Will Plant Genome Editing Play a Decisive Role in “Quantum-Leap” Improvements in Crop Yield to Feed an Increasing Global Human Population? by Anton V. Buzdin, Maxim V. Patrushev, Eugene D. Sverdlov

“…Food systems account for 21–34% of global carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions. Over the past half-century, water and land-use changes have significantly impacted ecosystems, biogeochemical cycles, biodiversity, and climate. …”
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Leaf Angle eXtractor: A high‐throughput image processing framework for leaf angle measurements in maize and sorghum by Sunil K. Kenchanmane Raju, Miles Adkins, Alex Enersen, Daniel Santana de Carvalho, Anthony J. Studer, Baskar Ganapathysubramanian, Patrick S. Schnable, James C. Schnable

“…Premise Maize yields have significantly increased over the past half‐century owing to advances in breeding and agronomic practices. …”
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Study of heating performance of radiant ceiling heating system and its impact on workers thermal comfort level of workers in typical industrial work shops by M. Aliabadi, G. Hesam, R. Rahimpoor

“…Introduction: Introduction: Thermal comforts are one of the most human concerns in working as was as living environments in the past half century. Thermal comfort is the condition in which people are satisfied with the thermal environment, mentally. …”
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Growth-Season Precipitation Variations in the Joint Area between the Asian Westerly Jet Area and the Climate Transition Zone over the Past Two Centuries by Bolin Sun, Long Ma, Tingxi Liu, Xing Huang

“…From the 19th century to the 1950s, the entire study area experienced a significant dry period that lasted for 20–45 years; the starting time of the dry period was gradually delayed from the west to the middle, and the wet period gradually grew shorter at an increasing rate. In the past half-century, this area experienced a significant drought period, and the drying rate was higher in the west and east regions than in the central region. …”
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Significant influences of extreme climate on autumn phenology in Central Asia grassland by Xinyue Gao, Zexing Tao, Junhu Dai

“…Over the past half-century, there has been a significant rise in the frequency and intensity of extreme climate events in dryland ecosystems. …”
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Dihydro-Resveratrol Attenuates Oxidative Stress, Adipogenesis and Insulin Resistance in In Vitro Models and High-Fat Diet-Induced Mouse Model via AMPK Activation by Chu-Shing Lam, Yi-Xuan Xia, Bai-Sen Chen, Yin-Xiao Du, Kang-Lun Liu, Hong-Jie Zhang

“…Management of obesity has become a prevalent strategy for preventing the diseases closely integrated with excess body weight such as diabetes over the last half century. Searching for therapeutic agents acting on oxidative stress, adipogenesis and insulin resistance is considered as an efficient approach to control obesity-related diseases. …”
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Savanna canopy trees under fire: long‐term persistence and transient dynamics from a stage‐based matrix population model by Patricia A. Werner, Stephanie J. Peacock

“…These include relatively intact, tall, open forests where traditional indigenous fire regimes have been largely replaced in the past half century by contemporary patterns with trees experiencing fire as often as three out of five years. …”
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Paternal and maternal age at pregnancy and autism spectrum disorders in offspring by Luh Putu Rihayani Budi, Mei Neni Sitaresmi, I Gusti Ayu Trisna Windiani

“…Background The prevalence of autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) has increased 10 times over the past half century, while paternal and maternal age at pregnancy has also increased. …”
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PROBLEMS OF CREATION OF AIRCRAFT CATEGORY PLANES ACCORDING TO ENVIRONMENTAL LIMITATIONS by Александр Васильевич Лось, Виктор Иванович Рябков, Татьяна Николаевна Середа

“…It is noted that these requirements are constantly being tightened, as a result of which the noise level of the world fleet of aircraft over the past half-century has decreased by more than 30 percent. …”
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Considering Performance in the Automated and Manual Coding of Sociolinguistic Variables: Lessons From Variable (ING) by Tyler Kendall, Charlotte Vaughn, Charlotte Vaughn, Charlie Farrington, Charlie Farrington, Kaylynn Gunter, Jaidan McLean, Chloe Tacata, Shelby Arnson

“…Impressionistic coding of sociolinguistic variables like English (ING), the alternation between pronunciations like talkin' and talking, has been a central part of the analytic workflow in studies of language variation and change for over a half-century. Techniques for automating the measurement and coding for a wide range of sociolinguistic data have been on the rise over recent decades but procedures for coding some features, especially those without clearly defined acoustic correlates like (ING), have lagged behind others, such as vowels and sibilants. …”
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Assessment of trends of air temperature based on 140-year observations of V.A. Mikhelson Meteorological Observatory by Aleksandr Ivanovich Belolubtsev, Vitaly Vitalievich Ilinich, Elena Aleksandrovna Dronova, Irina Fedorovna Asaulyak, Ivan Andreevich Kuznetsov

“…Based on a comprehensive analysis and logical conclusions, we made a hypothesis about the influence of intensive development of heated buildings around the meteorological station on the air temperature rise in the last half century; however, it is impossible to measure such an influence today, as well as the influence of global warming due to other factors.…”
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Enzo Ferroni (1921-2007): the History of an Eclectic Chemist by Luigi Dei

“…The history of his scientific and academic life offers a particular interest in a half-century cross-section of the history of chemistry in Italy and the entire world. …”
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Coherent control of electron spin qubits in silicon using a global field by E. Vahapoglu, J. P. Slack-Smith, R. C. C. Leon, W. H. Lim, F. E. Hudson, T. Day, J. D. Cifuentes, T. Tanttu, C. H. Yang, A. Saraiva, N. V. Abrosimov, H.-J. Pohl, M. L. W. Thewalt, A. Laucht, A. S. Dzurak, J. J. Pla

“…Abstract Silicon spin qubits promise to leverage the extraordinary progress in silicon nanoelectronic device fabrication over the past half century to deliver large-scale quantum processors. …”
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THE ECONOMIC CRISIS VERSUS THE CRISIS OF ECONOMICS AS A SCIENCE by Bogusław Fiedor

“…Ross (2005), the distinction of philosophical and historical-sociological strategies in this development, the author tries to prove that over the last half-century the development of economic science has been heavily influenced by the broadening acceptance of the criterion of instrumental effectiveness (Laudan–Mongin) in the appraisal of its scientific progress. …”
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The future of human malnutrition: rebalancing agency for better nutritional health by Jonathan C. K. Wells, Akanksha A. Marphatia, Gabriel Amable, Mario Siervo, Henrik Friis, J. Jaime Miranda, Hinke H. Haisma, David Raubenheimer

“…Paradoxically, the last half-century also saw the rapid emergence of obesity, first in high-income countries but now also in low- and middle-income countries. …”
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Exciting perspectives for Translational Myology in the Abstracts of the 2018Spring PaduaMuscleDays: Giovanni Salviati Memorial – Chapter IV - Abstracts of March 17, 2018 by Ugo Carraro

“…Myologists working in Padua (Italy) were able to continue a half-century tradition of studies of skeletal muscles, that started with a research on fever, specifically if and how skeletal muscle contribute to it by burning bacterial toxin. …”
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Evidences of the expanding Earth from space-geodetic data over solid land and sea level rise in recent two decades by Wenbin Shen, Ziyu Shen, Rong Sun, Yuri Barkin

“…This study shows that the oceanic thermal expansion is 1.0 ± 0.1 mm/a due to the temperature increase in recent half century, which coincides with the estimate provided by previous authors. …”
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Global health ethics: critical reflections on the contours of an emerging field, 1977–2015 by Gail Robson, Nathan Gibson, Alison Thompson, Solomon Benatar, Avram Denburg

“…Abstract Background The field of bioethics has evolved over the past half-century, incorporating new domains of inquiry that signal developments in health research, clinical practice, public health in its broadest sense and more recently sensitivity to the interdependence of global health and the environment. …”
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Quantitative analysis of the impacts of climate and land-cover changes on urban flood runoffs: a case of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania by Philip Mzava, Patrick Valimba, Joel Nobert

“…Over the past half-century, the risk of urban flooding in Dar es Salaam has increased due to changes in land cover coupled with climatic changes. …”
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Biological roles of momilactones: achievements, challenges, and promising approaches to exploit their beneficial properties by La Hoang Anh, La Hoang Anh, Tran Dang Khanh, Tran Dang Khanh, Tran Dang Xuan, Tran Dang Xuan

“…Moreover, challenges in researching these compounds are mainly due to difficulties in isolation procedures and the lack of commercial sources, which have been least improved over the last half-century. Accordingly, we propose promising strategies to address these present problems and promote the effectiveness of further research, including: i) to improve the efficiency of momilactone extraction and isolation from plant sources; ii) to increase momilactone production applying synthetic models; iii) to generate crops that accumulate greater momilactone contents through genetic engineering approaches; iv) to discover new applications that combine momilactones with other prospective substances for enhancing targeted biological properties and preventing undesirable impacts; and v) to employ smart farming for optimizing the application of momilactones, monitoring their levels, and promoting sustainable agriculture. …”
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