Exploring urban–rural inequities in older adults life expectancy: a case study in Zhejiang, China for health equity by Yongguo Chen, Yongguo Chen, Xiaoting Fan, Shusheng Shen, Shusheng Shen, Yong Chen, Yong Chen, Zhiwei Pan, Zixuan Chen, Haoqiang Zhong, Menglong Li

“…The objective is to analyze the trends and factors contributing to the urban–rural gap in life expectancy and to propose strategies for reducing this disparity. Data from the 2010 and 2020 statistical records and census data were analyzed using cohort life tables and gray correlation analysis. …”
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Prevalence of Non-Communicable Diseases Among Elderly in India: A Scoping Review by Patlolla Sriram Yadav, Ajitha Katta, Gooty Shirisha, Mousami Kirtania

“…Significant gender disparities existed in hypertension, depression, diabetes, and visual impairments. …”
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Pauci-Immune Necrotizing and Crescentic Glomerulonephritis with Membranous Lupus Nephritis, Fifteen Years after Initial Diagnosis of Secondary Membranous Nephropathy by Ryan Burkhart, Nina Shah, Michael Abel, James D. Oliver, Matthew Lewin

“…We report a case of a 79-year-old Hispanic male with a history of secondary membranous nephropathy (diagnosed by renal biopsy 15 years previously) who was admitted with acute kidney injury and active urinary sediment. …”
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Drought Propagation Patterns under Naturalized Condition Using Daily Hydrometeorological Data by Jianzhu Li, Yuangang Guo, Yixuan Wang, Shanlong Lu, Xu Chen

“…Due to its regional disparity, it is necessary and significant to investigate the pattern of drought propagation in a specific region. …”
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Spatiotemporal analysis of the impact of green finance on carbon dioxide emissions based on panel data of cities in China by Qiuyi Xu, Li Yao, Kaifang Shi, Wei Zhou, Xuguang Tang

“…The findings revealed significant regional disparities in the influence of green finance development on carbon intensity. …”
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Identifying and Compiling Stressful Environmental Factors and Comparing Them in the Regions of Kohmareh and Tasht Bakhtegan by Zainab Javid NematAbadi, Siamak Samani, Nadereh Sohrabi

“…Results: The findings indicate that the p-value for the stress-inducing environmental variables in the regions of Kohmareh and Tasht Bakhtegan exceeds 5%, thereby suggesting the absence of a statistically significant disparity between the stress-inducing environmental variables in these two regions; however, based on the outcomes derived from the one sample T test, the significance of 18 stress-inducing environmental variables was substantiated. …”
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Deep Learning Approach in Seismology: Enhancing Earthquake Forecasting using K-Means Clustering and LSTM Networks by Tyanita Puti Marindah Wardhani, Zulkifli Tahir, Elly Warni, Anugrayani Bustamin, Muhammad Alief Fahdal Imran Oemar, Muhammad Alwi Kayyum

“…This study utilises historical seismic and proposes innovative data pre-processing methods using K-means clustering to build a Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) model for earthquake forecasting to overcome high-disparity locations. Four LSTM layers are embedded with adjusted fine-tuned network hyperparameters to enhance forecasting accuracy. …”
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Population-level shape variation and otolith asymmetry in Diplodus annularis by Spani Federica, Kroha Silvio, Scacco Umberto, Di Giulio Andrea, Scalici Massimiliano

“…The results show marked disparities in FA between the populations: samples from Porto Torres exhibited posterior asymmetry, while samples from Le Tegnue showed asymmetry in the anterior region of the otoliths. …”
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Compassion and the perceived rarity of plants can increase plant appreciation by Pavol Prokop, Kristína Belzárová, Ivana Tomanová Čergeťová

“…Previous efforts to address Plant Awareness Disparity (PAD) mainly focused on cognitive aspects, neglecting the role of the affective domain. …”
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CONTROL OF CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF CASTING BRASS IN INGOTS USED FOR MANUFACTURE OF STOP VALVES by A. A. Pivovarchyk, Е. V. Pivovarchyk

“…It was established that the pig delivered by the domestic producers corresponds to parameters of chemical composition for the pig’s foundry brand LS, while in the pig supplied by foreign producers there were found disparities of the chemical composition of certain basic elements. …”
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Improving Cytomegalovirus-Specific T Cell Reconstitution after Haploidentical Stem Cell Transplantation by Xiao-Hua Luo, Ying-Jun Chang, Xiao-Jun Huang

“…The effects of varying degrees of HLA disparity and conditioning regimens are more controversial. …”
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Intelligent Transportation System Protocol Interoperability Evaluation by Jonas Vogt, Hans D. Schotten, Horst Wieker

“…The protocols employed in the formally separated ecosystems demonstrate disparate behaviors and data representations. In order to facilitate connectivity between these ecosystems, we propose the introduction of the Intelligent Transportation System Protocol Interoperability Evaluation (ITS-PIE). …”
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Three-dimensional transport poverty and its socio-demographic and urban density predictors: Spatial regression analyses of neighborhoods in the Amsterdam metropolitan area by Thijs Bon, Matthew Bruno, Niels van Oort

“…Additionally, the method revealed a high cumulative spatial effect of income in connection with transport affordability, indicating spatially extensive income-related transport affordability disparities. Our research offers new insights into factors related to neighborhood-level transport poverty. …”
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Effect of Collagen Cross-linking on Rigid Gas Permeable Contact Lens Comfort in Keratoconus by Sharafat Javaheri, Mahmood Nejabat, Asieh Ehsaei, sahar mohaghegh, Zahra Tajbakhsh

“…Conclusion: Based on the current study, there is no significant disparity in self-reported discomfort with RGP contact lenses between patients with keratoconus who have undergone corneal CXL and those who have not. …”
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A parallel stereovision method used for monitoring the collapse of a three-story frame model subjected to seismic loading by Baohua Shan, Wenting Yuan, Hai Wang, Zhanxuan Zuo

“…In this article, the digital image correlation method is employed to match sequential images of left and right cameras, and the efficient large-scale stereo algorithm is used to obtain the disparity between the left and right images at each moment. …”
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Subjective Visual Vertical in PD Patients with Lateral Trunk Flexion by F. Gandor, D. Basta, D. Gruber, W. Poewe, G. Ebersbach

“…In a subgroup of PD patients with LTF, pathological SVV suggests vestibular dysbalance, which might be involved in the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying LTF.…”
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Judith Rebecca von Wrbna and Maria Sophia von Dietrichstein: Two Imperial Ambassadresses from the Kingdom of Bohemia at the Court of Madrid (1653–1674) by Laura Oliván Santaliestra

“…The Countess of Lamberg and the Countess of Pötting were ambassadresses during a special period: during their ‘embassies’, the “Question of the Succession” marked the Hispanic monarchy relations with the Holy Roman Empire; and a Habsburg Queen, Mariana of Austria, was consort (and after regent) of Spain. …”
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La dialéctica entre la imagen criolla-española del arquitecto y la fuerza de trabajo de naturales y mestizos en la Nueva España durante las reformas borbónicas by Luis Javier Cuesta Hernandez

“… La Hispanic Society of America guarda entre sus fondos un magnífico plano de la Ciudad de México (Plan of Mexico City, made in 1776 by D. …”
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Reducing Nitrogen Waste: Factors Influencing Neem‐Coated Urea Adoption in Bhutan by Toritseju Begho, Tashi Dorji, Sonam Dendup

“…Older farmers exhibit higher adoption rates, potentially due to accumulated knowledge, while male farmers surpass their female counterparts in adoption rates, reflecting existing gender disparities in NCU adoption. These findings offer insights for policymakers, extension services, and agricultural stakeholders to tailor interventions for promoting NCU adoption, thereby mitigating nitrogen waste and pollution in crop production.…”
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Depression in Parkinson’s Disease: The Contribution from Animal Studies by Jéssica Lopes Fontoura, Camila Baptista, Flávia de Brito Pedroso, José Augusto Pochapski, Edmar Miyoshi, Marcelo Machado Ferro

“…Depression frequency seems higher in PD patients than in general population, despite high variation in data due to diagnosis disparities. Development of depression in PD seems more likely to be caused by the nigrostriatal pathway degeneration than as a consequence of the awareness of disease prognostic, and it seems to be related to dopaminergic, noradrenergic, and serotoninergic synapses deficits. …”
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