Tourism and covid-19 in three European cities. Change in persistence by Gloria Claudio-Quiroga, Cecilia Font de Villanueva, Luis Alberiko Gil-Alana

“…We consider hotel occupancy rate data with data beginning at October 1997 (in London), at March 2004 (in Berlin), while those in Manchester start at January 2006. …”
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Study on main controlling factors of CO2 huff-n-puff for enhanced oil recovery and storage in shale oil reservoirs by CHEN Jun, WANG Haimei, CHEN Xi, TANG Yong, TANG Liangrui, SI Rong, WANG Huijun, HUANG Xianzhu, LENG Bing

“…Considering both oil recovery and storage, the optimal injection strategy for a single well included: initiating when daily oil production declined to just above 8 m3, injecting 15 000-24 000 tons of CO₂ at a rate of 500-900 t/d, shut-in duration of 30-50 days, and conducting 2-3 huff-n-puff cycles. …”
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Physics-based modeling and mechanism of polycrystalline diamond tool wear in milling of 70 vol% Si/Al composite by Lianjia Xin, Guolong Zhao, Zhiwen Nian, Haotian Yang, Liang Li, Ning He

“…The optimal machining parameters of 120 m·min ^–1 cutting speed ( v _c ) and 0.04 mm·z ^–1 feed rate ( f _z ), result in tool life of 33 min and surface roughness ( S _a ) of 2.2 μm. …”
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Developing and Validating Species Distribution Models for Wetland Plants Across Europe by Ojaswi Sumbh, Marjon Hellegers, Valerio Barbarossa, Renata Ćušterevska, Borja Jiménez‐Alfaro, Łukasz Kozub, Francesca Napoleone, Zvjezdana Stančić, Aafke M. Schipper

“…We concluded that our SDMs are suitable for predicting broad‐scale patterns of wetland plant species distributions as governed by climatic conditions. …”
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Effect of IAA on coumarins synthesis in Angelica dahurica under soil compactness stress by Xinglong Zhu, Xiaoyan Chen, Chengfeng Huang, Yongfeng Zhou, Tao Zhou, Qinghua Wu, Jin Pei

“…It was found that both too low and too high soil compactness resulted in low biomass accumulation of A. dahurica, but the latter showed a higher rate of coumarins accumulation. IAA was positively correlated (p < 0.1) with various morphological parameters and total coumarins content, suggesting that IAA may be associated with coumarins synthesis. …”
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Bibliometrics Analysis and Knowledge Mapping of Fragment-Based Drug Design Research: Trends from 2015 to 2024 by He C, Zhang J, Zhang R, Liu L, Luo J, Zhang W, Fang B

“…Bibliometric analysis and knowledge mapping were conducted using the RStudio’s bibliometrix-biblioshiny package, CiteSpace, and VOSviewer software, assessing multiple dimensions such as journal co-occurrence, keyword density, institutional collaboration, and citation patterns.Results: The research output in FBDD revealed fluctuating growth, with an average annual growth rate of 1.42%. …”
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Vacation and back-to-school effect on influenza transmission among school-age children in Guangzhou, China: an ecological study from 2010 to 2023 by Di Wu, Mengmeng Ma, Yanhui Liu, Zhitao Chen, Meiqi Zhang, Dedong Wang, Pengzhe Qin, Lei Luo

“…Objective To examine whether influenza transmission risk decreased during summer and winter vacations and increased after vacations and statutory holiday.Design An ecological study.Setting Guangzhou, Guangdong Province of China.Participants A total of 458 343 influenza cases in school-aged children were included, including 160 067 (35.05%) in kindergarten, 223 817 (48.83%) in primary school, 50 053 (10.92%) in middle school and 23 801 (5.19%) in high school.Data and methods Data on influenza cases were obtained from the Notifiable Infectious Disease Surveillance System operated by Guangzhou Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. Influenza incidence rate ratio (IRR) by negative binomial regression model was used to analyse the influenza risk of school-age children during/after vacation to before/during breaks.Results In all four groups, there was significantly lower incidence of influenza during winter and summer vacations compared with the 4 weeks preceding vacations. …”
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Association of Korean Medicine and polypharmacy with fall risk and mortality in older adults with stroke by Ye-Seul Lee, Bo-Hyoung Jang, Jin Pyeong Jeon, Han-Gyul Lee, Seungwon Kwon, Woo-Sang Jung

“…KM users with polypharmacy had a higher rate of falls but lower all-cause mortality than non-users. …”
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A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Most Endoparasites and Ectoparasites during Past Decade in Iraq by Karwan S. Najm Al-Marjan, Hawri H. Mohammed Jabbary, Liza J. Yousif, Fouad H. Kamil, Najat J. Ahmed

“…During the reviewed period, high prevalence of infection was recorded in several Iraqi provenances including, E. histolytica from Kirkuk (79.49%), T. gondii from in AL-Amaara (18.07%), G. lamblia and T. vaginalis from AL-Basrah (11.05%, 55.4%, respectively), and the head lice, P. humanus capiotis from Koya District at Erbil provenance (41.14%). Variation in the rate of infection/infestation tells us that there is some instability among study area including, instability of the security and military situation, economic instability, population density instability. …”
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Reducing Plasmodium falciparum malaria transmission in Africa: a model-based evaluation of intervention strategies. by Jamie T Griffin, T Deirdre Hollingsworth, Lucy C Okell, Thomas S Churcher, Michael White, Wes Hinsley, Teun Bousema, Chris J Drakeley, Neil M Ferguson, María-Gloria Basáñez, Azra C Ghani

“…We then explored the impact on transmission of continued roll-out of LLINs, additional rounds of indoor residual spraying (IRS), mass screening and treatment (MSAT), and a future RTS,S/AS01 vaccine in six representative settings with varying transmission intensity (as summarized by the annual entomological inoculation rate, EIR: 1 setting with low, 3 with moderate, and 2 with high EIRs), vector-species combinations, and patterns of seasonality. …”
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Feasibility Demonstration of Using the Signal‐to‐Noise Ratio Observations From Geodetic GNSS Receivers to Retrieve Dry Snow Density by J. Zhang, W. Wan, H. Liang, W. Ma, B. Liu, C. Liang, Z. Guo, X. Wan

“…Abstract The geodetic Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver has been proven to retrieve snow depth using the phase change rate of the signal‐to‐noise ratio (SNR) observations. …”
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Experimental study on the mechanical properties of freeze-thaw cycled sandstone under dynamic loading by Hanhua Xu, Sugang Sui, Junpeng Zou, Xun Bao, Weijie Tian, Shijing He, Quan Zhang

“…The findings indicate that the strain rate ε´-t curve of sandstone specimens under dynamic impact is characterized by “increasing-stabilizing-accelerating decrease”. …”
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Multiresistant Bacterial Pathogens Causing Bacterial Pneumonia and Analyses of Potential Risk Factors from Northeast Ethiopia by Tewodros Dessie, Mohabaw Jemal, Minwuyelet Maru, Moges Tiruneh

“…This study found high prevalence of bacterial pneumonia in the study area, and high rate of bacterial resistance was observed in ampicillin, penicillin, and amoxicillin-clavulanate. …”
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Nanostructured titanium dioxide-based photocatalysts for self-cleaning concrete: аssessment of effects of phase composition on photocatalytic activity of TiO2 by Artemy S. Balykov, Denis B. Chugunov, Vladimir M. Kyashkin, Natalia S. Davydova

“…Heterostructures made it possible to improve the spatial separation of charge carriers and to reduce the recombination rate of photogenerated electron-hole pairs. Conclusion. …”
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Epidemiological intricacies of respiratory pathogens: a single-center study on infection dynamics in Beijing, 2023–2024 by Wang Jie, Huo Wenyan, Liu Chang, Feng Jinghong, Li Wenyi, Li Shanshan, Su Ming

“…Epidemiological data were systematically collected and analyzed.ResultsSARS-CoV-2 positivity rate maintained above 3% throughout the observation period. …”
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Photoplethysmography-based HRV analysis and machine learning for real-time stress quantification in mental health applications by Ying-Ying Tsai, Yu-Jie Chen, Yen-Feng Lin, Fan-Chi Hsiao, Ching-Han Hsu, Lun-De Liao

“…Here, a wearable device utilizing photoplethysmography (PPG) technology is developed to noninvasively measure physiological signals and analyze heart rate variability (HRV) parameters. Traditional normative HRV databases typically do not account for responses induced by specific stressors such as cognitive tasks. …”
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Changes in abortion access after implementation of Medicaid coverage in Illinois: a retrospective analysis by Terri-Ann Thompson, Carmela Zuniga, Danielle Young, Valeria Hernandez, Debra Stulberg, Lee Hasselbacher, Ashley McHugh, Hanz Dismer

“…Compared with non-Medicaid patients, Medicaid patients experienced a significant decrease in average gestational age at the time of abortion post-HB-40 (incidence rate ratio (IRR)=0.93, 95% CI 0.91 to 0.95, p&lt;0.001). …”
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Study on the mechanical properties of stratified rock mass based on 3D printing technology and FDEM algorithm by Yongchao Tian, Kaifang Ren, Fan He, Yong Liu, Penghai Deng, Jiaqi Guo, Feiyue Sun, Xin Huang, Jun Zhang

“…It has overcome a set of challenges, such as difficulty in sampling stratified rock mass, low success rate of precast cracks within stratified rock mass, and difficulty in controlling the geometric parameters of stratified rock specimens (e.g., the dip angle of bedding plane, the dip angle of precast crack, the length of precast crack, etc.). …”
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Removal of As(V) and Cr(VI) using quinoxaline chitosan schiff base: synthesis, characterization and adsorption mechanism by Huda E. Abdelwahab, Mohammed Elhag, Mohamed M. El Sadek

“…The experimental data revealed that the adsorption kinetics follow the mechanism of the pseudo-second-order equation with R2 values (0.9969, 0.9061) in case of using CsQ and R2 values (0.9989, 0.9999) in case of using CsQG, demonstrating chemical sorption is the rate-limiting step of the adsorption mechanism. Comparing the adsorption efficiency of the synthesized Schiff base and the cross-linked one, it was found that CsQ is a better adsorbent than CsQG in both cases of As(V) and Cr(VI) removal. …”
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ENHANCEMENT OF SENSOR PANEL TACTILE TOUCH INTERFACE by Oleksandr Karpin, Zinovii Liubun, Vasyl Mandziy, Oleh Tereshchuk, Nestor Hotsiy

“…The results show that the proposed algorithm achieves high accuracy in identifying two types of gestures, with a minimal error rate. Conclusions. The proposed classification algorithm exhibits satisfactory accuracy in identifying the two signals within a minimal timeframe and requires minimal computational resources. …”
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