Forest Attribute Dynamics in Secondary Forests: Insights for Advancing Ecological Restoration and Transformative Territorial Management in the Amazon by Carlos H. Rodríguez-León, Armando Sterling, Amelia Trujillo-Briñez, Yerson D. Suárez-Córdoba, Lilia L. Roa-Fuentes

“…Topographic differences influenced successional dynamics, with mountainous landscapes showing faster early recovery compared to the steadier, linear growth observed in hill areas. In hills, AGB at 10 years reached 12.65% of the biomass expected in a mature forest, increasing to nearly 42% by 40 years of abandonment, at a rate of 0.708 Mg C ha⁻¹ year⁻¹. …”
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Compuestos de yeso con adición de fibras textiles de algodón recicladas = Gypsum compounds with the addition of post-consumer textile fibres of cotton by Anabel Patricia Castillo-Rodríguez, Luz Alejandra Santander-Peralta, Justo García-Navarro

“…An experimental work was carried out where gypsum specimens of 4x4x16 cm were tested with post-consumer cotton fibres in different formats and lengths (20 and 35mm), additions of 0.5% and fibres of 35mm in length increased the flexural and compressive strength by 5.9% and 11% respectively, and the capillary water absorption decreased by 26% with 1% of addition. Finally, it was observed that the fibres reduce the detachment of gypsum fragments at breaking load, improving the toughness of the composites.…”
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Expression of auxin transporter genes in flax (<i>Linum usitatissimum</i>) fibers during gravity response by N. N. Ibragimova, N. E. Mokshina

“…Differential expression of auxin transporter genes was revealed during gravity response in fibers located on different sides of the stem (upper (PUL) and lower (OPP)). The difference was observed due to the expression of genes, the products of which are responsible for auxin intracellular transport (LusPILS3, LusPILS7-A) and its efflux (LusABCB15-B, LusABCB19-B). …”
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Neural Correlates of Social Touch Processing: An fMRI Study on Brain Functional Connectivity by Vladimir Khorev, Semen Kurkin, Larisa Mayorova, Galina Portnova, Anastasia Kushnir, Alexander Hramov

“…Results: The findings indicated the involvement of discrete neural networks in the processing of social touch, with notable discrepancies in functional connectivity observed between the experimental and control groups. …”
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The Effect of Blood Flow Restriction Therapy on Shoulder Function Following Shoulder Stabilization Surgery: A Case Series by John H. McGinniss, John S. Mason, Jamie B. Morris, Will Pitt, Erin M. Miller, Michael S. Crowell

“… # Hypothesis/Purpose To observe changes in shoulder strength, self-reported function, upper extremity performance, and range of motion (ROM) in military cadets recovering from shoulder stabilization surgery who completed a standard rehabilitation program with six weeks of BFR training…”
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Future Extreme Climate Events Threaten Alpine and Subalpine Woody Plants in China by Yongru Wu, Jian Shen, David C. Deane, Haibin Yu, Fangyuan Yu, Xuerong Wang, Zheng Cao, Rong Yu, Fuan Xiao, Tiejun Wang, Zhifeng Wu

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Association between Chinese visceral adiposity index and lower urinary tract symptoms suggestive of benign prostatic hyperplasia (LUTS/BPH): a national cohort study by Kunhui Chang, Bo Li, Gang Wang, Hao Zhou, Yonghao Chen, Hongbing Gu

“…Abstract Background Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) and its related lower urinary tract symptoms (LUTS) are commonly observed among aging males and have a substantial effect on quality of life. …”
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Research Progress on Neural Processing of Hand and Forearm Tactile Sensation: A Review Based on fMRI Research by Chen H, Fu S, Zhi X, Wang Y, Liu F, Li Y, Ren F, Zhang J, Ren L, Wang Y

“…The discussion extends to exploring changes in tactile processing patterns observed in certain disease states. Recognizing the analogy between pain and touch processing patterns, we conclude by summarizing the interaction between touch and pain. …”
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High-Coercivity Ferrimagnet Co₂FeO₂BO₃: XMCD Insights into Charge-Ordering and Cation Distribution by Mikhail S. Platunov

“…The multi-sublattice ferrimagnet Co₂FeO₂BO₃, a prominent example of lanthanide-free magnets, was the subject of element-selective studies using X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) observations at the <i>L</i>- and <i>K</i>- X-ray absorption edges. …”
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Description and biomechanical evaluation of the modified laparoscopic-assisted percutaneous gastropexy technique in dogs by Dong Woo Kim, Ho Hyun Kwak, Ho Hyun Kwak, Junhyung Kim, Heung Myong Woo

“…Upon completion of the procedure, the stomach and body wall, including pexy site, were collected to evaluate the maximum load to failure of the gastropexies.ResultsNo significant differences were observed in the TST between the mLAPG (61.83 ± 4.80 min) and TLG (65.33 ± 12.05 min) groups (p = 0.538). …”
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Evaluation of Four Multiple Imputation Methods for Handling Missing Binary Outcome Data in the Presence of an Interaction between a Dummy and a Continuous Variable by Sara Javadi, Abbas Bahrampour, Mohammad Mehdi Saber, Behshid Garrusi, Mohammad Reza Baneshi

“…First, we randomly drew 700 observations with replacement 300 times, and then the missing data were created. …”
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Evaluation of Fungicides, Host-plant Defense Inducer, and Anti-transpirant in Management of Boxwood Blight by Bhawana Ghimire, Madhav Parajuli, Terri Simmons, Prabha Liyanapathiranage, Fulya Baysal-Gurel

“…A weak positive correlation was observed between stem water potential and disease development. …”
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Assessing how pro-environmental perspectives impact participation in rooftop organic agriculture in urban neighborhoods by Mohammad Enamul Hoque, Abdullah Al Mamun, Perengki Susanto

“…Such paths could be interesting to observe and add value to the VBN model. This study investigated the mediating roles of environmental beliefs, PN and intentions between the value–pro-environmental behaviour nexus and the role of PN between SN and pro-environmental behavioural intention with VBN farmwork.…”
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Global, regional and national burden of asthma attributable to NO2 from 1990 to 2021: an analysis from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Chunyi Zhang, Jian Sun, Jingli Li, E Qin, Lingjing Liu, Guimei Pu

“…A positive correlation between ASDR and sociodemographic index (SDI) was observed (R=0.637, p&lt;0.001), indicating a greater asthma burden in higher SDI regions.Conclusion The findings highlight significant regional and demographic disparities in asthma burden attributable to NO₂ pollution. …”
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Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons in Atmospheric PM2.5 during Winter Haze in Huang-gang, Central China: Characteristics, Sources and Health Risk Assessment by Mingming Shi, Tianpeng Hu, Yao Mao, Cheng Cheng, Weijie Liu, Qian Tian, Zhanle Chen, Xinli Xing, Shihua Qi

“…A positive correlation (P < 0.01) was observed between PM2.5 and Σ16PAHs concentration only in MHZ. …”
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Prolonged screen time is associated with increased severity of tic symptoms in children with tic disorders by Zakaria Ahmed Mohamed, Hanyu Dong, Yang Xue, Miaoshui Bai, Yuling Ouyang, Feiyong Jia

“…However, age of first exposure to screens was not significantly correlated with tic severity (p > 0.05). Though we observed a negative correlation between ST and vitamin D levels, the results were not statistically significant (p > 0.05). …”
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Optimizing hypoglycaemia prediction in type 1 diabetes with Ensemble Machine Learning modeling by Daphne N. Katsarou, Eleni I. Georga, Maria A. Christou, Panagiota A. Christou, Stelios Tigas, Costas Papaloukas, Dimitrios I. Fotiadis

“…The dataset comprises 29 individuals with T1D, who were monitored for 2 to 4 weeks during the GlucoseML prospective observational clinical study. Results Among six different basis models (i.e., linear regression (LR), automatic relevance determination (ARD), support vector regression (SVR), Gaussian process regression (GPR), eXtreme gradient boosting (XGBoost), and long short-term memory (LSTM)), XGBoost and SVR showed a dominant performance in the hypoglycaemic region and were selected as the constituent basis models of the ensemble model. …”
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Mt or not Mt: Temporal variation in detection probability in spatial capture-recapture and occupancy models by Sollmann, Rahel

“…There are cases where we cannot or may not want to ignore temporal variation in detection: a behavioral response to detection and certain SCR observation models do not allow collapsing data across sampling occasions; and temporal variation in detection may be informative of species phenology/behavior or for future study planning. …”
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Endoscopy-assisted anterior cervical discectomy and fusion with internal fixation vs conventional surgery in the treatment of cervical disc herniation by Haicun Zhang, Yanbo Lin, Canglu Wu, Fangling Cheng, Danqing Bao, Yuyan Chen

“…Results: Outcomes of the patients treated with endoscopy-assisted surgery were clearly superior to those observed in the conventional surgery group. The postoperative JOA, VAS, SF-12 PCS, and SF-12 MCS scores and RIS in the endoscopy-assisted surgery group were higher than in the conventional surgery group (P <⁠0.05). …”
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Assessing Food Waste Compost as a Substrate Amendment for Tomato and Watermelon Seedlings by Allyson N. Hamilton, Matthew B. Bertucci, Kristen E. Gibson, Mary C. Savin, D.E. Kirkpatrick, R.C. Woody-Pumford

“…Although leaf properties in FWC:PM mixtures were comparable to or better than those in a commercial PM standard, the observed reduction in uniform and rapid seedling emergence is a more critical factor for commercial production. …”
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