Assessment of potato cultivars and breeding clones for susceptibility to Rizoctonia solani and Streptomyces scabies by N. M. Zoteyeva, O. S. Kosareva, Z. Z. Evdokimova

“…Susceptibility to black scurf was studied in 219 cultivars of domestic and foreign origin from the VIR potato collection and 17 breeding clones from the collection maintained at the Research Institute of Agriculture “Belogorka”; besides, 217 early cultivars from the VIR collection were analyzed for susceptibility to common scab. …”
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Direct observation of the myosin Va recovery stroke that contributes to unidirectional stepping along actin. by Katsuyuki Shiroguchi, Harvey F Chin, Diane E Hannemann, Eiro Muneyuki, Enrique M De La Cruz, Kazuhiko Kinosita

“…We immobilized the neck of monomeric myosin Va on a surface and observed real time motions of bead(s) attached site-specifically to the head. …”
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Emerging and Innovative Technologies for the Sanitization of Fresh Produce: Advances, Mechanisms, and Applications for Enhancing Food Safety and Quality by Yuqiao Jin, Achyut Adhikari

“…These include ozone, ultraviolet light, cold plasma, pulsed light, ultrasound, microbubbles, nanobubbles, electrolyzed water, high-pressure processing, chlorine dioxide gas, and among others. …”
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Never lose sight of enemies: giant honeybees perceive troublemakers even in mass flight mode—a case study by Gerald Kastberger, Martin Ebner, Thomas Hötzl

“…This case study highlights the complex behavioral and physiological processes involved in MFA in A. dorsata and sheds light on the extent to which the colony maintains some level of defense capability despite the agitation that occurs during nest restructuring. …”
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Development of actions on optimization of chemical composition of carburized steel grade 16MnCrS5 to eliminate the causes of the growth of large austenite grains by I. A. Kovaleva, I. A. Ovchinnikova, S. V. Stefanovitch

“…To determine the grain size of the metal must be subjected to special types of processing for the manifestation of certain characteristics. …”
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New Perspectives on the Organization of Living Tissue and the Ongoing Connective Tissue/Fascia Nomenclature Debate, as Revealed by Intra-Tissue Endoscopy That Provides Real-Time Im... by Jean Claude Guimberteau, Elias T. Sawaya, Colin Armstrong

“…We are thus confronted with the global nature of the living human body and its vital processes. This paper sets out to describe the architecture of this fibrillar network which could be assimilated with the fascial tissue and which attributes a more constitutive role to connective tissue. …”
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Synergistic impact of additives and ball milling on bismuth-based glass frit for automotive enamel coatings by Seçil Aydın Aslan, Melih Besir Arvas, Osman Eksik

“…Colorimetric analysis revealed that additives such as carbon black and graphite maintained color stability and gloss at elevated temperatures, while ethyl cellulose influenced surface roughness, delaying heat development during firing. …”
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YOLO-WTB: Improved YOLOv12n Model for Detecting Small Damage of Wind Turbine Blades From Aerial Imagery by Phat T. Nguyen, Duy C. Huynh, Loc D. Ho, Matthew W. Dunnigan

“…To address these challenges, we propose an improved model based on the You Only Look Once version 12n model, which enhances the accuracy of wind turbine blade surface damage detection while maintaining real-time processing capability. …”
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A method for efficient virtual-physical synchronization of the digital twin system of an excavation-supporting robot cluster targeting coal pillars between mining faces by Qinghua MAO, Junlei SIMA, Hongwei MA, Chuanwei WANG, Yanzhang CHEN, Wenjin GUO, Wenda CUI, Jiashuai CHENG

“…Results and Conclusions The results indicate that the lightweighting process under the constraint of the collapse cost factor of fit-controlling vertices effectively suppressed the geometric error propagation while maintaining the mating surfaces in the assembly roughly unchanged, achieving a data compression ratio of 90%. …”
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Supramolecular self-assembly of high-loaded horseradish peroxidase and biorecognized antibody into Au/polydopamine nanocomposites for sensitive immunoassay of Escherichia coli O157... by Bolong Fang, Yuzhi Li, Xiaole Zhao, Yan Liu, Lin Xu, Qiao Wang, Xin Liu, Zhiyong Gong, Weihua Lai

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Region-based U-nets for fast, accurate, and scalable deep brain segmentation: Application to Parkinson Plus Syndromes by Mengyu Li, Magnús Magnússon, Ingibjörg Kristjánsdóttir, Sigrún Helga Lund, Thilo van Eimeren, Lotta M. Ellingsen

“…Deep learning approaches provide fast processing, however, they often encounter graphics processing unit (GPU) memory constraints when handling large datasets. …”
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Assessing economic and hydrological effects of water-saving irrigation using a coupled SWAT–MODFLOW–AquaCrop model by Shiruo Hu, Yueting Ding, Shibo Cui, Yingjia Li, Jianshi Zhao

“…However, assessing the comprehensive economic and hydrological effects of water-saving measures at the irrigation district scale remains challenging because of complicated interactions between large-scale hydrological dynamics and small-scale crop growth processes. To address this challenge, this study presents a coupled hydrological–crop model at the irrigation district scale that integrates the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT), MODFLOW, and AquaCrop to simulate surface water, groundwater, and crop growth processes. …”
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Optimized Development of High-Porosity Structural and Thermal Insulation Foam Ceramics Based on Local Natural and Technogenic Raw Materials by Aidana Kuanyshbay, Sayat Niyetbay, Indira Tashmukhanbetova, Ruslanzhan Sadyrov, Nurgul Amangeldi, Laura Mustafa, Akmaral Nurakhova, Ilyas Rustemov, Assel Yesbolat

“…Future work should refine sintering processes, explore new additives, and evaluate the long-term performance.…”
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Laser Cleaning‐Assisted Femtosecond Laser Direct Writing of Diamond Antireflective Microstructures with Superhigh Transmittance of 94.5% at 10.6 μm by He Cao, Yun‐Fei Li, Gong Wang, Hong‐Yu Li, De‐Rong Sun, Zi‐Qi Tang, Li‐Fang Li, Zhong‐Shan Jin, Yu Yu, Xue‐Qing Liu, Yu‐Lei Wang, Zhi‐Wei Lv, Qi‐Dai Chen

“…Nevertheless, fabricating uniform and highly transmissive subwavelength antireflective microstructures on diamond surfaces poses a significant challenge. The hard and brittle properties of diamond result in a large number of chips and particles, adhering to the surfaces during processing, which subsequently impacts the subsequent processing. …”
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Non-Subsampled Contourlet Transform-Based Domain Feedback Information Distillation Network for Suppressing Noise in Seismic Data by Kang Chen, Guangzhi Zhang, Cong Tang, Qi Ran, Long Wen, Song Han, Han Liang, Haiyong Yi

“…Additionally, the NSCT has an excellent high-frequency response and powerful curve and surface description capabilities. We suggest converting the noise suppression problem into NSCT coefficient prediction, which maintains more detailed high-frequency information and promotes the FID-N to further suppress noise. …”
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Future of Agrivoltaic projects: A review from the technological forecasting perspective by Leticia Pekk, Petar Sabev Varbanov, Ting Pan, Zoltan Weltsch, Bernadett Radli-Burjan, Andras Hary, Xue-Chao Wang

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Predicting the potential geographical distribution of mango, an important tropical economic tree species, under current and climate change based on Maxent model by Sangui Yi, Yuanhe Huang, Zongling Liu, Zhengjie Zhu, Hongxin Su, Hongxin Su

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Soil microbial dynamics in response to the impact of nanoparticles on agricultural implications by Dipayan Das, Birson Ingti, Payel Paul, Jaya Pati Jamatia, Toi Ete, Tasqeen Khan, Jinkee Kalita

“…Sustainable farming relies on maintaining microbial diversity, which supports nutrient uptake, disease suppression, and symbiotic plant interactions. …”
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Local arrangement of microfibrillar-associated protein 5 with neurovascular and extracellular components in non- and ischemia-affected brain regions of mice by Corinna Höfling, Corinna Höfling, Steffen Roßner, Bianca Flachmeyer, Wolfgang Härtig, Dominik Michalski

“…Fluorescence-based microscopy, confocal laser scanning microscopy, and 3D surface reconstruction served for analyses. MFAP5 was observed in a predominantly fiber-like and partially surrounding formation associated with neuronal processes and cell bodies. …”
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Thickness of hydrogel for nitrifying biomass entrapment determines the free ammonia susceptibility differently in batch and continuous modes by Minsu Song, Meng Yuan, Sanghyun Jeong, Hyokwan Bae

“…This study provides valuable insights and a framework for the utilization strategy of immobilized gels in addressing the toxic effects of FA in practical processes.…”
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