Climatology and dynamics of aerosol optical properties from selected AERONET sites over West Africa by Peace Olubukunmi Awoleye, Kehinde Olufunso Ogunjobi, Ifeoluwa Adebowale Balogun

“…Key aerosol optical characteristics, such as Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD), Angstrom exponent (α), and particle size distributions, were examined using ground-based radiometric data from five West African Aerosol Robotic Network (AERONET) sites—Cape Verde, Banizoumbou, Dakar, and Ilorin—collected between 2004 and 2009. …”
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Evaluating the impacts of xylo-oligosaccharides on growth performance of broiler chickens: A meta-analytical study by M. Naeem, Dianna Bourassa, Samuel Rochell, Mike Bedford

“…Summary: This meta-analytical study evaluated the impacts of xylo-oligosaccharide (XOS) supplementation on the growth performance of broiler chickens using data from 36 peer-reviewed studies, published between 2000 and 2024. …”
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Methodological Framework for World Health Organization Estimates of the Global Burden of Foodborne Disease. by Brecht Devleesschauwer, Juanita A Haagsma, Frederick J Angulo, David C Bellinger, Dana Cole, Dörte Döpfer, Aamir Fazil, Eric M Fèvre, Herman J Gibb, Tine Hald, Martyn D Kirk, Robin J Lake, Charline Maertens de Noordhout, Colin D Mathers, Scott A McDonald, Sara M Pires, Niko Speybroeck, M Kate Thomas, Paul R Torgerson, Felicia Wu, Arie H Havelaar, Nicolas Praet

“…<h4>Methods and findings</h4>The global and regional burden of 31 FBDs was quantified, along with limited estimates for 5 other FBDs, using Disability-Adjusted Life Years in a hazard- and incidence-based approach. …”
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Sediment Dynamics and Bed Stability in Step‐Pool Streams: Insights From 18 Years of Field Observations by Marwan A. Hassan, Matteo Saletti, Conor McDowell, Wenqi Li

“…However, field observations are sparse and often limited by short observation periods. Using an extensive 18‐year data set, we examine controls on sediment mobility, step stability, and sediment storage in East Creek, a step‐pool reach in British Columbia. …”
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Reflections of adolescent motherhood on infant and young child feeding practices: the case of Uganda by Gözde Zeynep Yeşiloğlu, Suzan Yalçin, Sıddika Songül Yalçin

“…Given the high prevalence of adolescent pregnancy in Uganda, we aimed to assess the competence of adolescent mothers in infant and young child feeding (IYCF) using data from the 2016 Uganda Demographic Health Survey. …”
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Iterative PolInSAR Target Decomposition for Scattering Characterization and Building Detection by Di Zhuang, Lamei Zhang, Bin Zou

“…In densely rotated built-up areas, restricted by interactive and complex scatterings, most polarimetric synthetic aperture radar scattering analyses and unsupervised building detection algorithms have failed, especially under conditions of large radar look angles. …”
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Patterns and Determinants of Ecological Uniqueness in Plant Communities on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau by Liangtao Li, Gheyur Gheyret

“…In this study, we analyzed data from 758 plots across 338 sites on the Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau. …”
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Science and Religion in Death-Related Teacher Practice by Alandeom Wanderlei de Oliveira, Javier Pérez Wever, Carmen Camey Marroquín, Antonio Miron

“…As part of a contextualized research method, classroom cases were used to elicit teachers’ death-related practices. …”
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Advancing blue-green infrastructure design with synthetic 3D drainage channels: A scenario-based flood model in Nova Scotia, Canada by Corey Dawson

“…By combining high-resolution LiDAR data and process-based River Builder functions, the methodology presents a design tool for interactive investigation, adjustment, and communication of continuous 3D channel design scenarios. …”
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Edible Coating Formulated by Optimization from Aloe vera, Starch, and Arabic Gum Improved the Conservation of Banana (Musa acuminata) Fruits by Alain Ngotio Tchinda, Mariette Anoumaa, Franck Laurins Tchouala Tazo, Eugène Tafre Phounzong, Odelonne Justine Kenfack, Martin Lekeufack, Roger Braogue Doumdi, Jean Aghofack Nguemezi, Théophile Fonkou

“…The coefficients of determination (R2) of the responses were all above 80% indicating that the experimental data fit well with the predicted responses. The interactions that influenced most of the responses were those between Aloe vera-starch and Aloe vera-Arabic gum. …”
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Modeling complex systems in animal science: A pedagogical framework for new researchers by Luis Orlindo Tedeschi, Dan Tulpan, Hector M. Menendez III, Ricardo Augusto Mendonça Vieira

“…After translation to mathematical form and computer code, models undergo rigorous parameterization with real-world data, evaluation against independent datasets, and sensitivity analyses. …”
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Impact of the Dietary Fat Concentration and Source on the Fecal Microbiota of Healthy Adult Cats by Nadine Paßlack, Kathrin Büttner, Wilfried Vahjen, Jürgen Zentek

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PointNet++SAKS: A Point Cloud Model Based on KANs and Attention Mechanism for Objects Classification and Semantic Segmentation by Xiaofeng Lu, Zhiwei Guan, Dangfeng Pang, Rupeng Dou, Xiaolong Zheng

“…Traditional point clouds models based on multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) lack inherent support for spatial data structures and fail to effectively process spatial relationships. …”
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Transcriptional patterns of cancer-related genes in primary and metastatic tumours revealed by machine learning by Faeze Keshavarz-Rahaghi, Erin Pleasance, Steven J. M. Jones

“…Results Using random forest models, we successfully identified transcriptional patterns associated with the loss of wild-type activity in cancer-related genes across various tumour types. …”
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Loss of endocytosis-associated RabGEF1 causes aberrant morphogenesis and altered autophagy in photoreceptors leading to retinal degeneration. by Passley Hargrove-Grimes, Anupam K Mondal, Jessica Gumerson, Jacob Nellissery, Angel M Aponte, Linn Gieser, Haohua Qian, Robert N Fariss, Juan S Bonifacino, Tiansen Li, Anand Swaroop

“…Rab-GTPases and associated effectors mediate cargo transport through the endomembrane system of eukaryotic cells, regulating key processes such as membrane turnover, signal transduction, protein recycling and degradation. Using developmental transcriptome data, we identified Rabgef1 (encoding the protein RabGEF1 or Rabex-5) as the only gene associated with Rab GTPases that exhibited strong concordance with retinal photoreceptor differentiation. …”
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Dynamic chromatin organization during foregut development mediated by the organ selector gene PHA-4/FoxA. by Tala H I Fakhouri, Jeff Stevenson, Andrew D Chisholm, Susan E Mango

“…An outstanding question is how PHA-4 distinguishes between target genes for appropriate transcriptional control. We have used the Nuclear Spot Assay and GFP reporters to examine PHA-4 interactions with target promoters in living embryos and with single cell resolution. …”
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EquiRate: balanced rating injection approach for popularity bias mitigation in recommender systems by Mert Gulsoy, Emre Yalcin, Alper Bilge

“…We also observe that some prominent popularity-debiasing methods, when assessed using the FusionIndex, often fail to balance the referrals’ accuracy and beyond-accuracy factors. …”
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Is food security impacted by price dynamics? Proof from African nations by Thomas Niyonzima Gahamanyi, Gérard Tchouassi

“…We adopt a dynamic panel model, controlling first for the cross-sectional dependence and autocorrelation issues. Using System-GMM estimation on panel data from 32 African countries (1995–2020), the study constructs a composite food security index by Principal Component Analysis and finds that price dynamics significantly undermines food security. …”
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Crystal structure and Hirshfeld surface analysis of the fungicide metconazole by Thaluru M. Mohan Kumar, Chaluvarangaiah Sowbhagya, Hemmige S. Yathirajan, Sean Parkin

“…Metconazole is a systemic triazole fungicide that inhibits the ergosterol biosynthesis pathway. It is widely used in agriculture to control fungal infections, including rusts, fusarium and septoria diseases. …”
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Length-weight relationships and condition factors of three fish species in the Karamenderes Stream (Çanakkale, Türkiye) by Şükran Yalçın Özdilek, Nurbanu Partal

“…The effect of invasive C. gibelio on the natives should be further researched focusing on species interactions. From the fact that there are limited data on the length-weight relationship and biology of B. oligolepis and S. cii, there is a need for further research.…”
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