Single-epoch power positioning method for multi-beam LEO communication satellites by Sibo Gao, Sibo Gao, Chunjiang Ma, Chunjiang Ma, Xiaomei Tang, Xiaomei Tang, Feixue Wang, Feixue Wang

“…At 70° elevation, all users converge with errors of 1,614 m and 1,088 m, and a timing error of 31.3 μs, demonstrating high power positioning availability. …”
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Quantifying the Carbon Reduction Potential of Urban Parks Under Extreme Heat Events Using Interpretable Machine Learning: A Case Study of Jinan, China by Lemin Yu, Wenru Li, Changhui Zheng, Xiaowen Lin

“…CSI was influenced by evapotranspiration and park geometric form, increasing significantly when the park area exceeded 250 hectares or evapotranspiration ranged 2.5–6.0. However, elevation and albedo negatively impacted both metrics, with the lowest CSI observed when elevation exceeded 150 m or albedo surpassed 18%.…”
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Liver-Specific Overexpression of Gamma-Glutamyltransferase Ameliorates Insulin Sensitivity of Male C57BL/6 Mice by Yang Long, Dan Jia, Libin Wei, Yumei Yang, Haoming Tian, Tao Chen

“…In the current study, we developed a liver-specific GGT-overexpressing mice model by rapid injection pLIVE-GGT vector through tail vein and investigated the effects of GGT elevation on glucose metabolism and insulin sensitivity. …”
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Prognostic Value of Glomerular Filtration Rate in Diabetic Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction by Ailed Elena Rodríguez Jiménez

“…<br /><strong>Objective</strong>: to determine the prognostic value of glomerular filtration rate in hospitalized diabetic patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction.<br /><strong>Methods</strong>: a case-series study was conducted in 68 diabetic patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction admitted to the Camilo Cienfuegos Hospital in Sancti Spiritus from January 2012 to December 2013. …”
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Urban waterlogging vulnerability assess using SAR imagery and integrated terrain analysis by R. J. Jerin Joe, V. Stephen Pitchaimani, R. Gobinath, G. Shyamala

“…The data source for this study comprises rainfall records from the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), Sentinel-1 SAR imagery, Sentinel-2 multispectral images from the European Space Agency (ESA), and the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) Digital Elevation Model (DEM).Terrain analysis was undertaken using DEM to generate elevation, slope, and aspect maps, while SAR data were processed to extract water pixels, which included the extraction of water pixels from SAR data for each year and overlaying them. …”
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Soil Characteristic Comparison of Fenced and Grazed Riparian Floodplain Wetlands in the Typical Steppe Region of the Inner Mongolian Plateau, China by Lixin Wang, Huamin Liu, Yuhong Liu, Jianwei Li, Hongbo Shao, Wei Wang, Cunzhu Liang

“…Therefore, elevation differences and grazing intensity were the main factors controlling soil characteristics in the riparian floodplain wetland of this region.…”
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Productivity of coniferous forests evaluated by remote sensing and field-based models by A Kusbach jun, J Krejza, L Homolová, M Fischer, R Janoutová, P Horáček

“…The anticipated response of spruce forests associated with declines in productivity and growth in areas with low to moderate elevation points to the adverse effects of climate change by shifting the ecological optimum to higher elevations. …”
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Niche and interspecific association of dominant arbor species in Quercus communities in the Qinling Mountains, China by Ruizhi Huang, Qi Wang, Jingyi Sun, Yipei Zhao, Shaowei Yang, Wenfa Xiao, Jianfeng Liu

“…Study of niche characteristics, species interactions and community connectivity along elevation gradients contributes to our understandings on species' spatial interactions and vicarious distribution pattern, and helps reveal congeneric species coexistence and formation mechanisms of species distribution boundaries. …”
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Abdominal Obesity, Dyslipidemia and Blood Pressure by Pedro Enrique Miguel Soca

“…The increased availability of fatty acids in the liver favors the formation of very low density lipoproteins and the resulting hypertriglyceridemia alters the pattern of lipoproteins with an elevation of low density lipoproteins, and dense small and a decrease of high density lipoproteins.…”
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Water vapor density field estimation using commercial microwave link attenuation combined with temperature measurements by Itay Bragin, Yoav Rubin, Pinhas Alpert, Jonatan Ostrometzky

“…We then show how the presented approach can be expanded to estimate the water vapor density field - taking into consideration the elevation via the humidity-elevation profile. The models were evaluated using data from 32 weather stations and 505 CMLs in Germany, with performance assessed through root mean square error (RMSE) and correlation coefficients (CC). …”
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Determination of Important Topographic Factors for Landslide Mapping Analysis Using MLP Network by Mutasem Sh. Alkhasawneh, Umi Kalthum Ngah, Lea Tien Tay, Nor Ashidi Mat Isa, Mohammad Subhi Al-batah

“…Topographic factors such as elevation, slope angle, slope aspect, general curvature, plan curvature, and profile curvature are considered as the main causes of landslides. …”
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Study on Mechanism of Influence of Mining Speed on Roof Movement Based on Microseismic Monitoring by Ke Ma, Su-jian Wang, Fu-zhen Yuan, Yi-lin Peng, Shi-min Jia

“…During the nonpressure period, the maximum development elevation of microseismic events is +350 m and +300 m, respectively, in the slow and fast stages, while with the development elevation of microseismic events in the roof pressure near +390 m, increasing the mining speed cannot change the final failure height of the overburden. …”
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Impairment of Hepatic and Renal Functions by 2,5-Hexanedione Is Accompanied by Oxidative Stress in Rats by Isaac A. Adedara, Amos O. Abolaji, Blessing E. Odion, Isioma J. Okwudi, Abiola A. Omoloja, Ebenezer O. Farombi

“…Exposure to 2,5-HD caused liver and kidney atrophy evidenced by significant elevation in serum aminotransferases, alkaline phosphatase, albumin, bilirubin, urea, creatinine, and electrolytes levels compared with control. …”
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Comprehensive prediction of potential spatiotemporal distribution patterns, priority planting regions, and introduction adaptability of Elymus sibiricus in the Chinese region by Huan-Huan Lu, Yu-Ying Zheng, Yong-Sen Qiu, Liu-Ban Tang, Yan-Cui Zhao, Wen-Gang Xie

“…It was widely distributed in Qilian Mountains (northeast of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau), Taihang Mountains (junction of Loess Plateau and Inner Mongolia Plateau), and Tianshan Mountains; (2) with the passage of time, the suitable distribution regions of E. sibiricus generally showed a collapse trend, but its main distribution regions did not show obvious change, and the suitable regions (centroid) generally migrated to the southwest of China by 2.93 km; (3) the spatial distribution of E. sibiricus in the current period was significantly affected by the annual range of monthly near-surface relative humidity, mean annual air temperature, annual range of monthly potential evapotranspiration, mean monthly potential evapotranspiration, annual range of monthly climate moisture index, elevation, exchangeable Ca2+, available P, mean monthly near-surface relative humidity, exchangeable H+, and annual precipitation amount, respectively; (4) the potential planting area of E. sibiricus cover 2.059 × 105 km2, which was mainly distributed in Qilian Mountains (northeast of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau), Taihang Mountains (southeast of Inner Mongolia Plateau), the middle part of Tianshan Mountains, and the southeast of Altai Mountains; (5) the introduction adaptability regions of six E. sibiricus germplasm (LM01–LM06) were all distributed in the high-elevation regions of western China. …”
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Waveguide-Based All-Metal Near-Field Metasurfaces for Linearly and Circularly Polarized Beam Steering Antennas by Maira I. Nabeel, Muhammad U. Afzal, Khushboo Singh, Dushmantha N. Thalakotuna, Karu P. Esselle

“…Experimental results demonstrate a steering range of &#x00B1;34&#x00B0; in the elevation plane and a complete 360-degree coverage in the azimuth plane. …”
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Downregulation of CD4+LAP+ and CD4+CD25+ Regulatory T Cells in Acute Coronary Syndromes by Ying-zhong Lin, Shan-he Lu, Zheng-de Lu, Ying Huang, Ying Shi, Ling Liu, Xiao-yan Wang, Qing-wei Ji

“…Regulatory T (Treg) cells play a protective role in atherosclerosis prone models and are related to the onset of acute coronary syndromes (ACS, including non-ST-elevation ACS (NSTEACS) and ST-elevation acute myocardial infarction (STEAMI)). …”
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Characterization of Patients with Acute Myocardial Infarction Treated at the General University Hospital Dr. Gustavo Aldereguía Lima by Edislaimy Suárez Rosales, Rodolfo Javier Rivero Morey, Lourdes María Roca Surí, Francisco de Jesús Valladares Carvajal, Evelyn Delgado Rodríguez, Lourdes María Fernández García

“…<strong>Background:</strong> ST-segment elevation acute myocardial infarction poses a great challenge to health systems, therefore its diagnosis and management are important. …”
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Evaluating Urban Heat Island Effects in the Southwestern Plateau of China: A Comparative Analysis of Nine Estimation Methods by Ziyang Ma, Huyan Fu, Jianghai Wen, Zhiru Chen

“…This study investigates the spatiotemporal patterns and influencing factors of SUHII in 200 plateau cities across southwestern China via nine estimation methods that incorporate rural ranges and elevation-based conditions. The results show that: (1) The annual average daytime and nighttime SUHII for these cities were 0.97 ± 0.78 °C (mean ± std) and 0.21 ± 0.87 °C, respectively. …”
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Species Distribution Models Reveal Varying Degrees of Refugia From the Invasive Asian Needle Ant for Native Ants Versus Ant‐Plant Seed Dispersal Mutualisms by Drew Kanes, Daniel Malagon, Ben Camper, Anna Hewitt, Simon Dunn, Eva Purcell, Sharon Bewick

“…Records in and near the park represent some of the highest elevation locations of B. chinensis in North America. …”
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Impact of Percutaneous Coronary Intervention and Implantation of Intra-Aortic Balloon Pump on the Outcome of an Acute Total Obstruction of the Left Main Coronary Artery by Hamza Hamayel, Yahya Ismail, Sajed Majadla, Yousef Hamshari, Yunis Daralammouri

“…He is clinically improved, there was resolution of ST elevation, and cardiogenic shock gradually resolved. …”
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