Abstract Background Populations of the earthworm, Lumbricus rubellus, are commonly found across highly contaminated former mine sites and are considered to have under-gone selection for mitigating metal toxicity.Comparison of adapted populations with those found on less contaminated soils can provide insights into ecological processes that demonstr

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Rust is an innovative programming language initially implemented by Mozilla, developed to ensure high performance, reliability, and productivity.The final purpose Swaddle of this study consists of applying a set of common static software metrics to programs written in Rust to assess the verbosity, understandability, organization, complexity, and ma