AI4HealthyCities: a protocol for a mixed-method ethnographic study on the social determinants of cardiovascular health in New York City by Anna-Maria Volkmann, Elizabeth Adamson, Yongkang Zhang, Peter Speyer, Emma Boxley, David Napier, Reekarl Pierre, Wenqin Zhang

“…This study builds on prior quantitative research conducted under the AI4HealthyCities initiative, which applied machine learning to identify spatial clusters of cardiovascular vulnerability and social disadvantage. …”
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Contribution of Nontimber Forest Products Earn to Livelihood in Rural Households and the Type of Use: A Systematic Review by Binega Derebe, Asmamaw Alemu, Zebene Asfaw

“…The researcher conducted a review of 83 articles published between 2011 and 2021 to determine the nontimber forest products (NTFPs) income contribution and usage types based on spatial and temporal patterns. The study used a search, synthesis, appraisal, and analysis framework for review. …”
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Root pH variation of herbaceous plants among plant functional groups in response to climate and soil gradients on the Tibetan alpine grasslands by Lirong Zhao, Bo Pang, Jiangtao Hong, Xingxing Ma, Ziyin Du, Xiaodan Wang

“…This study provided a comprehensive analysis of root pH patterns in herbaceous plants over a large spatial scale. …”
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Tracking Long-Term Ozone Pollution Dynamics in Chinese Cities with Meteorological and Emission Attribution by Hongrui Li, Xiaoyong Liu, Zijian Liu, Mengyang Li, Tong Wu, Peicheng Li, Peng Zhou

“…Empirical orthogonal function analysis further reveals distinct spatial patterns of emission influence: long-term O₃ trends in mega-cities such as Beijing, Tianjin, and Shanghai are driven mainly by local emissions (1.5–3% contribution), while key transport hubs including Xi’an, Tangshan, and Langfang are markedly affected by traffic-related emissions (>2%). …”
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Salinity Gradients Override Hydraulic Connectivity in Shaping Bacterial Community Assembly and Network Stability at a Coastal Aquifer–Reservoir Interface by Cuixia Zhang, Haiming Li, Mengdi Li, Qian Zhang, Sihui Su, Xiaodong Zhang, Han Xiao

“…Here, we integrated hydrochemical analyses with high-throughput 16S rRNA gene sequencing to investigate bacterial community composition, assembly processes, and co-occurrence network patterns across groundwater_in (entering the reservoir), groundwater_out (exiting the reservoir), and reservoir water in a coastal system. …”
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Three‐dimensional structural‐material models of the formation of the Nyurbinskaya and Botuobinskaya kimberlite pipes (Yakutian Diamondiferous Province, Russia) by E. V. Serebryakov, A. S. Gladkov, D. A. Koshkarev

“…Based on this more comprehensive and integrated approach, the existing fault patterns were clarified in detail; elements of the internal fault structure were mapped; fault azimuths and dip angles were estimated; and thickness values were obtained. …”
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Design, development, and evaluation of a low-cost smart solar-powered weather station for use in agricultural environments by Hamed Mokhtarzadeh, Shiva Gorjian, Saeid Minaei

“…Understanding climatic conditions is crucial for various scientific disciplines and practical applications, especially in tropical regions where weather patterns exhibit considerable spatial and temporal variability. …”
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Advancing sustainable development in large lake basins: A static–dynamic integrated management framework for ecosystem service supply–demand matching by Suwen Xiong, Fan Yang

“…This study uses the Dongting Lake Basin as a case to examine six ecosystem services (ESs): water yield (WY), food production (FP), carbon sequestration (CS), soil retention (SR), habitat quality (HQ), and leisure entertainment (LE). Integrating spatial autocorrelation analysis and ecosystem service supply–demand ratio (ESSDR), we identified the spatiotemporal mismatch patterns of ecosystem service supply (ESS) and ecosystem service demand (ESD). …”
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Deep Learning-Based MRI Brain Tumor Segmentation With EfficientNet-Enhanced UNet by Pradeep Kumar Tiwary, Prashant Johri, Alok Katiyar, Mayur Kumar Chhipa

“…However, challenges arise from similar intensity patterns, varying tumor shapes, and indistinct boundaries, which complicate brain tumor segmentation. …”
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Characterizing the scale of regional landslide triggering from storm hydrometeorology by J. Perkins, N. S. Oakley, N. S. Oakley, B. D. Collins, S. C. Corbett, W. P. Burgess

“…Other factors, such as antecedent soil moisture driven by storm frequency and mesoscale precipitation features within storms, are instead more likely to dictate the patterns of landslide-generating rainfall throughout the state.…”
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Urban Heat Island Effect: Remote Sensing Monitoring and Assessment—Methods, Applications, and Future Directions by Lili Zhao, Xuncheng Fan, Tao Hong

“…Through analyzing the heat island differences between metropolitan areas and small–medium cities, the relationship between urban morphology and thermal environment, and regional specificity and global universal patterns, this study revealed that the proportion of impervious surfaces is the primary driving factor of heat island intensity while simultaneously finding that vegetation cover exhibits significant cooling effects under suitable conditions, with the intensity varying significantly depending on vegetation types, management levels, and climatic conditions. …”
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Effects of latent infection of Toxoplasma gondii strains with different genotypes on mouse behavior and brain transcripts by Bei-Bei Zhou, Hong-Jie Dong, Hang Sun, Xiao-Man Xie, Huan-Huan Xie, Wen-Ju Zhu, Ya-Nan Li, Chao Xu, Jian-Ping Cao, Gui-Hua Zhao, Kun Yin

“…In China, the two different isolates, Chinese I (ToxoDB#9) and Chinese III are dominant epidemic strains widely spreading in humans and domestic animals and can lead to latent infection in host brain tissues, but the comparison of their manipulation patterns and mechanisms remains unclear. Methods Tachyzoites of the TgWh6 (Wh6) strain and the TgCtLHG (LHG) strain were used for establishing in vitro infection models within mouse microglia BV2 cells, and the differences in their invasion and proliferation patterns were observed. …”
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Multi-channel spatio-temporal graph attention contrastive network for brain disease diagnosis by Chaojun Li, Kai Ma, Shengrong Li, Xiangshui Meng, Ran Wang, Daoqiang Zhang, Qi Zhu

“…However, most existing researches tend to focus on isolated brain network sequence segmented by sliding windows, and they are difficult to effectively uncover the higher-order spatio-temporal topological pattern in DBNs. Meantime, it remains a challenge to utilize the structure connectivity prior in the DBNs analysis. …”
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Research on the occurrence mechanism of mine earthquake in Longwanggou Coal Mine and its damage assessment to surface buildings by Mingtao Gao, Siyuan Wang, Decheng Ge, Yang Zhou, Weitao Li, Dechun Liu, Quandong Lian, Peng Hua, Minhui Li, Zihao Guo, Chengyang Guo

“…This study constructs a spatial structural model of hard rock tearing-type fracture at the 61,607 working face in Longwanggou Coal Mine. …”
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Análise de interações solo-planta-clima em zonas diferenciadas de área de cultivo de milho Site-specific analysis of soil-plant-climate interactions on maize by Antonio O. Santos, Hélio do Prado

“…Soil, plant and climate interactions implied moderate differences in the pattern of simulated corn yield variability along years, for two separate zones, inside the same cultivated area. …”
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A Robust Behavioral Biometrics Framework for Smartphone Authentication via Hybrid Machine Learning and TOPSIS by Moceheb Lazam Shuwandy, Qutaiba Alasad, Maytham M. Hammood, Ayad A. Yass, Salwa Khalid Abdulateef, Rawan A. Alsharida, Sahar Lazim Qaddoori, Saadi Hamad Thalij, Maath Frman, Abdulsalam Hamid Kutaibani, Noor S. Abd

“…In this study, a robust framework for smartphone authentication is presented. Touch dynamic pattern recognitions, including trajectory curvature, touch pressure, acceleration, two-dimensional spatial coordinates, and velocity, have been extracted and assessed as behavioral biometric features. …”
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Anterograde versus Retrograde Effects of Damage to Identified Learning and Memory Systems during Acquisition, Retention, and Re-Acquisition of an Instrumental Visual Discrimination... by Robert J. McDonald, Joelle Kopp, Erin L. Zelinski, Robert J. Sutherland, Hugo Lehmann, Fraser Sparks, Nancy S. Hong

“…The implications of this pattern of results for our understanding of the organization of learning and memory in mammals is discussed.…”
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The changes in neural complexity and connectivity in thalamocortical and cortico-cortical systems after propofol-induced unconsciousness in different temporal scales by Zhenhu Liang, Luxin Fan, Bin Zhang, Wei Shu, Duan Li, Xiaoli Li, Tao Yu

“…In the late unconscious stage, the inter-regional DI across all scales indicated a shift from a balanced state of information flow between brain regions to a pattern where the prefrontal cortex and thalamus drive the temporal lobe. …”
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Coseismic crustal seismic velocity changes associated with the 2024 MW 7.5 Noto earthquake, Japan by Nicolas Paris, Yuji Itoh, Florent Brenguier, Qing-Yu Wang, Yixiao Sheng, Tomomi Okada, Naoki Uchida, Quentin Higueret, Ryota Takagi, Shin’ichi Sakai, Satoshi Hirahara, Shuutoku Kimura

“…However, their respective contribution to the observed coseismic velocity drop remains unclear because of the similarities in their spatial pattern. Outside the Noto Peninsula, the observed velocity drops average around 0.1%, which is predominantly attributed to dynamic stress changes from passing waves because modeled static stress changes are negligible at these great distances. …”
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Learning a Foreign Language in Older Adults Shapes the Functional Connectivity of Distinct Cerebellar Sub‐Regions With Cortical Areas Rich in CB1 Receptor Expression by Giovanna Bubbico, Federica Tomaiuolo, Carlo Sestieri, Golnoush Akhlaghipour, Alberto Granzotto, Antonio Ferretti, Mauro Gianni Perrucci, Stefano L. Sensi, Stefano Delli Pizzi

“…We hypothesize that FLL primarily modulates the rs‐FC of the most “cognitive” cerebellar sub‐regions, such as the crus and the posterior lobules. Methods The rs‐FC pattern was analyzed in 27 participants who underwent a 4‐week FLL (n = 14) or a control (n = 13) protocol. …”
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