Composite microbeads of cellulose acetate upcycled from waste for water remediation by Lorenzo Antonelli, Susanna Grasso, Massimo Giuseppe De Cesaris, Nina Felli, Chiara Dal Bosco, Stefano Cinti, Alessandra Gentili

“…An experimental 2³ factorial design was performed to define the best operational conditions of the instrumental setup, defining the flow rate, amount and chemical nature of the packed microbeads. …”
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Transcriptomic comparison between wild-caught and domesticated black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) in early and late-vitellogenic broodstock females by Thanh Minh Nguyen, Nhut Minh Tran, Yen Thi Hai Tran, Tham Thi Hong Le, Long Minh Tran, Phuc Nguyen Thien Le, Abigail Elizur, Tomer Ventura, Thu Thi Minh Vo, Tuan Viet Nguyen

“…Compared with DF, wild-caught broodstock females (WF) exhibit superior survival rate, offspring quality, and anti-pathogen capability, attracting interest from the seed production sector. …”
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Investigation of farmers’ awareness of water conservation and its determinants in arid regions: A case study of the Turpan-Hami Basin by Dongping Guo, Abdugheni Abliz, Yue Kong, Jialin Li, Xianhe Liu, Buasi Nurahmat

“…The results revealed that: (1) From 2005 to 2024, the water conservation rate in the Turpan–Hami Basin showed a fluctuating upward trend, surpassing 80 %, yet significant regional disparities in farmers’ water conservation awareness remained; (2) Areas with low levels of awareness were spatially associated with regions of low satisfaction with conservation outcomes and high levels of farmland investment. …”
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Direct scribing of metal microgratings using sawtoothed cemented carbide tools with Johnson-Cook model-based plastic deformation simulation by Minwook Kim, Dae Bo Sim, Yong Tae Kim, Bo Hyun Kim, Jong G. Ok

“…The process achieves a material removal rate of ∼36.4 mm3/min while maintaining groove-to-groove repeatability within ±8 % and limiting tool wear to less than 6 µm after ∼1.2 m of scribing. …”
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Epidemiology and genetic diversity of human respiratory syncytial virus in Belgium between 2011 and 2019 by Kaat Ramaekers, Els Keyaerts, Lieselot Houspie, Kurt Beuselinck, Marijke Reynders, Katrien Lagrou, Marc Van Ranst, Annabel Rector

“…The prevalence and positivity rate were estimated in 4 distinct age groups and the circulating strains of each subtype were situated in a global context and in reference to the described genotypes in literature. …”
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Dynamics of cerebral blood flow following sertraline treatment in adolescent depression by Wenyu Ren, Wenyu Ren, Xiao Liu, Zhiwei Zhang, Xiaoqin Zhang, Wei Wu, Xingyu Wang, Zhihui Yu, Chuan Liu, Renqiang Yu

“…Furthermore, Pearson correlation analysis was employed to examine associations between changes in regional CBF and clinical improvement, as measured by changes in the 17-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HAMD-17) scores.ResultsAt baseline, adolescents with depression exhibited increased CBF in the posterior cuneus and decreased CBF in the middle temporal gyrus (MTG), right middle orbitofrontal gyrus, and the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG), compared to healthy controls. …”
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Real-Time, Risk-Based Clinical Trial Quality Management in China: Development of a Digital Monitoring Platform by Min Jiang, Shuhua Zhao, Yun Mei, Zhiying Fu, Yannan Yuan, Jie Ai, Yuan Sheng, Ying Gong, Jingjing Chen

“…Quality findings from the early-stage, interim-stage, and conclusion-stage QC rounds of clinical trials were rated by using 3 severity grades (minor, major, or critical) and classified into 5 categories (with 4 taxonomy levels under each category). …”
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Criminal legal penalties, substance use, and overdose: a concept mapping study examining Colorado’s criminal legal penalties by Katherine LeMasters, Samantha K. Nall, Cole Jurecka, Betsy Craft, Paul J. Christine, Ryan Goodman, Jessie Henderson, Robert Haywood-James, Angela Williams, Grace Wittner, Joshua A. Barocas

“…Participants — recruited from community-based organizations — identified, rated, sorted, and categorized factors affecting criminal legal involvement, substance use, and/or overdose in their community. …”
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Functioning in patients with major depression treated with duloxetine or a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor in East Asia by Novick D, Montgomery W, Haro JM, Moneta MV, Zhu G, Yue L, Hong J, Duenas H, Brugnoli R

“…Depression severity was assessed using the 16-item Quick Inventory of Depressive Symptomatology-Self Report. PPS were rated using the modified Somatic Symptom Inventory. …”
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Abnormal Gray Matter Volume and Functional Connectivity in Parkinson’s Disease with Rapid Eye Movement Sleep Behavior Disorder by Xu Jiang, Zhuang Wu, Min Zhong, Bo Shen, Jun Zhu, Yang Pan, Jun Yan, Wenbin Zhang, Pingyi Xu, Chaoyong Xiao, Li Zhang

“…The GMV values in the right SOG were negatively correlated with the Unified PD Rating Scale-III scores in patients with PD-RBD but positively correlated with delayed memory scores. …”
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Adolescent binge drinking in the West of Ireland: associated risk and protective factors by Ciara Kelly, Emmet Major, Michéal Durcan, Diarmuid O’Donovan, Áine McNamara

“…Adolescence is when alcohol use typically begins. Harmful patterns of alcohol consumption, such as binge drinking, may emerge during adolescence and become established. …”
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Numerical Investigation of Large Wood Evolution Characteristics Transported by Flash Floods by SONG Siyuan, FEI Gaogao, WANG Xiekang

“…When the length of the large wood exceeded 3.6 m, the submergence rate decreased with the increase in recruitment. …”
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Neural signatures underlying the effect of social structure on empathy and altruistic behaviors by Xia Tian, Zixin Zheng, Renhui Li, Yue-Jia Luo, Chunliang Feng

“…Afterwards, participants rated the pain experienced by these innocents and shared money with other innocents. …”
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Distinct brain atrophy progression subtypes underlie phenoconversion in isolated REM sleep behaviour disorderResearch in context by Stephen Joza, Aline Delva, Christina Tremblay, Andrew Vo, Marie Filiatrault, Max Tweedale, Jean-François Gagnon, Ronald B. Postuma, Alain Dagher, Johannes Klein, Michele Hu, Petr Dusek, Stanislav Marecek, Zsoka Varga, John-Paul Taylor, John T. O'Brien, Michael Firbank, Alan Thomas, Paul C. Donaghy, Stéphane Lehéricy, Marie Vidailhet, Jean-Christophe Corvol, ICEBERG Study Group, Richard Camicioli, Howard Chertkow, Simon Lewis, Elie Matar, Kaylena A. Ehgoetz Martens, Lachlan Churchill, Michael Sommerauer, Sinah Röttgen, Per Borghammer, Karoline Knudsen, Allan K. Hansen, Dario Arnaldi, Beatrice Orso, Pietro Mattioli, Luca Roccatagliata, Oury Monchi, Shady Rahayel, Isabelle Arnulf, Samir Bekadar, Eve Benchetrit, Alexis Brice, Vanessa Brochard, Alizé Chalançon, Benoit Colsch, Florence Cormier-Dequaire, Jean-Christophe Corvol, Virginie Czernecki, Bertrand Degos, Cécile Delorme, Pauline Dodet, Carole Dongmo-Kenfack, Marie-Odile Habert, Farid Ichou, Jonas Ihle, Cécile Galléa, Rahul Gaurav, Marie-Alexandrine Glachant, Manon Gomes, David Grabli, Elodie Hainque, Laetitia Jeancolas, Christelle Laganot, Stéphane Lehéricy, Suzanne Lesage, Smaranda Leu-Semenescu, Richard Levy, Valentine Maheo, Graziella Mangone, Louise Laure Mariani, Aurelie Méneret, Poornima Menon, Fanny Mochel, Vincent Perlbarg, Dijana Petrovska, Fanny Pineau, Nadya Pyatigorskaya, Sophie Rivaud-Pechoux, Emmanuel Roze, Sara Sambin, Julie Socha, Arthur Tenenhaus, Romain Valabregue, Marie Vidailhet, Lydia Yahia-Cherif

“…Distinct brain atrophy patterns may already be seen in iRBD; however, how brain atrophy begins and progresses remains unclear. …”
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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

“…In this study, “Obsidian” and “Triple Crown” blackberries (both Rubus hybrids) were cultivated organically and fertilized with either soy meal, fish emulsion/hydrolysate blend, or processed poultry litter fertilizers at a fixed rate. Fruits were hand-harvested three times during their peak production period and stored at 4°C and 85% RH for up to 12 d. …”
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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

“…Consequently, in each state where a better flow mixture and lower depreciation of fluid velocity components, due to the penetration of lid movement and buoyancy force, occurs higher heat transfer rate is accomplished. Furthermore, it is shown that when Ri = 0.1, the effect of cavity angle is more important but when Ri = 10, the effect of the position of obstacle is more visible.…”
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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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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

“…Triggers other than hemoglobin level included increased lactate levels in 75 patients (48.7%), tachycardia in 47 patients (30.5%), and hypotension in 46 patients (29.9%). The 28-day mortality rate was not significantly reduced in the group that received transfusions compared to the non-transfusion group (21.4% vs. 26.8%, P=0.288). …”
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