Fertility differences across immigrant generations in the United Kingdom by Jiseon Baek, Hill Kulu, Sarah Christison, Francesca Fiori

“…OBJECTIVE: This study examines the first-, second-, and third-birth rates of three migrant generation groups in the United Kingdom – 1.5G, 2G, and 2.5G. …”
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Comparing Machine Learning-Based Crime Hotspots Versus Police Districts: What’s the Best Approach for Crime Forecasting? by Eugenio Cesario, Paolo Lindia, Andrea Vinci

“…Then, crime forecasting models are extracted for each area, to monitor and predict how crime rates evolve over time within each partition. However, traditional spatial partitioning approaches, which divide cities into predefined police districts based on geographic and operational considerations, often fail to account for variations in crime patterns. …”
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"What happens when you get corona?": Children's questions and parental responses about the COVID-19 pandemic. by Graciela Trujillo Hernández, David Menendez, Seung Heon Yoo, Rebecca E Klapper, Maria H Schapfel, Kailee A Sowers, Victoria E Welch, Karl S Rosengren

“…Meanwhile, parents during the second peak of infection and death rates were more focused on responding to their children's questions with information about the virus. …”
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Macroepidemiological trends of Influenza A virus detection through reverse transcription real-time polymerase chain reaction (RT-rtPCR) in porcine samples in the United States over... by Daniel C. A. Moraes, Guilherme A. Cezar, Edison S. Magalhães, Rafael R. Nicolino, Kinath Rupasinghe, Srijita Chandra, Gustavo S. Silva, Marcelo N. Almeida, Bret Crim, Eric R. Burrough, Phillip C. Gauger, Darin Madson, Joseph Thomas, Michael A. Zeller, Rodger Main, Mary Thurn, Paulo Lages, Cezar A. Corzo, Mattew Sturos, Hemant Naikare, Rob McGaughey, Franco Matias Ferreyra, Jamie Retallick, Jordan Gebhardt, Sara McReynolds, Jon Greseth, Darren Kersey, Travis Clement, Angela Pillatzki, Jane Christopher-Hennings, Beth S. Thompson, Melanie Prarat, Dennis Summers, Craig Bowen, Joseph Boyle, Kenitra Hendrix, James Lyons, Kelli Werling, Andreia G. Arruda, Mark Schwartz, Mark Schwartz, Paul Yeske, Deborah Murray, Brigitte Mason, Peter Schneider, Samuel Copeland, Luc Dufresne, Daniel Boykin, Corrine Fruge, William Hollis, Rebecca C. Robbins, Thomas Petznick, Kurt Kuecker, Lauren Glowzenski, Megan Niederwerder, Daniel C. L. Linhares, Giovani Trevisan

“…IAV detection followed a seasonal pattern, with peaks in spring and fall and lower positivity rates in summer. …”
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Multi-omics analysis of Taiwanofungus gaoligongensis: effects of different cultivation methods on secondary metabolites by Tingwen He, Tingwen He, Tingwen He, Xiaolong Yuan, Liangjun Xiao, Tanggeran Hu, Yi Wang, Xiaolei Zhao, Xiaolei Zhao, Xiaolei Zhao, Lu Li, Lu Li, Chengbo Peng, Chengbo Peng, Chengbo Peng, Hongling Zhang, Hongling Zhang, Hongling Zhang, Yuan Zheng, Yuan Zheng, Yuan Zheng, Yuan Zheng

“…In particular, the expression of TgHMGR was markedly higher in NZJB than in XZJB and DM, correlating with the elevated terpenoids and triterpenoids levels, suggesting that TgHMGR may act as a key rate-limiting enzyme in the terpenoid biosynthesis pathway of T. gaoligongensis. …”
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Species Composition, Phenotypic and Genotypic Resistance Levels in Major Malaria Vectors in Teso North and Teso South Subcounties in Busia County, Western Kenya by Edward K. Githinji, Lucy W. Irungu, Paul N. Ndegwa, Maxwell G. Machani, Richard O. Amito, Brigid J. Kemei, Paul N. Murima, Geoffrey M. Ombui, Antony K. Wanjoya, Charles M. Mbogo, Evan M. Mathenge

“…Indoor resting mosquitoes had 100% mortality rate after 24 h since exposure. Overall SS genotypic frequency in Teso North and Teso South subcounties was 79.4% against 13.7% homozygous LL genotype and 6.9% heterozygous LS genotype. …”
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Estimation of long-term gridded cloud radiative kernel and radiative effects based on cloud fraction by X. Liu, T. He, Q. Wang, X. Xiao, Y. Ma, Y. Wang, S. Luo, L. Du, Z. Wu, Z. Wu

“…The GCF-CRKs exhibit similar signs and patterns and enhanced stability compared to existing kernels. …”
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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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Tobacco and other substance co-use among adolescents and young adults with cancer who use tobacco: prevalence and associations with nicotine dependence and depression by Eun Jeong Oh, Michael A Diefenbach, Elizabeth J Siembida, Brittney Greene, Kara P Wiseman, Melissa Basile, Nehal P Vadhan

“…When AYA cancer survivors who use tobacco had major depression, alcohol co-use was associated with lower rates of nicotine dependence (aOR=0.08, 95% CI=0.01, 0.53).Conclusions There are high rates of substance co-use among AYAs who use tobacco, consistent across cancer history. …”
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The Prevalence of Anatomical Variations of the Median Nerve in the Carpal Tunnel: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis. by Brandon Michael Henry, Helena Zwinczewska, Joyeeta Roy, Jens Vikse, Piravin Kumar Ramakrishnan, Jerzy A Walocha, Krzysztof A Tomaszewski

“…Our aim was to determine the prevalence rates of anatomical variations of the MN in the carpal tunnel and the most common course patterns and variations in its thenar motor branch (TMB).…”
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Prognostic Indicators and Comparative Treatment Outcomes in High-Risk Thyroid Cancer with Laryngotracheal Invasion by Eman A. Toraih, Jessan A. Jishu, Mohammad H. Hussein, Aly A. M. Shaalan, Manal S. Fawzy, Emad Kandil

“…Tracheal and laryngeal invasion rates declined from 3.7%–0.7% and 1.5%–0.6%, respectively, from 2000 to 2015. …”
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Monitoring and Assessment of Slope Hazards Susceptibility Around Sarez Lake in the Pamir by Integrating Small Baseline Subset InSAR with an Improved SVM Algorithm by Yang Yu, Changming Zhu, Majid Gulayozov, Junli Li, Bingqian Chen, Qian Shen, Hao Zhou, Wen Xiao, Jafar Niyazov, Aminjon Gulakhmadov

“…The maximum deformation rate along the shoreline increased from 280 mm/yr to 480 mm/yr, with a marked acceleration observed between 2022 and 2023. …”
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Legacy Pipes Unearthed: Decrypting the Enigma of Pressure Dynamics and Burst Events in Limburg, The Netherlands by Mohamad Zeidan, Bram Hillebrand, Mirjam Blokker

“…The results indicate a consistent pattern of higher real positive percentages compared to random detection rates across the years tested. …”
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From School to School: Examining the Contours of Within-Field Switching in the Special Education Teacher Labor Market by Andrew Pendola, Frank Perrone

“…Results show that SETs switch schools at much higher rates, associated with experience, salary, and student demographics, yet generally transfer shorter distances than their peers. …”
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Publication bias in the social sciences since 1959: Application of a regression discontinuity framework. by Julia Jerke, Antonia Velicu, Fabian Winter, Heiko Rauhut

“…We conclude that these changes are influenced by increasing computational possibilities as well as changes in the acceptance rates of scientific top journals.…”
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Experimental Reconstruction of a Nineteenth Century Lower Limb Prosthetic Peg Leg – The Box Leg by Charlotte Waller-Cotterhill

“…However, that all societies (past and present) follow a single technological trajectory just at different rates of progress would be an inaccurate assumption (Pfaffenberger, 1992). …”
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Decoding Phthorimaea operculella (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in the new age of change by Silvia I. RONDON

“…Scenarios of climate variation have increased the possibility of changes in pests' biological and ecological patterns by increasing or reducing overwintering length, changes in population growth rates, number of generations, crop-pest relationship, and therefore affecting their expansion. …”
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Full spectrum of novelties in time-dependent urn models by Alessandro Bellina, Giordano De Marzo, Vittorio Loreto

“…Systems driven by innovation, a pivotal force in human society, present various intriguing statistical regularities, from the Heaps' law to logarithmic scaling or somewhat different patterns for the innovation rates. The urn model with triggering (UMT) has been instrumental in modeling these innovation dynamics. …”
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Comparison of Microbiological Profiles of Primary Hip and Knee Peri-Prosthetic Joint Infections Treated at Specialist Centers Around the World by Emin Suha Dedeogullari, Pablo Slullitel, Isabel Horton, Bulent Atilla, Saif Salih, Paul Monk, Ahmet Mazhar Tokgozoglu, Michael Goplen, Bonita Tsang, Martin Buljubasich, Hesham Abdelbary, Simon Garceau, George Grammatopoulos

“…However, most studies are limited to single-center or intra-country multicenter analyses, often including mixed cohorts of primary and revision PJI cases, with limited data regarding global antibiotic resistance patterns. This study compared the microbiological characteristics, polymicrobial culture rates, prevalence of culture-negative infections, and antibiotic resistance patterns in PJI cases across five referral centers from five continents. …”
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Assessing patient-level risk factors for evidence-based early diagnosis of maternal sepsis by Philip Emeka Anyanwu, Paul Expert, Kate Honeyford, Oluwasomidoyin Bello, Mobolaji Modinat Salawu, Ikeola Adeoye, Ayo Stephen Adebowale, Amen-Patrick Nwosu, Summia Zaher, Peter Ghazal, Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Magbagbeola David Dairo, Ceire Costelloe

“…Patients with sepsis had the lowest rate of live birth (29.7%) compared to those with (41.8%) and without (82.1%) an infection. …”
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