Emission of Brominated Pollutants from Waste Printed Circuit Boards during Thermal Treatment: A Review by Jun Wan, Jia Sun, Xiang-Lin Zhao, An-Sheng Le, Peng-Bo Ren, Ming-Xiu Zhan, Xiao-Qing Lin, Tong Chen

“…This paper summarizes and analyzes the brominated pollutants emitted during the recycling of waste circuit boards, summarizes the sources and paths for the generation of brominated pollutants, and describes a series of studies performed to determine the emission characteristics and impact factors for brominated pollutants. The effects of raw materials, temperature, atmosphere, and reaction time on the emission of brominated pollutants are discussed, as are three methods of controlling the pollutants. …”
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Characteristics of the South China Sea Monsoon from the Onset to Withdrawal before and after 1993/94 by Zhao Xiaofang, Wang Lijuan

“…The characteristics and possible impact factors of the South China Sea summer monsoon (SCSSM) evolution from onset to withdrawal before and after 1993/94 are investigated using ERA-Interim, CPC rainfall, and OLR data. …”
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Structured Exercise Program is Feasible and Improves Functional Capacity among Older Adults in Puerto Rico by Osvaldo J Hernandez Soto, Farah A Ramirez Marrero

“…These results suggest that participation in a structured exercise program for eight weeks can positively impact factors that improve movement capacity in older adults.…”
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Programa de ejercicio estructurado es viable y mejora la capacidad funcional en adultos mayores en Puerto Rico by Osvaldo J Hernandez Soto, Farah A Ramirez Marrero

“…These results suggest that participation in a structured exercise program for eight weeks can positively impact factors that improve movement capacity in older adults.…”
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Psychological wellness of health-care professionals during the coronavirus disease-2019 pandemic by Lakshmi Ranganathan, Nagarajan Ramakrishnan

“…“Risk of getting infected” was the most important impacting factor (57.9%), followed by “disturbed work-life balance” (40.5%) and “uncertainty of outcomes” (24.2%). …”
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Evaluation of Urban Composite Carbon Sink Value: A Case Study of Shenyang by Tiemao SHI, Di WANG, Yu TANG, Peiying LI

“…Understanding these impacts and identifying the key impact factors will enable more effective management of urban carbon sink. …”
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Machine learning-based myocardial infarction bibliometric analysis by Ying Fang, Yuedi Wu, Lijuan Gao

“…The ML and MI domains, represented by China and the United States, have experienced swift development in research after 2015, albeit with the United States significantly outperforming China in research quality (as evidenced by the higher impact factors of journals and citation counts of publications from the United States). …”
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The Determinants of Adolescent Glycolipid Metabolism Disorder: A Cohort Study by Xiao-Hua Liang, Lun Xiao, Jing-Yu Chen, Ping Qu, Xian Tang, Yuwei Wang

“…A bidirectional cohort study which was established in 2014 and followed between March 1 and July 20, 2019, was used to illustrate the impact factors for GLMD. Stratified cluster sampling in urban-rural areas was used to include subjects from four communities in Chongqing. 2808 healthy children aged between 6 and 9 years in 2014 entered the cohort in 2014 and followed in 2019 with a follow-up rate of 70%. 2,136 samples (aged 11.68 ± 0.60 years) were included. …”
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An Experimental Study on the Adsorption and Desorption of Cu(II) in Silty Clay by Shuang Xie, Zhang Wen, Hongbin Zhan, Menggui Jin

“…In this study, a series of experiments were conducted to investigate the adsorption and desorption behavior of Cu(II) in silty clay. Several impact factors such as pH, organic matter, temperature, and coexisted ions Zn(II) were considered. …”
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Prognostic and Predictive Value of CpG Island Methylator Phenotype in Patients with Locally Advanced Nonmetastatic Sporadic Colorectal Cancer by Yuwei Wang, Yadong Long, Ye Xu, Zuqing Guan, Peng Lian, Junjie Peng, Sanjun Cai, Guoxiang Cai

“…CIMP positive was defined as hypermethylation of three or more of the five genes. Impact factors on disease-free survival (DFS) and overall survival (OS) were analyzed using Kaplan-Meier method (log-rank test) and adjusted Cox proportional hazards model. …”
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The Variations of Satellite-Based Ecosystem Water Use and Carbon Use Efficiency and Their Linkages with Climate and Human Drivers in the Songnen Plain, China by Bo Li, Fang Huang, Shuai Chang, Ning Sun

“…Revealing WUE and CUE changes and their impact factors is vital for regional carbon-water interactions and carbon budget assessment. …”
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Access to evidence-based care: a systematic review of trauma and surgical literature costs across resource settings by Eduardo Huaman, Lacey LaGrone, Megan Wojick, Hannah Conner, Ashley Farley, Marianne Luyo, Sam Thomas-Pate

“…The most frequently indexed journals were reviewed using the individual journal websites to extract the type of access (ie, open, closed, hybrid), impact factors, publication languages, APCs, subscription pricing, and any discounts listed.Results The literature search revealed 4759 unique journals. …”
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Clinical Features and Outcomes of Repeated Endoscopic Therapy for Esophagogastric Variceal Hemorrhage in Cirrhotic Patients: Ten-Year Real-World Analysis by Jia-li Ma, Ling-ling He, Ping Li, Yu Jiang, Ju-long Hu, Yu-ling Zhou, Xiu-xia Liang, Hong-shan Wei

“…Cox analysis was used to identify the impact factors that affect the long-term survival of patients with cirrhosis and variceal bleeding after endotherapy. …”
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Strength, Hydraulic, and Microstructural Characteristics of Expansive Soils Incorporating Marble Dust and Rice Husk Ash by Fazal E. Jalal, Sultani Mulk, Shazim Ali Memon, Babak Jamhiri, Ahsan Naseem

“…Also, the long-term strength development of treated soils was analyzed in terms of the interactive response of impacting factors with the assistance of a series of ANN-based sensitivity analyses. …”
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Impact of distress and anxiety due to COVID-19 on digital addictions in university students in the third wave period  [version 2; peer review: 3 approved] by Yovana Pardavé-Livia, Armando Martínez-Portillo, Evelyn Barboza-Navarro, Luz Elizabeth Mayorga-Falcón, Walter Capa-Luque, Catalina Bello-Vidal, Aldo Bazán-Ramírez, Edmundo Hervias-Guerra

“…In this scenario, two important impact factors to explain this problem are stress and anxiety because of COVID-19. …”
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Re-imagining education in Haiti through a lens of de-coloniality by Rudolph Damas

“…Such low educational attainment shows a need for greater access to education, and as much as the privatisation of schools is a significant barrier, as argued by Sider and Jean Marie, there are other impactful factors that remain to be addressed.…”
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Artificial intelligence-assisted platform performs high detection ability of hepatocellular carcinoma in CT images: an external clinical validation study by Rongxue Shan, Chenhao Pei, Qianrui Fan, Junchuan Liu, Dawei Wang, Shifeng Yang, Ximing Wang

“…Furthermore, we also did subgroup analysis depending on the size and location of HCC to explore the impact factors of HCC detectability. The segmentation accuracies were evaluated by Dice coefficient (Dice), accuracy, recall, precision, and F1-score. …”
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