Visual Gradation of Biological Soil Crust Development: A Simple and Effective Recording Method by Xinyu Zhang, Ping He, Jie Xu

“…A field survey was conducted across three precipitation regions in northern China, during which the developmental grades of cyanobacterial and moss crusts were visually recorded. Key biocrust developmental indicators, including shear strength, penetration resistance, coverage, chlorophyll a content, and bulk density were measured for each grade. …”
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Two-step-7-Pink Rule: A Practical Tool for the Dermoscopic Evaluation of Fully Amelanotic Skin Lesions by Riccardo Pampena, Stefano Migliorati, Giovanni Paolino, Michela Lai, Nicola Lippolis, Stefania Guida, Stefania Borsari, Sebastiano Pellerone, Sofia Maria Di Ciaccio, Elvira Moscarella, Giovanni Pellacani, Giuseppe Argenziano, Caterina Longo

“…Objective: We sought to identify an accurate and user-friendly dermoscopic algorithm to differentiate between benign and malignant pink lesions. Methods: The database of 1 referral center was retrospectively reviewed for images of non-inflammatory fully amelanotic skin lesions. …”
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From Middle Jurassic extension to Late Jurassic obduction: sedimentary records from the Greater Adriatic margin of the Neotethys Ocean in NE Hungary by Szilvia Kövér, János Haas, Nevenka Djerić, Ottilia Szives, Péter Ozsvárt, László Fodor

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Role of Intraplate Strike-Slip Earthquakes in Accommodating Convergence Across the Eastern Himalayan Plate Boundary System by Dibyajyoti Chaudhuri, Rupak Banerjee, Ajay Kumar, Shubham Sharma, Supriyo Mitra

“…Majority of the earthquakes have strike-slip to oblique-slip (thrust) motion and originate in the middle-to-lower crust. These reveal that the entire NE-Indian crust is seismogenic. …”
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Efficacy and safety of hemoporfin photodynamic therapy in treating port-wine stains in Chinese children: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Jing Xu, Hongxin Li

“…ObjectiveThe purpose of this study is to explore the efficacy and safety of hematoporphyrin monomethyl ether mediated photodynamic therapy (HMME-PDT) in treating children with port-wine stains (PWS).MethodLiterature related to the topic was searched in PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Library, Web of Science, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, Wanfang, and China Science Technology Journal Database online databases. …”
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Petrogenetic evidences in geodynamics and placement of Nordoz intrusive masses in Alborz-Azerbaijan structural zone by Shahryar Mahmoudi, Shiva Lavi, Shohreh Hassanpour, Amir Ali Tabakh Shabani, Mehran Yegane Far

“…The fluid phase, in conjunction with the temperature increase resulting from the intrusion of the basic magma into this region of the crust, has led to the melting of a portion of the underlying crust and the formation of magma with a granodiorite and calc-alkaline composition. …”
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Chemical composition of sediment and macrozoobenthos of small urban lakes, the Republic of Karelia, Russia by Evgeny Savosin, Zakhar Slukovskii

“…According to the level of macrozoobenthos development, both reservoirs (lakes) were classified as mesotrophic, and according to the values of the chironomid index “K” as moderately polluted. The Pantle–Buck method (saprobic index) showed that the lakes can be classified as polluted (water quality class 4). …”
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