Grazing regime rather than grazing intensity affect the foraging behavior of cattle by You Wang, Rui Yu, Xin Li, Ronghao Chen, Jiahui Liu

“…The main findings were: (1) the XGBoost classification model has outperformed the others models, with an average accuracy of 0.947; (2) grazing intensity only significantly affected standing behaviors, while grazing regime significantly influenced foraging, walking, standing, ruminating, and resting behaviors; (3) increased grazing intensity had led to a larger proportion of areas with declining normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in the study area; however, the proportion of areas with increased NDVI was consistently higher in rotationally grazed regions compared to that of continuously grazed areas; (4) The changes in NDVI were significantly positively correlated with foraging probability in continuously grazed plots; however, NDVI changes in lightly grazed rotational areas had a weak correlation with foraging probability. …”
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Peripheral Nerve Regeneration with Acellular Nerve Allografts Seeded with Amniotic Fluid-Derived Stem Cells by Xue Ma, Eileen Elsner, Jiaozhong Cai, Thomas L. Smith, Zhongyu Li

“…In vivo gait analysis showed that the ANA plus AFS cell group had significantly advanced recoveries in overlap distance, paw angle degree, paw drag, stance width, axis distance, and sciatic function index (SFI) compared with ANA alone. The ANA plus AFS cell group also demonstrated greater gastrocnemius compound muscle action potential (CMAP) ratio, sciatic axon diameter, fiber diameter, myelin thickness, G ratio (average axonal diameter (AD)/fiber diameter (FD)), and neuromuscular junction (NMJ) numbers compared to ANA. …”
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Trophic transfer of arsenic in the food chain from selected crops grown in long-term wastewater contaminated soil by Mudasra Munir, Kafeel Ahmad, Zafar Iqbal Khan, Shahzad Akhtar, Muhammad Nadeem, Asma Ashfaq, Mohammad Faisal, Abdulrahman A. Alatar, Hafiza Mamona Nazir, Ifra Saleem Malik

“…The potential health risks were evaluated by applying various indices, such as the accumulation factor, single pollution index, enrichment factor, estimated daily intake and target hazard quotient of arsenic. …”
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Characterization and Outcome of Two Pediatric Intensive Care Units with Different Resources by Rania G. Abdelatif, Montaser M. Mohammed, Ramadan A. Mahmoud, Mohamed A. M. Bakheet, Masafumi Gima, Satoshi Nakagawa

“…We collected and compared data of nonsurgical patients admitted between March 2018 and February 2019, including the patients’ demographics, diagnosis, PICU length of stay, outcome, predicted risk of mortality using pediatric index of mortality-2 (PIM-2), and functional neurological status using the Pediatric Cerebral Performance Category (PCPC) scale. …”
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Internet-based cognitive–behavioural therapy for insomnia (ICBT-i): a meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials by Jia Chen, Juan Liu, Yuan-yuan Ye, Ni-ka Chen, Ling Lin, Ya-zhen Liu, Ying Lang, Xun-jun Li, Xin-ju Yang, Xiao-jiang Jiang

“…Outcomes of interest included sleep onset latency (SOL), total sleep time (TST), sleep efficiency (SE), wake after sleep onset (WASO), number of nocturnal awakenings (NWAK), and Insomnia Severity Index (ISI). RevMan 5.2 and Stata 13.0 meta-analysis software were used to perform statistical analysis.Results 14 records for 15 studies (1013 experimental group participants, 591 waiting list group participants) were included. …”
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Pulse Waveform Analysis of the Ocular Blood Flow Using Laser Speckle Flowgraphy before and after Glaucoma Treatment by Satoko Masai, Kyoko Ishida, Ayako Anraku, Tetsuro Takumi, Goji Tomita

“…Although there was no significant change in MBRT after treatment, the acceleration time index (ATI) significantly decreased (p=0.034) in the PG group. …”
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Phenotypic diversity of sorghum [Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench] genotypes based on qualitative and quantitative traits by Wedajo Gebre, Firew Mekbib, Alemu Tirfessa, Agdew Bekele

“…Data on 8 qualitative traits were collected and subjected to the Shannon-Weaver diversity index (H′) and multivariate analyses and data on 17 quantitative traits were subjected to multivariate analyses. …”
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Parametric Evaluation of Simultaneous Effects of Damaged Zone Parameters and Rock Strength Properties on GRC by Ali Ghorbani, Hadi Hasanzadehshooiili, Amin Eslami

“…The effects of deterioration caused by the drilling/blast in the EDZ were taken into account by assuming a reduced and varying Young’s modulus using the disturbance factor, in the form of Hoek–Brown failure criterion and the Geological Strength Index (GSI). Besides, effects of intermediate principal stress and the exponential decaying dilation parameter are taken into account thanks to adoption of the unified strength criterion (USC) as the material strength criteria. …”
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Enhancement of chemotherapy using oncolytic virotherapy: Mathematical and optimal control analysis by Joseph Malinzi, Rachid Ouifki, Amina Eladdadi, Delfim F. M. Torres, K. A. Jane White

“…To assess the combined effect of virotherapy and chemotherapy we use the forward sensitivity index to perform a sensitivity analysis, with respect to chemotherapy key parameters, of the virus basic reproductive number and the tumour endemic equilibrium. …”
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Impact of Microwave Time on the Structure and Functional Properties of Glycosylated Soy 7S Globulins by Jixin Zhang, Tao Cui, Lan Zhang, Huiqing Xu, Jingguo Xu, Jun Wang

“…The treated protein exhibited the largest particle size (152.3 nm), lowest polydispersity index (0.248), highest α-helix content (47.86%), and lowest β-sheet, β-turn, and random coil contents (12.33%, 16.07%, and 22.41%, respectively). …”
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Determinants of Primary School Teachers’ Health Literacy in Morogoro Municipality, Tanzania: A Reflection on Access to Health Information by David M. Mshingo, Mikidadi I. Muhanga, Raymond J. Salanga, Edwin E. Ngowi

“…A cross-sectional research involving 189 randomly sampled primary school teachers was conducted in 2021 in Morogoro Municipality whereby data were collected through a structured questionnaire survey and analyzed using IBM-SPSS. A score index gauged HL while frequencies and percentages measured other variables. …”
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Baricitinib represses the myocardial fibrosis via blocking JAK/STAT and TGF-β1 pathways in vivo and in vitro by Renlei Feng, Hongli Liu, Yunqing Chen

“…Results Baricitinib not only attenuated myocardial cell widening, inflammatory infiltration, fibrous tissue, and heart index, but also reduced collagen volume fraction, the expressions of Col1, Col3, α-SMA, Fn, MMP9, and TIMP1 in ISO-induced myocardial fibrosis mice. …”
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Prevalence of Cholelithiasis and Associated Factors of Gallstone Formation after Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy in the Gastroenterology and Hepatology Teaching Hospital-Baghdad by Abdulrahman M. Mohammed, Abdulnaser M. Mohammed, Tuka Y. Hassan

“…Sixty (46.9%) patients had a Body Mass Index (BMI) ≥40 kg/m2, of whom 29 (48.3%) developed gallstones after LSG (p = 0.031). …”
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Characteristics and Demographics of Patients Requiring Emergent Air Medical by Anna Van Tuyl, Mark Quilon, Trevor Dudley, Olivia Grant, Neha Rao, Paul Barbara, David S. Kugler, Kaitlin C. McLoone-Cepin, Josh Greenstein, Barry Hahn

“…The majority of subjects (59%) had no reported comorbidities, arrived by ambulance (52%), and were emergency severity index triage 2 (48%). Frequent indications for transfer were nontraumatic neurologic (37%), pulmonary or respiratory (13%), trauma (12%), and cardiovascular (12%). …”
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Analysis of Hydrogeochemical Characteristics of Tunnel Groundwater Based on Multivariate Statistical Technology by Chen Peng, Yuanming Liu, Huiyu Chen, Qiaowei Yuan, Qingzhi Chen, Shilong Mei, Zhonghu Wu

“…According to the mineral saturation index calculations, the dissolution and precipitation of minerals such as alum, gypsum, calcite, dolomite, and salt rock have an important influence on the main chemical components in water. …”
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Genome analysis of Bifidobacterium adolescentis and investigation of its effects on inflammation and intestinal barrier function by Bo Li, Bo Li, Haoyu Wang, Haoyu Wang, Haoyu Wang, Mengmeng Wang, Mengmeng Wang, Hewei Liang, Hewei Liang, Hewei Liang, Tongyuan Hu, Tongyuan Hu, Tongyuan Hu, Jinlong Yang, Jinlong Yang, Jinlong Yang, Shangyong Li, Xinbi You, Xinbi You, Xinbi You, Binbin Xia, Binbin Xia, Binbin Xia, Yue Yuan, Yue Yuan, Yuanqiang Zou, Yuanqiang Zou, Yinglei Miao, Yinglei Miao, Yang Sun, Yang Sun, Yang Sun

“…In DSS-induced mice colitis model, the strain significantly enhanced the disease activity index (DAI), curbed weight loss, and attenuated colonic damage. …”
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High genomic connectivity within Anatoma at hydrothermal vents along the Central and Southeast Indian Ridge by Katharina Kniesz, Leon Hoffman, Pedro Martínez Arbizu, Terue C. Kihara

“…To date, more than 30 gastropod species have been recorded from vent fields along the Central and Southeast Indian Ridge and all of them are assumed to be vent-endemic. During the INDEX project, 701 representatives of the genus Anatoma (Mollusca: Vetigastropoda) were sampled from six abyssal hydrothermal vent fields. …”
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Assessment of factors implicated in bone fusion after percutaneous endoscopic lumbar intervertebral fusion by Zheng Huang, Xialin Li, Weihong Yi, Junfeng Gong, Yue Zhou, Yu Tang

“…Data on age, operative time, blood loss, drainage, hospital stay, surgical level, osteoporosis, endplateitis, body mass index, lumbar curvature, and bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) use were collected. …”
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Contrasting salinity effects of artificial seawater and sodium chloride on Carica papaya L. cultivar Red Lady physiology and growth by Edivan Rodrigues de Souza, Bruce Schaffer, Ana I. Vargas, Aline de Camargo Santos, Edwin Antonio Gutierrez Rodriguez

“…Methods This study compared plant growth, physiological, and nutritional responses, including leaf gas exchange, maximal potential quantum efficiency of photosystem II (the ratio of variable to maximum chlorophyll fluorescence; Fv/Fm), the leaf chlorophyll index (LCI), electrolyte leakage (EL), leaf relative water content (RWC), leaf water potential (Ψw), leaf osmotic potential (Ψo), leaf and root N, P, K, Ca, Mg, Na and Cl contents, and growth of potted ‘Red Lady’ papaya plants, in a calcined clay substrate, irrigated with NaCl or artificial seawater (Instant Ocean®) at six soil electrical conductivity (EC) levels (0, 1, 2, 3, 4 or 6 dS m−1). …”
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Exploring internet addiction and its associated factors among college students in Western Rajasthan, India: A mixed-methods study by Thota Rajasekhar, Kikkeri Hanumantha Setty Naveen, Pankaja Raghav, Jitender Aneja, Prasanna Thirunavukkarasu, Gitashree Dutta, Srikanth Srinivasan, Prem Prakash Sharma, Manoj Kumar Gupta, Akhil Dhanesh Goel

“…Survey instruments included Young’s internet addiction test (IAT), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), and Depression, Anxiety, and Stress Scale-21 (DASS-21) Items. …”
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