Prognostic significance of acute exacerbations and usual interstitial pneumonia in fibrotic interstitial lung disease by Yun Zhang, Zekai Cen, Qunli Ding, Yanan Ying, Chengna Lv, Tingting Wu

“…The Kaplan‒Meier survival analysis showed that the IPF group (HR 1.97, 95% CI 1.05–3.70, P = 0.011) had a worse survival rate than the FILD group, and landmark analyses showed that the survival of FILD patients with the UIP pattern (HR 3.07 95% CI 1.37–6.86 P = 0.006) was significantly shorter than that of FILD patients with the NSIP pattern 48 months after ILD diagnosis. …”
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Night surveys reveal abundant populations of sea urchins with high erosive potential in Cayo Arenas, Banco de Campeche by Elizabeth Cabrera Rivera, Ana Molina-Hernández, Francisco Medellín-Maldonado, Sergio Guendulain-García, Esmeralda Pérez-Cervantes, Rodolfo Rioja-Nieto, Alexis E Medina-Valmaseda, Lorenzo Alvarez-Filip

“…At night, the abundance (14.5 ± 3.8 ind) and bioerosion rate (1.55 ± 0.53 kg CaCO3·m–2·y–1) were higher than during the day (2.6 ± 0.8 ind and 0.2 ± 0.06 kg CaCO3·m–2·y–1). …”
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Effect of Different Commercial Fertilizers, Harvest Date, and Storage Time on Two Organically Grown Blackberry Cultivars: Physicochemical Properties, Antioxidant Properties, and Su... by George Cavender, Mingyang Liu, Javier Fernandez-Salvador, Deborah Hobbs, Bernadine Strik, Balz Frei, Yanyun Zhao

“…Antioxidant and sugar profile data revealed an interesting pattern: “Obsidian” had ORAC and lower sugar than “Triple Crown” at harvest and also had greater differentiation due to fertilizer treatments. …”
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Perceptions of using herbal medicines for managing menopausal symptoms: a web-based survey of Korean medicine doctors by Ji Hee Jun, Hye Won Lee, Jiae Choi, Tae-Young Choi, Ju Ah Lee, Ho-Yeon Go, Myeong Soo Lee

“…The questionnaire consisted of three categories and a total of 26 items focusing on major menopausal symptoms, prescriptions, pattern identification, and background characteristics. …”
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RETRACTED ARTICLE: Comprehensive investigations of mixed convection of Fe–ethylene-glycol nanofluid inside an enclosure with different obstacles using lattice Boltzmann method by Chenqi Fu, Amin Rahmani, Wanich Suksatan, S. M. Alizadeh, Majid Zarringhalam, Supat Chupradit, Davood Toghraie

“…A change in the attack angle of the enclosure leads to changes in the movement distance for fluid between hot and cold sources and passing fluid through case E, which affects the flow pattern strongly. In each attack angle, on colliding with an obstacle, the fluid heat transfers between two sources, which leads to uniform heat transfer in the enclosure. …”
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Estimating Future Surface Water Availability Through an Integrated Climate‐Hydrology‐Management Modeling Framework at a Basin Scale Under CMIP6 Scenarios by Manqing Shao, Nelun Fernando, John Zhu, Gang Zhao, Shih‐Chieh Kao, Bingjie Zhao, Elizabeth Roberts, Huilin Gao

“…The results indicate that climate change has a significant impact on surface water availability by increasing reservoir evaporation, altering the seasonal pattern of naturalized streamflow, and reducing FY.…”
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Dynamic relationship among China's economic development, food safety and health production from a global perspective by Minjie Teng, Minjie Teng, Hua Wei, Hua Wei, Qunshan Tao, Qunshan Tao

“…Such a model is essential to gain deeper insights into the complex interplay among economic development, food safety, and health production.MethodsUsing panel data from 30 provinces in China (2017–2020), we integrated economic development, food safety, and health production into a unified efficiency assessment framework.ResultsOur findings reveal that China's overall efficiency is low (0.504), with significant regional heterogeneity, presenting a pattern of high in the east and low in the west; the efficiency of economic development (0.288) significantly lags behind the efficiency of health production (0.694); and the efficiency of food safety risk control is weak (the efficiency of food inspection failure rate, the number of foodborne illness incidents and patients are 0.694, 0.368, and 0.428, respectively).DiscussionThe DNSBM model breaks through the limitations of traditional static analysis and provides a dynamic assessment tool for emerging economies to reconcile the contradiction of “economic growth resource consumption public health”. …”
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Lurie Control Systems Applied to the Sudden Cardiac Death Problem Based on Chua Circuit Dynamics by Rafael F. Pinheiro, Diego Colón, Alexandre Antunes, Rui Fonseca-Pinto

“…Studies indicate that the “V-trough” pattern in sympathetic nerve activity (SNA) could act as an early indicator of potentially fatal cardiac events, which can be effectively modeled using a modified version of Chua’s chaotic system, incorporating the variables of heart rate (HR), SNA, and blood pressure (BP). …”
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Exciton-phonon coupling and phonon-assisted exciton relaxation dynamics in In1-xGaxP quantum dots by Beiye C. Li, Kailai Lin, Ping-Jui E. Wu, Aritrajit Gupta, Kaiyue Peng, Siddhartha Sohoni, Justin C. Ondry, Zirui Zhou, Caitlin C. Bellora, Young Jay Ryu, Stella Chariton, David J. Gosztola, Vitali B. Prakapenka, Richard D. Schaller, Dmitri V. Talapin, Eran Rabani, Gregory S. Engel

“…We identify a slower hot exciton cooling rate in In0.62Ga0.38P/ZnS, attributed to the presence of ‘energy-retaining’ valley exciton states with strong exciton-phonon coupling. …”
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Carbon Lock-In Mechanisms in Transport Infrastructure and Temporal Spatial Dynamics by Yinghui Zhang, Yun Chen, Kai Li, Yong Wu, Chongsen Ma

“…The key findings are as follows: (1) temporally, the composite path dependence index (PDI) increased from 0.13 to 0.24, with an average annual growth rate of 5.7%, although the growth trend exhibited noticeable fluctuations. (2) Spatially, a clear “East-High–West-Low, South-High–North-Low” pattern is observed, with the eastern region exhibiting a PDI approximately 29% higher than that of the northeastern region—mainly due to differences in economic vitality and the degree of policy intervention. (3) Threshold nonlinearity is evident: the influence of key factors on carbon path dependence varies across quantiles, and a critical threshold appears at the 0.9 quantile. …”
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Red blood cell transfusion for critically ill patients admitted through the emergency department in South Korea by Tae Sung Kim, Yongil Cho, Hyuk Joong Choi, Joonbum Park, Wonhee Kim, Chiwon Ahn, Joon Young Kim

“…The prognosis showed the same pattern in various subgroups. Conclusions Despite the large number of RBC transfusions used in contradiction to the restrictive strategy, there was no notable difference in the prognosis of critically ill patients. …”
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Construction of Q&A methods based on knowledge graphs and large language models-improving the accuracy of landscape pest and disease Q&A by Zhixin Gu, Ting Long, Shuairan Wang, Xiaowei Shang, Weizheng Shen, Xiaoli Wei, Kaihong Xu

“…It outperforms both models in accuracy, achieving a 90% accuracy rate for simple questions.…”
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Annual variation of temperature and mass balance of first-year and second-year land-fast sea ice in Prydz Bay, East Antarctica by Dinglong Zhao, Bin Cheng, Matti Leppäranta, Jingkai Ma, Xuejing Chen, Jiechen Zhao

“…Snow–ice and superimposed ice formation were most sensitive to the precipitation pattern, followed by the initial snow depth and initial ice thickness. …”
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Influence of Introduction and Cultivation on the Content of Active Ingredients and Elements in Gastrodia elata by Weijin HUANG, Yufan LIANG, Dan TANG, Qi ZHANG, Dongdong LIU, Qiuying WANG

“…The heavy metal content of G. elata from various regions complied with national standards, and there was no universal pattern in element across different production areas. …”
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Comparative analysis of soil thermal conductivity in the permafrost regions of the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau and the Arctic by Wenhao Liu, Ren Li, Tonghua Wu, Guojie Hu, Xiaodong Wu, Shenning Wang, Junjie Ma, Jianzong Shi, Shengfeng Tang, Xiaofan Zhu, Yongping Qiao

“…The mean STC values in the QTP permafrost region during the thawing period are significantly higher than those during the freezing period. (2) STC of the QTP exhibits a fluctuating pattern at different depths, in contrast, the average STC value in the Arctic increases steadily with depth, with an increase rate of approximately 0.005 Wm−1 K−1/cm. (3) The analysis of influencing factors revealed that although moisture content, bulk density, and porosity are the primary drivers of regional variations in STC between the QTP and the Arctic permafrost, moisture elements in the QTP region have a greater influence on STC and the effect is stronger with increasing depth and during the freeze–thaw cycles. …”
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l-[5-11C]Glutamine PET imaging noninvasively tracks dynamic responses of glutaminolysis in non-alcoholic steatohepatitis by Yiding Zhang, Lin Xie, Masayuki Fujinaga, Yusuke Kurihara, Masanao Ogawa, Katsushi Kumata, Wakana Mori, Tomomi Kokufuta, Nobuki Nengaki, Hidekatsu Wakizaka, Rui Luo, Feng Wang, Kuan Hu, Ming-Rong Zhang

“…Here, we developed a positron emission tomography (PET) imaging platform using l-[5-11C]glutamine ([11C]Gln) and evaluated its efficacy in NASH mice undergoing metabolic therapy with bis-2-(5-phenylacetamido-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)ethyl sulfide (BPTES), a glutaminase 1 (GLS1) inhibitor that intervenes in the first and rate-limiting step of glutaminolysis. PET imaging with [11C]Gln effectively delineated the pharmacokinetics of l-glutamine, capturing its temporal-spatial pattern of action within the body. …”
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Molecular characterization of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli strains in Jiangxi Province, China, and development of polyvalent inactivated vaccines by Jia Tan, Ying-Xin Wang, Zhao-Feng Kang, Jiang-Nan Huang, Hai-Qin Li, Cheng-Cheng Wu, Na Li, Fan-Fan Zhang, Mei-Fang Tan

“…Compared with existing vaccines, those formulated in this study showed superior protection, with the MONTANIDE™ GEL P PR adjuvant achieving the highest protection rate (90.0 %, 36/40) and lower lesion scores. This research enhances the understanding of APEC epidemiology and offers promising strategies for effective vaccine development against prevalent APEC.…”
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Transarterial chemoembolization for advanced hepatocellular carcinoma after failure of first-line systemic treatment: a single-center case series by Qingyu Xu, Bin Leng, Ran You, Lingfeng Diao, Chendong Wang, Zeyu Yu, Guowen Yin

“…The most common progression pattern was the development of new intrahepatic lesions. …”
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Modulatory effect of dianthrone rich alcoholic flower extract of Cassia auriculata L. on experimental diabetes by Syed Zameer Ahmed Khader, Sidhra Syed Zameer Ahmed, Senthil Kumar Balasubramanian, Thanga kumar Arunachalam, Geetha Kannappan, Mohamed Rafi Mahboob, Ponmurugan Ponnusamy, Kishore Ramesh

“…The pure compounds were confirmed with thin layer chromatography and high performance liquid chromatography pattern and further subjected for characterization. …”
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Interobserver variability in the preoperative assessment of future liver remnant function using hepatobiliary scintigraphy by Kirsten de Vries, Jelmer E. Oor, Suomi M. G. Fouraschen, Marieke T. de Boer, Maarten W. Nijkamp, Erik Groot Jebbink, Gilles N. Stormezand, Simeon J. S. Ruiter

“…Abstract Background Post-hepatectomy liver failure (PHLF) is a serious complication following hepatic resection and associated with a high mortality rate. The risk of PHLF can be estimated pre-resection by assessing the function of the future liver remnant (FLR) using hepatobiliary scintigraphy (HBS). …”
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