Application of Semistructured Interview Based on Doctor-Patient Perspective in Constructing a Palliative Care Regimen for Patients with Advanced Heart Failure by Ting Zhou, HaiQin Cai, ChunHui Xu

“…The psychological states (Depression-Anxiety-Stress Scale (DASS-21)), symptoms (Memorial Symptom Assessment Scale-Heart Failure (MSAS-HF)), quality of life (Kansas City Cardiomyopathy Questionnaire (KCCQ)), and prognosis (readmission rate, mortality rate) were compared between the two groups before and after intervention. …”
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Delineating urban flooding when incorporating community stormwater knowledge by Madeline Scolio, Peleg Kremer, Virginia Smith, Achira Amur, Bridget Wadzuk, Kate Homet, Eric Devlin, Md Abdullah Al Mehedi, Laura Moore

“…Overall, Philadelphia, PA is a city with a large proportion of vulnerable populations and is plagued by flooding, with expectations that flood risk will increase as climate change progresses. …”
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Assessment of lead and cadmium exposure through olive and corn oil consumption in Gonbad-Kavus, north of Iran: A public health risk analysis by Janan Tayeb, Mohammadhosein Movassaghghazani

“…This study assessed their levels in commercial and traditional olive and corn oils from Gonbad-Kavus City using graphite furnace atomic absorption spectrometry after microwave digestion. …”
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From Social Infrastructure to Civic Center. The School as Laboratory of Collaborative Governance Models by Daniela Ciaffi, Emanuela Saporito, Ianira Vassallo

“…Turin represents an interesting case study, as a city where both public policies and social practices have integrated themselves, from education to urban regeneration, through institutional actors and local communities.…”
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Exploration of Erdaohe Silver Polymetallic Deposit in Inner Mongolia based on Induced Polarization Method by Baoyou Li, Zhiqing Shi, Zhiguang Yang, Lan Xu, Hanlie Cheng, David Sturdivant

“…The exploration of Erdaohe Cu-Ag-Pb-Zn deposit in Zhalantun City, Inner Mongolia has entered the stage of blind exploration. …”
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Effects of three kinds of growth regulators on flowering and branch physiological characteristics of Paeonia rockii by LIU Jiamiao, TANG Hong, ZHU Jiachen, TAO Xuanlin, XUE Nana

“…rockii Cultivation Base in Yuzhong County, Lanzhou City, Gansu Province as the material, three kinds of growth regulators (IAA, GA3, and 6-BA) at concentrations of 100, 300 and 500 mg/L were sprayed on the leaves before flower bud differentiation, with water as the control. …”
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Analysis of the Effect of Artificial Intelligence on Role Cognition in the Education System by Jianjian Zhu, Chuming Ren

“…Taking the entire education system in Taiyuan City, Shanxi Province, Central China, as an example, this paper uses the questionnaire survey method to analyze the effect of artificial intelligence (AI) on role cognition in the education system. …”
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Multiple air pollutants exposure and leukaemia incidence in Tehran, Iran from 2010 to 2016: a retrospective cohort study by Narges Khanjani, Nino Künzli, Zahra Khorrami, Mohsen Pourkhosravani, Marzieh Eslahi, Maysam Rezapour, Mohammad Esmail Akbari, Heresh Amini, Seyed Mahmood Taghavi-Shahri, Koorosh Etemad

“…The association between air pollutants and leukaemia incidence was analysed by negative binomial regression.Setting Twenty-two districts of Tehran megacity.Participants Patients with leukaemia.Outcome measures The outcome variables were incidence rate ratios (IRR) of acute myeloid and lymphoid leukaemia across the districts of Tehran.Results The districts with higher concentrations for all pollutants were near the city centre. The IRR was positive but non-significant for most of the air pollutants. …”
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Predicting Academic Quality based on School Culture: Mediating role of Self-system Processes in High School Students by Maryam khastan, Seyed Mahmood Mirzamani Bafghi, Beheshteh Niosha

“…The statistical population under scrutiny encompassed all high school students from Baharestan city in 2022, totaling 300 eligible individuals selected through the implementation of the stratified sampling technique, including male and female students from the 10th, 11th, and 12th grades. …”
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Force Characteristics of Sluice Structure in Coastal Area Under Wind Load by ZHANG Jian, YANG Jialin, YANG Jie

“…This paper takes the sluice of the main channel on the east side of East Airport Road, Jinwan Coastal Business District, Zhuhai City, Guangdong Province as an example. Given the wind load on the sluice structure, the paper compares the calculation methods of the design standards in China, the UK, the US, and Japan and analyzes the differences in calculation methods among the four countries. …”
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Unraveling the spatiotemporal trends and source attribution of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and oxygenated derivatives in Guangzhou agricultural ditch sediment by Shaomin Li, Weisong Chen, Yichen Liu, Haoyu Wang, Yongtao Li, Zhen Zhang, Xingjian Yang

“…This study investigated the occurrence of 11 OPAHs and 16 PAHs within agricultural ditch sediment of Guangzhou City, China. The ΣPAH and ΣOPAH concentrations ranged from 63.8–3955 ng/g and 16.5–522 ng/g, respectively. …”
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Conjugacy of two types of phenotypic variability of small-leaved linden by S. G. Baranov, I. E. Zykov, D. D. Kuznetsova

“…The increase in FA and the decrease in the developmental stability in urban ambient in 2016 could be due to: a)an intensive flow of vehicles in spring and summer, b) a high level of groundwater in this part of the city and c) increased hydrolytic acidity of the soil.…”
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The Effect of Injectable Medication Procedure on the Level of Pain among Early Childhood patients by Farida A. K. Tahir, Pary M. Azize, Aram N. Abdul Razzaq

“…The study has been conducted for twelve weeks duration in the pediatric wards at medical and surgical hospitals in the Sulaimani city – Kurdistan region of Iraq between 1st March to 1st Jun 2019. …”
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Identification and characterization of multiple novel viruses in fecal samples of cormorants by Li Ji, Li Ji, Ran Zhao, Yifei Pei, Yijie Sun, Xiaoyi Sun, Likai Ji, Xiaochun Wang, Yuwei Liu, Quan Shen, Shixing Yang, Yan Wang, Wen Zhang

“…There is limited knowledge about the other viruses that cormorants may carry and infect.MethodsIn this study, we employed viral metagenomics to identify novel viruses in the fecal samples collected from cormorants in Xiamen City, Fujian Province, China.ResultsTwo novel viruses were identified, including one novel picornavirus named Cormhepa01 and one novel avain hepevirus named CormhepaE. …”
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Optimization of Tillage Operation Parameters to Enhance Straw Incorporation in Rice-Wheat Rotation Field by Sagni B. Miressa, Qishuo Ding, Yinian Li, Edwin O. Amisi

“…The experiment was performed in Babaiqiao town, Jiangsu Province, China’s Luhe District, Nanjing City, in June 2024 using a Shichao TG-500 tractor equipped with a Qingxuan 1GKN-180 rotary cultivator. …”
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Disaster-Causing Mechanism of the Continuous Failure of Deep Foundation Pits in Tropical Water-Rich Sandy Strata by Ping Lu, Zheng Shao, Jiangang Han, Ying Wang

“…To investigate the mechanisms underlying the continuous failure of deep foundation pits in tropical water-rich sandy strata, this study comprehensively examines a foundation pit project in Haikou city, China. Using the PLAXIS^3D 24.1 software, a three-dimensional finite element numerical model was developed. …”
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The Electoral History of the Post-Soviet Crimea: from UkSSR to Russia by A. A. Tokarev

“…Sevastopol always has particular identity and special administrative status of the city, regardless of the sovereign center title (Moscow or Kyiv). …”
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Integrating Sports Massage into Pre-training Routines Can Enhance Athletic Preparedness and Performance Capacity in Kabaddi Players by Muhammad Isnandar, Farid M. Alhumary, Krzykarist Krzykarist, Restin Zega, Reymond Benedith Hutajulu, Rachel Junika Abelia Putri, Martin Hofmeister

“…A quasi-experimental design was employed involving a cohort of 20 elite kabaddi athletes (15 males and 5 females) aged between 18 and 30 years, hailing from professional teams in Medan City. The intervention spanned 8 weeks and consisted of a 15-minute pre-training sports massage regimen administered prior to standard warm-up sessions. …”
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Foliar image-based characterization of airborne particulate matter in an urban area and its implications for remediation by Ankesh Tiwari, Triratnesh Gajbhiye, Mohineeta Pandey, Kajal Agrawal, Shuvadarshini Naik, Shubhrasmita Meher, Dinesh Patel, Rashmi Dubey, Tanzil Gaffar Malik, Mohammed Zari, Ali Zari, Khalid M Alghamdi, Khalid Rehman Hakeem, Sudhir Kumar Pandey

“…Conducted in Bilaspur city, the research strategically selected six plant species across four distinct sites and applied the SEM-Image J method for analysis, yielding significant insights, especially in the respirable PM range. …”
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Alterations of Some Apolipoprotein Levels and ApoE RNA Expression in Iraqi Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B Viral Infection by Amnah Raad Ibrahim, Raghad Hassan Hussein, Athraa Zaidan Hassan

“…Materials and Methods: This case-control study involved fifty patients with chronic HBV admitted to the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Teaching Hospital in Medical city, Baghdad, besides 40 individuals serving as a healthy control group. …”
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