Crescimento da cultura do girassol irrigado com diferentes tipos de água e adubação nitrogenada Growth of irrigated sunflower under different water sources and nitrogen fertilizati... by Cley A. S. de Freitas, Alexandre R. A. da Silva, Francisco M. L. Bezerra, Ricardo R. de Andrade, Francisco S. B. Mota, Boanerges F. de Aquino

“…In splitplots, the effects of the four rates of nitrogen (25, 50, 75 and 100 kg ha-1) on the same growth parameters were evaluated. The plant height, stem diameter and number of leaves increased lineaR Ly as a function of the irrigation water levels. …”
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Broad-spectrum resistance to fungal foliar diseases in wheat: recent efforts and achievements by Amira M. I. Mourad, Amira M. I. Mourad, Asmaa A. M. Ahmed, P. Stephen Baenziger, Andreas Börner, Ahmed Sallam, Ahmed Sallam

“…The importance of these genes, their functional annotation, and the potential for gene enrichment are discussed. …”
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Human cerebral organoids: Complex, versatile, and human-relevant models of neural development and brain diseases by Raquel Coronel, Rosa González-Sastre, Patricia Mateos-Martínez, Laura Maeso, Elena Llorente-Beneyto, Sabela Martín-Benito, Viviana S. Costa Gagosian, Leonardo Foti, Ma Carmen González-Caballero, Victoria López-Alonso, Isabel Liste

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Impact of Coenzyme Q10 on Mitochondrial Metabolism: A Complementary Study Using Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging and Electron Microscopy by Johannes Georg Wieland, Nilanjon Naskar, Kirsten Reess, Daniela Nobre Sarmento dos Santos, Julia M. Weise, Thomas Blatt, Sebastian Kordes, Paul Walther, Angelika Rück

“…Results: We reported a shift towards longer lifetimes of NADH in primary fibroblasts from ten different donors upon treatment with CoQ10, which indicates the stimulation of oxidative phosphorylation. …”
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Generation of human iPSC-derived pancreatic organoids to study pancreas development and disease [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 2 approved with reservations] by Francesca Maria Spagnoli, Abigail Isaacson, Jean-Francois Darrigrand

“…The pancreas has vital endocrine and exocrine functions that can be affected by life-threatening diseases such as diabetes and pancreatic cancer. …”
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ReLU, Sparseness, and the Encoding of Optic Flow in Neural Networks by Oliver W. Layton, Siyuan Peng, Scott T. Steinmetz

“…The present study investigates the influence of different activation functions—ReLU, leaky ReLU, GELU, and Mish—on the accuracy, robustness, and encoding properties of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) trained to estimate self-motion from optic flow. …”
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Weeds biodiversity and maize growth in agro-pastoral integration system by Zhang Yuyang, Wang Junfeng, Sha Zhipeng, Guan Fachun, Duan Jing

“…., “agro-pastoral integration”(hereinafter referred to as API) and conventional maize planting (hereinafter referred to as CK), this paper analyzed the differences of weed species, their functional groups and biodiversity indices before and after grazing. …”
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Clinical aspects of reconstruction of the lower third of the leg with fasciocutaneous flap based on peroneal artery perforators by Terzić Zoran, Đorđević Boban

“…During the surgery, the location of the recipient site with a future flap and an accompanying vascular stem was marked. Having prepared the recipient site in accordance with the surgical principles, the lobe was prepared, rotated and positioned in the defect region. …”
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Dysfunctional terminal differentiation of satellite cells in the wooden breast muscle of Ross 308 broiler chickens by Xin Wang, Tong Xing, Xudong Zhu, Xiaofei Wang, Liang Zhao, Feng Gao, Lin Zhang

“…The superficial cranial region of each PM sample was isolated for quantitative analysis of MuSCs functional markers. One-way ANOVA was used to compare differences among groups, with p < 0.05 indicating significant differences. …”
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A comparison over 2 decades of disability-free life expectancy at age 65 years for those with long-term conditions in England: Analysis of the 2 longitudinal Cognitive Function and... by Holly Q Bennett, Andrew Kingston, Ilianna Lourida, Louise Robinson, Lynne Corner, Carol Brayne, Fiona E Matthews, Carol Jagger, Cognitive Function and Ageing Studies Collaboration

“…<h4>Background</h4>Previous research has examined the improvements in healthy years if different health conditions are eliminated, but often with cross-sectional data, or for a limited number of conditions. …”
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Key virulence factors responsible for differences in pathogenicity between clinically proven live-attenuated Japanese encephalitis vaccine SA14-14-2 and its pre-attenuated highly v... by Byung-Hak Song, Sang-Im Yun, Joseph L Goldhardt, Jiyoun Kim, Young-Min Lee

“…Our findings revealed the following: (i) The single envelope (E) protein of SA14-14-2, which contains nine mutations (eight in the ectodomain and one in the stem region), is both necessary and sufficient to render SA14 non-neuroinvasive and non-neurovirulent. …”
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When mimetics meets chitosan by Yilin Guo, Xiaoyan Yu

“…Limitless types of products stemming from the interaction between mimetics and chitosan are designable, potentially creating endless opportunities for different industrial sectors.…”
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Bioinformatics functional analysis of let-7a, miR-34a, and miR-199a/b reveals novel insights into immune system pathways and cancer hallmarks for hepatocellular carcinoma by Bangly Soliman, Ahmed Salem, Mohamed Ghazy, Nourhan Abu-Shahba, Mahmoud El Hefnawi

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Unveiling Hidden Aspects of Intermediary Organizations in Innovation: A Systematic Review through the Lens of Industry Taxonomy by Mostafa Mohseni kiasari, ‌Javad Soltanzadeh, Amirhossein Azizi Hasanabadi, Hamed Talebi

“…Results The results of the analysis showed four main themes: (1) the functions of intermediary organizations in convergence with the macro trends of changes and new technological developments; (2) their functions at various levels of innovation systems, (3) mediating organizations as actors for managing knowledge-based industries, and (4) their functions in different industries are presented.   …”
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Early identification of functional high-risk multiple myeloma patients after transplant: the predictive power of fat fraction and Response Assessment Category score in diffusion-we... by Angelo Belotti, Barbara Frittoli, Sofia Terlizzi, Rossella Ribolla, Claudia Crippa, Chiara Saeli, Samantha Ferrari, Nicola Bianchetti, Chiara Bottelli, Chiara Cattaneo, Carmela Carbone, Alessandro Gullino, Marco Chiarini, Viviana Giustini, Aldo Roccaro, Luigi Grazioli, Alessandra Tucci

“…The Myeloma Response Assessment and Diagnosis System (MY-RADS) established the Response Assessment Category (RAC), a 5-point scale ranging from complete response (RAC 1) to progressive disease (RAC 5), which independently stratifies patients with different outcomes after autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT). …”
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Enhancing Urban Heat Island Analysis Through Multisensor Data Fusion and GRU-Based Deep Learning Approaches for Climate Modeling by Ning Tang, Muhammad Farhan, Pir Mohammad, M. Abdullah-Al-Wadud, Saddam Hussain, Umair Hamza, Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain, Nazih Yacer Rebouh

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Inclusion of Pineapple By-Products as Natural Antioxidant Sources in Diets for European Sea Bass (<i>Dicentrarchus labrax</i>) by Ricardo Pereira, Ana Basto, Manuela Pintado, Luisa M. P. Valente, Cristina Velasco

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Effect of expressive writing on the sexual self-concept in men with multiple sclerosis: a randomized clinical controlled trial by Malihe Mohammadzade Sabbaghi, Leila Amini, Seyed Massood Nabavi, Naiemeh Seyedfatemi, Hamid Haghani

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Evidence Assessment and Standards of Proof: a Messy Issue by Giovanni Tuzet

“…Second: Why do systems differ in those respects? Here the answer stems from the historical, institutional and procedural differences that explain why some systems are more concerned with assessment criteria and others with standards of proof. …”
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Evaluation of salt tolerance in hybrid progeny of apple rootstock Malus prunifolia × R3 by JIAO Caidi, WEI Jiangtong, JIA Xumei, LI Cuiying, LI Chao, MA Fengwang

“…Compared with the control group, the Na+ content in roots, stems and leaves of M26 had the highest increase, and the increase was relatively small in M. prunifolia and k15; the K+ content in each part showed different degrees of decrease after salt treatment. …”
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