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Oklahoma has become a focal point in the national escalation of anti-2SLGBTQIA+ and anti-DEI efforts, emerging as one of the most aggressive states in proposing and advancing bills that undermine queer and trans rights across sectors, including public education, healthcare, free speech, and civil li...

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Image-based human age estimation has been a hot topic in the field of face attribute recognition. As the greatest dilemma of age estimation is the similar appearance of adjacent age labels, this paper presents a two-stage age estimation model based on the idea of coarse-to-fine decision strategy and...

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Casque-headed tree frogs (Lophyohylini) can have a very large and distinctive head characterised by hyperossification of their cranial skin. This type of skull was primarily associated with phragmosis, a behaviour in which the frog enters holes backwards and seals them with its head to prevent water...

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Understanding the effects of climate change on agricultural land green use efficiency (AGUE) is vital for shaping adaptive technologies and agricultural policies. Utilizing data from 30 Chinese provinces (2003–2022), this study applies the Geographically and Temporally Weighted Regression (GTWR) mod...

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This study explores the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in religious leadership in Germany, focusing on the interplay between technological innovation, theological principles, and human interaction. Drawing on qualitative methods, 23 Christian leaders and experts were interviewed to examine thei...

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Acidic hydrolysis of Hesperidin and Naringin, furnishing their aglycone moieties Hesperetin and Naringenin, respectively, is reported using sulfuric acid and water as a solvent, under microwave irradiation. This new economical procedure provides flavanones in very good yields, ~90% better than that...

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Dairy mastitis is a common dairy farming disease. It severely affects the health of dairy cows and the quality and yield of dairy products. This paper reviews the main current mastitis treatments and associated bacterial resistance. It emphasizes the importance of integrated resistance and treatment...

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The aim of this study was to analyze the activation of selected upper limb muscles. For the purposes of this article, we present results concerning the following muscles: triceps brachii, anterior and posterior deltoid, and trapezius in women aged 50 and above during simulated riding of the Torqway...

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The escalating threats posed by plant pathogens and the environmental repercussions of conventional agrochemicals necessitate sustainable agricultural solutions. This review focuses on plant growth-promoting microorganisms (PGPMs) such as bacteria, filamentous fungi, and yeasts, which play a pivotal...

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Federated learning (FL) is an advanced distributed machine learning method that effectively solves the data silo problem. With the increasing popularity of federated learning and the growing importance of privacy protection, federated learning methods that can securely aggregate models have received...

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Essential oils (EOs) are complex mixtures of mainly volatile terpenes and phenylpropanoids with strong biological activities. Screening their nematicidal activity against plant parasitic nematodes can yield important information on anti-nematodal chemical structures. In previous studies, the EO of w...

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Reproductive efficiency in cattle remains sub-optimal, with pregnancy rates often below 50%, despite fertilization rates approaching 100%, indicating that implantation failure and/or early embryonic loss are major limiting factors. This disparity highlights the need to understand the biological and...

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American citizens are significantly more likely to experience property crime victimization than violent crime victimization. During a staffing crisis, police prioritize limited resources in combating serious crime; however, property crimes remain impactful to the community. Therefore, agencies need...

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Rhizospheres harbor many beneficial microorganisms interacting with the plant ecosystem. However, in agriculture, there is a tendency to remove any plant that is different from that being cultivated. This work aimed to display the root microbial communities of native vegetation growing wild in agric...

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In the present article, the effect of artificial ageing on tensile mechanical properties and resistance to corrosion of aluminium alloy 2198-T3 was investigated. The results were obtained under the framework of the Greek National project “CorLi”, which was targeted to document the mechanical behavio...

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In a multi-cell network, interference management between adjacent cells is a key factor that determines the performance of the entire cellular network. In particular, in order to control inter-cell interference while providing a high data rate to users, it is very important for the base station (BS)...

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This study investigates the prevalence and impact of Agile practices by leveraging metadata from thousands of public GitHub repositories through a novel data-driven methodology. To facilitate this analysis, we developed the AgileScore index, a metric designed to identify and evaluate patterns, chara...

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In this paper, we present the concept of “sequencing economics”, consisting of (A) segmentation, (B) construction sequencing, and (C) functions. An agglomeration is organized into segments, and sequencing economics examines the sequential process of efficiently building such segments. The functions...

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Timely status updates are essential for Internet of Things (IoT) services. The freshness of these updates can be quantified using Age of Information (AoI). The worst-case behavior of AoI is evaluated by peak AoI (PAoI), denoting the maximum AoI just before each successful update. To characterize the...

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<em>Background:</em><strong> </strong>Although agri-food supply chains have become fundamental for food security throughout the world, some are associated with negative environmental and socioeconomic impacts. This study explores the possibilities of transforming the governan...

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