The impact of school closures on pandemic influenza:Assessing potential repercussions using a seasonal SIR model by Sherry Towers, Katia Vogt Geisse, Chia-Chun Tsai, Qing Han, Zhilan Feng

“…  &nbsp We find that the effect on pandemic progression strongly depends on the timing of the start of the school closure.For instance, we determine that schoolclosures during a late spring wave of an epidemiccan cause a pandemic to become up to 20% larger, but have the advantage that theaverage time of the peak is shifted by up to two months, possibly allowing enough time for development ofvaccines to mitigate the larger size of the epidemic.Our studies thus suggest that when heterogeneity intransmission is a significant factor, decisions of public health policy will be particularlyimportant as to how control measures such as school closures should be implemented.…”
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Climate Change, Grape Phenology, and Frost Risk in Southeast England by C. Llanaj, G. McGregor

“…Although projections point to an improving climate for viticulture across Southeast England, frost will remain a risk for viticulture, albeit at a reduced level compared to the present. Furthermore, the strong cold-bias found for temperature simulations used in this study needs to be given careful consideration when using the UKCP18 projections for viticulture impact assessments of climate change. …”
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Gendered time-budgeting, affective wellbeing, and its implication for cognitive health among older adults in India by Dipti Govil, Harihar Sahoo, Srei Chanda, K. S. James

“…The time-specific effects of leisure and self-care activities were negatively associated with cognition. Strong gender segregation was observed in the type of activities performed and the time allocated to them. …”
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Determination of Soil Properties by Using Multi-Channel Analysis Method Records of Microtremor, Earthquake and Surface Waves: A Sample Implementation from AFAD Campus by Erkan Ateş

“…The most valid way to determine the soil amplification is to use the analysis of strong ground motion records. The Earthquake Observation Station located in Ankara AFAD campus was established in 2014. …”
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What does external morphometry tell us about stock discrimination of Sardina pilchardus stocks from Türkiye? by Ozpicak Melek, Saygin Semra

“…All samples were clearly separated from each other in the discriminant space, suggesting that there was no strong intermingling between populations. In addition, we would like to conclude that the morphological difference is not at the genetic level, and would like to emphasize the need for additional stock discrimination methods.…”
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Limited Effect of Future Land‐Use Changes on Human Heat Stress and Labor Capacity by Steven J. DeHertog, Anton Orlov, Felix Havermann, Suqi Guo, Iris Manola, Julia Pongratz, Quentin Lejeune, Carl‐Friedrich Schleussner, Inga Menke, Florian Humpenöder, Alexander Popp, Peter Lawrence, George C. Hurtt, Louise Chini, Inne Vanderkelen, Edouard L. Davin, Thomas Reerink, Sonia I. Seneviratne, Hans Verbeeck, Wim Thiery

“…However, the effects on human heat stress are less strong, especially over the regions of intense land‐use change such as the tropics, where biogeophysical effects on near‐surface specific humidity and wind speed counteract the cooling effect under warm extremes. …”
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A Community based Cross Sectional Study on Nutritional status among Elderly in Rural Telangana by Sneha Simon, Bhavani R, Balabaskaran S

“…Females, unemployment, smoking habits, presence of comorbidities, inadequate vegetable intake and lack of social support were significantly associated with malnutrition. A strong positive correlation (r= 0.4) was observed between nutrition score and weight, waist circumference, and calf circumference. …”
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Characteristics of Water Vapor in the UTLS over the Tibetan Plateau Based on AURA/MLS Observations by Yi Sun, Quanliang Chen, Ke Gui, Fangyou Dong, Xiao Feng, Qichao Long

“…It was found that high WV content in the UTLS over the southern Tibetan Plateau is more apparent in summer, due to monsoon-induced strong upward motions. The WV content showed the opposite distribution at 100 hPa, though, during spring and winter. …”
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STIDNet: Spatiotemporally Integrated Detection Network for Infrared Dim and Small Targets by Liuwei Zhang, Zhitao Zhou, Yuyang Xi, Fanjiao Tan, Qingyu Hou

“…IRDSTs with direction-of-motion consistency and strong interframe correlation are reinforced, and randomly generated spurious waves, noise, and other false alarms are inhibited via a fixed-weight multiscale motion feature-based 3D convolution kernel (FWMFCK-3D). …”
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Use of artificial intelligence to study the hospitalization of women undergoing caesarean section by Arianna Scala, Giuseppe Bifulco, Anna Borrelli, Rosanna Egidio, Maria Triassi, Giovanni Improta

“…Results A multiple linear regression model determined the highest R-value (0.815), indicating a strong correlation between the identified variables and LOS. …”
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Understanding Work Rhythms in Software Development and Their Effects on Technical Performance by Jiayun Zhang, Qingyuan Gong, Yang Chen, Yu Xiao, Xin Wang, Aaron Yi Ding

“…Using clustering, we identify four work rhythms among individual developers and three work rhythms among software projects. Strong correlations are found between work rhythms and work regions, seniority, and collaboration roles. …”
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TRACE ELEMENT COMPOSITION OF BERYL FROM SPODUMENE PEGMATITE DEPOSITS OF THE KUNAR PROVINCE, AFGHANISTAN by S.G. Skublov, A. Yosufzai, A.N. Evdokimov, A.K. Gavrilchik

“…At the boundary of these two simple forms, the Cs, Na, Ca, Fe, Mg, and V content strongly increases. The prism growth zone exhibits the growth pyramids: a decrease in the Na, Fe, V, Ni, and Cr content during growth towards the edge of the beryl crystal. …”
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Graph Neural Network-Based Approach for Detecting False Data Injection Attacks on Voltage Stability by Shahriar Rahman Fahim, Rachad Atat, Cihat Kececi, Abdulrahman Takiddin, Muhammad Ismail, Katherine R. Davis, Erchin Serpedin

“…The proposed model achieves 98.11% average detection rate, which represents a significant enhancement of 10-25% compared to the cutting-edge detectors. This provides strong evidence for the effectiveness of proposed strategy in tackling cyberattacks on voltage regulation.…”
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Will the Amaranthus tuberculatus Resistance Mechanism to PPO-Inhibiting Herbicides Evolve in Other Amaranthus Species? by Chance W. Riggins, Patrick J. Tranel

“…Our hypothesis is that A. tuberculatus may have been predisposed to evolving this resistance mechanism due to the presence of a repetitive motif at the mutation site and that lack of this motif in other amaranth species is why PPO-inhibitor resistance has not become more common despite strong herbicide selection pressure. Here we investigate inter- and intraspecific variability of the PPX2 gene—specifically exon 9, which includes the mutation site—in ten amaranth species via sequencing and a PCR-RFLP assay. …”
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Association of Taiwan’s Rainfall Patterns with Large-Scale Oceanic and Atmospheric Phenomena by Yi-Chun Kuo, Ming-An Lee, Mong-Ming Lu

“…In particular, during the autumn of the La Niña years following the strong El Niño years, the time-varying amplitude was substantially greater than that of normal years. …”
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Sampling Ozone Exposure of Canadian Forests at Different Scales: Some Case Studies by R.M. Cox, J.W. Malcolm, R.N. Hughes, T.P.W. Williams

“…The sampler data produced weak relationships with ozone values from the nearest �continuous� monitor, even though data from colocated samplers showed strong relationships. This spatial variation and the apparent effect of elevation on ozone exposure demonstrate the importance of topography and tree canopy characteristics in plant exposure on a regional scale. …”
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Serum Amyloid A as a Marker of Persistent Inflammation and an Indicator of Cardiovascular and Renal Involvement in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis by Bożena Targońska-Stępniak, Maria Majdan

“…In RA patients, high serum SAA concentration was strongly associated with activity of the disease and risk of CV and renal involvement. …”
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Environmental Performance, Financial Constraints, and Tax Avoidance Practices: Insights from FTSE All-Share Companies by Probowo Erawan Sastroredjo, Marcel Ausloos, Polina Khrennikova

“…Studies indicate that organisations exhibiting strong corporate social responsibility (CSR), environmental, social, and governance (ESG) criteria, or high levels of environmental performance often engage in lower occurrences of tax avoidance. …”
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Automated recognition and segmentation of lung cancer cytological images based on deep learning. by Qingyang Wang, Yazhi Luo, Ying Zhao, Shuhao Wang, Yiru Niu, Jinxi Di, Jia Guo, Guorong Lan, Lei Yang, Yu Shan Mao, Yuan Tu, Dingrong Zhong, Pei Zhang

“…The model predictions were strongly correlated with pathologist diagnoses and the gold standard, indicating the model's ability to make clinical-level decisions during initial diagnosis. …”
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Dissipation Alters Modes of Information Encoding in Small Quantum Reservoirs near Criticality by Krai Cheamsawat, Thiparat Chotibut

“…We further demonstrate that synergy amplifies short-term responsiveness, thereby enhancing immediate memory retention, whereas strong dissipation leads to more redundant encoding that supports long-term memory retention. …”
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