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Genetics and Infection Biology of the Entomopathogenic Fungi
Insects and fungi, both megadiverse groups of organisms, have a long history of associations with each other. Among the fungi, Hypocreales (Ascomycota) and Entomophthoromycotina (Zoopagomycota), contain the mo...
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Modeling the effects of realistic land cover changes on land surface temperatures over China
In recent decades, China has experienced intense land use and cover change (LUCC). In this study, we modeled and explored the possible effects and mechanisms of realistic LUCCs on surface temperatures in China...
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Open AccessAnthropogenic warming has exacerbated droughts in southern Europe since the 1850s
Widespread and frequent droughts have affected most parts of Europe over recent years, but it remains unclear when this synchronous drying trend began and how it has been influenced by anthropogenic forcing. H...
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Open AccessLag impacts of the anomalous July soil moisture over Southern China on the August rainfall over the Huang–Huai River Basin
The effect of soil moisture (SM) on precipitation is an important issue in the land–atmosphere interaction and shows largely regional differences. In this study, the SM of the ERA-Interim reanalysis and precip...
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Open AccessIdentification of lncRNA NR_028138.1 as a biomarker and construction of a ceRNA network for bipolar disorder
The pathogenesis of bipolar disorder (BD), a chronic mood disorder, is largely unknown. Noncoding RNAs play important roles in the pathogenesis of BD. However, little is known about the correlations of long no...
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Open AccessCharacterization of nanoparticles combining polyamine detection with photodynamic therapy
Polyamine detection and depletion have been extensively investigated for cancer prevention and treatment. However, the therapeutic efficacy is far from satisfactory, mainly due to a polyamine compensation mech...
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Open AccessStructure, mechanical properties and degradation behavior of electrospun PEEU fiber meshes and films
The capability of a degradable implant to provide mechanical support depends on its degradation behavior. Hydrolytic degradation was studied for a polyesteretherurethane (PEEU70), which consists of poly(p-diox...
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Open AccessSub-seasonal variability of surface soil moisture over eastern China
Various surface soil moisture (SM) data from station observations, the Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) mission, three reanalyses (ERA-Interim, CFSR, and NCEP RII), and the Global Land Data Assimilation Sys...
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Open AccessComparative transcriptome analysis uncovers regulatory roles of long non-coding RNAs involved in resistance to powdery mildew in melon
Long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs) are a class of non-coding RNAs with more than 200 nucleotides in length, which play vital roles in a wide range of biological processes. Powdery mildew disease (PM) has become a ...
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AFM Assessment of the Mechanical Properties of Stem Cells During Differentiation
The dynamic mechanical force transmitted through microenvironments during tissue formation and regeneration continuously impacts the mechanics of cells and thereby regulates gene and protein expression. The me...
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Decadal intensification of local thermal feedback of summer soil moisture over North China
Soil moisture (SM) feedback on climate variables especially temperature is an important aspect in land-atmosphere coupling. Based on the Global Land Data Assimilation System (GLDAS) V2.0 SM data and the gridde...
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Temporal and spatial evolution of the standard precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) in the Tana River Basin, Kenya
The focus of this paper was to investigate the spatial and temporal variability of dry and wet events using the standard precipitation and evapotranspiration index (SPEI) in the Tana River Basin (TRB) in Kenya...
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Large discrepancy between measured and remotely sensed snow water equivalent in the northern Europe and western Siberia during boreal winter
Accurate information on snowpack conditions is crucial for understanding changes in the hydrological cycle and its impacts on the climate system, especially at the middle and high latitudes. Two satellite-deri...
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Regional Features and Seasonality of Land–Atmosphere Coupling over Eastern China
Land–atmosphere coupling is a key process of the climate system, and various coupling mechanisms have been proposed before based on observational and numerical analyses. The impact of soil moisture (SM) on eva...
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Evaluating the Capabilities of Soil Enthalpy, Soil Moisture and Soil Temperature in Predicting Seasonal Precipitation
Soil enthalpy (H) contains the combined effects of both soil moisture (w) and soil temperature (T) in the land surface hydrothermal process. In this study, the sensitivities of H to w and T are investigated using...
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A potential predictor of multi-season droughts in Southwest China: soil moisture and its memory
During the last decade, several high intensity and long duration droughts happened in Southwest China (SWC) and resulted in tremendous socioeconomic losses. Meanwhile, it is well known that soil moisture (SM) ...
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Summer drought index using SPEI based on 10-day temperature and precipitation data and its application in Zhejiang Province (Southeast China)
Summer drought is one of the main natural disasters in Zhejiang Province, China. To explore the characteristics of summer drought in Zhejiang Province during 1973–2013, the standardized precipitation evapotran...
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Spatial pattern of reference evapotranspiration change and its temporal evolution over Southwest China
Due to the close relationship of climate change with reference evapotranspiration (ETo), detecting changes in ETo spatial distribution and its temporal evolution at local and regional levels is favorable to compr...
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On the coupling between precipitation and potential evapotranspiration: contributions to decadal drought anomalies in the Southwest China
Under the exacerbation of climate change, climate extreme events, especially for drought, happened frequently and intensively across the globe with greater spatial differences. We used the Standardized Precipi...
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Open AccessAmmonia deposition in the neighbourhood of an intensive cattle feedlot in Victoria, Australia
Intensive cattle feedlots are large emission sources of ammonia (NH3), but NH3 deposition to the landscape downwind of feedlots is not well understood. We conducted the first study in Australia to measure NH3 dry...
