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Fabrication and applications of the optical diamond-like carbon films: a review
Optical diamond-like carbon films applied in the optical and opto-electronical fields are paid attention in this review. Based on the reported experimental data during the last decade primarily, influence of sp3 ...
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Open AccessSurrounding landscape influences the abundance of insect predators in rice field
Natural enemy abundance in a crop plot depends on its prey presence and also influenced by habitats close to field. Landscape changes are also important factors driving pest and natural enemy population abunda...
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Open AccessPlant composition changes in a small-scale community have a large effect on the performance of an economically important grassland pest
The grasshopper Oedaleus asiaticus Bey-Bienko (Acrididae: Oedipodinae) is a dominant and economically important pest that is widely distributed across the Mongolian plateau. This herbivore pest causes major damag...
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Effectiveness of Bacillus pumilus PDSLzg-1, an innovative Hydrocarbon-Degrading Bacterium conferring antifungal and plant growth-promoting function
Genome of the hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium Bacillus pumilus PDSLzg-1 was analyzed. A group of gene clusters and pathways associated with nitrogen fixation, plant-bacterial interactions, plant growth-promoting ...
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Open AccessLarge manipulative experiments revealed variations of insect abundance and trophic levels in response to the cumulative effects of sheep grazing
Livestock grazing can affect insects by altering habitat quality; however, the effects of grazing years and intensities on insect abundance and trophic level during manipulative sheep grazing are not well unde...
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Open AccessBiology, physiology and gene expression of grasshopper Oedaleus asiaticus exposed to diet stress from plant secondary compounds
We studied the role of plant primary and secondary metabolites in mediating plant-insect interactions by conducting a no-choice single-plant species field experiment to compare the suitability, enzyme activiti...
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Open AccessHigh-Throughput Sequencing and Co-Expression Network Analysis of lncRNAs and mRNAs in Early Brain Injury Following Experimental Subarachnoid Haemorrhage
Subarachnoid haemorrhage (SAH) is a fatal neurovascular disease following cerebral aneurysm rupture with high morbidity and mortality rates. Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a type of mammalian genome transc...
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Open AccessQuantitative analysis of diet structure by real-time PCR, reveals different feeding patterns by two dominant grasshopper species
Studies on grasshopper diets have historically employed a range of methodologies, each with certain advantages and disadvantages. For example, some methodologies are qualitative instead of quantitative. Others...
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Synthesis of poly(vinyl alcohol-graft-lactic acid) copolymer and its application as medical anti-tissue adhesion thin film
Graft copolymers of poly(vinyl alcohol-g-lactic acid) (PVA-g-PLA) were synthesized through a direct polycondensation of d,l-lactic acid grafting from polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) using 1-ethyl-(3-dimethylaminopropyl) ...
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Bioluminescence Tomography
Among all of the modalities in molecular imaging, because of the excellent performance and cost performance, optical molecular imaging has attracted much attention over the last few years. Fluorescence and bio...
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Fast-Specific Tomography Imaging via Cerenkov Emission
Development of more tumor-specific radiopharmaceuticals is not enough; to understand the disease, we must study data modeling. Although fluoro-18-deoxyglucose positron emission tomography can map a multi-peak ...
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Whole-Body Cerenkov Luminescence Tomography with the Finite Element SP3 Method
Generation of an accurate Cerenkov luminescence imaging model is a current issue of nuclear tomography with optical techniques. The article takes a pro-active approach toward whole-body Cerenkov luminescence t...
