Ethnicity, Religion and The Changing Community Structure Within Fakfak Society in Papua by Ade Yamin, Musa Rumbaru, Nining Lestari, Mufliha Wijayati

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Factors That Influence Refractive Changes in the First Year of Myopia Development in Premature Infants by Jianbo Mao, Jimeng Lao, Chenyi Liu, Mingyuan Wu, Xueting Yu, Yirun Shao, Lin Zhu, Yiqi Chen, Lijun Shen

“…Females may have higher hyperopia at nine months of postmenstrual age. Birth weight and gestational age had little effect on change of refractive status. …”
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Sentinels of environmental change: shifts in fish diversity through the lens of artisanal fishers by Marco Aurélio Alves Santos, Fernando Mayer Pelicice

“…Fishers also reported changes in the composition of the most valued fish. …”
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Impact of Precipitation and Flow Rate Changes on the Water Quality of a Coastal River by Hassan Pourfallah Koushali, Reza Mastouri, Mohammad Reza Khaledian

“…To investigate the effect of precipitation and flow rate on river water quality, nine water quality variables were monitored during the 10-year period. …”
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Sustainability beyond the triple bottom line: evaluating transformative change in food systems by Richard M. Gunton, Richard M. Gunton, Jan van der Stoep, Yoseph Araya, Henk Jochemsen

“…The conventional two-way analysis of sustainability, into (1) human needs as ends and (2) means to meet such needs, and the scheme of nine planetary boundaries, are taken as starting points for a more balanced proposal set out in this conceptual paper. …”
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Smartphone Applications for Period Tracking: Rating and Behavioral Change among Women Users by Reema A. Karasneh, Sayer I. Al-Azzam, Karem H. Alzoubi, Suhaib M. Muflih, Sahar S. Hawamdeh

“…Apps were scanned for matching the inclusion criteria and the included apps were assessed by two reviewers using the Mobile Application Rating Scale (MARS), a tool that was developed for classifying and assessing the quality of mHealth apps. Results. Forty-nine apps met the inclusion criteria. Most of the apps enabled setting user goals, motivations, and interactivity, tracking multiple symptoms or mood changes, allowed notifications, and used graphs to illustrate the tracking result over a specific period of time. …”
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Changes in the shape of the lumbar curve during growth: a geometric morphometric approach by Ruth Pelleg-Kallevag, Sarah Borgel, Einat Kedar, Nathan Peled, Hila May

“…LC shape changed significantly during growth from straight to curved, reaching its mature shape earlier in females. …”
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Cervical spine changes with functional appliance treatment: A systematic review and meta-analysis by Sandhya Murali, Annapurna Kannan, Vignesh Kailasam

“…This posture may be influenced by the changes in the mandibular position brought about by functional appliance therapy. …”
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Anxiety and depression in primary knee osteoarthritis patients: are they related to clinical features and radiographic changes? by Yasmin A. Abd Elhamid, Ghada S. Elazkalany, Marwa H. Niazy, Angie Y. Afifi

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The Long-Term Change of Arrhythmias after Transcatheter Closure of Perimembranous Ventricular Septal Defects by Hongyan Zheng, Aiwen Lin, Li Wang, Yukai Xu, Zhiwei Zhang

“…Results. One hundred thirty-nine patients met the inclusion criteria, of which 265 (25.5%) had early arrhythmia. …”
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Analysis of Nasal Airway Changes after Treatment with C-Expander by Wang Xiao, Siling Liu, Yanqin Lu, Lei Lei, Ning Liu, Xiaoping Shen, Yuhong He, Ousheng Liu

“…A sample of nine patients (8 females, 1 male, age range from 15 to 29 years) was included. …”
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How Adhesion Molecule Patterns Change While Neutrophils Traffic through the Lung during Inflammation by Franziska M. Konrad, Julia Wohlert, Jutta Gamper-Tsigaras, Kristian-Christos Ngamsri, Jörg Reutershan

“…In a murine model of lung inflammation, we determined the expression pattern of nine relevant neutrophilic adhesion molecules on their way through the different compartments of the lung. …”
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Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment in Mangrove-Dependent Communities of Manoka Island, Littoral Region of Cameroon by Evariste Fongnzossie, Denis Jean Sonwa, Philippes Mbevo, Fabrice Kentatchime, Aurelie Mokam, Claude Tatuebu Tagne, Lydie Flora Essamba A. Rim

“…This study was conducted on Manoka Island (Littoral Region of Cameroon) with the aim of analyzing climate change vulnerability and local adaptation strategies based on the local community’s perceptions and biophysical evidence. …”
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Morphological and molecular changes in renal tissue following experimental unilateral ureteral obstruction in rat kidneys by Tuncer KUTLU, Huseyin OZKAN, Ziya YURTAL, Ufuk KAYA, Mehmet GUVENC

“…This study was designed to investigate the pathological, molecular, and biochemical changes subjected to experimental unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO) during the acute phase, specifically within a seven-day period. …”
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Age-related Changes in p56lck Protein Levels and Phenotypic Distribution of T Lymphocytes in Young Rats by Heather J. Hosea, Edward S. Rector, Carla G. Taylor

“…Thymic p56lck levels were negatively correlated with age (r=-0.42, p=0.04) and positively correlated with age in the spleen (r=0.50, p=0.01). Nine-week-old rats had a higher percentage of thymic DN and CD8 cells with fewer DP cells compared to younger rats. …”
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Soil Hydrological Attributes of an Integrated Crop-Livestock Agroecosystem: Increased Adaptation through Resistance to Soil Change by Mark A. Liebig, Don L. Tanaka, Scott L. Kronberg, Eric J. Scholljegerdes, Jim F. Karn

“…Such concerns are compounded by projections of more frequent high-intensity rainfall events from anticipated climate change, which would act to increase surface runoff and soil erosion. …”
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Long-term health consequences and costs of changes in alcohol consumption in England during the COVID-19 pandemic. by Joshua Card-Gowers, Sadie Boniface, Jamie Brown, Loren Kock, Alexander Martin, Lise Retat, Laura Webber

“…This study aimed to quantify future health, healthcare, and economic impacts of changes in alcohol consumption observed during the COVID-19 pandemic.…”
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Changes in Serum Natriuretic Peptide Levels after Percutaneous Closure of Small to Moderate Ventricular Septal Defects by Yuksel Kaya, Ramazan Akdemir, Huseyin Gunduz, Sani Murat, Orhan Bulut, İbrahim Kocayigit, M. Bulent Vatan, M. Akif Cakar, Ekrem Yeter, Harun Kilic, Mustafa Tarik Agac, Zeydin Acar

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Identification of Malignancy-Associated Changes in Histologically Normal Tumor-Adjacent Epithelium of Patients with HPV-Positive Oropharyngeal Cancer by James Jabalee, Anita Carraro, Tony Ng, Eitan Prisman, Cathie Garnis, Martial Guillaud

“…We hypothesized that histologically normal surface epithelial cells in the oropharynx contain changes in nuclear morphology that arise due to tumor proximity. …”
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Changes in stress-related outcomes among graduate students following the Mindfulness Ambassador Program: A pilot study. by Varsha Vasudevan, Benjamin Tran, Shauna M Burke, Patricia Tucker, Jennifer D Irwin

“…<h4>Methods</h4>In this one-group, pre/post mixed-methods pilot study, nine participants completed pre-post questionnaires and participated in a semi-structured interview post-intervention. …”
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