Comparative Analysis of Fecal Microbiota and Metabolomic Profiles in Male and Female Leizhou Goats Offered a 10% Crude Protein Diet Among Four Energy Levels by Hu Liu, Wenji Wang, Weishi Peng, Anmiao Chen, Xiaogao Diao, Xia Yang, Jianmin Chai, Yuanting Yang, Ke Wang, Jiancheng Han, Hanlin Zhou

“…The gut microbiota plays a crucial role in maintaining the host’s metabolism and can influence the host’s productivity. Both dietary composition and gender have distinct effects on the composition of the gut microbiota. …”
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Moulded, Re-moulded, and Pieced Together. The Origins of Joyce’s Ulysses by Ilaria Natali

“…Joyce’s subject notebook (MS 36,639/3) at the National Library of Ireland, the earliest available document specifically devoted to Ulysses, contains pre-compositional annotations arranged under twenty subject headings. …”
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Hormonal predictors of the lean phenotype in humans by Mohamed Badie Ahmed, Abdella M. Habib, Saif Badran, Abeer Alsherawi, Fatima Al-Mohannadi, Sherouk Essam Elnefaily, Atalla Hammouda, Graeme E. Glass, Ibrahem Abdalhakam, Abdul-Badi Abou-Samra, Suhail A. Doi

“…History of bariatric surgery weakly predicted the lean phenotype after adjusting for leptin and gut hormone levels. A margins plot demonstrated the interactions between amylin, spexin, GIP, and leptin levels that collectively predicted the probability of exhibiting the lean phenotype. …”
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Effects of Short-Term Traffic-Related Air Pollution Exposure on Nasal Microbiome in Young Healthy Adults: A Randomized Crossover Controlled Trial by Luwei Qin, Jingqi Pan, Demin Feng, Bingqing Yu, Shunyu Li, Xingyu Liu, Yuefei Jin, Shenshen Zhu, Weidong Wu, Wenjie Yang

“…Visualization through a two-dimensional NMDS plot (stress value < 0.2) indicated that nasal bacterial species distribution became richer after TRAP exposure. …”
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Aphid Species in Citrus Orchards in Crete: Key Vectors of Citrus Tristeza Virus and Automated Monitoring Innovations for Alate Aphids by Matthaios M. Mathioudakis, Kyriaki Varikou, Antonia Karagianni, Panagiota Psirofonia, Nikolaos Tektonidis, Despoina Kapantaidaki, Vasiliki Evangelou, Leonidas Economou, Beata Hasiów-Jaroszewska, Ilyas Potamitis

“…Herein, a 2-year survey was conducted to assess the frequency of aphid species infesting several citrus pilot orchards. Plot findings based on morphological and molecular identification revealed <i>Aphis spiraecola</i> (ranged from 44–100%) as the most abundant aphid species, followed by <i>A. gossypii</i> (<50%). …”
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An Assessment of TROPESS CrIS and TROPOMI CO Retrievals and Their Synergies for the 2020 Western U.S. Wildfires by Oscar A. Neyra-Nazarrett, Kazuyuki Miyazaki, Kevin W. Bowman, Pablo E. Saide

“…On the other hand, there was excellent agreement between the instruments in downwind free tropospheric plumes (scatter plot slopes of 0.96–0.99), consistent with their vertical sensitivities and indicative of mostly lofted smoke. …”
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Sugar Maple Litter Decay Rates Are Reduced More Strongly by Drought Than by American Beech Proliferation in the Understory by William F. J. Parsons, Claudele Ghotsa Mekontchou, Audrey Maheu, David Rivest

“…Moisture was two‐fold higher in rainfall‐accessible soils (Rainfall exclusion, No), but half as spatially variable (CV%) as excluder plot soils (Exclusion, Yes). Mesh bags (mm apertures: 50, Large; 20, Medium; 0.1, Small) that were filled with maple or beech leaves, or their 50:50 mixtures (Species), were deployed in June 2022 within the 12 plots, with 30‐, 60‐, and 90‐day removals. …”
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Investigating the Benefits of Integrating Rainbow Trout (<i>Oncorhynchus mykiss</i>) and Lettuce (<i>Lactuca sativa</i>) Cultivation in California by Duncan Gwynne, Pallab K. Sarker, Anne R. Kapuscinski, Benjamin V. Schoffstall, Devin Fitzgerald, Megan Deevy, Joji Muramoto, Uchasha Sarker, Stavros Boutris, Catalina Sutter, Emily Thompson, Lucas Raymond

“…This study was performed to examine the potential for rainbow trout aquaculture effluent to improve the yield, nutrient composition, and WUE of lettuce, as well as act as a partial fertilizer replacement. …”
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Early spectral dynamics are indicative of distinct growth patterns in post‐wildfire forests by Sarah Smith‐Tripp, Nicholas C. Coops, Christopher Mulverhill, Joanne C. White, Sarah Gergel

“…In this region, we collected RPAS lidar and corresponding field plot data 5‐, 8‐, 11‐,12‐, and 16‐years postfire to predict structural attributes relevant to management, including the percent bare ground, the proportion of coniferous trees, stem density, and basal area. …”
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A new approach for nuclear forensics investigations of uranium dioxide: Application of laboratory-based photoelectron spectroscopy with hard and Soft X-ray sources by Stuart A. Dunn, Paul Roussel, Aaron Wood, Ben F. Spencer, Robert W. Harrison, Philip Kaye, Matthew Higginson, Matthew R. Gilbert, Simon C. Middleburgh, Wendy R. Flavell

“…Finally, the MNN X-ray excited Auger electron spectra are acquired from uranium dioxide for the first time for future use in the application of a Wagner chemical state plot to support nuclear forensics investigations.…”
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Comparison of the Immune Enhancing Activity and Chemical Constituents Between Imitation Wild and Cultivated Astragali Radix by Shuo Zhao, Xueting Li, Yumeng Wang, Rui Xu, Xu Li, Jiushi Liu, Xiaolin Hou, Haitao Liu

“…Based on orthogonal partial least-squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) and S-plot analysis, five potential biomarkers were identified, including Calycosin-7-glucoside, Rhamnocitrin-3-O-β-D-glucopyranoside, Ononin, 3,5-Dicaffeoylquinic acid, and Acetylastragaloside I. …”
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Hydrogen-assisted green synthesis of trimethyl chitosan gold nanoparticles by Yakubu Adekunle Alli, Onome Ejeromedoghene, Peter Olusakin Oladoye, Abayomi Bamisaye, Fatai Oladipupo Oladoyinbo, Sheriff Adewuyi, Hazleen Anuar, Sabu Thomas

“…The average particle size of AuNPs is 37 nm while HR-TEM revealed a unique spherical morphology. The Tauc's plot calculation revealed a band gap of 5.0 eV. This unique morphology and optical local field enhancement in plasmonic nanocomposites could be suitable alternative for conducting devices and photocatalysis.…”
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Structural, magnetic, and optical characteristics of undoped and chromium, iron, cobalt, copper, and zinc doped nickel oxide nanopowders by Farzaneh Asaldoust, Khosro Mabhouti, Akbar Jafari, Maryam Taleb-Abbasi

“…Band gap values were estimated based on diffuse reflectance spectroscopy data through Tauc plot analysis, yielding a range from 2.77 to 3.46 eV. …”
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Community- and trophic-level responses of soil nematodes to removal of a non-native tree at different stages of invasion. by Guadalupe Peralta, Ian A Dickie, Gregor W Yeates, Duane A Peltzer

“…We found that invaded plots had half the nematode taxa richness compared to uninvaded plots, and that tree invasion altered the overall composition of the nematode community. …”
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Mechanisms of fire‐maintained plant species diversity in species‐rich wet pine savannas by J. Stephen Brewer

“…Vegetation in small subplots in annual frequency and reduced frequency plots was compared in August 2021 to test the effects of a short period without clipping on diversity and composition. …”
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Secondary Multimodal Discourse of the Modern English Mass Culture as a Phenomenon of the Convergence Culture by Mariia Kuznetsova

“…In combination, these elements create a cohesive plot and a compositional space. Based on the sociolinguistic experiment results (questionnaires of totally 100 English native speakers), it is claimed that an integrative condition of the Marvel Universe transmedia storytelling is the independence of each separate platform. …”
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THE SKAZ FICTIONAL NARRATIVE AND THE NOVEL FORM In MILEN RUSKOV'S CHAMKORIA by Denitsa ASTAHOVA

“…The skaz narrative is presented as a subtype of first-person narration, which manifests its peculiarities in the construction of the narrator character, the plot-compositional features of the work and the speech expression of the narrator. …”
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Analysis of the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid microbial flora in COPD patients at different lung function during acute exacerbation by Kawsar Bahetjan, Yu-Xia, Shijun Lin, Nuerziba Aili, Haiyan Yang, Shijun Du

“…There exists a significant variation in microbial composition across groups of AECOPD patients at different lung function. …”
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TMT-based quantitative proteomics analysis of serum-derived exosomes in patients with juvenile gout by Zhuyi Ji, Zhuyi Ji, Shaoling Zheng, Ling Liang, Lixin Huang, Shanmiao Sun, Zhixiang Huang, Yuebing He, Xia Pan, Tianwang Li, Tianwang Li, Yukai Huang

“…This was followed by volcano plot, hierarchical cluster, Venn diagram, gene ontology (GO), and Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genome (KEGG) pathway analyses.ResultsA total of 838 credible proteins were identified in serum-derived exosomes from the three groups. …”
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Fatty acids of erythrocyte membranes and blood serum as biomarkers for early detection of colorectal cancer by M. V. Kruchinina, V. N. Kruchinin, A. A. Gromov, M. V. Shashkov, A. S. Sokolova, I. N. Yakovina, A. A. Shestov

“…The aim of the study was to identify fatty acids (FA) of erythrocyte membranes and blood serum, which can serve as potential biomarkers for early detection of colorectal cancer.Material and methods. the study involved 65 patients with stage I-II CRC (mean age 63,3 ± 9,6 years (30 men, 35 women) and 35 people in the comparison group, matched by age and sex. the composition of fatty acids of erythrocyte membranes and blood serum was studied using a gc/ms system based on three agilent 7000B quadrupoles (USA). methods of the MATLAB software (R2019a, MathWorks) and the R programming language were used for statistical processing: t-test, unsupervised principal component analysis (PCA), Fold change, Volcano plot, machine learning method (Random Forest), Roc analysis, Heatmaps.Results. patients with stage I-II CRC showed a decrease in the level of saturated, individual monounsaturated fatty acids and a highly significant increase in the most of the polyunsaturated fatty acids with a predominance of omega-3. …”
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