Transcriptome analysis revealed the regulation of gibberellin and the establishment of photosynthetic system promote rapid seed germination and early growth of seedling in pearl mi... by Bingchao Wu, Min Sun, Huan Zhang, Dan Yang, Chuang Lin, Imran Khan, Xiaoshan Wang, Xinquan Zhang, Gang Nie, Guangyan Feng, Yanhong Yan, Zhou Li, Yan Peng, Linkai Huang

“…Abstract Background Seed germination is the most important stage for the formation of a new plant. This process starts when the dry seed begins to absorb water and ends when the radicle protrudes. …”
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Towards low-power yet high-performance networks-on-chip by Park, Sunghyun, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Vessels of Transfer: Allegories of Afrofuturism in Jeff Mills and Janelle Monáe by tobias c. van Veen

“…Or does it tend toward an unhinging of allegory, in which the coordinates of blackness, but also those of linear temporality and terrestial subjectivity, are transformed, subject to a <em>becoming</em>? </p><!--EndFragment-->…”
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Impacts of COVID-19-related social distancing measures on personal environmental sound exposures by Lauren M Smith, Linyan Wang, Kuba Mazur, Michael Carchia, Glen DePalma, Reza Azimi, Samantha Mravca, Richard L Neitzel

“…Daily mean L _EX8h exposures across two time periods, a baseline period (before the first known US COVID-19 death at the time of analysis) and an intervention period (starting with each state’s first COVID-related public health social distancing announcement and ending on April 22, 2020) were defined to assess changes in sound exposure. …”
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Gray (<i>Oreochromis niloticus</i> x <i>O. aureus</i>) and Red (<i>Oreochromis</i> spp.) Tilapia Show Equal Susceptibility and Proinflammatory Cytokine Responses to Experimental Ti... by Kizito Kahoza Mugimba, Shlomit Tal, Saurabh Dubey, Stephen Mutoloki, Arnon Dishon, Øystein Evensen, Hetron M. Munang’andu

“…The duration of the mortality period from onset to cessation was similar for the two species, starting at 2&#8722;3 days post challenge (dpc) with a median at 10&#8722;11 dpi and ending on 20&#8722;22 dpi. …”
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The association between adherence with oral bisphosphonates and the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women by Vanessa Rouach, Inbal Goldshtein, Assaf Buch, Raphael Catane, Gabriel Chodick, Naftali Stern, Varda Shalev, Daniel Cohen

“…Background: Several observational studies have suggested a protective effect of oral bisphosphonates (BP) on the risk of breast cancer, but no such association has been seen in randomized control trials. …”
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Carlo Rovelli, L’ordine del tempo by Alessandra Zanelli

“…«What we call “time” is a complex collection of structures, of layers» (p. 11) The more scientists have studied time with the methods and tools of modern physics and more time, like a speck of snow between their hands, has gradually flaked, layer by layer. …”
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Knowledge models as agents of meaninful learning and knowledge creation. by Fermín María González García, Jorge Fernando Veloz Ortiz, Iovanna Alejandra Rodríguez Moreno, Luis Efrén Velos Ortiz, Beatriz Guardián Soto, Antoni Ballester Valori

“…--[if gte mso 10]> <style> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin-top:0cm; mso-para-margin-right:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:10.0pt; mso-para-margin-left:0cm; line-height:115%; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-ansi-language:ES; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} </style> <![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: ";Times New Roman";; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;" lang="EN-GB">The educational change that pushes the current context requires a shift in the unfortunately predominant positivist-behaviourist model that favours mechanical      memoristic learning, ideal breeding ground for the existence and maintenance of conceptual errors, to another cognitive-constructivist that stimulates meaningful learning to allow students to build and master knowledge, therefore to be more creative and critical.…”
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Examination of heat treatments at preservation of grape must by Péter Korzenszky, Erik Molnár

“…The treatment of harvested fresh grape juice has a big influence on end product quality. It is our experiments we examined the same grape must with four different methods in closed and in open spaces to determine CO₂ concentration change. …”
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أدبية الخطاب الشعري في وصية أبي مروان الجزيري الأندلسي ت394هـ لأبنائه by إسلام ربيع السعيد عطية

“…After analyzing the discourse and reflecting its semantic content, the study researched the linguistic, rhetorical and rhythmic properties and techniques of the discourse. Then the study ended with a summary of the most prominent findings of the study.…”
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Akdeniz Üniversitesi’nde taşeron sağlık işçilerinin işçi sağlığı ve iş güvenliği durum tespiti/Due diligence of occupational health and safety of subcontractor health workers in A... by Mustafa Cumhur İzgi, Hafize Öztürk Türkmen

“…<strong>Results</strong>: 62.5% of the participants stated that they had not had any health risk education before they started to work, 82.8% stated that they were not informed by the employer about the potential risks, 85.2% stated that no vaccination was provided, 57.0% stated that the protective equipment was not sufficient, 73.4% stated that the job they perform has a health risk, 71.1% stated that working for a subcontractor effects their health negatively, 94.6% stated that working as a permanent staff member is secure. …”
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Aprovechamiento de las propiedades funcionales del jengibre (zingiber officinale) en la elaboración de condimento en polvo, infusión filtrante y aromatizante para quema directa. by Oswaldo Acuña, Alejandra Torres

“…Theresults of the extraction percentage, showed higher conservation of active ingredients in the drying at 75C andit is interesting to note that during the first 90min, generated greater moisture loss in contrast to temperatures of65C and 55C, these being of 88 %, 83% and 78% respectively. From a technological standpoint and nutrition,thermal processes are designed with high temperatures at short times, are important to avoid nutritional losses andfunctional by the excessive heat during drying, for this reason, the drying process started at 75C during the first90 min, and ended at 55C to reach equilibrium moisture content of 12 %. …”
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Acute Effects of High-Frequency Insular Stimulation on Interictal Epileptiform Discharge Rates in Patients with Refractory Epilepsy by Thi Phuoc Yen Tran, Antoine Dionne, Denahin Toffa, David Bergeron, Sami Obaid, Manon Robert, Alain Bouthillier, Elie Bou Assi, Dang Khoa Nguyen

“…For each patient, epileptiform activity was analyzed for a total of 80 min, starting 20 min prior to stimulation set 1 (S1), and ending 20 min after stimulation set 2 (S2). …”
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The changes of the polyphenol content and antioxidant activity in potato tubers (Solanum tuberosum L.) due to nitrogen fertilization by Diana Hrabovská, Peter Kováčik, Zuzana Poláková, Jaromír Lachman, Judita Bystrická, Janette Musilová

“…The study also confirmed a strong statistical correlation between the content of polyphenols and the content of antioxidant activity has been confirmed <br /> (sign. …”
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Seasonal Dynamics of Phlebotomine Sand Fly Species Proven Vectors of Mediterranean Leishmaniasis Caused by Leishmania infantum. by Bulent Alten, Carla Maia, Maria Odete Afonso, Lenea Campino, Maribel Jiménez, Estela González, Ricardo Molina, Anne Laure Bañuls, Jorian Prudhomme, Baptiste Vergnes, Celine Toty, Cécile Cassan, Nil Rahola, Magali Thierry, Denis Sereno, Gioia Bongiorno, Riccardo Bianchi, Cristina Khoury, Nikolaos Tsirigotakis, Emmanouil Dokianakis, Maria Antoniou, Vasiliki Christodoulou, Apostolos Mazeris, Mehmet Karakus, Yusuf Ozbel, Suha K Arserim, Ozge Erisoz Kasap, Filiz Gunay, Gizem Oguz, Sinan Kaynas, Nikoloz Tsertsvadze, Lamzira Tskhvaradze, Ekaterina Giorgobiani, Marina Gramiccia, Petr Volf, Luigi Gradoni

“…Adults ended the activity starting from mid September through November, without significant correlation with latitude/mean annual temperature of sites. …”
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Medical treatment of animals in slavs in the middle ages by V. Prysyazhnyuk

“…Following the custom at the time of treatment, describe the treatment of each disease, as it is today in surgery, that is, starting from the head and ending at the feet. When the doctor could not make the correct diagnosis, he called the horse sick and recommended to treat it with a mixture consisting of butter, eggs and salt. …”
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State of the Art Conservation & Gentrification Methodology An Assessment of Renovation Projects of Downtown Cairo 2023 مناهج الحفاظ والارتقاء الاجتماعي – تقييم مشروعات التحسين، منط... by Aly Kamal Kandil

“…Gentrification, as a new domain for research and analysis, is a theoretical process which has debatable impacts. …”
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Problems faced by Syrian refugees and asylum seekers in Switzerland by Nikolai Kiselev, Monique Pfaltz, Matthis Schick, Martha Bird, Pernille Hansen, Marit Sijbrandij, Anne M. de Graaff, Ulrich Schnyder, Naser Morina

“…The Syrian Civil War, which started in 2011, has led to a massive number of Syrians seeking refuge and asylum in European countries, including Switzerland. …”
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Genetic polymorphism of histidine rich protein 2 in Plasmodium falciparum isolates from different infection sources in Yunnan Province, China by Ying Dong, Shuping Liu, Yan Deng, Yanchun Xu, Mengni Chen, Yan Liu, Jingpo Xue

“…All 250 PfHRP2 strands ended with a type 12 amino acid repeat, 98.0% (245/250) started with a type 1 repetition and 2.0% (5/250) with a type 2 repetition. …”
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The Effects of Weaning Methods on Gut Microbiota Composition and Horse Physiology by Núria Mach, Aline Foury, Sandra Kittelmann, Fabrice Reigner, Marco Moroldo, Maria Ballester, Diane Esquerré, Julie Rivière, Guillaume Sallé, Philippe Gérard, Marie-Pierre Moisan, Léa Lansade

“…In the P method, mares were separated from foals at progressively increasing intervals every day, starting from five min during the fourth week prior to weaning and ending with 6 h during the last week before weaning. …”
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