The Efficiency of Using Ozone Gas and Heat to Control Larvae and Adult Stage of Red Flour Beetle, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) by Baghdad Science Journal

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Nuanced differences in adenylate cyclase toxin production, acylation, and secretion may contribute to the evolution of virulence in Bordetella species by Alexa R. Wolber, Liliana S. McKay, Katlyn B. Mote, Richard M. Johnson, Carol S. Inatsuka, Peggy A. Cotter

“…We also discovered differences in ACT production, acylation, and secretion between B. bronchiseptica and B. pertussis that may contribute to the different virulence strategies of these species. …”
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Climate adaptive energy efficiency modeling using a generalized additive approach to optimize building performance across Chinese climate zones by Jian Yang, Mu He, Xingzhu Zhang, Qimeng Ning, Yu Chen, Maryam Alsadat Ziaei Mazinan

“…Abstract Accurate measurement and verification (M&V) of energy efficiency measures (EEM) in commercial buildings is a key requirement to improve energy performance and meet sustainability goals. …”
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Machine Learning Modeling Integrating Experimental Analysis for Predicting Compressive Strength of Concrete Containing Different Industrial Byproducts by Lakshmana Rao Kalabarige, Jayaprakash Sridhar, Sivaramakrishnan Subbaram, Palaniappan Prasath, Ravindran Gobinath

“…This study aimed to develop accurate models for estimating the compressive strength (CS) of concrete using a combination of experimental testing and different machine learning (ML) approaches: baseline regression models, boosting model, bagging model, tree-based ensemble models, and average voting regression (VR). …”
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Energising the Energy Literacy Debate for Environmental Education: Exploring Citizens’ Interest Levels, Knowledge Gaps and Individual Differences by Irina Rets, Denise Whitelock, Chris Edwards, Leigh-Anne Perryman, Fereshte Goshtasbpour

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The role of environment-related and climate adaptation technologies in sustainable energy use: a dynamic quantile regression approach by Ismail Aremu Muhammed, Gamini Premaratne, Norulazidah H. Omar, Ahmed M. Khalid

“…Specifically, it investigates how environment-related and climate change adaptation technologies influence renewable energy consumption and energy efficiency for 77 developed and developing countries between 1990 and 2021. …”
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Distributive Politics of Medical Commodities: An Overview of Transaction Costs and State-Center Relations During India’s Second Wave by Arnav Mahurkar

“…In this background, it argues for transparency in allocative decision making of health related commodities. Through process tracing methodology, it focuses on the case of the oxygen crisis in Delhi at a time when different governments within India’s federal set-up accused each other of mismanagement of this commodity. …”
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Water Relations and Physiological Traits Associated with the Yield Components of Winter Wheat (<i>Triticum aestivum</i> L.) by Katarzyna Juzoń-Sikora, Kamila Laskoś, Marzena Warchoł, Ilona Mieczysława Czyczyło-Mysza, Kinga Dziurka, Maciej Grzesiak, Edyta Skrzypek

“…The higher values of the yield components were accompanied by 20–30% lower leaf water content, 39–52% lower osmotic potential, and 4–39% lower water use efficiency. The principal component analysis revealed that the wheat genotypes had noticeable differences in a few physiological parameters that depended on the sowing date. …”
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Effects of irrigation type and fertilizer application rate on growth, yield, and water and fertilizer use efficiency of silage corn in the North China Plain by Yuchun Liu, Ning Wang, Changsong Jiang, Yao Wang

“…Methods Field experiments were conducted in 2017 and 2018 in the NCP to investigate the effects of border and furrow irrigation under different fertilizer application rates on the growth, yield, and water and fertilizer use efficiencies of silage corn. …”
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Efficiency and heat transport processes of low-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage systems: new insights from global sensitivity analyses by Luka Tas, Niels Hartog, Martin Bloemendal, David Simpson, Tanguy Robert, Robin Thibaut, Le Zhang, Thomas Hermans

“…In the studied settings, Darcy flux measurements can provide a first estimate of the relative ATES efficiency. It further offers a substantiated basis to streamline models in the future. …”
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Enhancing zero-shot relation extraction with a dual contrastive learning framework and a cross-attention module by Diyou Li, Lijuan Zhang, Jie Huang, Neal Xiong, Lei Zhang, Jian Wan

“…Abstract Zero-shot relation extraction (ZSRE) is essential for improving the understanding of natural language relations and enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of natural language processing methods in practical applications. …”
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Foreign and external economic relations of constituent entities of the Russian Federation: Issues of theory and current practice of the Republic of Tatarstan by N.E. Tyurina, Z.F. Khusainov

“…Comments on improving the efficiency of relations between Tatarstan and other states were given.…”
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The Relation between Reading Skills and Eye Movement Patterns in Adolescent Readers: Evidence from a Regular Orthography. by Magdalena Krieber, Katrin D Bartl-Pokorny, Florian B Pokorny, Christa Einspieler, Andrea Langmann, Christof Körner, Terje Falck-Ytter, Peter B Marschik

“…Over the past decades, the relation between reading skills and eye movement behavior has been well documented in English-speaking cohorts. …”
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A structured investigation on the site supervisory traits in applying science and technology related fundamental concepts in construction operations by Kesavan Manoharan, Pujitha Dissanayake, Chintha Pathirana, Dharsana Deegahawature, Renuka Silva

“…An assessment guide with different levels of descriptions and criteria was developed through literature analysis and expert interviews. …”
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Climate-related financial policies as an enabler of circularity: a new insight from selected countries of the European Union by Nguyen Hong Yen, Le Thanh Ha

“…Findings – The findings illustrate the heterogeneous influences of climate-related financial policies on the different issues of circularity performance. …”
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Release Dynamics of Particulate Organic Carbon and Nitrogen and the Related Microbial Abundance Variation during Degradation of Ulva prolifera by Miaomiao ZHAO, Rong BI, Hongmei LI, Xinrong SONG, Shengrong HUANG, Xiuting FENG, Hailong ZHANG, Li LI, Meixun ZHAO

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Effects of drought stress on leaf photosynthetic physiological charateristics in sweet cherry seedlings grafted on four different rootstocks by SUN Xu-ke, YU Ke-da, FU Li-na, MENG Xiang-li, GUO Wei-dong, CHEN Wen-rong

“…It was reported that certain traits of rootstocks had a marked influence on drought-stress response, including differences in root distribution, water uptake efficiency and root hydraulic conductivity, as well as crop load and fruit characteristics. …”
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Response to In Vitro Micropropagation of Plants with Different Degrees of Variegation of the Commercial <i>Gymnocalycium</i> cv. Fancy (Cactaceae) by Carles Cortés-Olmos, Vladimir Marín Guerra-Sandoval, Carla Guijarro-Real, Benito Pineda, Ana Fita, Adrián Rodríguez-Burruezo

“…This study aims to establish efficient in vitro propagation protocols for <i>Gymnocalycium</i> cv. …”
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A comparative analysis of sequence composition in different lots of a phage display peptide library during amplification by Anders Wilgaard Sinkjaer, Ane Beth Sloth, Amanda Oester Andersen, Malte Jensen, Babak Bakhshinejad, Andreas Kjaer

“…Methods We conducted three rounds of duplicate serial amplification of two different lots of the Ph.D.™-12 phage display library. …”
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Effects of Different Cultivation Substrates on the Growth of <i>Podocarpus macrophyllus</i> and the Rhizosphere Soil Microbial Community Structure by Xiaomin Liang, Donghua Zhong, Congyu Zhang, Yongfang Pan, Chenning Zhang, Herong Guo, Xiaoling Zhu, Xiaocong Li, Yuxuan He, Shaopeng Huang, Jincai Tu, Ting Gao, Yuanjiao Feng

“…However, systematic research on the optimal substrate ratios required for its efficient cultivation remains relatively scarce. This study compared the effects of two cultivation substrates (SJ1: 80% native soil + 20% fine sand and SX2: 25% native soil + 25% coarse sand + 25% peat soil + 25% coconut coir) on the growth of <i>P. macrophyllus</i>. …”
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