Benchmarking successional progress in a quantitative food web. by Alice Boit, Ursula Gaedke

“…Mean body mass, functional diversity, predator-prey weight ratios, trophic positions, system residence times of carbon and nutrients, and the complexity of the energy flow patterns increased during succession. In contrast, both the mass-specific metabolic activity and the system export decreased, while the succession rate exhibited a bimodal pattern. …”
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Persistent Health Inequalities in the Burden of Gastrointestinal Cancers Among the Elderly From 1990 to 2021: A Population-Based Study by Zijian Qiu MM, Shengjian Yu MM, Ying Lou MM, Xiaofeng Ma BM, Feng Xuan BM

“…The age-standardized DALYs rate (ASDR) was calculated using the direct standardization method. …”
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Prophetic Energy Assessment with Smart Implements in Hydroelectricity Entities Using Artificial Intelligence Algorithm by Abdullah Saleh Alqahtani, Pravin R. Kshirsagar, Hariprasath Manoharan, Praveen Kumar Balachandran, C. K. Yogesh, Shitharth Selvarajan

“…This form of modeling uses historical data to predict potential values and can predict short-term patterns in solar and wind generation.…”
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Comparison of micro-flow imaging and contrast-enhanced ultrasound in monitoring microwave ablation of papillary thyroid carcinoma: efficacy, safety, and cost-effectiveness by Xiangyu Li, Min Zhuang, Ziyue Hu, Xiaoxiao Xie, Likun Cui, Man Lu

“…Clinical parameters were systematically compared between groups, including: 1) baseline clinical characteristics, 2) two-dimensional ultrasound features, 3) vascular patterns (MFI/CEUS), 4) tumor volume (V), 5) volume reduction rate (VRR), 6) postoperative complications, and 7) patient satisfaction outcomes.ResultsAll patients successfully underwent ablation. …”
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Analysis of the epidemiological situation of true pemphigus in Azerbaijan in the process of long-term dynamics by G. Z. Faradzheva

“…It was found that there was a steady increase in the incidence with a 13-14 year cycle of 2.5-3 times increase, and since 2006 the rate of disease growth has increased and switched to a 6 year cycle. …”
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Consumer preference and food values: can consumers in Tanzania play part in driving a sustainable food system? by Roselyne Alphonce, Yun Yun Gong, Hettie C. Schönfeldt, Lise Korsten

“…Notably, their understanding of safety centers on hygiene and spoilage, issues affecting short-term health, over long-term risks like aflatoxin, pesticide residues, and antimicrobial resistance. These patterns are consistent across consumer groups, though some variation emerges across different shopping contexts. …”
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The other in me: interpersonal multisensory stimulation changes the mental representation of the self. by Ana Tajadura-Jiménez, Stephanie Grehl, Manos Tsakiris

“…Changes in autonomic responses and in the subjective experience of self-identification were broadly consistent with patterns observed in other bodily illusions, but less robust. …”
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Differential effects of rice irrigation modes on hydrothermal environment and yield from the perspective of TOPSIS model by Sun Xuemei, Wang Siyu, Huang Yan, Sun Yanling, Chen Mo

“…Controlling the lower limit of irrigation would increase the effective number of rice tillers and improve the stem tiller spike formation rate, but it would reduce the SPAD and dry matter accumulations. …”
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Alternative food networks in supply Chains: A Biblio-metric analysis using RStudio and VOSViewer (1989–2024) by Wang Xi, Zailani Suhaiza

“…The results reveal an average annual growth rate of 11.19%, with a sharp increase in publications after 2020, driven by heightened interest in resilient, local, and circular food systems. …”
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Provenance of the Late Quaternary sediments in the Andaman Sea: Implications for monsoon variability and ocean circulation by Neeraj Awasthi, Jyotiranjan S. Ray, Ashutosh K. Singh, Shraddha T. Band, Vinai K. Rai

“…Age control is based on nine radiocarbon dates and δ18O stratigraphy. The rate of sedimentation was strongly controlled by fluctuations of the monsoon. …”
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Enhancing Education with Machine Learning: Predicting Student Readability Scores by Claire Bell

“…The research leverages a dataset of 1,000 English texts to evaluate and compare the performance of RFC, the Sooty Tern Optimization Algorithm (STOA), and the Gold Rush Optimizer (GRO) in predicting readability ratings. Key metrics, including accuracy, precision, and F1-score, are employed to assess and benchmark the models. …”
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Attachment as a Primary Mechanism in Physician Cognition and Bias During Complex Medical Cases: A Narrative Review by Rein C

“…This theory provides a foundation for further research into how attachment influences clinician decision-making and diagnostic performance while also highlighting how medical education may reinforce these patterns.Keywords: diagnostics, unconscious bias, cognitive theory, attachment theory…”
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Putting into practice domain-linear motif interaction predictions for exploration of protein networks. by Katja Luck, Sadek Fournane, Bruno Kieffer, Murielle Masson, Yves Nominé, Gilles Travé

“…When tested on real negative data assembled from published literature, the predictor displayed a high false positive rate (FPR). We predicted and experimentally validated interactions between four PDZ domains derived from the human proteins MAGI1 and SCRIB and 19 peptides derived from human and viral C-termini of proteins. …”
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Optimization of geometry forms for wind mill mouth of the “rotor-in-socket” type by Vladimir A. Kostyukov, Mikhail Yu. Medvedev, Andrey N. Maevskiy, Nikolay K. Poluyanovich, Vasily V. Savchenko

“…Such wind power plants meet and exceed, at any rate upon the average, the corresponding classical vertical axis structures.…”
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Wavelength-time-division multiplexed fiber-optic sensor array for wide-field photoacoustic microscopy by Wei Li, Xiaoxuan Zhong, Jie Huang, Xue Bai, Yizhi Liang, Linghao Cheng, Long Jin, Hao-Cheng Tang, Yinyan Lai, Bai-Ou Guan

“…Using a 4-element sensor array, we achieved an expanded FOV of 5 × 8 mm² while maintaining high temporal resolution (160 kHz A-line rate, 0.25 Hz frame rate) and microscopic spatial resolution (10.7 μm). …”
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Burden and Outcomes of Severe Lower Respiratory Tract Infections with Unknown Etiology: A Retrospective Observational Study on Epidemiological Trends Over an 8-Year Period (2016–20... by Giovanni Scaglione, Marta Canuti, Martina Offer, Valentina Breschi, Antonio Piralla, Fausto Baldanti, Gabriele Del Castillo, Francesco Scovenna, Sabrina Buoro, Federica Morani, Danilo Cereda, Alessandra Bandera, Andrea Gori, Marta Colaneri

“…Results Among 683,741 hospitalizations, 338,211 (49.5%) were of unknown etiology, showing a 12.3% intra-hospital mortality rate (41,627 deaths) and 4.0% intensive care unit admission rate (13,625 admissions). …”
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New perspectives under heterogeneity: mechanism of nutrient heterogeneity on Cd-induced hormesis of soil respiration by Qian Gao, Jiangshan Yang, Junyang Wu, Yongli Zhu, Yongli Zhu, Diwu Fan, Jiangang Han, Jiangang Han

“…To examine the effects of nutrient spatial heterogeneity on the hormesis of soil ecosystem under cadmium (Cd) stress, we constructed three patches with different spatial nutrient distribution but the same total nutrient content through different spatial discharge patterns. Different levels of Cd stress were applied to the patches, and after incubation, soil respiration rate, content of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and metagenomic characteristics were measured. …”
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Independent and joint impacts of high body mass index and aging on global burden of chronic kidney disease: insights from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Yao Ma, Shun Chen, Yuanli Shen, Xiang Wang, Xinning Xie, Weihong Zhao

“…IntroductionWe aimed to evaluate the levels and trends of CKD burden associated with high body mass index (BMI) from 1990 to 2021 and to investigate the role of aging.MethodsFrom the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021, we retrieved data and estimated CKD-related deaths, disability-adjusted life years (DALYs), age-standardized mortality rate (ASMR), and age-standardized DALYs rate (ASDR) attributable to high BMI by age, sex, socio-demographic index (SDI), and geographical regions. …”
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Warming From Land Use and Land Cover Change Associated With Economic Growth in the Permafrost Regions of the Northern Hemisphere by Xiaoqing Peng, Xuanjia Li, Rong Wang, Oliver W. Frauenfeld, Hengxing Luo, Panpan Wang, Chen Yang, Gubu Qiumo

“…Additionally, spatial economic growth patterns indicate increases from south to north, with decreasing economic inequality. …”
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The Characteristics of Energetic Electron Precipitation Based on Low Altitude FY‐3E Satellite Measurements by Yu‐Xuan Li, Chao Yue, Jianjun Liu, Zejun Hu, Qiugang Zong, Xuzhi Zhou, Shan Wang, Yixin Sun, Ying Liu, Hong Zou, Yongfu Wang, Yuguang Ye

“…Abstract This study statistically analyzes the electron precipitation patterns from 40 to 600 keV on dawnside and duskside and their correlations with geomagnetic activities and solar wind conditions based on Low‐Earth Orbit Fengyun‐3E (FY‐3E) satellite during July 2021 to May 2024. …”
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