Assessing the Geological Environment Resilience Under Seawater Intrusion Hazards: A Case Study of the Coastal Area of Shenzhen City by Dong Su, Jinwei Zhou, Maolong Huang, Wenlong Han, Aiguo Li, Enzhi Wang, Xiangsheng Chen

“…In the central region, the impact of precipitation on GER is less significant. However, in the western region, the depth of bedrock burial primarily affects GER. …”
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The Impact of Farmland Transfer on Urban–Rural Integration: Causal Inference Based on Double Machine Learning by Yuchen Lu, Jiakun Zhuang, Jun Chen, Chenlu Yang, Mei Kong

“…The impact of land transfer policies varies across geographic regions, with the central region exhibiting the most significant effect, followed by the north-eastern region, the western region, and the eastern region, which shows the least effect. …”
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Identifying spatiotemporal pattern and trend prediction of land subsidence in Zhengzhou combining MT-InSAR, XGBoost and hydrogeological analysis by Zheng Zhou, Jiyuan Hu, Jiayao Wang, Lijun Wang, Tianrong Qiao, Zhen Li, Shiyuan Cheng

“…The most significant subsidence occurred in the northern part of Zhongmu (− 28 mm/year), the northwest of Xingyang (− 16 mm/year), and the western region of Gongyi (− 6 mm/year). Conversely, a notable uplift was observed in the central city district (13 mm/year) and Xinzheng Airport (12 mm/year). …”
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Shared Bacterial and Viral Respiratory Agents in Bighorn Sheep (Ovis canadensis), Domestic Sheep (Ovis aries), and Goats (Capra hircus) in Montana by David S. Miller, Glen C. Weiser, Keith Aune, Brent Roeder, Mark Atkinson, Neil Anderson, Thomas J. Roffe, Kim A. Keating, Phillip L. Chapman, Cleon Kimberling, Jack Rhyan, P. Ryan Clarke

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Evaluation of spring bread wheat accessions from the VIR collection for resistance to loose smut by M. M. Kovaleva, E. V. Zuev, A. N. Brykova

“…The mentioned accessions are of interest for the development of spring bread wheat cultivars with resistance to loose smut for cultivation in the North-Western region of Russia.…”
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The Result of Timely Therapy for Whipple's Disease: a Clinical Case by S. N. Mekhtiev, O. A. Mekhtieva, E. Yu. Kalinina, V. E. Karev, A. V. Vanyan, O. M. Berko

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Criminological analysis of the state and particularities of determination of the illegal possession of vehicles in Ukraine under conditions of armed aggression by Yu. B. Danylchenko

“…The mass displacement of citizens from the northern, eastern and southern regions of Ukraine to the western region has created a shortage of secure, properly equipped parking spaces, making it easier for criminals to gain access to vehicles.…”
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Households Sociodemographic Profile as Predictors of Health Insurance Uptake and Service Utilization: A Cross-Sectional Study in a Municipality of Ghana by Eric Badu, Peter Agyei-Baffour, Isaac Ofori Acheampong, Maxwell Preprah Opoku, Kwasi Addai-Donkor

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Investigating the Effect of Seasonal Variation on Road Traffic Accident Occurance Along Selected Routes in Western Uganda. by Kwesiga, Ivan

“…The study examined the seasonal variations in Road Traffic Accidents (RTAs) along Kabale Katuna, Kabale-Kisoro and Kabale Mbarara highway, western region, Uganda from 2018 to 2022 and explored the relationship between RTAs and seasonal changes and the effect of seasonal changes and road traffic accident on accident causalities on the routes. …”
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Body weight gain and development of reproductive tract in crossbred Murrah × Mediterranean water buffalo heifers by Oswaldo J. González, Amílcar Acuña, Solaine Bradley, Ysis Cañizalez, Jorge Espinoza, Cindy Paniagua, María Virginia Suárez, Mónica Fuentes

“… The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of supplementation that include a Saccharomyces cerevisiae commercial yeast culture (Nutrit Yeast®, Barquisimeto, Venezuela) on average daily gain (ADG) and development of the reproductive tract in crossbred Murrah x Mediterranean water buffalo heifers with poor weight gain in the central-western region of Venezuela, Lara state. The buffalo heifers (middle age: 710 days old and middleweight: 237 Kg) were randomly assigned to one of two treatments for 174 days. …”
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Disrupted HIV care during COVID-19 pandemic associated with increased disabilities among people living with HIV in Belize by Tracy M. Quetzal, Wei-Cheng Lo, Ya-Wen Chiu, Hung-Yi Chiou

“…A cross-sectional study was conducted at the Western Regional Hospital and Southern Regional Hospital between August and October 2021 among people living with HIV in Belize aged ≥ 21 years and on antiretroviral therapy. …”
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Impact of Small-Scale Businesses on Provision of Employment to Informal Labor Force in Kabale Municipality. by Uwibanze, Frank

“…It is about 142 kilometers (88 mi) southwest of Mbarara, the largest city in the Western Region of Uganda. The study employed both exploratory and descriptive study design. …”
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Evaluation of ecological geological environment carrying capacity and analysis of driving mechanisms based on normal cloud model and geodetector model by Rongkun Dai, Changlai Xiao, Xiujuan Liang, Lin Jia, Yi Jia, Jiarui Yao, Weifei Yang, Jiang Zhang, Linzuo Zhang, Weifeng Li

“…The findings demonstrate that: (1) The overall EGECC in the Luoyang region of the YRB fluctuates upward, with the eastern area displaying more favorable conditions compared to the western region. (2) Over these twenty-two years, the geological environment system experienced initial deterioration followed by improvement, the ecological environment system remained relatively stable, and social and economic development continuously strengthened. (3) Landform types, elevation, human activity impact index, population density, and geological disaster susceptibility are the main driving elements for the assessment of the ecological geological environment system. …”
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Analysis of DNA cox1 barcoding revealed novel haplotype in Schistosoma haematobium isolated from Western Sudan by Ishraga Adam Elzain, Abeer Babiker Idris, Abdul Aziz Karim, Nagla Mohamed Ahmed, Salaheldein G. Elzaki, Semih Yılmaz, Mohamed A. Hassan, Hamid Suliman Abdalla

“…In conclusion, this study identified a novel S. haematobium strain and provides insights into the evolutionary history and phylogeography of S. haematobium in Sudan, particularly in the western region. This genetic data could help in the control and monitoring of urogenital schistosomiasis in this region. …”
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Changes in target setting for major epidemic emergency response in China before and after COVID-19 epidemic: an official documents analysis by Yushu LI, Peiwu SHI, Qunhong SHEN, Chaoyang ZHANG, Zheng CHEN, Chuan PU, Lingzhong XU, Zhi HU, Anning MA, Zhaohui GONG, Tianqiang XU, Panshi WANG, Hua WANG, Chao HAO, Qingyu ZHOU, Chengyue LI, Mo HAO

“…ResultsThe consistency between the overall goal of emergency response to major disease epidemics and public needs in China increased from 79.7% by 2019 (before COVID-19) to 91.3% in by 2020 (after COVID-19), with an increase of 14.6%, and the region-specific consistency increased from 81.2% to 93% for the eastern region and from 78.3% to 90.1% for the western region, with an increase of 14.5% and 15.1%, respectively, and a significant difference between the regions (P < 0.05). …”
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Wealth-based inequality in underweight among Scheduled Tribe women in India: a regional analysis by Anshika Singh, Aditya Singh, Mahashweta Chakrabarty, Shivani Singh, Pooja Tripathi

“…The northern region witnessed the largest drop (20.1–9.8%), followed by the western region (38.7–30.0%) and eastern-central region. …”
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Prevalence and Associated Factors of Hypertension among Women in Southern Ghana: Evidence from 2014 GDHS by Cyprian Issahaku Dorgbetor, Kwamena Sekyi Dickson, Edward Kwabena Ameyaw, Kenneth Setorwu Adde

“…Greater Accra women had higher odds (aOR = 1.35, CI = 1.02–1.79) of being hypertensive relative to the reference category, women from the Western region. Women of Guan ethnicity had a lesser likelihood (aOR = 0.54, CI = 0.29–0.98) of being hypertensive. …”
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How efficient are specialized public health services in China? A data envelopment analysis and geographically weighted regression approach by Qian Bai, Qian Bai, Lieyu Huang, Yan Guo, Xin Xu, Zhouyixin Zhang, Yuan Wang, Hao Chen, Ying Bian, Ying Bian

“…Besides, substantial geographic variations were observed, with the eastern region exhibiting greater levels of technical and pure technical efficiency. Contrarily, the western region appeared to perform better in terms of scale efficiency. …”
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Enhancing healthcare utilization and reducing preventable hospitalizations: exploring the healthcare-seeking propensity of patients with non-communicable diseases in Rural China by Yanqiu Hou, Wenyu Li, Shangai Li, Linxuan Chen, Jiayu An, Shan Lu

“…The healthcare-seeking propensity in the western region was lower than that in the central region, highlighting regional disparities. …”
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The Climate-forming role of the production process of the forests of Ukraine by Platon Tretyak, Nelia Lukianchuk, Hryhoriy Krynytskyy

“…Therefore, the aim of our study was an original calculation of the total values of the oxygen-production process and evaporation by forest vegetation using the example of forest and forest-steppe zones of the Western region of Ukraine. Our generalizations are based on the results of calculating the impact of forest vegetation phytomass growth on the quantitative indicators of this production process: carbon sequestration, oxygen production, water vapor transpiration and the consumption of thermal energy for this, as well as the corresponding air cooling due to evaporation. …”
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