Another new karst-dwelling rock gecko in the Cnemaspis siamensis group (Reptilia, Gekkonidae) from Kanchanaburi Province, western Thailand by Attapol Rujirawan, Akrachai Aksornneam, Siriporn Yodthong, Parinya Pawangkhanant, Bryan L. Stuart, Anchalee Aowphol

“…., is distinguished from other species in the C. siamensis group by having the combination of SVL 42.2 mm in adult male (n = 1), 43.7 mm in adult female (n = 1); eight supralabials; seven or eight infralabials; ventral scales smooth; nine continuous precloacal pores in male; 17 or 18 paravertebral tubercles linearly arranged; tubercles on lower flanks present; lateral caudal furrows present; no caudal tubercles in the lateral furrows; ventrolateral caudal tubercles present on original portion of tail; caudal tubercles not encircling tail; subcaudals smooth; no enlarged median subcaudal row; two postcloacal tubercles on each side of tail; no shield-like subtibial scales; subtibial scales smooth; no enlarged submetatarsal scales; 26–28 subdigital lamellae on the fourth toe; sexually dimorphic for dorsal and ventral colour pattern; prescapular marking absent; gular marking absent; and yellow colouration in life on all ventral surfaces of head, body and tail in adult male. …”
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Video Production: Getting Started by Ricky Telg

“…Today, just about anyone can post videos on the Web so that friends and family can see them, capture news events and distribute them online to television stations or networks that have websites, or shoot video “in the field” and bring the “field” back to the classroom. …”
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EXCHANGE RATE MISALIGNMENT AND PERFORMANCE OF THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY by Okoi Innocent Obeten, Maryjoan Ugboaku Iheanacho, Comfort Innocent Okoi

“…It was discovered that short-run and long-run exist between and among the variables of study.  …”
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THE NEXUS OF EXTERNAL DEBT, PRIVATE INVESTMENT AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM SELECTED SACU COUNTRIES by Brian Muyambiri, John-Baptiste Mabejane

“…For Eswatini, both investment and financial development Granger cause external debt, both in the short run and in the long run. However, for Lesotho and Namibia, it is the contrary, with external debt Granger causing financial development both in the short run and in the long run. …”
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THE NEXUS OF EXTERNAL DEBT, PRIVATE INVESTMENT AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT: EVIDENCE FROM SELECTED SACU COUNTRIES by Brian Muyambiri, John-Baptiste Mabejane

“…For Eswatini, both investment and financial development Granger cause external debt, both in the short run and in the long run. However, for Lesotho and Namibia, it is the contrary, with external debt Granger causing financial development both in the short run and in the long run. …”
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Crystal structure modulating performances for 213-nm GeO2 solar-blind photodetectors via DC reactive magnetron sputtering method by Chengming Wei, Jiabao Liu, Xinru Lan, Cheng Yang, Shuiping Huang, Dongdong Meng, Zhengwei Chen, Hongguang Duan, Xu Wang

“…On the foundation of these ultra-wide bandgap semiconductors, obvious photoresponse characteristics have been achieved at 213 nm and the quartz-GeO2 device exhibits better performances including a short fall time of 148.5 ms, a high photo-dark current ratio of 86.65, large photoresponsivity of 4.56 A/W, and high detectivity of 6.78 × 1013 Jones, which can be attributed to the less oxygen defect exists in the quartz-GeO2 film due to the oxygen-rich growth condition and the better lattice matching with sapphire. …”
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Calonectria (Cylindrocladium) Leaf Spot of Palm by Jiaming Yu, Monica L. Elliott

“…Calonectria is a fungus that affects a large number of hosts worldwide, including timber and ornamental, agricultural, and horticultural crops, causing a wide range of disease symptoms, such as cutting rot, damping-off of seedlings, leaf spot, shoot blight, and root rot. This 4-page fact sheet was written by Jiaming Yu and Monica L. …”
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Orange Spiny Whitefly, Aleurocanthus spiniferus Quaintance (Insecta: Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) by Jamba Gyeltshen, Amanda Hodges, Greg S. Hodges

“…Primarily, orange spiny whitefly affects host plants by sucking the sap but it also causes indirect damage by producing honeydew and subsequently promoting the growth of sooty mold. Sooty mold is a black fungus that grows on honeydew. …”
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Predictors of Hospital Length of Stay among Patients with Low-risk Pulmonary Embolism by Li Wang, Onur Baser, Phil Wells, W. Frank Peacock, Craig I. Coleman, Gregory J. Fermann, Jeff Schein, Concetta Crivera

“…LRPE patients were further stratified into short (≤2 days) and long length of stay cohorts. …”
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Similarities and differences in physiological adaptation to cadmium interactions with nitrogen levels between two aquatic iris life forms in urban wetlands by Zhenzuo Lei, Yuan Jiang, Yanqiong Meng, Yiyong Li, Yucong Li, Tao Hu, Yanjun Ma

“…Specifically, for deciduous irises, the shoot mass (SM) and root-to-shoot ratio (S/R) increased with higher N concentrations, whereas in evergreen irises, these parameters initially increased and then decreased as N levels increased, suggesting that the two life forms have different efficiencies in utilizing N. …”
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Comparisons of performances of structural variants detection algorithms in solitary or combination strategy. by De-Min Duan, Chinyi Cheng, Yu-Shu Huang, An-Ko Chung, Pin-Xuan Chen, Yu-An Chen, Jacob Shujui Hsu, Pei-Lung Chen

“…While long-read sequencing offers superior accuracy for SV detection, short-read sequencing remains essential due to practical and cost considerations, as well as the need to analyze existing short-read datasets. …”
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2006 Florida Citrus Pest Management Guide: Huanglongbing (Citrus Greening) by Ronald H. Brlansky, Kuang-Ren Chung, Michael E. Rogers

“…The name huanglongbing means “yellow dragon” which describes the symptom of a bright yellow shoot that commonly occurs on a sector of infected trees. …”
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Southern Pine Coneworm, Dioryctria amatella (Hulst) (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) by James R. Meeker

“…Caterpillars can be found feeding on and in buds, male and female flowers, shoots, branches and stems of all ages and sizes, as well as in conelets (i.e., first-year cones) and second- year cones (Ebel 1965, Ebel et al. 1980, Goolsby et al. 1972). …”
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Trade Openness and Poverty Reduction in South Africa by Glenda Maluleke, Nomfundo Vacu-Nqila

“…For the income-based model 1, the findings confirmed that trade openness has a long-run negative impact on the poverty rate, while it has no significant impact in the short run. For model 3, it was found to be insignificant in the long run while in the short run, it was found that exports lead to a decrease in poverty rates. …”
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Effect of Public Health Care Expenditure on Malaria Incidence in Uganda. by Mugabe, Andrew

“…However, urban population growth exhibited short-term effects on malaria incidence at the first lag. …”
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Progress in phase field research of dead lithium in lithium batteries by Jing LIU, Huiyi CHEN, Huiyu LIU, Shu LI

“…These dendrites can penetrate the diaphragm and reach the cathode, causing a short circuit that can lead to catastrophic battery failure. …”
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Biology and Management of Common Purslane in Fruiting Vegetables, Cucurbits, and Strawberries by Nathan S. Boyd, Andrew W. MacRae

“…It produces thousands of seeds per plant, which germinate readily, but can also persist in the soil for up to 15 years. Vegetative shoot fragments can survive on the soil surface for extended periods of time, then re-root when exposed to moisture and can even flower and produce seeds after they have been pulled from the soil. …”
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MICROPROPAGATION OF OROXYLUM INDICUM (L.) KURZ by Phu Hiep Hoang, Thi Hong Tran

“…MS medium supplemented with 1.0 mg/l BAP was the most effective medium for shoot initiation, and MS medium supplemented with 0.7 mg/l IBA was the best rooting medium. …”
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