Seasonal adaptation strategies of heteroblastic foliage in Pinus massoniana seedlings: insights into sugar composition, osmotic regulation, and protective enzyme mechanisms by Haoyun Wang, Shuangqin Xie, Hongyang He, Yingying Xu, Feng Wu

“…Significant differences exist between primary and secondary needles in morphology, seasonal photosynthetic physiology, and growth patterns. …”
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Demographic and Life-History Responses of <i>Rhinella arenarum</i> to Road-Associated Environments by Mariana Baraquet, Favio Pollo, Manuel Otero, Adolfo Martino, Pablo Grenat

“…Growth rates were also slower in the most urbanized site. While differences were moderate and sample sizes limited, these patterns suggest that urban-associated factors may influence demographic traits in <i>R. arenarum</i>. …”
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Independent and joint impacts of high body mass index and aging on global burden of chronic kidney disease: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Yao Ma, Shun Chen, Yuanli Shen, Xiang Wang, Xinning Xie, Weihong Zhao

“…Given the age, sex, and geographic differences, targeted strategies are needed.…”
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Frequency and predictors of emergency department visits among the oldest old in Finland: the Vitality 90+ Study by Sherin Billy Abraham, Jutta Pulkki, Mari Aaltonen, Esa Jämsen, Jani Raitanen, Linda Enroth

“…However, knowledge about the frequency and drivers of ED visits among the oldest old (90 years and above) is scarce, and neither is it known whether patterns differ between those living at home and in round-the-clock care. …”
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Apple Cultivar Responses to Fungal Diseases and Insect Pests Under Variable Orchard Conditions: A Multisite Study by Paula A. Morariu, Adriana F. Sestras, Andreea F. Andrecan, Orsolya Borsai, Claudiu Ioan Bunea, Mădălina Militaru, Catalina Dan, Radu E. Sestras

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In vitro susceptibility profiles of 16 antifungal drugs against Trichophyton indotineae by Wenting Xie, Xue Kong, Hailin Zheng, Huan Mei, Naicen Ge, Weida Liu, Guanzhao Liang, Xiaofang Li

“…ABSTRACT The worldwide emergence of Trichophyton indotineae has garnered significant attention due to its growing resistance to conventional antifungal therapies, posing significant challenges to the effective management of dermatophytosis. …”
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The impact of renewable energy consumption on export performance in Uzbekistan: A vector autoregression approach by Arslonbek Nurjanov, Fozil Xolmurotov, Ergash Ibadullaev, Jasurbek Ataniyazov, Manzura Masharipova, Feruza Yusupova, Xolilla Xolmuratov

“…The paper deals with the growing importance of understanding energy consumption patterns and their relationship with export performance in developing economies. …”
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Insights into polyethylene biodegradative fingerprint of Pseudomonas citronellolis E5 and Rhodococcus erythropolis D4 by phenotypic and genome-based comparative analyses by Jessica Zampolli, Elena Collina, Marina Lasagni, Patrizia Di Gennaro

“…Despite the highest level of cell numbers recorded at 7 days of growth on PE for both strains, the patterns of the metabolic products obtained and degraded during 60 days on PE were dissimilar in the two bacteria at different sampling times. …”
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Public Perceptions of Ethical Challenges and Opportunities for Enterprises in the Digital Age by Ahmad Mansour, Khaled Alshaketheep, Hind Al-Ahmed, Ahmad Shajrawi, Arafat Deeb

“… Background: Contemporary organisations are surrounded by more problematic ethical challenges due to the growing role of supercomputers in society, striving to harmonize organisational processes with ethical and technological solutions. …”
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Model morphing supported large scale crop type mapping: A case stuy of cotton mapping in Xinjiang, China by Longcai Zhao, Taifeng Dong, Xin Du, Bing Dong, Qiangzi Li

“…The results demonstrate that: 1) The sequence of knowledge model can effectively capture feature differences between cotton and non-cotton throughout the growing period, resulting in knowledge feature has a higher separability compared to original spectral and vegetation index features; 2) Segmenting knowledge features with Unet enables effective mapping cotton and non-cotton without ground samples. …”
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Applying blood-derived epigenetic algorithms to saliva: cross-tissue similarity of DNA-methylation indices of aging, physiology, and cognition by Sepideh Zarandooz, Laurel Raffington

“…While most of these methylation profile scores (MPSs) are developed in blood tissue, there is growing interest in using less invasive tissues like saliva. …”
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Water Use Efficiency Spatiotemporal Change and Its Driving Analysis on the Mongolian Plateau by Gesi Tang, Yulong Bao, Changqing Sun, Mei Yong, Byambakhuu Gantumur, Rentsenduger Boldbayar, Yuhai Bao

“…The degree of interpretation of vegetation changes for WUE was higher than that for meteorological factors, and WUE showed weak resistance to normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) disturbances. Delaying the start of the vegetation growing season had an increasing effect on WUE, and the interaction between phenological and meteorological vegetation factors had a non-linear enhancing effect on WUE. …”
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Age-related trends in eating pathology symptoms among transgender and gender-diverse adults by Jason M. Nagata, Christopher D. Otmar, Christopher M. Lee, Emilio J. Compte, Jason M. Lavender, Tiffany A. Brown, Kelsie T. Forbush, Annesa Flentje, Micah E. Lubensky, Juno Obedin-Maliver, Mitchell R. Lunn

“…A single significant interaction indicated that transgender women showed stronger age-related differences in Purging. Conclusions These findings contribute to growing evidence that disordered eating symptoms may not simply resolve with age among TGD individuals and necessitate lifespan-sensitive approaches to eating disorder care. …”
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Features of the expression of genes of antimicrobial peptides and the microbiome at the level of the mucous membrane of the upper respiratory tract during aging by V. V. Burmakina, N. O. Vartanova, M. V. Khoreva, S. V. Gorodishchenskaya, A. S. Avagyan, O. A. Svitich

“…Today, the proportion of elderly and senile people is steadily growing throughout the world. The most important factors in the first line of immune defense of the mucous membranes of the upper respiratory tract are β-defensins, which are a group of secretory proteins with antimicrobial activity. …”
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Global and regional burden of nasopharyngeal cancer in older adults attributable to smoking and high alcohol use from 1990 to 2021 by Xiao Wang, Ying Li, Yujie Luo, Xin Song

“…BackgroundNasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) poses a considerable global health burden, with behavioral risk factors such as smoking and high alcohol use contributing to disparities across sociodemographic groups. The growing aging population faces heightened vulnerability to NPC due to prolonged exposure to these modifiable risks, yet comprehensive analyses of aging-specific burden patterns remain limited.MethodsUtilizing the Global Burden of Disease 2021 data, we conducted a systematic evaluation of NPC burden attributable to smoking and alcohol use across 204 countries from 1990 to 2021. …”
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Chronic lung diseases (Asthma and COPD) among middle-aged and older populations in India: social, individual, and household determinants and their associations with geriatric syndr... by Aditi Chakraborty, Suryakant Yadav, A. H. Sruthi Anil Kumar

“…Employment status influences both conditions differently, those currently working are less likely to have COPD and Asthma. …”
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Specificity of diatom communities attached on the carapace of the European pond turtle (<em>Emys orbicularis</em>) by Vincent Roubeix, Lucie Attia, Rémy Chavaux, Frank Very, Anthony Olivier, Luc Ector, Véronique Vassal

“… Periphytic diatoms growing on aquatic turtle carapaces provide an interesting example of biofouling on an animal substrate. …”
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Redox Potential and Its Control in Research and Commercial Wine Fermentations by James Nelson, Roger Boulton, André Knoesen

“…Examples of the role of added iron in juice, different yeast strains, ambient light, and the addition of external hydrogen peroxide on the response of the potential are presented. …”
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JUVENILE ARTHRITIS IN PEDIATRIC AND ADULT RHEUMATOLOGY SERVICE: THE PROBLEM OF CONTINUITY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PATIENTS by I. P. Nikishina, O. M. Kostareva

“…The features of physiological processes of a growing organism cause significant differences in the nature of the course, manifestations of certain clinically significant syndromes (for example, delayed axial skeleton involvement after the onset in juvenile spondyloarthritis), radiological pattern and immunological markers in juvenile-onset rheumatic diseases. …”
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Deep Reinforcement Learning-Enabled Trajectory and Bandwidth Allocation Optimization for UAV-Assisted Integrated Sensing and Covert Communication by Donghao Li, Binfang Du, Zhiquan Bai

“…The growing interest in integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) has accelerated the development of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and drones for secure data transmission. …”
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