Computing ecosystem risk hotspots: A mediterranean case study by Gianpaolo Coro, Laura Pavirani, Anton Ellenbroek

“…The workflow methodology is independent of the geographical area of the application.As a case study, we present risk assessments for the Mediterranean Sea, a region with intense anthropogenic pressures and significant climatic vulnerabilities. …”
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Factors accounting for limited sexual reproduction in a long-lived unisexual plant species by Irene Bisang, Flavien Collart, Flavien Collart, Alain Vanderpoorten, Lars Hedenäs

“…Modelling environmental data at higher resolution, smaller scale and expanding geographic coverage to include more sporophyte occurrences, and comparing genetic diversity in sporophytic with non-sporophytic populations, are future lines of this research.…”
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Evaluating catastrophic health expenditures among patients with long bone fractures in Ghana's major teaching hospitals: a hospital-based analysis by Alexis D. B. Buunaaim, Michel Adurayi Amenah, Dominic Konadu-Yeboah, Richard Baidoo, Amgbo Asare, Wilfred Larbi Addo, Claude Martin

“…Policy interventions aimed at expanding NHIS coverage, reducing OOP payments for high-cost treatments, and addressing geographic inequities are urgently needed to improve financial protection for patients with long bone fractures in Ghana. …”
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Regional modeling of surface solar radiation, aerosol, and cloud cover spatial variability and projections over northern France and Benelux by G. Chesnoiu, I. Chiapello, N. Ferlay, P. Nabat, M. Mallet, V. Riffault

“…Additional ALADIN climate simulations for 2050 and 2100 under Coupled Model Intercomparison Project phase 6 (CMIP6) Shared Socioeconomic Pathway (SSP) 1-1.9 predict a significant reduction in aerosol loads compared to 2005–2014, especially over Benelux, associated with future increases in clear-sky SSR but geographically limited all-sky SSR evolution. In contrast, under SSP3-7.0, clear-sky and all-sky SSR is projected to decline significantly over the domain. …”
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Time series forecasting of Valley fever infection in Maricopa County, AZ using LSTMResearch in context by Xueting Jin, Fangwu Wei, Srinivasa Srivatsav Kandala, Tejas Umesh, Kayleigh Steele, John N. Galgiani, Manfred D. Laubichler

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Study on the Development Level, Spatial Differences and Obstacle Factors of Agricultural Modernization—Taking Cities and Counties in Hainan Province as An Example by Yiwen MA, Xiaojun XU

“…From the perspective of regional development, the level of agricultural modernization in the eastern, central, and western regions of Hainan Province and within the regions is unbalanced, presenting a spatial development pattern of "low in central hilly areas and high in cities and counties along the east and west coasts", which reflects differences among regions in terms of economic development level, geographical location, transportation, resource endowment, and other aspects; from the perspective of obstacle factors, the main factors affecting the level of agricultural modernization development in Hainan Province are the guaranteed yield rate of drought and flood, effective electromechanical irrigation rate, expenditures on agricultural, forestry and water affairs, and coverage rate of modern facility agriculture.…”
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The effects of deprivation, age, and regional differences in COVID-19 mortality from 2020 to 2022: a retrospective analysis of public provincial data by Anqi A. Chen, Elizabeth M. Renouf, Charmaine B. Dean, X. Joan Hu

“…In this study, we aim to establish the relationship of counts of deaths and hospitalizations caused by COVID-19 over time across 34 public health units in Ontario, Canada, taking demographic, geographic, socio-economic, and vaccination variables into account. …”
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Factors impacting hospitalisation and related health service costs in cancer survivors in Australia: Results from a population data linkage study in Queensland (COS‐Q) by Katharina M. D. Merollini, Louisa G. Collins, Andrew T. Jones, Joanne F. Aitken, Michael G. Kimlin

“…Generalised linear models were fitted to explore associations between socio‐demographic (age, sex, country of birth, marital status, occupation, geographic remoteness category and socio‐economic index) and clinical (cancer type, year of/time since diagnosis, vital status and care type) factors with mean annual hospital costs and mean episode costs. …”
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Training received, knowledge, and use of Silver Diamine Fluoride among Italian dentists: a nationwide survey by Claudia Salerno, Giulio Conti, Silvia Cirio, Cinzia Maspero, Andrea Senna, Guglielmo Campus, Maria Grazia Cagetti

“…Results The response rate was 6.1% with 3876 respondents, evenly distributed geographically. Less than 10% of respondents had received training at undergraduate, postgraduate or masters level. …”
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Spatial-temporal pattern and driving mechanism of urban land use eco-efficiency in mountainous counties based on multi-source data: a case study of Zhejiang province, China by Li Fan, Lindong Ma, Lindong Ma, Zhongwei Huang

“…Finally, the driving mechanisms were revealed by using the geographical detector model and GWR model. The results were as follows: (1) From 2006 to 2022, the ULUEE of Zhejiang province rose from 0.34 to 0.73, with an average annual growth rate of 2.44%. …”
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Multimorbidity patterns and function among adults in low- and middle-income countries: a scoping review by Karina Berner, Quinette A Louw, Eugene Nizeyimana, Diribsa Tsegaye Bedada

“…Mobility limitations, instrumental activities of daily living, self-care and bowel/bladder problems were consistently linked to all pattern domains.Conclusions The limited and geographically skewed body of literature, along with methodological inconsistencies, hampers a comprehensive understanding of multimorbidity patterns and associations with functioning in LMICs. …”
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Food-specific IgG Antibody Levels in Indian Subjects: A Retrospective Analytical Study by Shailesh Desai, Moumita Misra, Raj Jatale, Alap Christy, Shibani Ramchandran

“…Materials and methods: A total of 2,748 cases who underwent testing for specific IgGs for 200+ food items under the ‘food intolerance test’ over 3 years from Jan 2020 to Dec 2022 across different Indian geographical regions were included in the study. The microarray food IgG assay was used to measure over 215 types of food-specific serum IgG antibodies, with the top 25 most common food IgGs found based on the biological reference interval further analyzed. …”
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Assessing CNN and Semantic Segmentation Models for Coarse Resolution Satellite Image Classification in Subcontinental Scale Land Cover Mapping by Tesfaye Adugna, Wenbo Xu, Jinlong Fan, Haitao Jia, Xin Luo

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Physical Fruit Traits, Proximate Composition, Antioxidant Activity, and Profiling of Fatty Acids and Minerals of Wild Jujube (Ziziphus lotus L. (Desf.)) Fruits from Eleven Moroccan... by Hasna Ait Bouzid, El Hassan Sakar, Laila Bijla, Mohamed Ibourki, Ahmed Zeroual, Jamila Gagour, Jamal Koubachi, Khalid Majourhat, Saïd Gharby

“…This study aimed at investigating the effects of geographical origin on physical fruit traits, proximate composition, fatty acid, and elemental profiling of Moroccan wild jujube (Ziziphus lotus) fruits. …”
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A Synoptic- and Remote Sensing-based Analysis of a Severe Dust Storm Event over Central Asia by Parya Broomandi, Kaveh Mohammadpour, Dimitris G. Kaskaoutis, Aram Fathian, Sabur F. Abdullaev, Vladimir A. Maslov, Amirhossein Nikfal, Ali Jahanbakhshi, Bakhyt Aubakirova, Jong Ryeol Kim, Alfrendo Satyanaga, Alireza Rashki, Nick Middleton

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«Talgenism» in the Digital Age: A Domestic History of cMOOC by M. A. Babaeva, E. B. Golubev

“…Despite the time and geographical gap (Russia, 1918 and Canada, 2008), each of these technologies makes it possible a fundamentally new learning process focused on the needs of a student, the organization of which is practically unattainable with a traditional class-lesson or lecture-seminar system. …”
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Laguna de fracasos by Lagunaries

“…We inhabit the irony of a virtuality that imposes a distance on us and at the same time it hacks all geographical borders. A practice that does not yet have a name, a performance that is always provisional, weaving voices and actions through listening and activating our own and other people’s writings. …”
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DNA methylation inhibitors adverse reaction characteristic analysis: an analysis based on the European spontaneous adverse event reporting system by Xia Zhang, Yuyu Liu, Qingwang Hou, Yongxin Guo, Youfu He

“…A descriptive exploration of the combined data from EV was undertaken to assess the age, gender of patients, severity and outcome of ADR, event year, geographical origin and the qualification of the reporting source. …”
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Phenological control of vegetation biophysical feedbacks to the regional climate by Lingxue Yu, Ye Liu, Fengqin Yan, Lijie Lu, Xuan Li, Shuwen Zhang, Jiuchun Yang

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Harmonic Analysis of the Spatiotemporal Pattern of Thunderstorms in Iran (1961–2010) by Ali Akbar Sabziparvar, Seyed Hossein Mir Mousavi, Mostafa Karampour, Mehdi Doostkamian, Esmaeil Haghighi, Iman Rousta, Haraldur Olafsson, Md Omar Sarif, Rajan Dev Gupta, Md Moniruzzaman, Khairul Hasan, Ali Ghasemi

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