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Open AccessAuthor Correction: First direct evidence of lion hunting and the early use of a lion pelt by Neanderthals
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Open AccessFirst direct evidence of lion hunting and the early use of a lion pelt by Neanderthals
During the Upper Paleolithic, lions become an important theme in Paleolithic art and are more frequent in anthropogenic faunal assemblages. However, the relationship between hominins and lions in earlier perio...
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Open AccessThe place beyond the trees: renewed excavations of the Middle Stone Age deposits at Olieboomspoort in the Waterberg Mountains of the South African Savanna Biome
Olieboomspoort is one of the few rock shelters in the vast interior of southern Africa documenting pulses of occupation from the Acheulean until the end of the Later Stone Age. Revil Mason excavated the site i...
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Palaeolithic cave art in Borneo
Figurative cave paintings from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi date to at least 35,000 years ago (ka) and hand-stencil art from the same region has a minimum date of 40 ka1. Here we show that similar rock art w...
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An early modern human presence in Sumatra 73,000–63,000 years ago
Morphological analysis of teeth found at Lida Ajer shows that these belong to Homo sapiens, indicating that modern humans were in Sumatra between 73,000 and 63,000 years ago.
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An intronless sucrose:fructan-6-fructosyltransferase (6-SFT) gene from Dasypyrum villosum enhances abiotic tolerance in tobacco
Fructans play vital roles in enhancing plant abiotic stress tolerance by reducing oxidative damage, stabilizing cell membranes, improving the osmotic adjustment capacity, and lowering the freezing point. In th...
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The influence of sea level and cyclones on Holocene reef flat development: Middle Island, central Great Barrier Reef
The geomorphology and chronostratigraphy of the reef flat (including microatoll ages and elevations) were investigated to better understand the long-term development of the reef at Middle Island, inshore centr...
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Holocene sea level instability in the southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia: high-precision U–Th dating of fossil microatolls
Three emergent subfossil reef flats from the inshore Keppel Islands, Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia, were used to reconstruct relative sea level (RSL). Forty-two high-precision uranium–thorium (U–Th) date...
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Short-interval lower-dose intravenous cyclophosphamide as induction and maintenance therapy for lupus nephritis: a prospective observational study
Cyclophosphamide (CYC) has long been considered a gold standard in inducing renal remission and preventing renal flares for patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). However, the rational use of CYC ha...
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Development of 5Ns chromosome-specific SCAR markers for utilization in future wheat breeding programs
In previous studies, we developed a wheat-Psathyrostachys huashanica Keng disomic addition line 3-8-10-2, which exhibited high stripe rust resistance and could be used as a donor source for introducing novel dise...
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The impacts of flooding on the high-latitude, terrigenoclastic influenced coral reefs of Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia
This study examines the impacts of an acute flooding event on the marginal, high-latitude, terrigenoclastic influenced coral reefs of Hervey Bay in southeast Queensland, Australia. In January 2011, the Mary Ri...
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Maternal obesity downregulates microRNA let-7g expression, a possible mechanism for enhanced adipogenesis during ovine fetal skeletal muscle development
Obesity in women of childbearing age is increasing at an alarming rate. Growing evidence shows that maternal obesity induces detrimental effects on offspring health, including pre-disposition to obesity. We ha...
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Impact of recent coastal development and human activities on Nha Trang Bay, Vietnam: evidence from a Porites lutea geochemical record
Nha Trang Bay (NTB) is located on the Central Vietnam coast, western South China Sea. Recent coastal development of Nha Trang City has raised public concern over an increasing level of pollution within the bay...
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Successful treatment of SAPHO syndrome with severe spinal disorder using entercept: a case study
SAPHO syndrome (synovitis, acne, pustulosis, hyperostosis, and osteitis) is a rare disease. Presently, there is no treatment guideline for this illness. Several studies suggested entercept, a novel biological ...
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Strength reduction factors for seismic analyses of buildings exposed to near-fault ground motions
To estimate the near-fault inelastic response spectra, the accuracy of six existing strength reduction factors (R) proposed by different investigators were evaluated by using a suite of near-fault earthquake reco...
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Open AccessMetformin mitigates the impaired development of skeletal muscle in the offspring of obese mice
Maternal obesity is linked with offspring obesity and type 2 diabetes. Skeletal muscle (SM) insulin resistance is central to the development of diabetes. Adenosine monophosphate (AMP)-activated protein kinase ...
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The first-stokes pulse generation in Nd:KGW intracavity driven by a diode-pumped passively Q-switched Nd:YAG/Cr4+:YAG laser
The operation of an all solid-state pulsed Nd:KGW Raman laser pumped by compact passively Q-switched Nd:YAG/Cr:YAG laser is demonstrated. The first-Stokes radiation of stimulated Nd:KGW Raman scattering at the...
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Increasing Australian–Indonesian monsoon rainfall linked to early Holocene sea-level rise
The Australian–Indonesian summer monsoon affects rainfall variability across the Indo–Pacific region. Reconstructions of monsoon strength from stalagmites show that precipitation increased from 11,000 to 7,000...
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SAR EVALUATION IN THE 0.25 MM HUMAN EYE MODEL EXPOSED TO 30 GHz MILLIMETER WAVE
We have evaluated the specific absorption rate (SAR) in the eye induced by the perpendicular incidence of 30 GHz uniform plane millimeter wave (MMW). An anatomically based 0.25 mm voxel model of the eye with 1...
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Applying the Pfaffianization Procedure to the Two-Dimensional Leznov Lattice
We derive Wronskian and Grammian determinant solutions for the two-dimensional Leznov lattice and provide a Pfaffianized version of this Leznov lattice using Hirota and Ohta’s Pfaffianization procedure. We giv...
