Root and leaf abscisic acid concentration impact on gas exchange in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill) plants subjected to partial root-zone drying by Maria Valerio, Stella Lovelli, Adriano Sofo, Michele Perniola, Antonio Scopa, Marianna Amato

“…Our results indicate that there is still space to optimise the PRD strategy, to further improve the cumulative physiological effects of the root-sourced signaling system.…”
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Modelling and Forecasting Domestic Tourism. Case Study from Armenia by Karen Poghosyan, Gayane Tovmasyan

“…Based on the analysis, the forecasted values for domestic tourists for the future years were determined. …”
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Qualitative insights on sexual health counselling from refugee youth in Bidi Bidi Refugee Settlement, Uganda: Advancing contextual considerations for brief sexuality-related commun... by Miranda G Loutet, Carmen H Logie, Moses Okumu, Madelaine Coelho, Karel Blondeel, Alyssa McAlpine, Frannie Mackenzie, Simon Odong Lukone, Nelson Kisubi, Jimmy Okello Lukone, Atama Malon Isaac, Peter Kyambadde, Igor Toskin

“…Relational contexts included a) trusting relationship with local healthcare practitioners, including practices that foster comfort and confidentiality, and b) family, friends, and mentors as additional sources of health information. Symbolic contexts refer to values, norms, and beliefs that reflect what is perceived as valuable and worthy, and in turn, what is devalued and stigmatized. …”
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Empirically Informed, Idiographic Networks of Concordant and Discordant Motives: An Experience Sampling Study With Network Analysis in Non-Clinical Participants by Thies Lüdtke, Fabian Steiner, Thomas Berger, Stefan Westermann

“…We propose that these data sources can be complemented by idiographic networks of motive interactions, which are empirically derived from everyday life using the Experience Sampling Method (ESM). …”
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CYP2D6 genotype and tamoxifen response for breast cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis. by Danny W K Lum, Pablo Perel, Aroon D Hingorani, Michael V Holmes

“…Heterogeneity, publication bias, subgroup, and meta-regression analyses were performed.<h4>Data sources</h4>PubMed (inception-2012) and EMBASE (inception-2012).…”
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Inequalities in the Distribution of the Nursing Workforce in Albania: A Regional Analysis Using the Gini Coefficient by Blerina Duka, Alketa Dervishi, Eriola Grosha, Dhurata Ivziku, Gennaro Rocco, Alessandro Stievano, Ippolito Notarnicola

“…The data were collected from official sources, including the Albanian Ministry of Health and the World Health Organization (WHO). …”
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Bioinformatics and Deep Learning Approach to Discover Food-Derived Active Ingredients for Alzheimer’s Disease Therapy by Junyu Zhou, Chen Li, Yong Kwan Kim, Sunmin Park

“…Predictions by the deep neural analysis identified 166 NCs with potential effects on AD across seven proteins, demonstrating outstanding recall performance. The top five food sources of these predicted compounds were black walnut, safflower, ginger, fig, corn, and pepper. …”
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Endangered Pinto/Northern Abalone (Haliotis kamtschatkana) are Panmictic Across Their 3700 km Range Along the Pacific Coast of North America by J. L. Dimond, J. V. Bouma, F. Lafarga‐De la Cruz, K. J. Supernault, T. White, D. A. Witting

“…This north‐central region may also represent the species' ancestral range based on relatively low population‐specific FST values; the northern and southern extremes of the range likely represent range expansions. …”
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Energy efficiency improvement of traction energy of alternating current with power multifunctional booster transformers by A. B. Kosarev, B. I. Kosarev

“…The article shows the possibility of selecting parameters of the balancing unit connected to the compensating winding of the MF BT, based on the minimum exchange energy that occurs in circuits with non-sinusoidal sources and consumers of electricity.The efficiency of using the criterion characterizing the energy exchange was confirmed at choosing parameters of the compensating installation of the compensating winding of the MF BT at its location on the traction substation.…”
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PECULARITIES OF INDIGENIZATION OF ADMINISTRATIVE AND CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS OF KABARDINO-BALKARIA IN THE LIGHT OF NEWLY FOUND ARCHIVAL DOCUMENTS by H. B. MAMSIROV, A. A. LOOV

“…The article is based on new archival sources identified in the Funds of the State Archives of the Russian Federation (which are submitted below in this issue), documents from other archives and the latest research on the issue. …”
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Phosphate form and neighbouring species determine interspecific interactions and maize root foraging behaviour for phosphorus by Dan Liao, Meng Xu, Kai Zhang, Liyang Wang

“…Alfalfa improved maize P uptake and shoot biomass, with a pronounced facilitative effect in treatment with low-solubility P sources (RP, SSP), as evidenced by the positive relative interaction intensity (RII) values. …”
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Effect of inulin supplementation in maternal fecal microbiota transplantation on the early growth of chicks by Mengxian Chen, Junxing Pan, Yang Song, Shenao Liu, Peng Sun, Xin Zheng

“…Compared with the FMT and CON groups, the INU group presented significantly greater average daily gain (ADG) and average daily feed intake (ADFI) values (P < 0.05). However, the organ indices did not significantly change (P > 0.05). …”
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Geodiversity Elements of a Young Fissure System as an Immediate Precursory Event of the Youngest Fissure-Fed Eruption within the Arxan UNESCO Global Geopark, Inner Mongolia, NE Chi... by Bo’xin Li, Károly Németh

“…This lava field forms the backbone of the geoheritage values of the Arxan UNESCO Global Geopark. The lava flow fields were believed to be almost exclusively sourced from a single vent complex around the Yanshan–Gaoshan region. …”
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Impacts of land use on soil carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus in the Eastern Qilian Mountains. by Shizhen Xu, Chunli Wang, Junju Zhou, Haihua Shan, Bingxing Li, Wei Shi, Dongxia Zhang, Guofeng Zhu, Xuemei Yang, Wei Wei, Haiyan Ma

“…Soil C:P and N:P ratios in grassland and cropland showed relatively small seasonal fluctuations, whereas those in forestland fluctuated more drastically, reaching the highest values in autumn. Excessively high C:P reduced soil phosphorus effectiveness. …”
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Xylanase-assisted bioconversion and bioelectricity production in microbial fuel cells: A novel strategy for renewable energy generation by Ruchika Siwach, Soumyajit Chandra, Amit Kumar, Soumya Pandit, Sharad Agrawal

“…The isolation of stable and efficient enzymes from microbial sources plays a crucial role in mitigating the capital intensiveness of lignocellulosic biomass bioconversion. …”
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Status of Agricultural Mechanization in Ghana: Insight from Farmers’ Perception, Population, and Nonagricultural Sector Growth by Gilbert Ayine Akolgo, Duke Nii Darko Quaye, Abdul-Rauf Malimanga Alhassan, Killian Asampana Asosega, Ebenezer Nunoo, Osman A. Akimsah Jedaiah, Michael Elorm Deho, Thomas Atta-Darkwa

“…The power availability valued in this study was also found to be low compared with that in other developing countries. …”
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Assessment of Heterogeneous Road Traffic Noise in Nagpur by Satish Krishna LOKHANDE, Samir S. PATHAK, Piyush A. KOKATE, Satyajeet A. DHAWALE, Ghanshyam L. BODHE

“…Noise levels are monitored at six different squares, characterized as interrupted traffic flow due to traffic signals, high population density and heavy traffic where the major sources of noise are engines, exhausts, tires interacting with the road, horns, sound of gear boxes, breaks, etc. …”
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Spatiotemporal Assessment of Desertification in Wadi Fatimah by Abdullah F. Alqurashi, Omar A. Alharbi

“…Climate variables, including precipitation and evapotranspiration (ET), were sourced from the gridded TerraClimate dataset (1980–2022). …”
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Conversion into orthodoxy of slavonic prisoners of war in Omsk (1915–1917) by Aleksey Sushko, Dmitriy Petin

“…The study was based on sources representative of the stated problem – the records of the birth books of Orthodox churches in Omsk for 1915–1917, the official church magazine «Omsk Eparchialnye Vedomosti» and reports of the Omsk gendarme administration. …”
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Deep learning-based evaluation of panoramic radiographs for osteoporosis screening: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Ali Tarighatnia, Masoud Amanzadeh, Mahnaz Hamedan, Alireza Mohammadnia, Nader D. Nader

“…The DL models showed AUC values of 66.8–99.8%, with sensitivity and specificity ranging from 59 to 97% and 64.9–100%, respectively. …”
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