Effect of Drought and Rehydration on Physiological Characteristics of <i>Agriophyllum squarrosum</i> (L.) Moq. in Different Habitats by Juanli Chen, Yongqing Luo, Xueyong Zhao, Yan Li, Junpeng Mu

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Mycobacterium tuberculosis-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells differ in their capacity to recognize infected macrophages. by Jason D Yang, Daniel Mott, Rujapak Sutiwisesak, Yu-Jung Lu, Fiona Raso, Britni Stowell, Greg Hunter Babunovic, Jinhee Lee, Steve M Carpenter, Sing Sing Way, Sarah M Fortune, Samuel M Behar

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Allometric Growth of Annual <i>Pinus yunnanensis</i> After Decapitation Under Different Shading Levels by Pengrui Wang, Chiyu Zhou, Boning Yang, Jiangfei Li, Yulan Xu, Nianhui Cai

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Impacts of different types of straw returning on soil physicochemical properties, microbial community structure, and pepper quality by Xiapu Gai, Biao Chen, Shijuan Xiong, Qingqing Zhou, Yuan Yuan, Yumei Mou

“…MS treatment increased amino acids (59.6%) and crude fat (6.3%), which was related to the different metabolic pathways caused by the difference in carbon-nitrogen ratio. …”
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An Enhanced DCO-OFDM Scheme for Dimming Control in Visible Light Communication Systems by Yang Yang, Zhimin Zeng, Julian Cheng, Caili Guo

“…Among them, direct-current O-OFDM (DCO-OFDM) is a widely used scheme for its high spectral efficiency and low complexity. Since VLC involves a combination of illumination and communication, different optical power is often required to achieve a certain illumination level. …”
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Energy Efficiency as a Factor of Modernization in Era of the Industrial Revolution in 18th—19th Centuries in Europe (Sweden and England) by O. V. Kim

“…It was concluded that factors related to the position of a particular country in the system of center-peripheral relations were of decisive importance for economic growth and energy.…”
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Productivity of the spring barley variety ‘Leon’ in dependence of weather conditions of the southern part of the Rostov region by G. A. Filenko, S. A. Vasilchenko, D. P. Dontsov

“…We have determined the correlation between the sum of active temperatures, average daily temperature of air, amount of precipitation, relative air humidity and hydrothermal co-efficient (HTC) during the vegetation period and the main economic-valuable traits of spring barley. …”
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Design and Implementation of Single Axis Solar Tracking System: Utilizing GPS, Astronomical Equations, and Satellite Dish Actuator for Optimal Efficiency by Rizgar Ahmed Salih, Karzan Qadir Mohammed, Peshawa Osman Hama, Rawaz Othman Hassan, Barham Kamal Noori

“…Different methods have been proposed to achieve this goal. …”
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Recent trends in combinative defect engineering and hybridization approach to develop efficient energy-functional layered double hydroxide-based materials by Yeon Hu Park, Yiyang Sun, Dong Wook Lee, In Young Kim, Xiaoyan Jin, Seong-Ju Hwang

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Voltage-based prediction technique for efficient MPPT method for SPV systems under non-uniform insolation and partial shading conditions by Haider A. Mohamed-Kazim, Ahmed Hussein Shatti, Ahmed Aldhahab, Ikhlas Abdel-Qader, Sarmad K. Ibrahim, Rusul Noori Saraj

“…The combination of different modules of photovoltaic (PV) cells produces many peaks under partial shading conditions. …”
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Preparation of a novel economically efficient and environment friendly controlled release urea from liquefied corn straw and castor oil by Hao Lu, Yuan Chen, Canping Dun, Xi Hu, Rui Wang, Peiyuan Cui, Haipeng Zhang, Hongcheng Zhang

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An Objective and Subjective Evaluation of Masticatory Efficiency in Periodontal Patients Before and After Basic Periodontal Therapy: A Case Series Study by María José Moya-Villaescusa, Claudia López-Lisón, José María Montoya-Carralero, Alfonso Jornet-García, Arturo Sánchez-Pérez

“…In addition, significant differences were found in post-treatment QMFQ scores related to parafunctional habits (<i>p</i> = 0.046) and facial patterns, especially in meat consumption <i>(p</i> = 0.042) fruit and vegetable consumption (<i>p</i> = 0.007, <i>p</i> = 0.044). …”
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Sustainable innovations in digital twin technology: a systematic review about energy efficiency and indoor environment quality in built environment by Natakarani Venkateswarlu, Mahenthiran Sathiyamoorthy

“…In the contemporary digital age, the built environment undergoes significant changes because of technological innovations that improve building management, optimize building efficiency, and enhance overall productivity. Digital Twin technology has emerged as an indispensable tool for enhancing indoor environmental quality and optimizing energy efficiency in existing buildings. …”
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A Rotational Cultivation System for Indoor-Grown Lettuce: Feasibility in Terms of Yields, Resource Efficiency, Quality, and Postharvest Storage Capacity by Cédric Dresch, Véronique Vidal, Séverine Suchail, Olivier Chevallier, Huguette Sallanon, Vincent Truffault, Florence Charles

“…No significant differences were observed in yields, water use efficiency, light use efficiency, or postharvest storage capacity between the systems. …”
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New Approaches to Developing the Integral Indicator Methodology for Estimating the Financial Efficiency of Agricultural Entities in Poland, the Republic of Moldova, and EU Countrie... by Mariusz Trojak, Barbara Kiełbasa, Daniela Popa, Aliona Sargo

“…Economic literature pays a great deal of attention to economic and financial efficiency, expressed in terms of competition, concentration, productivity and profitability. …”
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The influence of individual genetic and paratypic factors on the duration and efficiency of lifetime use of cows of Holstein and Ukrainian Black-and-White dairy breeds by Yu. M. Pavlenko, I. O. Kompanets

“…From the genetic factors, a relatively higher degree of influence on the phenotypic variability of investigated traits of the duration and efficiency of the lifelong use of Holstein cows is due to paternal origin (heritability). …”
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LIU-NET: lightweight Inception U-Net for efficient brain tumor segmentation from multimodal 3D MRI images by Gul e Sehar Shahid, Jameel Ahmad, Chaudary Atif Raza Warraich, Amel Ksibi, Shrooq Alsenan, Arfan Arshad, Rehan Raza, Zaffar Ahmed Shaikh

“…LIU-Net balances model complexity and computational load to provide consistent performance and uses Inception blocks to capture features at different scales, which makes it relatively lightweight. …”
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Single-variant genome-wide association study and regional heritability mapping of protein efficiency and performance traits in Large White pigs by Esther Oluwada Ewaoluwagbemiga, Audald Lloret-Villas, Adéla Nosková, Hubert Pausch, Claudia Kasper

“…Our apparent difficulty in detecting significant regions for these traits probably reflects the relatively small sample size, differences in genetic architecture across study designs and experimental conditions, and that polymorphisms explaining large proportions of the trait variation may not segregate in this population. …”
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Sociological variety and the transmission efficiency of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a secondary analysis of qualitative and quantitative data from 15 communities in Zambia by Richard G White, Virginia Bond, Peter J Dodd, Ben Marais, Helen Ayles, Emma J Murray, Kwame Shanaube, Albertus Schaap

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Effects of Irrigation Amounts and Fertilizer Types on Seed Yield and Water-Use Efficiency of <i>Lespedeza potaninii</i> in Northwest China by Lijun Chen, Fan Wu, Fukang Guo, Jingze Liu, Wanli Guo, Boyu Chu, Yuncan Qu, Jiyu Zhang

“…It develops both chasmogamous (CH) and cleistogamous (CL) flowers with different morphologies and attachment positions. However, the manner in which the amount of irrigation and the fertilizer type affect the reproductive allocation of <i>L. potaninii</i> is not well known. …”
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