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MicrobioRaman: an open-access web repository for microbiological Raman spectroscopy data
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Bacterial Resuscitation from Starvation-Induced Dormancy Results in Phenotypic Diversity Coupled with Translational Activity Depending on Carbon Substrate Availability
Dormancy is a survival strategy of stressed bacteria inhabiting a various environment. Frequent dormant-active transitions owing to environmental changes play an important role in functional redundancy. Howeve...
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Short-Term Legacy Effects of Mercury Contamination on Plant Growth and nifH-Harboring Microbial Community in Rice Paddy Soil
Methylmercury (MeHg), which is formed in rice paddy soil, exhibits strong neurotoxicity through bioaccumulation in the food chain. A few groups of microorganisms drive both mercury methylation and nitrogen fix...
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Flow cytometric monitoring of the bacterial phenotypic diversity in aquatic ecosystems
Flow cytometry is a promising tool used to identify the phenotypic features of bacterial communities in aquatic ecosystems by measuring the physical and chemical properties of cells based on their light scatte...
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Role of Algal Community Stability in Harmful Algal Blooms in River-Connected Lakes
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) in freshwater produce toxins that pose a threat to public health and aquatic ecosystems. Although algal communities have been studied globally to understand the characteristics of H...
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Open AccessWater quality drives the regional patterns of an algal metacommunity in interconnected lakes
The metacommunity approach provides insights into how the biological communities are assembled along the environmental variations. The current study presents the importance of water quality on the metacommunit...
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Raman spectroscopy reveals alteration of spore compositions under different nutritional conditions in Lysinibacillus boronitolerans YS11
Little is known about final spores components when bacteria undergo sporulation under different nutrient conditions. Different degrees of resistance and germination rates were observed in the three types of sp...
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Microbial phenomics linking the phenotype to function: The potential of Raman spectroscopy
Raman spectroscopy is a promising tool for identifying microbial phenotypes based on single cell Raman spectra reflecting cellular biochemical biomolecules. Recent studies using Raman spectroscopy have mainly ...
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Lead-free (K,Na)NbO3 Thick Films for Flexible Non-volatile Memory Applications
We report the sol-gel fabrication and electrical characterization of flexible (K,Na)NbO3 (KNN) thick films. Muscovite mica allows the growth of high-quality polycrystalline KNN thick films with flexible functiona...
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Orthophosphate enhances N2O production from aerobic hydroxylamine decomposition: implications to N2O emissions from nitrification in ornithogenic and manure-fertilized soils
Soils affected by animal wastes have simultaneously high N and P contents. Despite the reports of high nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions in such environments, the role that P plays in N2O dynamics has not yet been sy...
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Open AccessThe capacity of wastewater treatment plants drives bacterial community structure and its assembly
Bacterial communities in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) affect plant functionality through their role in the removal of pollutants from wastewater. Bacterial communities vary extensively based on plant op...
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Bacillus-Dominant Airborne Bacterial Communities Identified During Asian Dust Events
Asian dust (AD) events have received significant attention due to their adverse effects on ecosystems and human health. However, detailed information about airborne pathogens associated with AD events is limit...
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Dielectric and Ferroelectric Properties of P(VDF-TrFE) Films with Different Polar Solvents
We investigated the structural, dielectric, and ferroelectric properties of poly(vinylidenefluorideco-trifluoroethylene) [P(VDF-TrFE)] films that were grown using dimethylformamide (DMF) and tetrahydrofuran (T...
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A comparison study of the potential risks induced in arable land and forest soils by carcass-derived pollutants
Improper decisions concerning animal carcass disposal sites pose grave threats to environmental biosecurity. However, only a few studies have focused on the effects of different land-use types on the compositi...
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Coexisting ferroelectric and paraelectric phases in electron beam irradiated P(VDF-TrFE) films
We report on structural, electrical, and Raman investigations of phase changes induced in P(VDF-TrFE) films by electron beam irradiation. With increasing electron beam dose, the ferroelectric β-phase is weakened ...
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Irreversible change of electric conduction in ionic-liquid-gated (La,Sr)MnO3 thin films
We have investigated the ionic-liquid-gating effect on electric conduction in (La0.8Sr0.2)MnO3(LSMO) thin films. The gating effect is significant for the LSMO thin films grown at low oxygen partial pressures. We ...
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Effect of thermal annealing on electric conduction in hydrothermally-grown BiFeO3 thick films
The hydrothermal method has been widely used for the growth of phase-pure BiFeO3 films at low temperatures and low cost. However, most films were quite thick and rough and barely exhibited ferroelectric switching...
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Open AccessIntriguing photo-control of exchange bias in BiFeO3/La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 thin films on SrTiO3 substrates
To date, electric fields have been widely used to control the magnetic properties of BiFeO3-based antiferromagnet/ferromagnet heterostructures through application of an exchange bias. To extend the applicability ...
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Regional effects on chimera formation in 454 pyrosequenced amplicons from a mock community
Chimeras are a frequent artifact in polymerase chain reaction and could be the underlying causes of erroneous taxonomic identifications, overestimated microbial diversity, and spurious sequences. However, litt...
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Characterization of microbial community structure and population dynamics of tetrachloroethene-dechlorinating tidal mudflat communities
Tetrachloroethene (PCE) and trichloroethene (TCE) are common groundwater contaminants that also impact tidal flats, especially near urban and industrial areas. However, very little is known about dechlorinatin...
