Impact of Methamphetamine Abuse: A Rare Case of Rapid Cerebral Aneurysm Growth with Review of Literature by James Fowler, Brian Fiani, Syed A. Quadri, Vladimir Cortez, Mudassir Frooqui, Atif Zafar, Fahad Shabbir Ahmed, Asad Ikram, Anirudh Ramachandran, Javed Siddiqi

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Assessment of future habitat suitability and ecological vulnerability of Collichthys at population and species level by Kaiyu Liu, Yijun Tao, Wenhao Huang, Bei Wang, Shenghao Liu, Bailin Cong, Min Zhou, Linlin Zhao

“…The study investigates the effects of climate change on the suitability of habitat and ecological vulnerability of two important sibling fishes, Collichthys lucidus and Collichthys niveatus, in the western Pacific. Results This study found that the main driver of ecological niche differences between the two species is the niche contraction of C. niveatus. …”
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Analysis of SO2 Pollution Changes of Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Region over China Based on OMI Observations from 2006 to 2017 by Zhifang Wang, Fengjie Zheng, Wenhao Zhang, Shutao Wang

“…Meanwhile, the SO2 concentration demonstrates a decreasing trend with 14.92%, 28.57%, and 27.43% compared with 2006, during the events of 2008 Olympic Games, 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit, and 2015 Military Parade, respectively. …”
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Changes in soil water content and lateral flow exert large effects on soil thermal dynamics across Alaskan landscapes by Xiangyu Liu, Qianlai Zhuang, Chang Liao, M Torre Jorgenson

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An Analysis of Tropical Cold-Point Tropopause Warming in 1999 by Yuanyuan Han, Fei Xie, Shiyan Zhang, Ruhua Zhang, Feiyang Wang, Jiankai Zhang

“…Before June, enhanced deep convection resulting from increased sea surface temperature (SST) over the western Pacific and enhanced tropical upwelling of the BDC lead to a higher and colder tropopause. …”
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Abalones at risk: A global Red List assessment of Haliotis in a changing climate. by Howard Peters, Gina M Ralph, Laura Rogers-Bennett

“…The highest concentration of threatened species occurs along the North American Pacific coast. Here six of the seven species have been exploited, yet despite years of fishery closures with exemptions only in Alaska and Mexico, all are categorised as threatened. …”
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Transport Corridors in the Russian Integration Projects, the Case of the Eurasian Economic Union by O. A. Podberezkina

“…In the medium and long term the value of the control over the transport routes will increase due to the dynamics of economic development in the Asia-Pacific region. Competition for the development of projects of international transport corridors (ITC) between the leading countries in the region will increase, because the ITC entail the formation of a common political space, the reduction of tariff and customs barriers, which provides easy access to the markets of countries linked by ITCs and creates the preconditions for economic integration. …”
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Extending Satellite Predictions of Coral Disease Outbreak Risk to Non-Seasonal Coral Reef Regions by Momoe Yoshida, Scott F. Heron

“…Percentile-based metric thresholds were defined from seasonal equivalents in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR) and tested in seasonal and non-seasonal coral reef regions of the tropical Pacific Ocean. Between new and existing methodologies, median differences of 0.00 °C (thresholds) and 0.00 °C-weeks (metrics) for Hot Snap and Cold Snap; and 0.01 °C (threshold) and −0.17 °C-weeks (metric) for Winter Condition were observed among reef pixels of the GBR. …”
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The Growing Mpox Infections by Clade I Variant in African Countries Is a Public Health Emergency of International Concern: A Narrative Review by Taslima Jamal Urmi, Md. Rabiul Islam

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Understanding North Korea: Rimjin-gang Citizen Journalists Out to Cure the “Sick Man of Asia”? by Suzy Kim

“…But this it hardly covered in the Western media, and it seems the news has finally reached across the Pacific with the publication of the magazine's first English edition in October 2010. …”
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Restoration of tropical dry forest: an analysis of constraints and successes across a highly threatened biome by Natalia Mesa-Sierra, Marinés de la Peña-Domene, Julio Campo, Christian P. Giardina

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TRILATERALISM AND ISSUES OF COOPERATION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES, JAPAN AND WESTERN EUROPE by A. I. Pechalova

“…With European priorities lying within the European Union, further integration and relations with the neighbors andJapanactively monitoring the developments in the Asia-Pacific, theUShas yet to articulate its foreign policy.Thirdly, economic issues that used to bethe core of relations between the three sides during the Cold Warare gradually disappearing from the trilateral agenda. …”
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The Use of Noninvasive Velacur® for Discriminating between Volunteers and Patients with Chronic Liver Disease: A Feasibility Study by Michael P. Curry, Edward Tam, Caitlin Schneider, Noha Abdelgelil, Tarek Hassanien, Nezam H. Afdhal

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Modeling of investment attractiveness of countries using entropy analysis of regional stock markets by H. Danylchuk, N. Chebanova, N. Reznik, Y. Vitkovskyi

“…The countries with high, middle or low income in Europe, Central Asia, East Asia, the Pacific, and North America were selected for the study. …”
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Anti-Inflammatory Effect of By-Products from Haliotis discus hannai in RAW 264.7 Cells by Ho-Seok Rho, Hyang Kim, Jung-Ae Kim, Fatih Karadeniz, Byul-Nim Ahn, Ki-Ho Nam, Youngwan Seo, Chang-Suk Kong

“…Several reports promoted the potential of shellfish due to their ability to act as antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and antimicrobial agents. Pacific abalone, Haliotis discus hannai viscera is, reported to possess bioactivities such as antioxidative stress and anti-inflammatory. …”
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ENSO Influence on Agricultural Drought Identified by SPEI Assessment in the Peruvian Tropical Andes, Mantaro Valley by Del Piero Raphael Arana Ruedas, Nabilt Moggiano

“…For example, El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO), which mostly occurs in the tropical western and central pacific, directly affects the Peruvian territory. …”
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Career Perspectives for Pediatric Orthopaedic Trainees and Early Practitioners: A Panel Discussion by Jeffrey B. Peck, MD, William Cutchen, MD, Lee Haruno, MPH, Dustin Greenhill, MD, Karen Bovid, MD, Brandon Ramo, MD

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A PROBLEM OF OPENING OF THE SECOND FRONT IS IN EUROPE: LOOK AFTER SEVEN DECADES by A. A. Paderin

“…As it is generally known, to the summer of 1944 western allies have already conducted battle actions in North Africa, Italy, on the Pacific Ocean and in South-east Asia. Moreover, in war process their activity in battles with enemy increased both in the air, and at the seaside. …”
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Erodibility and sedimentation potential of marly formations at the watershed scale by F. Rostami, S. Feiznia, M. Aleali, M. Heshmati, B. Yousefi yegane

“…The objective of this study was to compare the erosion and sediment yield of Kashkan and Grupi formations in Merk watershed located in southeast Kermanshah, using the Modified Pacific Southwest Inter-Agency Committee model. This model is suitable for estimating erosion and sediment intensity within each geomorphologic unit comprising nine effective environmental factors as geological, pedological, climate, runoff, topography, land cover, land use, surface, and river erosion factors. …”
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Capital Punishment without Capital Trials in Japan’s Lay Judge System by David T. Johnson

“…This change injected a meaningful dose of lay participation into Japanese criminal trials for the first time since 1943, when Japan's original Jury Law was suspended during the Pacific War. In May 2010, newspapers reported that the new system "has had a smooth first year," though they also stressed that it "has yet to be really tested by cases involving complex chains of evidence or demands by prosecutors for the death sentence."…”
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