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Open AccessLarge variation in carbon dioxide emissions from tropical peat swamp forests due to disturbances
The huge carbon stock of tropical peat swamp forest (PSF) in Southeast Asia has been threatened by environmental disturbances due to quasi-periodic El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) droughts, biomass and pea...
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Open AccessCarbon dioxide emissions through land use change, fire, and oxidative peat decomposition in Borneo
Borneo has accumulated an abundance of woody carbon in its forests and peat. However, agricultural land conversion accompanied by plantation development, dead wood burning, and peat drying from drainage are ma...
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Open AccessCationic-nanogel nasal vaccine containing the ectodomain of RSV-small hydrophobic protein induces protective immunity in rodents
Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of upper and lower respiratory tract infection, especially in children and the elderly. Various vaccines containing the major transmembrane surface proteins...
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Open AccessNet greenhouse gas balance of fibre wood plantation on peat in Indonesia
Tropical peatlands cycle and store large amounts of carbon in their soil and biomass1–5. Climate and land-use change alters greenhouse gas (GHG) fluxes of tropical peatlands, but the magnitude of these changes re...
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Open AccessPeatland groundwater level in the Indonesian maritime continent as an alert for El Niño and moderate positive Indian Ocean dipole events
In general, it is known that extreme climatic conditions such as El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD+) cause prolonged drought in Indonesia's tropical peatlands so that groundwater levels (GWL) drop ...
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Soft Crystal Chemiluminescence Systems Using Organic Peroxides
Chemiluminescence (CL) is a phenomenon in which a chemical reaction produces an excited-state product that emits light. Taking advantage of this property, several analytical methods to study the CL reactions b...
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Partitioning of root respiration into growth, maintenance, and ion uptake components in a young larch-dominated forest
Fine roots play an essential role in global carbon cycles, but phenological variations in root function and metabolism are poorly understood. To illustrate the dynamics of fine root function and metabolism in ...
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The Potential of Peatlands as Nature-Based Climate Solutions
Despite covering only 3% of the land surface, peatlands represent the largest terrestrial organic carbon stock on the planet and continue to act as a carbon sink. Managing ecosystems to reduce greenhouse gas (...
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Analyses of chemiluminescence reactions of fluorophore-linked 1,2-dioxetane isomers in crystals heating at elevated temperature including a development of a simultaneous measurement method of thermal diffusivity and light emission for a single crystal
It has been found that a fluorophore-linked adamantylideneadamantane 1,2-dioxetane derivative showed an isomeric difference in the reactivities of crystalline-state chemiluminescence (CL) under isothermal heat...
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Open AccessSubstantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions
Wetland methane (CH4) emissions ( \({F}_{{{CH}}_{4}}\) F ...
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Texture Memory in Si-Mn and ODS Steels Observed In Situ by Pulsed Neutron and Synchrotron X-Ray Diffractions and Prediction by Double Kurdjumov-Sachs Relation: A Concept for Intense Variant Selection
Texture memory of Si-Mn and ODS steels has been explored via in situ neutron time-of-flight and synchrotron high-energy X-ray diffractions as well as texture prediction by the double Kurdjumov-Sachs relation. The...
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Open AccessColor-tunable bioluminescence imaging portfolio for cell imaging
The present study describes a color-tunable imaging portfolio together with twelve novel coelenterazine (CTZ) analogues. The three groups of CTZ analogues create diverse hues of bioluminescence (BL) ranging fr...
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Open AccessComplete genome sequence of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus lugdunensis strain and characteristics of its staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec
Symptoms of Staphylococcus lugdunensis infection are often similar to those of Staphylococcus aureus infection, including skin and soft-tissue lesions, bacteremia and infective endocarditis. Despite the severity ...
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Fine root dynamics and partitioning of root respiration into growth and maintenance components in cool temperate deciduous and evergreen forests
We aim to show the seasonality of fine root dynamics and examine the relationship between root respiration (Rr) and fine root dynamics. In addition, we try partitioning Rr into growth (Rg) and maintenance (Rm) co...
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Carbon Dioxide and Methane Emissions from Peat Soil in an Undrained Tropical Peat Swamp Forest
This study investigates the factors controlling the soil CO2 and CH4 fluxes and quantifies annual cumulative soil respiration (RS), heterotrophic respiration (RH), and soil CH4 emission in an undrained forest on ...
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In Situ Observation of Bainite Transformation and Simultaneous Carbon Enrichment in Austenite in Low-Alloyed TRIP Steel Using Time-of-Flight Neutron Diffraction Techniques
An in situ neutron diffraction experiment during austempering of low-alloyed transformation-induced plasticity steel, Fe-1.48Si-1.52Mn-0.15C, in wt pct was conducted. In this study, time-of-flight neutron diffrac...
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Open AccessGenome-wide mutation analysis of Helicobacter pylori after inoculation to Mongolian gerbils
Helicobacter pylori is a pathogenic bacterium that causes various gastrointestinal diseases in the human stomach. H. pylori is well adapted to the human stomach but does not easily infect other animals. As a mode...
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Open AccessInvestigation of serum cortisol concentration as a potential prognostic marker in hospitalized dogs: a prospective observational study in a primary care animal hospital
Dogs with various medical diseases are usually treated at hospitals; however, the prognostic markers in dogs remain unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate the ability of serum cortisol concentration...
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Open AccessGlobal transcriptome analysis of pig induced pluripotent stem cells derived from six and four reprogramming factors
Pigs are important, both for agriculture and as animal models for human diseases. However, due to the lack of embryonic stem cells, the possibility of genetic modification is quite limited. To overcome this li...
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Open AccessDifference in transducin-like enhancer of split 1 protein expression between basal cell adenomas and basal cell adenocarcinomas - an immunohistochemical study
Basal cell adenoma (BCA) and basal cell adenocarcinoma (BCAC) are benign and malignant, basaloid salivary gland neoplasms, respectively. These tumors show a dual-cell proliferation of inner luminal/ductal cell...
