Author(s): Greene DF; Kane JM; Pounden E; Michaletz ST;

Serotiny is an adaptive trait that allows certain woody plants to persist in stand-replacing fire regimes. However, the mechanisms by which serotinous cones avoid seed necrosis and nonserotinous species persist in landscapes with short fire cycles and serot ...

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Author(s): Fukue M; Lechowicz Z; Fujimori Y; Emori K; Mulligan CN;

The estimation of optical density (OD) with viable cells is challenging for engineering purposes. In this study, the OD conversion based on previous study was used. The inhibited and retarded behavior of the microbially induced carbonate precipitation (MICP ...

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Author(s): Londoño-Berrío M; Pérez-Buitrago S; Ortiz-Trujillo IC; Hoyos-Palacio LM; Orozco LY; López L; Zárate-Triviño DG; Capobianco JA; Mena-Giraldo ...

Drug nanoencapsulation increases the availability, pharmacokinetics, and concentration efficiency for therapeutic regimes. Azobenzene light-responsive molecules experience a hydrophobicity change f ...

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Author(s): Fukue M; Lechowicz Z; Fujimori Y; Emori K; Mulligan CN;

The engineering practices for applying the microbial precipitation of carbonates require a design of the blending biocement solution (BCS). The BCS is usually blended with concentrated strains NO-A10, reaction media, such as urea and CaCl2, and a solvent, i ...

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Author(s): Roversi K; Ebrahimi Orimi H; Falchetti M; Lummertz da Rocha E; Talbot S; Boutopoulos C;

Cell bioprinting technologies aim to fabricate tissuelike constructs by delivering biomaterials layer-by-layer. Bioprinted constructs can reduce the use of animals in drug development and hold promise for addressing the shortage of organs for transplants. H ...

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Author(s): Mestre A; Barfield M; Peniston JH; Peres-Neto PR; Mesquita-Joanes F; Holt RD;

Emigration propensity (i.e., the tendency to leave undisturbed patches) is a key life-history trait of organisms in metapopulations with local extinctions and colonizations. Metapopulation models of dispersal evolution typically assume that patch disturbanc ...

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