Enhanced CyGNSS Soil Moisture Retrieval Validated by In-Situ Data in Argentina's Pampas by Javier Arellana, Francisco Grings, Mariano Franco

“…Soil moisture (SM) retrieval using signals of opportunity based on specularly reflected signals has gained significant attention in the past two decades. Specifically, with the Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CyGNSS), the reflected signal is often modeled in its simplest form, utilizing the Fresnel reflection coefficients for a semi-infinite dielectric medium corrected with an effective roughness parameter. …”
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The Effects on Knee Swelling, Range of Motion and Pain using a Commercially Available Hot/Cold Contrast Device in a Rehabilitation and Sports Medicine Setting by Kevin E Wilk, Robert E Mangine, James Tersakjs, Kimberly Hasselford

“…This has been utilized for several decades with good to excellent subjective and objective results reported for patients with swelling (acute to chronic), pain, and loss of motion. …”
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Housing Price Forecasting Using AI (LSTM) by Hossein Ziyadi, Erfan Salavati, Mohammad Mahdi Lotfi Heravi

“…Furthermore, all the results confirmed that the LSTM algorithm was highly effective in utilizing over two decades of actual housing data from Tehran to forecast future prices.…”
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Examining the complementarity in belowground water use between different varieties and ages of Arabica coffee plants and dominant shade tree species in an organic agroecosystem by Lyssette Elena Muñoz-Villers, Friso Holwerda, M. Susana Alvarado-Barrientos, Josie Geris, Todd E. Dawson

“…In addition, organic coffee production has expanded in the last decades due to premium market prices. However, the extent to which coffee and shade trees show positive (complementary) or negative (competitive) root interactions for belowground water sources in traditional agroforests under organic management is largely unknown. …”
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Social media discourse and internet search queries on cannabis as a medicine: A systematic scoping review. by Christine Mary Hallinan, Sedigheh Khademi Habibabadi, Mike Conway, Yvonne Ann Bonomo

“…The use of cannabis for medicinal purposes has increased globally over the past decade since patient access to medicinal cannabis has been legislated across jurisdictions in Europe, the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, and Australia. …”
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Udmurdi hällilaul: veel kord esmaallika probleemist by Irina Nurieva

“…The heated discussion around the problem of Vereshchagin’s authorship, which unfolded later on, lasted for several decades. Udmurt folklorist T. G. Vladykina put an end to the dispute, concluding that the author of the lullaby was Vereshchagin. …”
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Screening of necroptosis-related genes and evaluating the prognostic capacity, clinical value, and the effect of their copy number variations in acute myeloid leukemia by Dake Wen, Ru Yan, Lin Zhang, Haoyang Zhang, Xuyang Chen, Jian Zhou

“…Little improvement in survival rates has been achieved over the past few decades. Necroptosis has relationship with certain types of malignancies outcomes. …”
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Variation in Phenolic, Mineral, Dietary Fiber, and Antioxidant Activity across Southern Tunisian Pearl Millet Germplasm by Tebra Triki, Samir Tlahig, Mohamed Ali Benabderrahim, Walid Elfalleh, Mahmoud Mabrouk, Mohamed Bagues, Hédi Yahia, Khaled Belhouchette, Ferdaous Guasmi, Mohamed Loumerem

“…A prospection was undertaken to collect pearl millet cultivars preserved in the last two decades from south-eastern Tunisian farmers to estimate their variability and performances. …”
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Impact of Prenatal Stress on Neuroendocrine Programming by Odile Viltart, Christel C. A. Vanbesien-Mailliot

“…This organizational phenomenon, encompassing prenatal environmental events, altered fetal growth, and development of long-term pathophysiology, has been named early-life programming. Over the past decade, increased scientific activities have been devoted to deciphering the obvious link between states of maternal stress and the behavioral, cognitive, emotional, and physiological reactivity of the progeny. …”
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EL ROL DE LOS ACTORES SOCIALES EN LA CONFIGURACIÓN TERRITORIAL DE MOQUEHUE by Celia Viviana Torrens, Elsie Marcela Jurio, Vanesa Yanina Cappelletti, Germán Gabriel Pérez, Daiana Elcira Cara Plá, Gimena Nathalie Cuevas, María Silvina Hauw, Pablo Alejandro Leyes

“…In 1980, tourism was stimulated by state politics that lead to the growth and expansion of Villa Pehuenia and Moquehue, defining a new territorial configuration, in which different social actors have an active role. In the last decade, this dynamism was accentuated in Moquehue, a zone without regulation of the occupation and in an area with limited provision of services. …”
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Characterizing avocado production systems for Ugandan exports: the need for consolidation and support for sustainable development by Peter Sseruwagi, Peter Sseruwagi, Edouard Lehmann, Paul Sigombe, Gabriel Ddamulira, Jan Willem Van Casteren, Pieterjan De Bauw

“…Hass avocado production and trade are rapidly expanding globally, with increasing consumer demands on quality, safety and sustainability. Last decade, the contribution of East Africa has increased tremendously following several comparative advantages. …”
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Secondary hyperoxaluria: Cause and consequence of chronic kidney disease by Loreto Mariscal de Gante, Laura Salanova, Mariel Valdivia Mazeyra, Rosario Serrano Pardo, Borja Quiroga

“…This transporter is active at both the intestinal and renal levels, and its mechanism of action is disrupted during systemic inflammation and metabolic syndrome, which could explain the rising incidence of secondary hyperoxaluria in recent decades. Treatment includes hygienic dietary measures, and medications aimed at reducing intestinal absorption by increasing fecal excretion. …”
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Investigation of genetic polymorphism of Russian rape and turnip rape varieties using SSR and SRAP markers by I. A. Klimenko, V. T. Volovik, A. A. Antonov, V. A. Dushkin, A. O. Shamustakimova, Yu. M. Mavlyutov

“…Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) and turnip rape (B. rapa L. subsp. campestris (L.)) are important agricultural plants widely used for food, fodder and technical purposes and as green manure. Over the past decades, a large number of perspective varieties that are being currently cultivated in every region of Russia have been developed. …”
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Desregulación emocional en población con TDAH; una aproximación teórica/Emotional dysregulation in the population with ADHD. A Theoretical Approach by Alejandra Alpizar

“…From this review, we concluded that there has been a boom in the study and analysis of this topic in the scientific community during the last decade. This validates the importance of knowledge about and approach to emotional dysregulation in this population, since it provides clinical elements that facilitate differential diagnoses and the identification of comorbidities that this disorder could present. …”
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Comparative study on deep and machine learning approaches for predicting wind pressures on tall buildings by Mosbeh R. Kaloop, Abidhan Bardhan, Pijush Samui, Jong Wan Hu, Mohamed Elsharawy

“…Wind-structures interaction has been extensively examined in the last few decades using field measurements, full scale measurements and wind tunnel testing. …”
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Coral histology reveals consistent declines in tissue integrity during a marine heatwave despite differences in bleaching severity by Elisa Kruse, Kristen T. Brown, Katie L. Barott

“…Marine heatwaves are starting to occur several times a decade, yet we do not understand the effect this has on corals across biological scales. …”
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A novel mitochondrial-related risk model for predicting prognosis and immune checkpoint blockade therapy response in uterine corpus endometrial carcinoma by Ru-Gen Liao, Jin-Hong Wang, Fan Zhang, Yu-Tong Fang, Li Zhou, Yong-Qu Zhang

“…Abstract Uterine Corpus Endometrial Carcinoma (UCEC) represents a common malignant neoplasm in women, with its prognosis being intricately associated with available therapeutic interventions. In the past few decades, there has been a burgeoning interest in the role of mitochondria within the context of UCEC. …”
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From Trinidad to Cyberspace: Reconsidering Ernst Toch’s “Geographical Fugue” by Carmel Raz

“…Perhaps uniquely in music history, this electronic work has had an almost exclusively acoustic performance history of more than eight decades. Premiered in 1930 at a Berlin-based festival dedicated to the incorporation of technology in music, a few years later the piece was transformed into a humorous showpiece spoken live by a-cappella choirs. …”
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Comparative analysis of microsurgical clipping versus endovascular coiling for middle cerebral artery aneurysms: a prospective study at Ain Shams University hospitals by Mohamed Khamis, Hamdy Ibrahim, Ahmed M.Elsayed, Sameh R. Tawadros, Mohamed Helmy Abdelshafouk Mohamed, K. El-Bahy

“…Abstract Background The treatment landscape for intracranial aneurysms (IAs), particularly those involving the middle cerebral artery (MCA), has evolved significantly over the past two decades. The pivotal International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial (ISAT) of 2002 heralded a paradigm shift toward endovascular coiling as the preferred treatment modality for ruptured IAs, prompting a widespread adoption of this approach in neurosurgical centers worldwide. …”
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Blood Lead Levels among Blood Donors and High-Risk Occupational Groups in a Mining Area in Ghana: Implications for Blood Transfusion among Vulnerable Populations by Veronica Agyemang, Joseph K. Acquaye, Samuel B. E. Harrison, Felix B. Oppong, Stephany Gyaase, Kwaku P. Asante, Edeghonghon Olayemi

“…Lead poisoning has been a major global health problem for decades, and blood transfusion has been suspected as a neglected potential source of lead exposure. …”
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