Assessment of heavy metal pollution sources and environmental capacity of typical farmland soils in northwestern Zhejiang based on the geological background of black rock series by Mei-hua Wang

“…Principal component analysis extracted four principal components with a cumulative contribution rate of 78.92%, and the spatial distribution differences were obvious. …”
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Epidemiological trends and burden of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease in the Middle East and North Africa region: a 32-year analysis of health impact by Zahra Sarkoohi, Mohammad-Mahdi Bastan, Mohammad Amin Khajuei Gharaei, Mahsa Iranmanesh, Arya Adinepour, Reyhane Khajezade, Faegheh Bahri, Fatemeh Akhlaghi, Azin Kadkhodamanesh, Hossein Pourghadamyari, Hamid Sharifi, Omid Eslami, Seyed Aria Nejadghaderi

“…Women experienced a higher increase in incidence than men. The highest rates of DALYs were observed among older adults. …”
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Eco-friendly QbD-optimized chromatographic method for simultaneous analysis of metronidazole and nicotinamide with applications in permeation, stability, and sustainability evaluat... by Kanaka Parvathi Kannaiah, Mohamed A. M. Ali, Hemanth Kumar Chanduluru, Anis Ahmad Chaudhary, Mahmoud El-Maghrabey, Reem H. Obaydo, Galal Magdy, Mohamed A. El Hamd

“…Chromatographic separations were conducted with an RP-HPLC-photodiode array (PDA) system equipped with an ODS column using gradient elution of ethanol and phosphate buffer (10 mM, pH 3.5) at a flow rate of 1.0 mL/min. pre-optimized conditions were determined using a two-level full factorial design (23 FFD). …”
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Longitudinal evaluation of common and unique brain-networks in variants of primary progressive aphasia by Rajan Kashyap, Rose Dawn Bharath, Changsong Zhou, Kyrana Tsapkini, John E. Desmond, SH Annabel Chen, Kaviraja Udupa, PT Sivakumar, Sagarika Bhattacharjee

“…To validate the rsfMRI networks and the longitudinal changes, we evaluated the grey matter (GM) volume, GM atrophy and the rate-of-atrophy of the brain areas. To corroborate the findings, we applied persistent homology on the structural networks derived from diffusion tensor images. …”
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Development-oriented foreign policy; a framework for analyzing Nordics relations by Reza Rahmati

“…Norway, on the other hand, has the highest level of GDP per capita, while only Denmark has shown a positive GDP growth rate since the 2008 financial crisis. Accordingly, a look at the statistics and data on foreign trade, the total value of exports and imports, and the economic performance of these countries helps to a great extent to formulate development-oriented approaches based on institutional patterns, the embedding of the economy in politics, elite perception, and a development-oriented foreign policy. …”
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Aberrant Histone Methylation in Patients with Graves’ Disease by Ni Yan, Kaida Mu, Xiao-fei An, Ling Li, Qiu Qin, Rong-hua Song, Qiu-ming Yao, Xiao-qing Shao, Jin-an Zhang

“…The rate (degree) of H3K4 and H3K9 methylation and the expressions of histone-modifying genes were investigated. …”
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Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infections in a trauma care facility in India: trend over ten years by Aparna Ningombam, Arpan Kumar Thakur, Ashish Kumar Srivastava, Sharin Varma, Madhavi Kirti, M. Nizam Ahmed, Vanlal Tluanpuii, Kapil Dev Soni, Richa Aggarwal, Gyanendra Pal Singh, Ashish Bindra, Navdeep Sokhal, Keshav Goyal, Kamran Farooque, Purva Mathur

“…Among 546 patients, 577 episodes of CAUTI were recorded, giving a CAUTI rate of 7.4/1,000 catheter days. The average length of stay (LOS) of patients was 19.9 days. …”
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Exploring oral hygiene practices, nutritional habits and caries risk among children, adolescents and young adults: a multiregional perspective in the post-COVID-19 era by Azhar Iqbal, Osama Khattak, Yasir Dilshad Siddiqui, Saud Hamdan Almaeen, Saeed Alqahtani, Saleh Ali Alqahtani, Saeed Awod Bin Hassan, Faisal Hasan Alshehri, Ali Y. Alsaeed, Mahmoud K. AL-Omiri

“…Results There was a notable increase in the caries experience rate, which escalated from 26.1% before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to 45.0% during the pandemic (P < 0.001). …”
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Quality of Wild Passion Fruit at Different Ripening Stages Under Irrigated and Rainfed Cultivation Systems by Giuliana Naiara Barros Sales, Marília Hortência Batista Silva Rodrigues, Toshik Iarley da Silva, Rodolfo Rodrigo de Almeida Lacerda, Brencarla Lima Medeiros, Larissa Felix Macedo, Thiago Jardelino Dias, Walter Esfrain Pereira, Fabio Gelape Faleiro, Ivislanne de Sousa Queiroga Lacerda, Franciscleudo Bezerra da Costa

“…Additionally, the rainfed cultivation reduced the fruit color index by 14.82% and altered the respiratory pattern, causing a linear decrease of 73.37% in the respiration rate during ripening, in contrast to the behavior observed in the irrigated system, which reached an estimated minimum rate of 33.74 mg CO₂ kg⁻¹ h⁻¹ at 110 days after anthesis.…”
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Experimental study on the damage characteristics of cyclic disturbance and acoustic emission characteristics of different types of sandstones under high stress in deep mines by Yujing Jiang, Bin Liang, Dong Wang, Ling Dong, Hengjie Luan, Changsheng Wang, Jiankang Liu

“…Cyclic dynamic perturbations under sinusoidal waves with a frequency of 5 Hz, a loading rate of 0.1 mm/min, a cyclic amplitude of 5 MPa, and a loading rate of 0.1 mm/min were applied to the three rock samples during the experiments. …”
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Longitudinal Changes in Kidney Solute Clearance in a Prospective Cohort of Patients Initiating Chronic Hemodialysis by Tammy L. Sirich, Zijian Tan, Benjamin R. Highland, Zhidong Lin, Gregory B. Russell, Mariana Murea

“…Urine volume declined at a steady rate with median (quartile 1, quartile 3) percentage change relative to baseline of −10% (−36 to 29) at week 6 and −47% (−76 to 5) by week 48. …”
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Evolving Landscape of Melanoma in Portugal, Spain, Italy, and Greece: Trends and Insights by L. Cayuela, J.J. Pereyra-Rodríguez, J.C. Hernández-Rodríguez, R.C. Bueno-Molina, A. Cayuela

“…Objective: To study melanoma incidence trends from 1990 to 2021 in Southern European countries—Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece—and explore regional and age-period-cohort (A-P-C) patterns. Methods: Data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 were used to calculate age-standardized incidence rates (ASIRs). …”
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[Artículo traducido] Panorama actual del melanoma en Portugal, España, Italia y Grecia: tendencias y perspectivas by L. Cayuela, J.J. Pereyra-Rodríguez, J.C. Hernández-Rodríguez, R.C. Bueno-Molina, A. Cayuela

“…Abstract: Objective: To study melanoma incidence trends from 1990 to 2021 in Southern European countries—Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece—and explore regional and age-period-cohort (A-P-C) patterns. Methods: Data from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 were used to calculate age-standardized incidence rates (ASIRs). …”
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Sensor-triggered ecological momentary assessment in physical activity and sedentary behaviour research among Belgian community-dwelling elderly: lessons learnt from intensive longi... by Jelle Van Cauwenberg, Sofie Compernolle, Tomas Vetrovsky, Delfien Van Dyck, Julie Delobelle, Elien Lebuf, Richard Cimler, Jitka Kuhnova

“…Therefore, this study aimed to examine (1) the patterns in sensor-triggered EMA protocol adherence (eg, compliance rates), (2) the impact of specific settings (eg, event duration) on the number of prompted surveys, and (3) participants’ experiences with engaging in a sensor-triggered EMA study.Design Two longitudinal, sensor-triggered EMA studies—one focused on PA and the other on SB—were conducted using similar methodologies from February to October 2022. …”
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Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) Indicate Mammalian Abundance Across Broad Spatial Scales by Paul K. Kazaba, Lars Kulik, Ghislain B. Beukou Choumbou, Christelle B. Douhin Tiémoko, Funmilayo L. Oni, Serge A. Kamgang, Stefanie Heinicke, Inza Koné, Samedi Jean Pierre Mucyo, Tenekwetche Sop, Christophe Boesch, Colleen Stephens, Anthony Agbor, Samuel Angedakin, Emma Bailey, Mattia Bessone, Charlotte Coupland, Tobias Deschner, Paula Dieguez, Anne‐Céline Granjon, Briana Harder, Josephine Head, Thurston Cleveland Hicks, Sorrel Jones, Parag Kadam, Ammie K. Kalan, Kevin E. Langergraber, Juan Lapuente, Kevin C. Lee, Laura K. Lynn, Nuria Maldonado, Maureen S. McCarthy, Amelia C. Meier, Lucy Jayne Ormsby, Alex Piel, Martha M. Robbins, Lilah Sciaky, Volker Sommer, Fiona A. Stewart, Jane Widness, Roman M. Wittig, Erin G. Wessling, Mimi Arandjelovic, Hjalmar Kühl, Yntze van derHoek

“…We found that relationships between detection rates of great apes and other mammal species, as well as animal mass were largely positive. …”
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Essential Oil Composition of Endemic Sideritis leptoclada O. Schwarz& P. H. Davis (Lamiaceae) from Turkey by Using Two-Dimensional Gas Chromatography-Time-of-Flight Mass Spectromet... by Gürkan SEMİZ, Mustafa Zafer ÖZEL

“…Sideritis genus is present by 46 species in Turkey with high endemism rate (ca. 82%). The chemical composition of essential oil obtained from the aerial parts of endemic Sideritis leptoclada O. …”
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The Outcomes of Delayed Revascularization in Lower Extremity Vascular Injury: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Chai KS, Faisham WI, Wan-Sulaiman WA, Rosli MA, Mat-Saad AZ, Jusoh MH, Paiman M, Halim AS

“…The commonest injury pattern was contusion with thrombosis (n=31, 52.5%). …”
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Modern Percutaneous Hallux Valgus Surgery for Revision of Recurrent Hallux Valgus by Andreas Kurt Toepfer MD PhD, Pawel Chomej MD, Pablo Mococain MD, Henryk Liszka MD PhD, Robbie Ray MBChB, ChM(TO), FRCSed(Tr&Orth), FEBOT, Tom Lewis MBChB (Hons) BSc. (Hons) MFSTEd FRCS(Tr&Orth), Peter Lam MBBS (Hons), FRACS, FAOA, David Gordon MB ChB, MRCS, MD, FRCS (Tr&Orth)

“…Results: The complication rate was 21%. Most complications could be managed non-surgically. …”
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Tuberculosis Treatment Outcomes and Its Predictors among Tuberculosis Patients Registered at Tefera Hailu Memorial General Hospital, Sekota Town, Northeast Ethiopia: A Seven-Year R... by Habtu Debash, Jemberu Nega, Habtye Bisetegn, Gebru Tesfaw, Daniel Getacher Feleke, Hussen Ebrahim, Alemu Gedefie, Mihret Tilahun, Ousman Mohammed, Ermiyas Alemayehu, Melaku Ashagrie Belete, Abdurahaman Seid, Agumas Shibabaw

“…The pattern of successful treatment results changes with the number of years of treatment. …”
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Design of Radiation Shielding for Optical Enclosure at HEPS Beamline Station by GUO Qingyang, SHI Hong, LIU Qiongyao, ZHANG Huijie, SHI Haoyu, MA Zhongjian, WANG Qingbin

“…Results from the calculations indicate a pattern where the dose rate from gas bremsstrahlung initially rises and subsequently falls within the back wall. …”