Altitudinal Variations in Coniferous Vegetation and Soil Carbon Storage in Kalam Temperate Forest, Pakistan by Bilal Muhammad, Umer Hayat, Lakshmi Gopakumar, Shuangjiang Xiong, Jamshid Ali, Muhammad Tariq Badshah, Saif Ullah, Arif UR Rehman, Qun Yin, Zhongkui Jia

“…This study addresses a knowledge gap by investigating the effects of altitudinal gradient on coniferous tree diversity, biomass, carbon stock, regeneration, and soil organic carbon storage (SOCs) in the understudied temperate forests of the Hindu-Kush Kalam Valley. Using 120 sample plots 20 × 20 m (400 m²) each via a field inventory approach across five altitudinal gradients [E1 (2000–2200 m)–E5 (2801–3000 m)], we comprehensively analyzed tree structure, composition, and SOCs. …”
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Residual cell types, molecular expression profiles and quality assessment of in vitro cultured human thymic slices by GUAN Wanqing, LUO Guihua, HAN Jingxuan

“…Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was plotted and assess the value of the molecular markers in the supernatant in evaluating the quality of thymic slices with area under the curve (AUC). …”
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Establishment of a patient-derived 3D in vitro meningioma model in xeno-free hydrogel for clinical applications by Mikkel Schou Andersen, Aaraby Yoheswaran Nielsen, Martin Wirenfeldt, Jeanette Krogh Petersen, Morten Winkler Møller, Christopher L. Powell, Anavaleria Castro, Grayson Herrgott, Tiit Mathiesen, Charlotte Aaberg Poulsen, Birgitte Brinkmann Olsen, Henning Bünsow Boldt, Christian Bonde Pedersen, Bo Halle, Frantz Rom Poulsen

“…Genome-wide DNA methylation level patterns were similar between pairs of 3D models and primary tumors. Correlation plots between CpG methylation levels showed high congruency between primary meningiomas and their corresponding 3D models for all samples (R > 0.95). …”
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Modeling regional aboveground carbon stock dynamics affected by land use and land cover changes by A.D. Malik, M.C.W. Arief, S. Withaningsih, P. Parikesit

“…Tree height and diameter were collected within the purposively distributed plots with a size of 30 × 30 square meters. Vegetation biomass was assessed using an allometric equation, and aboveground carbon stock data were extrapolated to the landscape scale using a linear regression model of measured carbon stocks and the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index derived from recent satellite imagery.FINDINGS: Vegetated areas were predominant in 2009 and 2021. …”
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Longitudinal characterization of the metabolome of dairy cows transitioning from one lactation to the next: Investigations in fecal samples by M.H. Ghaffari, H. Sauerwein, H. Sadri, S. Schuchardt, J. Martín-Tereso, J.H. Doelman, J.B. Daniel

“…This was also confirmed by volcano plots, which showed no significant differences in fecal metabolism between the 2 groups across different weeks relative to calving (wk −7, −5, −1, +1, +5, +10, and +15). …”
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Computed tomography-based radiomics predicts prognostic and treatment-related levels of immune infiltration in the immune microenvironment of clear cell renal cell carcinoma by Shiyan Song, Wenfei Ge, Xiaochen Qi, Xiangyu Che, Qifei Wang, Guangzhen Wu

“…Abstract Objectives The composition of the tumour microenvironment is very complex, and measuring the extent of immune cell infiltration can provide an important guide to clinically significant treatments for cancer, such as immune checkpoint inhibition therapy and targeted therapy. …”
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Tree community, vegetation structure and aboveground carbon storage in Atlantic tropical forests of Cameroon by Jean Louis Fobane, Jules Christian Zekeng, Cédric Djomo Chimi, Jean Michel Onana, André Paul Ebanga, Léonnel Djoumbi Tchonang, Ameline Clarance Talla Makoutsing, Marguerite Marie Mbolo

“…Twelve 1-ha permanent plots were established within the Atlantic forests of Okoroba and Yingui to achieve these objectives. …”
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Association Between Gut Microbiota and Chronic Kidney Disease: A Two-Sample Mendelian Randomization Study in a Chinese Population by Wenjian Lin, Zixin Liang, Junxuan Fang, Yu Liu, Lei Lei, Jiawen Lin, Bin Xia, Zhihua Zheng, Jingqiu Yuan, Chun Tang

“…<b>Background:</b> Population differences in gut microbiota composition and related metabolites may influence their potential causal relationship with chronic kidney disease (CKD); however, this relationship remains poorly understood in the Chinese population. …”
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Utilizing rice-husk waste as an effective weed control mulch for Holy Basil (Ocimum sanctum ) production in a tropical environment by Vivian Ogechi Osadebe, Uchenna Noble Ukwu, Nathaniel Dauda, Ifesinachi M Nwamba, Amos Ejike Ede, Anthony I Onah

“… ·       Higher weed species diversity was observed  in plots subjected to hoe-weeded, rice husk mulched, and post-emergence herbicide treatments,  suggesting that weed management techniques can influence  the composition of weed flora…”
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Characterization of the complete chloroplast genome and comparative analysis of the phylogeny and codon usage bias of three Yunnan wild rice species by Rongxin Li, Rongxin Li, Rongxin Li, Bo Wang, Bo Wang, Suqin Xiao, Suqin Xiao, Ling Chen, Ling Chen, Fuyou Yin, Fuyou Yin, Jinlu Li, Jinlu Li, Cong Jiang, Cong Jiang, Dunyu Zhang, Dunyu Zhang, Qiaofang Zhong, Qiaofang Zhong, Yun Zhang, Yun Zhang, Jiaxin Xing, Jiaxin Xing, Zaiquan Cheng, Zaiquan Cheng, Li Liu, Li Liu

“…Overall, this study provides valuable information on the genomic composition and genetics of three Yunnan wild rice species.…”
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Forest fire hazard assessment based on forest typology by Volodymyr P. Voron, Andriy D. Kuzyk, Sergiy V. Ivashyniuta, Yilia R. Tsipan

“…The results of the research made it possible to assign forest types to five classes of fire danger, as well as to improve the scale for assessing the natural fire danger of forest fund plots, considering forest types as inflammable objects. …”
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Conserving biodiversity, carbon, and community values in a fragmented landscape by A. Susilowati, Y. Lisnawati, H.H. Rachmat, H. Kurniawan, W.C. Adinugroho, R. Imanuddin, D.J. Sudrajat, I.W.S. Dharmawan, M. Iqbal, S. Fahmi, L.M. Nugraha, E. Novriyanti, E. Sutrisno, A.B. Siswanto

“…Observations were conducted on 18 sample plots. Vegetation analysis was conducted to assess stand structure and composition, which formed the basis for calculating carbon stock potential. …”
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Double Burden of Malnutrition and Validity of Overweight/Obesity Indicators Among Students in the Democratic Republic of Congo: A Cross Sectional Study From the University of Kinsh... by Makulo JR, Tshiswaka Mutombo T, Kamitalu Kabongo R, Tunda AK, Sumaili EK, Kisoka Lusunsi C, Beni Kasangwala B, Mulundu Lakwon C, Boluta B, Lubamba Mubiala G, Niangi Mawana T, Mbau Modju Jnr D, Betela CK, Mbala Kintoki F, Kasiam Lasi On'Kin JB, Bayauli Mwasa P, Ekolo Adiaka J, Lokangaka Odiko C, Mangani Nseka N, Ntumba Kayembe JM

“…Using bioimpedance to assess body composition, BMI correlates better with FM in women; the usual thresholds defining overweight and obesity were not valid in men.Keywords: obesity, fat mass, bioimpedance, correlation, students, DR Congo…”
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Petrogenetic and mineralogical constraints in metamorphic-plutonic complex of N-Bijar, Kordestan, Iran by Maryam Bafandeh, Abbas Asiabanha, Mohsen Nadrabady

“…The intrusions of SSZ range in composition from gabbro to granite and are Neoproterozoic to Miocene in age. …”
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Epicardial Adipose Tissue and Heterogeneity Parameters Combined with Inflammatory Cells to Predict the Value of Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction Patients Post Myocard... by Yu-jiao Song, Xiao-ying Zhao, Lu-jing Wang, Ting Ning, Ming-tian Chen, Pei Liu, Si-wen Chen, Xin-xiang Zhao

“…During disease progression, dynamic alterations in lipid composition and spatial distribution contribute to the inherent heterogeneity of EAT. …”
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SOURCES OF QUATERNARY POTASSIC VOLCANIC ROCKS FROM WUDALIANCHI, CHINA: CONTROL BY TRANSTENSION AT THE LITHOSPHERE–ASTHENOSPHERE BOUNDARY LAYER by S. V. Rasskazov, I. S. Chuvashova, Yi-min Sun, Chen Yang, Zhenhua Xie, T. A. Yasnygina, E. V. Saranina, Zhenxing Fang

“…No sufficient difference is found between primitive mantle-normalized patterns plotted for rocks from different volcanoes (Fig. 13). …”
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Geochemistry of trace and rare earth elements of the productive intrusions in the Kuh-Kapout porphyry copper deposit, Urumieh–Dokhtar magmatic arc by Alireza Zarasvandi, Nasim Haghighatjou, Nader Taghipour, Mohsen Rezaei, Mohammad Amiri hoseini, Ghazal Zarasvandi

“…., 2007) indicate that most of the samples in this study area were plotted in the calc-alkaline magma region of the diagrams. …”
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Analysis of genetic tendencies in fruit traits of macadamia hybrid F1 generation by LI Zhiqiang, WU Chao, MA Jing, LI Tingyu, LI Yang, TAO Liang, GONG Lidan

“…Frequency distribution and correlation plots of the fruit-related traits were treated using Origin 2021 and R, respectively. …”
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Effect of climate on traits of dominant and rare tree species in the world’s forests by Iris Hordijk, Lourens Poorter, Jingjing Liang, Peter B. Reich, Sergio de-Miguel, Gert-Jan Nabuurs, Javier G. P. Gamarra, Han Y. H. Chen, Mo Zhou, Susan K. Wiser, Hans Pretzsch, Alain Paquette, Nicolas Picard, Bruno Hérault, Jean-Francois Bastin, Giorgio Alberti, Meinrad Abegg, Yves C. Adou Yao, Angelica M. Almeyda Zambrano, Braulio V. Alvarado, Esteban Alvarez-Davila, Patricia Alvarez-Loayza, Luciana F. Alves, Iêda Amaral, Christian Ammer, Clara Antón-Fernández, Alejandro Araujo-Murakami, Luzmila Arroyo, Valerio Avitabile, Gerardo A. Aymard C, Timothy Baker, Olaf Banki, Jorcely Barroso, Meredith L. Bastian, Luca Birigazzi, Philippe Birnbaum, Robert Bitariho, Pascal Boeckx, Frans Bongers, Olivier Bouriaud, Pedro H. S. Brancalion, Susanne Brandl, Francis Q. Brearley, Roel Brienen, Eben N. Broadbent, Helge Bruelheide, Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, Ricardo G. Cesar, Goran Cesljar, Robin L. Chazdon, Chelsea Chisholm, Emil Cienciala, Connie J. Clark, David B. Clark, Gabriel Colletta, David Coomes, Fernando Cornejo Valverde, Jose J. Corral-Rivas, Philip Crim, Jonathan Cumming, Selvadurai Dayanandan, André L. de Gasper, Mathieu Decuyper, Géraldine Derroire, Ben DeVries, Ilija Djordjevic, Aurélie Dourdain, Jiri Dolezal, Nestor Laurier Engone Obiang, Brian Enquist, Teresa Eyre, Adandé Belarmain Fandohan, Tom M. Fayle, Leandro V. Ferreira, Ted R. Feldpausch, Leena Finér, Markus Fischer, Christine Fletcher, Lorenzo Frizzera, Damiano Gianelle, Henry B. Glick, David Harris, Andrew Hector, Andreas Hemp, John Herbohn, Annika Hillers, Eurídice N. Honorio Coronado, Cang Hui, Hyunkook Cho, Thomas Ibanez, Ilbin Jung, Nobuo Imai, Andrzej M. Jagodzinski, Bogdan Jaroszewicz, Vivian Johannsen, Carlos A. Joly, Tommaso Jucker, Viktor Karminov, Kuswata Kartawinata, Elizabeth Kearsley, David Kenfack, Deborah Kennard, Sebastian Kepfer-Rojas, Gunnar Keppel, Mohammed Latif Khan, Timothy Killeen, Hyun Seok Kim, Kanehiro Kitayama, Michael Köhl, Henn Korjus, Florian Kraxner, Diana Laarmann, Mait Lang, Simon Lewis, Huicui Lu, Natalia Lukina, Brian Maitner, Yadvinder Malhi, Eric Marcon, Beatriz Schwantes Marimon, Ben Hur Marimon-Junior, Andrew Robert Marshall, Emanuel Martin, Olga Martynenko, Jorge A. Meave, Omar Melo-Cruz, Casimiro Mendoza, Cory Merow, Stanislaw Miscicki, Abel Monteagudo Mendoza, Vanessa Moreno, Sharif A. Mukul, Philip Mundhenk, Maria G. Nava-Miranda, David Neill, Victor Neldner, Radovan Nevenic, Michael Ngugi, Pascal A. Niklaus, Jacek Oleksyn, Petr Ontikov, Edgar Ortiz-Malavasi, Yude Pan, Alexander Parada-Gutierrez, Elena Parfenova, Minjee Park, Marc Parren, Narayanaswamy Parthasarathy, Pablo L. Peri, Sebastian Pfautsch, Oliver L. Phillips, Maria Teresa Piedade, Daniel Piotto, Nigel C. A. Pitman, Martina Pollastrini, Irina Polo, Axel Dalberg Poulsen, John R. Poulsen, Freddy Ramirez Arevalo, Zorayda Restrepo-Correa, Mirco Rodeghiero, Samir Rolim, Anand Roopsind, Francesco Rovero, Ervan Rutishauser, Purabi Saikia, Christian Salas-Eljatib, Peter Schall, Dmitry Schepaschenko, Michael Scherer-Lorenzen, Bernhard Schmid, Jochen Schöngart, Eric B. Searle, Vladimír Seben, Federico Selvi, Josep M. Serra-Diaz, Douglas Sheil, Anatoly Shvidenko, Javier Silva-Espejo, Marcos Silveira, James Singh, Plinio Sist, Ferry Slik, Bonaventure Sonké, Alexandre F. Souza, Hans ter Steege, Krzysztof Stereńczak, Jens-Christian Svenning, Miroslav Svoboda, Ben Swanepoel, Natalia Targhetta, Nadja Tchebakova, Raquel Thomas, Elena Tikhonova, Peter Umunay, Vladimir Usoltsev, Renato Valencia, Fernando Valladares, Fons van der Plas, Tran Van Do, Michael E. Van Nuland, Rodolfo Vasquez Martinez, Hans Verbeeck, Helder Viana, Alexander C. Vibrans, Simone Vieira, Klaus von Gadow, Hua-Feng Wang, James Watson, Gijsbert D. A. Werner, Florian Wittmann, Verginia Wortel, Roderick Zagt, Tomasz Zawila-Niedzwiecki, Chunyu Zhang, Xiuhai Zhao, Zhi-Xin Zhu, Irie Casimir Zo-Bi, Daniel S. Maynard, Thomas W. Crowther

“…The extent to which traits of dominant and rare tree species differ remains untested across a broad environmental range, limiting our understanding of how species traits and the environment shape forest functional composition. We use a global dataset of tree composition of >22,000 forest plots and 11 traits of 1663 tree species to ask how locally dominant and rare species differ in their trait values, and how these differences are driven by climatic gradients in temperature and water availability in forest biomes across the globe. …”
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Community structure of woody plants on islands along a bioclimatic gradient by Paulo A.V. Borges, Pedro Cardoso, Simone Fattorini, François Rigal, Thomas J. Matthews, Letizia Di Biase, Isabel R. Amorim, Margarita Florencio, Luis Borda-de-Água, Carla Rego, Fernando Pereira, Rui Nunes, Rui Carvalho, Maria Teresa Ferreira, Heriberto López, Antonio J. Pérez Delgado, Rüdiger Otto, Silvia Fernández Lugo, Lea de Nascimento, Juli Caujapé-Castells, Juliane Casquet, Samuel Danflous, Jacques Fournel, Anne-Marie Sadeyen, Rui B. Elias, José María Fernández-Palacios, Pedro Oromí, Christophe Thébaud, Dominique Strasberg, Brent C. Emerson

“…We used standardized protocols to sample ten 50 m × 50 m forest plots in each of the three islands with contrasting climate and regional species pools: Terceira (Azores), Tenerife (Canaries), and Reunion (Mascarene Islands). …”
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