Complementary strengths of water footprint and life cycle assessments in analyzing global freshwater appropriation and its local impacts – Recommendations from an Interdisciplinary... by Markus Berger, Winnie Gerbens-Leenes, Fatemeh Karandish, Maite M. Aldaya, Anne-Marie Boulay, Rick J. Hogeboom, Andreas Link, Alessandro Manzardo, Oleksandr Mialyk, Masaharu Motoshita, Montserrat Nuñez, Stephan Pfister, Ralph K. Rosenbaum, Laura Scherer, Han Su, Lara Wöhler

“…Our analysis revealed that WFA’s strength lies in its ability to measure freshwater appropriation, water-use efficiency, water scarcity and total pollution levels. …”
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Development and refinement of an online CARD (Comfort Ask Relax Distract) course for organizations and providers delivering vaccinations and other needle procedures by Anna Taddio, Anthony N. T. Ilersich, C. Meghan McMurtry, Kaytlin Constantin, Lucie M. Bucci, Victoria Gudzak, Charlotte Logeman, Natalie Crown, Mandy Kohli, Erin Ledrew, Noni E. MacDonald

“…The course has the potential to improve efficiency and effectiveness of CARD implementation.…”
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New Insights in the Sugarcane Transcriptome Responding to Drought Stress as Revealed by Supersage by Éderson Akio Kido, José Ribamar Costa Ferreira Neto, Roberta Lane de Oliveira Silva, Valesca Pandolfi, Ana Carolina Ribeiro Guimarães, Daniela Truffi Veiga, Sabrina Moutinho Chabregas, Sérgio Crovella, Ana Maria Benko-Iseppon

“…Most relevant BlastN matches comprised 567,420 tags, regarding 75,404 unitags with 164,860 different ESTs. To optimize the annotation efficiency, the Gene Ontology (GO) categorization was carried out for 186,191 ESTs (BlastN against Uniprot-SwissProt), permitting the categorization of 118,208 ESTs (63.5%). …”
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The agricultural plastic paradox: Feeding more, harming more? by Kai Wang, Xuejun Liu, David R. Chadwick, Changrong Yan, Michaela Reay, Tida Ge, Fan Ding, Jingkuan Wang, Ruimin Qi, Mouliang Xiao, Rui Jiang, Yanling Chen, Ji Ma, Charlotte Lloyd, Richard P. Evershed, Yongming Luo, Yongguan Zhu, Fusuo Zhang, Davey L. Jones

“…Agricultural plastic film mulch (PFM) covers ca. 50 million hectares of the Earth’s surface and has revolutionized agriculture, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions, by improving crop yields, water use efficiency, farmer incomes and feeding an extra 85 million people in China alone. …”
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D-Band 4.6 km 2 × 2 MIMO Photonic-Assisted Terahertz Wireless Communication Utilizing Iterative Pruning Deep Neural Network-Based Nonlinear Equalization by Jingwen Lin, Sicong Xu, Qihang Wang, Jie Zhang, Jingtao Ge, Siqi Wang, Zhihang Ou, Yuan Ma, Wen Zhou, Jianjun Yu

“…After pruning, the BER at different transmission rates was reduced to below the hard decision forward error correction (HD-FEC) threshold, indicating a substantial improvement in signal quality. …”
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A Risk-Based Framework for Power System Modeling to Improve Resilience to Extreme Events by Emily L. Barrett, Kaveri Mahapatra, Marcelo Elizondo, Xiaoyuan Fan, Sarah Davis, Sarah Newman, Patrick Royer, Bharat Vyakaranam, Fernando Bereta Dos Reis, Xinda Ke, Jeff Dagle

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Photodynamic therapy use for malignant neoplasms of extrahepatic bile ducts and major duodenal papilla in inoperable patients by E. Ph. Stranadko, R. N. Komarov, S. V. Morozov, A. I. Lobakov, V. A. Morokhotov, Yu. I. Zakharov, Yu. K. Bogomazov, M. V. Riabov, V. K. Shubin, P. B. Flegontov, N. V. Karpov

“…The technique of its carrying out and ways of delivery of laser light guides to various parts of biliary tract are described. Efficiency of PDT for cancer of LDP and separately for cancer of EBD was determined. …”
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Prepartum supplementation of Ascophyllum nodosum meal or ethylenediamine dihydroiodide: Effects on colostrum yield and growth and health of dairy calves by K.R. Johnston, D.C. Reyes, K.N. Klobucher, T.C. Stahl, N.N. Price, P.S. Erickson, A.F. Brito

“…ABSTRACT: We aimed to evaluate the effects of prepartum supplementation of different I sources (Ascophyllum nodosum [ASCO] meal and ethylenediamine dihydroiodide [EDDI]) on colostrum yield, blood concentrations of glucose, BHB, and thyroid hormones, and growth of dairy calves. …”
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Tasa de reincidencia de la delincuencia juvenil de Extremadura. Medidas privativas de libertad Tasa de reincidencia de la delincuencia juvenil de Extremadura. Medidas privativas de... by Felipe Núñez Izquierdo

“…The present research helps know the efficiency of the different programs that are applied to juvenile delinquents who are subjected to interment measures, as well as it criticizes the latter since the high recidivism rate.…”
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Development status and key technologies of deep-sea towing autonomous underwater vehicles by Guanyu LU, Tiedong ZHANG, Zhenglin LI, Dapeng JIANG, Ming LEI, Wanzhen LUO

“…Regarding key technologies, the overall design of towing AUVs is complex and involves multiple aspects, such as the design and layout of various components. Different system structures and load-mounting positions must be considered, and multi-disciplinary design optimization can improve design efficiency and quality. …”
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The Improvement of Protein Retention through a Higher Utilization of Carbohydrate in the Diet with Chromium for Common Carp Cyprinus carpio Linn. by I. Mokoginta, F. Hapsyari, M. Agus Suprayudi

“… This experiment was conducted to improve the protein retention through carbohydrate efficiency in the chromium diet of common carp Cyprinus carpio. …”
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Comparative assessment of on-farm greenhouse gases emission from male-headed and female-headed rice farms in Babol county (Mazandaran province, Iran) by Hadi Veisi, Anahita Valiollahi, Abdol Majid Mahdavi Damghani, Surror Khoramdel

“…The indices of carbon efficiency and carbon sustainability were respectively 3.88 and 2.88 in farms headed by women, and 3.55 and 2.55 in farms headed by men. …”
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Dual inhibition of GTP-bound KRAS and mTOR in lung adenocarcinoma and squamous cell carcinoma harboring KRAS G12C by Masaoki Ito, Yoshihiro Miyata, Shoko Hirano, Nagisa Morihara, Misako Takemoto, Fumiko Irisuna, Kei Kushitani, Kenichi Suda, Junichi Soh, Yukio Takeshima, Yasuhiro Tsutani, Morihito Okada

“…This approach may also be effective even for lung cancers harboring KRAS G12C mutation but having different profiles.…”
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Potential use of green algae Caulerpa lentillifera as feed ingredient in the diet of Nile tilapia Oreochromis niloticus by Nadisa Theresia Putri, Dedi Jusadi, Mia Setiawati, Mas Tri Djoko Sunarno

“…Growth performance parameters showed the use of 10% and 20% is not significantly different from the control (P>0.05), to the final body weight, protein efficiency ratio, protein retention, specific growth rate, and feed efficiency. …”
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Lactational performance effects of 3-nitrooxypropanol supplementation to dairy cows: A meta-regression by L.F. Martins, M. Maigaard, M. Johansen, P. Lund, X. Ma, M. Niu, A.N. Hristov

“…Consequently, feed efficiency was increased by 0.05 ± 0.012 kg ECM/kg DMI with 3-NOP supplementation. …”
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Cowpea evapotranspiration modeling using the FAO-56 dual crop coefficient approach for climate-resilient agriculture under deficit irrigation conditions by Karam A. Elzopy, Udayar Pillai Surendran, Ashish K. Chaturvedi, Girish Gopinath, P. Raja, K. Madhava Chandran, Naeem Khan, Mohamed A. Yassin, Mohamed A. Mattar, Ali Salem

“…Abstract This study evaluated the effects of different irrigation methods, varying levels of water deficit, and irrigation intervals on transpiration, soil evaporation, crop growth, and yield of cowpea (Vigna unguiculata) under field conditions. …”
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A new product for the control of arthropod pests in industrial apple orchards in the Forest-Steppe of Ukraine by Yu. Yanovskyi, S. Sukhanov, I. Krykunov, Ye. Chepernaty

“…Research was carried out in 2023—2024 in commercial apple orchards under the conditions of the university’s educational and production department. The technical efficiency of Jalentra, CS (chlorantraniliprole, 106 g/l + bifenthrin, 159 g/l) was evaluated at different application rates against plant-feeding mites and insects damaging leaves, shoots, and generative organs of trees and its impact on apple productivity in commercial orchards. …”
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The State of Artificial Intelligence and its Prospects in Pakistan's Medical Sector by Rohail Akhtar Habib, Yumna Sattar Khan

“…Pakistan’s healthcare system has many obstacles, such as a sizable population, little resources, and regional differences. The goal of integrating AI technologies into medical procedures is to improve accessibility, accuracy, and efficiency in order to tackle these issues [4]. …”
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The Analysis of Driving Factors of Farm Land Equipment to Sprinkler Irrigation Systems (Case Study: the Villages of Ravansar Township) by Jafar Tavakoli, Davoud Jamini

“…The system is being used by the farmers through different parts of the country, namely Ravansar, in recent years. …”
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The dynamics glucose on carbohydrate utilization of striped catfish Pangasianodon hypophthalmus with yacon leaf Smallanthus sonchifolius dietary supplementation by Revita Syefti Palmi, Mia Setiawati, Dedi Jusadi, Julie Ekasari

“…Fish were fed with five different levels of yacon leaf supplementation (0%, 0.5%, 1%, 1.5%, 2%) for nine weeks. …”
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