Evaluating the strength, durability and porosity characteristics of alluvial clay stabilized with marble dust as a sustainable binder by Mohamad Hanafi, Israf Javed, Abdullah Ekinci

“…High-plasticity soils such as alluvial clay deform easily under heavy loads due to their strong plastic behavior. …”
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Source Apportionment of Urban Ammonia and its Contribution to Secondary Particle Formation in a Mid-size European City by Laura Ehrnsperger, Otto Klemm

“…Abstract Ambient air pollution caused by fine particulate matter (PM) and trace gases is a pressing topic as it affects the vast majority of the world’s population, with a particularly heavy influence in densely populated urban environments. …”
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Mer côtière à forte pression anthropique propice au développement d’une gestion intégrée : exemple du bassin oriental de la Manche (Atlantique Nord-Est) by Jean-Claude Dauvin, Olivier Lozachmeur

“…The eastern English Channel: a coastal sea in the northeastern Atlantic, subjected to heavy anthropogenic pressure, propitious for an integrated management plan. …”
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Humic Acid Enhances Antioxidant and Glyoxalase Systems to Combat Copper Toxicity in Citrus by Wei-Tao Huang, Xu-Feng Chen, Wei-Lin Huang, Qian Shen, Fei Lu, Ning-Wei Lai, Jiuxin Guo, Lin-Tong Yang, Xin Ye, Li-Song Chen

“…These findings highlight the promise of HA for sustainable citrus cultivation in heavy metal (Cu)-polluted soils.…”
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Toxic Assessment of Heavily Traffic-related Fine Particulate Matter Using an in-vivo Wild-type Caenorhabditis elegans Model by Meng-Ching Chung, Kuo-Lin Huang, Japheth L. Avelino, Lemmuel L. Tayo, Chih-Chung Lin, Ming-Hsien Tsai, Sheng-Lun Lin, Wan Nurdiyana Wan Mansor, Ching-Kai Su, Sen-Ting Huang

“…The nematodes exposed PM2.5 models not only posed potentially adverse health effects on human but also represented ecotoxic impacts on the ecosystem. In conclusion, heavy concentrations of TRAP PM2.5 significantly and severely disrupted toxicological endpoints of neurology and reproduction to C. elegans. …”
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ZINQ-L: a zero-inflated quantile approach for differential abundance analysis of longitudinal microbiome data by Shuai Li, Runzhe Li, John R. Lee, John R. Lee, Ni Zhao, Wodan Ling

“…Association testing for microbiome data is already challenging due to its complex distribution that involves sparsity, over-dispersion, heavy tails, etc. The longitudinal nature of the data adds another layer of complexity - one needs to account for the within-subject correlations to avoid biased results. …”
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Post-injury treatment with 7,8-dihydroxyflavone attenuates white matter pathology in aged mice following focal traumatic brain injury by Georgios Michalettos, Fredrik Clausen, Elham Rostami, Niklas Marklund

“…Treatment with 7,8-DHF led to reduced axonal swellings at 2 and 7 dpi, as visualized by SMI-31 (Neurofilament Heavy Chain) immunofluorescence, and reduced number of TUNEL (Terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick end labelling)/CC1-positive mature oligodendrocytes at 2 dpi in the perilesional white matter. …”
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Pulmonary function in swimmers exposed to disinfection by-products: a narrative review by Michał Boraczyński, Tomasz Balcerek, Nikola Rożkiewicz, Monika Pabiszczak, Michał Harasymczuk, Aneta Sławska, Przemysław Lutomski

“…However, asthma and allergies are becoming increasingly prevalent medical issues among elite endurance-trained swimmers, where exercise-induced asthma or bronchospasm is frequently reported. Heavy endurance swimming training, especially under adverse conditions, stresses the airway mucosa, leading to inflammatory changes, as observed in induced sputum in competitive swimmers. …”
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Transgenic plants as genetic models for studying functions of plant genes by A. V. Kochetov, V. K. Shumny

“…It was also found that these plants were more tolerant to various abiotic stresses (drought, NaCl, cold, toxic heavy metals), which may result from the protective proline effect early in exposure to stress, preventing the cellular gene expression machinery from damage by stress-generated free radicals.…”
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Exploration of the Mountainous Urban Rail Transit Resilience Under Extreme Rainfalls: A Case Study in Chongqing, China by Chenhui Liu, Xue Su, Zhichun Wu, Yingjun Zhang, Cuizhu Zhou, Xiangguo Wu, Yong Huang

“…Therefore, it is essential to assess and enhance the resilience of mountainous urban rail transit networks under heavy rainfalls. Taking the metro network of Chongqing, the largest mountainous city in China, as an example, this study establishes a network topology model to identify the high-risk nodes under rainfalls and find the effective recovery strategies. …”
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Genetic background and embryonic temperature affect DNA methylation and expression of myogenin and muscle development in Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar). by Erik Burgerhout, Maren Mommens, Hanne Johnsen, Arnfinn Aunsmo, Nina Santi, Øivind Andersen

“…Rearing temperature strongly affected the growth rates, and the 8°C fish were about twice as heavy as the 4°C fish in the order Fast8>Slow8>Fast4>Slow4 prior to seawater transfer. …”
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Preparedness for and impact of COVID-19 on primary health care delivery in urban and rural Malawi: a mixed methods study by Tracy Morse, Kondwani Chidziwisano, Gift Kawalazira, Mackwellings Maganizo Phiri, Eleanor Elizabeth MacPherson, Mindy Panulo, Khumbo Kalua, Chawanangwa Mahebere Chirambo, Zaziwe Gundah, Penjani Chunda

“…They experienced fatigue and stress due to heavy workloads, stigma in the community and worries about becoming infected with and transmitting COVID-19.Conclusion Resource (human and material) inadequacy shaped the health facility capacity for support and response to COVID-19, and frontline workers may require psychosocial support to manage the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.…”
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Women empowerment, efficiency and food security nexus in rural Ethiopia: A generalized structural equation modeling by Fentahun Tesafa, Messay Mulugeta, Solomon Tsehay

“…Women are disempowered in two major domains including heavy workload and lack of voice in production decisions, which contributed to a marked level of disempowerment at 48 and 22 % respectively. …”
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Analysis of Spatiotemporal Variation of Extreme Precipitation Characteristics in Yangtze River Basin by AI Jiaqi, ZHANG Hairong, GU Xuezhi, XIN Qian, CAO Hui, BAO Zhengfeng, YE Lei

“…In addition,the frequency of heavy rainfall and flooding may increase;② the L-Moment method is more suitable for the estimation of the GEV distribution parameters and is more stable for extreme precipitation series with larger precipitation levels.The proportion of stations with extreme precipitation series distribution of Fréchet is about 70%,indicating that most stations in the Yangtze River Basin have obvious thick tail characteristics of extreme precipitation distribution,and the extreme precipitation level fluctuates greatly.③ Extreme precipitation in the Yangtze River Basin under different return periods shows obvious spatial distribution differences,and the extreme precipitation levels of different extreme precipitation series all show a gradual increasing trend from upstream to downstream. …”
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Assessment of potentially toxic elements pollution in soils and plant leaves along the high-traffic highway zones in Tehran, Iran by Mahdieh Hosseinzadeh, Hamid Toranjzar, bbas Ahmadi, Nourollah Abdi, Javad Varvani

“…These findings highlight the need for ongoing monitoring, effective traffic management, and remediation strategies to address heavy metal pollution in urban environments. …”
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Western disturbances and climate variability: a review of recent developments by K. M. R. Hunt, K. M. R. Hunt, J.-P. Baudouin, A. G. Turner, A. G. Turner, A. P. Dimri, A. P. Dimri, G. Jeelani, Pooja, R. Chattopadhyay, R. Chattopadhyay, F. Cannon, T. Arulalan, T. Arulalan, M. S. Shekhar, T. P. Sabin, E. Palazzi

“…WDs are also associated with weather hazards such as heavy snowfall, hailstorms, fog, cloudbursts, avalanches, frost, and cold waves.…”
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Prevalence of musculoskeletal disorders among garment workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis by Francis Fatoye, Tadesse Gebrye, Chidozie Mbada, Phoebe Apeagyei

“…Low back pain and neck pain were reported as the common MSDs in the included studies.Conclusions The findings highlight the considerable risk of MSDs, especially low back and neck pain, linked to repetitive tasks, extended hours and inconsistent workstations. Given the heavy toll of MSDs on this workforce, targeted interventions and ergonomic improvements are crucial to mitigate the risks and improve garment workers’ well-being.…”
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Mitochondrial Complex I Deficiency among Egyptian Pediatric Patients with Steroid-Resistant Nephrotic Syndrome by Doaa M. Abdou, AbdelAal Mohamed, Mohamed Abdulhay, Sara El Khateeb

“…There was a significant positive correlation between complex I activity and the heaviness of proteinuria among the SRNS group (r 0.344, p<0.001). …”
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Customized Random Maintenance Policies After the Expiration of a Renewal Repair–Replacement Warranty with Random Charge by Lin Zhao, Lijun Shang, Baoliang Liu

“…The RRRW-RC can classify the usage habits of consumers into the heavy usage type and light usage type. Therefore, based on the usage classification results generated by the RRRW-RC, this paper also customizes two random maintenance policies to manage the post-warranty reliability of products. …”
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Intelligent Multi-Agent Based Multilayered Control System for Opportunistic Load Scheduling in Smart Buildings by Muhammad Babar Rasheed, Nadeem Javaid, Muhammad Sheraz Arshad Malik, Muhammad Asif, Muhammad Kashif Hanif, Muhammad Hasanain Chaudary

“…., price agent <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$p_{a}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, sensor agent <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$s_{a}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, decision agent <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$d_{a}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, load agent <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$l_{a}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, and action agent <inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$a_{a}$ </tex-math></inline-formula>, are developed to control residential loads, such as normal load (<italic>nl</italic>) and heavy load (<italic>hl</italic>). To handle price uncertainty, dynamically, optimal stopping rule (OSR) theory has been used. …”
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