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Reference vegetation for restoration? Three vegetation maps compared across 76 nature reserves in Uganda and Kenya

Jens‐Peter Barnekow Lillesø, Davide Barsotti, James Kalema, Paulo vanBreugel et al. • Ecosphere (2024)

Abstract Forest and landscape restoration are increasingly popular nature‐based solutions to mitigate climate change and safeguard biodiversity. Restoration planning and monitoring implies that a reference ecosystem has been defined to whic...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/ecs2.70030

Association Mapping of Seed Coat Color Characteristics for Near-Isogenic Lines of Colored Waxy Maize Using Simple Sequence Repeat Markers

Tae Hyeon Heo, Hyeon Park, Nam-Wook Kim, Jungeun Cho et al. • Plants (2024)

Waxy maize is mainly cultivated in South Korea for the production of food and snacks, and colored maize with increased anthocyanin content is used in the production of functional foods and medicinal products. Association mapping analysis (A...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/plants13152126

Brassinosteroid-lipid membrane interaction under low and high temperature stress in model systems

Elżbieta Rudolphi-Szydło, Barbara Dyba, Anna Janeczko, Dariusz Latowski et al. • BMC Plant Biology (2022)

Abstract Background In earlier studies [1], we indicated that applying brassinosteroids (BRs) to lipids that had been isolated from plants altered the physicochemical properties of the monolayers. A continuation of these dependencies using ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s12870-022-03619-4

A native parasitic plant and soil microorganisms facilitate a native plant co‐occurrence with an invasive plant

Junmin Li, Ayub M. O. Oduor, Feihai Yu, Ming Dong • Ecology and Evolution (2019)

Abstract Invasive plants often interact with antagonists that include native parasitic plants and pathogenic soil microbes, which may reduce fitness of the invaders. However, to date, most of the studies on the ecological consequences of an...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/ece3.5407

Study on Three Sarcocapnos Species as Potential Sources of Bioactive Compounds: Relation between Phenolic Content and Bioactivity by Multivariate Analysis

María del Pilar Fernández-Poyatos, Gökhan Zengin, Carlos Salazar-Mendías, Antonio Ruiz-Medina et al. • Journal of Analytical Methods in Chemistry (2020)

In this work, we report the phenolic composition and bioactivity of the aerial parts of three species of Sarcocapnos (S. enneaphylla, S. pulcherrima, and S. saetabensis) to study their potential as sources of bioactive compounds to revalori...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1155/2020/8885169

Mikania micrantha genome provides insights into the molecular mechanism of rapid growth

Bo Liu, Jian Yan, Weihua Li, Lijuan Yin et al. • Nature Communications (2020)

Mikania micrantha is an extremely fast-growing invasive plant species that can cause serious damage to natural ecosystems. Here, the authors assemble its chromosome-scale reference genome and explore possible mechanisms that contribute to i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-019-13926-4

Morphological and molecular identification of arrhenotokous strain of Diglyphus wani (Hymenoptera, Eulophidae) found in China as a control agent against agromyzid leafminers

Su-Jie Du, Zoya Yefremova, Fu-Yu Ye, Chao-Dong Zhu et al. • ZooKeys (2021)

Diglyphus species are ecologically and economically important on agromyzid leafminers. In 2018, a thelytokous species, Diglyphus wani Liu, Zhu & Yefremova, was firstly reported and described. Subsequently, the arrhenotokous D. wani ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1071.72433

Non-equilibrium finite temperature dynamics of magnetic quantum systems: applications to spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy

K Them, T Stapelfeldt, E Y Vedmedenko, R Wiesendanger • New Journal of Physics (2013)

We calculated the real-time non-equilibrium dynamics of quantum spin systems at finite temperatures. The mathematical framework originates from the C *-approach to quantum statistical mechanics and was applied to the samples investigated by...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/15/1/013009

Effect of Different Downward Loads and Rotational Speeds on the Removal of Gutta-Percha and Root Canal Sealer Using a Nickel-Titanium Rotary Gutta-Percha Removal System: An Ex Vivo Study

Koki Toyoda, Shunsuke Kimura, Keiichiro Maki, Satoshi Omori et al. • Applied Sciences (2025)

Effective gutta-percha/sealer removal is essential for predictable nonsurgical endodontic retreatment, but the effects of key operational parameters on nickel–titanium rotary removal instruments remain insufficiently understood. This study ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/app16010446

High Dose MicroCT Does Not Contribute Toward Improved MicroPET/CT Image Quantitative Accuracy and Can Limit Longitudinal Scanning of Small Animals

Wendy A. McDougald, Richard Collins, Mark Green, Adriana A. S. Tavares • Frontiers in Physics (2017)

Obtaining accurate quantitative measurements in preclinical Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) imaging is of paramount importance in biomedical research and helps supporting efficient translation of preclinical result...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2017.00050

Low cloud response to aerosol‐radiation‐cloud interactions: Idealized WRF numerical experiments for EUREC4A project

Nazario Tartaglione, Fabien Desbiolles, Anna delMoral‐Méndez, Agostino N. Meroni et al. • Atmospheric Science Letters (2024)

Abstract Aerosols significantly affect cloud microphysics and energy budget in different ways. The contribution of the direct, semi‐direct, and indirect effects of aerosols on radiation are here investigated over the North Atlantic tropical...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1002/asl.1208

Imaging the ring opening reaction of 1,3-cyclohexadiene with MeV ultrafast electron diffraction

Wolf Thomas J. A., Yang Jie, Sanchez David M., Nunes J. Pedro. F. et al. • EPJ Web of Conferences (2019)

We resolve the structural dynamics of the ultrafast photoinduced ring opening reaction of 1,3-cyclohexadiene in space and time employing megaelectronvolt gas phase ultrafast electron diffraction. We, furthermore, observe coherent large ampl...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1051/epjconf/201920507006

Pengaruh Model Project Based Learning Berbantuan Media Virtual Terhadap Penguasaan Konsep Peserta didik pada Materi Alat-alat Optik

Ni Made Yeni Suranti, Gunawan Gunawan, Hairunnisyah Sahidu • JPFT (Jurnal Pendidikan Fisika dan Teknologi) (2017)

Learning physics should be able to provide an understanding physics of abstract concepts. One of the efforts being made to improve the learning of Physics is to use appropriate learning model. This study aims to improve the student’s...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.29303/jpft.v2i2.292

Designed-seamless irradiation technique for extended whole mediastinal proton-beam irradiation for esophageal cancer

Okonogi Noriyuki, Hashimoto Takatuki, Ishida Masaya, Ohno Toshiki et al. • Radiation Oncology (2012)

Abstract Background Proton-beam therapy (PBT) provides therapeutic advantages over conformal x-ray therapy in sparing organs at risk when treating esophageal cancer because of the fundamental physical dose distribution of the proton-beam. H...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/1748-717X-7-173

Fixed field alternating gradient accelerator with small orbit shift and tune excursion

Suzanne L. Sheehy, Ken J. Peach, Holger Witte, David J. Kelliher et al. • Physical Review Special Topics. Accelerators and Beams (2010)

A new design principle of a nonscaling fixed field alternating gradient accelerator is proposed. It is based on optics that produce approximate scaling properties. A large field index k is chosen to squeeze the orbit shift as much as possib...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTAB.13.040101

Impact of solvents on doctor blade coatings and bathocuproine cathode interlayer for large-area organic solar cell modules

Soonil Hong, Byoungwook Park, Chandran Balamurugan, Jinho Lee et al. • Heliyon (2023)

Efforts to commercialize organic solar cells (OSCs) by developing roll-to-roll compatible modules have encountered challenges in optimizing printing processes to attain laboratory-level performance in fully printable OSC architectures. In t...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e18209

The Relationship between Exercise and Salivary Oxidative Stress: A Systematic Review

Raphael Charchar Campos Alves, Railson Oliveira Ferreira, Deborah Ribeiro Frazão, Yago Gecy de Souza Né et al. • Antioxidants (2022)

Salivary content has been reported as a potential biomarker for oxidative stress assessments especially in context of exercise-induced oxidative stress. This systematic review following PRISMA guidelines aimed to evaluate the effects of phy...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/antiox11081489