Comparative Study on Growth Characteristics and Early Selection Efficiency of Hybrid Offspring of <i>Populus deltoides</i> ‘DD-109’ and <i>P. maximowiczii</i> in Liaoning, China... by Wei Liu, Chenggong Liu, Yan Zhang, Jinhua Li, Jiabao Ji, Xiaorui Qin, Fenfen Liu, Chengcheng Gao, Nairui Wang, Xueli Zhang, Ning Liu, Rusheng Peng, Qinjun Huang

“…The results indicated that the D × M population had superior diameter at breast height (DBH), tree height (H), and volume (V) compared to the M × D population, while the height-to-diameter ratio (HDR) was lower. The growth rate of the 17 clones peaked from 10 to 14 years, with annual volume growth increments (PAIs) higher than mean annual volume increments (MAIs) during the early growth stages; the quantitative maturity age ranged between 12 and 16 years. …”
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Natural and Migration Balance of the Population in Sibiu County Between 1992 and 2021 by Raularian RUSU, Ciprian MOLDOVAN, Titus MAN, Elena-Manuela BÎRSĂNUC, Cosmina-Daniela URSU

“…Similar situations, although at a lower scale, were recorded in other communes around the city of Sibiu, such as Șura Mare, Șura Mică and Cristian, as well as in communes in Hârtibaciu Plateau (Roșia, Nocrich, Vurpăr, Merghindeal, Chirpăr, Iacobeni), characterised by high birth rates. …”
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Asymptomatic Post-Traumatic Rupture of the Right Diaphragm Dome by E. A. Losik, M. V. Fadeeva, V. V. Shchegelsky, R. T. Rzaev, A. V. Stepanov, K. B. Puzakov, M. R. Skhirtladze

“…Computed tomography revealed a high standing of the right dome of the diaphragm as well as the compression of the middle and lower lobe of the right lung with the presence of compression atelectasis. …”
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Subsurface investigation for pre-foundation study utilizing integrated geophysical and geotechnical methods, UNILORIN campus by Gabriel Efomeh Omolaiye, Abdulhameed Kayode Oniyangi, Taofeeq Ayinde ISSA, Sodiq Bamidele Adam

“…The use of a shallow foundation type, such as a raft foundation in areas of lower competence and strip footing in competent areas with large bearing capacities.…”
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A critical review of data mining in education on the levels and aspects of education by Inusah Fuseini, Yaw Marfo Missah

“…Practical implications – As the current trend of EDM shows an increase in zeal, future research in EDM should concentrate on the lower levels of education to identify the challenges of basic education which serves as the core of education. …”
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Exploring the role of circulating proteins in multiple myeloma risk: a Mendelian randomization study by Matthew A. Lee, Kate L. Burley, Emma L. Hazelwood, Sally Moore, Sarah J. Lewis, Lucy J. Goudswaard

“…Seven proteins had 95% confidence intervals (CIs) that did not overlap the null in both forward MR analyses and did not have evidence for an effect in the reverse direction: higher levels of dermatopontin (DPT), beta-crystallin B1 (CRYBB1), interleukin-18-binding protein (IL18BP) and vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (KDR) and lower levels of odorant-binding protein 2b (OBP2B), glutamate-cysteine ligase regulatory subunit (GCLM) and gamma-crystallin D (CRYGD) were implicated in increasing MM risk. …”
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Surgical Treatment Patterns, Healthcare Resource Utilization, and Economic Burden in Patients with Tenosynovial Giant Cell Tumor Who Underwent Joint Surgery in the United States by Feng Lin, Winghan J. Kwong, Sherry Shi, Irina Pivneva, Eric Q. Wu, John A. Abraham

“…Healthcare resource utilization and associated healthcare costs surged in year 1 and returned to baseline or lower in years 2 and 3. A similar pattern was observed for indirect costs associated with work loss. …”
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Cocoa farmers' characteristics on climate variability and its effects on climate change adaptation strategy by I. Idawati, N.A. Sasongko, A.D. Santoso, M. Septiani, T. Handayani, A.Y.N. Sakti, B.D. Purnamasari

“…These factors also influenced their ability to cope, adapt, and seek new approaches to manage and mitigate the effects of climate change on their farming operations.CONCLUSION: The relationship between farmers’ characteristics and adaptive capacity showed that the larger the land owned by farmers, the higher the managerial adaptability of farmers with lower technical ability.…”
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Mast Cell Degranulation Decreases Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Aortic Gene Expression and Systemic Levels of Interleukin-6 In Vivo by Jason M. Springer, Vineesh V. Raveendran, Mingcai Zhang, Ryan Funk, Donald D. Smith, Mehrdad Maz, Kottarappat N. Dileepan

“…The results revealed that induction of mast cell degranulation significantly lowers serum IL-6 levels and aortic expression of IL-6 in LPS-treated mice. …”
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Aqueous photocatalytic oxidation of lignin and humic acids with supported <mml:math> <mml:mrow> <mml:msub> <mml:mrow> <mml:mtext>TiO</mml:mtext> </mml:mrow> <...

“…In acidic media, efficiency was even lower. The photocatalytic efficiency with the photocatalyst attached to glass plates was about 3 to 4 times higher than that for the buoyant catalyst. …”
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Risk factors and characteristics of preoperative heart failure in elderly patients with hip fracture and the influence of anemia on prognosis by Aoying Min, Wei Zhao, Wei Li, Weining Li, Zhiyong Hou, Zhiqian Wang

“…The moderate-to-severe anemia group had a higher incidence of postoperative complications, including deep vein thrombosis of the lower limbs, NOAF, and hypoproteinemia, as well as all-cause mortality. …”
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Predictive Value of Initial 18F-FDG PET/CT for Identifying EGFR and KRAS Mutations in Patients with Non-small-cell Lung Cancer by Ozge Vural Topuz, Nur Buyukpinarbasili

“…The EGFR-mt group had lower metabolic tumor volume (MTV) (p=0.015) and total lesion glycolysis (TLG) (p=0.017) values. …”
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Green sanctuaries: residential green and garden space and the natural environment mitigate mental disorders risk of diabetic patients by Erxu Xue, Jianhui Zhao, Jingyu Ye, Jingjie Wu, Dandan Chen, Jing Shao, Xue Li, Zhihong Ye

“…Participants with natural environment at 300 m buffer in the second and third tertiles had 7% (HR = 0.93, 95%CI: 0.86–0.99) and 12% (HR = 0.88, 95%CI: 0.82–0.94) lower risks of incident mental disorders compared with those in the first tertile, respectively. …”
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Prediction and Impact of Supersaturated Total Dissolved Gas in Flood Discharge of Flood Control Reservoirs in Southwest Mountain Areas: A Case Study in Jiangjiakou Reservoir by ZHANG Zhihao, ZHANG Peng, LIANG Ruifeng, WANG Qingfeng, WANG Yuanming, LI Kefeng

“…With the transportation and dissipation of TDG under the dam, the TDG concentration of each river section under each condition is lower than 115%, except the river reach between Jiangjiakou dam site and river section downstream of the dam with a distance of 2.7 km (the surface spillway to discharge the flood once in five years) and the river reach between dam site and Tongjiang river confluence (the bottom outlet discharge cavity to discharge the flood once every five years); ② In all four flood discharge scenarios, supersaturated TDG will not have adverse effects on the silver carp; and ③ the hydrodynamics shows that the water depths of the river reaches downstream of dam meet the compensation water depth for Rock carp under all scenarios, and this species will not be affected by supersaturated TDG after using the compensation water depth. …”
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Delayed Postoperative Ambulation Results in a Significant Increase in 90-Day Mortality in Surgically Treated Hip Fractures by Robert S. Wood DO, Maddie Vergun BS, Elizabeth Herrera MPH, Jacqueline Krumrey MD

“…The findings reveal that patients who ambulated during hospital admission had significantly lower mortality rates. These results suggest that early mobilization could serve as a strong protective factor against early postoperative mortality.…”
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PRECISION AND STABILITY OF THE PREDICTION FORMULA FOR BURST STRENGTH OF PRESSURE-BEARING CYLINDER by LIU Cen, YANG Fan, WU SengLin, HONG Kai, ZHANG Shu, LIU XiaoNing

“…When the applied range of the Rheological stress formula for measured burst pressure was not less than 220 MPa,and the applied range of the Faupel formula for measured burst pressure was not less than 250 MPa,the precision of the two formulas is not significantly different,and the stability of Rheological stress formula is obviously better than Faupel formula.For Mid-diameter or Tresca formula with measured burst pressure not exceeding 329. 6 MPa,and for Rheological stress formula with measured burst pressure not less than 220 MPa,the stability of Mid-diameter or Tresca formula is obviously better than the Rheological stress formula,and the precision is higher than the Rheological stress formula.（ 3） For flat steel ribbon wound pressure vessel with measured burst pressure was not exceed 209. 7 MPa,the precision and stability of Mid-diameter formula is lower than that of four predictor formulas of burst pressure for pressure-bearing single-layer cylinder.…”
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Effects of macitentan and selexipag across prognostic age groups in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension by Richard Channick, MD, Sarah Medrek, MD, Marion Delcroix, MD, Sean Gaine, MD, Pavel Jansa, MD, PhD, Irene Lang, MD, Vallerie McLaughlin, MD, Sanjay Mehta, MD, Tomas Pulido, MD, Bhagavatula Sastry, MD, Rogerio Souza, MD, PhD, Adam Torbicki, MD, Carol Zhao, MS, Paul Strachan, MD, Peter Agron, PhD, Joseph Yen, PhD, Olivier Sitbon, MD, PhD

“…M/M risk trended higher in patients ≥ 65 versus 35–64 years (SERAPHIN: HR 1.55, 95% CI 0.89–2.69, p = 0.12; GRIPHON (HR 1.08, 95% CI 0.75–1.55, p = 0.69). M/M risk was lower with macitentan/selexipag versus placebo: macitentan < 35 (HR 0.44, 95% CI 0.25–0.78; p = 0.005), 35–64 (HR 0.50, 95% CI 0.33–0.76; p < 0.001), ≥ 65 years (HR 0.69, 95% CI 0.30–1.58; p = 0.38); selexipag < 35 (HR 0.50, 95% CI 0.32–0.78; p = 0.002), 35–64 (HR 0.72, 95% CI 0.54–0.96; p = 0.03), ≥ 65 years (HR 0.55, 95% CI 0.33–0.91; p = 0.02). …”
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Postdiagnostic use of antihypertensive medications and survival in colorectal, lung, corpus uteri, melanoma and kidney cancer patients with hypertension by Rūta Everatt, Irena Kuzmickienė, Birutė Brasiūnienė, Ieva Vincerževskienė, Birutė Intaitė, Saulius Cicėnas, Ingrida Lisauskienė

“…The results suggest a lower mortality among colorectal cancer patients with a higher usage of diuretics. …”
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Dose-response associations of device-measured sleep regularity and duration with incident dementia in 82391 UK adults by Wenxin Bian, Raaj K. Biswas, Matthew N. Ahmadi, Yu Sun Bin, Svetlana Postnova, Andrew J. K. Phillips, Nicholas A. Koemel, Jean-Philippe Chaput, Shantha M. W. Rajaratnam, Peter A. Cistulli, Emmanuel Stamatakis

“…When we dichotomized sleep regularity, those in the higher sleep regularity group (SRI ≥ 70) had an HR of 0.74 (95%CI 0.63, 0.87) compared to those with lower sleep regularity (SRI < 70). The beneficial associations between sleep regularity and incident dementia were present only among participants with short (< 7 h) and long (≥ 8 h) sleep duration. …”
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HIV self-testing positivity rate and linkage to confirmatory testing and care: a telephone survey in Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, and Senegal by Kra, Arsène Kouassi, Fotso, Arlette Simo, Rouveau, Nicolas, Maheu-Giroux, Mathieu, Boily, Marie-Claude, Silhol, Romain, d’Elbée, Marc, Vautier, Anthony, Larmarange, Joseph

“…Positivity rates were significantly lower only among respondents with higher education. …”
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