Microbiota Profiles of Hen Eggs from the Different Seasons and Different Sectors of Shanghai, China by Haiyan Gong, Yingqing Ma, Min Wang, Yumeng Gu, Ruipeng Deng, Bo Deng, Dongsheng Feng, Yiyi Han, Rongsheng Mi, Yan Huang, Yan Zhang, Weiyi Zhang, Zhaoguo Chen

“…Here, hen eggs collected from poultry farms over four seasons, as well as from markets in Shanghai, were analyzed with third-generation sequencing. …”
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Spatiotemporal distribution patterns of soil nematodes along an altitudinal gradient in the cold temperate zone of China by Fangyuan Shen, Chen Chen, Yan Zhang, Li Ji, Huifeng Liu, Lixue Yang

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The devil is in the details: Variable impacts of season, BMI, sampling site temperature, and presence of insects on the post-mortem microbiome by Aaron M. Tarone, Allison E. Mann, Allison E. Mann, Yan Zhang, Roxanne R. Zascavage, Elizabeth A. Mitchell, Edgar Morales, Travis W. Rusch, Travis W. Rusch, Michael S. Allen

“…In the current study, we investigated the impact of BMI, sex, insect activity, season, repeat sampling, decomposition time, and temperature on the microbial community sampled from donated human remains in San Marcos, TX using a high-throughput gene-fragment metabarcoding approach.Materials and methodsIn the current study, we investigated the impact of BMI, sex, insect activity, season, repeat sampling, decomposition time, and temperature on the microbial community sampled from donated human remains in San Marcos, TX using a high-throughput gene-fragment metabarcoding approach.ResultsWe found that season, temperature at the sampling site, BMI, and sex had a significant effect on the post-mortem microbiome, the presence of insects has a homogenizing influence on the total bacterial community, and that community consistency from repeat sampling decreases as the decomposition process progresses. …”
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Analysis of Seasonal Water Characteristics and Water Quality Responses to the Land Use/Land Cover Pattern: A Case Study in Tianjin, China by Linshan Zhang, Lifu Zhang, Donghui Zhang, Yi Cen, Sa Wang, Yan Zhang, Liaoran Gao

“…This study discusses the seasonal changes of surface water and impact of land use/land cover pattern on water quality at a macro scale, and highlighted the need to improve surface water quality in Tianjin. …”
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Dynamics of Microbial Biomass, Nitrogen Mineralization and Crop Uptake in Response to Placement of Maize Residue Returned to Chinese Mollisols over the Maize Growing Season by Yan Gao, Aizhen Liang, Yan Zhang, Neil McLaughlin, Shixiu Zhang, Xuewen Chen, Haifeng Zheng, Ruqin Fan

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Submarine Groundwater Discharge in a Coastal Bay: Evidence from Radon Investigations by Manhua Luo, Yan Zhang, Hailong Li, Xuejing Wang, Kai Xiao

“…The time series of ²²²Rn concentrations in nearshore seawater were monitored continuously over several tidal cycles at two fixed sites (Tuandao (TD) and Hongdao (HD)) during the dry season in spring and the wet season in autumn of 2016. …”
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Short-Term Peak-Shaving Operation of Head-Sensitive Cascaded Hydropower Plants Based on Spillage Adjustment by Shengli Liao, Yan Zhang, Benxi Liu, Zhanwei Liu, Zhou Fang, Shushan Li

“…There are many cascaded hydropower plants with poor regulation performance and sensitive water heads accompanied by water spillage during the wet season. Faced with the increasing load peak–valley differences, it is necessary to tap the peak-shaving potential of such head-sensitive cascaded hydropower plants (HSCHPs) because relying solely on hydropower plants with better regulation performance for peak shaving is inadequate. …”
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Immunization technologies: Time to consider new preventative solutions for respiratory syncytial virus infections by Catherine Weil-Olivier, David Salisbury, José Antonio Navarro-Alonso, Chryssoula Tzialla, Yan Zhang, Susanna Esposito, Fabio Midulla, Tobias Tenenbaum

“…New technologies for the prevention of infectious diseases are emerging to address unmet medical needs, in particular, the use of long-acting monoclonal antibodies (mAb) to prevent Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) lower respiratory tract disease in infants during their first RSV season. The lack of precedent for mAbs for broad population protection creates challenges in the assessment of upcoming prophylactic long-acting mAbs for RSV, with associated consequences in legislative and registration categorization, as well as in recommendation, funding, and implementation pathways. …”
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Distribution of Zooplankton Functional Groups in the Chaohu Lake Basin, China by Li Wu, Lei Ji, Xiaojuan Chen, Jiajia Ni, Yan Zhang, Ming Geng

“…In the ecosystem, network analysis showed that protozoan algae/protozoan bacteria (PA/PB), rotifer particle filter (RF), and rotifer small predator (RSG) were important in the spring, summer, and autumn that and small zooplankton filter (SCF) was important in spring, autumn, and winter, while the importance of other ZFGs changed with seasons. Redundancy analysis showed that the environmental factors with a strong correlation between the ZFG compositions differed in each season. …”
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Pore‐water exchange flushes blue carbon from intertidal saltmarsh sediments into the sea by Xiaogang Chen, Isaac R. Santos, Duofei Hu, Lucheng Zhan, Yan Zhang, Ze Zhao, Shengjie Hu, Ling Li

“…Radon‐derived pore‐water exchange released 1.8 times more sediment carbon in the wet than in dry season. Both crab burrow flushing and delayed seepage of surface water infiltrating sediments during the spring tide released sediment carbon to surface waters. …”
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The Effects of Six-Month Subalpine Training on the Physical Functions and Athletic Performance of Elite Chinese Cross-Country Skiers by Zhihong Sun, Yan Zhang, Datao Xu, Yaqi Fei, Qiner Qiu, Yaodong Gu

“…Purpose: This study investigated the changes in the blood indices, specific athletic abilities, and physical fitness of outstanding cross-country skiers, trained in the subalpine; Methods: Twenty-eight athletes (twenty males and eight females) from the National Cross-country Ski Training Team completed sub-alpine training during the 2020–2021 snow season. The athletes′ physical functions were evaluated by collecting blood from elbow veins and measuring blood biochemical indexes. …”
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Spatial-Temporal Evolution Characteristics and Driving Force Analysis of NDVI in the Minjiang River Basin, China, from 2001 to 2020 by Junyi Wang, Yifei Fan, Yu Yang, Luoqi Zhang, Yan Zhang, Shixiang Li, Yali Wei

“…The results show that the average NDVI in the growing season was 0.60 in the Minjiang River Basin in the past twenty years, with a growth rate of 0.002/a. …”
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Rain Shelter Cultivation Reduces Root Rot Incidence of <i>Panax notoginseng</i> by Altering Root Exudates and Bacterial Communities under Micro-Irrigation and Fertilization by Yan Zhang, Jiaping Liang, Zhenya Tang, Qiliang Yang

“…The high incidence of root rot in <i>P. notoginseng</i> during the rainy season has restricted the development of the industry. …”
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Metabolic Regulation and Lipidomic Remodeling in Relation to Spermidine-induced Stress Tolerance to High Temperature in Plants by Zhou Li, Bizhen Cheng, Yue Zhao, Lin Luo, Yan Zhang, Guangyan Feng, Liebao Han, Yan Peng, Xinquan Zhang

“…Based on the analysis of metabolomics, the amino acids and vitamins metabolism, biosynthesis of secondary metabolites, and lipids metabolism were main metabolic pathways regulated by the Spd in cool-season white clover under heat stress. Further analysis of lipidomics found the <i>TrSAMS</i>-transgenic plants maintained relatively higher accumulations of total lipids, eight phospholipids (PC, phosphatidylcholine; PG, phosphatidylglycerol; PS, phosphatidylserine; CL, cardiolipin; LPA, lysophosphatidic acid; LPC, lyso phosphatidylcholine; LPG, lyso phosphatidylglycerol; and LPI, lyso phosphatidylinositol), one glycoglycerolipid (DGDG, digalactosyl diacylglycerol), and four sphingolipids (Cer, ceramide; CerG2GNAc1, dihexosyl N-acetylhexosyl ceramide; Hex1Cer, hexosyl ceramide; and ST, sulfatide), higher ratio of DGDG: monogalactosyl diacylglycerol (MGDG), and lower unsaturation level than wild-type <i>Arabidopsis</i><i>thaliana</i> in response to heat stress. …”
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Development and validation of near-infrared spectroscopy for the prediction of forage quality parameters in Lolium multiflorum by Zhongfu Yang, Gang Nie, Ling Pan, Yan Zhang, Linkai Huang, Xiao Ma, Xinquan Zhang

“…Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum) is an important cool-season, annual forage crop for the grassland rotation system in Southern China. …”
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Optimization of N Fertilizer Type and Ridge–Furrow Ratio to Improve Resource Use Efficiency and Grain Yield of Rain-Fed Winter Wheat in Loess Plateau, China by Shengcai Qiang, Yan Zhang, Junliang Fan, Fucang Zhang, Wen Lin, Min Sun, Zhiqiang Gao, Xiwang Tang

“…Two nitrogen fertilizer types (traditional urea (TU) and controlled-release urea (CRU)) and four planting patterns (conventional flat planting (F) and the RFPM system of 20 cm ridges with 40 cm furrows (R₂F₄), 40 cm ridges with 40 cm furrows (R₄F₄), and 60 cm ridges with 40 cm furrows (R₆F₄)) were tested from September 2018 to June 2021 during the winter wheat growing season. It was found that the RFPM system can increase soil thermal time (TT_soil) from 41.0 to 152.1 °C d compared to the F. …”
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Strategy for matching fertilizer application with soil water before sowing can stabilize maize productivity under rainwater harvesting and mulching planting in dry areas: A six-yea... by Donghua Liu, Zujiao Shi, Qian Ma, Yan Zhang, Tie Cai, Peng Zhang, Zhikuan Jia

“…The amount of fertilizer that obtains the best yield and maximum economic benefit in the current year can be evaluated according to the soil water conditions before sowing in order to maximize the production of spring maize in the current season. The results obtained in this study provide a simple method for determining the amount of fertilizer based on water availability to improve and stabilize the crop production efficiency in arid regions.…”
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Determination of icariside, hyperoside and psoralen in food by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry by Sufang Fan, Junmei Ma, Xiaoxian Yuan, Xu Wang, Yi Wang, Yan Zhang

“…The samples were extracted with 70% methanol, the solid and semi-solid hotpot seasoning samples were purified by solid phase extraction column, and then determined by HPLC-MS/MS. …”
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The Throughfall, Stemflow, and Canopy Interception Loss in Corn and Soybean Fields in Northeast China by Jilei Wang, Yanqing Liu, Baoguo Li, Zizhong Li, Yan Zhang, Shuai Zhang, Yafei Pan, Feixia Zhang

“…The volume of <i>TF</i>, stemflow (<i>SF</i>), and canopy interception loss (<i>CI</i>) of two growing seasons from 2019 to 2020 accounted for approximately 58.5%, 30.1%, and 11.4% of the gross rainfall (<i>GR</i>) of two growing seasons in corn fields, and 78.0%, 7.5%, and 14.5% of the <i>GR</i> in the soybean field, respectively. …”
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The current distribution of tick species in Inner Mongolia and inferring potential suitability areas for dominant tick species based on the MaxEnt model by Rui Ma, Chunfu Li, Haoqiang Tian, Yan Zhang, Xinyu Feng, Jian Li, Wei Hu

“…Dermacentor nuttalli, D. silvarum, and I. persulcatus are predominantly found in regions such as Xilin Gol and Hulunbuir. Temperature seasonality (Bio4), elevation (elev), and precipitation seasonality (Bio15) were the primary variables impacting the distribution of three tick species. …”
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