Dynamic monitoring and drivers of ecological environmental quality in the Three-North region, China: Insights based on remote sensing ecological index by Leyi Zhang, Xia Li, Xiuhua Liu, Zhiyang Lian, Guozhuang Zhang, Zuyu Liu, Shuangxian An, Yuexiao Ren, Yile Li, Shangdong Liu

“…Notwithstanding an overall improvement (44.4 % of the total) consistent with the greenness compared with that of Northwest China (NWC), EEQ exhibited a marginal deterioration owing to the reduced wetness and increased heat and dryness. …”
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Novel type 2 diabetes prediction score based on traditional risk factors and circulating metabolites: model derivation and validation in two large cohort studiesResearch in context by Ruijie Xie, Christian Herder, Sha Sha, Lei Peng, Hermann Brenner, Ben Schöttker

“…A concise model with 4 instead of 11 metabolites yielded similar results. …”
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AI-based tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte scoring system for assessing HCC prognosis in patients undergoing liver resection by Zhiyang Chen, Tingting Xie, Shuting Chen, Zhenhui Li, Su Yao, Xuanjun Lu, Wenfeng He, Chao Tang, Dacheng Yang, Shaohua Li, Feng Shi, Huan Lin, Zipei Li, Anant Madabhushi, Xiangtian Zhao, Zaiyi Liu, Cheng Lu

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Assessment and Optimization of Hydrological Connectivity for Effective Management of Water Resources in the Samian Watershed by Zeinab Hazbavi, Nazila Alaei

“…AbstractWater scarcity has become a critical issue in some regions. Accordingly, increasing attention has been given to the structural and functional connectivity of river networks as the primary source of surface water supply, while this can be a potential watershed-scale management solution. …”
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Whole-rock geochemistry and crystal chemistry of apatite at intrusive suites of the Qeynarjeh-Angouran district (west of Zanjan): an approach to the identification of skarn-causati... by Afsoon Dastour, Ebrahim Tale Fazel, Ashraf Torkian

“…Spot analysis was performed with a 15kV voltage, an electron beam current of 5 nA, a beam diameter of 10 microns, and an irradiation time of 5 to 10 seconds. …”
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Petrology of Oligocene Lalehzar igneous rocks in the southeast of Saveh-Naein-Jiroft magmatic belt by Fatemeh Sepidbar, Bahareh Borouzi Niyat

“…Analyzes were done by an Agilent 7500a quadrupole ICP-MS and a Thermo-Finnigan Neptune multi-collector connected to a 193nm Excimer ArF laser-ablation system at the IGGCAS laboratory in Beijing, China. …”
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Le camp légionnaire romain de Mayence/Mogontiacum (Allemagne) : nouveaux résultats sur l’enceinte et la chronologie by Daniel Burger-Völlmecke

“…The construction of Mainz’s second city wall, which traversed the legionary fortress from southeast to northwest, was preceded by extensive demolition and levelling operations of all fortress structures, in order to obtain building materials, as well as to establish a glacis in front of the city wall. …”
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ENSO Impacts on Lomas Formation in South Coastal Peru: Implications for the Pliocene? by Timothy Paul Eichler, Ana C. Londoño

“…Since lomas may represent fragments of a continuous vegetation belt that existed during the Pliocene, a permanent El Niño favoring vigorous vegetation production along the south Peruvian coast due to incursions of fog with high precipitable water may have occurred in this period. …”
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Rapid Built-up of PM10 in the Ambient Air of the Leeward Side Resulting from Strong Pressure Gradient Force Associated with Density Current by Wei-Kuo Soong, Chung-Hsuang Hung

“…In northern Taiwan, topographic blocking on northwesterly enhances a significant pressure gradient force (PGF) induced strong winds. …”
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Distributions, Sources, and Backward Trajectories of Atmospheric Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons at Lake Small Baiyangdian, Northern China by Ning Qin, Xiang-Zhen Kong, Ying Zhu, Wei He, Qi-Shuang He, Bin Yang, Hui-Ling Ou-Yang, Wen-Xiu Liu, Qing-Mei Wang, Fu-Liu Xu

“…The following results were obtained: (1) The total concentration of 16 priority controlled PAHs (PAH16) in the gas phase was 417.2±299.8 ng·m−3, in the particulate phase was 150.9±99.2 ng·m−3, and in dust fall was 6930.2±3206.5 ng·g−1. (2) Vehicle emission, coal combustion, and biomass combustion were the major sources in the Small Baiyangdian atmosphere and accounted for 28.9%, 45.1% and 26.0% of the total PAHs, respectively. (3) Winter was dominated by relatively greater PAHs polluted northwesterly air mass pathways. Summer showed a dominant relatively clean southern pathway, whereas the trajectories in autumn and spring might be associated with high pollution from Shanxi or Henan province.…”
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Source Impact Analysis Using Char-EC/Soot-EC Ratios in the Central Indo-Gangetic Plain (IGP) of India by Manisha Mishra, U.C. Kulshrestha

“…Our results demonstrate the advantages of utilizing the char-EC/soot-EC ratio rather than the OC/EC ratio as a tracer of these two sources in the IGP region.…”
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