Insect frass fertilizer upregulates maize defence genes and resistance against an invasive herbivore pest by Daniel Munyao Mutyambai, Johnstone Mutiso Mutua, Abdul A. Jalloh, Dennis Beesigamukama, Andre Kessler, Sevgan Subramanian, Thomas Dubois, Sunday Ekesi, Chrysantus M. Tanga

“…Larval feeding assays were conducted using leaf discs from maize plants grown in different amended soils. The expression level of three maize defense genes: pathogenesis related protein 5 (pr-5), maize proteinase inhibitors (mpi), and lipoxygenase 3 (lox-3) were analyzed using quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) while yield was assessed through a field trial over two cropping seasons. …”
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Effects of Probiotic-Fermented Chinese Herb on Immune Response and Growth Performance in Common Carp (<i>Cyprinus carpio</i>) by Wenzheng Zou, Xuanxuan Huang, Fang Han, Zhongqin Li

“…It can significantly improve farming efficiency and economic benefits, reduce dependence on chemical drugs, and lower environmental pollution, showing good application prospects in production.…”
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Unsupervised Cross-Domain Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar (PolSAR) Change Monitoring Based on Limited-Label Transfer Learning and Vision Transformer by Xinyue Zhang, Rong Gui, Jun Hu, Jinghui Zhang, Lihuan Tan, Xixi Zhang

“…Moreover, many related methods can only detect binary changes in PolSAR images and struggle to track the detailed land cover changes. …”
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Transcriptomic and physiological insights into auxin-mediated root growth and potassium uptake in tobacco under low-potassium stress by Kunhao Guan, Yingying Li, Yuyin Zhang, Jie Yang, Zixuan Ge, Xiaoyan Dai

“…Transcriptome sequencing under low-potassium conditions identified 8,381 differentially expressed genes (DEGs) between the two different treatment groups that were primarily enriched in pathways related to photosynthesis-antenna proteins, photosynthesis, plant hormone signal transduction, and the MAPK signaling pathway. …”
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Wood Distillate Mitigates Ozone-Induced Visible and Photosynthetic Plant Damage: Evidence from Ozone-Sensitive Tobacco (<em>Nicotiana tabacum</em> L.) BelW3 by Andrea Vannini, Alessandro Petraglia

“…BelW3 plants also showed a significant decrease in the efficiency of parameters related to PSII and PSI when compared to BelB. …”
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Research on Hydrological Element Analysis and Runoff Prediction in the Jinsha River Basin Based on the VIC Model by LIU Hongcai, ZHANG Huilan, SUN Jianing, PANG Jianzhuang, AN Ni

“…[Results] (1) The historical runoff simulation indicates that the Nash efficiency coefficient between the simulated and observed values exceeds 0.6, and the absolute value of BIAS is controlled within 0.15, demonstrating that the VIC model is suitable for simulating the hydrological process in the Jinsha River Basin. (2) The hydrological process components simulated by the VIC model show that precipitation increases from the upstream to the downstream regions, evapotranspiration is higher in the middle and lower reaches, and the multi-year average values of surface runoff and base flow increase from the upstream to the downstream regions with significant differences, further validating the model's applicability. (3) A comparison of single-model and MMEA simulation results using the EEMD-based (Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition) statistical downscaling method reveals that the MMEA matches the observed data the best. …”
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Radiation influence on antioxidant capacity, bioactive compounds and extractability of coffee processing residues by João Pedro Alves de Azevedo Barros, Luz Merida Rondan-Flores, Bianca Guimarães Negrão, Ana Sofia Saliba, Severino Alencar, Daniel Vieira, Anna Lucia Villavicencio

“…The extracts were analyzed to identify total phenolic content (TPC), antioxidant activity (ABTS, FRAP, and ORAC), extraction efficiency (EE), and cytotoxicity assays. An improvement in TPC of 26.0% for husk and 19.5% for straw was observed. …”
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The impact of 12C6 heavy ion irradiation-induced cellular mutations on the replication of the foot-and-mouth disease virus and the role of Cbr3 by Xiangdong Song, Shiyu Tao, Fanglan An, Xiaoming Li, Yanyan Chang, Xuerong Liu, Yan Cui

“…This method can increase the production efficiency of FMDV vaccines while reducing manufacturing costs. …”
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Innovations in animal health: artificial intelligence-enhanced hematocrit analysis for rapid anemia detection in small ruminants by Aftab Siddique, Sudhanshu S. Panda, Sophia Khan, Seymone T. Dargan, Savana Lewis, India Carter, Jan A. Van Wyk, Ajit K. Mahapatra, Eric R. Morgan, Thomas H. Terrill

“…The initial findings indicated a detection accuracy of 76.06% after only 10 epochs for recognizing different levels of PCV in relation to anemia, ranging from healthy to severely anemic. …”
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Structured tb risk factors in regions with low and high population density by Zinaida M. Zagdyn, A. B. Zudin, N. V. Kobesov, T. P. Vasileva, A. S. Galoyan, E. V. Verbitskaya

“…However, the magnitude of specific population density-related TB risk factors in the Russian regions has not been examined yet. …”
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Análisis del Pinfuvote como nuevo deporte alternativo para el área de Educación Física (Analysis of the Pinfuvote as a new alternative sport for the field of Physical Education)... by Víctor Hernández-Beltrán, José M. Barranca-Martínez, Luisa Gámez-Calvo, Victor A. González-Coto, Maria Aguilar-Berrocal, Mario C. Espada, José M. Gamonales

“…In addition, the selected manuscripts were classified based on different variables: General variables, Specific variables of the document, Variables related to the subject of studies, and Variable related to the quality of the documents. …”
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A Systematic Review on the Use of Big Data in Tourism by Jafar Ahangaran, Abbas Sadeghnia

“…Referring to the need for operational efficiency and resource management in the tourism industry, Lee et al. have stated that big data helps simplify operations by providing insights into resource use, crowd management, and operational efficiency. …”
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A brief exploration of artificial intelligence in dental healthcare: a narrative review [version 2; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] by Puneeth K Hegde, Prashant Bajantri, Shobha J Rodrigues, Mahesh M, Umesh Y Pai, Sharon J R Saldanha, Thilak B Shetty, Prakrati Kamath, Prathvi Kamath, Sandipan Mukherjee

“…In order to help dental professionals better grasp AI as a tool to assist their work with enhanced efficiency, investigations need to be done to uncover patterns and foresee future related to oral health concerns. …”
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Lipid Accumulation Product and Cardiometabolic Index as Effective Tools for the Identification of Athletes at Risk for Metabolic Syndrome by Giuseppe Di Gioia, Armando Ferrera, Mihail Celeski, Raffaella Mistrulli, Erika Lemme, Federica Mango, Maria Rosaria Squeo, Antonio Pelliccia

“…The lipid accumulation product (LAP) index and cardiometabolic index (CMI) have been shown to be efficient markers of MS in the general population; its applicability in athletes has not been discussed yet. …”
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Costs and Outcomes of a Therapist-Guided Internet-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy: Multicenter Observational Study by Zareen Abbas Khan, Jørn Heggelund, Stian Lydersen, Kristian Kidholm, Henrik Pedersen, Imre Janszky, Tine Nordgreen, Vidar Halsteinli

“…The observed variance in costs per patient between hospitals underscores the importance of patient volume to optimize efficient use of resources.…”
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Effect of Foliar Spraying of KH2PO4 on Mineral Nutrients and Sugar-Acid Profile in Pineapple Fruits by Siru LIU, Bitian E, Haiyang MA, Weiqi SHI

“…【Result】Foliar spraying of different concentrations of KH2PO4 significantly increased the fresh and dry weight of pineapple fruits and promoted the effective accumulation of biomass. …”
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Dark Fermentation and Anaerobic Digestion for H₂ and CH₄ Production, from Food Waste Leachates by Ioannis Kontodimos, Christos Evaggelou, Nikolaos Margaritis, Panagiotis Grammelis, Maria Goula

“…The system exhibited significant organic matter degradation, with VS biodegradability reaching 66%, and COD removal efficiencies of 50.8% (ISR = 0.3) and 60.1% (ISR = 0.5). …”
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Transcriptions of ACO and ACS genes are involved in nitrate-dependent root growth of maize seedlings by Guoqi Yao, Zhenwei Yan, Shijun Ma, Xia Liu, Juan Shan, Bing Cao, Xiaole Chen, Bingying Leng, Chunhua Mu

“…A phenotypic analysis indicated that upregulation of ACO and ACS genes by nitrate is linked to repression of axial root elongation by nitrate while the downregulation of these genes is associated with the promotion of growth of lateral roots of the axial roots. In addition, differences in regulation of ACO and ACS genes by nitrate were observed between genotypes, which is related to the differences in the responses of their primary root growth to nitrate. …”
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Enhancing self-care and access – The Dutch stepped care model to strategically organize public sexual health for young people by Filippo Zimbile, Silke David, Elmari Briedenhann, Lisette Schutte, Rik Crutzen

“…Based on ‘ideal client journeys’ for different sexual health themes, relevant services on different care levels were linked to each other and new opportunities for digital or combined digital-professional supported services were identified. …”
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Size effect and phenomenological constitutive model of mechanical properties of ultra-thin 316L sheet by Wenlong Xie, Zonghui Su, Xiangcheng Zeng, Yong Xu, Siying Deng, Boris B Khina, Artur I Pokrovsky, Shihong Zhang

“…To further enhance the fuel cell stack efficiency and reduce weight, the thickness of stainless steel bipolar plates is showing a decreasing trend, and the thickness of 0.075 mm is being considered. …”
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