Fitness and food environments around junior high schools in Taiwan and their association with body composition: Gender differences for recreational, reading, food and beverage expo... by Po-Huang Chiang, Lin-Yuan Huang, Meei-Shyuan Lee, Hui-Chen Tsou, Mark L Wahlqvist

“…Where there were no FBOs, boys' WC and TSF were less with more parks, but girls were shorter and WC more adverse. …”
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Designing an Allocation Model by Using System Dynamics Approach (Case Study: Dairy Factory by Ali Haji Gholam Saryazdi

“…Therefore, in this paper, by using the system dynamics approach, we analyze the dynamics of production and allocation of resources in a dairy factory.Methodology: Using the system dynamics approach, we analyze the dynamics of production and allocation of resources in a dairy factory.Findings: The results showed that among the variables affecting production and allocation in the dairy processing plant, the price variable is one of the most influential and essential policy variables. …”
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Structural equation modeling for green technology system in environmental monitoring by Mukaddas Abbasovna Umarova, Abbas Abdupattaxovich Nabixodjayev, Barno Shukhratovna Akbarova, Munisa Jamoliddin qizi Xusnuddinova

“…The research results show that the constructed model can systematically analyze the interconnections between regulatory frameworks, technological adoption rates, environmental outcomes, and organizational sustainability commitment. Which are more positively correlated, more statistically significant, and more instrumental to achieving long-term environmental sustainability. …”
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Alternative disease management strategies for organic apple production in the United Kingdom by Lucas Alexander Shuttleworth

“…The challenge when using organic methods is results are often more variable and less predictable than when using conventional chemicals. …”
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The impact of economic crisis on regional disparities and the allocation of economic branches in Greek regions by Christofakis Manolis, Gaki Eleni, Lagos Dimitrios

“…Thus, according to these results, a concluding remark is that the more traditional activities seem to be more resilient, unlike the modern activities, which seem more sensitive to the crisis and are located mainly in the large cities and the most urbanised regions of the country. …”
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Determine the promotion target of exclusive breastfeeding among poor families in Indonesia by Mizna Sabilla, Agung Dwi Laksono, Hario Megatsari

“…According to maternal age, all ages were more likely to achieve EBF than <20. Moreover, based on marital status, married mothers were 1.055 times more likely than divorced/widowed mothers to perform EBF (95 % CI 1.034–1.076). …”
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Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on influenza vaccination rate among health care workers by Salah Alshagrawi

“…The odds of HCWs obtaining the influenza vaccine were 4.5 times higher for those who reported one yearly medical visit, 2.6 times higher for two, and 1.4 times higher for three or more. HCWs who experienced more severe COVID-19 outcomes were more likely to get vaccinated against the virus. …”
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Social Organization Is Associated With Relaxed Selection on Worker Genes in Highly Polygyne Ants by Kailey Ferger, Neil D. Tsutsui

“…However, this pattern does not appear to hold consistently across species with lower or more variable queen numbers, where the degree of relaxed selection in worker genes shows no clear association with average queen number per nest. …”
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Management and welfare of the Italian Heavy Draft Horse by B. Benedetti, M. Felici, G. Pigozzi, F. Patroncini, B. Padalino

“…Univariable logistic regressions with the dummy variable ‘Presence of at least one pathology’ showed that the odds of having an unhealthy horses were increased when respondents owned more than 10 horses, reared horses in intensive systems and in groups, and reported no dental or hoof care (all p-values <0.05). …”
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Joint multiscale dynamics in soil–vegetation–atmosphere systems: Multifractal cross‐correlation analysis of arid and semiarid rangelands by Ernesto Sanz, Andrés F. Almeida‐Ñaulay, Carlos G. H. Díaz‐Ambrona, Sergio Zubelzu Mínguez, Ana M. Tarquis

“…Moreover, multifractal analyses unveil differences in the complexity of joint variables’ behaviors in the two regions. Almeria exhibits higher multifractality across variables, indicating more complex and variable environmental interactions, likely due to its more arid conditions. …”
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Total thoracic herniation of the liver: a case of delayed right-sided diaphragmatic hernia after blunt trauma by Satish Kesavaramanujam, Michael C. Morell, Dhanush Harigovind, Chandana Bhimmanapalli, Sebastiano Cassaro

“…Three quarters of TDIs are due to blunt thoraco-abdominal trauma. In blunt TDIs, variable clinical presentations and frequent concurrent life-threatening injuries may hinder early recognition and treatment, leading to diagnostic delays, which may result in technically more challenging repairs. …”
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Long-Term Persistence in Observed Temperature and Precipitation Series by Huayu Zhong, Yiping Guo

“…Moreover, the cumulative departure from the mean series of ATP is much more variable across different regions, whereas those of AMT for different regions are more similar. …”
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Opportunizing by Ólavur Christiansen

“… Opportunizing emerged as the core variable of this classic GT study on business and management. …”
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Sex-specific and sex hormonal-related differences in melanoma microenvironment by Selene Attorre, Filippo Ugolini, Daniele Lana, Maria Grazia Giovannini, Daniela Massi

“…Growing interest has emerged in the role of sex, as a biological variable that influences the immunopathogenesis of melanoma. …”
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U.S. college students’ acceptability and educational benefits of ChatGPT from a digital divide perspective by Ceciley (Xinyi) Zhang, Laurent H. Wang, Ronald E. Rice

“…The results indicate that students with higher family SES and lower individual SES, and females, tend to view the acceptability of ChatGPT uses more positively, although racial/ethnic minorities are more critical of displacement activities. …”
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The irrelevance of R&D intensity in the ESG disclosure? Insights from top 10 listed companies on global Islamic indices by Muhammad Afi Ramadhan, Ratna Mulyany, Evi Mutia

“…This study signifies the role of directors even within the Islamic listed companies that the more highly educated the members of the board, they will tend to disclose more ESG information on their sustainability reports. …”
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Association of Burnout and Depression symptoms and their prevalence among medical students in Karachi, Pakistan by Tafazzul Hyder Zaidi, Mubashir Zafar, Amber Ilyas, Momina Khan, Rafia Ghani, Rahat Naz, Ayesha Mubbashir

“…In regression analysis, higher academic year more than 2 times (5th year, OR 2.03, 95% CI 1.42-7.96, p-value 0.004) and living at dormitory more than 3 times (OR 3.97, 95% CI 1.97-5.01, p-value 0.003) were more likely associated with more extensive overlap of burnout and depression symptoms. …”
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A Distributed AGC Method considering Two-Channel Random Delays and Their Difference between Interconnected Power Systems by Xilin Zhao, Zhenyu Lin, Bo Fu, Yang Yang, Jimin Ma

“…With the emergence of the concept of smart grid, the networked automatic generation control (AGC) method has been more and more important for secondary frequency control due to its characteristics such as openness and flexibility. …”
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Demographic and life history traits explain patterns in species vulnerability to extinction. by Haydée Hernández-Yáñez, Su Yeon Kim, Judy P Che-Castaldo

“…We found that herbaceous perennials are more vulnerable when they mature early and have high juvenile survival rates; birds are more vulnerable with high progressive growth and reproduction; mammals are more vulnerable when they have longer generation times. …”
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Lessons learned from an fMRI-guided rTMS study on performance in a numerical Stroop task. by Lysianne Beynel, Hannah Gura, Zeynab Rezaee, Ekaete C Ekpo, Zhi-De Deng, Janet O Joseph, Paul Taylor, Bruce Luber, Sarah H Lisanby

“…However, the modeling approach revealed a robust effect of rTMS on the drift rate variable, suggesting differential processing of congruent and incongruent properties in perceptual decision-making, and more generally, illustrating that more advanced computational analysis of performance can elucidate the effects of rTMS on the brain where simpler methods may not.…”
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