Blood Pressure and Global Risk Assessment in a Swedish Population by Jenny Eckner, Charlotte A. Larsson, Lennart Råstam, Ulf Lindblad

“…In the presence of both hypertension and diabetes, high-risk subjects dominated (men 76%, women 61%), and correspondingly a major proportion of patients with known hypertension were at high risk at a blood pressure ≥160/100 mm Hg. These findings have strong implications on blood pressure evaluation in clinical practice and support the use of SCORE to evaluate global risk.…”
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Effects of inclination angle and unloading rate of confining pressure on triaxial unloading-induced slip behaviors of shale fractures by Zhe Yuan, Zhe Yuan, Yongna Cao, Tao Zhang, Tao Zhang, Shuchen Li, Xianda Feng

“…The occurrence of stick-slip events in the quasi-static slip stage was strongly influenced by the θ and Uc. As θ increases from 30° to 50°, the stick-slip events occurred from 0 to 3 times and from 1 to 3 times for Uc = 0.1 MPa/min and 1 MPa/min, respectively. …”
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Unveiling Differentiation Characteristics of Vegetation Restoration Potential for Browning Areas in China’s Hilly and Gully Region by Juan He, Wei Zhou, Mingjie Qian, Enmao Zha, An Cao, Xueyi Shi

“…The northern and eastern sub-watersheds showed greater vegetation restoration, but the southern regions showed less resilience. (2) Vegetation resilience in the majority of sub-watersheds was concentrated at moderate levels, and the number of grids with strong positive tendencies decreased, according to the analysis of grid trends. (3) Fifteen reference states were established for browning areas based on the current natural conditions. …”
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Comprehensive Characterization of the Odor-Active Compounds in Different Processed Varieties of Yunnan White Tea (<i>Camellia sinensis</i>) by GC×GC-O-MS and Chemometrics by Junaid Raza, Baosong Wang, Yue Duan, Huanlu Song, Ali Raza, Dongfeng Wang

“…The orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) model showed strong validity and stability. This study describes the impact of processing conditions on the flavor profile of white tea and provides a solid foundation for monitoring the aroma quality of different processed white tea varieties.…”
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Corporate Governance and its Role in Performance Improvement and Reducing Fraud in Islamic Banking by Leila Zamanianfar, Mohammad Reza Mahdyar Ismaili

“…Surveys indicate that interest-free banking requires a regulatory structure and corporate governance, and the creation of a suitable and strong corporate governance mechanism will probably motivate banks to participate in economic activities and financing in a more appropriate way. …”
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Dual Marginalisation and the Demand for Dual Citizenship: Negotiating “At Homeness” Among Diaspora Liberians by Franka Vaughan

“…Drawing on the “post‐exclusive turn” in citizenship (Harpaz & Mateos, 2019), which suggests that individuals often prioritize a premium passport over strong ties to a homeland, the article explores how diaspora Liberians pursue dual citizenship to secure a “true home” in Liberia. …”
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Exploring the informational elements of opinion answers: the case of the Russo-Ukrainian war by Reijo Savolainen

“…Opinion is an important informational category whose significance is probably growing, due to the developments in today´s information and communication environments.  In the media, more strongly than before, attention is devoted to people´s opinions, instead of merely emphasizing the role of irrefutable (objective) facts. …”
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Gradient diffusion entropy corrected ALNS optimization for vegetation topology interaction networks by Shengwei Wang, Hongquan Chen, Yulin Guo, Wenjing Su, Yurong Xu, Shuohao Cui, Zhiqiang Zhou

“…The optimized vegetation structure consists of three optimal subplot structures that form a sub-ecosystem within the spatial region with a strong anti-disturbance capability.…”
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Chromosomes and speciation in tuco-tuco (Ctenomys, Hystricognathi, Rodentia) by A. A. Torgasheva, E. A. Basheva, M. J. Gomez Fernandez, P. Mirol, P. M. Borodin

“…Field studies have not revealed strong negative effects of chromosomal heterozygosity on the fitness of the carriers. …”
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Acceptability of Children Road Safety Education in Pakistan: A Mixed-Method Approach to Exploring Parents’ and Teachers’ Perspectives by Imran Nawaz, Ariane Cuenen, Geert Wets, Davy Janssens

“…However, the study also identifies a strong interest from parents and teachers in participating in effective RSE programs. …”
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The climate impact and land use of cultivated meat: Evaluating agricultural feedstock production. by Hanno Kossmann, Thorsten Moess, Peter Breunig

“…Extraction methods, crop choice, and energy sources will strongly influence future pathways for CM. We also find that there is no substantial benefit from CM in terms of climate change mitigation when feedstock is sourced solely from plants. …”
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Prediction of Nonunion in the Diaphyseal Segment of Long Bones in Adults Using the RUST Score and Modified RUST Score by Anupam Gupta, C Prasanna, BK DinakarRai

“…Conclusion: Lower 3-month RUST scores for tibial and femoral fractures are strongly associated with nonunion, and there is a need for secondary intervention. …”
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THE ENIGMA OF WORKING MOTHERS IN INSTITUTIONS OF HIGHER LEARNING IN NSUKKA L.G.A. OF ENUGU STATE: WORK-FAMILY ROLE CONFLICT by NDUBUISI ONESIMUS OPARAOCHA

“…It recommends that for working mothers to be emotionally and psychologically strong, the support of their husbands is essential. …”
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SensorDBSCAN: Semi-Supervised Active Learning Powered Method for Anomaly Detection and Diagnosis by Petr Ivanov, Maria Shtark, Alexander Kozhevnikov, Maksim Golyadkin, Dmitry Botov, Ilya Makarov

“…The proposed approach combines a transformer-based encoder trained with a triplet-based contrastive learning objective and the classical density-based clustering algorithm DBSCAN, enabling strong feature extraction, efficient and interpretable feature space organization and simple clustering algorithm. …”
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Association of fracture type with enophthalmos and intraorbital volume correction in orbital fractures: A computed tomographic study by Anantanarayanan Parameswaran, Elavenil Panneerselvam, Bipasha Mukherjee

“…Conclusion: Correction of enophthalmos strongly depends on the type of orbital fracture. There exists a significant linear relationship between enophthalmos and intraorbital volume in fractures involving the internal orbit.…”
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Cumulative evidence for association between genetic polymorphisms and esophageal cancer susceptibility: A review with evidence from meta‐analysis and genome‐wide association studie... by Jie Tian, Caiyang Liu, Guanchu Liu, Chunjian Zuo, Huanwen Chen

“…In additional, five variants on five genes were rated as strong cumulative epidemiological evidence for a nominally significant association with EC and ESCC risk, including CYP1A1 rs1048943, EGF rs444903, HOTAIR rs920778, MMP2 rs243865, and PLCE1 rs2274223, 10 variants were rated as moderate, and 18 variants were rated as weak. …”
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A Diversified Spectrometric and Molecular Docking Technique to Biophysical Study of Interaction between Bovine Serum Albumin and Sodium Salt of Risedronic Acid, a Bisphosphonate fo... by M. Manjushree, Hosakere D. Revanasiddappa

“…The binding constant of order 105 was obtained to be confirming that there exists a strong binding interaction between BSA and RSN. Synchronous fluorescence shows that the microenvironment of tryptophan was altered, not tyrosine of BSA; in addition to this, the distance between tryptophan of BSA and RSN was found out from Forster’s theory of nonradiation energy transfer. …”
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Influence of Regional Pollution Outflow on Particle Number Concentration and Particle Size in Airshed of Guangzhou, South China by Hing Cho Cheung, Chengyu Nie, Mintao Huang, Tingting Yang, Hao Wang, Celine Siu Lan Lee, Chenglei Pei, Jun Zhao, Baoling Liang

“…During monsoon seasons, PM pollution occurred at a regional scale affecting the urban and suburban areas as indicated by the high PNC correlation (r value = 0.70), but the PNCs were lower than that during land-sea breeze period (with lower PNCM1/PNCLSB1 and PNCM2/PNCLSB2 ratios) due to the higher atmospheric dispersion. There is a strong local emission (mainly vehicular emissions) in both urban and suburban areas which was significantly lowered during the CNY period due to reduced human activities. …”
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Leaf size indices and structure of the peat swamp forest by L.G. Aribal, J.G. Bonggay, E.S. Fernando

“…Such decreased leaf size indices were strongly correlated to soil nitrogen, acrotelm thickness, peat depth, phosphate in water, nitrogen and phosphorus in the plant tissue.…”
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Long-term Evolution of Sco X-1: Implications for the Current Spin Frequency and Ellipticity of the Neutron Star by Abhijnan Kar, Pulkit Ojha, Sudip Bhattacharyya

“…Sco X-1 is the brightest observed extrasolar X-ray source, which is a neutron star (NS) low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) and is thought to have a strong potential for continuous gravitational waves (CW) detection due to its high accretion rate and relative proximity. …”
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