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Sihyun Kim, Seunghee Kim, Jingtao Zhang, Ethan Druszkowski and Abdallah Sweidan
Mild temperature fluctuation of a material sitting on a slope may only cause a small slip, but a large number of the repeated temperature changes can amplify the magnitude of the overall slip and eventually bring an issue of structural instability. The s...
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Laurence Kavanagh, Jerome Keohane, Guiomar Garcia Cabellos, Andrew Lloyd and John Cleary
Lithium?s (Li) value has grown exponentially since the development of Li-ion batteries. It is usually accessed in one of two ways: hard rock mineral mining or extraction from mineral-rich brines. Both methods are expensive and require a rich source of Li...
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Min-Ho Lee, Sunyeong Park, Yinzhu Xu, Jung-Eun Kim, Hengmin Han, Jae-Hyeon Lee, Jean Kyung Paik and Hyo-Jeong Lee
Pinus koraiensis is a valuable plant source of functional health foods and medicinal materials. Hypertriglyceridemia affects about 15?20% of adults and is related to stroke, metabolic syndromes, cardiovascular diseases, and diabetes mellitus. Dietary fru...
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Laurence Kavanagh, Jerome Keohane, Guiomar Garcia Cabellos, Andrew Lloyd and John Cleary
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Rui Yang, Xi Liang and Daniel G. Strawn
To decrease the transfer of cadmium (Cd) to the food chain, it is essential to select wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) germplasm that accumulates the least amount of Cd and to develop management practices that promote a reduction in Cd uptake. This requires ...
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Xiaolei Gao, Ying Yang, Jiawei Ye, Huan Xiong, Deyi Yuan and Feng Zou
Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) plays a crucial role in the utilization of heterosis. The petaloid anther abortion in oil tea (Camellia oleifera Abel.) constitutes a CMS phenomenon, which is of great value for the hybrid breeding of oil tea. However, as...
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Stefan Fleck, Bernd Ahrends, Johannes Sutmöller, Matthias Albert, Jan Evers and Henning Meesenburg
The North German Lowland is a region with locally high nitrate (NO3-) concentrations in seepage water, inducing an increased susceptibility to the effects of climate change. The future risk of rising NO3- concentrations in seepage water from forests was ...
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Robert D. Gardner, Egan J. Lohman, Keith E. Cooksey, Robin Gerlach and Brent M. Peyton
Microalgae are capable of synthesizing high levels of triacylglycerol (TAG) which can be used as precursor compounds for fuels and specialty chemicals. Algal TAG accumulation typically occurs when cellular cycling is delayed or arrested due to nutrient l...
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Zhen Guo, Wenjie Zhou, Congbo Zhu, Feng Yuan and Shengjie Rui
Silty sand is a kind of typical marine sediment that is widely distributed in the offshore areas of East China. It has been found that under continuous actions of wave pressure, a mass of fine particles will gradually rise up to the surface of silty sand...
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Guiping Wang, Xinghong Yang and Xiaomin Xue
Extreme weather events, including drought, have occurred worldwide with increasing frequency and severity in recent years. Drought stress is the main limiting factor for agricultural development in many regions, including tobacco?an important economic cr...
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Ying Xuan, Zhuangning Xie, Lele Zhang and Qiusheng Li
Equivalent load cycle sequence (ELCS) is important basic information to know that affects the reliability of the evaluation of wind-induced fatigue on metal roof claddings. In this study, an estimation method of wind-induced fatigue of metal roof claddin...
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Despoina Nteli, Maria Nteli, Konstantinos Konstantinidis, Anastasia Foka, Foteini Charisi, Iliana Michailidou, Sotiria Stavropoulou De Lorenzo, Marina Boziki, Maria Tzitiridou-Chatzopoulou, Evangelia Spandou, Constantina Simeonidou, Christos Bakirtzis and Evangelia Kesidou
Argininemia or arginase-1 deficiency constitutes a rare, genetic, metabolic disorder caused by mutations in arginase 1?the last enzyme of the urea cycle?that hydrolyses L-arginine to ornithine and urea. The disease is associated with progressive developm...
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Xiaoyan Zhu and Guangyao Wang
Agricultural cooperatives greatly influence agricultural and rural modernization in China. Based on 381 farmer samples in the arid Tarim River Basin, this empirical study aimed to construct an index system for the exploration of the relationship between ...
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Qiujuan Jiao, Fengmin Shen, Lina Fan, Zihao Song, Jingjing Zhang, Jia Song, Shah Fahad, Fang Liu, Ying Zhao, Zhiqiang Tian and Haitao Liu
Salinity is an obstacle to global agriculture, as it affects plant growth and development. Chitosan (CTS) has been suggested as a plant growth regulator to alleviate environmental stresses. In this study, the morphological and biochemical responses of ch...
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Yubo Wen, Yuanyuan Wang, Chunjun Tao, Wenbing Ji, Shunsheng Huang, Mo Zhou and Xianqiang Meng
The elevated accumulation of cadmium (Cd) in rice (Oryza sativa L.) and tea (Camellia sinensis L.) grown in agricultural soils may lead to a variety of adverse health effects. This study collected and analyzed crop samples along with paired rhizosphere s...
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Gaetano Robustelli and Federica Lucà
Shelter caves serve as crucial repositories that provide valuable insights into Late Pleistocene?Holocene depositional mechanisms and environmental changes. In this study, we conducted a stratigraphic analysis of the easternmost cave-fill succession with...
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Hanyue Rao, Yifu Chen, Yayun Shi, Tihao Yang and Hongyang Liu
Based on the adjoint method, the afterbody of a military transport aircraft was optimized and designed to meet engineering constraints under real flight conditions. Guidance for the key design parameters of the afterbody of the military transport aircraf...
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Miey Park, So-Hyeun Kim and Hae-Jeung Lee
Alzheimer?s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the accumulation of ß-amyloid plaques and hyperphosphorylated tau proteins in the brain. Cell signaling pathways such as PI3K/Akt are known to play an essential role in regulating ...
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Dorina Lauritano, Giulia Moreo, Fedora Della Vella, Annalisa Palmieri, Francesco Carinci and Massimo Petruzzi
Background: It has been proven that the antihypertensive agent nifedipine can cause gingival overgrowth as a side effect. The aim of this study was to analyze the effects of pharmacological treatment with nifedipine on human gingival fibroblasts activity...
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Martin Schütze, Gegeensuvd Tserendorj, Marta Pérez-Rodríguez, Manfred Rösch and Harald Biester
Forest vegetation plays a key role in the cycling of mercury (Hg) and organic matter (OM) in terrestrial ecosystems. Litterfall has been indicated as the major transport vector of atmospheric Hg to forest soils, which is eventually transported and stored...
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