Phage biocontrol success of bacterial wilt depends on synergistic interactions with resident rhizosphere microbiota by Sara Franco Ortega, Bryden Fields, Daniel Narino Rojas, Lauri Mikonranta, Matthew Holmes, Andrea L. Harper, Ville‐Petri Friman

“…We further identified the bacterial taxa that were associated with these ‘shifted’ microbiomes and conducted additional plant growth experiments, demonstrating that some of the enriched bacterial species could protect plants from R. solanacearum infections—a pattern which was also observed using partial least squares path modelling (PLS‐PM). Together, these results suggest that phages could open niche space for beneficial bacteria by reducing pathogen densities and that variability in phage biocontrol outcomes is rhizosphere microbiome‐dependent, which can introduce between‐replicate variation, even in controlled greenhouse conditions.…”
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Sibling Competition & Growth Tradeoffs. Biological vs. Statistical Significance. by Karen L Kramer, Amanda Veile, Erik Otárola-Castillo

“…Accounting for parental condition, we use linear mixed models to evaluate the effects that family size, younger and older siblings have on children's growth. …”
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Community structure of woody plants on islands along a bioclimatic gradient by Paulo A.V. Borges, Pedro Cardoso, Simone Fattorini, François Rigal, Thomas J. Matthews, Letizia Di Biase, Isabel R. Amorim, Margarita Florencio, Luis Borda-de-Água, Carla Rego, Fernando Pereira, Rui Nunes, Rui Carvalho, Maria Teresa Ferreira, Heriberto López, Antonio J. Pérez Delgado, Rüdiger Otto, Silvia Fernández Lugo, Lea de Nascimento, Juli Caujapé-Castells, Juliane Casquet, Samuel Danflous, Jacques Fournel, Anne-Marie Sadeyen, Rui B. Elias, José María Fernández-Palacios, Pedro Oromí, Christophe Thébaud, Dominique Strasberg, Brent C. Emerson

“…The slope of the species rank abundance curve was steeper in Terceira whereas the richer island assemblages approached a lognormal model. Compositional changes according to spatial distance were mostly due to replacement of species in Terceira and Reunion. …”
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Reproductive choices, mobile technology and social media: insights from Nigerian women’s family planning experiences by Idowu O. Ayodeji, Tosin O. Oni, Oladimeji Ogunoye

“…The investigation employs descriptive, bivariate, and multivariate models including interaction terms to analyze the associations between contraceptive behavior, abortion experiences, and exposure to FP messages—operationalized through a composite FP score that integrates mobile phone ownership and receipt of FP messages. …”
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Identifying functional groups among the diverse, recombining antigenic var genes of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum from a local community in Ghana. by Mary M Rorick, Edward B Baskerville, Thomas S Rask, Karen P Day, Mercedes Pascual

“…Our approach is to first decompose each sequence type into its constituent, recombining parts; we then use a stochastic block model to identify functional groups among the parts; finally, we classify the sequence types based on which functional groups they contain. …”
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Combination ATR-FTIR with Multiple Classification Algorithms for Authentication of the Four Medicinal Plants from <i>Curcuma</i> L. in Rhizomes and Tuberous Roots by Qiuyi Wen, Wenlong Wei, Yun Li, Dan Chen, Jianqing Zhang, Zhenwei Li, De-an Guo

“…Then, t-distributed stochastic neighbor embedding (t-SNE) was applied to visualize the results, and seven kinds of classification models were constructed. The results showed that support vector machine (SVM) modeling was superior to other models and the accuracy of validation and prediction was preferable, with a modeling time of 127.76 s. …”
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Spatial ratio of two fungal genotypes content of Naematelia aurantialba and Stereum hirsutum in nutritional growth substrate and fruiting bodies reveals their potential parasitic l... by Jianqiong Lan, Yongkang Zhang, Yingli Cai, Xiaofei Shi, Kaixuan Zhang, Jiacheng Huang, Chengmo Yang, Xinhua He, Fuqiang Yu, Wei Liu

“…Our findings support a refined life cycle model: S. hirsutum initially colonizes and degrades substrates, forming the structural foundation for subsequent parasitism by N. aurantialba during reproductive development, ultimately yielding deformed composite fruiting bodies. …”
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Effect of forging sequence and heat treatment on microstructure of high-duty power-plant shaft made of Cr-Mo ultra-high strength steel by Skubisz P., Lisiecki Ł.

“…Using the Finite Element Modeling, the multi-stage sequence of upsetting and the cogging strain distribution were optimized to minimize the strain variation along the length to a range 2.2÷2.7, and correlated with the microstructure generated at each main stage on the large cross-sections of the shaft. …”
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Influence of Land Use Patterns on Evapotranspiration and Its Components in a Temperate Grassland Ecosystem by Yuzhe Li, Jiangwen Fan, Zhongmin Hu, Quanqin Shao, Liangxia Zhang, Hailing Yu

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Spatio-temporal Coupling of Ecological Service Value and Human Activity Intensity in the Central Urban Area of Lhasa City by Jiarui ZHANG, Wangdwei MIGMAR, Li CHENG, Liyuan QIAN

“…Future work should integrate high-resolution models and climate scenarios to refine ESV-HAI interactions. …”
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Sex‐specific diet differences in harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) via spatial assortment by Holland C. Conwell, Zoë K. Lewis, Austen Thomas, Alejandro Acevedo‐Gutiérrez, Dietmar Schwarz

“…This intrapopulation variation in predation may result in greater effects on salmon than suggested by models assuming equal spatial distribution and diet proportion. …”
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Study on the introgression of beef breeds in Canchim cattle using single nucleotide polymorphism markers. by Marcos Eli Buzanskas, Ricardo Vieira Ventura, Tatiane Cristina Seleguim Chud, Priscila Arrigucci Bernardes, Daniel Jordan de Abreu Santos, Luciana Correia de Almeida Regitano, Maurício Mello de Alencar, Maurício de Alvarenga Mudadu, Ricardo Zanella, Marcos Vinícius Gualberto Barbosa da Silva, Changxi Li, Flavio Schramm Schenkel, Danísio Prado Munari

“…Genetic parameter estimation could account for this breed composition information as a source of variation in order to improve the accuracy of genetic models. …”
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Medication management for older adults in interprofessional primary care teams: a qualitative interview study of family health teams in Ontario, Canada by Monika Roerig, Julie Vizza, David Rudoler, Sara Allin, Elisabeth Martin, Agnes Grudniewicz

“…Abstract Background Team-based, interprofessional primary care models are arguably well positioned to care for patients with polypharmacy as they often have a pharmacist or allied health professionals to support patients with medication management. …”
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Evaluating Consolidation Behaviors in High Water Content Oil Sands Tailings Using a Centrifuge by Mahmoud Ahmed, Nicholas A. Beier, Heather Kaminsky

“…The composition of oil sands tailings is a complex mixture of water, fine clay, sand, silt, and residual bitumen that remains after the extraction of bitumen. …”
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Enhancing Creativity and Validation in Explanatory Deep Learning-Based Symbolic Music Generation: A Hybrid Approach With LSTM and Genetic Algorithms by Ahmad Zainul Fanani, Arry Maulana Syarif, Ika Novita Dewi, Abdul Karim

“…The model successfully generates new bars and lines with notation sequences not found in the original dataset, indicating creative variation. …”
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Free Vibration Analysis of Patch Repaired Plates with a Through Crack by p-Convergent Layerwise Element by Jae S. Ahn, Seung H. Yang, Kwang S. Woo

“…In this study, the extension of a proposed finite element model has been tested for free vibration analysis of composite laminated systems. …”
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FruitsMultiNet: A deep neural network approach to identify fruits through multi-scale feature fusion using mobile interface by Tasauf Mim, Md Mahbubur Rahman, Jahanur Biswas, Ahmad Shafkat, Khandaker Mohammad Mohi Uddin

“…The proposed research combines MobileNet and VGG16 to build a transfer learning (TL) principles-based framework named FruitsMultiNet. These models were chosen because they achieved the highest individual accuracy compared to other models. …”
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RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INTERNAL PRESSURE AND CAVITY VOLUME CHANGE BASED ON LIQUID IMPACT LOADING TO BIMETALLIC THIN-WALLED TUBES by LIU JianWei, SUN ChangYing, LI YuHan, YAO XinQi, FAN XiangWen

“…Liquid Impact Forming（ LIF） of bimetallic thin-walled tubes is a composite forming technology developed on the basis of tube hydroforming and stamping. …”
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Robust Switching Control and Subspace Identification for Flutter of Flexible Wing by Yizhe Wang, Zhiwei Xu, Wei Li

“…Active flutter suppression and subspace identification for a flexible wing model using micro fiber composite actuator were experimentally studied in a low speed wind tunnel. …”
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A Generalized Helfrich Free Energy Framework for Multicomponent Fluid Membranes by Hao Wu, Zhong-Can Ou-Yang

“…Therefore, our general mathematical framework shows a predictive capabilities beyond the existing multicomponent membrane models. The set of new curvature-component coupling EL equations have been derived for global vesicle shapes associated with the composition redistribution of multicomponent membranes for the first time and specified into several typical geometric shape equations. …”
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