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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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Open AccessSubstantial hysteresis in emergent temperature sensitivity of global wetland CH4 emissions
Wetland methane (CH4) emissions ( \({F}_{{{CH}}_{4}}\) F ...
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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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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...
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Open AccessGraphical classification of DNA sequences of HLA alleles by deep learning
Alleles of human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A DNAs are classified and expressed graphically by using artificial intelligence “Deep Learning (Stacked autoencoder)”. Nucleotide sequence data corresponding to the le...
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Open AccessAdvantages of genome sequencing by long-read sequencer using SMRT technology in medical area
PacBio RS II is the first commercialized third-generation DNA sequencer able to sequence a single molecule DNA in real-time without amplification. PacBio RS II’s sequencing technology is novel and unique, enab...
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Open AccessEffect of climate warming on the annual terrestrial net ecosystem CO2 exchange globally in the boreal and temperate regions
The net ecosystem CO2 exchange is the result of the imbalance between the assimilation process (gross primary production, GPP) and ecosystem respiration (RE). The aim of this study was to investigate temperature ...
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Open AccessIsolation and genomic characterization of a Dehalococcoides strain suggests genomic rearrangement during culture
We have developed and characterized a bacterial consortium that reductively dechlorinates trichloroethene to ethene. Quantitative PCR analysis for the 16S rRNA and reductive dehalogenase genes showed that the ...
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Open AccessThe power of single molecule real-time sequencing technology in the de novo assembly of a eukaryotic genome
Second-generation sequencers (SGS) have been game-changing, achieving cost-effective whole genome sequencing in many non-model organisms. However, a large portion of the genomes still remains unassembled. We r...
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Lessons learned from CarboEastAsia: carbon and water cycles in East Asian terrestrial ecosystems
