Evaluation on Carbon Sequestration Capacity of 30 Common Landscaping Tree Species in Beijing by Jing QIAN, Sidong SHEN, Shuxin FAN, Li DONG

“…ObjectiveWith the development of urbanization and industrialization, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase, and the issue of global warming has attracted more and more attention. Actively responding to the issue of climate change, China has put forward the carbon peaking and carbon neutrality goals for carbon emission reduction. …”
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Early Childhood Nutrition and Development in Atopic Families from Northeastern Bulgaria by Albena Toneva, Antoniya Hachmeriyan, Rouzha Pancheva, Miglena Marinova-Achkar

“…In the families included in the study, mothers smoked more often (53.3%; n = 64) than fathers (43.3%; n = 52), and 13.3% (n = 16) of the women smoked during pregnancy. …”
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Medical-psychological aspects of professional deformation of personality development among emergency medical staff by O. S. Lalymenko, І. V. Zavhorodnii, V. A. Kapustnyk, I. Boeckelmann, V. F. Zabashta, M. O. Stytsenko

“…A representative sample included 85 respondents – emergency medical staff (paramedics and doctors), 28 men and 57 women, aged 20 to 78 years, with a mean age of 40.78 ± 13.43 years. …”
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Partner-Inflicted Brain Injury: Intentional, Concurrent, and Repeated Traumatic and Hypoxic Neurologic Insults by Julianna M. Nemeth, Clarice Decker, Rachel Ramirez, Luke Montgomery, Alice Hinton, Sharefa Duhaney, Raya Smith, Allison Glasser, Abigail (Abby) Bowman, Emily Kulow, Amy Wermert

“…Following a partner’s attack, just over 60% reported ever having blacked out or lost consciousness—44% experienced a loss of consciousness (LOC) more than once—indicating a conservative estimate of a probable brain injury by an intimate partner. …”
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Efficacy of Tripterygium glycosides in immune-mediated kidney diseases as a immunomodulation drug in combination with conventional immunosuppressive agents: a systematic review and... by Yaotan Li, Yaotan Li, Jinyi Hou, Jinyi Hou, Xiaochang Wu, Xiaochang Wu, Chang Liu, Mengqi Zhou, Shijia Lin, Weijing Liu, Weijing Liu, Yaoxian Wang, Yaoxian Wang, Huijuan Zheng, Huijuan Zheng

“…However, treatment course, TG dosage, and sample size are important factors influencing the results.ConclusionOur study suggests that the combination of TG with immunosuppressive agents offers more pronounced efficacy in treating immune mediated kidney diseases, without increasing the incidence of adverse reactions. …”
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Epidemiology of Medical Errors and Incidents in Emergency Medicine by Yu. E. Voskanyan

“…By an incident, the authors understood an event with a patient that was more related to the process of providing medical care than to the course of the disease or comorbid conditions which led or could lead to causing additional harm. …”
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SIAE-Mediated Loss of Sialic Acid Acetylation Contributes to Ulcerative Colitis by Bo S, Wang X, Qian J, Ma G, Ying Z, Hu D, Hou C, Ma J, Xu L, Yang S

“…This study investigates the role of glycosylation changes, specifically sialic acid de-acetylation, in UC progression.Methods: Tissue samples were obtained from patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) and colorectal cancer at the Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University. …”
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Whole Exome Sequencing Study Identifies Distinct Characteristics of Transformed Small Cell Lung Cancer With EGFR Mutation Compared to De Novo Small Cell and Primary Non‐Small Cell... by Jinjing Tan, Dan Zhao, Qunhui Wang, Yanjing Peng, Jie Li, Xi Li, Nanying Che, Ying Hu, Hua Zheng

“…In contrast, mutations in PTCH2, CNGB3, SPTBN5, CROCC, and MYO15A were more common in transformed SCLC, whereas PABPC3 and MUC19 mutations were more frequent in de novo SCLC. …”
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Research on Habitat and Species Diversity of Spontaneous Plants in the Dujiangyan Canal Corridors by Rui HAN, Qingjuan YANG

“…Studying the composition and diversity characteristics of spontaneous plants in different habitats within the canal corridor of the Dujiangyan Essence Irrigation Area is beneficial for biodiversity conservation and the optimization of canal corridor landscape.MethodsThis research conducts a comprehensive survey of spontaneous plants in spring, collecting data from 81 sample points and 167 quadrats. …”
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Owners vs. Managers. Disparities of Attitudes on the Business Risk in SME Segment by Dvorsky, J., Kozubikova, L., Ključnikov , A., Ivanova, E.

“…Disparities of attitudes on the business risks were verified on the sample of 1585 SMEs by the mathematic method with the non-parametric approach – the Kruskal-Wallis test. …”
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Cathepsin G promotes arteriovenous fistula maturation by positively regulating the MMP2/MMP9 pathway by Lemei Hu, Changqing Zheng, Ying Kong, Zhiqing Luo, Fengzhang Huang, Zhigang Zhu, Quhuan Li, Ming Liang

“…However, the low maturation rate of AVF severely affects its use in patients. A more comprehensive understanding and study of the mechanisms of AVF maturation is urgently needed.Methods and results In this study, we downloaded the publicly available datasets (GSE119296 and GSE220796) from the Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and merged them for subsequent analysis. …”
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Analysis of factors influencing contact in the 686 Program for patients with a first-time diagnosis of severe mental disorders in Hainan Province from 2018 to 2022 by Xin Zuo, Jianhe Hong, Di Liang, Wenting Cao, Qiqing Liang, Yumei Liu

“…Method This study employed a cross-sectional study design. …”
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Development of identity assay for human papillomavirus genotypes using Simple Plex™ microfluidic automated ELISA by Kyle Esposito, Richard R. Rustandi, Matthew Schombs

“…The Ella™ also has scalable plates if less or more samples need to be tested, therefore having high potential to replace the manual ELISA identity assay. …”
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Mesoscopic Mechanism of Permeability of Coal Rock Mass with Increasing Temperature in the Range of Room Temperature to 350°C by Jianlin Xie, Tao Meng, Tingxu Jin, Xiaoyuan Sun

“…In this paper, the following conclusions were obtained from an experimental study of the fine-scale structural evolution of coking coal and fine sandstone specimens, using an experimental research method of simultaneous image observation of the pore structure evolution of coal rock samples by online heating. (1) With the increase of temperature, the inner areas of coal and rock mass with both solid particles and pure pores are affected by temperature. …”
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GDM links to increased neonatal myocardial hypertrophy via ANGPTL7: prospective cohort study by Weihua Jian, Shangwen Shi, Xiufang Yang, Yuping Huang, Chen Du, Meiyu He, Xiaotong Li, Muhua Huang, Rukang Yuan, Lin Wei, Shumei Yang, Silu Cai, Jie Yang

“…In the poorly-controlled GDM subgroup (GDM-A), neonates had significantly higher ANGPTL7 levels and IVS/LVPW ratio (1.19 vs. 1.03), indicating more severe myocardial abnormalities.Conclusion ANGPTL7 may contribute to myocardial hypertrophy in GDM neonates by promoting insulin resistance. …”
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Pharmacometabolomics Enables Real-World Drug Metabolism Sciences by Fleur B. Nijdam, Marieke A. J. Hof, Hans Blokzijl, Stephan J. L. Bakker, Eelko Hak, Gérard Hopfgartner, Frank Klont, on behalf of the TransplantLines Investigators

“…To address these limitations, a more phenotypic approach would be desirable, for which pharmacometabolomics (PMx) could be useful by studying and elucidating drug metabolism in patient samples, such as blood and urine. …”
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Dual Attention-Based Global-Local Feature Extraction Network for Unsupervised Change Detection in PolSAR Images by Dazhi Xu, Ming Li, Yan Wu, Peng Zhang, Xinyue Xin

“…Specifically, the feature constraint loss function is constructed to eliminate feature redundancy and fully exploit the complementarity between features, while the focal loss function is introduced to balance the impact of the inequality between changed and unchanged samples on the network. Numerical experiments on five real spaceborne PolSAR datasets demonstrate that our DA-GLN is more competitive than other state-of-the-art methods.…”
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Gut microbiota diversity and composition in children with autism spectrum disorder: associations with symptom severity by Qinghuang Zeng, Yisheng Hu, Leiying Xie, Xinyi Zhang, Yun Huang, Jianbin Ye, Shouan Wang, Jia Xu

“…We hypothesize that the composition of gut microbiota in children with ASD may be strongly associated with the severity of their symptoms. Methods Here, fecal samples from children (divided in to three groups: neurotypical, severe ASD and mild ASD) at a hospital were collected. …”
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Signs and symptoms of vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA) in clinical practice – the possible involvement of thyroid autoimmunity in genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM) by Laura Cucinella, Federica Barbagallo, Mariacristina Erroi, Chiara Procaccianti, Ellis Martini, Lara Tiranini, Giorgia E. Parrotta, Greta Monne, Giulia M. Colombo, Aldo Calogero, Rossella E. Nappi

“…Women with thyroid ADs reported more severe VVA symptoms, but specific symptomatological clusters should be investigated in larger samples. …”
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A novel MPDENet model and efficient combined loss function for real-time pixel-level segmentation detection of tunnel lining cracks by Ningyu Zhao, Yi Song, Hao Liu, Ailin Yang, Haifei Jiang, Haihong Tan

“…Recent studies have demonstrated the potential of using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for tunnel lining crack detection, offering a promising alternative to manual inspection methods. However, the performance of CNNs is often hindered by the sample imbalance in crack images, and the existing model architectures are often too computationally expensive, presenting challenges for real-time detection. …”
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