Enhancing Stress Assessment in Sledge Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus): APilot Study on Infrared Thermal Imaging and its Opportunities for Advancement as a Welfare Assessment Tool by Océane Liehrmann, Anne Ollila, Virpi Lummaa, Léa Lansade, Martin W. Seltmann

“…Measuring immediate physiological stress responses in animals can be challenging; saliva and blood sampling, while invasive, may also generate confounding stress responses, and equipping animals with heart rate sensors is not always feasible. Nevertheless, emerging technologies offer a non-invasive and contactless method to measure additional body surface temperature changes induced by acute stress, using infrared thermal measurement of the eye caruncle region. …”
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Indirect and suboptimal control of gene expression is widespread in bacteria by Morgan N Price, Adam M Deutschbauer, Jeffrey M Skerker, Kelly M Wetmore, Troy Ruths, Jordan S Mar, Jennifer V Kuehl, Wenjun Shao, Adam P Arkin

“…Two common types of indirect control are constitutive expression and regulation by growth rate; these occur for genes with diverse functions and often seem to be suboptimal. …”
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Extreme hourly 10m wind speed trends and reduced daily variability during 1940−2024 by Jia-Ning Song, Ming Sun, Zhi-Bo Li

“…Near-surface wind speed (NSWS) is a critical atmospheric variable influencing Earth’s climate dynamics, weather patterns, ocean processes, ecological systems, and renewable energy resources. …”
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Dynamic brain-heart interaction in sleep characterized by variational phase-amplitude coupling framework by Juntong Lyu, Chien-Hung Yeh, Wenbin Shi, Thomas Penzel

“…Moreover, delta-range slow cortical oscillations exhibit robust coupling with both the low- (HRV-LF) and high-frequency (HRV-HF) constituents of RR-interval heart-rate variability, thereby constituting a cardinal electrophysiological signature of ANS-CNS modulation. …”
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Spatial quality measurement of commercial streets in old cities of medium-sized cities in China by Tongwen Wang, Hongkai Li, Xinmeng Cao, Chaohui Yue, Yuanyuan Yang, Weijie Huang, Haidong Li

“…This study finds that (1) crowd activities on commercial streets have different temporal and spatial patterns on weekdays and days off; (2) the external characterization of urban street space quality has a significant positive correlation with objective material spatial elements such as the density of public transportation stops, functional density, functional mixing, interface continuity, and spatial green visibility rate; (3) the enhancement of street accessibility and fine-tuning of functions are key to improving the spatial quality of commercial streets.This study provides theoretical basis and ideas for improving the spatial quality of commercial streets in medium-sized cities in China and promoting sustainable urban development.…”
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The main drivers of labour cost dynamics in Central and Eastern European countries by Maria Denisa VASILESCU, Larisa STĂNILĂ, Amalia CRISTESCU, Maria Berta BELU, Silvana CRIVOI

“…Additionally, the share of exports in GDP and the employment rate influence labour costs in Hungary and the Czech Republic, but with distinct country-specific patterns.…”
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Behavioural rhythms of two amphipod species Marinogammarus marinus and Gammarus pulex under increasing levels of light at night. by Charlotte N Underwood, Alex T Ford, Samuel C Robson, Herman Wijnen

“…Artificial light at night (ALAN) is proliferating at an alarming rate across the globe, particularly around aquatic habitats. …”
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Compact Broadband Dual ZOR Antenna for Multiband Smart Mobile Phone Applications by Jeong Keun Ji

“…The measured results show that it has the active performance of good total radiated power, total isotropic sensitivity, and specific absorption rate, which can meet the requirement of the smart mobile phone.…”
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CAs-Net: A Channel-Aware Speech Network for Uyghur Speech Recognition by Jiang Zhang, Miaomiao Xu, Lianghui Xu, Yajing Ma

“…Experiments conducted on a real Uyghur speech recognition dataset demonstrate that CAs-Net achieves the best performance across multiple subsets, with an average Word Error Rate (WER) of 5.72%, significantly outperforming existing approaches. …”
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Wastewater treatment study using multi-soil-layering system by LUO An-cheng, ZHANG Chun-di, DU Ye-hong, SHEN Qin-qin

“…It is composed of soil mixture block layers arranged in a brick-like pattern and water-permeable layer. It has many advantages compared with other land treatment systems, such as preventing clogging, increasing hydraulic loading rate, enhancing the purification ability of soil, et al. …”
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Regreening Practices and Effectiveness Evaluation for Rocky Slope Drawdown Zones in Pumped Storage Power Station Reservoirs by YANG Zhi-chao, MA Xiao-xiao, CHANG Shi-ju, TANG Yu-shuang, ZHAO Rui-yi, WAN Dan, ZHANG Qian-zhu

“…Plants exhibited strong resilience in terms of post-submersion recovery, expansion, and colonization, achieving an overall survival rate of 83.2%. Bamboo Willow (Salix sp), Bamboo Willow cuttings (Salix sp), Zhongshan Fir (Taxodium hybrid), Wallich Willow (Salix wallichiana), Chaste Tree (Vitex negundo), Lax-flowered Myricaria (Myricaria laxiflora), Variegated Willow cuttings (Salix variegata), Small Dogwood (Swida paucinervis), and Chinese Distylium (Distylium chinense) all achieved survival rates exceeding 85% and exhibited long-term tolerance to complete submersion. …”
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STANDARD OF LIVING OF THE RUSSIAN POPULATION: FEATURES OF INTERREGIONAL DIFFERENTIATION DYNAMICS by N. A. Gerasimenko

“…This circumstance allowed usto determine the nature of changes and identify two groups of Federal districts that are moving away from each  other at an increasing rate in terms of the standard of living of the population. …”
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Optimization complexity and resource minimization of emitter-based photonic graph state generation protocols by Evangelia Takou, Edwin Barnes, Sophia E. Economou

“…Finding ways to minimize the number of entangling gates between emitters and understanding the overall optimization complexity of such protocols is crucial for practical implementations. …”
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Differential Cortical Responses of Functional and Sensory Electrical Stimulation in Closed-Loop Tremor Suppression for Parkinson’s Disease by Xiaoqi Zhao, Tinglan Huang, Mengyue Jin, Hongbo Zhao, Yu Shi, Yanlin Wang, Xiao Shen, Zhen Li, Qingqing Shi, Xiaodong Zhu, Lin Meng

“…Both FES and SES significantly reduced tremor amplitude, with FES showing overall greater suppression (hand suppression rate: 60.72% vs. 48.31%, p >0.05; forearm suppression rate: 62.25% vs. 54.41%, p >0.05) where substantial inter-individual variability was observed. …”
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Timing of Surgery and Preoperative Predictors of Surgical Site Infections for Patients with Depressed Skull Fractures in a Sub-Saharan Tertiary Hospital: A Prospective Cohort Study by Hervé Monka Lekuya, Jelle Vandersteene, Larrey Kasereka Kamabu, Rose Nantambi, Ronald Mbiine, Anthony Kirabira, Fredrick Makumbi, Stephen Cose, David Patrick Kateete, Mark Kaddumukasa, Edward Baert, Moses Galukande, Jean-Pierre Okito Kalala

“…The outcome variables were the incidence risk of SSI, types of SSI, microbial culture patterns of wound isolates, and hospital length of stay. …”
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Clinicopathological characterization of Switch/Sucrose-non-fermentable (Swi/Snf) complex (ARID1A, SMARCA2, SMARCA4)-deficient endocervical adenocarcinoma by Chao Cao, Zi-Yun Wu, Wei Liao, Li-Jun Wei, Hao-Yu Liang, Xia Yang, Rong-Zhen Luo, Li-Li Liu

“…Defining Swi/Snf deficiency as loss of any subunit, the overall deficiency rate was 5.96% (36/604). Swi/Snf-deficient ECA tended to advanced FIGO stage (III-IV, P = 0.041), larger tumor size (P < 0.001), deeper stromal invasion (≥ 1/3, P = 0.046), and higher lymph node metastasis rate (P = 0.037). …”
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Annual dialysis data report 2022, Japanese Society for Dialysis Therapy (JSDT) Renal Data Registry by Norio Hanafusa, Masanori Abe, Nobuhiko Joki, Junichi Hoshino, Masatomo Taniguchi, Kan Kikuchi, Takeshi Hasegawa, Shunsuke Goto, Tetsuya Ogawa, Eiichiro Kanda, Shigeru Nakai, Toshihide Naganuma, Kenichiro Miura, Atsushi Wada, Yoshiaki Takemoto

“…The number of chronic dialysis patients was 347,474 at the end of 2022, marking the first decrease since the beginning of this survey. The prevalence rate of dialysis patients was 2781 per million population. …”
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Cause-specific mortality in individuals with and without mental disorders according to socioeconomic position: a population-based cohort studyResearch in context by Danni Chen, Linda Ejlskov, Julie Werenberg Dreier, Natalie C. Momen, Lisbeth Mølgaard Laustsen, Henrik Toft Sørensen, Jayati Das-Munshi, Oleguer Plana-Ripoll

“…We estimated mortality rate ratios (MRRs) and rate differences (MRDs) with Poisson regression models. …”
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Trends in Antihypertensive Drug Use and Irrational Prescriptions Among Elderly Patients in China (2016&amp;ndash;2023): A Nationwide Multi-Center Cross-Sectional Survey Study by Hong D, Chen W, Du S, Ren J, Lv D, Shan W, Lu X, Zhao Q

“…The overall proportion of first-line antihypertensive prescriptions was 97.47% but showed a slight declining trend (APC=− 0.66%, P=0.004). The rates of inappropriate combination medication and overall irrational prescriptions decreased, while the rate of contraindicated medication prescriptions increased (P&lt; 0.001). …”
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Ecological drivers of nesting behavior in a subtropical city: An observational study on spotted doves by Yao Sheng, Mengjie Lu, Junpeng Bai, Xiaobin Xie, Long Ma, Wanyou Li, Zhen Zhang, Fang Ming, Xueli Zhang, Ziwei Zhang, Zhifeng Xu, Yuqing Han, Bicai Guan, Luzhang Ruan

“…The results revealed that the nest reuse rate was 38.08% (n = 115). Nests closer to trunk, with lower nest position and higher large‐scale urbanization score tended to have higher reuse rate. …”
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