Impact of interspecific competition on African wild dogs (Lycaon pictus) in an ecosystem with artificial perennial water provision by Sandoval Serés, ME

“…Finally, I discussed water management strategies to help decrease the level of interspecific competition on African wild dogs and assist in their conservation (Chapter 5). My main results show that: a) prey conservation mainly in low waterhole density areas is crucial to decrease food resource competition between African wild dogs with large predators (Chapter 2); b) areas with too high waterhole densities increased the kleptoparasitism risk on African wild dogs and hence the risk of agonistic encounters with dominant predators through an increase on the number of dominant predators arriving at playback locations (Chapter 3); c) African wild dogs preferred temporal partitioning over spatial partitioning to avoid large predators, and African wild dogs were able to co-occur in areas (rich in prey) with high aggregation and density of dominant predators as long as there were enough permanent waterhole densities (at least ~0.01 waterholes per km²) and not too high hyaena densities (above ~14 hyaenas/100km²) (Chapter 4). …”

WHAT A MUSHROOM LIVES FOR : Matsutake and the Worlds They Make / by Hathaway, Michael J., author 656068

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Layer-by-Layer Nanoparticles for Cytokine Delivery by Pires, Ivan S.

“…When evaluated for its effectiveness in this highly aggressive model, two doses could significantly enhance survival compared to even five times (5x) the amount of free cytokine. Remarkably, while the model was non-responsive to checkpoint inhibitor (CPI) therapy with anti-PD1 and anti-CTLA4, when combined with LbL-IL-12-NPs, we achieved complete responses with robust immune memory induction. …”
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From Research to Search: Technologies and Techniques of Legal Research, 1880-1980 by Reiss Sorokin, Alex

“…It shows that at the same time as the system was likened to human dialogue, it offered a substantially different interaction with court cases, a process that altered the epistemic and social setting of legal research. Chapter five considers the reactions of OBAR’s early users as communication consoles were placed in law firms and libraries across Ohio in the 1970s. …”
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Phase measurements based indoor visible light positioning systems by Zhang, Sheng

“…The scheme with one extra transmission frequency is added on the transmitter side, with totally five signals carrying four distance information. …”
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Adversarial robustness of deep reinforcement learning by Qu, Xinghua

“…Furthermore, experiments on five Atari games firmly verify the superiority of our approach in terms of boosting adversarial robustness compared to other state-of-the-art methods. …”
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Priorities to inform research on marine plastic pollution in Southeast Asia by Omeyer, Lucy C. M., Duncan, Emily M., Aiemsomboon, Kornrawee, Beaumont, Nicola, Bureekul, Sujaree, Cao, Bin, Carrasco, Luis R., Chavanich, Suchana, Clark, James R., Cordova, Muhammad R., Couceiro, Fay, Cragg, Simon M., Dickson, Neil, Failler, Pierre, Ferraro, Gianluca, Fletcher, Stephen, Fong, Jenny, Ford, Alex T., Gutierrez, Tony, Shahul Hamid, Fauziah, Hiddink, Jan G., Hoa, Pham T., Holland, Sophie I., Jones, Lowenna, Jones, Nia H., Koldewey, Heather, Lauro, Federico M., Lee, Charlotte, Lewis, Matt, Marks, Danny, Matallana-Surget, Sabine, Mayorga-Adame, Claudia G., McGeehan, John, Messer, Lauren F., Michie, Laura, Miller, Michelle A., Mohamad, Zeeda F., Nor, Nur Hazimah Mohamed, Müller, Moritz, Neill, Simon P., Nelms, Sarah E., Onda, Deo Florence L., Ong, Joyce J. L., Pariatamby, Agamuthu, Phang, Sui C., Quilliam, Richard, Robins, Peter E., Salta, Maria, Sartimbul, Aida, Shakuto, Shiori, Skov, Martin W., Taboada, Evelyn B., Todd, Peter A., Toh, Tai Chong, Valiyaveettil, Suresh, Viyakarn, Voranop, Wonnapinij, Passorn, Wood, Louisa E., Yong, Clara L. X., Godley, Brendan J.

“…Using an inductive method, 21 research questions emerged under five non-predefined key themes, grouping them according to which: (1) characterise marine plastic pollution in Southeast Asia; (2) explore its movement and fate across the region; (3) describe the biological and chemical modifications marine plastic pollution undergoes; (4) detail its environmental, social, and economic impacts; and, finally, (5) target regional policies and possible solutions. …”
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Synthesis of densely functionalized pyrroles from unprotected carbohydrates by Xia, Mengxin

“…The reaction methodology demonstrates a simple upcycling of carbohydrates to highly functionalized N-heterocyclic compounds. In Chapter Five, the reaction between α-hydroxyketones, oxoacetonitriles, and primary amines selectively gave N-substituted 2,3,5-functionalized 3-cyanopyrroles in up to 90% isolated yields. …”
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Neural abstractive summarization: improvements at the sequence-level by Ravaut, Mathieu

“…Automatic text summarization has made a fantastic leap forward in the last five to ten years, fueled by the rise of deep learning systems. …”
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Colloidal quantum dot light-emitting diode architectures for high performance by Leck, Kheng Swee

“…Here an improvement in the device performance of over five-folds was obtained with the proposed device architecture in comparison to the reference device in which the QD layer is deposited between the HTL and the ETL. …”
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“British English is much more prestigious, everybody knows that!”: reproducing and resisting hegemonic language ideologies in Chilean English teacher education by Pérez Andrade, Gonzalo

“…As prospective teachers usually spend four to five years in training, teacher educators play a crucial role in the formation and transformation of their trainees’ beliefs about English language use and users (Gimenez et al, 2018). …”
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Characterization of Newcastle disease virus (NDV) isolated from NDV vaccinated broiler farms and investigation of vaccine efficacy against challenge with Velogenic genotype VII NDV by Shahrestani, Kiarash Roohani

“…Sequencing and phylogenetic analysis based on the F gene of five NDV isolates (IBS001 to IBS005) showed that the viruses belong to genotype VII and sub-genotype VIId of NDV, with F cleavage site motif of 112RRRKRF117. …”
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Adaptive management framework for growth response analysis of tomato in controlled environment plant production systems by Shamshiri, Ramin

“…Results of ER analysis indicated possible savings of energy up to 62% at growth stage=1, 17% at stage=2 and 30% at stage=3 to 5, in providing ideal climate condition for closed-field production of tomato. …”
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Characterization of exopolysaccharides from probiotic Lactobacillus strains isolated from traditional Malaysian foods by Suliman, Eilaf Suliman Khalil

“…Moreover, the optimal values for the tested variables were: 41 and 39.5 °C for incubation temperature, pH 6.4 and 6.5, and the incubation times were 33.7 and 48 h for Lb. reuteri and Lb. pentosus, respectively. …”
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Ultrahigh electromechanical response from competing ferroic orders by Lin, Baichen, Ong, Khuong Phuong, Yang, Tiannan, Zeng, Qibin, Hui, Hui Kim, Ye, Zhen, Sim, Celine, Yen, Zhihao, Yang, Ping, Dou, Yanxin, Li, Xiaolong, Gao, Xingyu, Tan, Ivan Chee Kiang, Lim, Zhi Shiuh, Zeng, Shengwei, Luo, Tiancheng, Xu, Jinlong, Tong, Xin, Li, Patrick Wen Feng, Ren, Minqin, Zeng, Kaiyang, Sun, Chengliang, Ramakrishna, Seeram, Breese, Mark B. H., Boothroyd, Chris, Lee, Chengkuo, Singh, David J., Lam, Yeng Ming, Liu, Huajun

“…These films show effective piezoelectric coefficients above 5,000 pm V-1 because of electric-field-induced antiferroelectric-ferroelectric phase transitions. …”
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Rapid single pot synthesis of hierarchical Bi2WO6 microspheres/RGO nanocomposite and its application in energy storage: A supercritical water approach by Shetty, Manjunath, Manickavasakam, Karnan, Sabbanahalli, Chethan, Bekal, Chandrakantha, Izan Izwan, Misnon, Subrahmanya P, Ashwath, Roy, Kunal, Shivaramu, Prasanna Doddakunche, Baloor, Satish Shenoy, Rangappa, Dinesh

“…The application of novel three-dimensional (3D) architectures in energy storage has fascinated researchers for a long time. The fast-paced technological advancements require reliable rapid synthesis techniques for developing multi-metal oxide (MMO) nanostructures. …”
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Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence (SIF): Towards a Better Understanding of Vegetation Dynamics and Carbon Uptake in Arctic-Boreal Ecosystems by Cheng, Rui

“…To address this limitation and further advance our understanding of the Arctic-Boreal carbon cycle, this review advocates for fostering a SIF network providing long-term and continuous measurements across spatial scales. …”
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Predicting drivers’ route trajectories in last-mile delivery using a pair-wise attention-based pointer neural network by Mo, Baichuan, Wang, Qingyi, Guo, Xiaotong, Winkenbach, Matthias, Zhao, Jinhua

“…Results from an extensive case study on real operational data from Amazon’s last-mile delivery operations in the US show that our proposed method can significantly outperform traditional optimization-based approaches and other machine learning methods (such as the Long Short-Term Memory encoder–decoder and the original pointer network) in finding stop sequences that are closer to high-quality routes executed by experienced drivers in the field. …”
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Insights into Li+ Storage Mechanisms, Kinetics, and Reversibility of Defect-Engineered and Functionalized Multi-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Enhanced Energy Storage by Kong, Lingping, Zhu, Yuntong, Williams, P. Jason, Kabbani, Mohamad, Brushett, Fikile R., Rupp, Jennifer L. M.

“…The superior electrochemical performance of defect-engineered MWCNT-COOH allows for an increase in the energy density and a decrease in the charging time of LIBs, while maintaining a long lifetime and other performance metrics. Overall, this study provides crucial insights into Li+ storage mechanisms, kinetics, and reversibility of defect-engineered MWCNT materials and their synthesis for future battery designs.…”
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The Relationship between Linguistic Representations in Biological and Artificial Neural Networks by Kauf, Carina

“…The scientific tools for investigating human-unique capacities, such as language, have long been limited. For example, we do not have the option to learn about the neural circuits that support these capabilities by studying simpler systems than the human brain, such as animal models. …”
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