The role of natural resource rent, economic sustainability, and renewable energy consumption on greenhouse gas emissions: an asymmetric analysis by Fei Shang, Rulia Akhtar, Muhammad Mehedi Masud, Sarah Salahuddin

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Sex-specific associations of prenatal Chinese famine exposure with cataract risk at age sixty: a cross-sectional study by Yuanyou Xia, Xiaoyang Xu, Siyao Wang

“…Methods We utilized the health examination medical record system of a large-scale comprehensive hospital to screen individuals born in Chongqing, China and undergoing eye health examinations. Participants were categorized based on their year of birth into the famine-exposed group (1960) and the non-exposed group (1963), with their medical records at age 60 extracted from the database. …”
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Adherence to the Canadian 24-hour movement guidelines and vision impairment in children and adolescents: a cross-sectional study by Haoxi Zhong, Huimin Zhu, Mingjie Jiang, Jingfeng Mu

“…ObjectivesTo investigate the associations between adherence to the Canadian 24-hour movement guidelines—covering physical activity (PA), screen time (ST), and sleep duration (SD)—and vision impairment, specifically myopia and myopic anisometropia, among children and adolescents in Shenzhen, China.MethodsA cross-sectional study was conducted in 2022 with 4,649 participants. …”
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Comparative Analysis of the Antioxidant and Antidiabetic Potential of Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. and Nymphaea lotus L. var. pubescens (Willd.) by Tamlal Pokhrel, Dipesh Shrestha, Kamal Dhakal, Paras Mani Yadav, Achyut Adhikari

“…Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. and Nymphaea lotus L. var. pubescens (Willd.) are both aquatic rhizomatous perennial plants mostly found in the tropical region of Nepal, India, Bangladesh, China, and Eastern Asia. Nymphaea pubescens and Nelumbo nucifera plants are famous for their different biological activities such as antidiabetic, antioxidant, hepatoprotective, antidiarrheal, and anti-inflammatory properties. …”
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Government Subsidy Decision-Making for Waste Tire Recycling under the Coexistence of the Retailer and the Internet Recycling Platform by Fangmei Qi, Yuqi Fan, Gaofeng Guan, Jin’e Zheng

“…The low efficiency of the closed-loop supply chain in waste tire recycling has hindered the green development of China’s automobile industry. Additionally, the government subsidy decision has a huge influence on green development. …”
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The study of innovative activity features of organizations in the field of fish farming and fishing in 2003–2022 taking into account the analysis of parameters results of intellect... by Е. V. Leun, S. E. Pchelkin, Т. N. Gupalova

“…The article considers four groups of results of intellectual activity of Russia, the USA, the European Union and China in the field of fish farming and fisheries for the period 2003–2022. …”
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Short-term and long-term revision rates after lumbar spine discectomy versus laminectomy: a population-based cohort study by Yao-Chun Hsu, Feng-Chen Kao, Chang-Bi Wang, Yuan-Kun Tu, Pao-Hsin Liu

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Stress buffering effects of physical activity in adolescents: the moderating role of physical activity attitudes by Pingping Liu

“…Methods A stratified and cluster sampling method was used to select 2420 junior high school students from nine provinces from each of the three economic zones (with high GDP level, medium GDP level, and low GPD level) of eastern, western, and central China and the Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Checklist, the Calgary Symptoms of Stress Inventory, the Physical Activity Rating Scale, and the behavioral attitude dimension of the Physical Activity Attitude Scale were used to investigate adolescent stress events, stress symptoms, physical activity, and physical activity attitudes respectively. …”
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Characterization and Pharmacological Efficacy of Silver Nanoparticles Biosynthesized Using the Bark Extract of Garcinia Kola by Sunday Adewale Akintelu, Seyifunmi Charles Olugbeko, Femi Adekunle Folorunso, Abel Kolawole Oyebamiji, Aderonke Similoluwa Folorunso

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Responses of a soil-inhabiting collembolan (Entomobrya proxima Folsom) to organic fertilizer addition illustrated by functional traits and gut bacterial community by Xinyue Yang, Gang Li, Weiming Xiu

“…However, there is a dearth of research examining the correlation between functional traits and intestinal microorganisms in response to organic fertilizer.MethodsIn this study, we selected Entomobrya proxima Folsom, a predominant soil collembolan species found in cropland across North China, as our subject of study. We set treatments with no organic fertilizer (CK) and three different concentrations of organic fertilizer at 1% (O1), 6% (O2), and 10% (O3). …”
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Giant Power Output from Ionic/electronic Hybrid Nanocomposite Thermoelectric Converter Under Constant Temperature Gradient by Siqi Liu, Mingxia Zhang, Junhua Kong, Hui Li, Chaobin He

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Efficacy and safety of hydroxyurea therapy on patients with β-thalassemia: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Tianmin Huang, Huixian Jiang, Ganling Tang, Jingyi Li, Xiaoman Huang, Zhenguang Huang, Hongliang Zhang

“…ObjectiveOur aim is to review the safety and efficacy of hydroxyurea (HU) on β-thalassemia patients.MethodsStudies that evaluated the safety and efficacy of HU on β-thalassemia patients were searched in Pub-Med, Cochrane Databases, Web of Science, China-Biology-Medicine, CNKI, Embase, VIP, and WanFang data. …”
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Integrating deformable CNN and attention mechanism into multi-scale graph neural network for few-shot image classification by Yongmin Liu, Fengjiao Xiao, Xinying Zheng, Weihao Deng, Haizhi Ma, Xinyao Su, Lei Wu

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eHealth, digital information and technology use of men with prostate cancer by Stuart R Jackson, Paul Yu, Steven Sowter, Stefano Occhipinti, Suzanne Chambers, Scott Leslie, Manish I Patel

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Do goats recognise humans cross-modally? by Marianne A. Mason, Stuart Semple, Harry H. Marshall, Alan G. McElligott

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Watershed: a more efficient sampling unit for mountain camera traps by Jun-Jie Li, Yi-Hao Fang, Ji-Cong Zhan, Xue-Jun Yang, Can-Bin Huang, Yan-Peng Li, Kun Tan, Zhi-Pang Huang, Liang-Wei Cui, Wen Xiao

“…Monitoring based on watersheds might address this. In southwest China’s mountain forests, under comparable sampling intensities, we contrasted the capture rate (CR), species richness, and relative abundance index (RAI) of dominant species among watershed, 1 × 1 km² grid, and elevation gradient patterns. …”
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Litchi chinensis: nutritional, functional, and nutraceutical properties by Guillermo Castillo-Olvera, José Sandoval-Cortes, Juan A. Ascacio-Valdes, Jorge E. Wong-Paz, Olga B. Álvarez-Pérez, María L. FloresLópez, Cristóbal N. Aguilar

“…It is originally from China but grows in countries with tropical or subtropical climates. …”
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Research on stroke patients' perception of recurrence risk: A scoping review protocol. by Shanshan Zhu, Xueting Sun, Xin Guo, Meiqi Xu, Dingding Li, Shuaiyou Wang, Yage Shi, Chenjun Liu, Hongru Wang, Huimin Zhang

“…We will systematically search seven English databases, PubMed, CINAHL, Web of Science, Embase, Cochrane Library, PsycInfo, and MEDLINE, as well as four Chinese databases, CNKI, Wanfang, VIP, and the China National Knowledge Infrastructure for Biomedical Literature. …”
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Calculation and structural analysis of total factor energy efficiency in high carbon sectors by Bo-Wen An, Pei-Yuan Xu, Dong Pan, Xiao-Tian Li, Dong Wang

“…Using a variance-like decomposition model, it analyzes TFEE at two levels to examine how changes in specific sectors and energy categories affect total sector TFEE. From 2010 to 2021, China’s total sector TFEE increased from 0.542 to 0.676, with electric heat and coal identified as critical factors limiting TFEE improvements. …”
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Downregulation of PGC-1α Prevents the Beneficial Effect of EET-Heme Oxygenase-1 on Mitochondrial Integrity and Associated Metabolic Function in Obese Mice by Shailendra P. Singh, Lars Bellner, Luca Vanella, Jian Cao, John R. Falck, Attallah Kappas, Nader G. Abraham

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