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Season and Disease [PDF]

Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine, 1928
The seasonal variations in disease, as is the case in the spread of infective diseases generally, depend upon three primary factors: (1) the presence of the micro-organisms of adequate virulence and infectivity; (2) the means of transmission to (3) the susceptible tissues of the susceptible individual.
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The Seasonality of Conflict

Conflict Management and Peace Science, 2020
This paper uses one of the largest changes to labor demand in developing countries—harvest—to examine how the returns to fighting vs. working impact the intensity of conflict. Exploiting the exogenous allocation and timing of harvest across Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan, we find that the onset of harvest reduces the number of insurgent attacks by ...
Jenny Guardado, Steven Pennings
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Biodegradable Wireless Soil Urea Sensor Using Metamaterial Perfect Absorber for Distributed Deployment in Precision Agriculture

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
In this study, we propose a biodegradable wireless soil urea sensor for precision agriculture. The sensor's electromagnetic response varies depending on the urea concentration, allowing the measurement of relative soil urea concentrations by analyzing the time‐transient electromagnetic response.
Yu Tanaami, Ken Sakabe, Tetsuya Yarimizo, Yasutaka Murakami, Tetsuo Kan, Hiroaki Onoe   +5 more
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Molecular Characterization and Phylogenetic Analysis of Centipedegrass [Eremochloa ophiuroides (Munro) Hack.] Based on the Complete Chloroplast Genome Sequence

Current Issues in Molecular Biology
Centipedegrass (Eremochloa ophiuroides) is an important warm-season grass plant used as a turfgrass as well as pasture grass in tropical and subtropical regions, with wide application in land surface greening and soil conservation in South China and ...
Haoran Wang, Yuan Zhang, Ling Zhang, Jingjing Wang, Hailin Guo, Junqin Zong, Jingbo Chen, Dandan Li, Ling Li, Jianxiu Liu, Jianjian Li   +10 more
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Continual Learning for Multimodal Data Fusion of a Soft Gripper

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Models trained on a single data modality often struggle to generalize when exposed to a different modality. This work introduces a continual learning algorithm capable of incrementally learning different data modalities by leveraging both class‐incremental and domain‐incremental learning scenarios in an artificial environment where labeled data is ...
Nilay Kushawaha, Egidio Falotico
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In Vivo Microplastic Detection With Photoacoustic Imaging

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Microplastics are posing an escalating threat to both ecological systems and human health. Yet, current methods for investigating their bioaccumulation are highly invasive, requiring destructive analysis of ex vivo tissues via mass spectrometry, dye labelling, or Raman microspectroscopy.
Joseph C. Bear, Olumide Ogunlade, Jayvian Mavi, Emily J. Deniszczyc, Daolong Chen, Heeva Javaheri, Paul Beard, Mark F. Lythgoe, Daniel J. Stuckey, P. Stephen Patrick   +9 more
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Properties of Rennet Cheese Made from Whole and Skimmed Summer and Winter Milk on a Traditional Polish Dairy Farm

Animals, 2020
The aim of this study was to compare the rheological and physicochemical parameters, as well as the organoleptic properties, of soft rennet cheese made from whole and skimmed milk in different seasons on a traditional family farm.
Grażyna Czyżak-Runowska, Jacek Antoni Wójtowski, Danuta Gogół, Janusz Wojtczak, Ewa Skrzypczak, Daniel Stanisławski   +5 more
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A Rare Allele of ST5 From Wild Rice Enhances Salt Tolerance in Rice

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A novel salt‐tolerance gene ST5W, characterized by a unique 36‐bp promoter insertion, is found exclusively in a small subset of Oryza rufipogon and is absent in cultivated rice. Field trials confirm ST5W significantly enhances rice yield across diverse genetic backgrounds under saline conditions.
Meng Xing, Jingfen Huang, Qiaoling Yuan, Ziyi Yang, Yanyan Wang, Mingchao Zhao, Yamin Nie, Rui Xu, Hongge Qian, Wenxi Chen, Qiaoling Zhang, Qi Du, Leiyue Geng, Yapeng Li, Ziyi Chen, Shizhuang Wang, Like Lou, Haiyuan Peng, Chongke Zheng, Xianzhi Xie, Xiaoming Zheng, Lifang Zhang, Lianguang Shang, Jiaqiang Sun, Qian Qian, Qingwen Yang, Weihua Qiao   +26 more
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Genome-Wide Identification and Expression Analysis of the PUB Gene Family in Zoysia japonica under Salt Stress

Plants
The U-box protein family of ubiquitin ligases is important in the biological processes of plant growth, development, and biotic and abiotic stress responses.
Daojin Sun, Jingya Xu, Haoran Wang, Hailin Guo, Yu Chen, Ling Zhang, Jianjian Li, Dongli Hao, Xiang Yao, Xiaohui Li   +9 more
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Photonic Time Crystals and Time‐Varying Electromagnetic Metamatter: A New Direction for Ultrafast Tunable Photonic and Microwave Materials and Devices

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Photonic time crystals (PTCs) are systems in which electromagnetic parameters are modulated periodically in time, producing momentum bandgaps via temporal scattering rather than spatial Bragg processes. This review examines the theoretical frameworks, modeling, and computational tools for time‐varying media, and summarizes experimental demonstrations ...
Ranjan Kumar Patel, Shriram Ramanathan, Ronald P. Jenkins, Michael J. Carter   +3 more
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