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126 Citations
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An Application of the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) Scale in a Greek Context

  • Stamatios Ntanos,
  • Grigorios Kyriakopoulos,
  • Michalis Skordoulis,
  • Miltiadis Chalikias and
  • Garyfallos Arabatzis

14 January 2019

Measuring and analyzing public perceptions of the environment are becoming core elements in promoting environmental sustainability, which is a key goal to be achieved. The New Ecological Paradigm Scale (NEP) is used as a unidimensional measure of env...

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  • Open Access
528 Views
20 Pages

Spatiotemporal Dynamics of NEP and Its Influencing Factors: Exploring the Impact Mechanisms Under Extreme Climate Conditions

  • Li Wang,
  • Wei Chen,
  • Wanjuan Song,
  • Ni Huang,
  • Yuelin Zhang,
  • Guoxu Li,
  • Xin Zhang,
  • Yu Peng and
  • Zheng Niu

3 November 2025

Current research on net ecosystem productivity (NEP) still lacks sufficient attention to the impacts of extreme climate events, particularly in understanding the interactive response mechanisms of carbon sinks under extreme climate conditions. This s...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,185 Views
24 Pages

26 October 2021

Climate warming has enabled the Arctic region to achieve seasonal navigation, and sea ice concentration is an important factor affecting the navigation of the Arctic waterways. This article uses the Arctic sea ice concentration data of the three high...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
7,870 Views
12 Pages

1 March 2019

Our study examined the two-dimensional nature of the Two Major Environmental Values model (2-MEV) in comparison with the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale’s unidimensional construct. The latter places respondents on a continuum from a bio-cen...

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  • Open Access
650 Views
17 Pages

24 October 2025

Achieving carbon neutrality requires a comprehensive understanding of terrestrial carbon dynamics, particularly the capacity of ecosystems to act as carbon sinks. This study quantified the temporal and spatial variability of net primary production (N...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,220 Views
14 Pages

The Potential Role of Serum Tau Protein (MAPT), Neuronal Cell Adhesion Molecule (NrCAM) and Neprilysin (NEP) in Neurodegenerative Disorders Development in Psoriasis—Preliminary Results

  • Anna Baran,
  • Julia Nowowiejska,
  • Justyna Magdalena Hermanowicz,
  • Beata Sieklucka,
  • Julita Anna Krahel,
  • Paulina Kiluk,
  • Dariusz Pawlak and
  • Iwona Flisiak

27 August 2022

Psoriasis is one of the most common dermatoses, which shortens patients’ lives because of the wide comorbidity. However, little is known about its association with neurodegenerative diseases (NDs). We aimed to investigate whether psoriatics are...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,345 Views
14 Pages

SsNEP2 Contributes to the Virulence of Sclerotinia sclerotiorum

  • Chenghuizi Yang,
  • Wei Li,
  • Xingchuan Huang,
  • Xianyu Tang,
  • Lei Qin,
  • Yanan Liu,
  • Yunong Xia,
  • Zhihong Peng and
  • Shitou Xia

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum is a notorious soilborne fungal pathogen that causes serious economic losses globally. The necrosis and ethylene-inducible peptide 1 (NEP1)-like proteins (NLPs) were previously shown to play an important role in pathogenicity...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,416 Views
13 Pages

19 September 2021

The coenzyme Q10 analogue idebenone is an FDA-approved antioxidant that can cross the blood–brain barrier (BBB). The effects of idebenone on the pathology of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and the underlying molecular mechanisms have not been comprehensive...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,402 Views
17 Pages

SsNEP2 Plays a Role in the Interaction Between Sclerotinia sclerotiorum and Coniothyrium minitans

  • Huizhang Zhao,
  • Zihang Zhu,
  • Yueli Xu,
  • Haixuan Wang,
  • Jiatao Xie,
  • Jiasen Cheng,
  • Daohong Jiang and
  • Yanping Fu

16 February 2025

Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, a fungal pathogen that is spread worldwide and causes serious diseases on crops, can be parasitized specifically by the mycoparasite Coniothyrium minitans. SsNEP2, encoding a necrosis-inducing protein in S. sclerotiorum, was...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,396 Views
14 Pages

9 October 2024

Environmental sustainability depends highly on our ability to identify the determinants of various types of pro-environmental behaviours (PEBs). However, so far, public sphere pro-environmental behaviours (PBS-PEBs) have received little attention in...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,211 Views
13 Pages

Overexpression of Nepenthesin HvNEP-1 in Barley Endosperm Reduces Fusarium Head Blight and Mycotoxin Accumulation

  • Zelalem Eshetu Bekalu,
  • Claus Krogh Madsen,
  • Giuseppe Dionisio,
  • Inger Bæksted Holme,
  • Lise Nistrup Jørgensen,
  • Inge S. Fomsgaard and
  • Henrik Brinch-Pedersen

1 February 2020

Fusarium head blight (FHB) causes substantial losses of yield and quality in grains, both in the field and in post-harvest storage. To date, adequate natural genetic resistance is not available for the control of FHB. This study reports the cloning a...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,434 Views
22 Pages

12 November 2023

This article presents the Network Empower and Prototyping Platform (NEP+), a flexible framework purposefully crafted to simplify the process of interactive application development, catering to both technical and non-technical users. The name "NEP+" e...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,373 Views
17 Pages

Responsivity and NEP Improvement of Terahertz Microbolometer by High-Impedance Antenna

  • Arie Pangesti Aji,
  • Hiroaki Satoh,
  • Catur Apriono,
  • Eko Tjipto Rahardjo and
  • Hiroshi Inokawa

7 July 2022

The antenna-coupled microbolometer with suspended titanium heater and thermistor was attractive as a terahertz (THz) detector due to its structural simplicity and low noise levels. In this study, we attempted to improve the responsivity and noise-equ...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,414 Views
16 Pages

A Path to Industry 5.0 Digital Twins for Human–Robot Collaboration by Bridging NEP+ and ROS

  • Enrique Coronado,
  • Toshio Ueshiba and
  • Ixchel G. Ramirez-Alpizar

1 February 2024

The integration of heterogeneous hardware and software components to construct human-centered systems for Industry 5.0, particularly human digital twins, presents considerable complexity. Our research addresses this challenge by pioneering a novel ap...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,148 Views
11 Pages

10 April 2021

In this work we theoretically investigate the responsivity/noise equivalent power (NEP) trade-off in graphene/semiconductor Schottky photodetectors (PDs) operating in the near-infrared regime and working at room temperature. Our analysis shows that t...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
6,955 Views
17 Pages

Evaluation of Multiple Spring Phenological Indicators of Yearly GPP and NEP at Three Canadian Forest Sites

  • Qian Wang,
  • Lifu Zhang,
  • Taixia Wu,
  • Yi Cen,
  • Changping Huang and
  • Qingxi Tong

5 March 2014

Phenological shifts in events such as flowering and bud break are important indicators of ecosystem processes, and are therefore of particular significance for carbon (C) cycle research. Using long-term flux data from three contrasting plant function...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,931 Views
19 Pages

9 March 2020

This article presents the novel Python, C# and JavaScript libraries of Node Primitives (NEP), a high-level, open, distributed, and component-based framework designed to enable easy development of cross-platform software architectures. NEP is built on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,718 Views
13 Pages

Ginsenoside F1 Protects the Brain against Amyloid Beta-Induced Toxicity by Regulating IDE and NEP

  • Yee-Jin Yun,
  • Bong-Hwan Park,
  • Jingang Hou,
  • Jung-Pyo Oh,
  • Jin-Hee Han and
  • Sun-Chang Kim

1 January 2022

Ginsenoside F1, the metabolite of Rg1, is one of the most important constituents of Panax ginseng. Although the effects of ginsenosides on amyloid beta (Aβ) aggregation in the brain are known, the role of ginsenoside F1 remains unclear. Here, we...

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  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,469 Views
16 Pages

4 October 2021

Necrosis and ethylene-inducing peptide 1(Nep1)-like protein (NLP) is well known for its cytotoxicity and immunogenicity on dicotyledonous, and it has attracted large attention due to its gene expansion and functional diversification in numerous phyto...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
942 Views
18 Pages

LRR Receptor-like Protein in Rapeseed Confers Resistance to Sclerotinia sclerotiorum Infection via a Conserved SsNEP2 Peptide

  • Chenghuizi Yang,
  • Weiping Zhong,
  • Wei Li,
  • Yunong Xia,
  • Lei Qin,
  • Xianyu Tang and
  • Shitou Xia

Brassica napus is one of the most extensively cultivated oilseed crops in China, but its yield is significantly impacted by stem rot caused by Sclerotinia sclerotiorum. Receptor-like proteins (RLPs) and receptor-like kinases (RLKs) play essential rol...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,312 Views
27 Pages

Effect of Climate Change Belief and the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP) on Eco-Tourism Attitudes of Tourists: Moderator Role of Green Self-Identity

  • Abdullah Tarinc,
  • Gozde Seval Ergun,
  • Arif Aytekin,
  • Ali Keles,
  • Ozlem Ozbek,
  • Huseyin Keles and
  • Ozgur Yayla

This research has been conducted to determine the effect of tourists’ beliefs of climate change on the NEP and ecotourism attitudes. In addition to this purpose, the moderator role of green self-identity in the effect of the NEP on ecological a...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,941 Views
12 Pages

21 November 2022

Pharmacotherapy for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is difficult, and some patients do not respond to currently available treatments. Therefore, the discovery of novel anti-IBD agents is imperative. Our aim was the synthesis of lipidated analogs of...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,892 Views
20 Pages

Type 2 Nep1-Like Proteins from the Biocontrol Oomycete Pythium oligandrum Suppress Phytophthora capsici Infection in Solanaceous Plants

  • Kun Yang,
  • Xiaohua Dong,
  • Jialu Li,
  • Yi Wang,
  • Yang Cheng,
  • Ying Zhai,
  • Xiaobo Li,
  • Lihui Wei,
  • Maofeng Jing and
  • Daolong Dou

22 June 2021

As a non-pathogenic oomycete, the biocontrol agent Pythium oligandrum is able to control plant diseases through direct mycoparasite activity and boosting plant immune responses. Several P. oligandrum elicitors have been found to activate plant immuni...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,828 Views
20 Pages

30 January 2024

Net ecosystem productivity (NEP) is a crucial indicator of the carbon balance and health of an ecosystem. Until now, few studies have estimated the NEP of crops and analyzed it in space and time. The study of NEP in crops is crucial for comprehending...

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  • Open Access
31 Citations
5,792 Views
21 Pages

Spatiotemporal Simulation of Net Ecosystem Productivity and Its Response to Climate Change in Subtropical Forests

  • Junlong Zheng,
  • Fangjie Mao,
  • Huaqiang Du,
  • Xuejian Li,
  • Guomo Zhou,
  • Luofan Dong,
  • Meng Zhang,
  • Ning Han,
  • Tengyan Liu and
  • Luqi Xing

20 August 2019

Subtropical forests have great potential as carbon sinks; however, the relationship between net ecosystem productivity (NEP) and climate change is still unclear. This study took Zhejiang Province, a subtropical region, as an example. Based on remote...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,554 Views
18 Pages

22 December 2023

Understanding the net ecosystem productivity (NEP) is essential for understanding ecosystem functioning and the global carbon cycle. Utilizing meteorological and The Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) remote sensing data, this study emp...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,001 Views
25 Pages

Characteristic Analysis of Carbon Sink Capacity Changes in Xinjiang’s Terrestrial Ecosystem Based on EEMD

  • Yongji Zhang,
  • Jianghua Zheng,
  • Jianli Zhang,
  • Chen Mu,
  • Wanqiang Han and
  • Liang Liu

8 March 2024

Net Ecosystem Productivity (NEP) is an important measure to assess the carbon balance and dynamics of ecosystems, providing a direct measure of carbon source–sink dynamics in terrestrial ecosystems and finding widespread applications in carbon...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,718 Views
16 Pages

20 August 2024

Net ecosystem productivity (NEP) is an important indicator for the quantitative evaluation of carbon sources/sinks in terrestrial ecosystems. An improved CASA model and soil respiration model, combined with MODIS and meteorological data, are utilized...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,282 Views
19 Pages

27 March 2015

An accurate estimation of carbon fluxes is very important in carbon cycle studies. A remote sensing based gross primary production (GPP) and net ecosystem production (NEP) algorithm, RS-CFLUX, was presented in this work. The algorithm was calibrated...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,732 Views
17 Pages

28 November 2021

This is international comparative research on the perception of local residents toward the natural environment in South Korea, Taiwan, and Indonesia. Through the New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) investigation, perceptions of natural environmental conser...

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  • Open Access
29 Citations
4,201 Views
20 Pages

5 January 2023

Net ecosystem productivity (NEP) is an important indicator for estimating regional carbon sources/sinks. The study focuses on a comprehensive computational simulation and spatiotemporal variation study of the NEP in the Yellow River basin from 2000 t...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,258 Views
24 Pages

6 September 2024

An accurate assessment of the spatial–temporal variations in regional net ecosystem productivity (NEP), water use efficiency (WUE), and carbon use efficiency (CUE) are vital for understanding the water–carbon cycle. We analyzed the spatia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,235 Views
26 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Net Ecosystem Productivity and Its Influencing Factors in Northwest China, 1982–2022

  • Weijie Zhang,
  • Zhichao Xu,
  • Haobo Yuan,
  • Yingying Wang,
  • Kai Feng,
  • Yanbin Li,
  • Fei Wang and
  • Zezhong Zhang

The carbon cycle in terrestrial ecosystems is a crucial component of the global carbon cycle, and drought is increasingly recognized as a significant stressor impacting their carbon sink function. Net ecosystem productivity (NEP), which is a key indi...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,127 Views
24 Pages

24 August 2024

Vegetation plays an important role in absorbing carbon dioxide and accelerating the achievement of carbon neutrality. As the ecological barrier of North China, the Taihang Mountains are pivotal to the ecological construction project of China. Neverth...

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  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,213 Views
18 Pages

26 May 2023

Environmental care attitude is an important factor in protecting the environment. The Adiwiyata Award is presented as the highest recognition for implementing an environmental care attitude. The aims of this study are to (1) evaluate the execution of...

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  • Open Access
57 Citations
5,031 Views
23 Pages

Remote Sensing Estimation and Spatiotemporal Pattern Analysis of Terrestrial Net Ecosystem Productivity in China

  • Liang Liang,
  • Di Geng,
  • Juan Yan,
  • Siyi Qiu,
  • Yanyan Shi,
  • Shuguo Wang,
  • Lijuan Wang,
  • Lianpeng Zhang and
  • Jianrong Kang

14 April 2022

Net ecosystem productivity (NEP) plays an important role in understanding ecosystem function and the global carbon cycle. In this paper, the key parameters of the Carnegie Ames Stanford Approach (CASA) model, maximum light use efficiency (εma...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,057 Views
18 Pages

7 April 2025

As a national ecological civilization pilot, Zhejiang’s growing vegetation carbon sink capacity is important for both regional ecological security and China’s carbon neutrality goals, but current studies lack a comprehensive assessment of...

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  • Open Access
97 Citations
17,240 Views
19 Pages

Value–belief–norm (VBN) theory provides a valuable framework for identifying the social-psychological determinants of various types of pro-environmental behavior. However, limited empirical study has tested the applicability of VBN theory...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,071 Views
16 Pages

Metabolic Stability and Metabolite Identification of N-Ethyl Pentedrone Using Rat, Mouse and Human Liver Microsomes

  • Alexandre Barcia Godoi,
  • Natalícia de Jesus Antunes,
  • Kelly Francisco Cunha,
  • Aline Franco Martins,
  • Marilyn A. Huestis and
  • Jose Luiz Costa

New Psychoactive Substances (NPSs) are defined as a group of substances produced from molecular modifications of traditional drugs. These molecules represent a public health problem since information about their metabolites and toxicity is poorly und...

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  • Open Access
1,117 Views
20 Pages

Simulation of Carbon Sinks and Sources in China’s Forests from 2013 to 2023

  • Faris Jamal Mohamedi,
  • Ying Yu,
  • Xiguang Yang and
  • Wenyi Fan

1 September 2025

Chinese forest ecosystems are key carbon sinks that significantly contribute to lowering carbon emissions. Accurate Net Ecosystem Productivity (NEP) estimations are essential for evaluating their carbon sequestration capabilities and overall health....

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740 Views
22 Pages

17 July 2025

Research on forest carbon sinks is crucial for mitigating global climate change and achieving carbon peaking and neutrality. However, studies at the county level remain relatively limited. This study utilized multi-source remote sensing data and the...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
996 Views
32 Pages

24 May 2025

With accelerating climate change and urbanization, regional carbon balance faces increasing uncertainty. Terrestrial carbon sinks play a crucial role in advancing China’s sustainable development under the dual-carbon strategy. This study quanti...

  • Feature Paper
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  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,895 Views
13 Pages

International System of Units (SI) Traceable Noise-Equivalent Power and Responsivity Characterization of Continuous Wave ErAs:InGaAs Photoconductive Terahertz Detectors

  • Anuar de Jesus Fernandez Olvera,
  • Axel Roggenbuck,
  • Katja Dutzi,
  • Nico Vieweg,
  • Hong Lu,
  • Arthur C. Gossard and
  • Sascha Preu

13 February 2019

A theoretical model for the responsivity and noise-equivalent power (NEP) of photoconductive antennas (PCAs) as coherent, homodyne THz detectors is presented. The model is validated by comparison to experimental values obtained for two ErAs:InGaAs PC...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,172 Views
30 Pages

1 April 2025

The Gross Primary Productivity (GPP) of Mediterranean forest is expected to change over the 21st century due to the warmer and drier conditions. In this study, we present a process-based forest carbon-flux model, where stand structure and soil hetero...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,742 Views
18 Pages

26 February 2024

This study mainly explores people’s environmental attitudes and perceptions and their motivations for protecting and improving ecosystem services in Italy. The environmental perceptions of people were explored through the New Ecological Paradig...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,997 Views
15 Pages

14 April 2021

The Baltic states in general and Lithuania in particular represent a controversial combination of rapidly increasing climate change impacts and moderate or low concern with the climate crisis. A value shift is essential for the societal support and a...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,359 Views
17 Pages

31 October 2022

This paper aims to examine the dimensions of environmental values from the combination of biospheric and altruistic values; and the dimensions of environmental attitudes using a revised New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) scale in a developing country. The...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,052 Views
25 Pages

16 July 2025

Wetlands are critical components of the global carbon cycle, yet their carbon sink dynamics under hydrological fluctuations remain insufficiently understood. This study employed the Carnegie-Ames-Stanford Approach (CASA) model to estimate the net eco...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,384 Views
16 Pages

Spatio-Temporal Variation of Carbon Sources and Sinks in the Loess Plateau under Different Climatic Conditions and Land Use Types

  • Mi Wang,
  • Zhuowei Hu,
  • Xuetong Wang,
  • Xiaojuan Li,
  • Yongcai Wang,
  • Honghao Liu,
  • Chaoqi Han,
  • Junhao Cai and
  • Wenji Zhao

14 August 2023

The carbon balance of terrestrial ecosystems is intertwined with climate and changes in land use. Over the past 30 years, the Loess Plateau (LP) has experienced temperature increases and an expansion of forest and grassland. The net ecosystem product...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,170 Views
13 Pages

New Insights into the Hypotensins from Tityus serrulatus Venom: Pro-Inflammatory and Vasopeptidases Modulation Activities

  • Bruno Duzzi,
  • Cristiane Castilho Fernandes Silva,
  • Roberto Tadashi Kodama,
  • Daniela Cajado-Carvalho,
  • Carla Cristina Squaiella-Baptistão and
  • Fernanda Calheta Vieira Portaro

26 November 2021

The Tityus serrulatus scorpion is considered the most dangerous of the Brazilian fauna due to the severe clinical manifestations in injured victims. Despite being abundant components of the venom, few linear peptides have been characterized so far, s...

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