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Leaf position of mulberry (Morus alba L.) affects silkworm growth, silk cocoon yield and quality
Mulberry plant (Morus alba L.) have long recognized as a main food plant for silkworm (Bombyx mori L.) worldwide, so the quality of mulberry leaves is essential factor for successful silkworm industry. This resea...
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Perspectives of Vietnamese Facebook Users Towards the LGBT Parade Expressed Under Posts About the Hanoi Pride Parade
LGBT people are usually framed as a social or clinical disease, abnormality, or, in Asian contexts, an anti-traditional negative trend imported from the West. Such perceptions seriously affect LGBT people’s eq...
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Open AccessLong-term trends in stream benthic macroinvertebrate communities are driven by chemicals
Recent studies indicate a partial recovery of European stream macroinvertebrate diversity. However, the key determinants sha** the overall community trends are only partly explored, owing to insufficient lon...
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Stream macroinvertebrate community metrics consistently respond to a spatiotemporal disturbance gradient but composition is more context-dependent
Improving our understanding of how riverine communities respond to anthropogenic change requires spatial comparisons across multiple sites, high-resolution temporal analyses, and examination of both taxa and t...
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Roles of root plasticity to growth, water uptake and yield of quinoa under water regimes
Recent studies indicated new perspectives on the morphology and architecture of the quinoa root system, its intraspecific diversity and plasticity in response to drought. This study therefore aimed to evaluate...
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The Eurasian Economic Union and Silk Road Tourism: Qualifying Resources, Amplifying Messages
The promotion of tourism can often be a dichotomy of national and intra-regional interests, especially when countries are a part of an economic regional grou**. The vast Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), which ...
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The Role of the Belt and Road Initiative in Driving Tourism in the Post COVID-19 Era
As the Central Asian region emerges from the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic, it can look ahead with a sense of optimism. Nestled within its confines, lie many unique tourist attractions that provide a variety ...
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Economic Development Along the New Silk Road: A Vehicle for Driving Sustainable Tourism
For over two millennia, the Silk Road has been instrumental in linking Asia in the east, with Europe in the west. It has served as an important route of integration, exchange, conflict, and economic and politi...
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Open AccessHarmonized assessment of nutrient pollution from urban systems including losses from sewer exfiltration: a case study in Germany
A growing literature indicates that untreated wastewater from leaky sewers stands among major sources of pollution to water resources of urban systems. Despite that, the quantification and allocation of sewer ...
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Open Access“I can make more from selling medicine when breaking the rules” – understanding the antibiotic supply network in a rural community in Viet Nam
As in many other low and middle income countries (LIMCs), Vietnam has experienced a major growth in the pharmaceutical industry, with large numbers of pharmacies and drug stores, and increasing drug expenditur...
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An integrated native mass spectrometry and top-down proteomics method that connects sequence to structure and function of macromolecular complexes
Mass spectrometry (MS) has become a crucial technique for the analysis of protein complexes. Native MS has traditionally examined protein subunit arrangements, while proteomics MS has focused on sequence ident...
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Strategic Forecasting in Ecology by Inferential and Process-Based Models
Long-term forecasts are crucial for successful preventative and restorative management in ecology, and therefore require valid forecasting models. However, the validity of models is restricted by their scope a...
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Open AccessNaïve CD8+ T cell derived tumor-specific cytotoxic effectors as a potential remedy for overcoming TGF-β immunosuppression in the tumor microenvironment
Despite of the potential implications for cancer immunotherapy, conventional approaches using in vitro expanded CD8+ T cells have suboptimal outcomes, mostly due to loss of functionality from cellular exhaustion....
