Marine Shale Gas Occurrence and Its Influencing Factors: A Case Study from the Wufeng-Longmaxi Formation, Northwestern Guizhou, China by Taotao Cao, Hu Liu, Anyang Pan, Mo Deng, Qinggu Cao, Ye Yu, Yanran Huang, Zhenghui Xiao

“…CH4, derived from oil cracking, is the main component of shale gas, but its proportion is lower than that in Fuling and Weiyuan areas, probably due to the weak preservation condition. Desorption gas and lost gas determined by in situ desorption test are 0.42–1.54 cm3/g and 1.9–7.14 cm3/g, respectively, and Langmuir volume (VL) from isothermal adsorption experiment is 1.63–4.78 cm3/g. …”
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Trends and opportunities in renewable energy investment in Saudi Arabia: Insights for achieving vision 2030 and enhancing environmental sustainability by Mahmoud Mohamed Selim, Nasser Alshareef

“…From these outcomes, we can easily conclude that Abha is the best place to place a solar energy project, probably because of environmental and legal factors. …”
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A network meta-analysis comparing treatment modalities of short and long implants in the posterior maxilla with insufficient bone height by Yixuan Zhang, Xiaoyue Tang, Yue Zhang, Can Cao

“…The analysis of cumulative ranking probabilities revealed that delayed placement of long implants with SFE demonstrated the highest efficacy in reducing implant failure (73.9%). …”
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REVIEW OF IDENTIFIED SHORTCOMINGS IN AQUIFER VULNERABILITY ASSESSMENTS by Anthony Okeh, Abu Mallam, Osagie Abel Uyimwen, S. A. Ganiyu

“…The study suggested basaltic intrusion as probable cause of borehole failures in the area. A different research which incorporated VES and data from the hill-shaded Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM), suggested insufficient interconnectivity within the fractures as conditions controlling groundwater occurrence in the area. …”
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Water Risk and Mining Firms’ Stock Return by Maryam Davallou, Shirin Mehrali

“…Employing seasonal data from 2007 to 2011, it used a dynamic panel regression model to assess the effect of water risk on stock returns, controlling for factors such as profitability, leverage, firm size, and capital intensity among 11 companies. Then, the probable loss in a water crisis scenario was calculated using the stress test in the framework of value at risk. …”
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UK multiple sclerosis risk-sharing scheme: a new natural history dataset and an improved Markov model by Jacqueline Palace, Martin Duddy, Thomas Bregenzer, Mike Boggild, Joel Oger, Helen Tremlett, Charles Dobson, Fheng Zhu

“…This study aims to identify a more suitable natural history cohort and to develop a robust analytical approach using the new cohort.Design The Scientific Advisory Group, recommended the British Columbia Multiple Sclerosis (BCMS) database, Canada, as providing a more suitable natural history comparator cohort. Transition probabilities were derived and different Markov models (discrete and continuous) with and without baseline covariates were applied.Setting MS clinics in Canada and the UK.Participants From the BCMS database, 898 ‘untreated’ patients with MS considered eligible for drug treatment based on the UK's Association of British Neurologists criteria.Outcome measure The predicted Expanded Disability Status Scale (EDSS) score was collected and assessed for goodness of fit when compared with actual outcome.Results The BCMS untreated cohort contributed 7335 EDSS scores over a median 6.4 years (6357 EDSS ‘transitions’ recorded at consecutive visits) during the period 1980–1995. …”
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Predicting the risk of gastroparesis in critically ill patients after CME using an interpretable machine learning algorithm – a 10-year multicenter retrospective study by Yuan Liu, Songyun Zhao, Wenyi Du, Wei Shen, Ning Zhou

“…The calibration curve further revealed a favorable concordance between the predicted probabilities and the actual outcomes of the XGBoost model. …”
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Apolipoproteins A and B and PCSK9: Nontraditional Cardiovascular Risk Factors in Chronic Kidney Disease and in End-Stage Renal Disease by Cristiana-Elena Vlad, Liliana Foia, Roxana Popescu, Iuliu Ivanov, Mihaela Catalina Luca, Carmen Delianu, Vasilica Toma, Cristian Statescu, Ciprian Rezus, Laura Florea

“…Serum PCSK9 levels were not associated with the cardiovascular events in patients with CKD/ESRD. Probably in the future, the treatment of dyslipidemia in CKD/ESRD will be aimed at discovering new effective therapies on the action of these biomarkers.…”
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Evaluación de nitratos y bacterias coliformes en pozos de la cuenca alta del arroyo pantanoso (Bs. As.) by L. I. Picone, Y. E. Andreoli, J. L. Costa, V. Aparicio, L. Crespo, J. Nannini, W. Tambascio

“…La concentración de nitratos se determinó por destilación con arrastre de vapor y el número de bacterias coliformes fue cuantificado mediante la técnica del número más probable (NMP) en caldo de Mc Conkey. De los 39 pozos examinados, 13 presentaron concentraciones de nitratos que excedieron en 0,2 a 6,5 mg NNO 3 L 1 de agua al valor crítico de 10 mg N-NO3 L-1 de agua establecido por la Agencia de Salud Pública de EE.UU. para consumo humano. …”
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SMILE and Wavefront-Guided LASIK Out-Compete Other Refractive Surgeries in Ameliorating the Induction of High-Order Aberrations in Anterior Corneal Surface by Min-jie Ye, Cai-yuan Liu, Rong-feng Liao, Zheng-yu Gu, Bing-ying Zhao, Yi Liao

“…However, SMILE induced more horizontal coma and vertical coma compared with WF-LASIK, indicating that the centration of SMILE procedure is probably less precise than WF-LASIK.…”
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Genetic diversity of the Central European wild boar (Sus scrofa scrofa) population and domestic pig (Sus scrofa domesticus) breeds based on a microsatellite DNA locus by E. A. Snegin, V. M. Makeeva, A. P. Kaledin, A. M. Ostapchuk, I. D. Alazneli, A. V. Smurov

“…The low effective size of the wild boar population (Ne = 21.8, Neb = 4.0) is probably caused by the death and shooting of animals due to Pestis africana suum.…”
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A Nomogram Model for Predicting Recurrent Coronary Thrombosis in Kawasaki Disease Patients by Zhou X, Peng Y, Yi Q

“…The nomogram can visually show these independent risk factors and predict probabilities.Keywords: Kawasaki disease, recurrent coronary thrombosis, nomogram, predictive value, logistic regression analysis…”
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Profiles of traditional farms: soil texture, total inorganic N and bacteria-producing estate by Yuni Puji Hastuti, Iman Rusmana, T. Widiyanto

“…Chemical and biological analyses were done using spectroscopy and Most Probable Number methods to determine the amount of nitrite and ammonium production of bacteria.  …”
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Pain Perception of the First Eye versus the Second Eye during Phacoemulsification under Local Anesthesia for Patients Going through Cataract Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-A... by Chuying Shi, Jinqiu Yuan, Benny Zee

“…Patients experienced more pain in the surgery of the second eye than that of the first eye, which probably related to lower anxiety before the second surgery. …”
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Identification of deleterious variants associated with male infertility genes in a cohort of idiopathic hypospermatogenesis patients by Nisha Sharma, Ashutosh Halder, Seema Kaushal, Manoj Kumar, Manish Jain

“…In silico analysis of variants shows deleterious and probably damaging effects on canonical transcripts of the genes.DiscussionThis exploratory genomic analysis conducted on idiopathic hypospermatogenesis patients shows prevalence of rare deleterious candidate variants in genes associated with human male infertility. …”
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To the evaluation of the carrying capacity of steel concrete beams on the basis of bent profiles by F. S. Zamaliev, A. G. Tamrazyan

“…The use of bent profiles in steel-reinforced concrete bent structures has not yet become widespread, probably due to the lack of simple methods. Therefore, the study of the stress-strain state of steel-reinforced concrete beams is a very urgent task. …”
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CLINICAL FEATURES OF PREGNANT WOMEN WITH EARLY GESTOSIS by Halina Hvozdetska, Natalia Henyk

“…In women with early gestosis, somatic pathology was probably more common: diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (52.0%), diseases of the cardiovascular system (40.0%); anemia (38.0%); pathology of the urinary system (18.0%); endocrine diseases (20.0%), psycho-emotional disorders (38.0%), (р<0,001, c2 =13,20). …”
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Exploring the therapeutic potential of 18β-Glycyrrhetinic acid in pulmonary arterial hypertension by integrating network pharmacology and experimental validation by Wenli Yang, Long Ma, Meidong Si, Fang Zhao, Ru Zhou

“…Through network pharmacology and experimental validation, this study examined the probable mechanism of 18β-GA in treating PAH. Methods: The analysis of the potential pharmacological activities of 18β-GA was conducted using the network pharmacology method. …”
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Analysis of spatio-temporal fungal growth dynamics under different environmental conditions by Liselotte De Ligne, Guillermo Vidal-Diez de Ulzurrun, Jan M. Baetens, Jan Van den Bulcke, Joris Van Acker, Bernard De Baets

“…At the most extreme conditions we tested, the mycelium most probably experienced water stress when developing over the inert Petri dish surface. …”
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Impact of urbanisation on the gaps of hypertension prevalence, awareness and treatment among older age in China: a cross-sectional study by Qiutong Yu, Genyong Zuo

“…Hypertension awareness was defined as a previous diagnosis of hypertension by a health professional, and hypertension treatment was defined as undergoing BP treatment.Results The prevalence of hypertension was lower among semiurbanised adults than among non-urbanised rural adults (OR=0.94, 95% CI=0.90 to 0.99; p&lt;0.05). The probabilities of awareness (OR=1.10, 95% CI=1.01 to 1.20; p&lt;0.05) and treatment (OR=1.17, 95% CI=1.08 to 1.26; p&lt;0.001) of hypertension were significantly lower among non-urbanised adults than among urban-born adults. …”
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