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Narrow band vegetation indices overcome the saturation problem in biomass estimation by Mutanga, O., Skidmore, A. K.

“…Remotely sensed vegetation indices such as NDVI, computed using the red and near infrared bands have been used to estimate pasture biomass. These indices are…”
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Allometric equations for estimating the above-ground biomass in tropical lowland Dipterocarp forests by Basuki, T.M., van Laake, P.E., Skidmore, A.K., Hussin, Y.A.

“…Allometric equations can be used to estimate the biomass and carbon stock of forests. However, so far the equations for Dipterocarp forests have not been…”
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An evaluation of Brix refractometry instruments for measurement of colostrum quality in dairy cattle by Bielmann, V, Gillan, J, Perkins, N R, Skidmore, A L, Godden, S, Leslie, K E

“…Acquisition of high quality colostrum is an important factor influencing neonatal calf health. Many methods have been used to assess the Ig concentration of…”
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Spectral discrimination of vegetation types in a coastal wetland by Schmidt, K.S., Skidmore, A.K.

“…Remote sensing is an important tool for mapping and monitoring vegetation. Advances in sensor technology continually improve the information content of imagery…”
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Unfractionated heparin inhibits live wild type SARS‐CoV‐2 cell infectivity at therapeutically relevant concentrations by Tree, Julia A., Turnbull, Jeremy E., Buttigieg, Karen R., Elmore, Michael J., Coombes, Naomi, Hogwood, John, Mycroft‐West, Courtney J., Lima, Marcelo A., Skidmore, Mark A., Karlsson, Richard, Chen, Yen‐Hsi, Yang, Zhang, Spalluto, Cosma Mirella, Staples, Karl J., Yates, Edwin A., Gray, Elaine, Singh, Dave, Wilkinson, Tom, Page, Clive P., Carroll, Miles W.

“…Background and Purpose Currently, there are no licensed vaccines and limited antivirals for the treatment of COVID‐19. Heparin (delivered systemically) is…”
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Patterning and post-patterning modes of evolutionary digit loss in mammals by Cooper, Kimberly L., Sears, Karen E., Uygur, Aysu, Maier, Jennifer, Baczkowski, Karl-Stephan, Brosnahan, Margaret, Antczak, Doug, Skidmore, Julian A., Tabin, Clifford J.

“…A reduction in the number of digits has evolved many times in tetrapods, particularly in cursorial mammals that travel over deserts and plains, yet the…”
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Predicting in situ pasture quality in the Kruger National Park, South Africa, using continuum-removed absorption features by Mutanga, O, Skidmore, A.K, Prins, H.H.T

“…The remote sensing of pasture quality as determined by nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, calcium and magnesium concentration is critical for a better…”
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Structural and mechanistic characterization of bifunctional heparan sulfate N-deacetylase-N-sulfotransferase 1 by Mycroft-West, Courtney J., Abdelkarim, Sahar, Duyvesteyn, Helen M. E., Gandhi, Neha S., Skidmore, Mark A., Owens, Raymond J., Wu, Liang

“…Heparan sulfate (HS) polysaccharides are major constituents of the extracellular matrix, which are involved in myriad structural and signaling processes…”
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Early supplementation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae boulardii CNCM I-1079 in newborn dairy calves increases IgA production in the intestine at 1 week of age by Villot, C, Chen, Y, Pedgerachny, K, Chaucheyras-Durand, F, Chevaux, E, Skidmore, A, Guan, L L, Steele, M A

“…The early development of immunity and microbiota in the gut of newborn calves can have life-long consequences. Gut microbiota and the intestinal barrier…”
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Non-linear partial least square regression increases the estimation accuracy of grass nitrogen and phosphorus using in situ hyperspectral and environmental data by Ramoelo, A., Skidmore, A.K., Cho, M.A., Mathieu, R., Heitkönig, I.M.A., Dudeni-Tlhone, N., Schlerf, M., Prins, H.H.T.

“…Grass nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) concentrations are direct indicators of rangeland quality and provide imperative information for sound management of…”
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Thiocarbonylthio Compounds (SC(Z)S−R) in Free Radical Polymerization with Reversible Addition-Fragmentation Chain Transfer (RAFT Polymerization). Effect of the Activating Group Z by Chiefari, John, Mayadunne, Roshan T. A, Moad, Catherine L, Moad, Graeme, Rizzardo, Ezio, Postma, Almar, Thang, San H

“…Free-radical polymerization in the presence of suitable addition−fragmentation chain transfer agents [SC(Z)S−R] (RAFT agents) possess the characteristics of a…”
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Integrating imaging spectroscopy and neural networks to map grass quality in the Kruger National Park, South Africa by Mutanga, O, Skidmore, A.K

“…A new integrated approach, involving continuum-removed absorption features, the red edge position and neural networks, is developed and applied to map grass…”
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Spatial autocorrelation and the scaling of species-environment relationships by de Knegt, H. J, van Langevelde, F, Coughenour, M. B, Skidmore, A. K, de Boer, W. F, Heitkönig, I. M. A, Knox, N. M, Slotow, R, van der Waal, C, Prins, H. H. T

“…Issues of residual spatial autocorrelation (RSA) and spatial scale are critical to the study of species-environment relationships, because RSA invalidates many…”
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Comparing accuracy assessments to infer superiority of image classification methods by de Leeuw, J., Jia, H., Yang, L., Liu, X., Schmidt, K., Skidmore, A. K.

“…The z-test based on the Kappa statistic is commonly used to infer superiority of one map production method over another. Typically the same reference data set…”
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The Hyperlipidaemic Drug Fenofibrate Significantly Reduces Infection by SARS-CoV-2 in Cell Culture Models by Davies, Scott P, Mycroft-West, Courtney J, Pagani, Isabel, Hill, Harriet J, Chen, Yen-Hsi, Karlsson, Richard, Bagdonaite, Ieva, Guimond, Scott E, Stamataki, Zania, De Lima, Marcelo Andrade, Turnbull, Jeremy E, Yang, Zhang, Vicenzi, Elisa, Skidmore, Mark A, Khanim, Farhat L, Richardson, Alan

“…The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has caused a significant number of fatalities and worldwide disruption. To identify…”
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Subverting the mechanisms of cell death: flavivirus manipulation of host cell responses to infection by Vicenzi, Elisa, Pagani, Isabel, Ghezzi, Silvia, Taylor, Sarah L, Rudd, Timothy R, Lima, Marcelo A, Skidmore, Mark A, Yates, Edwin A

“…Viruses exploit host metabolic and defence machinery for their own replication. The flaviviruses, which include Dengue (DENV), Yellow Fever (YFV), Japanese…”
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Estimating tropical pasture quality at canopy level using band depth analysis with continuum removal in the visible domain by Mutanga, O., Skidmore, A. K., Kumar, L., Ferwerda, J.

“…Pasture quality, expressed as a percentage of total digestible nutrients (nitrogen, potassium, phosphorous, calcium and magnesium), is a major factor…”
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Near-Newtonian Blood Behavior - Is It Good to Be a Camel? by Windberger, Ursula, Auer, Roland, Seltenhammer, Monika, Mach, Georg, Skidmore, Julian A

“…From a certain level of exercise-intensity onward, hematocrit increases in horses, which brings more oxygen carriers into the bloodstream. Camels, however,…”
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Towards red-edge positions less sensitive to canopy biophysical parameters for leaf chlorophyll estimation using properties optique spectrales des feuilles (PROSPECT) and scattering by arbitrarily inclined leaves (SAILH) simulated data by Cho, M. A., Skidmore, A. K., Atzberger, C.

“…Several methods for extracting the chlorophyll sensitive red-edge position (REP) from hyperspectral data are reported in literature. This study is a…”
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Leaf Area Index derivation from hyperspectral vegetation indices and the red edge position by DARVISHZADEH, R, ATZBERGER, C, SKIDMORE, A. K, ABKAR, A. A

“…The aim of this study was to compare the performance of various narrowband vegetation indices in estimating Leaf Area Index (LAI) of structurally different…”
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