Obesity Severity, Dietary Behaviors, and Lifestyle Risks Vary by Race/Ethnicity and Age in a Northern California Cohort of Children with Obesity by Margaret C. Ford, Nancy P. Gordon, Amanda Howell, Cheryl E. Green, Louise C. Greenspan, Malini Chandra, R. Grant Mellor, Joan C. Lo

“…One-quarter (24.9%) were non-Hispanic white, 11.3% were black, 43.5% were Hispanic, and 12.0% were Asian/Pacific Islander. Severe obesity was prevalent (37.4%), especially among blacks, Hispanics, and older children, and was associated with less frequent breakfast and exercise and excess screen time, and in young children it was associated with consumption of sweetened beverages or juice. …”
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Whombat: An open‐source audio annotation tool for machine learning assisted bioacoustics by Santiago Martínez Balvanera, Oisin Mac Aodha, Matthew J. Weldy, Holly Pringle, Ella Browning, Kate E. Jones

“…We demonstrate the flexibility of Whombat by showcasing two distinct use cases: (1) a project aimed at enhancing automated UK bat call identification at the Bat Conservation Trust (BCT), and (2) a collaborative effort among the USDA Forest Service and Oregon State University researchers exploring bioacoustic applications and extending automated avian classification models in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Whombat is a flexible tool that can effectively address the challenges of annotation for bioacoustic research. …”
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Impacts of climate-driven insect population change on sawtimber provisioning, carbon sequestration, and water retention: a case study of bark beetle outbreaks in the USA by Haojie Chen, Matthew R. Sloggy, Samuel W. Flake, Samuel Evans, Charles J. Maxwell

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Case report: Trauma-induced Klebsiella pneumoniae invasive syndrome presenting with liver abscess, lung abscess, endophthalmitis, and purulent meningitis by Hong-qiao Chen, Zhen-hua Mo, Wu-xiao Wei

“…In recent years, the incidence of KPIS has been increasing, particularly in the Asia-Pacific region, and is closely linked to hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKp) infections. …”
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Solar Irradiance Ramp Classification Using the IBEDI (Irradiance-Based Extreme Day Identification) Method by Llinet Benavides Cesar, Oscar Perpiñán-Lamigueiro

“…We assessed it on three datasets from distinct geographic regions—Oregon (northwestern United States), Hawaii (central Pacific Ocean), and Portugal (southwestern Europe)—each with varying temporal resolutions of five seconds, ten seconds, and one minute. …”
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Genomic characterization and evolutionary analysis of a Getah virus variant from piglets in central China by Zhenhua Guo, Yao Jiang, Peng Li, Gaiping Zhang, Gaiping Zhang, Gaiping Zhang, Gaiping Zhang

“…IntroductionAs a re-emerging mosquito-borne virus, Getah virus (GETV) has been found in more than 10 countries surrounded by the Pacific Ocean and shows a broadly host tropism, raising concerns for the potential risk to public health. …”
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Association between axial elongation and corneal topography in children undergoing orthokeratology with different back optic zone diameters by Qi Tan, Randy Kojima, Pauline Cho, Stephen J. Vincent

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Widening access to isotretinoin in primary care: an evaluation of New Zealand national dispensing data for isotretinoin for acne, 2008–2023 by Bruce Arroll, Diarmuid Quinlan, Peter Moodie, Rachel Petronella Roskvist, Jason Arnold

“…An absolute number of prescriptions have risen faster for Māori and Asian patients than for Europeans. Pacific people were generally lower than Europeans. …”
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Understanding molecular mechanisms of vertebral number of variations on Mongolian sheep using candidate genes analysis by Chimgee Purev, Huiguang Wu, Khosbayar Lkhagva, Odbayar Tumendemberel

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Multi-Temporal Analysis and Techno-Economic Evaluation of Offshore Wind Energy Integration to the Western Interconnection by Li He, Shahnawaz Siddiqui, Sameer Nekkalapu, Sohom Datta, Travis Douville, Konstantinos Oikonomou, Manisha Maharjan

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US Deterrence against Russia and China (based on strategic documents of J. Biden administration) by V. I. Batyuk

“…In addition to the alliances inherited from the Cold War, the Biden administration is seeking to develop new ‘bloc structures’ in the Indo-Pacific region, in particular the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue (QUAD). …”
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Trends, gender, and racial disparities in patients with mortality due to paroxysmal tachycardia: A nationwide analysis from 1999-2020. by Aman Goyal, Humza Saeed, Saif Yamin, Abdullah, Wania Sultan, Muhammad Khubaib Arshad, Samia Aziz Sulaiman, Mah I Kan Changez, Gauranga Mahalwar

“…Furthermore, we found that AAMRs were highest among Non-Hispanic (NH) Black or African Americans and lowest in NH Asian or Pacific Islanders (4 vs. 1.9). Nonmetropolitan areas had higher AAMRs than metropolitan areas (3.6 vs. 3.2).…”
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Development of the US Plans for Post-War Japan during World War II by A. A. Sidorov

“…As a result, it enabled the US to achieve what seemed impossible: to turn Japan from an ardent adversary of the United States in the Pacific into one of its most reliable allies, and it remains such today.…”
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Strengthening National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups: Twelve Years of Progress (2012–2023) by Louise Henaff, Laure Dumolard, Vinod Bura, Gerald Etapelong Sume, Sidy Ndiaye, Jennifer Sanwogou, Heeyoun Cho, Joachim Hombach, Christoph A. Steffen

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Spatiotemporal variation of high-temperature events and its relation to coral bleaching in the Ryukyu Islands, Japan by Sayaka Yasunaka, Haruko Kurihara, Takeshi Doi

“…The central-to-eastern equatorial Pacific displayed a negative sea surface temperature anomaly, and the eastern Indian Ocean did a positive anomaly following high-temperature events near the Ryukyu Islands. …”
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Life-Cycle Assessment of High-Strength Concrete Mixtures with Copper Slag as Sand Replacement by Aysegul Petek Gursel, Claudia Ostertag

“…In terms of material availability, one of the most vulnerable regions is the Asia-Pacific region specifically, Singapore, where there is higher demand but limited availability of natural sand and gravel for use as aggregates in concrete construction projects. …”
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Global surface eddy mixing ellipses: spatio-temporal variability and machine learning prediction by Tian Jing, Ru Chen, Chuanyu Liu, Chunhua Qiu, Chunhua Qiu, Cuicui Zhang, Mei Hong

“…Furthermore, training the models with a 2-year temporal duration, aligned with the El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) timescale, improved predictions in the northern equatorial central Pacific region compared to models trained with a 12-year duration. …”
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Availability and Key Characteristics of National Early Warning Systems for Emerging Profiles of Antimicrobial Resistance in High-Income Countries: Systematic Review by Jessica Iera, Claudia Isonne, Chiara Seghieri, Lara Tavoschi, Mariateresa Ceparano, Antonio Sciurti, Alessia D'Alisera, Monica Sane Schepisi, Giuseppe Migliara, Carolina Marzuillo, Paolo Villari, Fortunato D'Ancona, Valentina Baccolini

“…ResultsWe identified 7 national EWSs from 72 high-income countries: 2 in the East Asia and Pacific Region (Australia and Japan), 3 in Europe and Central Asia (France, Sweden, and the United Kingdom), and 2 in North America (the United States and Canada). …”
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Emergency Medical Services Provider-Perceived Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias in the Prehospital Setting by Esmeralda Melgoza, Valeria Cardenas, Hiram Beltrán-Sánchez

“…Among females, EMS provider-perceived ADRD was higher among Hispanics (odds ratio [OR] 1.30, 95% confidence interval [CI] 1.11–1.52), Blacks (OR 1.20, 95% CI 1.03–1.40), Asians (OR 1.18, 95% CI 1.06–1.31), and Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders (OR 1.48, 95% CI 1.05–2.08]), while among males, only Asians (OR 87, 95% CI .76–.99) had lower odds, all compared to Whites. …”
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HOTSSea v1: a NEMO-based physical Hindcast of the Salish Sea (1980–2018) supporting ecosystem model development by G. Oldford, G. Oldford, T. Jarníková, V. Christensen, M. Dunphy

“…<p>Decadal-scale oceanographic, environmental, and ecological changes have been reported in the Salish Sea, an ecologically productive inland sea in the northeast Pacific that supports the economies and cultures of millions of people. …”
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