The homogenization of China's city flowers and city trees by Zhuo Cheng, Ziyi Wu, Weizhe Chen, Wenxuan Li, Chen Lin, Qing Zhang, Chunlin Long

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The Origin, Applications, and Breeding Goals of Jujube in China by Menghan Wu, Yaoxi Liu, Tingjian Jiang, Yiteng Liu, Zhuo Chen, Xiaofei Wang, Huafeng Yue, Fangdong Li, Gaopu Zhu, Mengmeng Zhang

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Robotic-assisted surgery and kinematic alignment in total knee arthroplasty (RASKAL study): a protocol of a national registry-nested, multicentre, 2×2 factorial randomised trial as... by Ian A Harris, Samuel J MacDessi, Aziz Bhimani, Darren B Chen, Ian Harris, Michelle Lorimer, David Parker, Tamara Hooper, Richard Boyle, Jonathan Mulford, Daniel Franks, Gregory C Wernecke, Durga Bastiras, Emma Heath, Anthony Leong, Brett Fristch, David Penn, George Kirsh, John Limbers, Julian Yu, Maurice Guzman, Peter McEwen

“…The primary outcome will be the between-group differences in postoperative change over 2 years in the mean Knee injury and Osteoarthritis Outcome Score (KOOS-12), comparing first, RAS to CAS as its control, and second, KA to MA as its control. …”
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Comparing the Efficacy and Safety of Glucagon-Like Peptide 1 Receptor Agonists with Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter 2 Inhibitors for Obese Type 2 Diabetes Patients Uncontrolled on Met... by Lu Ding, Bang Sun, Xinhua Xiao

“…To conduct the first meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials (RCTs) comparing glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) with sodium-glucose cotransporter 2 inhibitors (SGLT-2is) for obese type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients uncontrolled on metformin. …”
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Perception and adaptation to climate change in vulnerable regions by A. Jiménez Bedoya, F. Fuentes Gandara, R. Paternina Uribe, J. Pinedo Hernández

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Effects of orally exposed SiO2 nanoparticles on lipid profiles in gut-liver axis of mice by Kuanhang Li, Zhengzheng Zhou, Yi Cao

“…After 5 days exposure (once a day), we observed that SiO2 NPs induced minimal pathological changes but increased most of the trace elements. …”
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Development of real-time RT-PCR for N2 subtype avian influenza RNA-virus detection by P. B. Akshalova, A. V. Andriyasov, L. O. Scherbakova, S. N. Kolosov, N. G. Zinyakov, I. A. Chvala, D. B. Andreychuk

“…Currently, N2 subtype avian influenza (AI) virus actively circulates in domestic and wild bird populations and is regularly detected in China, other Asian countries and Russia, particularly in combination with H9 hemagglutinin. …”
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Emotional perception of COVID-19 in Mexico: Comparative study between phase 1, phase 2 and the media by Isaias Vicente Lugo-González, Yuma Yoaly Pérez-Bautista, Ana Leticia Becerra-Gálvez, Margarita Fernández-Vega, Leonardo Reynoso-Erazo

“…The aim of the present work was to compare the perception of COVID-19 between phase 1 and 2 of the pandemic and between the information media used to inform themselves in the Mexican population. …”
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Nonacademic predictors of China medical licensing examination by Jie Sun, Yingying Xie, Ningnannan Zhang, Jingliang Cheng, Meiyun Wang, Bing Zhang, Wenzhen Zhu, Hui Zhang, Shijun Qiu, Xiaojun Xu, Yongqiang Yu, Tong Han, Zuojun Geng, Weihua Liao, Bo Gao, Wen Qin, Feng Liu, Meng Liang, Qiang Xu, Jilian Fu, Jiayuan Xu, Mengge Liu, Peng Zhang, Wei Li, Dapeng Shi, Caihong Wang, Xi-Nian Zuo, Quan Zhang, Feng Chen, Jiance Li, Zhihan Yan, Wen Shen, Yanwei Miao, Junfang Xian, Longjiang Zhang, Kai Xu, Zhaoxiang Ye, Jing Zhang, Guangbin Cui, Chunshui Yu, for the CHIMGEN Consortium

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Local level institutional complementarities in contemporary China by Alexandre De Podestá Gomes

“…This paper has the objective of bringing to light and comparing two different types of institutional arrangements existing in two different prefecture-level cities in China: Nanjing and Suzhou. …”
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CZECHIA: CHANGES IN LANDSCAPE USE IN THE TRANSFORMATION PERIOD by IVAN BIČÍK

“…Time horizons give us chance to compare trends of land use changes among them – 1845, 1896, 1948, 1990, 2000 and 2010. …”
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Changing of the school-leaving exam in information technology by Valentina Dagienė

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The changing landscape of treatment for acquired hemophilia A by Massimo Franchini, Daniele Focosi

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Current Situation of Transfusion-Transmitted Malaria in China by Hong Lin

“…New action plans designed to meet the challenges of TTM are necessary to ensure the elimination of malaria in China. Paying more attention to the frequency of TTM could help to enhance blood safety in China.…”
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Tourism and Cultural Landscapes in Southern China’s Highlands by Zhe Wang, Nelson Graburn

“…This paper aims to fill the gap through case studies of two subtropical rice terraced field cultural landscapes in China’s highlands. …”
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The U.S.-China Rivalry in Africa: Challenges and Prospects by V. K. Parkhomenko

“…In recent years the African continent, possessing a significant resource, economic and demographic potential, has become a scene of the growing rivalry between China and the United States. On the basis of a wide range of primary sources and recent researches, the author provides an in-depth analysis of both the current state and prospects for interaction between the two powers in Africa. …”
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A rare deleterious missense mutation in the AXIN2 gene in Chinese women with polycystic ovary syndrome by Ying Zhang, Yu Chen, Fa-Ying Liu, Jing-Wen Fu, Xian-Xian Liu, Jun Tan, Ou-Ping Huang, Yang Zou

“…Especially, the mutant amino acid site is highly conserved in vertebrates, while the mutation changed the 714th arginine to tryptophan resulting in significant change in the protein structural of Axin-2.Conclusion In this study, we identified a rare deleterious missense AXIN2 mutation [p.R714W (c.2140C > T)] in Chinese women with PCOS, and this mutant is probably pathogenic. …”
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Examining the effects of two cognitive styles (field dependence vs. field independence) on learners’ mobile-assisted vocabulary acquisition by Mehdipour-Kolour Danial, Ali Mohamad Bilal

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Interdisciplinary participation in climate-adapted urban land-use planning – findings of two gaming simulations in the city of Bottrop, Germany by Marisa Fuchs, Madeleine Loren Kirstein

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Distinguishable Immunologic Characteristics of COVID-19 Patients with Comorbid Type 2 Diabetes Compared with Nondiabetic Individuals by Ruxing Zhao, Yujing Sun, Yongyuan Zhang, Weili Wang, Shouyu Wang, Chuang Wang, Jinbo Liu, Ling Gao, Zhao Hu, Jianchun Fei, Xinguo Hou, Huizhen Zheng, Li Chen

“…The immune system poses the critical interactive chain between the human body and the virus. Here, we make efforts to examine whether comorbidity with type 2 diabetes (T2D) affects the immunological response in COVID-19 patients. …”
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