Patterns of Location and Other Determinants of Retail Stores in Urban Commercial Districts in Changchun, China by Feilong Hao, Yuxin Yang, Shijun Wang

“…Retail stores in Guilin Road exhibit distinct characteristics, namely, stores selling textiles, clothing, and daily necessities show the highest concentration, and food, beverage, and tobacco outlets as well as integrated stores show the lowest concentration. (3) The selected locations of the differing categories of stores on Chongqing Road strongly correlate, and textile, clothing, and daily necessity stores show a high correlation with other retail categories. (4) Four main factors affect the development and spatial layout of retail in the commercial districts. …”
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Factors influencing medication adherence among hypertensive patients in primary care settings in Central Vietnam: A cross-sectional study. by Ho Anh Hien, Nguyen Minh Tam, Huynh Van Minh, Tran Binh Thang, Le Phuoc Hoang, Stefan Heytens, Dirk Devroey, Hoang Anh Tien

“…According to the logistic regression analysis, a healthy diet and patient beliefs emerged as primary predictors of medication adherence. Patients who strongly believed in the necessity of medication demonstrated better adherence, while concerns about overuse and harm were linked to lower adherence levels.…”
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Novel palm peat lignocellulosic adsorbent derived from agricultural residues for efficient methylene blue dye removal from textile wastewater by Mohamed Mohamed Gaber, Hassan Shokry, Ahmed H. Hassanin, Said Awad, Mahmoud Samy, Marwa Elkady

“…Under the optimum conditions, PP achieved 97.89% MB removal. PP exhibited strong stability over five adsorption cycles. Adsorption occurs via π-π stacking, hydrogen bonding, hydrophobic-hydrophobic interactions, and electrostatic interaction with the process being endothermic and following the Langmuir isotherm model and pseudo-second-order kinetic model. …”
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Tracking Immunity: An Increased Number of COVID-19 Boosters Increases the Longevity of Anti-RBD and Anti-RBD-Neutralizing Antibodies by Ching-Wen Hou, Stacy Williams, Veronica Boyle, Alexa Roeder, Bradley Bobbett, Izamar Garcia, Giavanna Caruth, Mitch Magee, Yunro Chung, Douglas F. Lake, Joshua LaBaer, Vel Murugan

“…Anti-RBD IgG levels correlated strongly with neutralizing antibody levels, and participants who received more vaccine doses showed higher levels of both anti-RBD IgG and neutralizing antibodies. …”
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Evaluation of an aquatic liverwort and terrestrial moss as biomonitors of heavy metals associated with particulate matter by Clara Gómez-Ensastegui, Pedro Avila-Pérez, José Luis García-Rivas, Carlos Eduardo Barrera-Díaz, Huemantzin Balan Ortiz-Oliveros, Sonia Martínez-Gallegos

“…In addition, except for Cr, both species accumulate the metals associated with airborne particulate matter at equivalent levels. There is strong association between PM2.5 and PM10 particles and between the metals Cr-Pb-Fe in R. natans and between PM2.5-PM10 and Fe and between Cd-Cr-Pb in E. serrulatus and these pollutants are mainly associated with sampling sites with the highest concentrations of metals in the TVMA. …”
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Application of Enhanced Weighted Least Squares with Dark Background Image Fusion for Inhomogeneity Noise Removal in Brain Tumor Hyperspectral Images by Jiayue Yan, Chenglong Tao, Yuan Wang, Jian Du, Meijie Qi, Zhoufeng Zhang, Bingliang Hu

“…Clean and clear medical hyperspectral brain tumor tissue images were generated by combining scene-based and reference-based non-uniformity correction denoising algorithms, providing a strong basis for further diagnosis and classification. …”
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Theileria annulata infects B-cells in sheep, which display lower dissemination potential compared to T. lestoquardi-infected ovine B-cells by Shahin Tajeri, Perle Latré de Laté, Johanneke D. Hemmink, Christina Vrettou, Gordon Langsley, W. Ivan Morrison

“…Theileria lestoquardi-transformed ovine B-cells preferentially expressed matrix metalloproteinase 2 (mmp2), whereas T. annulata-infected ovine B-cells strongly expressed mmp9. Correspondingly, MMP9 protein levels and collagenase activity were higher in T. annulata-transformed ovine B-cells. …”
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Treatment of small scale gold mining wastewater using pilot-scale sedimentation and Cocopeat filter bed system by J. Samaniego, M.A.N. Tanchuling

“…Other effluent parameters with strong correlation with total suspended solids such as turbidity and color, though not regulated, were reduced significantly. …”
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Exosomes Derived from Schistosoma japonicum Cystatin-Treated Macrophages Attenuated CLP-Induced Sepsis in Mice by Feifei Huang, Yayun Qian, Huihui Li, Liang Chu, Chen Wan, Qili Shen, Qianqian Li, Xiuxiu Li, Xinyue Wu, Bin Zhan, Rui Zhou, Xiaodi Yang

“…Schistosoma japonicum secreted cystatin (Sj-Cys) is a strong immunomodulator that stimulates M2 macrophages and alleviates inflammatory damage caused by sepsis. …”
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Automated Web Tool Measurement of Total Hip Arthroplasty Acetabular Component Inclination and Anteversion Angles by Christine Yoon, BS, Anna Eligulashvili, BS, Zeynep Seref-Ferlengez, PhD, Barlas Goker, MD, Eli Kamara, MD, Edward Mardakhaev, MD

“…Conclusions: Automated measurements obtained with a novel web tool are in strong agreement with the manually obtained ground truth measurements. …”
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Marzenie, które nigdy nie umiera: ideały i realia kosmopolityzmu w nauce w latach 1870–1940 by Robert Fox

“…Pierwsza wojna światowa zadała poważny cios tym kosmopolitycznym ideałom, a powojenne przekształcenie porządku międzynarodowej nauki niewiele zrobiło, by je odtworzyć. Zwrot w stronę nacjonalizmu w latach 20. XX wieku przybrał bardziej mroczną formę w latach 30. …”
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Environmental Supply Chain Performance Mapping of an Enterprise by Exploring a Novel Vague-Intellectual Approach by Juan Wang, M. Prabhu, Abatihun Alehegn Sewagegn, Anoop Kumar Sahu

“…Next, modified DoS is applied over evaluated FPII (fuzzy performance importance index) to identify the weak and strong metrics and also quantify the GSCP gap of metrics from its ideal value. …”
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A single-cell transcriptome analysis reveals astrocyte heterogeneity and identifies CHI3L1 as a diagnostic biomarker in Parkinson's disease by Zhongying Gong, Dan Guo, Yufeng Lin, Zhiwei Liu, Mengdi Lv, Xinxin Liu, Yang Yao, Sijia Wang, Yuan Wang, Zhiyun Wang

“…Lastly, we discovered that CHI3L1 was significantly overexpressed in PD patients and exhibited strong diagnostic potential for the disease. Conclusion: This study clarified the heterogeneity of astrocytes in PD based on the single-cell transcriptomic profiles and found that CHI3L1 may be a diagnostic biomarker for PD.…”
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The problem of norovirus infection in animals (literature review) by V. А. Mischenko, A. V. Mischenko, T. B. Nikeshina, O. N. Petrova, Yu. V. Brovko, A. I. Kushlubaeva

“…Livestock industry efficiency strongly depends on the livability of young animals, mainly during the early postnatal period. …”
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Las rivalidades futbolísticas y la construcción de la nación. Una comparación entre México y Ecuador by Roger Magazine, Jacques Ramírez, Samuel Martínez

“…In the Mexican case, the pattern of rivalries is inseparable from the strong centralism of political and economic power, whereas in the Ecuadorian case, the pattern has to be do, primarily, with an old struggle for economic and political predominance between the cities of Quito and Guayaquil. …”
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Mofette Vegetation as an Indicator for Geogenic CO2 Emission: A Case Study on the Banks of the Laacher See Volcano, Vulkaneifel, Germany by Hardy Pfanz, Frank Saßmannshausen, Christiane Wittmann, Benny Pfanz, Annika Thomalla

“…The number of plant species (from a total of 69 species) as well as plant coverage strongly followed geogenic CO2 degassing. The total number of growing species was highest in low CO2 soils (max. 17 species per m2) and lowest at high CO2-emitting sites (one species per m2). …”
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Remote sensing estimation of chlorophyll content in rape leaves in Weibei dryland region of China by Xia Liheng, Zhang Panpan, Shi Lei, Wang Kun, Zhang Tingyu

“…Findings revealed several significant observations: (1) Consistency in the spectral curves of rape leaves, with spectral reflectance diminishing as chlorophyll content increased; (2) Strong correlations among seven spectral parameters utilized in the modeling, all exceeding 0.770 and achieving significant correlations at the 0.01 level; (3) Across various growth periods, the BPNN model optimized through GAs based on multiple linear stepwise regression emerged as the optimal model. …”
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Effect of triple-frequency sono-germination and soaking treatments on techno-functional characteristics of barley by Tabussam Tufail, Huma Bader Ul Ain, Jawad Ashraf, Muhammad Safiullah Virk, Zahoor Ahmed, Mokhtar Dabbour, Tawfiq Alsulami, Suleiman Althawab, Bin Xu

“…Further, gene expression analysis revealed differential regulation of phenylpropanoid pathway genes, contributing to the bioactive compound enhancement. Strong intermolecular interactions were observed in both ZQ2000 and XMLY22 samples subjected to TFUT, GE, TFUT + GE, and TS, as validated by FTIR and molecular docking analyses. …”
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Mapping global annual urban land cover fractions (2001–2020) derived with multi-objective deep learning by Haoyu Wang, Qian Wang, Xiuyuan Zhang, Shihong Du, Lubin Bai, Shuping Xiong

“…Accordingly, this study proposes a novel deep learning unmixing algorithm, Normalized Non-negative Multi-objective Residual T-ConvLSTM (NNMRT) model, with strong encoding and recognition capacities for extracting GAULCF. …”
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Tannin with sodium carbonate: A single additive for poured earth concrete with tropical soils by Lily Walter, Gildas Medjigbodo, Yannick Estevez, Laurent Linguet, Ouahcène Nait-Rabah

“…However, these additives strongly increase environmental costs. Recent studies have highlighted the potential of tannins, which are organic extracts from wood, as an eco-friendly alternative. …”
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