Shifting vegetation phenology in protected areas: A response to climate change by Irina Ontel, Sorin Avram, Carmen Adriana Gheorghe, Mihaita Iulian Niculae, Ionuț Silviu Pascu, Steliana Rodino

“…This study comprehensively examined the impact of climate change on vegetation phenology within Romanian protected areas (PAs), focusing on critical phenological indicators such as the start of season (SOS), end of season (EOS), length of season (LOS), position of peak (POP), and photosynthetic metrics, including mean spring (MSP) and mean autumn (MAU). …”
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STUDI PENGEMBANGAN EKONOMI LOKAL TERKAIT INTERAKSI DESA-KOTA by ASEP HARIYANTO, HISTA YUGANDHINI

“… Study of Local Economic Development (LED) in Banjar district is determined from the determination Spatial Plans (RTRW) Banjar district regarding domestic Airguci handicraft industry which is in East Martapura Sub-district, precisely in the Mekar Village and the Melayu Ulu Village. This study starts from the initial assumption that there is no balance in the construction planning for urban and rural areas. …”
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Diagnostic pathways for breast cancer in 10 International Cancer Benchmarking Partnership (ICBP) jurisdictions: an international comparative cohort study based on questionnaire and... by David Weller, Usha Menon, Alina Zalounina Falborg, Henry Jensen, Andriana Barisic, Anne Kari Knudsen, David H Brewster, Victoria Cairnduff, Eva Grunfeld, Elizabeth Harland, Mats Lambe, Rebecca-Jane Law, Yulan Lin, Martin Malmberg, Donna Turner, Richard D Neal, Victoria White, Samantha Harrison, Peter Vedsted, Una MacLeod, Conan Donnelly, Anna Gavin, Jon Emery, Oliver Bucher, Jatinderpal Kalsi, Chantelle Anandan, Evangelia Ourania Fourkala, Therese Kearney, Marie-Louise Essink-Bot, Sigrun Saur Almberg, Breann Hawryluk, Jacqueline Kelly, Jackie Boylan, Jan Willem Coebergh, David Brewster, Stefan Bergström, Victoria Hammersley, Rebecca Bergin, Alina Zalounina Falborg, Andriana Barisi, Kerry Moore, Maria Rejmyr Davis

“…Objectives A growing body of evidence suggests longer time between symptom onset and start of treatment affects breast cancer prognosis. …”
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Study of different thermal management systems for traction batteries to obtain vehicle lightweighting by Giulia Sandrini, Daniel Chindamo, Marco Gadola, Andrea Candela, Paolo Magri

“…In addition to the primary lightweighting given by the replacement of the cooling system, the secondary lightweighting obtained by reducing the capacity of the battery pack to return to the range of the starting reference vehicle has been also considered. …”
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Innovative technologies and social inequalities in health: A scoping review of the literature. by Daniel Weiss, Håvard T Rydland, Emil Øversveen, Magnus Rom Jensen, Solvor Solhaug, Steinar Krokstad

“…The results of this study provide a comprehensive starting point for future research to further investigate how innovative technologies may influence the unequal distribution of health as a human right.…”
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Systematic review: e-cigarettes vs. conventional cigarettes by Mateusz Janik, Barbara Ufnalska, Joanna Rychlewska-Duda, Justyna Lisiecka, Artur Fabijański, Anna Konarska, Anna Machowiak, Michał Nowak, Wojciech Firlej, Adrianna Dukacz

“…At the same time, better social acceptance than tobacco cigarettes brings out questions if they are a step to smoking cessation or if they encourage more people to start using nicotine. Aim of the review This systematic review provide an analysis of the existing literature on the influence of e-cigarettes on the human body with their economic and behavioral aspects. …”
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Benchmarking protein language models for protein crystallization by Raghvendra Mall, Rahul Kaushik, Zachary A. Martinez, Matt W. Thomson, Filippo Castiglione

“…Furthermore, we fine-tune the ProtGPT2 model available via TRILL to generate crystallizable proteins. Starting with 3000 generated proteins and through a step of filtration processes including consensus of all open PLM-based classifiers, sequence identity through CD-HIT, secondary structure compatibility, aggregation screening, homology search and foldability evaluation, we identified a set of 5 novel proteins as potentially crystallizable.…”
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Research on Deep-Site Failure Mechanism of High-Steep Slope under Active Fault Creeping Dislocation by Yang Liu, Kaiwen Zhang, Denghang Tian, Liming Qu, Yang Liu

“…When the bottom fracture zone starts to move, the plastic zone first appears at the junction area between the front end of the bottom fracture zone and the overlying soil. …”
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COVID-19 outbreak rates and infection attack rates associated with the workplace: a descriptive epidemiological study by Yiqun Chen, Fu-Meng Khaw, Timothy Aldridge, Claire Ferraro

“…Objectives A large number of COVID-19 outbreaks/clusters have been reported in a variety of workplace settings since the start of the pandemic but the rate of outbreak occurrence in the workplace has not previously been assessed. …”
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Glial fibrillary acidic protein and S100b protein immunoreactivity in the hippocampus of weaning rats from dams treated with acrylamide during pregnancy by Karol Rycerz, Aleksandra E. Krawczyk, Jadwiga Jaworska-Adamu, Ewa Tomaszewska, Siemowit Muszyński, Piotr Dobrowolski, Marcin Arciszewski

“…The dams received acrylamide in drinking water (3 mg/kg b.w.) each day starting on the 6 th day (group II), 11 th day (group III) and 16 th day (group IV) of pregnancy. …”
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Phthisis Bulbi in a Retinitis Pigmentosa Patient after Argus II Implantation by Logan Vander Woude, Ramak Roohipour, Gibran Syed Khurshid

“…Four months after surgery, the patient was complaining of aching pain; he was found to have preseptal cellulitis and was started on antibiotics. This swelling improved over two weeks, but when the patient returned, he had a two mm hyphema associated with mild ocular inflammation without an inciting event or reason on exam. …”
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Community case study: an academia-industry-government partnership that monitors and predicts outbreaks in Tri-County Detroit area since 2017 by Irene Xagoraraki, Liang Zhao, Yabing Li, Brijen Miyani, John Norton, James Broz, Andrew Kaye, Anna Mehrotra, Anil Gosine, Scott Withington, Stacey McFarlane, Russell A. Faust

“…Since 2017, a project team including the College of Engineering at Michigan State University (MSU), the City of Detroit, the Great Lakes Water Authority (GLWA), industry, and local government and health departments, has been testing municipal wastewater from the TCDA to survey and predict surges in communicable diseases in the area. This ongoing effort started years before wastewater-based epidemiology became a widespread method in public health practice, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and is now supported by the U.S. …”
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Nanoparticle-in-Hydrogel Delivery System for the Sequential Release of Two Drugs by Demian van Straten, Jaime Fernández Bimbo, Wim E. Hennink, Tina Vermonden, Raymond M. Schiffelers

“…The dexamethasone phosphate loaded in the liposomes was not released until the gel degraded and intact liposomes were released, starting after 15 days. The different modes of release result in a biphasic and sequential release profile of dexamethasone followed by dexamethasone phosphate liposomes. …”
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DESAIN AWAL RUANG BAKAR PREMIXED UNTUK TURBIN GAS ULTRA MIKRO (TGUM) DENGAN MENGGUNAKAN PENDEKATAN TEMPERATUR ADIABATIK by Muhamad Maris Al Gifari, Firman Hartono, Prihadi Setyo Darmanto, Iman Kartolaksono Reksowardojo

“…The development of an ultra-micro gas turbine can be started from the design of the combustion chamber. …”
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Fully Automated Bone Age Assessment on Large-Scale Hand X-Ray Dataset by Xiaoying Pan, Yizhe Zhao, Hao Chen, De Wei, Chen Zhao, Zhi Wei

“…To eliminate noise in a raw X-ray image, we start with using U-Net to precisely segment hand mask image from a raw X-ray image. …”
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Comparison of the sociodemographic and clinical profiles of cancer patients admitted to a tertiary palliative care unit before and during the COVID-19 pandemic by Bruno Fernando da Silva Reis, Gisele O’Dwyer, Valeria Teresa Saraiva Lino, Lívia Costa de Oliveira, Karla Santos da Costa Rosa, Simone Garruth dos Santos Machado Sampaio

“…Give the limited literature on the subject, our comparative analysis of data serves as a starting point for a debate on this subject. More studies of a similar nature are needed to enable future comparisons and assist planning for other pandemics.…”
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Cardiovascular Safety of Clonidine and Dexmedetomidine in Critically Ill Patients after Cardiac Surgery by Angelina Grest, Judith Kurmann, Markus Müller, Victor Jeger, Bernard Krüger, Donat R. Spahn, Dominique Bettex, Alain Rudiger

“…Patients receiving clonidine (n = 193) were younger (66 (57–73) vs 70 (63–77) years, p=0.003) and had a lower SAPS II (35 (27–48) vs 41 (31–54), p=0.008) compared with patients receiving dexmedetomidine (n = 141). At the start of the drug infusion, HR (90 (75–100) vs 90 (80–105) bpm, p=0.028), MAP (70 (65–80) vs 70 (65–75) mmHg, p=0.093), and norepinephrine (0.05 (0.00–0.11) vs 0.12 (0.03–0.19) mcg/kg/min, p<0.001) were recorded in patients with clonidine and dexmedetomidine. …”
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Development of quality indicators for hand osteoarthritis care – Results from an European consensus study by Daniel H. Bordvik, Yeliz Prior, Rachael Bamford, Francis Berenbaum, Mathilda Björk, Thalita Blanck, Barbara Slatkowsky Christensen, Krysia Dziedzic, John Edwards, Nazemin Gilanliogullari, Carol Graham, Ida K. Haugen, Margreet Kloppenburg, Hellen Laheij, Marco J.P.F. Ritt, Tanja Stamm, Anne Therese Tveter, Nina Østerås, Ingvild Kjeken

“…Design: We used the OA-QI v.2. set as a starting point and adapted it to reflect hand OA care. …”
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Study on the Seismic Performance of Box-Plate Steel Structure Modular Unit by Hui Mao, Guang-chong Qin, Tao Lan

“…The test results show that the destruction of the box-plate steel structure modular unit under the low cyclic loading effect starts with corner buckling and ends with corner wallboard tear. …”
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KAI2-dependent signaling controls vegetative reproduction in Marchantia polymorpha through activation of LOG-mediated cytokinin synthesis (14) by Aino Komatsu, Mizuki Fujibayashi, Kazato Kumagai, Hidemasa Suzuki, Yuki Hata, Yumiko Takebayashi, Mikiko Kojima, Hitoshi Sakakibara, Junko Kyozuka

“…We propose a genetic cascade, starting from KAI2-dependent signaling, that promotes vegetative reproduction through the induction of MpLOG and GCAM1. …”
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