Predicting water level fluctuations in glacier-fed lakes by ensembling individual models into a quad-meta model by Shoukat Ali Shah, Songtao Ai, Hanxiao Yuan

“…Predicting water levels in glacier-fed lakes is vital for water resource management, flood forecasting, and ecological balance. This study examines the predictive capacity of multiple climate factors affecting Blue Moon Lake Valley, fed by the Baishui River glacier on Yulong Snow Mountain. …”
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Understanding road accident injury dynamics in Iran: a growth mixture modelling perspective by Ziba Zarrin, Kamran Gholamizadeh, Elaheh Talebi-Ghane, Erfan Ayubi, Omid Hamidi

“…Understanding these trends is crucial for informing targeted interventions and resource allocation, ultimately contributing to the reduction of road traffic injuries.Design Ecological study.Setting The data were obtained from the official database of the Iranian Legal Medicine Organization, which includes the injury rates of all provinces due to road accidents, from 2012 to 2021.Participants All records registered with injuries due to road traffic accidents across Iranian provinces.Outcome measures The incidence and average annual percentage of injury rates across provinces were illustrated using a map. …”
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Effects of ambient air pollutants on cardiovascular disease hospitalization admission by L. Salvaraji, R. Avoi, M.S. Jeffree, S. Saupin, H.R. Toha, S.B. Shamsudin

“…The additional information obtained from this study will be useful to enhance proper environmental management and reduce air pollution in the cities of Sabah.METHOD: Ecological study design was utilized with cardiovascular disease hospital admission and ambient air pollutants in Sabah retrospective data. …”
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Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a web-based routine assessment with integrated recommendations for action for depression and anxiety (RehaCAT+): protocol for a cluster rand... by Reinhold Kilian, Harald Baumeister, Yannik Terhorst, Johannes Knauer, Paula Philippi, Selina Kallinger, Sandro Eiler, Tamara Waldmann, Morten Moshagen, Martina Bader

“…Additionally, a smart sensing substudy will be conducted, with daily ecological momentary assessments and passive collection of smartphone usage variables. …”
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Policy instrument terms in patriotic health campaign documents issued by Chinese national government agencies from 1952 to 2023: a quantitative textual analysis by Yuanyuan LA, He ZHU, Qiqi WANG, Hongyan YAO, Xiaoyun LIANG

“…In terms of policy objectives, population health (40.34%) and regional health (50.43%) accounted for a relatively high proportion, while social-ecological system health accounted for a relatively low proportion (9.23%). …”
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Global Burden of Esophageal Cancer and Its Risk Factors: A Systematic Analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019 by Irena Ilic, Ivana Zivanovic Macuzic, Ana Ravic-Nikolic, Milena Ilic, Vesna Milicic

“…This study aimed to estimate the global burden of esophageal cancer and its risk factors. Methods: This ecological study presented the incidence, mortality, and Disability-Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) of esophageal cancer in the world. …”
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Advancements in end treatment techniques and applications of acid mine drainage in coal mines: A research review by Qiaohui CHE, Song DU, Degao ZHANG, Yinglin FAN, Xiao ZHANG, Fengli WANG

“…Acid mine drainage(AMD) from coal mines contains elevated concentrations of heavy metals and sulfates, rendering it highly corrosive and posing a persistent threat to both the ecological environment and human health. Consequently, it has emerged as a pervasive environmental predicament in the coal mining process. …”
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‘It was just the given thing to do’: exploring enablers for high childhood vaccination uptake in East London’s Bangladeshi community—a qualitative study by Sadie Bell, Sandra Mounier-Jack, Ifra Ali

“…Parents were recruited purposively from the community while HCPs and CSPs were recruited from relevant organisations. The Social Ecological Model (SEM) was used as a theoretical framework for data collection and analysis. …”
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Mapping Canada’s Green Economic Pathways for Battery Minerals: Balancing Prospectivity Modelling With Conservation and Biodiversity Values by Christopher J. M. Lawley, Matthew G. E. Mitchell, Diana Stralberg, Richard Schuster, Eliot McIntire, Joseph R. Bennett

“…., freshwater resources, carbon, nature-based recreation, species at risk, climate-change refugia) and gaps in the current protected-area network to identify areas of high geological potential with lower ecological risk. New prospectivity models were trained on high-resolution geological and geophysical survey compilations using spatial cross-validation methods. …”
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Self-Harm in Eating Disorders (SHINE): a mixed-methods exploratory study by Maria Michail, Helen Bould, Anna Lavis, Sheryllin McNeil, Anthony Winston, Kalen Reid, Christina L Easter, Rosina Pendrous

“…Phase 1: a 14-day (six prompts per day) ecological momentary assessment (EMA) of participants’ feelings, thoughts, motivations, behaviours and experiences of self-harm. …”
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High Doses of Halotolerant Gut-Indigenous Lactobacillus plantarum Reduce Cultivable Lactobacilli in Newborn Calves without Increasing Its Species Abundance by Alexander Rodriguez-Palacios, Henry R. Staempfli, J. Scott Weese

“…To elucidate the ecological effect of high oral doses of halotolerant (resistant to table salt) indigenous-gut bacteria on other commensals early in life, we conducted a culture-based study to quantify the effect of intestinal Lactobacillus plantarum strain of bovine origin (with remarkable aerobic growth capabilities and inhibitory activity against Escherichia coli O157:H7 and F5) on clinical health and gut lactobacilli/coliforms in newborn calves. …”
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Integrated assessment of carbon dioxide removal portfolios: land, energy, and economic trade-offs for climate policy by Solene Chiquier, Angelo Gurgel, Jennifer Morris, Yen-Heng Henry Chen, Sergey Paltsev

“…This narrow focus exposes future climate change mitigation strategies to technological, institutional, and ecological pressures by overlooking the variety of existing CDR options, each with distinct characteristics—including, but not limited to, mitigation potential, cost, co-benefits, and adverse side-effects. …”
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Risk Assessment of Soil Heavy Metals in the Jiahe River Basin of Yantai City, China by Xizhuo Chen, Pengfei Zhao, Jiaxin Huang, Jun Liu, Xiaoli Cao, Jing Che, Hui Liao, Xiaolong Zhu, Qingjie Gong

“…The 11 heavy metals were evaluated using the national standard GB15618-2018, with three risk levels of background, screening, and intervention, and using pollution indices, including the contamination factor (C_f), ecological risk factor (Er), enrichment factor (EF), and index of geo-accumulation (I_geo), with different respective risk levels. …”
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Real-time detection and monitoring of public littering behavior using deep learning for a sustainable environment by Eaman Alharbi, Ghadah Alsulami, Sarah Aljohani, Waad Alharbi, Somayah Albaradei

“…Public littering, a significant contributor to this pollution, poses severe threats to marine life due to plastic debris, which can inflict substantial ecological harm. Additionally, this pollution jeopardizes human health through contaminated food and water sources. …”
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Uneven distribution of prokaryote-derived horizontal gene transfer in fungi: a lifestyle-dependent phenomenon by Fei Liu, Shi-Hui Wang, Ratchadawan Cheewangkoon, Rui-Lin Zhao

“…This research deepens our understanding of how HGT contributes to the metabolic diversity and ecological success of fungi, and it underscores the broader significance of gene transfer in shaping fungal evolution.…”
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Zoonotic Parasites and Their Association With Human Activities in Northern Tanzania: An Integrated Ecosystem Approach for One Health by Barakaeli Abdieli Ndossi, Eblate Ernest Mjingo, Hansol Park, Dongmin Lee, Mohammed Mebarek Bia, Heejae Yang, Sungbo Seo, Keeseon S. Eom

“…The quantitative analysis reveals significant associations between hygiene practices, proximity to livestock enclosures, ecological factors, and human–animal interaction, highlighting their pivotal roles in determining soil-transmitted helminth (STH) prevalence across different villages. …”
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Exposure to copper metal enhances the tolerance of An. gambiae s.s. over multiple generations while reducing both fertility and fecundity in this primary malaria vector. [version 2... by Adam Gbankoto, Rousseau Djouaka, Camille Dossou, Louckman Monra Seidou, Ghislain T. Tepa-Yotto, Danahé Adanzounon, Genevieve Tchigossou, Innocent Djègbè, Aldo Emmanuel C. Glokpon, Massioudou Koto Yérima Gounou Boukari, Eric Tossou, Donald Hessou-Djossou

“…Background Anopheles s.l. displays the potential to develop tolerance to heavy metals, particularly copper, this may occur at a significant biological cost, which can adversely affect its ecological fitness. This study investigated the larval metal exposure on larval development and reproduction of An. gambiae s.s., a laboratory susceptible strain, kisumu. …”
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Indicators of the Microbial Corrosion of Steel Induced by Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria Under the Influence of Certain Drugs by Nataliia Tkachuk, Liubov Zelena, Yaroslav Novikov

“…Further research should also be directed at investigating the antimicrobial properties of complexes of compounds with DMSO, which should be considered as an ecological solution to the problem of microbiologically influenced corrosion prevention.…”
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Evaluation of synthetic wheat lines (Triticum durum/Aegilops tausсhii) for vegetative period and resistance to diseases by V. P. Shamanin, I. V. Pototskaya, S. S. Shepelev, V. E. Pozherukova, A. Yu. Truschenko, A. S. Chursin, A. I. Morgunov

“…., D genome), and also 15 synthetic wheat lines of Kyoto University breeding (Japan) created by crossing durum wheat variety Langdon with different ecological forms Aegilops are presented. Research was performed on the experimental field of Omsk SAU under conditions of southern forest-steppe of West Siberia in 2016. …”
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Interspecific Competition Between <i>Eotetranychus sexmaculatus</i> Riley and <i>Oligonychus biharensis</i> Hirst (Acari: Tetranychidae) by Lijiu Zheng, Yong Zhang, Xia Shi, Wei Gan, Fangping Zhang, Yueguan Fu, Ya Liu, Junyu Chen, Zhengpei Ye

“…These two species share highly overlapping ecological niches, with outbreaks strongly associated with high temperatures and drought stresses. …”
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