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Generalized Mechanism Model for Ecosystem Hysteresis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A simplified model examines ecosystem transitions into alternative states after disturbances by leveraging positive and negative feedbacks. It identifies critical tipping points and quantifies hysteresis. Tests conducted on lakes, grasslands, and pitcher‐plant leaves align closely with empirical data and enable the prediction of recovery trajectories ...
Yanbin Hao, Xin Wang, Jie Liu, Mingzi Wu, Jianqing Du, Kai Xue, Xiaoning Song, Xiaoyong Cui, Tong Zhao, Yanfen Wang   +9 more
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Microenvironment Self‐Adaptive Nanoarmor to Address Adhesion‐ and Colonization‐Related Obstacles in Impaired Intestine Promote Bacteriotherapy Against Parkinson's Disease

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A microenvironment self‐adaptive nanoarmor is developed to effectively address the adhesion‐ and colonization‐related challenges posed by multiple physiological and pathological characteristics in the intestine. L. plantarum@MPN@CS showed significant therapeutic potential in treating Parkinson's disease (PD), a model for extraintestinal disorders, as ...
Limeng Zhu, Yuyu Wu, Yingjie Chen, Xiyi Chen, Xingjie Zan, Yanlong Liu, Wujun Geng   +6 more
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Social Sins, Structural Virtues, and the Educational Challenge: Reflections on Caritas in Veritate and Laudato Si’

Religions
The aim of this article is to reflect on the nature of the structural sins in the present times and to offer light on the structural virtues that are in urgent demand for sustainable development of persons and peoples. Our analysis begins in Benedict XVI’
András Máté-Tóth, George Joseph Vellankal   +1 more
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What matters in free listing? A probabilistic interpretation of the salience index

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2019
Free listing is a data collection technique used in different subject areas to characterize a given cultural domain. Analysis of a set of lists from a human population allows inferences to be made about the cultural salience of the items in that domain ...
Leonardo da Silva Chaves, André Luiz Borba do Nascimento, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque   +2 more
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Extracellular Vesicles of Streptococcus anginosus Mediate Gastritis via Epithelial Barrier Disruption and Macrophage‐driven Inflammation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Streptococcus anginosus extracellular vesicles (SA‐EVs) accumulate in gastric tissue, disrupt epithelial tight junctions, and induce gastritis characterized by neutrophil infiltration and elevated cytokines (TNF‐α, IL‐6, IL‐17A). Proteomics identifies TMPC and FBP62 as key SA‐EVs virulence factors; their genetic deletion attenuates inflammation ...
Ying Gong, Lina Duan, Jie Xiao, Yulu Deng, Hongxia Wang, Yajie Zhang, Xiumei Hu, Haifang Wang, Taixue An, Xin Li, Yurong Qiu, Lei Zheng, Haixia Li   +12 more
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Uncertainty, innovation, and dynamic sustainable development

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2005
Sustainable development is a rich concept that has helped shape the discussion of human society’s interaction with the biosphere. However, the term “sustainable development” is contentious, and some dismiss it outright as an oxymoron.
Lenore Newman
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Medical ethnobotany of herbal practitioners in the Turkestan Range, southwestern Kyrgyzstan

Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae, 2016
This study recorded and analyzed traditional knowledge of medicinal plants in the Turkestan Range in southwestern Kyrgyzstan, where ethnobotanical knowledge has been largely under-documented to date. Data was collected through participant observation and
Lukas Pawera, Vladimir Verner, Celine Termote, Ishenbay Sodombekov, Alexander Kandakov, Nurudin Karabaev, Milan Skalicky, Zbynek Polesny   +7 more
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Telomere‐to‐Telomere Genomes Reveal that Multiscale Evolution Shapes the Largest Metabolic Arsenal of Diaporthe Fungi

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study presents the first telomere‐to‐telomere genomes and population resources for Diaporthe pathogens, uncovering the largest known fungal repertoire of secondary metabolite gene clusters. Structural variations and horizontal gene transfer drive cluster diversification, while specific rapidly evolving clusters control virulence, offering novel ...
Kainan Li, Chen Zhang, Zhichao Zhang, Jiaheng Cheng, Qiuyan Gao, Long Gao, Xiaolin Zhao, Wei Yan, Yuanchao Wang, Wenwu Ye   +9 more
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The role of kinship in knowledge about medicinal plants: evidence for context-dependent model-based biases in cultural transmission?

Acta Botânica Brasílica, 2019
The similarity in traditional knowledge of medicinal plants was evaluated to draw inferences about the most important models for local knowledge transmission.
Camilla de Carvalho de Brito, Washington Soares Ferreira-Júnior, Ulysses Paulino Albuquerque, Marcelo Alves Ramos, Taline Cristina da Silva, Eraldo Medeiros Costa-Neto, Patrícia Muniz de Medeiros   +6 more
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MGM as a Large‐Scale Pretrained Foundation Model for Microbiome Analyses in Diverse Contexts

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We present the Microbial General Model (MGM), a transformer‐based foundation model pretrained on over 260,000 microbiome samples. MGM learns contextualized microbial representations via self‐supervised language modeling, enabling robust transfer learning, cross‐regional generalization, keystone taxa discovery, and prompt‐guided generation of realistic,
Haohong Zhang, Yuli Zhang, Zixin Kang, Jiayun Xiong, Ronghua Yang, Kang Ning   +5 more
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