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Open AccessA convenient polyculture system that controls a shrimp viral disease with a high transmission rate
Develo** ecological approaches for disease control is critical for future sustainable aquaculture development. White spot syndrome (WSS), caused by white spot syndrome virus (WSSV), is the most severe diseas...
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Endogenous stress-related signal directs shoot stem cell fate in Arabidopsis thaliana
Stem cell populations in all multicellular organisms are situated in a niche, which is a special microenvironment that defines stem cell fate. The interplay between stem cells and their niches is crucial for s...
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Collaborative coding and dictionary learning for nearest subspace classification
Sparse representation (SR) has been widely studied and successfully applied to many areas of computer science in recent years. However, whether sparsity is essential to improve the classification performance i...
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Afforestation of cropland fundamentally alters the soil fungal community
The objective of this study was to analyze the responses of the soil fungal community to the afforestation of cropland with single and mixed tree species.
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Study on photofading of two natural dyes sodium copper chlorophyllin and gardenia yellow on cotton
The light fastness of fabrics dyed with natural dyes is not satisfactory, which limits their applications in the textile industry. So far, the detailed photofading mechanism of natural dyes remains unclear. To...
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Does free education help combat child labor? The effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China
This paper evaluates the effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China on the incidence of child labor. We exploit the cross-province variation in the rollout of the reform and apply a difference...
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A Preliminary Study on the Assessment of Restrictedness in High Functioning Autism
Restricted and repetitive behavior is one of the two cardinal symptoms of autism, and it might find its root in the neuropsychological trait of “insistence on sameness”. Conceived from the perspective of embod...
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Tentative Study on Solving Impulse Control Equations of Plant-pest-predator Model with Differential Evolution Algorithm
In recent years, using ecological control method for pest management has become a hot topic, and some pest-predator models have been proposed. These models are expressed by impulse control equations, and which...
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Mathematical model for continuous delayed single-species population with impulsive state feedback control
In this paper, we formulate a mathematical model for a continuous delayed single-species population with impulsive state feedback control. We give the existence and uniqueness of the order-1 periodic solution ...
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Microsatellite records for volume 10, issue 3
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Effects of afforestation on soil carbon and its fractions: a case study from the Loess Plateau, China
Afforestation has been implemented to reduce soil erosion and improve the environment of the Loess Plateau, China. Although it increased soil organic carbon (SOC), the stability of the increase is unknown. Add...
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IL-35 is a Protective Immunomodulator in Brain Ischemic Injury in Mice
IL-35 has been identified as a novel anti-inflammatory cytokine that belongs to the IL-12 cytokine family and has been verified to play a protective role in autoimmune diseases. In this study, we investigated ...
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Open AccessInvestigation on the structures and magnetic properties of carbon or nitrogen doped cobalt ferrite nanoparticles
Carbon or nitrogen doped cobalt ferrite nanoparticles were synthesized in the air by a facile calcination process. X-ray diffraction, map**, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, and mössbauer spectra results in...
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Response of soil microbial community dynamics to Robinia pseudoacacia L. afforestation in the loess plateau: a chronosequence approach
The objective was to analyze soil microbial community dynamics and their responses to changes in vegetation and soil properties after Robinia pseudoacacia afforestation along a chronosequence.
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The heterogeneous impact of pension income on elderly living arrangements: evidence from China’s new rural pension scheme
This paper investigates the impact of pension income on living arrangements of the elderly. Taking advantage of a unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the New Rural Pension Schem...
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Open AccessThe Effects of GLCM parameters on LAI estimation using texture values from Quickbird Satellite Imagery
When the leaf area index (LAI) of a forest reaches 3, the problem of spectrum saturation becomes the main limitation to improving the accuracy of the LAI estimate. A sensitivity analysis of the Grey Level Co-o...
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Rapid Determination of Amino Acids in Chinese Wolfberry (Lycium bararum L.) Fruit by Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and Partial Least Square Regression
The content and amino acid composition of Chinese wolfberry (Lycium bararum L.) produced from various regions was analyzed. Wolfberry contains high amounts of aspartic acid (1.445 ± 0.290 g/100 g), glutamine (1.3...
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Changes in protein profile of Platycladus orientalis (L.) roots and leaves in response to drought stress
Platycladus orientalis (L.) Franco is widely used for afforestation in arid and semi-arid areas due to its high drought tolerance. To better understand the mechanism involved in drought t...
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Optimal control of phytoplankton–fish model with the impulsive feedback control
Considering how to exploit the lake resource reasonably, we propose a phytoplankton–fish model with the impulsive feedback control and investigate the sufficient conditions for the existence of the order-1 per...
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Height, Weight and Well-Being for Rural, Urban and Migrant Workers in China
In general, the happiness literature has paid little attention to the relationship between physical appearance and well-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three...
