Challenges and Management Strategies for Mediterranean Cork Oak Forests: Impacts of Climate Change, Human Activities, and Invasive Species – A Review by Mesfin Boja, Kaouther Mechergui, Wahbi Jaouadi, Youssef Ammari

“…These unique ecosystems are increasingly threatened by climate change, which is manifesting through more frequent and severe droughts, elevated temperatures, and unpredictable precipitation patterns. …”
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Antibacterial activity of reduced graphene-silver oxide nanocomposite against gram-negative bacteria by Rashi Chaudhary, N.B. Singh, Garima Nagpal, Fredrick K. Saah

“…The reduced agglomeration of silver nanoparticles in the composite also led to a more sustained release of antibacterial silver ions. …”
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Agricultural mechanization perspective in Pakistan: present challenges and digital future by Gohar Gulshan Mahmood, Sandro Liberatori, Fabrizio Mazzetto

“… Agriculture constitutes a critical sector within the economic landscape of Pakistan, engaging 37.4% of the labour force and contributing 22.9% to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP), thus functioning as an essential element of the country's economic architecture and the sustenance of its citizens. …”
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Unemployment and the Migration of the Romanian Labour Force. Causes and Effects by Mirela Stoian, Georgiana-Raluca Lădaru, Florian Marin

“…The significant increase of xenophobia, terrorism threats, migration crisis, populism, nationalism, and the Brexit are all elements covered by the public agenda and exerting a major pressure on the organization and functioning of the EU in general, and especially on the future of the Cohesion Policy. …”
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AI‐Based Ensemble Flood Forecasts and Its Implementation in Multi‐Objective Robust Optimization Operation for Reservoir Flood Control by Yuxue Guo, Yue‐Ping Xu, Xinting Yu, Li Liu, Haiting Gu

“…A new combination of two post‐processing methods, that is, the Cloud model and error‐based copula functions, were developed to merge individual AI‐based forecasts to ensemble flood forecasts, so called stochastic errors‐based Cloud (SE‐Cloud). …”
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Analgesic effect of simultaneously targeting multiple pain processing brain circuits in an aged humanized mouse model of chronic pain by transcranial focused ultrasound by Min Gon Kim, Chih-Yu Yeh, Kai Yu, Zherui Li, Kalpna Gupta, Bin He

“…In addition to its efficacy, our behavioral-based safety assessment revealed no adverse effects on motor functions. These results suggest that using a battery-powered, compact UAFE to simultaneously target multiple pain-processing circuits can effectively suppress heat pain-related behaviors in aged female sickle mice without negatively impacting motor coordination and balance. …”
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Soluble human macrophage factors are able to inhibit TGF-β-induced differentiation of lung fibroblasts by A. A. Maksimova, E. Ya. Shevela, L. V. Sakhno

“…On day 5, dexamethasone was added to generation of polarized macrophages M-M(Dex) and GM-M(Dex). …”
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Raster Image-Based House-Type Recognition and Three-Dimensional Reconstruction Technology by Jianbo Chang, Yunlei Lv, Jian Wang, Hao Pang, Yaqiu Liu

“…Three-dimensional models reconstructed from two-dimensional floor plans provide more intuitive visualization for building safety assessments and spatial suitability evaluations. …”
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Mechanism of Population Outflow and Ecological Pressure Reflux in China’s Pastoral Area: S-C Gacha’s Case by Mingming Fan, Gongbu Zeren

“…The “three-separating property right systems”, a recent rural land institutional reform policy, has marketized rural individualized rangelands, leading herders to focus more on the exchange value of rangelands rather than the use value, including ecological functions. …”
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BIM-Based Automatic Extraction of Daily Concrete and Formwork Requirements for Site Work Planning by Van-Hoan Pham, Po-Han Chen, Quan Nguyen, Diep-Thuy Duong

“…Presently, with the popularity of Building Information Modelling (BIM), in BIM-based projects, using inbuilt quantity takeoff functions, quantities of work can be generated automatically from BIM models to aid the quantity takeoff. …”
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NATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS FRAMEWORKS: CONCEPTUAL AND METHODOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES IN THE CONTEXT OF UNRESOLVED ISSUES by O N. Oleynikova, A. A. Muravyeva, N. M. Aksenova

“…The deficiency of highly skilled professionals meeting the requirements of the modern labour market has become the reason for search of new, more effective regulation mechanisms of vocational training and personnel certification for post-industrial knowledge-based economy. …”
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Impeding Quorum Sensing Among the Intestinal Microbiota Impacts the Metastatic Rate of Colorectal Cancer by Matthew Dietz, Travis J. Gates, Rakesh Sikdar, Subbaya Subramanian, Mikael H. Elias, Christopher Staley

“…Aims Here, we hypothesized that microbial communication, mediated through quorum sensing (QS), was a critical component regulating microbial functions related to cancer progression and metastasis. …”
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Conception de l’artefact, conception du collectif : dynamique d’un processus de conception ouvert et continu dans une communauté de développement de logiciels libres by Flore Barcellini

“…Elicitation of needs and valorization of the new functionality take place in the use-oriented mailing-list, refinements of the functionality specifications take place in the design-oriented mailing list, whereas proper specifications take place in parallel in the two mailing-lists. …”
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A Transient Photoelectric Spiking Neuron Based on a Highly Robust MgO Composite Threshold Switching Memristor for Selective UV Perception by Yaxiong Cao, Rui Wang, Saisai Wang, Tonglong Zeng, Wanlin Zhang, Jing Sun, Xiaohua Ma, Hong Wang, Yue Hao

“…The transient memristor with a MgO:Mg resistive layer implemented by the co‐sputtering process of MgO and Mg targets shows highly robust TS performance, while the ZnO‐based transient photodetector can selectively detect UV light at power densities below 10 mW cm−2. More interestingly, the frequency of the firing spikes generated by artificial photoelectric spiking neuron increases with the enhancement of UV light intensity. …”
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JAG modulates sepal flatness by regulating cell growth direction, interacts with AS2, and is antagonized by TCP24 by Xi He, Shouling Xu, Avilash Singh Yadav, Ruoyu Liu, Heng Zhou, Yiru Xu, Dan Xiang, Yuhan He, Juan Xu, Adrienne H.K. Roeder, Lilan Hong

“…Summary: Flat plant organs are crucial for optimal organ functionality. Polarity establishment and growth coordination between tissues are key factors in maintaining organ flatness. …”
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Anisotropic flexible stress sensors based on Loofah/CN/MWCNTs by 刘璐, 贾晓丽, 黄书童, 张景龙, 李守宝, 柯燎亮

“…Consequently, the loofah skeleton and conductive coating were compressed and released simultaneously, effectively functioning as a variable resistor. As applied stress increased, the loofah framework became more compact, gradually increasing the contact area between carbon-based materials of different sizes, thereby generating new current pathways. …”
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Screening and characterization of the scFv for chimeric antigen receptor T cells targeting CEA-positive carcinoma by Chengcheng Zhang, Linling Wang, Qianzhen Zhang, Junjie Shen, Xia Huang, Meiling Wang, Yi Huang, Jun Chen, Yanmin Xu, Wenxu Zhao, Yanan Qi, Yunyan Li, Yanjiao Ou, Zhi Yang, Cheng Qian

“…Therefore, this study aimed to identify the optimal scFv and investigate its biological functions to further optimize the therapeutic potential of CAR-T cells targeting CEA-positive carcinoma.MethodsWe screened four reported humanized or fully human anti-CEA antibodies (M5A, hMN-14, BW431/26, and C2-45), and inserted them into a 3rd-generation CAR structure. …”
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The phenomenon of therapeutic resistance in the treatment of schizophrenia: the possibilities of modern diagnostics and methods of anti-resistant effects by V. V. Stanovaya, Z. T. Guseynova, M. V. Ivanov, E. V. Bigday

“…Therapy-resistant schizophrenia is a serious clinical problem, since patients with such manifestations often feel the need for repeated hospitalizations, have more pronounced violations of social and professional functioning. …”
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Normal stress on surface of mesenchymal stem cells boosts extracellular vesicle secretion and regenerative bioactivity by Chengmeng Bai, Huifang Ren, Feng Zhang, Dandan Li, Qingyu Feng, Ying Li, Ting Chen, Chengxu Li, Xuan Xiao, Hengrui Zhang, Liang Hu

“…Concurrently, sEV cargo undergoes remodeling to enrich regenerative and immunoregulatory functions. These findings demonstrate the efficacy of our established platform in advancing sEV production and improving clinical performance, providing a novel sEV-based mechanism for ocular treatments, including corneal epithelialization and even retinal neural regeneration.…”
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Constructing a knee osteoarthritis transplant via the neutrality aggregation operators under spherical fuzzy Z-numbers framework by Shahzaib Ashraf, Maria Akram, Subrata Jana, Jungeun Kim, Ibrahim M. Hezam, Chiranjibe Jana

“…We first investigate the SFZˆN notion, their accuracy and scoring functions, and the fundamental ideas that underlie their work. …”
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