Associations of maternal PM2.5 exposure with preterm birth and miscarriage in women undergoing in vitro fertilization: a retrospective cohort study by Miaoxin Chen, Qiaoyu Chen, Gengze Liao, Chunyan Sun, Cong Liu, Xia Meng, Wentao Li, Andong Qiu, Orhan Bukulmez, Haidong Kan, Feng Wang, Lap Ah Tse, Xiaoming Teng

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Post-Colonial Macau: hope and despair in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure by Michael O’Regan

“…A Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China (PRC), it is the only place in China where adults can legally gamble in casinos. …”
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A sea ice deformation and rotation rate dataset (2017–2023) from the Environment and Climate Change Canada automated sea ice tracking system (ECCC-ASITS) by M. Plante, J.-F. Lemieux, L. B. Tremblay, A. Bouchat, D. Ringeisen, D. Ringeisen, P. Blain, S. Howell, M. Brady, A. S. Komarov, B. Duval, L. Yakuden, F. Labelle

“…</a>, <a href="#bib1.bibx38">2024</a><a href="#bib1.bibx38">a</a></span>) dataset derived from the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) and Sentinel-1 (S1) synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery from 1 September 2017 to 31 August 2023. …”
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Purin-6-One Derivatives as Phosphodiesterase-2 Inhibitors by Wei Yuan, Xin-Yun Zhao, Xi Chen, Chang-Guo Zhan

“…Structure-activity relationship (SAR) analysis was performed to explore the relationship between the chemical structures of these compounds and their inhibitory activity. …”
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Assessment of Lower Sakarya River Water Quality in Terms of Irrigation Water by Çiğdem Özer, Rabia Köklü

“…On the basis of these standards, irrigation water quality was interpreted by using evaluation criteria such as Electrical conductivity (EC), and Total Hardness (TH) values, Schoeller Diagram, Sodium Adsorption Rate (SAR), Sodium percentage (% Na), Magnesium Ratio (MR), Potential Salinity (PS) and Kelley index (KI).…”
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Fatigue crack propagation prediction of a pressure vessel mild steel based on a strain energy density model by PJ. Huffman, J. Ferreira, J A F O. Correia, A M P. De Jesu, G. Lesiuk, F. Berto, A. Fernndez-Canteli, G. Glinka

“…This new model has the advantage to predict an intrinsic stress ratio effect of the form sar=(samp)?(smax )(1-?), which is dependent on the cyclic stress-strain behaviour of the material. …”
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Scalable preparation of furanosteroidal viridin, β-viridin and viridiol from Trichoderma virens by Wen Zhang, Kazu Sunami, Shuo Liu, Desita Triana, Zetryana Puteri Tachrim, Rikuto Kikuchi, Tohru Taniguchi, Kenji Monde, Tsunayoshi Takehara, Da-Yang Zhou, Takeyuki Suzuki, Yasuyuki Hashidoko, Makoto Hashimoto, Yuta Murai

“…Therefore, structure–activity relationship study (SAR) of these furanosteroids contributes to the development of novel drugs. …”
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Viral diversity and phloem transcriptional changes in grapevine Shiraz disease infected vines by Cristobal Onetto, Dilrukshi Nagahatenna, Yeniu Mickey Wang, Vinay Pagay, Anthony Borneman

“…Similar to other plant pathogen infections, SD upregulated genes associated with the systemic acquired resistance (SAR) mechanism and downregulated genes related to vine immunity. …”
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Seismic versus aseismic slip for the 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet by Rumeng Guo, Xiongwei Tang, Yijun Zhang, Wenting Zhang, Ming Qin, Jianqiao Xu, Jiangcun Zhou, Xuhao Zou, Heping Sun

“…The well-recorded 2023 Kahramanmaraş earthquake doublet provides an excellent opportunity to understand their partitioning on strike-slip faults. Here, we utilize InSAR and strong motion data to derive the coseismic rupture during the doublet, ~4-month postseismic afterslip, and slip distributions of two Mw>6.0 aftershocks. …”
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Functionality of the Search and Rescue Transponder (SART) in Maritime Search and Rescue Actions by Marzena Malyszko, Miroslaw Wielgosz, Brunon Rzepka

“…The results are applicable to improving the effectiveness of SAR operations.…”
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Potential Involvement of Type I Interferon Signaling in Immunotherapy in Seasonal Allergic Rhinitis by Lina Mattson, Antonio Lentini, Danuta R. Gawel, Tejaswi V. S. Badam, Mikael Benson, Torbjorn Ledin, Colm E. Nestor, Mika Gustafsson, Jordi Serra-Musach, Janne Bjorkander, Zou Xiang, Huan Zhang

“…Specific immunotherapy (SIT) reverses the symptoms of seasonal allergic rhinitis (SAR) in most patients. Recent studies report type I interferons shifting the balance between type I T helper cell (Th1) and type II T helper cells (Th2) towards Th2 dominance by inhibiting the differentiation of naive T cells into Th1 cells. …”
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Association of Cancer and the Risk of Developing Atrial Fibrillation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis by Ming Yuan, Zhiwei Zhang, Gary Tse, Xiaojin Feng, Panagiotis Korantzopoulos, Konstantinos P. Letsas, Bryan P. Yan, William K. K. Wu, Huilai Zhang, Guangping Li, Tong Liu, Yunlong Xia

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The influence of monosodium glutamate on the development of oxidative-nitrosative stress in the large cerebral hemispheres of rats under the combination of a change in the “light-d... by O. A. Volkova, O. Ye. Akimov, V. O. Kostenko

“…In a 10 % homogenate of the large cerebral hemispheres, we determined the rate of superoxide anion radical (SAR) production, the content of products that react with thiobarbituric acid (TBA-reactants), their increase, activity of catalase, superoxide dismutase (SOD), ornithine decarboxylase (ODC), concentration of nitrites, peroxynitrites, total activity of NO-synthase (NOS), its constitutive (cNOS) and inducible (iNOS) isoforms. …”
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Effects of stair riser height on ankle proprioception in individuals with and without chronic ankle stability by Xueying Wang, Xueying Wang, Zheng Wang, Roger Adams, Roger Adams, Yang Gao, Jie Lyu, Jia Han, Jia Han

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Antistaphylococcal Triazole-Based Molecular Hybrids: Design, Synthesis and Activity by Kostiantyn Shabelnyk, Alina Fominichenko, Oleksii Antypenko, Olexandr Gaponov, Svitlana Koptieva, Svitlana Shyshkina, Oleksii Voskoboinik, Sergiy Okovytyy, Serhii Kovalenko, Valentyn Oksenych, Oleksandr Kamyshnyi

“…The obtained [2-(3-R-1<i>H</i>-[1,2,4]-triazol-5-yl)phenyl]amines reveal significant antimicrobial activity and deserve further structural modification and detailed study as effective antistaphylococcal agents. The SAR analysis revealed that the presence of a cycloalkyl or electron-rich heterocyclic fragment in the third position of the triazole ring was essential for the antibacterial activity of the obtained compounds. …”
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iMetaOmics: Advancing human and environmental health through integrated meta‐omics by Chun‐Lin Shi, Tong Chen, Canhui Lan, Ren‐You Gan, Jun Yu, Fangqing Zhao, Yong‐Xin Liu

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Platformed Ritual in Emotions: (Dys)functional Construction of Intimacy in Digital Dating in China by Xiyu Cao, Ping Sun

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Associations between adolescents’ cognitive distortion and misperceptions about cigarette smoking by Jia Cindy Xinshan, Cheung Chau-Kiu, Li Li

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Los desastres de origen natural en México: el papel del FONDEN by José Manuel Rodríguez Esteves

“…El impacto que los desastres de origen natural pueden llegar a cau- sar debe considerarse en la planea- ciÛn de los centros de poblaciÛn. …”
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Seeking pedagogical opportunities to engage university students in emergency online learning: The role of online course experiences by Hongbiao Yin

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