Influenza A virus on oceanic islands: host and viral diversity in seabirds in the Western Indian Ocean. by Camille Lebarbenchon, Audrey Jaeger, Chris Feare, Matthieu Bastien, Muriel Dietrich, Christine Larose, Erwan Lagadec, Gérard Rocamora, Nirmal Shah, Hervé Pascalis, Thierry Boulinier, Matthieu Le Corre, David E Stallknecht, Koussay Dellagi

“…We further investigated the spatial variation in virus transmission patterns between islands and identified the origin of circulating viruses using a molecular approach. …”
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Housing Precarity in Russia: Measurements in Regions and Federal Districts by Denis B. Litvintsev

“…While much of the existing work has focused on labor market precarization and the emergence of the precariat as a new social class, similar patterns are also evident in the housing sector, contributing to growing feelings of instability and uncertainty about the future. …”
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Urban Sustainability and the Local Politics of Digital Twins: the Cases of Bologna and Milan by Ernesto d'Albergo, Giorgio Giovanelli

“…Two patterns of the local politics of UDTs emerge in Bologna and Milan, in which above all the roles of public actors and businesses are different. …”
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Long-term musical training can protect against age-related upregulation of neural activity in speech-in-noise perception. by Lei Zhang, Bernhard Ross, Yi Du, Claude Alain

“…Furthermore, older musicians demonstrated more youth-like spatial patterns of functional connectivity, as compared to older non-musicians. …”
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Population genetic and phylogeographic insights into the phyllosomal odyssey by Matthew Iacchei

“…I analyzed mtDNA sequences and microsatellites to determine patterns of genetic structure across the geographic distributions of three<em> </em>lobster species: <em>Panulirus penicillatus</em> (Red Sea to the East Pacific Ocean), <em>P. interruptus</em> (sub-tropical East Pacific), and <em>P. marginatus</em> (Hawaiian endemic). …”
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Effects of nitrogen nutrient on the behavior of feeding and oviposition of the brown planthopper, Nilarpavata lugens, on IR64 by LÜ Zhong-xian, YU Xiao-ping, HEONG Kong-luen, HU Cui

“…We determined the preferences of feeding and oviposition of the brown planthopper (BPH), Nilaparvata lugens, to rice plants of IR64 with different nitrogen content, the changes in preferences of BPH populations fed successively on plants with high (200N) or low (0N) nitrogen fertilizer, and the influences of nitrogen content on the spatial distribution patterns of feeding and oviposition. …”
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Electroencephalography Signal Analysis: Classification Techniques and Applications by Iosif-Beniamin GOGA

“…Several signal acquisition and preprocessing techniques were investigated, including artifact removal, feature extraction methods, such as wavelet transforms and common spatial patterns, combined with classification approaches like support vector machines (SVM), and signal enhancement methods. …”
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Using location-based social network data for activity intensity analysis: A case study of New York City by Haluk Laman, Shamsunnahar Yasmin, Naveen Eluru

“…While earlier research efforts focused either on disaggregate patterns or aggregate analysis of social and temporal attributes, no attempt has been made to relate the data to transportation planning outcomes. …”
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Effect of Aggregate Crystalline Surface Anisotropy on Asphalt–Aggregate Interface Interaction Based on Molecular Dynamics by Jian Li, Liang He

“…The results indicated that different types and crystalline surfaces of aggregates did not alter the distribution patterns of the asphalt components on their surfaces. …”
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Use of population indices in cancer research: a scoping review by M. Courtney Hughes, Sadia Afrin, Mahdi Vaezi

“…Population health indices were also used to study cancer's economic outcomes, the burden of disease, and spatial and temporal patterns. Breast, lung, cervical, liver, and colorectal cancers appeared in most studies. …”
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A Hierarchical Allometric Scaling Analysis of Chinese Cities: 1991–2014 by Yanguang Chen, Jian Feng

“…However, the allometric patterns are easily influenced by random disturbance from the noises in observational data. …”
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Evolution of the Danube River's islands on the Bulgaria-Romania border over the last century. by Gabriela Ioana-Toroimac, Marina Vîrghileanu

“…In this context, the paper aims to draw conclusions on the spatial dynamics of the Danube River's sandy islands along the Bulgaria-Romania border. …”
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Soil Texture Mapping in the Permafrost Region: A Case Study on the Eastern Qinghai–Tibet Plateau by Wangping Li, Yadong Liu, Xiaodong Wu, Lin Zhao, Tonghua Wu, Guojie Hu, Defu Zou, Yongping Qiao, Xiaoying Fan, Xiaoxian Wang

“…Overall, the average values of clay and silt gradually decreased with increasing soil profile depth, while sand showed the opposite pattern. In terms of spatial distribution, clay and silt are higher in the southeast and lower in the northwest in each standard layer, while sand is just the opposite. …”
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Enhancing Neurodegenerative Disease Diagnosis Through Confidence-Driven Dynamic Spatio-Temporal Convolutional Network by Ning Yuan, Donghai Guan, Shengrong Li, Li Zhang, Qi Zhu

“…Dynamic brain networks are more effective than static networks in characterizing the evolving patterns of brain functional connectivity, making them a more promising tool for diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases. …”
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Geoelectric Joint Inversion for 3D Imaging of Vineyard Ground by Nicola Lopane, Matteo Albéri, Alessio Barbagli, Enrico Chiarelli, Tommaso Colonna, Fabio Gallorini, Enrico Guastaldi, Fabio Mantovani, Dario Petrone, Silvio Pierini, Kassandra Giulia Cristina Raptis, Virginia Strati

“…This model significantly enhances subsurface characterization, delineating root systems and correlating water distribution with resistivity patterns, showing relative variations sometimes greater than 50%. …”
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Multimodal lightweight neural network for Alzheimer's disease diagnosis integrating neuroimaging and cognitive scores by Bhoomi Gupta, Ganesh Kanna Jegannathan, Mohammad Shabbir Alam, Kottala Sri Yogi, Janjhyam Venkata Naga Ramesh, Vemula Jasmine Sowmya, Isa Bayhan

“…In the neuroimaging feature extraction module, redundancy-reduced convolutional operations are employed to capture fine-grained local features, while a global filtering mechanism enables the extraction of holistic spatial patterns. Multimodal feature fusion is achieved through spatial image registration and summation, allowing for effective integration of structural and functional imaging modalities. …”
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Spatiotemporal Evolution of Precipitation Concentration in the Yangtze River Basin (1960–2019): Associations with Extreme Heavy Precipitation and Validation Using GPM IMERG by Tao Jin, Yuliang Zhou, Ping Zhou, Ziling Zheng, Rongxing Zhou, Yanqi Wei, Yuliang Zhang, Juliang Jin

“…GPM IMERG captures PCIM patterns well but underestimates PCID trends and magnitudes, highlighting limitations in daily-scale resolution. …”
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Application of Array Imaging Algorithms for Water Holdup Measurement in Gas–Water Two-Phase Flow Within Horizontal Wells by Haimin Guo, Ao Li, Yongtuo Sun, Liangliang Yu, Wenfeng Peng, Mingyu Ouyang, Dudu Wang, Yuqing Guo

“…Gas–water two-phase flow in horizontal and inclined wells is significantly influenced by gravitational forces and spatial asymmetry around the wellbore, resulting in complex and variable flow patterns. …”
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Seaward expansion of salt marshes on the largest uninhabited island in Changjiang Estuary over the past two decades by Yaying Lou, Zhijun Dai, Xuefei Mei, Huabing Shi, Hui Dong, Jinping Cheng

“…Conversely, bare flats shifted from slight deposition (0.01 m/yr from 2002 to 2014) to erosion (0.07 m/yr from 2014 to 2022). Spatial analyses identified distinct expansion patterns, with the Upper Shoal extending northwestward and the Middle-Lower Shoal expanding southwestward. …”
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Detection and interpretation of the time-varying seasonal signals in China with multi-geodetic measurements by Liansheng Deng, Yugang Xiao, Qusen Chen, Wei Peng, Zhao Li, Hua Chen, Zhiwen Wu

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