Hydrological niche separation between two coexisting shrubs in an extremely arid region by Mingyan Fan, Hai Zhou, Lihui Tian, Heng Ren, Bing Liu, Xibin Ji, Xiangyan Feng, Qiyue Yang, Huli Gu

“…Additionally, the C. mongolicum exhibited a significant dependence on deep soil water (about 26 %) and groundwater (over 30 %); while N. sphaerocarpa has a significant response to precipitation, its proportion of shallow soil water is more than 40 % after heavy precipitation events, in seasons with less precipitation, it relied on groundwater for survival. …”
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Microscopic Traffic Simulation Calibration Level for Reliable Estimation of Vehicle Emissions by Jinsoo Kim, Jae Hun Kim, Gunwoo Lee, Hyun-ju Shin, Jahng Hyon Park

“…The effect of vehicle type (i.e., light vs. heavy vehicles) composition on the estimated emissions is also evaluated for a well-calibrated simulation. …”
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Hepatoprotective effect anti-inflammatory and antioxidant Ganoderma lucidum ethanol extract on rats exposed to Plumbum acetate by Hernayanti, Laksana Agung, Saryono, Jehloh Latifah

“…Plumbum (Pb) is a toxic heavy metal that pollutes the environment and endangers human health. …”
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Rituximab for Autoimmune Encephalitis with Epilepsy by Mohankumar Kurukumbi, Rahul H. Dave, Jose Castillo, Tulsi Shah, Joanne Lau

“…Rituximab is effective for antibody-associated disorders such as lupus, myasthenia gravis, and neuromyelitis optica. Here, we present three patients who were admitted with recalcitrant status epilepticus and demonstrated serum antibodies against NMDAR, LGI1, or VGCC using a cell-based assay. …”
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Teachers’ Challenges in Research Engagement: Basis for a Proposed Technical Assistance Plan by Lea Vergara, Evelyn Sublay

“…The survey reveals that teachers face challenges in research engagement due to heavy workloads, lack of support, limited knowledge of the research process, lack of confidence, fear of rejection, and insufficient skills in crafting titles, research questions, reading research works, and preparing references using various citation styles. …”
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Lessons from the pandemic: Relationship between patient visits and patient length of stay in California’s health system by David D. Cho, Yu Wang

“…Abstract Background The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic placed a heavy strain on the United States healthcare system. …”
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The occupational health and safety evaluation of official veterinarians in turkey by Gökhan Aslım, Aşkın Yaşar

“…<p> <b>Results: </b>The study determined the situations that the participants may face the most in terms of occupational health safety as accident risk, contagious disease and skin diseases while the situations to be faced the least were heavy load, frazzle, damaging the equipment or products and being exposed to physical violence.…”
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Graded transcendental functions: an application to four-point amplitudes with one off-shell leg by Thomas Gehrmann, Johannes Henn, Petr Jakubčík, Jungwon Lim, Cesare Carlo Mella, Nikolaos Syrrakos, Lorenzo Tancredi, William J. Torres Bobadilla

“…As a first application, we evaluate all integral topologies relevant to the three-loop Hggg and Hgq q ¯ $$ Hgq\overline{q} $$ amplitudes in the leading-colour approximation and heavy-top limit. We describe the derivation of canonical differential equation systems and present a method for fixing boundary conditions without the need for a full functional representation. …”
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Large-scale acceleration algorithms for a deep convective physical parameterization scheme on GPU. by Yongfei Wang, Junping Wang, Jiarui Tian, Lin Li, Fangping Ma, Fang Peng, Hu Ke

“…Early warning of geological hazards requires monitoring extreme weather conditions, such as heavy rainfall. Atmospheric circulation models are used for weather forecasting and climate simulation. …”
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Spatiotemporal Variations of Extreme Precipitation Events in the Jinsha River Basin, Southwestern China by Dan Zhang, Wensheng Wang, Shuqi Liang, Shunjiu Wang

“…Results show the following: (1) Max one-day precipitation amount (RX1day), max consecutive five-day precipitation amount (RX5day), precipitation on very wet days (R95p), and number of heavy precipitation days (R10mm) showed increasing trends in four subregions except for the decline of R10mm in the southeastern and RX5day in the midsouthern. …”
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Chemical Composition of Date-Pits and Its Potential for Developing Value-Added Product - a Review by Hossain Mohammad Zakir, Waly Mostafa I., Singh Vandita, Sequeira Venitia, Rahman Mohammad Shafur

“…Date-pits powder and activated carbon from date–pits showed effective in purifying water by removing different types of pollutants, such as heavy metals, boron, dyes, phenolic compounds, and pesticides. …”
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Design of a Water Quality Monitoring Network on the Zimkan River in Kermanshah by Iraj Jabbari

“…Amount of vulnerability of the river reaches was confirmed by matching of pollutants priorities and the results obtained from the water quality factors and heavy metals of water samples. According to vulnerability of reaches, nine monitoring locations were suggested at three situations: the confluence of tributaries which are subjected to intense human interference; The effect of two main branches of Zimkan in where they are close together at the end of catchment; and before and after the entrance of the main pollutant that it is possible to measure amount of their pollution. …”
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Evaluating Different Supplements on the Growth Performance and Bioconversion Efficiency of Kitchen Waste by Black Soldier Fly Larvae by Lifei Chen, Meng Xu, Rongsheng Shang, Yizhen Xin, Guiying Wang, Yifan Li, Zhuoya Wang, Xiangyu Wang, Haoyang Sun, Lusheng Li

“…The organic matter in maize stover and BSFL frass was utilized by the BSFL, and the heavy metal levels in each group of BSFL did not exceed standard limits.…”
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Long-Term Variations of Temperature and Precipitation in the Megacity of Istanbul for the Development of Adaptation Strategies to Climate Change by Hüseyin Toros, Mohsen Abbasnia, Mustafa Sagdic, Mete Tayanç

“…Rising rate of daily maximum precipitation has been more evident in the last 3 decades, which is shown by the increased frequency of heavy rainfall. In this regard, both of the temperature and precipitation series had higher mean values (13.9°C and 878 mm) for the final period (1965–2016) compared to the mean values (13.6°C and 799 mm) belonging to the first period (1912–1964).…”
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q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Matroids with Application to Human Trafficking by Muhammad Asif, Doha A. Kattan, Dragan Pamučar, Ghous Ali

“…We provide an algorithm to solve the numerical problems related to human flow between particular regions to ensure the increased government response action against frequently used path (heavy path) for the countries involved via directed q-rung orthopair fuzzy graph (q-ROFG). …”
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Synchronous Remote Rendering for VR by Viktor Kelkkanen, Markus Fiedler, David Lindero

“…This is realized by offloading heavy computation and rendering to high-powered servers that stream VR as video to the clients. …”
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Comparison of simulating visibility using XGBoost and IMPROVE method: a case study in East China by Xin Zhang, Yue Wang, Zibo Zhuang, Yuxi Liu, Chengduo Yuan, Lei Su, Jingyuan Shao, Pak-Wai Chan

“…In order to explore a more accurate method for visibility calculation, we conducted a study on the meteorological conditions in the East China region during a heavy pollution period from October 1 to 23 in the year of 2022. …”
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Trace Metal Detection in Aqueous Reservoirs Using Stilbene Intercalated Layered Rare-Earth Hydroxide Tablets by Solomon Omwoma

“…Consequences of the metal ions, especially the ones with high atomic numbers (heavy metals) at high concentrations, are severe and irreversible in aquatic reservoirs. …”
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Recovering Uniform Coverage in a 3D Survey: Case Study from Onshore Southern India by K. Shukla, P. Jaiswal, C. S. Singh

“…We present a case study on 3D seismic acquisition under inaccessible ground conditions and heavy head-loads. The novelty in this case study is designing novel shot recovery strategies. …”
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Characterization of the bispecific VHH antibody tarperprumig (ALXN1820) specific for properdin and designed for low-volume administration by Paul Tamburini, Dennis Vestergaard Pedersen, Denise Devore, Josh Cone, Rekha Patel, Todd Hunter, Fang Sun, Gregers Rom Andersen, Jeffrey Hunter

“…Tarperprumig incorporates a C-terminal variable domain of a heavy chain only antibody (VHH) that binds properdin (FP) connected via a flexible linker to an N-terminal VHH that binds human serum albumin (HSA). …”
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