romero, Marco Antonio Rogel, Yunuen Tapia-Torres, Luis Alberto Manzano-Gómez, Julio César Maldonado-Gómez, Francisco Alexander Rincón-Molina, Reiner Rincón-Rosales

“…Similarly, <i>Mesorhizobium</i> sp. 28A showed exceptional phosphate solubilization efficiency and contributed to improved seedling performance. …”
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Characterization and identification of potential microbial fuel cells capable for the detoxification of hexavalent chromium from leather industry wastewater with power generation by Christina Saran, Devendra Kumar Patel, Vartika Jain, Gubbala Naga Venkata Satyanarayana, Ganesh Dattatraya Saratale, Luiz Fernando Romanholo Ferreira, Ram Naresh Bharagava

“…Three bacterial isolates, Pseudomonas stutzeri (CSDEM1), Microbacterium algeriense (CSDEM3), and Bacillus stratosphericus (CSDEM4), were tested for their efficiency. Among these, CSDEM3 (M. algeriense) showed the highest ability to reduce Cr6+ (80.13%) at a concentration of 1500 ppm and produced the highest bioelectricity (302 mV and 501 µA), which is the novelty of this work. …”
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Mechanisms of carbon distribution and stability in the photosynthetic processes of plant-soil systems influenced by arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi during reclamation of mining areas by Yinli BI, Ke ZHANG, Li XIAO, Dongdong WANG

“…Meanwhile, mycorrhizal associations enhance soil organic carbon conversion efficiency, facilitating the retention of photosynthetic carbon within the soil. …”
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Biosynthesized nanoparticles of Tibetan medicine mercuric sulfide preparation to promote endocytosis and realize drug crossing through blood brain barrier by Wenjing Jia, Huilan Yue, Liying Liu, Luya Wang, Lin Zhang, Jihong Tao, Guoying Zhou, Lixin Wei, Hongxin Dong, Rinchen Dhondrup, Xiaohui Zhao

“…Meanwhile, HgS NPs enhanced the effect of MS-275 on spatial learning and memory ability of APP/PS1 mice. Further studies confirmed that HgS NPs increased the permeability of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) by regulating endocytosis (Upregulation of caveolin, clathrin, and dynamin, downregulation P-gp) thereby facilitate the transport of drugs across BBB with more than threefold higher brain accumulation and long-lasting efficiency enhancement (4 days). …”
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Application of a Dual-Stream Network Collaboratively Based on Wavelet and Spatial-Channel Convolution in the Inpainting of Blank Strips in Marine Electrical Imaging Logging Images:... by Guilan Lin, Sinan Fang, Manxin Li, Hongtao Wu, Chenxi Xue, Zeyu Zhang

“…It provides an intelligent inpainting tool with geological interpretability for the electrical imaging logging interpretation of complex reservoirs, and has important engineering value for improving the efficiency of oil and gas exploration and development.…”
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PHENOTYPIC PROFILE AND FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITY OF MONOCYTES IN THE PATIENTS WITH ACUTE PANCREATITIS by A. A. Savchenko, A. G. Borisov, D. E. Zdzitovetskiy, I. V. Kudryavtsev, A. Yu. Medvedev, A. V. Moshev, I. I. Gvozdev

“…The study of monocyte phenotype was performed by flow cytometry. Phagocytic ability of monocytes was determined by flow cytometry, by means of FITC-labeled staphylococcal protein A. …”
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Benzimidazole resistance-associated mutations improve the in silico dimerization of hookworm tubulin: An additional resistance mechanism by Jan Clyden B. Tenorio, Muhammad Fikri Heikal, Alok Kafle, Prasert Saichua, Sutas Suttiprapa

“…Background and Aim: Mutations in the β-tubulin genes of helminths confer benzimidazole (BZ) resistance by reducing the drug’s binding efficiency to the expressed protein. However, the effects of these resistance-associated mutations on tubulin dimer formation in soil-transmitted helminths remain unknown. …”
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Influence of dietary protein levels on nano-encapsulated Yucca schidigera extract and its effects on in vitro ruminal greenhouse gas production and fermentation dynamics by Edwin Oswaldo Botia-Carreño, Mona M. M. Y. Elghandour, Akaninyene Jack, Udoh A. Inyang, Susanne Kreuzer-Redmer, Abdelfattah Z. M. Salem

“…In conclusion, nano-chitosan at a higher protein level proved its antimicrobial property, and although the production of CO increased at 14% protein, in vitro fermentation indicated its ability to minimize the production of GP, methane and hydrogen sulphide in the rumen, and to boost the degradability of DM and methane conversion efficiency.…”
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Photothermal Bacterial Clearance Using Gold Nanoshells Grown on Chitosan Nanoparticles Dielectric Templates by Patricia Dolores Martinez-Flores, Marisol Gastelum-Cabrera, Manuel G. Ballesteros-Monrreal, Pablo Mendez-Pfeiffer, Marco Antonio Lopez-Mata, Gerardo García-González, Gerardo Erbey Rodea-Montealegre, Josué Juárez

“…Gold nanoparticles (GNPs) have emerged as promising candidates due to their unique optical properties, particularly their ability to efficiently convert absorbed light into heat through the photothermal (PT) effect, which can be harnessed for bacteria eradication. …”
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Efficacy and safety of diacerein in patients with knee osteoarthritis by L. I. Alekseeva, N. G. Kashevarova, E. A. Taskina, E. P. Sharapova, S. G. Anikin, T. A. Korotkova, E. A. Strebkova

“…Both the patient and the physician evaluated the efficiency of treatment identically. By the end of therapy, 87.5% of the patients were observed to have improvement. …”
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Machine learning for discrimination of phase‐change chalcogenide glasses by Qundao Xu, Meng Xu, Siqi Tang, Shaojie Yuan, Ming Xu, Wei Zhang, Xian‐Bin Li, Zhongrui Wang, Xiangshui Miao, Chengliang Wang, Matthias Wuttig

“…Furthermore, by extracting the physical knowledge that the ML model has offered, we pinpoint three pivotal structural features of amorphous chalcogenides, that is, the bond angle, packing efficiency, and the length of the fourth bond, which provide a map for materials design with the ability to “predict” and “explain”. …”
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Forecasting Insurance Company Commitments with Long Short-Term Memory Models by Negar Tehraniyazdi, Reza Vaezi, Saeed Setayeshi, Iman Raeesi Vanani

“…This issue can negatively impact the model's generalization ability.…”
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scPharm: Identifying Pharmacological Subpopulations of Single Cells for Precision Medicine in Cancers by Peng Tian, Jie Zheng, Keying Qiao, Yuxiao Fan, Yue Xu, Tao Wu, Shuting Chen, Yinuo Zhang, Bingyue Zhang, Chiara Ambrogio, Haiyun Wang

“…Based on the strong correlation between the NES and drug response at single‐cell resolution, scPharm successfully identified the sensitive subpopulations in ER‐positive and HER2‐positive human breast cancer tissues, revealed dynamic changes in the resistant subpopulation of human PC9 cells treated with erlotinib, and expanded its ability to a mouse model. Its superior performance and computational efficiency are confirmed through comparative evaluations with other single‐cell prediction tools. …”
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Institutional Traps in the Scientific and Educational Sphere: Nature and Mechanism of Elimination by Е. V. Romanov

“…One of the consequences of the crisis associated with the coronavirus pandemic will be increased global competition for human capital. Russia’s ability to create barriers to “brain drain” will determine how quickly to overcome the crisis and enter the sixth technological order. …”
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Nano-coolants for thermal enhancement in heat exchangers: A review of prospects, challenges and applications by E.T. Bello, A. Nasir, A.S. Abdulkareem, M.M. Muhammadu, N.A. Musa, J.O. Tijani, Samson Oluwaseyi Bada

“…The demand for efficient thermal systems has driven significant interest in nano-coolants due to their superior thermal properties as alternatives to traditional coolants like water, ethylene glycol (EG), synthetic oils (polyalphaolefins), and refrigerants (R134a, R410A). …”
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Intra-day dispatch method via deep reinforcement learning based on pre-training and expert knowledge by Yanbo Chen, Qintao Du, Huayu Dong, Tao Huang, Jiahao Ma, Zitao Xu, Zhihao Wang

“…Traditional economic dispatch algorithms rely on the accuracy of all parameters and also lack the adaptability to the high uncertainties brought by the dynamic changes happening in the current power systems. Its computing efficiency also needs to be improved with the increased operational complexities. …”
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