Analysis of indoor radon concentration levels and trends in China by Bowei Ding, Yunyun Wu, Yanchao Song, Changsong Hou, Bing Shang

“…A total of 37,886 indoor radon concentration data points were collected in China, covering 31 provinces. The results showed that the weighted and arithmetic mean radon concentrations in China were 29.4 Bq/m3 and 33.2 Bq/m3 (n = 17,940) before 2000, 44.7 Bq/m3 and 43.3 Bq/m3 (n = 10,692) in 2000–2010, 57.6 Bq/m3 and 60.8 Bq/m3(n = 9,254) after 2010, respectively. …”
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Occurrence and Exposure Assessment of Zearalenone in the Zhejiang Province, China by Zijie Lu, Ronghua Zhang, Pinggu Wu, Dong Zhao, Jiang Chen, Xiaodong Pan, Jikai Wang, Hexiang Zhang, Xiaojuan Qi, Qin Weng, Shufeng Ye, Biao Zhou

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Methanotroph-methylotroph lipid adaptations to changing environmental conditions by Nora Richter, Laura Villanueva, Laura Villanueva, Ellen C. Hopmans, Nicole J. Bale, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté, Darci Rush

“…Notably, in the Methylobacter-Methylotenera enrichment the relative abundance of the BHPs aminobacteriohopanepentol and aminobacteriohopanepolyols with additional modifications to the side chain increased at higher temperatures and salinities, respectively, whereas there was no change in the distribution of respiratory quinones. …”
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Molecular Detection of Bartonella spp. in China and St. Kitts by Ke Huang, Patrick John Kelly, Jilei Zhang, Yi Yang, Weiguo Liu, Anwar Kalalah, Chengming Wang

“…., Coxiella burnetii, and Wolbachia) but reliably detected as few as two copies of the positive control (Bartonella henselae) per reaction. …”
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Dynamic changes of extracellular vesicles during zebrafish organogenesis by Linda-Marie Mulzer, Tim Felger, Luis E. Muñoz, Gesa Engl, Heiko Reutter, Mario Schiffer, Leila Pourtalebi Jahromi, Fanni Annamária Boros, Friederike Zunke, Philipp Arnold, Alina C. Hilger

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Effects of the land use change on ecosystem service value by J. Zhou, L. Sun, S.Y. Zang, K. Wang, J.Y. Zhao, Z.X. Li, X.M. Liu, X.R. Liu

“…The impacts of land utilization change on the ecosystem service values in Daqing during 1995 to 2015 were analyzed based on unit area ecosystem service value of Chinese territorial ecosystem from Mr. …”
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Introducing the Citizen’s Income (Bürgergeld): Making Bold Changes by Alexander Herzog-Stein

“…Abstract The new German federal government wants to replace the unemployment benefit II (Arbeitslosengeld II) with a so-called citizen’s income (“Bürgergeld”). …”
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Solving change of basis from Bernstein to Chebyshev polynomials by D.A. Wolfram

“…We provide two closed-form solutions to the change of basis from Bernstein polynomials to shifted Chebyshev polynomials of the fourth kind and show them to be equivalent by applying Zeilberger’s algorithm. …”
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Working thematically: changing the path to leadership for the third space by Fiona Denney, Emily McIntosh

“…The paper argues that the future workforce of HE depends on third space leadership and that the skills, attributes and opportunities, such as managing “supercomplexity” (Barnett, 2000) and “complex collaboration” (Veles et al, 2019) must be leveraged in order to support and encourage those who already work in this space.  It offers two proposals that would effect the changes necessary to realise this, including looking at different HE contracts and criteria necessary for senior leadership. …”
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Implementation and improvement of policies for building healthy cities in China by Quansheng Wang, Guoqing Han, Lansong Huang

“…Materials and methodsCollected here are policy texts from the Central People’s Government and local government of the People’s Republic of China on healthy cities from 2009 to 2023. This paper adopts the policy tool analysis method to design a two-dimensional analysis framework of the “policy tool-construction domain.” …”
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Changes in hairiness of woven fabrics at the production and finishing stages by Krupincová Gabriela, Militký Jiří

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Changing Management of Clinical Low-Stage Testicular Cancer by Timothy Gilligan

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Urban solutions to climate change: an overview of the latest progress by Kuok Ho Daniel Tang

“… Urban centers are bearing the brunt of climate change. Meanwhile, they are important sources of greenhouse gases. …”
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Ecological niche and phenotypic differences among two alpine Rhododendron species and their natural hybrids in a common landscape by Yanghui Zhao, Ying Zhang, Liang Xu, Yadan Yan, Chuncheng Wang, Yafeng Wen, Donglin Zhang

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In Vitro Effect of Acidic Solutions and Sodium Fluoride on Surface Roughness of Two Types of CAD-CAM Dental Ceramics by Elham Farhadi, Hamid Kermanshah, Shiva Rafizadeh, Reza Saeedi, Ladan Ranjbar Omrani

“…Changes in Rz were also significant following immersion in Vitablocs Mark II (P<0.05). …”
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Effect of Sulodexide on Urinary Biomarkers of Kidney Injury in Normoalbuminuric Type 2 Diabetes: A Randomized Controlled Trial by Bancha Satirapoj, Wisit Kaewput, Ouppatham Supasyndh, Prajej Ruangkanchanasetr

“…Urinary TGF-beta1 increased significantly in the placebo group but did not change significantly in the sulodexide group. Additionally, the mean change of urine TGF-beta1 in the placebo group was significantly higher than that in the sulodexide group (8.44±9.21 versus 2.17±6.96 pg/mg Cr, P=0.02). …”
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Barriers and Strategies to Lifestyle and Dietary Pattern Interventions for Prevention and Management of TYPE-2 Diabetes in Africa, Systematic Review by Hirut Bekele, Adisu Asefa, Bekalu Getachew, Abebe Muche Belete

“…Articles reviewed included several that examined the basic lifestyle and dietary pattern changes for all patients diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, on self-care behavior of type 2 diabetes patients, on the cost of diabetes in Africa, and on barriers for adherence to lifestyle and dietary changes in Africa, with strategies to address those barriers. …”
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Climate change heterogeneity: A new quantitative approach. by María Dolores Gadea Rivas, Jesús Gonzalo

“…Climate change is a spatial and temporarily non-uniform phenomenon that requires understanding its evolution to better evaluate its potential societal and economic impact. …”
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Thermodynamics of Biosorption for Removal of Co(II) Ions by an Efficient and Ecofriendly Biosorbent (Saccharum bengalense): Kinetics and Isotherm Modeling by Muhammad Imran Din, Muhammad Latif Mirza, Sadia Ata, Makshoof Athar, Ijaz Ul Mohsin

“…Activation parameters evaluated from thermodynamics and kinetic parameters such as free energy change ,  kJ/mol), enthalpy change ,  kJ/mol), and entropy change ,  kJ/mol) revealed the spontaneous, endothermic, and feasible nature of adsorption process. …”
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Two-year follow-up of posterior corneal elevation after small incision lenticule extraction for moderate myopia by Shaimaa M. Azzam, Reham R. Shabana, Hazem A. Elbedewy

“…Purpose To assess the changes in the posterior corneal elevation two years after small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) in patients with moderate myopia. …”
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