System-and-structural features of the phytobiotaof the fir-beech forests of the Pokuttia Carpathians by Myroslava Soroka, Andrzej Woźniak, Petro Plikhtiak, Anatoliy Goychuk, Ivanna Kulbanska

“…Among perennial grasses in closed stands, long-rhizome species dominate (22.7%). When the phytoenvironment of fir-beech forests is changed in the process of selective felling, tap-rooted (19.3%) and bundle-rooted (11.3%) plants appear among herbaceous plants, the role of which in natural forests is insignificant. …”
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Longitudinal Outcomes of Patients with Aortic Stenosis Stratified by Sex: An Asian Perspective by Joy Y. S. Ong, Aloysius S. T. Leow, Chun Yi Ng, Poay Huan Loh, Swee Chye Quek, William K. F. Kong, Tiong Cheng Yeo, Ching Hui Sia, Kian Keong Poh

“…Calcific AS was the dominant etiology in both genders. Females had higher incidences of anemia (<i>p</i> < 0.001) and chronic kidney disease (<i>p</i> = 0.026); although, females had lower incidences of cardiovascular complications of coronary artery disease (CAD) (<i>p</i> = 0.002) and prior acute myocardial infarction (AMI) (<i>p</i> = 0.015). …”
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<i>ACE</i> I/D Genotype and Risk of Non-Contact Injury in Moroccan Elite Athletes: A Pilot Study by El Mokhtar El Ouali, Jihan Kartibou, Juan Del Coso, Rashmi Supriya, Ismail Laher, Zineb El Kettani, Hassan Ghazal, Najib Al Idrissi, Ayoub Saeidi, Abdelhalem Mesfioui, Hassane Zouhal

“…In the whole group of athletes, neither the dominant (DD + ID vs. II = OR: 1.17, 95% CI: 0.15–16.56, <i>p</i> = 0.89) nor the recessive (DD vs. …”
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Characteristics of Traditional Human Settlement Landscapes on Bedrock Islands in Guangdong Based on the “Ao” Unit by Ying PAN, Linxi CHEN, Ying SHI

“…The Ao unit has the following basic characteristics, backed by hills and facing the bay, with a certain area of flat land between the mountains and the sea, where a large number of island villages and towns are gathered, with complete production and living space. 2) At the island-wide level, the Ao unit has been the preferred area for human settlement on Nan’ao Island, with settlements primarily established around these units. The dominant industries, such as fishing and trade, are closely tied to both the Ao units and their coastal locations, making them focal points for village and town settlements. …”
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Effectiveness of acupuncture on glycolipid metabolism in patients with coronary heart disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Yuxin Sun, Yu Liu, Jian Xiong, Xiao Li, Ying Wei, Qianhua Zheng, Xiang Li, Wenchuan Qi, Fanrong Liang

“…Meanwhile heterogeneity analysis showed that After coronary heart disease intervention, acupuncture was able to reduce TC (SMD = −0.85; 95 % CI, −1.37 to −0.33; P = 0.001), TG (MD = −0.14; 95 % CI, −0.24 to −0.04; P = 0.004) levels, but did not dominate in lowering LDL-C. Conclusions: Acupuncture effectively regulates glycolipid metabolism in coronary artery disease, serving as an adjuvant treatment. …”
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Psychosocial risks and mental health of health and social care workers in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic by Nadia Vilahur Chiaraviglio

“…Results shows very high prevalences for many mental health problems and conditions across the sector, also in their more severe clinical forms, and identifies sub-groups at potentially higher risk of suffering mental health problems in a female-dominated sector. Furthermore, it systematically maps and assesses the range of interventions conducted since 2020 to increase psychosocial wellbeing and prevent and manage mental health problems in the sector, to offer practical guidance and a range of scalable examples to workplaces.  …”
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Epistemic Roots, Universal Routes and Ontological Roofs of African “Ritual Archives”: Disciplinary Formations in African Thought by Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju

“…His focus is Africa and its Diaspora, but his thought resonates with implications far beyond Africa, into contexts of struggle for plurality of vision outside and even within the West, the global dominance of whose central theoretical constructs inspires Falola’s essay. …”
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Transcriptomic profiles of monocyte-derived macrophages exposed to SARS-CoV-2 VOCs reveal immune-evasion escape driven by delta by Alessia Gallo, Josè Camilla Sammartino, Roberta Vazzana, Roberto Giambruno, Claudia Carcione, Nicola Cuscino, Salvatore Castelbuono, Vitale Miceli, Matteo Bulati, Daniele Lilleri, Irene Cassaniti, Pier Giulio Conaldi, Fausto Baldanti

“…The variants of concern (VOC), designated Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta, and Omicron emerged independent of one another, and in turn rapidly became dominant. The success of each VOC, as well as the virus fitness, were enabled by altered intrinsic functional properties and, reasonably, to virus antigenicity changes, conferring the ability to evade a primed immune response. …”
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Causes of growing middle-to-upper tropospheric ozone over the northwest Pacific region by X. Ma, X. Ma, J. Huang, J. Huang, M. I. Hegglin, M. I. Hegglin, P. Jöckel, T. Zhao

“…Investigation into the drivers of these trends using tagged model tracers reveals that O<span class="inline-formula">₃</span> of stratospheric origin (O<span class="inline-formula">₃</span>S) dominates the absolute O<span class="inline-formula">₃</span> mixing ratios over the middle-to-upper troposphere in the subtropics, contributing to the observed O<span class="inline-formula">₃</span> increases by up to 96 % (40 %) during winter (summer), whereas O<span class="inline-formula">₃</span> of tropospheric origin (O<span class="inline-formula">₃</span>T) governs the absolute value throughout the tropical troposphere and contributes generally much more than 60 % to the positive O<span class="inline-formula">₃</span> changes, especially during summer and autumn. …”
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Network Meta-Analysis of Factors Influencing the Carbon Sink Capacity of Urban Park Green Spaces by Yutong JI, Tianyi LIN, Lian LIU, Xiong LI

“…Subgroup analysis by climate type shows that the research objects dominated by temperate climates show higher heterogeneity, presumably because the longitudinal differences of the research objects in temperate regions are large, and the differences in plant species and ecological environments lead to large differences in the measurement results of carbon sink capacity.ConclusionThis research provides critical insights into the interplay of factors shaping the carbon sink potential of urban parks, emphasizing the importance of stable foundational strategies like design and maintenance. …”
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Decolonization Projects by Cornelius Ewuoso

“…Understanding Decolonization Strategies Decolonization strategies mainly aim to de-silence victims of domination or subjugation. People have proposed many strategies for decolonizing. …”
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Potential and limitations of noise-based surface-wave tomography for numerical site effect estimation: a case study in the French Rhône valley by Lavoué, François, Froment, Bérénice, Gélis, Céline, Boué, Pierre,  Chaljub, Emmanuel, Stehly, Laurent, Beauprêtre, Sophie, De Martin, Florent,  Gisselbrecht, Loïc, Pilz, Marco, Moiriat, Denis, Cushing, Edward Marc

“…As a result, the numerical amplification predicted in the ANSWT model remains dominated by a 1D response and does not reproduce the broadband character of the observed amplification at locations affected by significant 3D propagation effects. …”
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Editorial by Lindsay B. Flynn

“…The article by Demography Prize 2019 winner Veronika Riedl starts from the premise that a dual shift in housing markets – whereby social housing stock has decreased in many countries and global financial markets increasingly dominate real estate (recommodification and financialisation, respectively) – creates critical affordability challenges for young people. …”
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Le travail des peaux et du cuir durant le Haut-Empire à Bordeaux/Burdigala (Gironde), d’après les vestiges mis au jour sur le site de la rue Jean-Fleuret by Vanessa Elizagoyen, Christophe Sireix, Gisèle Allenet de Ribemont, Laurence Benquet, Philippe Borgard, Emilie Claud, Katleen Couchez, Marie-France Dietsch-Sellami, Stéphan Dubernet, Véronique Guitton, Jérôme Hénique, Yannick Le Digol, Martine Leguilloux, Sébastien Lepetz, Fabrice Leroy, Hélène Martin, Alain Queffelec, Stéphanie Raux, Nima Saedlou, Farid Sellami, Laure Simon, Serge Vigier

“…Successive excavations in and around the Mériadeck neighbourhood of Bordeaux have revealed the occupation of a humid suburban area on the western edge of the city’s capital, dominated by numerous small streams and regularly affected by flooding. …”
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Phasic and periodic change of drought under greenhouse effect by Yang Li, Zhicheng Zheng, Yaochen Qin, Haifeng Tian, Zhixiang Xie, Peijun Rong

“…Meanwhile, this study found that in the relatively water-scarce regions of China, drought duration was dominated by interannual oscillations (3.1a and 7.3a). …”
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BRICS expansion in the news coverage of member countries: a political economy perspective by Fedaa Mohamed Abdelaziz Abdeldayem, Sarah Francis Wadie Kswat

“…Each newspaper discusses BRICS' role in advocating for equitable global governance and challenging Western dominance in international affairs. Economic aspects, such as trade, financial cooperation and economic growth within BRICS, are mentioned in the coverage of all eleven newspapers, underlining the economic dimension of the group. …”
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Authority and Moral Conflicts in the Films of Adébáyọ Fálétí: Àfọ̀njá, Gáà, Ṣawo Ṣẹ̀gbẹ̀rì and the Yorùbá Cosmopolis by Olayinka Agbetuyi

“…In Àfọ̀njá and Gáà that context is provided by the empire phase of Yorùbá civilization in which Yorùbá civilization was the dominant point of reference; in Ṣawo Ṣẹgbẹ ̀ rì ̀ the drama is situated in the context of postcolonial Nigerian city, in a nation that boasts large ethnic nationalities of which the Yorùbá are only one and in which Yorùbá culture is mediated by the postcolonial state with its symbol of the English language as the means of communication and its cultural spin offs. …”
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Julius Kruopis – the pioneer of applied statistics in Lithuania by Vilijandas Bagdonavičius, Vydas Čekanavičius, Rūta Levulienė, Pranas Vaitkus

“…Although J. Kruopis work is dominated by works on statistical applications, there are also theoretical works on mathematical statistics. …”
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Reactive nitrogen in and around the northeastern and mid-Atlantic US: sources, sinks, and connections with ozone by M. Huang, M. Huang, G. R. Carmichael, K. W. Bowman, I. De Smedt, A. Colliander, M. H. Cosh, S. V. Kumar, A. B. Guenther, S. J. Janz, R. M. Stauffer, A. M. Thompson, N. M. Fedkin, R. J. Swap, J. D. Bolten, A. T. Joseph

“…We estimate reactive nitrogen (Nr <span class="inline-formula">=</span> NO<span class="inline-formula">_<i>y</i>+</span> NH<span class="inline-formula">_<i>x</i></span>) emissions from various sources, surface and column nitrogen dioxide (NO<span class="inline-formula">₂</span>), and total and speciated Nr dry and wet deposition during 2018–2023 over the northeastern and mid-Atlantic US where nitrogen-oxide-limited or transitional chemical regimes dominate. The estimated Nr concentrations and deposition fluxes are related to ozone (O<span class="inline-formula">₃</span>) in terms of spatiotemporal variability and its key drivers as well as possible ecosystem impacts. …”
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Territorios rurales en transformación: desafíos y oportunidades frente al reto de la despoblación by Néstor Vercher

“…The medieval castle that dominates the urban center -whose origin dates back to the Roman conquest (Castellum Fabio)- and the 17th century church represent a historical legacy of great value, but this heritage coexists with a traditional economy that, to say the least, faces serious difficulties. …”
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