Recent centennial drought on the Tibetan Plateau is outstanding within the past 3500 years by Yu Liu, Huiming Song, Zhisheng An, Qiang Li, Steven W. Leavitt, Ulf Büntgen, Qiufang Cai, Ruoshi Liu, Congxi Fang, Changfeng Sun, Kerstin Treydte, Meng Ren, Lidong Mo, Yi Song, Wenju Cai, Quan Zhang, Weijian Zhou, Achim Bräuning, Jussi Grießinger, Deliang Chen, Hans W. Linderholm, Ashish Sinha, Hai Cheng, Lu Wang, Ying Lei, Junyan Sun, Wei Gong, Xuxiang Li, Linlin Cui, Liang Ning, Lingfeng Wan, Thomas W. Crowther, Constantin M. Zohner

“…Abstract Given growing concerns about global climate change, it is critical to understand both historical and current shifts in the hydroclimate, particularly in regions critically entwined with global circulation. …”
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BRITISH COLONIAL PUNISHMENTS IN NORTHERN NIGERIA: A STUDY OF NATIVE AUTHORITY PRISON AND CRIME CONTROL IN IDAH DISTRICT, 1929-1945 by OLASUNKANMI VICTOR ASAJU, YAHAYA YUSUF

“…While, this was peculiar to those who committed minor offenses, perpetrators of serious crimes such as murder, homicide, and arson were immediately made to face the consequences of their actions, which were mostly total banishment from both the immediate community and adjoining settlements. …”
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Phytochrome-mediated shade avoidance responses impact the structure and composition of the bacterial phyllosphere microbiome of Arabidopsis by James A. O’Rourke, Stacey A. Vincent, Isabel E. I. Williams, Eleanor L. Gascoyne, Paul F. Devlin

“…A comparison of responses in both wild-type plants and phytochrome mutants, which inherently exhibit a shade-avoidance phenotype, revealed both indirect responses to host plant physiology and direct responses to light among the microbiota. …”
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Network-Scale Impact of Vegetation Loss on Coverage and Exposure for 5G Networks by Jorn Schampheleer, Anke Huss, Margot Deruyck

“…The study also explores the influence of user height, examining how vegetation’s blocking and shielding effects vary with user height. By evaluating both sub-6 GHz and mmWave networks under various simulated scenarios, the research qualifies the dual role of vegetation as both a coverage barrier and a mitigator of user exposure. …”
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Supraspinal facilitation of painful stimuli by glutamatergic innervation from the retrosplenial to the anterior cingulate cortex. by Shun Hao, Man Xue, Qi-Yu Chen, Jinjin Wan, Yu-Jie Ma, Wantong Shi, Xuanying Chen, Xu-Hui Li, Jing-Shan Lu, Fang Xu, Guo-Qiang Bi, Wucheng Tao, Min Zhuo

“…The RSC-ACC pathway probably serves to integrate memory engrams with pain perception in both humans and animals.…”
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Evaluation of variable MHD flow with Nernst-Planck model under the effect of entropy generation and chemical reactions by Maria Altaib Badawi, Waris Khan, Wajid Ullah Jan, Fethi Mohamed Maiz, Adel Thaljaoui, Rashid Iqbal

“…It also looks at irreversibility analysis, which includes chemical reactions that happen in both homogeneous and heterogeneous chemical reactions. …”
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Predator–prey interaction in insects and arachnids: a chemical ecology perspective by Vivek Kempraj, Soo Jean Park

“…The interactions between predators and prey play out both in the present and through evolutionary time. …”
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Time-dependent model for in-situ concrete carbonation depth under combined effects of temperature and relative humidity by Ting Du, Yongjia Cai, Yipu Guo, Jinghao Chen, Sen Chen, Mofang Yuan, Fulin Qu

“…Finally, by employing the Sensitivity Analysis and Least-Square Fitting (SA-LSF) method, a novel model is developed that incorporates both temperature and relative humidity as influential factors in predicting carbonation depth under diverse environmental conditions. …”
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Is There An Association Between Kisspeptin Levels And Gestational Diabetes Mellitus? by Emine Arslan, Umit Gorkem, Cihan Togrul

“…The median of body mass indices of both groups at 24 to 28 weeks of gestation were statistically similar (p=0.062). …”
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Ultrasonic-assisted Cr3C2 nanoparticle-reinforced aluminum-copper plasma arc brazing process by Congcong Lu, Yuhang Xie, Xiaoquan Yu, Yan Li, Jiankang Huang, Ding Fan

“…The welding of aluminum and copper can show the comprehensive performance of both materials. However, welding these two metals faces challenges because of their different physical and chemical properties. …”
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Effects of Retrenchment on the Morale of Employees of Glo Nigeria Limited by Esther Isioma Ulebor

“…These background variables were examined from both an organizational and an individual standpoint in the study. …”
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COLLOCATIONAL PATTERNS AND SENSE RELATIONS IN THE EXPLICATION OF MEANING IN ARMAH’S NOVELS by GODWIN F. AKPAN

“…It concludes that Armah relied on both habitual co-occurrence and abnormal co-occurrence of lexical items to convey his meanings. …”
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EVALUATING THREATS OF ARMED BANDITRY ON HUMAN AND FOOD SECURITY IN SHIRORO LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NIGER STATE, NIGERIA by DR MUSA EMMANUEL UMARU, DR ALIYU MOHAMMED BELLO, DR CHARLES O. OKWUWA

“…Consequently, this investigation was conducted to assess the impact of banditry on both human and food security in the Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State. …”
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Cortical and subcortical activities during food rewards versus social interaction in rats by Florbela Rocha-Almeida, Ana R. Conde-Moro, Antonio Fernández-Ruiz, José M. Delgado-García, Agnès Gruart

“…We wanted to investigate the reward preferences in adult male rats by allowing them to lever-press for both food and social rewards (interaction with another rat), while their performance and electrophysiological activities were recorded. …”
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Inotersen to Treat Polyneuropathy Associated with Hereditary Transthyretin (hATTR) Amyloidosis by Christopher Robinson, Cynthia Pham, Alec M. Zamarripa, Chase S. Dugay, Christopher A. Lee, Amnon A. Berger, Avi Landman, Elyse M. Cornett, Hisham Kassem, Alan D. Kaye, Ivan Urits, Omar Viswanath, Latha Ganti

“…# Background Amyloidosis is a group of diseases with the common pathophysiology of protein misfolding and aberrant deposition in tissue. There are both acquired and hereditary forms of this disease, and this review focuses on the latter hereditary transthyretin-mediated (hATTR). hATTR affects about 50,000 individuals globally and mostly appears as one of three syndromes - cardiac, polyneuropathy, and oculoleptomeningeal. …”
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High-efficiency biodegradation of crude oil and p-hydroxybenzoic acid by Acinetobacter haemolyticus JS-1: Integrated characterization and genomic analysis by Weiyi Tao, Jijie Lu, Junzhang Lin, Mingshan Ding, Weidong Wang, Shuang Li

“…Crude oil contamination is a major threat to both the environment and human health. Acinetobacter haemolyticus strain JS-1 was isolated from oil-contaminated soil in Jiangsu Oilfield, China, which exhibits exceptional biodegradation capabilities for crude oil and p-hydroxybenzoic acid (PHBA). …”
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Robert's Uterus Versus Juvenile Cystic Adenomyoma – Diagnostic and Therapeutic Challenges – Case Report and Review of Literature by Reeta Mahey, Rohitha Cheluvaraju, Supriya Kumari, Garima Kachhawa, Archana Kumari, Monika Rajput, Neerja Bhatla

“…Both girls had complete symptomatic relief from the next menstrual cycle and have been under follow-up for 24 months and 18 months, respectively. …”
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Structural design, accuracy analysis, and mechanical calibration of a small two-component docking mechanism for large loads in space by Jule Zhang, Junjie Li, Chong Zhao, Ke Wang, Congmin Lv

“…Finally, the impact of axial and radial docking conditions in orbit was analyzed to verify that the loading requirements were satisfied. This work offers both theoretical and technical insights for the future development of docking mechanisms for large space loads.…”
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Integrating electrocardiogram and fundus images for early detection of cardiovascular diseases by K. A. Muthukumar, Dhruva Nandi, Priya Ranjan, Krithika Ramachandran, Shiny PJ, Anirban Ghosh, Ashwini M, Aiswaryah Radhakrishnan, V. E. Dhandapani, Rajiv Janardhanan

“…Initially, a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) was applied to both the ECG and fundus images, transforming the data into the frequency domain. …”
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Screening and evaluation of novel DPP-IV inhibitory peptides in goat milk based on molecular docking and molecular dynamics simulation by Kuo Dang, Jing Lan, Yanli Wang, Daodong Pan, Lihui Du, Shikun Suo, Yali Dang, Xinchang Gao

“…GPFPLL and LPYPY were found to exhibit high inhibitory activity against DPP-IV (IC50 of 130.68 ± 10.38 μM and 179.52 ± 18.89 μM, respectively). Both GPFPLL and LPYPY stably bound to S1 and S1’ in DPP-IV, and both demonstrated competitive inhibition of DPP-IV. …”
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