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PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.Avocados are a multibillion‐dollar global commodity, but their growing export market pressures local farmers to abandon local fruit tree diversity in favor of commercial cultivar production. Interviews with rural avocado farmers and households from the Southern Mexican Highlands, Pacific Coastal Honduras, and Western Nicaragua, as well as the genetic ...
Kevin Wann +4 more
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Phytotherapy Research, EarlyView.Salvia miltiorrhiza Bunge in metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular diseases: multi‐target actions on shared signaling pathways. ABSTRACT Metabolic syndrome (MetS) represents a clinical disorder characterized by the clustering of conditions including obesity, elevated blood sugar levels, and high lipid levels, which are intricately linked to the onset ...
Zhiyi Jia +6 more
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ADAPT: An Autonomous Forklift for Construction Site Operation
Journal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Efficient material logistics are critical in controlling costs and schedules in the construction industry. However, manual material handling remains prone to inefficiencies, delays, and safety risks. Autonomous forklifts offer a solution to streamline on‐site logistics, reducing reliance on human operators and mitigating labor shortages.
Johannes Huemer +12 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The application of circular economy, which aims to maximize efficiency and reduce waste, to renewable energy sources necessitates, given the intermittent nature of the latter, robust energy storage solutions to ensure grid stability and avoid wasting energy.
Ó. Martín‐Llorente +4 more
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SmartBot, EarlyView.Conventional industrial robots rely on predefined workflows and struggle to adapt to changing tasks and uncertain manufacturing environments. This review examines the development and key technologies of embodied intelligent industrial robots (EIIRs), highlighting a closed‐loop architecture that integrates human and industrial inputs, embodied ...
Jie Wang +7 more
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Safety Science and Technology, EarlyView.This paper introduces a conceptual framework for an AI‐enhanced smart boiler suit, shifting maritime surveyor safety from reactive to proactive monitoring. Through integrated sensor networks and edge AI analytics, the proposed architecture offers a robust modular roadmap for advancing intelligent personal protective equipment in hazardous offshore and ...
P. Katsinellos +4 more
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Communicative Drills: The Impact of Communicative Intent on Oral Proficiency
TESOL Quarterly, EarlyView.Abstract This exploratory study investigated the role of communicative intent in second language (L2) oral practice by comparing communicative and meaningful drills. English language learners played a game designed to elicit repeated use of the second conditional.
Jonathan Serfaty
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.Worldwide, transportation agencies have been involved in road mitigation efforts to reduce road mortality and promote connectivity of endangered species. Baseline data on how mammals respond to highway construction, however, are rarely collected in road mitigation and monitoring studies, including in the USA.
Thomas J. Yamashita +4 more
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Wildlife Biology, EarlyView.American crow Corvus brachyrhynchos is a common species throughout North America. Crows play a role in the ecology of multiple diseases and a single laboratory experiment has shown the potential for crows to pass infectious prions, such as those associated with chronic wasting disease (CWD), in their feces after being force‐fed with infected material ...
Tyler S. Walters +2 more
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Zoo Biology, EarlyView.Fecal glucocorticoid (GCM) and androgen metabolite (AM) concentrations were monitored for 3 months following the relocation of three eastern gray kangaroos (Macropus giganteus) between zoological facilities. Both metabolites showed high concentrations during the early postrelocation period, followed by a rapid decline and stabilization, suggesting ...
Laura Menchetti +9 more
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