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Zhi Rao, Shuo Sun, Mingye Li, Xiaoqiang Ji and Jipeng Huang
The 3D quantitative analysis of facial morphology is of importance in plastic surgery (PS), which could help surgeons design appropriate procedures before conducting the surgery. We propose a system to simulate and guide the shaping effect analysis, whic...
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Joanna Wyszkowska, Justyna Maliszewska and Piotr Gas
(1) Background: The growing ubiquity of electromagnetic fields (EMF) due to rapid technological progress raises concerns about potential health implications. While laboratory experiments have generated inconclusive findings about adverse effects, EMFs ha...
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Ricardo Luís, Ricardo José, João Castro and Carlos Andrade
Sea urchins play an important role in coastal marine ecosystems and are an economically valuable resource for their gonads (roe or uni). Increased demand by Asian and European countries caused overfishing of wild stocks resulting in a sharp decline of se...
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Senchang Hu, Heng Zhao and Wenzhe Tang
Hydropower, a renewable energy resource, underpins China?s economic and social advancement, gaining prominence amidst the country?s energy structure metamorphosis. Enhancing the performance of hydropower development projects is imperative, with the mecha...
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Francesca Cima
The colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri possesses an innate immunity, which plays fundamental roles in its survival, adaptability, worldwide spread and ecological success. Three lines of differentiation pathways of circulating haemocytes are known to ...
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Francesca Cima and Roberta Varello
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Li-Xin Ma, Rong-Tao He, Shu-Yan Yan and Wen-Jia Yang
Hormone receptor 3 (HR3), an early-late gene of the 20-hydroxyecdysone (20E) signaling pathway, plays a critical role in insect metamorphosis and development. In this study, we identified and characterized an HR3 gene (LsHR3) from the cigarette beetle, L...
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Lucia Manni, Federico Caicci, Chiara Anselmi, Virginia Vanni, Silvia Mercurio and Roberta Pennati
The swimming larva represents the dispersal phase of ascidians, marine invertebrates belonging to tunicates. Due to its adhesive papillae, the larva searches the substrate, adheres to it, and undergoes metamorphosis, thereby becoming a sessile filter fee...
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Dor Shefy, Nadav Shashar and Baruch Rinkevich
Xenogeneic and allogeneic encounters following aggregated and clustered settlements of coral larvae (planulae) may carry important ecological consequences in shaping coral reefs? communities. However, larval settlement behaviors and settlement location c...
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Il-Kweun Oh and Seung-Woo Lee
Deiratonotus japonicus (D. japonicus) inhabits isolated locations and upstream brackish waters from Kanagawa Prefecture to Okinawa Prefecture in Japan. This species faces the threat of extinction because of changing habitat conditions. Our previous studi...
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