Background/Objectives: Dietary patterns vary with age and sex. The aim of this study was to clarify the differences in dietary patterns among young and middle-aged Japanese individuals by age group and sex via statistical methods such as alpha divers...
Plants utilize cell surface pattern recognition receptors to recognize pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) and activate pattern-triggered immunity (PTI) responses. Late blight, caused by the oomycete plant pathogen Phytophthora infestans,...
Increasing anthropogenic nitrogen (N) emission via different pathways has shown prominent impact on aquatic ecosystems for decades, but the effects of interaction among climate-, landscape- and human-associated variables on riverine DIN (dissolved in...
Background/Objectives: Injury occurrence in physically active young adults is considered a multifactorial phenomenon influenced by body composition and training-related characteristics. This study aimed to investigate the multidimensional relationshi...
Seagrass meadows represent one of the highest productive marine ecosystems and are of great ecological and economic values. Recently, they have been confronted with worldwide decline. Fungi play important roles in sustaining the ecosystem health as d...
Urban green space (UGS) is crucial for enhancing ecosystem services (ESs), offering both ecological and social benefits. The multifunctional and synergistic development of UGS is essential for addressing ecological security challenges and meeting the...
In recent years, the frequent outbreaks of Ulva prolifera in the South Yellow Sea have become the largest-scale green tide disasters in the world. The causes of its outbreaks have garnered widespread attention, particularly the coupled effects of mul...
This study investigated the impact of land use change on water quality in the Xinxian River Basin amidst rapid urbanization. While previous studies have predominantly focused on single-scale buffer analyses or specific land use types, the interaction...
The forest ecosystem is the largest carbon reservoir in the terrestrial ecosystem, with soil organic carbon (SOC) being its most important component. How does the distribution of forest SOC distribution change under the influence of regional location...
The plankton radiolarian community was investigated in the spring season during the two-month cruise ‘Shiyan1’ (10 April–13 May 2014) in the Eastern Indian Ocean. This is the first comprehensive plankton tow study to be carried out...
Intensive vegetable production can increase the transfer of persistent toxic trace elements from agricultural soils into the food chain, particularly where agrochemical use, irrigation inputs, and local geochemical conditions are insufficiently chara...
In this in vitro study, the influence of the concentration of abrasive particles on the abrasivity of toothpastes was investigated using laser scan profilometry on polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) surfaces with the aim of providing an alternative metho...
Phytoplankton are sensitive indicators of environmental change in high-altitude aquatic ecosystems, but their community responses across river–lake confluence zones remain insufficiently understood. We investigated phytoplankton community chara...
The water bodies of southern Kazakhstan are under strong anthropogenic pressure, underscoring the relevance of their comprehensive research. In the summer of 2025, hydrobiological and hydrochemical studies were conducted at 32 stations across seven w...
The results of investigations on shaping the soil moisture ratio in the mountain basin of the Mątny stream located in the Gorce region, Poland, are presented. A soil moisture ratio was defined as a ratio of soil moisture in a given point in a basin t...
A seed zone or provenance region is an area within which plants can be moved with little risk of maladaptation because of the low environmental variation. Delineation of seed zones is of great importance for commercial plantations and reforestation a...
Little is known on how karst plants adapt to highly heterogeneous habitats via adjusting leaf anatomical structures. Phyllostachys glauca McClure is a dominant species that grow across different microhabitats in the limestone mountains of Jiangxi Pro...
Background: This study aims to measure Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emission fluxes at the soil–air and water–air interfaces in urban wetlands on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau and identify the primary controlling factors. The objective is to el...
Positive plant–soil feedback depends on beneficial interactions between roots and microbes for nutrient acquisition; growth promotion; and disease suppression. Recent pyrosequencing approaches have provided insight into the rhizosphere bacterial comm...
Adaptation to climate change requires prediction of its impacts, especially on ecosystems. In this work we simulated the change in bird species richness in the boreal forest of Quebec, Canada, under climate change scenarios. To do so, we first analyz...
Background and Objectives: Salix integra Thunb., a fast-growing woody species, has been used in phytoremediation in recent years. It has the potential to accumulate high amounts of lead (Pb) in its growth, however, its effects on soil microbial commu...
The loss of weed biodiversity in agricultural fields is a global issue that needs to be counteracted to preserve their supported ecosystem services and food webs. Many short-term efforts are undertaken to conserve weed species, especially already end...
To explore how environmental factors affect the structure of plankton in urban rivers, we analyzed the Caowangjing River, an urban river that passes through Wuxi, to survey the water environmental factors and plankton population in different seasons....
Effects of landscape patterns or topographic features on the river water environment have been broadly studied to control non-point source (NPS) pollution and to cut off potential pathways for pollutants to affect human health. However, spatio-tempor...
This study aimed to investigate differences and patterns in fungal communities within the root-zone soil of Lamiophlomis rotata across varying altitudes. Specifically, it analyzed the characteristics of soil fungal communities at altitudes of 3600, 3...
To investigate the relationship between fishery resources community structure (mainly fish and crustaceans) and environmental factors in the artificial reef waters off Nanri Island, surveys were conducted in November 2021, 2022, and 2023. Shannon&nda...
Bunyaviruses cause diseases in vertebrates, arthropods, and plants. Here, we used high-throughput RNA-seq to identify a bunya-like virus in rice plants showing the dwarfing symptom, which was tentatively named rice dwarf-associated bunya-like virus (...
Right aortic arch presents a reported incidence of 0.1% of the general population; the aim of our study was to evaluate the risk of associated intracardiac (ICA), extracardiac (ECA), or chromosomal abnormalities in fetuses with right aortic arch (RAA...
Random Domino Automaton (RDA), a slowly driven one-dimensional stochastic cellular automaton proposed as a stylized model of earthquake statistics, is briefly introduced together with the equations describing its stationary state. By means of an asym...
In Mongolia, drought is a major natural disaster that can influence and devastate large regions, reduce livestock production, cause economic damage, and accelerate desertification in association with destructive human activities. The objective of thi...
Iron and folic acid deficiency are common among women of childbearing age and in pregnant women. Poor iron and folate status in women is associated with an increased risk of anemia and disorders in the fetus development during pregnancy. The reason f...
Ophthalmic nanoemulsions that can treat the deficiencies of meibum (MGS) in Meibomian gland disease and restore its functionality in the tear film are greatly sought. The Rohto Dry Aid (RDA) formulation employs TEARSHIELD TECHNOLOGYTM, which uses a m...
This work investigates a class of susceptible–infected–susceptible (SIS) epidemic model with reaction–diffusion–advection (RDA) by utilizing the Lie group methods. The Lie symmetries are computed for the three widely used inci...
Climate change has an inevitable impact on tree radial growth, particularly at mountain timeberlines. To understand climate effects on conifer radial growth in the central Hengduan Mountains, and the potential impacts of future climate change on coni...
Although effects of heavy metals in sediments on macrobenthic organisms have been extensively studied, few investigations have simultaneously assessed the influence of heavy metals in seawater and sediments on macrobenthic communities. This study inv...
The study uses 30 years of the third generation of Advanced Very-High-Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR) NDVI3g monthly data from 1982 to 2012 to identify the natural clusters and important driving factors of the upstream watersheds in Taiwan through hier...
Assessing the changing parameters of water quality at different points in the river–reservoir system can help prevent river pollution and implement remedial policies. It is also crucial in modeling water resources. Multivariate statistical analysis i...
In the gait recognition problem, most studies are devoted to developing gait descriptors rather than introducing new classification methods. This paper proposes hybrid methods that combine regularized discriminant analysis (RDA) and swarm intelligenc...
Dietary intakes and supplement use in Paralympic athletes remains largely unexplored, and specialized recommendations are lacking. The aim of this study was to evaluate nutrient intakes and supplement use in high-performance athletes with physical di...
Airborne particulate matter (PM) affects human health, especially in heavily polluted regions. This study focused on Temuco, a city dominated by residential wood combustion in southern Chile. For the first time, we characterized airborne eukaryotic m...
To elucidate the structural characteristics and environmental drivers of plankton communities in alpine reservoirs, we examined phytoplankton and zooplankton in the Daqing Reservoir (China) across 13 sampling sites. Redundancy analysis (RDA) and Pear...
The objective of this study was to investigate the influence of physico-chemical parameters on Actinomycetes communities and to prioritize those parameters that contributed to Actinomycetes community composition during the composting of agricultural...
We assessed the distribution of alien fishes in the Karun River Basin, Iran. Fish were collected from 39 sites during the November–December 2018 low-flow period. In total, 39 fish species from nine orders and 14 families were documented. Among...
Different analytical techniques were used in this work to investigate the relationships between oxidative potential (OP) and metal, Br, P, S, and Se concentration in PM10 samples. Dithiothreitol and ascorbic acid acellular assays were used to determi...
This study evaluated the effects of land-use change (L-UCH) on dung beetle community structure (Scarabaeinae) in a disturbed dry ecosystem in southern Ecuador. Five different L-UCH classes were analyzed by capturing the dung beetle species at each si...
The elderly is a group at particularly high cardiovascular risk. The coexistence of chronic diseases and use of multiple medications creates the need to look for non-pharmacological agents to improve cardiovascular health in that population. In view...
Veratrum-type steroidal alkaloids (VSA) are the major bioactive ingredients that strongly determine the pharmacological activities of Veratrum nigrum. Biosynthesis of VSA at the molecular and genetic levels is not well understood. Next-generation seq...
This work focused on obtaining a low-temperature powder coating characterized by self-healing properties. To achieve this, acrylic resin, blocked polyisocyanates (bPICs) with 1,2,4-triazole, and unsaturated commercial resin were used. The synthesis o...
The genebank at the National Agrobiodiversity Center (RDA-Genebank, Jeonju, Republic of Korea), conserves approximately 8000 germplasms of Brassica spp., of which Chinese cabbage (Brassica rapa L. ssp. pekinensis) is one of the major crops actively u...
We investigated bryophyte communities in mature beech forests (Fagus sylvatica L.) and Austrian pine plantations (Pinus nigra J.F. Arnold) on Fruška Gora Mountain (northern Serbia) to examine how stand structure and edaphic conditions influenc...
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