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  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,168 Views
14 Pages

22 March 2019

One can suspect that capital return rate in forestry can be maximized by growing trees experiencing a value-adding assortment transition. Such a situation may or may not endure. We investigate the financial feasibility of a few harvesting schedules f...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,621 Views
18 Pages

The Sperm Small RNA Transcriptome: Implications beyond Reproductive Disorder

  • Sze Yan Chan,
  • Crystal Wing Tung Wan,
  • Tin Yu Samuel Law,
  • David Yiu Leung Chan and
  • Ellis Kin Lam Fok

11 December 2022

Apart from the paternal half of the genetic material, the male gamete carries assorted epigenetic marks for optimal fertilization and the developmental trajectory for the early embryo. Recent works showed dynamic changes in small noncoding RNA (sncRN...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Male Fertility: New Horizons for Investigating Reproductive System Diseases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,788 Views
8 Pages

24 September 2023

Wheat of medium hardness with marbled endosperm (transitional form between hard and soft wheat) in which glassy and floury zones alternate, form almost exclusively available assortment for brewing needs in Southeastern Europe. The aim of this work is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Trends in Grain Processing for Food Industry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
657 Views
31 Pages

Real-world networks often exhibit strong transitivity with nontrivial local clustering spectra and degree correlations. Such features are not easily modeled in tractable network models, creating an obstacle to the theoretical understanding of such co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,750 Views
14 Pages

Creation of Annual Order Forecast for the Production of Beverage Cans—The Case Study

  • Peter Kacmary,
  • Andrea Rosova,
  • Marian Sofranko,
  • Peter Bindzar,
  • Janka Saderova and
  • Jan Kovac

30 July 2021

This article is focused on the creation of a system for forecasting of future orders for a specific beverage cans manufacturer. The problem comes from the irregular ordering of cans from different customers; not only national companies, but also from...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Manufacturing and Supply Chain in the Context of Industry 4.0: Opportunities and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,292 Views
12 Pages

25 September 2024

According to most energy demand forecasts, woody biomass has the potential to become an important source of renewable energy, especially during the transitional period of energy transition. The aim of this article was to estimate the energy potential...

(This article belongs to the Section A4: Bio-Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
314 Views
28 Pages

Macrostructural Passing Networks Across Competitive Contexts: A Case Study of Manchester City

  • José Gama,
  • Gonçalo Dias,
  • Ana Chaves,
  • Manuel Santos,
  • Fernando Martins,
  • Micael S. Couceiro,
  • Ricardo Birrento,
  • Vasco Vaz and
  • Rui Mendes

6 October 2026

Although Social Network Analysis has become an established approach for investigating collective behaviour in football, research has predominantly focused on player-centred metrics, with comparatively limited attention given to the longitudinal evolu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data-Driven Sports Science: Advances and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15,959 Views
11 Pages

Scanning Electron Microscopy and EDX Spectroscopy of Commercial Swabs Used for COVID-19 Lateral Flow Testing

  • Manuel Aparicio-Alonso,
  • Verónica Torres-Solórzano,
  • José Francisco Méndez-Contreras and
  • Karina Acevedo-Whitehouse

24 September 2023

The chemical composition of COVID test swabs has not been examined beyond the manufacturer’s datasheets. The unprecedented demand for swabs to conduct rapid lateral flow tests and nucleic acid amplification tests led to mass production, includi...

(This article belongs to the Section Emerging Contaminants)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,210 Views
7 Pages

Surrogate Indexes of Insulin Resistance in Dairy Goats: Transitional Variation in Subclinical Hyperketonemia

  • Siqi Liu,
  • Yezi Kong,
  • Jing Wen,
  • Yan Huang,
  • Yaoquan Liu,
  • Xiaoyan Zhu,
  • Baoyu Zhao,
  • Binyun Cao and
  • Jianguo Wang

Background: Dairy goats are highly susceptible to subclinical hyperketonemia (SCHK) during the transition period. This study aimed to compare the variation in metabolic parameters and surrogate indexes of insulin resistance (sIR) between goats with S...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Animal Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
6,964 Views
25 Pages

15 June 2020

Geographical Indications (GIs) are regarded as important endogenous rural development mechanisms by the European Union. GIs have proven successful for some producers in some regions, delivering higher added value and safeguarding a product’s id...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Geographical Indications, Public Goods, and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,929 Views
10 Pages

18 August 2017

Cooperation in repeated public goods game is hardly achieved, unless contingent behavior is present. Surely, if mechanisms promoting positive assortment between cooperators are present, then cooperators may beat defectors, because cooperators would c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,291 Views
19 Pages

Growth and Leaf Gas Exchange Upregulation by Elevated [CO2] Is Light Dependent in Coffee Plants

  • Antonio H. de Souza,
  • Ueliton S. de Oliveira,
  • Leonardo A. Oliveira,
  • Pablo H. N. de Carvalho,
  • Moab T. de Andrade,
  • Talitha S. Pereira,
  • Carlos C. Gomes Junior,
  • Amanda A. Cardoso,
  • José D. C. Ramalho and
  • Fábio M. DaMatta
  • + 1 author

28 March 2023

Coffee (Coffea arabica L.) plants have been assorted as highly suitable to growth at elevated [CO2] (eCa), although such suitability is hypothesized to decrease under severe shade. We herein examined how the combination of eCa and contrasting irradia...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coffee Breeding and Stress Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
238 Views
33 Pages

2 October 2026

Lorenz curves are a socioeconomic method of coding the statistics of positive-valued random variables. Standing at the confluence of fractals, wealth distributions, and non-Euclidean geometry, this paper presents quadrant Lorenz curves (QLCs): Lorenz...

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,121 Views
14 Pages

15 November 2019

Cascading failures are the significant cause of network breakdowns in a variety of complex infrastructure systems. Given such a system, uncovering the dependence of cascading failures on its underlying topology is essential but still not well explore...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computation in Complex Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,336 Views
19 Pages

25 May 2021

In archaeology, palaeo-ecological studies are frequently used to support archaeological investigations, but linking and synthesizing datasets and concepts from ecology, ethnography, earth sciences, and archaeology has historically been rare. While ad...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Archaeoecology. The Application of Palaeoenvironmental Sciences for the Reconstruction of Human-Environment Interactions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,542 Views
15 Pages

Research of Malting Procedures for Winter Hard Wheat Varieties—Part I

  • Vinko Krstanović,
  • Kristina Habschied and
  • Krešimir Mastanjević

28 December 2020

This paper examines the influence of the malting process of red hard wheat varieties (which have many characteristics of soft wheat varieties and represent a transitional form between durum and soft wheat). According to the values of total and solubl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Effects of Malting and Brewing Process on Sensory and Quality of Beer)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,229 Views
17 Pages

A Pilot Multi-Omics Approach Unveils Strong Immune Activation in the First Ten Days of Life in Extremely Preterm Infants

  • Laura Burgess,
  • Eva Caamaño Gutiérrez,
  • Brian F. Flanagan,
  • Duncan Alexander Sylvestre,
  • Carolyn M. Slupsky,
  • Mark A. Turner and
  • Colin Morgan

7 October 2025

Background: Very preterm infants (VPIs) are born with an undeveloped immune system and are more susceptible to infection. Acquired immune responses must develop in a complex nutritional and metabolic environment as these babies transition from parent...

(This article belongs to the Section Nutrition and Metabolism)
  • Article
  • Open Access
358 Views
29 Pages

Road-Ecology Coupled Networks and the Evolution of County Spatial Structure

  • Chao Yu,
  • Chenao Yang,
  • Junbo Gao,
  • Zhiyuan Zhou,
  • Yi Li,
  • Caoying He,
  • Yinyao Fang and
  • Jinrun Wu

10 July 2026

Rural spatial restructuring in rapidly urbanizing regions is jointly shaped by road expansion and ecological constraints, yet existing studies often examine transportation and ecological systems in isolation. This study develops a coupled “road...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,463 Views
18 Pages

This article examines the resilience and volatility of academic publishing at the University of Maribor (UM) from 2004 to 2023, a period marked by significant economic and policy shifts in Slovenia. Using employment data from UM’s internal reco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,905 Views
19 Pages

3 April 2025

We propose a vertiport location-allocation methodology for urban air mobility (UAM) from the perspective of transportation network topology. The location allocation of vertiports within a transportation network is a crucial factor in determining the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current Advances in Railway and Transportation Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
673 Views
19 Pages

26 May 2026

Biomolecular condensates in the cytoplasm and nucleus contribute to carcinogenesis through aberrant signaling by assorted transcription factors and fusion oncoproteins. Oral cancer, which is highly prevalent worldwide, frequently occurs in a U-shaped...

(This article belongs to the Section Cellular Immunology)
  • Review
  • Open Access
112 Citations
8,295 Views
40 Pages

A State-of-the-Art Review on Innovative Geopolymer Composites Designed for Water and Wastewater Treatment

  • Ismail Luhar,
  • Salmabanu Luhar,
  • Mohd Mustafa Al Bakri Abdullah,
  • Rafiza Abdul Razak,
  • Petrica Vizureanu,
  • Andrei Victor Sandu and
  • Petre-Daniel Matasaru

4 December 2021

There is nothing more fundamental than clean potable water for living beings next to air. On the other hand, wastewater management is cropping up as a challenging task day-by-day due to lots of new additions of novel pollutants as well as the develop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Future Trends in Advanced Materials and Processes)