Monitoring ocular disease via optical nanostructures potentially applicable to corneal contact lens products by Bader AlQattan, Mohamed Elsherif, Fahad Alam, Haider Butt

“…The nanostructures produced a 4° diffraction angle difference in response to the environmental changes. Vision obstruction was considered while designing the nanostructure features on the lens. …”
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Understanding the complex function of gut microbiota: its impact on the pathogenesis of obesity and beyond: a comprehensive review by Aref Yarahmadi, Hamed Afkhami, Ali Javadi, Mojtaba Kashfi

“…Abstract Obesity is a multifactorial condition influenced by genetic, environmental, and microbiome-related factors. The gut microbiome plays a vital role in maintaining intestinal health, increasing mucus creation, helping the intestinal epithelium mend, and regulating short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) production. …”
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Can social adversity and mental, physical and oral multimorbidity form a syndemic? A concept and protocol paper by Easter Joury, Easter Joury, Eliana Nakhleh, Ed Beveridge, Derek Tracy, Derek Tracy, Derek Tracy, Derek Tracy, Ellie Heidari, Ellie Heidari, David Shiers, David Shiers, David Shiers, Silke Vereeken, Emily Peckham, Simon Gilbody, Simon Gilbody, Jayati Das-Munshi, Farida Fortune, Farida Fortune, Vishal R. Aggarwal, Masuma Mishu, Masuma Mishu, Joseph Firth, Joseph Firth, Kamaldeep Bhui, Kamaldeep Bhui, Kamaldeep Bhui, Kamaldeep Bhui

“…These conditions are precipitated and perpetuated by adverse social, economic, environmental, political and healthcare contextual factors, and sustained through bidirectional interactions forming potentially a ‘syndemic’. …”
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Household Food Insecurity and the Factors Influencing Growth and Nutrition Among Under-5 Children in Hubballi, India: A Case-Control Study by Anjana R Joshi, Rizwana B Shaikh, Kashavva B Andanigoudar, Rohit D Teli, Saiprasad Tilagul

“…Other factors include maternal factors, feeding practices, socio- sociocultural and environmental factors. The study was conducted to compare household food insecurity and other factors among undernourished and normal children aged < 5 years. …”
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Persistent functional and taxonomic groups dominate an 8,000-year sedimentary sequence from Lake Cadagno, Switzerland by Paula Rodriguez, Jasmine S. Berg, Longhui Deng, Longhui Deng, Hendrik Vogel, Michal Okoniewski, Mark A. Lever, Mark A. Lever, Cara Magnabosco

“…As the conservation of these metabolic pathways through changes in microbial community compositions helps preserve the metabolic pathway connectivity required for nutrient cycling, we hypothesize that the persistence of these functional groups helps enable the Lake Cadagno sedimentary communities persist amidst changing environmental conditions.…”
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Big Archive-Assisted Ensemble of Many-Objective Evolutionary Algorithms by Wen Zhong, Jian Xiong, Anping Lin, Lining Xing, Feilong Chen, Yingwu Chen

“…Unfortunately, no one single MOEA equipped with given parameter settings, mating-variation operator, and environmental selection mechanism is suitable for obtaining a set of solutions with excellent convergence and diversity for various types of MaOPs. …”
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A Collision Avoidance MAC Protocol with Power Control for Adaptive Clustering Underwater Sensor Networks by Libin Xue, Hong Lei, Rongxin Zhu

“…Underwater sensor networks (UWSNs) play a vital role in marine exploration and environmental monitoring. However, due to the characteristics of underwater acoustic channels such as high delay, low bandwidth, and energy limitation, the design of an underwater media access control (MAC) protocol has brought great challenges, and existing MAC protocol designs rarely consider the influence of channel interference factors in networking. …”
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Pollution and Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals in the Sediments and Soils around Tiegelongnan Copper Deposit, Northern Tibet, China by Yuhu Luo, Qinxian Jia

“…When the Rongna River passed through the Cu deposit area, the concentrations of Cu, Zn, As, Cd, Ni, and Hg in the surface sediments increased significantly, and the concentrations of Cu, Zn, and As exceeded the corresponding Grade II environmental quality standard. The heavy metals in the soil of the mining area were greater than the background value of the soil in Tibet. …”
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Trends in Mortality from Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Alberta: Back to the Future? by Tee L Guidotti

“…There is no obvious explanation that would explain all of the observed trends, but they appear more likely to be a consequence of social and environmental conditions, including changes in health-related behaviour, than of major changes in medical management at the time.…”
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A Deep Q-Network-Based Collaborative Control Research for Smart Ammunition Formation by Jian Shen, Benkang Zhang, Qingyu Zhu, Pengyun Chen

“…With the consideration of random factors, such as sensor error and environmental disturbance, the system model cannot be modeled accurately. …”
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Role of autophagy defects and significance of adherent-invasive <i>Escherichia coli</i> in Crohn's disease development by I. V. Mayev, D. N. Andreev, D. V. Rakitina, Yu. P. Baykova

“…According to modern concept, etiology of CD has complex nature and is determined by genetic predisposition, infectious agents and environmental factors. Alteration of autophagy process (defects of NOD2/ CARD15, ATG16L1, IRGM genes) is one of genetically determined disorders of innate immunity typical for CD. …”
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Road Performance and Ice-Melting Characteristics of Steel Wool Asphalt Mixture by Yifeng Xia, Jie Jia, Qian Chen

“…The influence of the asphalt mixture’s factors, environmental factors, and human factors on the ice-melting characteristics of steel wool asphalt mixture was analyzed. …”
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Basalt Powder Waste Application as Affordable Concrete Admixture by Leopold Mbereyaho, Niyoyita Jean Bosco, Kimararungu Augustin, Ntakiyimana Desire

“…The application of basalt waste in concrete would contribute not only to the reduction of environmental pollution but also to the provision of more affordable admixtures for mortar and concrete. …”
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Spectrophotometric and Multivariate Calibration Techniques for Simultaneous Determination of Different Drugs in Pharmaceutical Formulations and Human Urine: Evaluation of Greenness... by Ahmed Mostafa

“…Furthermore, the greenness profile of the methods was evaluated using the National Environmental Methods Index “NEMI” and Analytical Eco-Scale. …”
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Central Interleukin-1β Suppresses the Nocturnal Secretion of Melatonin by A. P. Herman, J. Bochenek, K. Król, A. Krawczyńska, H. Antushevich, B. Pawlina, A. Herman, K. Romanowicz, D. Tomaszewska-Zaremba

“…The hormonal signal reliably reflecting the environmental light conditions is melatonin. Nocturnal melatonin secretion patterns could be disturbed in pathophysiological states, including inflammation, Alzheimer’s disease, and depression. …”
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Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Production: Combine Effluent Treatment with Energy Generation in UASB Reactor as Biorefinery Annex by Mauro Berni, Ivo Dorileo, Grazielle Nathia, Tânia Forster-Carneiro, Daniel Lachos, Breno G. M. Santos

“…The issue of residues and industrial effluents represents an unprecedented environmental challenge in terms of recovery, storage, and treatment. …”
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Advances in bioinformatics and multi-omics integration: transforming viral infectious disease research in veterinary medicine by Alyaa Elrashedy, Walid Mousa, Mohamed Nayel, Akram Salama, Ahmed Zaghawa, Ahmed Elsify, Mohamed E. Hasan

“…Abstract The world is changing due to factors like bioterrorism, massive environmental changes, globalization of trade and commerce, growing urbanization, changing climate, and pollution. …”
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Analysis of Spatial Distribution Pattern and Driving Factors of Nature Reserves in Xinjiang by Yue Yang, Zhaoping Yang, Fang Han

“…In recent years, with the enhancement in environmental awareness, the role of nature reserves in maintaining ecosystem stability, protecting biodiversity, and promoting sustainable development has become increasingly prominent. …”
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Effects of Climate Change on Agricultural Calendar in the North of Iran by mojtaba shahnazari, Zahra Hejazizadeh, Mohammad Saligheh

“…Abstract In this research, while studying climate conditions in the current period and analyzing changes in temperature, precipitation level, and the sunlight received, current conditions were also analyzed based on daily data from synoptic stations in the region, which had meteorological data recorded for at least 30 years. Given the environmental conditions necessary for the growth of rice, the availability of its phenological data, its high-low temperature thresholds, the Degree Day systems needed for the completion of its life cycle, and the phenological processes related to its economic production, a suitable agricultural calendar was specified. …”
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Digital Twins and Road Construction Using Secondary Raw Materials by Sebastjan Meža, Alenka Mauko Pranjić, Rok Vezočnik, Igor Osmokrović, Stanislav Lenart

“…., mining waste, different industrial wastes, construction, and demolition waste) has been recognized as a promising, generally more cost-efficient, and environmentally friendly alternative to the exploitation of natural resources. …”
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