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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

Shared but Threatened: The Heritage of Wild Food Plant Gathering among Different Linguistic and Religious Groups in the Ishkoman and Yasin Valleys, North Pakistan

Muhammad Abdul Aziz, Arshad Mehmood Abbasi, Zahid Ullah, Andrea Pieroni • Foods (2020)

A wild food ethnobotanical field study was conducted in the Ishkoman and Yasin valleys, located in the Hindukush Mountain Range of Gilgit-Baltistan, northern Pakistan. These valleys are inhabited by diverse, often marginalized, linguistic a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/foods9050601

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

An analysis of school physical activity in adolescent girls [Analýza školní pohybové aktivity adolescentních dívek]

Krystyna Górna-Łukasik, Karel Frömel, Krzysztof Skalik, Petra Nováková Lokvencová • Acta Universitatis Palackianae Olomucensis. Gymnica (2011)

BACKGROUND: It has been well evidenced that physical activity (PA) has a positive effect on human health. It is very likely that a physically active child will grow up to be a physically active adult. Growing older, there is evidence of dec...

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Floristic diversity and structural parameters on the forest tree population in the Luki biosphere reserve, Democratic Republic of Congo

Sylvain Ambayi Bienu, Tolerant K. Lubalega, Damase P. Khasa, David Kombi kaviriri et al. • Global Ecology and Conservation (2023)

Tropical rainforests play an important role in the global Eco-climatic balance and its sustainable management is a major concern that has attracted the attention of researchers. The Luki biosphere reserve, while under a status of protected ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.gecco.2023.e02489

Is health-related quality of life the same for elderly polish migrants, Turkish migrants and German natives? Testing the reliability and construct validity of the Sf-36 health survey in a cross-cultural comparison

Johanna Buchcik, Joachim Westenhöfer, Mick Fleming, Colin R. Martin • Cogent Psychology (2017)

Objective: The Sf-36 is the most widely used instrument to measure health-related quality of life (HRQoL) with the most convincing evidence of both internal consistency and test–retest reliability. In addition, it is appropriate for use amo...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1080/23311908.2017.1280984

Does Practice Make Perfect? The Effects of an Eight-Week Manualized Deliberate Practice Course With Peer Feedback on Patient-Rated Working Alliance in Adults: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Håkan Lagerberg, James F. Boswell, Michael J. Constantino, Gerhard Andersson et al. • Clinical Psychology in Europe (2024)

[Background] Deliberate Practice (DP), which underscores the importance of expert mentorship, personalized learning objectives, feedback, and repetition, has been suggested as a method to enhance the effectiveness of therapists. [Method] Th...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.32872/cpe.12353

Children’s memory “in the wild”: examining the temporal organization of free recall from a week-long camp at a local zoo

Thanujeni Pathman, Lina Deker, Puneet Kaur Parmar, Mark Christopher Adkins et al. • Cognitive Research (2023)

Abstract Free-recall paradigms have greatly influenced our understanding of memory. The majority of this research involves laboratory-based events (e.g., word lists) that are studied and tested within minutes. This literature shows that adu...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s41235-022-00452-z

Efficient electrochemical determination of dopamine in the presence of uric acid in real samples using tungsten disulfide nanostructure modified electrode

Ibrahim Ayad Jihad, Thekrayat Joodi Jassim, Zainab Naeif Mageed • ADMET and DMPK (2025)

Background and purpose: Research on the detection of uric acid (URA) and dopamine (DPA) is ongoing because of the difficulties posed by their closely overlapping oxidation potentials. Tungsten disulfide nanostructures have become attractive...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5599/admet.2968

Controlled Plasmonic Coupling in Silver Nanoplate Dimers for Enhanced Plasmonic Sensing

Lucrezia Catanzaro, Marcello Condorelli, Mario Pulvirenti, Luisa D’urso et al. • Nanomaterials (2026)

Noble metal nanostructures provide versatile platforms for light manipulation through localized surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs). Among them, triangular silver nanoplates (AgNPTs) exhibit strong field-enhancement and spectral tunability, ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/nano16080486

Impact of prolonged obstructive sleep apnea syndrome disease course on retinal-choroidal microcirculation: a WF-SS-OCTA study

Chaomin Chen, Xinyi Chen, Lixia Qin, Mingming Zhao et al. • Photodiagnosis and Photodynamic Therapy (2026)

Purpose: This study used wide-field swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (WF-SS-OCTA) to evaluate changes in macular vascular density in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) at different stages of disease d...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.pdpdt.2026.105582

Ultra-Bend-Resistant 4-Core Simplex Cable Used for Short-Reach Dense Spatial Division Multiplexing Optical Transmission

Zelin Zhang, Yu Qin, Jie Zhu, Caoyuan Wang et al. • Micromachines (2024)

We optimized and fabricated an ultra-bend-resistant 4-core simplex cable (SXC) employing 4-core multicore fiber (MCF) suitable for short-reach dense spatial division multiplexing (DSDM) optical transmission in the O-band. The characteristic...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/mi15010108

Swept source intraoperative OCT angiography

Ziyi Zhang, Tiepei Zhu, Tongtong Cao, Zhaoyu Gong et al. • Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences (2021)

To accurately guide surgical instruments during ophthalmic procedures, some necessary intraoperative depth perception is required, which standard surgical microscopes supply limitedly. Intraoperative optical coherence tomography (iOCT), com...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1142/S1793545821400095

Photovoltaic Performance of Pin Junction Nanocone Array Solar Cells with Enhanced Effective Optical Absorption

Jinnan Zhang, Lingmei Ai, Xin Yan, Yao Wu et al. • Nanoscale Research Letters (2018)

Abstract The photovoltaic performance of axial and radial pin junction GaAs nanocone array solar cells is investigated. Compared with the cylinder nanowire arrays, the nanocone arrays not only improve the whole optical absorption but more i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s11671-018-2727-7

Synthesize and characterization of hybrid aluminium alloy (AA6063) metal matrix composite (HAMMC) with corn cob ash and alumina (Al2O3) reinforcements

Ayenew Amare, Mezigebu Belay, Zewudu Wondimagegn • Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Engineering (2026)

Abstract The use of aluminium matrix composites (AMCs) in advanced engineering applications has increased due to their improved mechanical properties, such as hardness, ultimate tensile strength, toughness, wear, and corrosion resistance. A...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s40712-026-00421-0

Compositional tuning of structural, photothermal and optical properties of La-based high-entropy perovskite oxides

Anurag Khandelwal, Piyush Anil Kumar Sharma, Simon Schweidler, Pirmin Tischler et al. • Materials & Design (2026)

In this study, 14 lanthanum-based high-entropy perovskite oxides (HEPOs) with equimolar mixtures of transition metals (Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) at the B-site were synthesized to investigate how multi-elemental interactions govern their s...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2026.116517