A Halophilic Bacterium for Bioremediation of Saline–Alkali Land: The Triadic and Synergetic Response Mechanism of <i>Oceanobacillus picturae</i> DY09 to Salt Stress by Tianying Nie, Liuqing Wang, Yilan Liu, Siqi Fu, Jiahui Wang, Kunpeng Cui, Lu Wang

“…The strain of <i>Oceanobacillus picturae</i> DY09, as a typical halophilic microorganism, possesses distinctive salt adaptation mechanisms that hold significant application value in the fields of agriculture, industry, and biomedicine. …”
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The responses of vegetation water use efficiency to biomass density and CO2 balance in dryland of Central Asia during 21st century by Alphonse Kayiranga, Xi Chen, Xuexi Ma, Dative Ingabire, Tie Liu, Yaoming Li, Emeka Edwin Igboeli, Eldiiar Duulatov, Hubert Hirwa, Clement Nzabanita, Ping Hu

“…Water-use efficiency (WUE) is a critical component that links plant carbon (CO2) and water cycles through various aspects of plant ecosystem functioning. However, the variations of plant CO2 in response to water use efficiency (WUE) across temperate dryland ecosystems remains inadequately understood. …”
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NeXtMD: a new generation of machine learning and deep learning stacked hybrid framework for accurate identification of anti-inflammatory peptides by Chengzhi Xie, Yijie Wei, Xinwei Luo, Huan Yang, Hongyan Lai, Fuying Dao, Juan Feng, Hao Lv

“…NeXtMD systematically extracts four functionally relevant sequence-derived descriptors—residue composition, inter-residue correlation, physicochemical properties, and sequence patterns—and utilizes a two-stage prediction strategy. …”
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Integrating Microalgal <i>Chlorella</i> Biomass and Biorefinery Residues into Sustainable Agriculture and Food Production: Insights from Lettuce Cultivation by Antira Wichaphian, Apiwit Kamngoen, Wasu Pathom-aree, Wageeporn Maneechote, Tawanchai Khuendee, Yupa Chromkaew, Benjamas Cheirsilp, Douglas J. H. Shyu, Sirasit Srinuanpan

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Optimized biosynthesis and performance enhancement of γ-PGA from Bacillus licheniformis: a study on wettability, microstructure, and environmental performance by Mingming Cheng, Shuoshi Zhang, Jianbo Gao, Wenqing Liu, Gang Zhou, Tao Sui, Daoquan Cheng, Cheng Wang, Xiangchuan Wang, Xiaoyan Li, Yuxi Li

“…Currently, environmentally-friendly, functional, polymeric, and microbial dust suppressant, which represent new types of suppressants, are primarily in the experimental and exploratory stages. …”
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Performance Study of Non-Contact Membrane Distillation Engineering Prototype for Treatment of Radioactive Wastewater by Bao-lin WANG, De-tao XIAO, Zheng-zhong HE, Xing-feng YANG, Cheng-lin LI

“…This adjustable treatment capacity allows operators to calibrate the processing rate in real time, aligning the system’s functionality with varying demands and expanding its applicability across diverse use cases. …”
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Effects of Substitution of Wheat Straw by Giant Reed on Growth Performance, Serum Biochemical Parameters, Nutrient Digestibility, and Antioxidant Properties of Sheep by Kai Zhang, Yibo Yan, Rui Zhao, Xianyi Song, Liying Du, Bochi Zhang, Chunlei Yang, Xiaopeng Tang

“…The development and utilization of unconventional forage resources is crucial to alleviating the current situation of shortage of forage resources. …”
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Multidimensional Environmental Drivers of Bamboo Species Richness on Subtropical Islands by Weifeng Zhan, Yanqiu Xie, Xinran Xie, Zujian Chen, Chuanyuan Deng, Hui Huang

“…These variations highlight the ecological adaptability and functional traits of different reproductive strategies within island ecosystems. (3) Among the six environmental factors, island area exerted the greatest influence on species richness, underscoring its role as the primary driver of bamboo diversity and reproductive strategies. (4) Island area and isolation also impacted species richness indirectly through their effects on development intensity. …”
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Power–Packet Conversion Methods and Analysis of Scheduling Schemes for Wireless Power Transfer by Yuma Takahashi, Takefumi Hiraguri, Kazuki Maruta, Shuma Okita, Takahiro Matsuda, Tomotaka Kimura, Noboru Sekino

“…The simulator incorporates several scheduling functions to facilitate the investigation of the efficiency of the power-feeding methods. …”
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ASSESSMENT OF BIOLOGICAL AGE AND AGING RATE OF FOOTWEAR ENTERPRISES WORKERS by Ulyana Lototska-Dudyk, Olha Matushchak, Mariana Kurban

“…The determination of BA in workers can be utilized at the preliminary and periodic medical examinations to determine occupational risk groups and profession selection, as well as to evaluate the effect of elements in the production environment and labour process on the functional state of the body.…”
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Research on the Wetland Vegetation Classification Method Based on Cross-Satellite Hyperspectral Images by Min Yang, Jing Qin, Xiaodan Wang, Yanfeng Gu

“…Supervised contrastive learning is utilized to prevent redundant learning of the same training images. …”
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The State of the Art Electricity Load and Price Forecasting for the Modern Wholesale Electricity Market by Vasileios Laitsos, Georgios Vontzos, Paschalis Paraschoudis, Eleftherios Tsampasis, Dimitrios Bargiotas, Lefteri H. Tsoukalas

“…The high penetration of renewable energy sources and the formation of competitive prices for utilities play a critical role in the wider economic development. …”
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Integration of Microarray Data and Single-Cell Sequencing Analysis to Explore Key Genes Associated with Macrophage Infiltration in Heart Failure by Rao J, Wang X, Wang Z

“…To assess the immune infiltration characteristics in HF, we utilized the CIBERSORT and single sample gene set enrichment analysis (ssGSEA). …”
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Genome-Wide Identification and Characterization of Trehalose-6-Phosphate Synthase/Phosphatases Gene Family in Petunia and Their Expression Profiling Under Abiotic Stresses by Renwei Huang, Daofeng Liu, Gonzalo H. Villarino, Neil S. Mattson

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CRISPR/Cas9 technology in tumor research and drug development application progress and future prospects by Han Han, Xiaoyan Sun, Xiaoyun Guo, Jiaxin Wen, Xiaoming Zhao, Weiqiang Zhou

“…It consists of regularly spaced clusters of short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) and CRISPR-associated proteins (Cas). By adapting the simplest type II CRISPR system to utilize special small guide RNA (sgRNA) and Cas9 nucleic acid endonuclease, precise cuts can be made at specific locations in double-stranded DNA, facilitating gene knockout or knock-in. …”
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Does model type influence the effectiveness of combined action observation and motor imagery training for novices learning an Ankle Pick takedown? by Samantha Chye, Ashika Chembila Valappil, Ryan Knight, Andrew Greene, David Shearer, Cornelia Frank, Ceri Diss, Adam Bruton, Adam Bruton

“…Both the AOMIOTHER and Control conditions led to improved functional changes in mental representation structures while the structures for the AOMISELF condition became less similar to the reference structure over time.DiscussionCollectively, the largely null findings (n = 13, 92.86%) suggest that physical practice has the strongest influence on motor adaptations for this complex motor skill at these early stages of learning. …”
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Dietary supplementation with L-carnitine elevates intracellular carnitine levels and affects gene expression of SLC25A20 and COX4I1, as well as non-mitochondrial respiration of bov... by Leonie Seemann, Susanne Kersten, Susanne Bühler, Fabian Billenkamp, Ulrich Meyer, Christian Visscher, Korinna Huber, Erika Most, Klaus Eder, Sven Dänicke, Jana Frahm

“…The same applied for PBMC mitochondrial functionality and metabolic activity as assessed by ex vivo approaches, whereas non-mitochondrial respiration rate was significantly affected by L-carnitine supplementation over time. …”
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In-vitro transcriptomic profiling of indigenous Gaddi vis-à-vis exotic Labrador dogs: insights from systems biology by Jaswinder Kaur, Manu Mohan, Bilawal Singh, Ram Saran Sethi, Deepti Narang, Simarjeet Kaur, Chandra Sekhar Mukhopadhyay

“…IntroductionThe domestication of dogs is regarded as an evolutionary adaptation influenced by artificial selective pressures, leading to the fruition of diverse canine breeds across regions. …”
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Beta bursts in the parkinsonian cortico-basal ganglia network form spatially discrete ensembles by Isaac Grennan, Nicolas Mallet, Peter J. Magill, Hayriye Cagnan, Andrew Sharott

“…We employed an adapted version of a principle and independent component analysis-based method commonly used to define assemblies of single neurons (i.e., neurons that are synchronized over short timescales). …”
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Expanding Multilingual Co-Speech Interaction: The Impact of Enhanced Gesture Units in Text-to-Gesture Synthesis for Digital Humans by Ghazanfar Ali, Woojoo Kim, Muhammad Shahid Anwar, Jae-In Hwang, Ahyoung Choi

“…We used translation of non-English input language to English for text matching. Our novel method utilizes an improved pipeline to extract text, 2D pose data, and 3D gesture units. …”
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