The topic of community detection in social networks has attracted a lot of attention in recent years. Existing methods always depict the relationship of two nodes using the snapshot of the network, but these snapshots cannot reveal the real relations...
People share their views and daily life experiences on social networks and form a network structure. The information shared on social networks can be unreliable, and detecting such kinds of information may reduce mass panic. Propaganda is a kind of b...
The deep terrestrial subsurface is the largest reservoir of Earth’s freshwater resources as well as the largest habitat for prokaryotic life. However, the deep-subsurface microbiome, especially its spatial distribution across countries/continen...
Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is well described in prokaryotes: it plays a crucial role in evolution, and has functional consequences in insects and plants. However, less is known about HGT in humans. Studies have reported bacterial integrations in...
Microorganisms play a crucial role in purifying aquaculture water bodies. However, there is limited understanding regarding the core species of bacterial communities in aquaculture ponds and their metabolic functions. Using 16S rRNA gene sequencing t...
Light-flavor Baijiu (LFB) is renowned for its distinct flavor and long history, with the microbial community structure of low-temperature Daqu (LTD) serving as a crucial saccharification fermenter that significantly influences the quality and flavor...
Background/Objectives: This study evaluates the effectiveness of communication strategies and pain management protocols to enhance patients’ experiences during sarcoma core biopsies. Recognizing the complexity and anxiety associated with sarcom...
The orbital angular momentum (OAM) of light is used for increasing the optical communication capacity in the mode division multiplexing (MDM) technique. A novel and simple structure of ring-core photonic crystal fiber (RC-PCF) is proposed in this pap...
Extensive green roofs provide for many ecosystem services in urban environments. The efficacy of these services is influenced by the vegetation structure. Despite their key role in plant performance and productivity, but also their contribution to ni...
According to current forecasts, global heating is likely to exceed 2.8 °C by the end of this century. This makes substantial adaptation measures necessary to secure a broad basis for livelihood provision and the conservation of biodiversity. Whil...
Whether bacterioplankton are assembled in the same way as microeukaryotes is a key question that has been answered only partially in microbial ecology. In particular, relating distribution patterns to the underlying ecological processes for plankton...
9 December 2022
First Nations Peoples have a long history of living in Australia’s changing climate and a deep knowledge of their traditional estate (‘Country’). However, human-induced climate change raises unforeseen risks to the health of First N...
Endophytes are essential in plant succession and evolution, and essential for stress resistance. Coralloid root is a unique root structure found in cycads that has played a role in resisting adverse environments, yet the core taxa and microbial commu...
As a structural indicator of dense subgraphs, k-core has been widely used in community search due to its concise and efficient calculation. Many community search algorithms have been expanded on the basis of k-core. However, relevant algorithms often...
23 May 2025
This study aimed to evaluate the effects of community nursing simulation education on the nursing core competencies, clinical performance, and clinical judgment in home-visit nursing of nursing college students. A nonequivalent control group pretest&...
Spatial division multiplexed (SDM) transmission systems with coherence communication technology have become an important issue in meeting the demands for the capacity of fiber. However, research on the phase noise from lasers is mainly focused on sin...
Diatoms are useful ecological and paleolimnological indicators routinely used to reconstruct past conditions and monitor environmental change. Despite this, diatom assemblages from lake sediment cores are often difficult to interpret due to a limited...
Anti-resonant hollow-core fibers (AR-HCFs) are emerging as highly promising candidates for high-power laser transmission and low-loss optical communication. Despite their advantages, issues such as scattering loss and core-mode instability remain sig...
Endophytes, prevalent in plants, mediate plant–insect interactions. Nevertheless, our understanding of the key members of endophyte communities involved in inhibiting or assisting EAB infestation remains limited. Employing ITS and 16S rRNA high...
Proactive socialization involves an active attempt to integrate into an organization, which can help an individual complete the transition from student to employee. This study—conducted via a survey involving college graduates (one year after g...
The study investigated the influence of sewage sludge application at rates of 0 (CK), 30 (ST), 75 (MT), and 150 (HT) t ha−1 to mudflats on bacterial community diversity and predicted functions using amplicon-based sequencing. Soils under sewage...
The concept of local energy communities is receiving increasing attention. However, the question of how to distribute the benefit of a community among its members is still open. It is commonly desired that the benefit distribution is fair and stable....
Leaf microorganism communities play significant roles in the process of plant growth, but the microbiome profiling of crop leaves is still a relatively new research area. Here, we used 16S rDNA sequencing to profile the microbiomes of 78 primary drie...
Seagrasses are an important part of the coral reef ecosystem, and their rhizosphere microbes are of great ecological importance. However, variations in diversity, composition, and potential functions of bacterial communities in the seagrass rhizosphe...
The automotive industry has recently adopted multicore processors and microcontrollers to meet the requirements of new features, such as autonomous driving, and comply with the latest safety standards. However, inter-core communication poses a challe...
The Baltic Sea represents one of the largest brackish ecosystems where various environmental factors control dynamic seasonal shifts in the structure, diversity, and function of the planktonic microbial communities. In this study, despite seasonal fl...
OpenMOC-HEX, a neutron transport calculation code with hexagonal modular ray tracing, has the capability of domain decomposition parallelism based on an MPI parallel programming model. In this paper, the optimization of inter-node communication was s...
Because data on the fungal gut community structure of African children are scarce, we aimed to describe it by reanalysing rRNA ITS1 and ITS2 metabarcoding data from a study designed to assess the influence of microbiota in malaria susceptibility in M...
Heat maps highlight cumulative, static importance in eye-tracking records, while network analysis helps elucidate dynamic importance from transitional relations. The present study was designed to perform both analyses in the same conceptual framework...
Rock glaciers are relatively common in Antarctic permafrost areas and could be considered postglacial cryogenic landforms. Although the extensive presence of rock glaciers, their chemical–physical and biotic composition remain scarce. Chemical&...
To investigate the core fungal community succession and its effects of volatile compound production during different stages (D-1, D-2, D-3, E-4, E-5, and E-6) of Hengshui Laobaigan Baijiu, high-throughput sequencing (HTS) was carried out, accompanied...
To address the issues of limited orbital angular momentum (OAM) mode count, poor transmission quality, and complex cladding structures in ring-core photonic crystal fibers, a novel OAM-supporting ring-core anti-resonant photonic crystal fiber is desi...
Leveraging technological advancements such as containers, microservices, and service mesh, cloud-native edge computing (CNEC) has become extensively discussed and applied in both academia and industry. The integration of mobile edge computing and com...
Research of veterinary communication education is a relatively rare but important field, and its importance has been increasingly noticed recently. This study aims to describe the existing veterinary education research literature by adopting the syst...
Rice is currently the most important food crop in the world and we are only just beginning to study the bacterial associated microbiome. It is of importance to perform screenings of the core rice microbiota and also to develop new plant-microbe model...
Food fermentation is driven by microbial interactions. This article reviews the types of microbial interactions during food fermentation, the research strategies employed, and their impacts on the quality of fermented foods. Microbial interactions pr...
Fraxinus excelsior populations are in decline due to the ash dieback disease Hymenoscyphus fraxineus. It is important to understand genotypic and environmental effects on its fungal microbiome to develop disease management strategies. To do this, we...
In the current context of urban development transformation and the gradual decline of historic and cultural districts, new demands have been raised for the preservation of such districts. The question of how to effectively safeguard historically and...
Previous studies dealing with changes in microbial communities during vermicomposting were mostly performed at lab-scale conditions and by using low-throughput techniques. Therefore, we sought to characterize the bacterial succession during the vermi...
This paper presents an efficient pipelined broadcasting algorithm with the inter-node transmission order change technique considering the communication status of processing nodes. The proposed method changes the transmission order for the broadcast o...
Triatoma pallidipennis, the main vector of Chagas disease in central Mexico, hosts a diverse and complex gut bacterial community shaped by environmental and physiological factors. To gain insight into these microbes’ dynamics, we characterised...
Terahertz photonic chips play an important role in next-generation information systems, such as high-speed inter/intrachip connections. Here we report a hybrid hollow-core terahertz topological planar waveguide where topological silicon pillars (asse...
Sufu, a Chinese traditional fermented soybean product, has a characteristic foul smell but a pleasant taste. We determined the core functional microbiota and their metabolic mechanisms during sufu fermentation by examining relationships among bacteri...
This study presents a portable gas sensor system that achieves high performance while minimizing power consumption and production costs for biomedical applications. The proposed system integrates a low-power readout integrated circuit (ROIC) capable...
1 November 2025
As of the end of 2024, the NIH-funded Research Centers in Minority Institutions (RCMI) Program supported 21 specialized centers at minority-serving institutions. Its goal is to strengthen biomedical research infrastructure and enhance the capacity of...
Reductive soil disinfestation (RSD) and chemical soil fumigation (CSF) comprise the most popular pre-planting soil management strategies. Their efficiency in suppressing several plant diseases in agricultural production systems has been compared. How...
Student participation in educational decision making, for example, through data-informed decision making, can have a positive effect on student well-being, engagement, and performance. Teachers play a crucial role in student participation, and leader...
Community seedbanks promote conservation and the use of crop genetic diversity, as well as supporting farmer seed systems. This study analyses seed flow and access to crop genetic diversity over time in the Nakaseke, Rubaya, and Kibuga seedbanks of U...
A microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR) technique was tested at low-temperature heavy oil reservoirs (Russia). The bioaugmentation approach used is based on the introduction of hydrocarbon-oxidizing bacteria into the oilfield in combination with an...
Background: The purpose of this study is to find the effects of the international training program for enhancing intelligent capabilities through blended learning on computational thinking, artificial intelligence (AI) competency, and core competenci...
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