Phasic and periodic change of drought under greenhouse effect by Yang Li, Zhicheng Zheng, Yaochen Qin, Haifeng Tian, Zhixiang Xie, Peijun Rong

“…However, the phases and periodicity of drought changes in the ESAC remain largely unknown. Thus, this paper aims to identify the periodic characteristics of meteorological drought changes. …”
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Safety and efficacy of low-dose esketamine weakly opioidized anesthesia in elderly patients with lumbar spinal stenosis undergoing surgery: a prospective, double-blind randomized c... by Ni-Na Hou, Meng-Yun Zhang, Yu-Wei Zhang, Hong-Jing Wu, Hong Luo, Heng Yang

“…At T2 and T4, the HS and LS groups had significantly lower levels of MAP and HR decline than the C group. At T5, the MAP and HR of the C group were significantly higher than those of the HS and LS groups (P < 0.05). …”
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Research on Characteristics and Influencing Factors of High Temperature Disaster Risk in Wuhan Based on Local Climate Zone by Shujing GUO, Li ZHANG

“…Overlaying the LCZ maps with the normalized high temperature disaster risk maps, it can be seen that, among the building types, sparse built-up area (LCZ 9) has the lowest average value of high temperature disaster risk, and the average value of high temperature disaster risk is significantly higher than that of the other building types in large low-rise buildings (LCZ 8) and heavy industrial buildings (LCZ 10), which are mainly industrial plants and heavy industrial zones with large building area. …”
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Direct maternal morbidity and the risk of pregnancy-related deaths, stillbirths, and neonatal deaths in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa: A population-based prospective cohort stu... by Fahad Aftab, Imran Ahmed, Salahuddin Ahmed, Said Mohammed Ali, Seeba Amenga-Etego, Shabina Ariff, Rajiv Bahl, Abdullah H Baqui, Nazma Begum, Zulfiqar A Bhutta, Godfrey Biemba, Simon Cousens, Vinita Das, Saikat Deb, Usha Dhingra, Arup Dutta, Karen Edmond, Fabian Esamai, Amit Kumar Ghosh, Peter Gisore, Caroline Grogan, Davidson H Hamer, Julie Herlihy, Lisa Hurt, Muhammad Ilyas, Fyezah Jehan, Mohammed Hamad Juma, Michel Kalonji, Rasheda Khanam, Betty R Kirkwood, Aarti Kumar, Alok Kumar, Vishwajeet Kumar, Alexander Manu, Irene Marete, Usma Mehmood, Nicole Minckas, Shambhavi Mishra, Dipak K Mitra, Mamun Ibne Moin, Karim Muhammad, Sam Newton, Serge Ngaima, Andre Nguwo, Muhammad Imran Nisar, John Otomba, Mohammad Abdul Quaiyum, Sophie Sarrassat, Sunil Sazawal, Katherine E Semrau, Caitlin Shannon, Vinay Pratap Singh, Sajid Soofi, Seyi Soremekun, Atifa Mohammed Suleiman, Venantius Sunday, Thandassery R Dilip, Antoinette Tshefu, Yaqub Wasan, Kojo Yeboah-Antwi, Sachiyo Yoshida, Anita K Zaidi, Alliance for Maternal and Newborn Health Improvement (AMANHI) maternal morbidity study group

“…<h4>Background</h4>Maternal morbidity occurs several times more frequently than mortality, yet data on morbidity burden and its effect on maternal, foetal, and newborn outcomes are limited in low- and middle-income countries. …”
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Unveiling genetic basis of seedling emergence from deep soil depth under dry direct- seeded conditions in rice (Oryza sativa L.) by Vagish Mishra, Vagish Mishra, Shilpi Dixit, Shilpi Dixit, Swati Tyagi, Swati Tyagi, Challa Venkateswarlu, Challa Venkateswarlu, Pronob J. Paul, Pronob J. Paul, Anoop Kishor Singh Gurjar, Anoop Kishor Singh Gurjar, Shalabh Dixit, Nitika Sandhu, Smita Kurup, Arvind Kumar, Arvind Kumar, Pallavi Sinha, Pallavi Sinha, Vikas Kumar Singh, Vikas Kumar Singh, Uma Maheshwar Singh, Uma Maheshwar Singh

“…During DS23 season, QTL analysis for DE and PG traits identified seven and three QTLs, respectively. Out of the ten QTLs identified in DS23 season, eight were stable across the season. …”
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Path and Practice of Gap Management in National Parks: A Comparison Between China and the US and Inspirations Therefrom by Yun MA, Siyuan HE

“…However, this approach raises concerns about ecological integrity, particularly when it leads to fragmentation, reduced connectivity, and potential ecological risks. …”
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Analysis of the current situation and risk factors of frailty in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes (老年2型糖尿病患者衰弱现状及影响因素分析) by LI Li (李莉), YING Yanping (应燕萍)

“…Sociodemographic information, lifestyle, disease-related information, and other data were collected. The Fried Frailty Scale was utilized to assess the patients' frailty status, dividing them into frail and non-frail groups. …”
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Visual Environment Factors Influencing Staying Behaviors During Cycling on Countryside Greenways by Ting WEN, Yun ZHANG, Ming DU

“…Looking ahead, further investigations incorporating other greenway usage characteristics, such as cycling distances and incident-prone locations, could shed additional light on the construction of cyclist-friendly countryside greenway environments that cater to the diverse needs and behavioral patterns of users.…”
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T Cell-Derived Apoptotic Extracellular Vesicles Ameliorate Bone Loss via CD39 and CD73-Mediated ATP Hydrolysis by Yang X, Zhou Y, Zhou F, Bao L, Wang Z, Li Z, Ding F, Kuang H, Liu H, Tan S, Qiu X, Jing H, Liu S, Ma D

“…Xiaoshan Yang,1– 3,&ast; Yang Zhou,2,3,&ast; Fuxing Zhou,4,&ast; Lili Bao,2,3 Zhengyan Wang,5 Zihan Li,2,3 Feng Ding,2,3 Huijuan Kuang,6,7 Huan Liu,8 Shenglong Tan,1 Xinyuan Qiu,1 Huan Jing,9 Shiyu Liu,2,3 Dandan Ma1 1Department of Endodontics, Stomatological Hospital, School of Stomatology, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou, 510280, People’s Republic of China; 2State Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Stomatology, Department of Oral Biology, School of Stomatology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, 710032, People’s Republic of China; 3State Key Laboratory of Oral & Maxillofacial Reconstruction and Regeneration, National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Shaanxi International Joint Research Center for Oral Diseases, Center for Tissue Engineering, School of Stomatology, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, 710032, People’s Republic of China; 4Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Xijing Hospital, The Fourth Military Medical University, Xi’an, 710032, People’s Republic of China; 5Department of Orthodontics, School and Hospital of Stomatology, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University & Shandong Key Laboratory of Oral Tissue Regeneration & Shandong Engineering Research Center of Dental Materials and Oral Tissue Regeneration & Shandong Provincial Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, Jinan, 250012, People’s Republic of China; 6Department of Orthopaedics, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710061, People’s Republic of China; 7State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing System Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710054, People’s Republic of China; 8Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Peking University Third Hospital, Beijing, 100871, People’s Republic of China; 9Department of Endodontics, Guangdong Provincial High-level Clinical Key Specialty, Guangdong Province Engineering Research Center of Oral Disease Diagnosis and Treatment, Peking University Shenzhen Hospital, Shenzhen, 518036, People’s Republic of China&ast;These authors contributed equally to this workCorrespondence: Dandan Ma, Stomatological Hospital, Southern Medical University, S366 Jiangnan Boulevard, Guangzhou, Guangdong, 510280, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-20-34152996, Email mdd@smu.edu.cn Shiyu Liu, School of Stomatology, The Fourth Military Medical University, No. 145, West Changle Road, Xi’an, Shaanxi, 710032, People’s Republic of China, Tel +86-29-84772645, Email liushiyu@vip.163.comBackground: Osteoporosis is a major public health concern characterized by decreased bone density. …”
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Koro Ve Orkestra /Oda Müziğinde Seslendirme/Yorumlama Başarım Gücü Üzerine Program Odaklı Bir İnceleme - A Program Based Analysis Of Performing Success In Choir And Orchestra/Chamb... by H. Seval Köse, M. Can Çiftçibaşı

“…Because; through these courses and performance studies related to them, it is aimed that the students present their accumulated knowledge about their voices and instruments together with the other students having similar qualifications and background, in line with the techniques required by the music and with a shared musical understanding. …”
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25 años de cirugía de Ross: seguimiento y resultados en pacientes reoperados en nuestro centro by Consuelo M. Sisinni-Ganly, Julio C. Lugo-Adán, Francisco Estévez-Cid, Rocío Casais-Pampín, Juan J. Legarra-Calderón

“…Methods: Since 1998, 108 patients underwent Ross surgery at our center, with root replacement (RR) surgical technique used in 105 of them. We retrospectively reviewed data from a subgroup of patients who underwent reintervention after Ross surgery due to dysfunction of the autograft or homograft. …”
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WALLABY Pilot Survey and ASymba: Comparing H i Detection Asymmetries to the SIMBA Simulation by Mathieu Perron-Cormier, Nathan Deg, Kristine Spekkens, Mark L. A. Richardson, Marcin Glowacki, Kyle A. Oman, Marc A. W. Verheijen, Nadine A. N. Hank, Sarah Blyth, Helga Dénes, Jonghwan Rhee, Ahmed Elagali, Austin Xiaofan Shen, Wasim Raja, Karen Lee-Waddell, Luca Cortese, Barbara Catinella, Tobias Westmeier

“…We find that the incidence of high A _3D detections is higher in WALLABY than in the SIMBA mocks, but that difference is not statistically significant ( p -value = 0.05). …”
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Predicting Insemination Outcome in Holstein Dairy Cattle using Deep Learning by Mohammad Alishahi, Mahdi Ravakhah

“…A distinct set of cow IDs was acquired, and then, it was partitioned into three subsets: 70% for training, 10% for validation, and 20% for testing. …”
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Transfer of aflatoxin M1 and sterigmatocystin from buffalo milk to soft cheeses by Maurizio Cossu, Andrea Sanna, Giannina Chessa, Stefano Sdogati, Ivan Pecorelli, Ilaria Di Marco Pisciottano, Sara Lambiase, Pasquale Gallo, Stefania Massafra, Elena Torres, Marilena Gili, Giovanni Lo Cascio, Antonio Vella, Roberto Condoleo, Bruno Neri, Guglielmo Militello, Gilberto Giangolini, Carlo Boselli

“…In addition to the four aflatoxins (AFB1, AFB2, AFG1, and AFG2), these fungi also produce other toxins such as Sterigmatocystin (STC), while Aflatoxicol (AFL) is a metabolite of AFB1. …”
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Acceptability patterns of hypothetic taxes on different types of foods in France by Florian Manneville, Barthélemy Sarda, Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot, Sandrine Péneau, Bernard Srour, Julia Baudry, Benjamin Allès, Yann Le Bodo, Serge Hercberg, Mathilde Touvier, Chantal Julia

“… Abstract Objective: To identify patterns of food taxes acceptability among French adults and to investigate population characteristics associated with them. Design: Cross-sectional data from the NutriNet-Santé e-cohort. …”
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Révision de l’espèce Homo erectus (Dubois, 1893) by Valéry Zeitoun

“…It is then possible to assert, whether this definition of the feature is respected or not, that the feature is present or absent. When, for instance, the upper part of an anatomical area is larger than its lower part, to evaluate this criterion, it is better to use an index calculated from homologous points which relate to these both parts. …”
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Designing a causal model of factors affecting the Lars supply chain by mojtaba khalesi, mojdeh rabani, Hasan Dehghan Dahnavi, Abolfazl Sadeghian, mohammad taghi honari

“…Resilient supply chain is related to the system's ability to return to the initial state or a new and more favorable state after disruption, and avoid failure states. In other words, the resilient supply chain is not only the system's ability to control performance changes when faced with disruption, but also the ability to adapt and sustainably respond to sudden and significant changes in the environment in the form of demand uncertainty (Kamalahmadi & Parast, 2016). …”
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Analysis of the Effect of Social Capital on Brand Performance with the Mediating Role of Employees’ Brand Citizenship Behavior by Naser Seifollahi

“…Therefore, it is essential that academics consider more dimensions than financial numbers to create a comprehensive performance measure. …”
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Child mortality in England after national lockdowns for COVID-19: An analysis of childhood deaths, 2019-2023. by David Odd, Sylvia Stoianova, Tom Williams, Peter Fleming, Karen Luyt

“…<h4>Conclusions</h4>In this study, overall child mortality in England after the national lockdowns was higher than before them. We observed different temporal profiles across the different causes of death, with reassuring trends in deaths from Intrapartum deaths after lockdowns were lifted. …”
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The Eczema Bathing Study: Weekly versus daily bathing for people with eczema? Protocol of an online, randomised controlled trial [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved wit... by Paul Leighton, Wei Chern Gavin Fong, Ingrid Muller, Laura Howells, Arabella Baker, Eleanor J Mitchell, Eleanor Harrison, Leila Thuma, Yimin Jiang, Lucy Bradshaw, Alan Montgomery, Fiona Cowdel, Matthew J Ridd, Jane Ravenscroft, Reiko J Tanaka, Miriam Santer, Richard Swinden, Nicholas Hilken, Carron Layfield, Richard Dooley, Sophia Collins, Clare Upton, Tracy Owen, Firoza Davies, Devin Patel, Mars Eddis-Finbow, Hywel C Williams, Goldie Putrym, Kim S Thomas, Amanda Roberts

“…Exclusion criteria are: people with other types of eczema such as venous eczema, hand eczema and contact eczema; recently started a new eczema treatment; taking part in another eczema trial; Patient Oriented Eczema Measure (POEM) ≤2; planning to swim more than twice a week; unable/unwilling to change bathing practices. …”
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