Effect of early rehabilitation on hospital stay and postoperative complications in elderly hip fracture patients: a prospective cohort study by Wen Tang, Yiqi Wang, Yulian He, Bo Liu, Runzhi Yuan, Yanhui Zhou, Huayong Huang

“…Abstract Background Hip fractures in the elderly are a major global public health concern, with incidence projected to rise as populations age. Rehabilitation is critical to recovery after hip fracture surgery, but the ideal timing for initiation remains uncertain. …”
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Compound coastal flooding in San Francisco Bay under climate change by Zhenqiang Wang, Meredith Leung, Sudarshana Mukhopadhyay, Sai Veena Sunkara, Scott Steinschneider, Jonathan Herman, Marriah Abellera, John Kucharski, Peter Ruggiero

“…Results reveal that rare occurrences of flooding under the present-day climate are projected to occur once every few hundred years under climate change with relatively low sea-level rise (0.5 m) but would become annual events under climate change with high sea-level rise (1.0 to 1.5 m). …”
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Aerodynamic Comparison of Conventional and Bioinspired Turbines for Enhanced Wind Energy Applications in Low Wind Conditions by Quesada-Bedoya Luis Felipe, Lebrun-Llano David, Espitia-Mesa Gabriel, Tamayo-Avendaño Jorge Mario, Osorio-Gómez Gilberto

“…Wind energy is projected to account for 35% of global production by 2050, with a significant contribution from large wind farms located in high-wind-speed areas. …”
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Kansei Analysis of the Japanese Residential Garden and Development of a Low-Cost Virtual Reality Kansei Engineering System for Gardens by Tatsuro Matsubara, Shigekazu Ishihara, Mitsuo Nagamachi, Yukihiro Matsubara

“…The garden is shown in public-view style with stereo 3D graphic projection. The rendering is scalable from low to high resolution and enables drop object shadowing, which is indispensable for considering the effect of daytime changes in insolation. …”
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TerraDactyl: A tool for connecting environmental data to when and where by Ariel Levi Simons, Hector Baez, Neha Acharya-Patel, Caren C. Helbing, Jim Jeffers, Julie Stanford, Rachel S. Meyer

“…Analyses on multiple environmental datasets are enhanced when there is a common set of variables, improving the ability of researchers to collaborate across a wide variety of projects. Addressing the need, we developed TerraDactyl, an online tool hosted on eDNA Explorer (ednaexplorer.org). …”
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Poland’s Cultural Diplomacy in Ukraine by Halyna Lutsyshyn, Lesia Kornat, Olena Lukachuk

“…The Polish Institute, in particular, has been implementing numerous cultural and artistic projects at various levels. Support for the Polish diaspora during the war has intensified, Polish culture is being increasingly promoted, and scientific diplomacy is actively progressing, particularly through joint Ukrainian-Polish research, scientific exchanges, and academic mobility programs for scholars. …”
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Lack of robustness of hydrological models: a large-sample diagnosis and an attempt to identify hydrological and climatic drivers by L. Santos, V. Andréassian, T. O. Sonnenborg, G. Lindström, A. de Lavenne, A. de Lavenne, C. Perrin, L. Collet, L. Collet, G. Thirel

“…The occasional lack of robustness identified in such models is not only an operational challenge – since it affects the confidence that can be placed in projections of climate change impact – it also hints at possible deficiencies in the structures of these models. …”
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Biomineralization Performance of Bacillus sphaericus under the Action of Bacillus mucilaginosus by Yingying Hu, Weitao Liu, Wenjing Wang, Xinlei Jia, Lanjuan Xu, Qing Cao, Jianjun Shen, Xiangming Hu

“…This paper investigates whether this process can help promote the intelligent reinforcement and repair of underground projects such as mines and tunnels. We selected Bacillus sphaericus and Bacillus mucilaginosus as the research objects. …”
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Eutrophication and urbanization enhance methane emissions from coastal lagoons by Stefano Bonaglia, Henry L. S. Cheung, Tobia Politi, Irma Vybernaite‐Lubiene, Tristan McKenzie, Isaac R. Santos, Mindaugas Zilius

“…Lagoons with very highly populated catchments released much more methane (223 mg CH4 m−2 d−1). Overall, projected increases in eutrophication, organic loading and population densities will enhance methane fluxes from lagoons worldwide.…”
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Pedestrian navigation: how can inertial measurment units assist smartphones? by I. A. Chistyakov, I. V. Grishov, A. A. Nikulin, M. V. Pikhletsky, I. B. Gartseev

“…The dataset used for verification of proposed algorithms is freely available at: http://gartseev.ru/projects/rtj2021.…”
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Community hydric monitoring: homegrown knowledge as local and environmental defense in Argentina, Peru and Colombia by Astrid Ulloa, Julieta Godfrid, Gerardo Damonte, Catalina Quiroga, Ana Paula López

“…The expansion of large- scale mining projects in Latin America has led to the application of several different institutional and business-endorsed water monitoring systems. …”
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Farmers’ adaptation practices in climate-stressed coastal Bangladesh: a systematic review by Md Ashik Ur Rahman, Sadhon Chandra Swarnokar, S M Nayem Ahasan, M Mohibbullah, Sadia Islam Mou, Animesh K Gain

“…The dominance of foreign-funded projects in publishing research shows the vital role of international collaboration in improving research quality and global knowledge exchange. …”
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Learning model combined with data clustering and dimensionality reduction for short-term electricity load forecasting by Hyun-Jung Bae, Jong-Seong Park, Ji-hyeok Choi, Hyuk-Yoon Kwon

“…Here, we adapt k-means clustering for data clustering, kernel principal component analysis (kernel PCA), universal manifold approximation and projection (UMAP), and t-stochastic nearest neighbor (t-SNE) for dimensionality reduction. …”
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The Eastern Mediterranean Sea mean sea level decadal slowdown: the effects of the water budget by Federica Borile, Nadia Pinardi, Nadia Pinardi, Vladyslav Lyubartsev, Mahmud Hasan Ghani, Antonio Navarra, Antonio Navarra, Jacopo Alessandri, Emanuela Clementi, Giovanni Coppini, Lorenzo Mentaschi, Giorgia Verri, Vladimir Santos da Costa, Enrico Scoccimarro, Francesco Misurale, Antonio Novellino, Paolo Oddo

“…The findings suggest that continued monitoring and a better understanding of regional water budgets are crucial for refining future projections and developing effective climate adaptation strategies for the Mediterranean coastal areas.…”
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Indoor air quality in buildings: Assessment of exposure to enhanced natural radioactivity by Taoufiq Laila, Arrakhiz Fatimaezzahra, Guendouli El Mehdi, Chourak Mimoun

“…The surface (ES) and mass (EM) radon exhalation rates were calculated for the analysed samples in order to assess the radiological risks resulting from the use of coal ash concrete.The results has revealed no evidence of any health risks to the general public, and therefore coal ash concrete can be used in construction projects.…”
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Optimizing the PM2.5 Tradeoffs: The Case of Taiwan by Shihping Kevin Huang, Sin-Yao Chen, Kuei-Lan Chou, Wei Chung Hsu, Kang-Hua Lai, Tung-Hung Chueh, Lopin Kuo, William Lu

“…Overall, central Taiwan and Chiayi regions have the highest PM2.5 projections at XGBoost output of 68.5 and 59.1 level. …”
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Peripherally Embolizing Aortic Thrombus: The Work-Up, Management, and Outcome of Primary Aortic Thrombus by Ramy Mando, Robert Gemayel, Ashish Chaddha, Julian J. Barbat, Elvis Cami

“…Computed tomography (CT) revealed an intraluminal polypoid filling defect arising from the isthmus of the aorta projecting into the proximal descending aorta and findings consistent with infarction of the spleen and right kidney. …”
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Respiratory Motion Compensation Using Diaphragm Tracking for Cone-Beam C-Arm CT: A Simulation and a Phantom Study by Marco Bögel, Hannes G. Hofmann, Joachim Hornegger, Rebecca Fahrig, Stefan Britzen, Andreas Maier

“…In order to estimate respiratory motion, we track the contour of the diaphragm in the projection image sequence. Using a motion corrected triangulation approach on the diaphragm vertex, we are able to estimate a motion signal. …”
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Morphological Features and In Vitro Cytopathic Effect of Acanthamoeba griffini Trophozoites Isolated from a Clinical Case by Arturo González-Robles, Lizbeth Salazar-Villatoro, Maritza Omaña-Molina, Maria Reyes-Batlle, Carmen M. Martín-Navarro, Jacob Lorenzo-Morales

“…When moving, amoebae formed cytoplasmic projections such as wide lamellae and acanthopodia of diverse size and thickness which contain a significant amount of actin. …”
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The NLRP3 Inflammasome as a Novel Player of the Intercellular Crosstalk in Metabolic Disorders by Elisa Benetti, Fausto Chiazza, Nimesh S. A. Patel, Massimo Collino

“…The combination of obesity and type 2 diabetes is a serious health problem, which is projected to afflict 300 million people worldwide by 2020. …”
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