Evaluating analytic strategies to obtain high-resolution, vertex-level measures of cortical neuroanatomy in children in low- and middle-income countries by Charlotte M. Pretzsch, František Váša, Michael Brammer, Lucy Brink, Mandy Potter, Wendy Mackay, Petrusa Smit, Carolina Du Plessis, Marcelle Wagner, Deborah Jonker, Kirsten A. Donald, Freda Scheffler, Cindy Pham, Viola Hollestein, Eva Loth, Declan GM Murphy, Hein J. Odendaal, Elizabeth R. Sowell, Priscilla E. Springer, Dan J. Stein, Christine Ecker

“…Abstract High-field magnetic resonance imaging to explore brain structure and function remains limited to high-resource settings. …”
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High-resolution spatiotemporal measurement of air and environmental noise pollution in Sub-Saharan African cities: Pathways to Equitable Health Cities Study protocol for Accra, Gha... by Michael Brauer, Majid Ezzati, Sierra N Clark, Abosede S Alli, Jill Baumgartner, Mireille B Toledano, Allison F Hughes, James Nimo, Josephine Bedford Moses, Solomon Terkpertey, Jose Vallarino, Samuel Agyei-Mensah, Ernest Agyemang, Ricky Nathvani, Emily Muller, James Bennett, Jiayuan Wang, Andrew Beddows, Frank Kelly, Benjamin Barratt, Sean Beevers, Raphael E Arku

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The Intelligent Infectious Disease Active Surveillance and early warning system in China: An application of dengue prevention and control by Liangyu Kang, Jian Hu, Kangning Cai, Wenzhan Jing, Min Liu, Wannian Liang

“…The system comprises four functional modules including multi-channel active surveillance, intelligent early warning, data-driven risk assessment, and smart emergency response. …”
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Rosaceae phylogenomic studies provide insights into the evolution of new genes by Lan Jiang, Xiaoxu Li, Kun Lyu, Han Wang, Zhiyuan Li, Wang Qi, Lin Zhang, Yunpeng Cao

“…Functional analysis exhibited that newly formed fusion genes can regulate the phenotype traits of plant growth and development, suggesting the functional significance of these genes. …”
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Real-Time, Risk-Based Clinical Trial Quality Management in China: Development of a Digital Monitoring Platform by Min Jiang, Shuhua Zhao, Yun Mei, Zhiying Fu, Yannan Yuan, Jie Ai, Yuan Sheng, Ying Gong, Jingjing Chen

“…ConclusionsIn clinical practice, our tool would enable the automated monitoring and detection of risk points throughout all clinical trial stages; accurately identify the most relevant trial procedure and function line; and notify quality management personnel, in real time, to take prompt actions and dynamically prevent the recurrence of quality issues.…”
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Microbial diversification is maintained in an experimentally evolved synthetic community by Zahraa Al-Tameemi, Alejandra Rodríguez-Verdugo

“…We further observed loss-of-function mutations in flagellar genes that were fixed in monocultures but not in co-cultures. …”
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Galar - a large multi-label video capsule endoscopy dataset by Maxime Le Floch, Fabian Wolf, Lucian McIntyre, Christoph Weinert, Albrecht Palm, Konrad Volk, Paul Herzog, Sophie Helene Kirk, Jonas L. Steinhäuser, Catrein Stopp, Mark Enrik Geissler, Moritz Herzog, Stefan Sulk, Jakob Nikolas Kather, Alexander Meining, Alexander Hann, Steffen Palm, Jochen Hampe, Nora Herzog, Franz Brinkmann

“…Galar consists of 80 videos, culminating in 3,513,539 annotated frames covering functional, anatomical, and pathological aspects and introducing a selection of 29 distinct labels. …”
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Autophagy in aquatic animals: mechanisms, implications, and future directions by Md. Abu Kawsar, Md. Abu Kawsar, Md. Abu Kawsar, Md. Abu Kawsar, Diponkor Adikari, Yang Zhang, Yang Zhang

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Livestock Production Challenges and Improved Forage Production Efforts in the Damot Gale District of Wolaita Zone, Ethiopia by Shimelis Mengistu, Ajebu Nurfeta, Adugna Tolera, Melkamu Bezabih, Abera Adie, Endalkachew Wolde-meskel, Mesfin Zenebe

“…These forages are produced for the purpose of two or more functions (feed, cash, and preventing erosion) that vary (p ≤ 0.01) among intervention status. …”
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Biochar Quality During Slow Pyrolysis from Oil Palm Empty Fruit Bunches and Its Application as Soil Ameliorant by Amsar Maulana, Mimien Harianti, Salma Athiyya, Teguh Budi Prasetyo, Moli Monikasari, Irwan Darfis, Dewi Rezki, Herviyanti Herviyanti

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IndoHerb: Indonesia medicinal plants recognition using transfer learning and deep learning by Muhammad Salman Ikrar Musyaffa, Novanto Yudistira, Muhammad Arif Rahman, Ahmad Hoirul Basori, Andi Besse Firdausiah Mansur, Jati Batoro

“…The rich diversity of herbal plants in Indonesia holds immense potential as alternative resources for traditional healing and ethnobotanical practices. …”
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Comparison of Methods for Isolation and Characterization of Total and Astrocyte‐Enriched Extracellular Vesicles From Human Serum and Plasma by Leandra K. Figueroa‐Hall, Kaiping Burrows, Ahlam M. Alarbi, Bethany N. Hannafon, Cole Hladik, Chibing Tan, Rajagopal Ramesh, Jennifer L. Stewart, Victoria B. Risbrough, Martin P. Paulus, T. Kent Teague

“…This study provides a comprehensive resource for researchers in selecting EV isolation methods tailored to small biobanked clinical samples, with the goal of advancing biomarker discovery in Neuroscience.…”
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Developing a Delphi Consensus on the Domains and Conduct of Brief Geriatric Assessments in Singapore by Jonathan Gao, Penny Lun, Lay Khoon Lau, Woan Shin Tan, Edward Tan, Wee Shiong Lim, Reshma Aziz Merchant, Laura Tay, Yew Yoong Ding

“…Participants agreed on targeting selected older adults for BGA to identify geriatric syndromes; physical, psychological, function, mobility/balance, and social status as domains to assess for BGA; and healthcare professionals administering BGA. …”
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The Diversity of Cold Worlds: A Blended-light Binary Straddling the T/Y Transition in Brown Dwarfs by Daniella C. Bardalez Gagliuffi, Jacqueline K. Faherty, Genaro Suárez, Sherelyn Alejandro Merchan, Brianna Lacy, Ben Burningham, Klara Matuszewska, Rocio Kiman, Johanna M. Vos, Austin Rothermich, Jonathan Gagné, Caroline Morley, Melanie J. Rowland, Dan Caselden, Aaron Meisner, Adam C. Schneider, Marc J. Kuchner, Charles A. Beichman, Peter R. Eisenhardt, Christopher R. Gelino, Ehsan Gharib-Nezhad, Eileen C. Gonzales, Federico Marocco, Niall Whiteford, J. Davy Kirkpatrick

“…Carbon disequilibrium chemistry strongly shapes the mid-infrared spectra of these sources, as a complex function of the metallicity and surface gravity. …”
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Risk Analysis of Groundwater Contaminant in Rural Areas Using Spatial Distribution by Herawati Herawati, Maria Kanan, Anwar Mallongi, Ramli Bidullah, Sandy N. Sakati, Dwi Wahyu Balebu

“…Background: Water is a very important material for the life of creatures in nature and its function for life cannot be replaced by other compounds. …”
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Structural knowledge-driven meta-learning for task offloading in vehicular networks with integrated communications, sensing and computing by Ruijin Sun, Yao Wen, Nan Cheng, Wei Wang, Rong Chai, Yilong Hui

“…By optimizing the computation mode and network resources, in this paper, we investigate an I-CSC-based task offloading problem to reduce the cost caused by resource consumption while guaranteeing the latency of each task. …”
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Insect seedling herbivory is influenced by multiple factors, but the plant apparency theory is more supported than other hypotheses – A case study in a subtropical forest by Baozhu Yuan, Bo Wang

“…In total, 24 potential variables that represented abiotic resource availability, characters of individual seedlings, conspecific and heterospecific species, and the whole seedling community were selected to test several commonly discussed alternative herbivory hypotheses. …”
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Bronchial asthma in children of Ukraine: medical and environmental parallels of morbidity and prevalence by O. P. Volosovets, Y. K. Bolbot, S. P. Kryvopustov, O. V. Mozyrska, M. V. Kryvopustova, M. P. Prokhorova, A. V. Kupkina

“…Over the past 25 years in Ukraine there has been 69.3% increase in prevalence and 22.9% increase in incidence of bronchial asthma among children. Predominance of detecting this pathology was in the group of children from large industrial and agro-industrial regions of the country with significant volumes of atmospheric pollutants from stationary sources of pollution.…”
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A new hybrid distance and similarity based scenario reduction approach for stochastic economic operation of microgrid by Gaurav Gangil, Amit Saraswat, Sunil Kumar Goyal

“…This stochastic model is aimed at generating the optimum schedules for various dispatchable generating resources such as micro-turbines, fuel cells, utility grid, energy storage devices as per the availability of the various VRE resources to meet the uncertain demand for a day-to-day microgrid operation. …”
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Identification of the putative regulatory regions and candidate genes associated with backfat thickness and intramuscular fat content traits in Xiang pigs by Xia Chen, Yundi Zheng, Fengbin Hu, Xiaoli Liu, Wei Wang, Fenfang Qi, Xi Niu, Shihui Huang, Jiafu Wang, Xueqin Ran

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