A review of best international life cycle assessment (LCA) practices in wood construction: Challenges for Ireland by Song Ge, Conan O'Ceallaigh, Patrick J. McGetrick

“…Due to varying availability of Irish-customised data, disparities exist between the lifecycle inventory data used in current Irish timber product EPDs and other Irish-focused statistics. …”
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Automating the quantification of coastal change using historical aerial photography: A case study along the coastline of county Cork, Ireland by Emma Chalençon, Fiona Cawkwell, Michael O’Shea, Jimmy Murphy

“…The approach relies on the Normalised Green–Blue Difference Index (NGBDI), which is versatile enough to discriminate disparate coastal vegetation environments, at different resolutions and in various lighting and seasonal conditions. …”
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Relieving popularity bias in recommendation via debiasing representation enhancement by Junsan Zhang, Sini Wu, Te Wang, Fengmei Ding, Jie Zhu

“…However, it lacks consideration of the significant disparity in popularity between items and may even introduce false negatives during the data augmentation, misleading user preference prediction. …”
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Toward sustainable industrialization in Africa: the potential of additive manufacturing – an overview by Desmond Klenam, Desmond Klenam, Tabiri Asumadu, Tabiri Asumadu, Michael Bodunrin, Japheth Obiko, Rodney Genga, Rodney Genga, Sechaba Maape, Fred McBagonluri, Wole Soboyejo

“…However, the realization of these benefits necessitates navigating infrastructural limitations, technological disparities, and regulatory complexities. By critically examining sustainable AM strategies and their relevance to African contexts, this review aims to delineate actionable pathways for leveraging the transformative potential of AM. …”
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Pain Reconceptualisation after Pain Neurophysiology Education in Adults with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Qualitative Study by Richard King, Victoria Robinson, Helene L. Elliott-Button, James A. Watson, Cormac G. Ryan, Denis J. Martin

“…Findings map closely to our previous studies in more disparate chronic pain groups. The phenomenon of reconceptualisation is applicable to CLBP and the sufficiency of the themes from our previous studies increases confidence in the certainty of the findings.…”
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Rural vs. Urban: How Urbanicity Shapes Electric Vehicle Charging Behavior in Rhode Island by Tim Jonas, Oluwatosin Okele, Gretchen A. Macht

“…Motivated by the significant disparities in infrastructure availability between urban and rural areas, the research explores behavioral differences to inform infrastructure planning. …”
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Crescentic Glomerulonephritis and Membranous Nephropathy: A Rare Overlap by Mohamedanwar Ghandour, Heba Osman, Samer Alkassis, Alix Charles, Kristina Zalewski, Jarrett Weinberger, Yahya Malik-Osman, Zeenat Y. Bhat

“…Our patient is a 53-year-old Hispanic male with a medical history of tobacco use, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and hypertension who presented with hematuria and was found to have nephrotic range proteinuria and renal impairment. …”
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Where you live, what you do: depression differences among diverse Chinese nongmin through cognitive openness by Li He, Jiangyin Wang, Yang Yang, Zhilu Tian, Liu Jiang

“…Notably, these differences in depression levels may be influenced by the mechanism of cognitive openness.ConclusionThe study concludes that there are significant disparities in depression levels among WAH subgroups. …”
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Social Inequalities in Adolescents’ Psychological and Somatic Complaints: Cross-National Trends Between 2002 and 2022 and the Role of Societal Changes by Mathilde E. Brons, Paola Berchialla, Marco Helbich, Maxim Dierckens, Michela Lenzi, Joanna C. Inchley, Gonneke W. J. M. Stevens

“…In countries where income inequality increased over time, social inequalities in psychological complaints became smaller.ConclusionOur study highlights ongoing global disparities in adolescents’ mental health problems, urging for more effective health policies.…”
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Designing a Cocreated Intervention with African American Older Adults for Hypertension Self-Management by Kathy D. Wright, Carolyn H. Still, Lenette M. Jones, Karen O. Moss

“…Additionally, there are disparities in hypertension self-management that disproportionately affect African Americans. …”
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Multi-scale comparison of the formation mechanisms in landscape genes of traditional villages by Chao Yu, Zhiyuan Zhou, Junbo Gao, Xiangmin Zhang, Qian Zheng, Zhengbing Liu, Zhifei Ma, Weichun He, Suping Wen

“…The research paradigm centered on landscape genes offers a valuable approach to identifying the factors contributing to spatial disparities in traditional villages and advancing our understanding of the processes and mechanisms governing landscape gene inheritance, expression, and variation.…”
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Recurrent Nasal-Type Extranodal Natural Killer/T-Cell Lymphoma with Meningeal Involvement by Sylvester Homsy, Ralph Kamel, Mark Raden, Yevgeniy Skaradinskiy

“…We present a 44-year-old Hispanic patient who was diagnosed with an early-stage NNKTL and treated with the modified SMILE regimen for 6 cycles. …”
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Elementary School Students' Sports Participation Rates by Muhammad Hisyam, Agus Kristiyanto, Deddy Whinata Kardiyanto

“…The findings highlight the need for targeted interventions to address disparities in sports participation, particularly between rural and urban areas. …”
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The correlation between plasma malondialdehyde levels and pain in adolescent females diagnosed with primary dysmenorrhea by Ocktariyana Ocktariyana, Dian Lestari, Abdul Kadir, Listrianah Listrianah, Handayani Handayani

“…The independent t-test was employed to ascertain the disparity in plasma MDA levels between the two groups, while the Pearson correlation test was utilized to analyze the relationship between pain severity and oxidative stress levels. …”
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Bone Marrow-Derived Multipotent Stromal Cells Attenuate Inflammation in Obliterative Airway Disease in Mouse Tracheal Allografts by Alicia Casey, Fabian Dirks, Olin D. Liang, Hakima Harrach, Katharina Schuette-Nuetgen, Kristen Leeman, Carla F. Kim, Craig Gerard, Meera Subramaniam

“…Tracheas from BALB/c mice were implanted into the subcutaneous tissue of major histocompatibility complex- (MHC-) disparate C57BL/6 mice. At the time of transplant, bone marrow-derived MSCs were administered either systemically or locally or via a combination of the two routes. …”
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Chylous Ascites and Pleural Transudate: Rare Presentations in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Old Age by Guan-Liang Chen, Deng-Ho Yang, Wen-Hsiu Hsu

“…Shifting dullness and central tympanic sounds were found on percussion. Rales were heard in bilateral breathing sounds, multiple oral ulcers appeared in the oral cavity, and chest images showed bilateral pleural effusion. …”
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Utilization of preventative health checkup services in China among middle-aged and older adult population: evidence from China’s 28 provinces by Jingyu Shen, Jingyu Shen, Weiji Fang, Weiji Fang, Yating Zhu, Yating Zhu, Chunli Ye, Chunli Ye, Yanhua Zhu, Yanhua Zhu, Yanling Tao, Yanling Tao

“…Older adults, urban residents, and individuals with higher income or chronic conditions were more likely to utilize health checkup services.ConclusionThere are significant urban–rural disparities in the utilization of health checkup services among middle-aged and older adult people in China. …”
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Medium-scale flexible integrated circuits based on 2D semiconductors by Yalin Peng, Chenyang Cui, Lu Li, Yuchen Wang, Qinqin Wang, Jinpeng Tian, Zhiheng Huang, Biying Huang, Yangkun Zhang, Xiuzhen Li, Jian Tang, Yanbang Chu, Wei Yang, Dongxia Shi, Luojun Du, Na Li, Guangyu Zhang

“…Despite notable progress, so far the showcased 2D flexible ICs have been constrained to basic logic gates and ring oscillators with a maximum integration scale of a few thin film transistors (TFTs), creating a significant disparity in terms of circuit scale and functionality. …”
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Retrospective study of calf mortality on central cattle breeding and dairy farm (ccbdf) in bangladesh by Md. Mukter Hossain, Abu Hena Mustafa Kamal, AKM Anisur Rahman

“…The other causes of death in calves occurred in the following frequencies: Malnutrition (5.28%), debility (4.72%), hairball (3.12%), babesiosis (2.56%), internal haemorrhage (2.56%), tympanitis (2.24%), black quarter (2.24%) and foot and mouth disease (1.76%). …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Biochemical Indicators for air pollution in three Species Tree Planted Within the Greenbelt Project in Karbala province, Iraq by Jaafar H. Al-Hamd, Sada N. Jasim

“…The findings indicated a substantial disparity between the locations and the seasons. The Air Pollution Tolerance Index for the eucalyptus plant had the highest APTI value, followed by the olive and palm species. …”
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