Habitat Suitability Assessment for <i>Illicium verum</i> Hook. f. (Star Anise) Under Climate Change Conditions, Using the MaxEnt Model and Comprehensive 2D Chromatography by Peng Gu, Qiuling Li, Liangbo Li, Ding Huang, Kexin Cao, Rumei Lu, Rongshao Huang, Jianhua Chen

“…Finally, a stepwise regression model between chemical compositions and environmental variables was established, and based on this, a quality zoning map was subsequently plotted. This study provides valuable scientific insights for resource conservation, planting site selection and quality control for star anise.…”
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Eternal Revision: Screen Adaptations of Gogol’s Texts in the 21st Century / Вечная ревизия. Экранизации гоголевских текстов в ХХI в. by Zorin Artem N. / Зорин А.Н., Riasov Daniil L. / Рясов Д.Л., Mohammed Wijdan A. / Мохаммед В.А.

“…The transfer of Gogol’s dramaturgy into the 21st century gave film directors and screenwriters the opportunity to maximize the relevance and social sensitivity of the plots. In the 21st century, the theme of an inspection as an image of the Last Judgment has been transformed into a semblance of a police detective. …”
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Investigating the effects of mobile bottom fishing on benthic carbon processing and storage: a systematic review protocol by Stacey L. Felgate, John Aldridge, Stefan G. Bolam, Sarah Breimann, Emil de Borger, Jolien Claes, Jochen Depestele, Graham Epstein, Clement Garcia, Natalie Hicks, Michel Kaiser, Jack H. Laverick, Gennadi Lessin, Finbarr G. O’Neill, Sarah Paradis, Ruth Parker, Ryan Pereira, Alex J. Poulton, Claire Powell, Craig Smeaton, Paul Snelgrove, Justin Tiano, Johan van der Molen, Sebastiaan van de Velde, Marija Sciberras

“…Results will be reported in narrative and quantitative syntheses using a variety of visual tools including forest plots. Meta-analysis will be conducted where sufficient data exists.…”
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Soil structural indicators as predictors of biological activity under various soil management practices by Frederic Leuther, Dorte Fischer, Naoise Nunan, Katharina H.E. Meurer, Anke M. Herrmann

“…The spatial arrangement of solids and pores in agricultural topsoil can be actively influenced by management practices, such as tillage and cropping systems, which in turn can affect the resident microbial communities and their activities. …”
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Comparison of WHO Growth Standards with 2019 Indian Synthetic Growth Charts in Children under Five Years of Age: A Cross-sectional Study from Rural Area of Karnataka, India by Shalini Yadhav, AS Jagadish, R Premalatha, B Ravichander

“…The measured variables (height, weight, and Body Mass Index (BMI)) were plotted on both the WHO charts and the 2019 Indian synthetic charts and classified accordingly. …”
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Adaptação metodológica no cálculo de cargas contaminantes de fósforo em bacias hidrográficas gaúchas Adapting methodology to calculate contaminant loads of phosphorus in watersheds... by Luciano Gebler, José A. S. Louzada, Ildegardis Bertol, Roger R. Ramos, David J. Miquelluti, Bruna M. Schrammel

“…The methodology used was the study of reactive phosphorus release in plots covered by different crops and its relation to the methodology of calculation of maximum daily loads, currently accepted by the state environmental agencies for the environmental licensing of potentially polluting activities. …”
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Characteristics of Soil Nutrients Accumulation and Nitrogen and Phosphorus Loss of Greenhouse Vegetable Field by YANG Tao, CHEN Yuanhua, CHEN Feng, XU Changxu, ZHUANG Yanhua, TU Xiangming, CHEN Jingrui

“…［Conclusion］ The 6—10 years might be a “turning point” for the cumulative contents of nutrients in greenhouse vegetable plots. …”
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Real-Life Diagnostic Accuracy and Clinical Utility of Hepatitis B Virus (HBV) Nucleic Acid Testing Using the GeneXpert Point-of-Care Test System from Fresh Plasma and Dry Blood Spo... by Amie Ceesay, Sainabou Drammeh, Gibril Ndow, Alpha Omar A. Jallow, Haddy Nyang, Baboucarr Bittaye, Francis S. Mendy, Ousman Secka, Umberto D’Alessandro, Yusuke Shimakawa, Erwan Vo-Quang, Barbara Testoni, Mark Thursz, Maud Lemoine, Isabelle Chemin

“…The GeneXpert HBV test had the highest quantifiable HBV DNA viremia of 81.4% (n = 249/306), and the lowest was detected by in-house qPCR at 37.9% (n = 116/306) for stored plasma samples. Bland–Altman plots show strong correlation between GeneXpert and COBAS TaqMan and between GeneXpert and in-house qPCR with a mean bias of +0.316 and −1.173 log₁₀ IU/mL, respectively. …”
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Experience economy in professional foreign language education: philosophy, culture and language of gastroeconomy / Экономика впечатлений в профессиональном иноязычном образовании:... by Irina Vorontsova

“…The study of the gastic language in nominating plots of economic history expands not only the linguistic, but also the intellectual horizons of modern economists. …”
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Interlaboratory evaluation of high molecular weight DNA extraction methods for long-read sequencing and structural variant analysis by Alison S. Devonshire, Jordi Morata, Claire Jubin, Rui Pedro Abreu Pereira, Laura Hernandez-Hernandez, Dilek Yener, Eric Cabannes, Steven McGinn, Marc Delepine, Cédric Fund, Raúl Tonda, Simon Heath, Marc Dabad, Javier Gutierrez-Cuesta, Ignacio Sanchez Escudero, Maria Cristina Frias-Lopez, Simon Cowen, Alexandra Whale, Thorsten Voss, Jean-François Deleuze, Ivo Gut, Marta Gut, Carole A. Foy

“…Megabase scale SVs were challenging to analyse with SV callers and required confirmation based on coverage plots and mapping of junction sequences, and the findings of earlier studies were only partially confirmed. …”
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Seasonal Mathematical Model of Salmonellosis Transmission and the Role of Contaminated Environments and Food Products by Mohammed H. Alharbi, Fawaz K. Alalhareth, Mahmoud A. Ibrahim

“…Sensitivity indices and contour plots were employed to assess the impact of various parameters on the basic reproduction number and provide insights into the factors most influencing disease transmission.…”
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Prediction of EGFR mutation status in non-small cell lung cancer based on CT radiomic features combined with clinical characteristics by YANG Taotao, WANG Xianqi, CHEN Cancan

“…Calibration curve was plotted to assess the goodness of fit of the comprehensive model, while decision curve analysis was performed to assess the clinical utility of the model. …”
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Weight-adjusted-waist index: an innovative indicator of breast cancer hazard by Xinyi Huang, Hengzheng Cheng, Laifu Deng, Shuting Wang, Jiaxiu Li, An Qin, Chunqiang Chu, Wenyi Du, Xiao Liu

“…Data were assessed via descriptive statistics to present data distributions according to BC grouping and WWI grouping, receiver operating characteristic curves (ROCs) to evaluate the obesity indicators’ applied value, logistic regression to reflect associations between WWI and BC prevalence, and restricted cubic splines (RCSs) and subgroup analysis forest plots to visualise and complement the relationships. …”
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TYPOLOGY AND FUNCTIONS OF READING PERFORMANCE IN CONTEMPORARY UKRAINIAN CHILDREN’S AND ADOLESCENT LITERATURE by Oleksandra A. Visych, Tetiana V. Mykhalchuk

“…This highlights the notion of reading as a performance, prompting exploration into how this performative aspect is integrated into literary plots. Writers often reflect on the act of reading, yielding a genre of metaliterature where readers become central characters, engaging in conflicts that revolve around their absorption into the text’s world. …”
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Evolutionary biology and life histories by C. R. Brown, D. L. Thomson

“…The demographic processes that drive the spread of populations through environments and in turn determine the abundance of organisms are the same demographic processes that drive the spread of genes through populations and in turn determine gene frequencies and fitness. …”
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Molecular mechanisms and cancer-promoting roles of sodium arsenite in regulating FNDC3B expression in A549 cells by Jinyun JIANG, He MA, Na LIU, Ruihuan ZHAO, Chenglan JIANG, Yuefeng HE

“…Survival curves were plotted, and a final exposure dose was selected according to the survival rate. …”
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Early postnatal care uptake and its associated factors following childbirth in East Africa—a Bayesian hierarchical modeling approach by Bewuketu Terefe, Dejen Kahsay Asgedom, Fetlework Gubena Arage, Setognal Birara Aychiluhm, Tadesse Awoke Ayele

“…Techniques such as Rhat, effective sample size, density, time series, autocorrelation plots, widely applicable information criterion (WAIC), deviance information criterion (DIC), and Markov Chain Monte-Carlo (MCMC) simulation were used to estimate the model parameters using Hamiltonian Monte-Carlo (HMC) and its extensions, No-U-Turn Sampler (NUTS) techniques. …”
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Establishing the best step-up treatments for children with uncontrolled asthma despite inhaled corticosteroids: the EINSTEIN systematic review, network meta-analysis and cost-effec... by Sofia Cividini, Ian Sinha, Giovanna Culeddu, Sarah Donegan, Michelle Maden, Katie Rose, Olivia Fulton, Dyfrig Hughes, Stephen Turner, Catrin Tudur Smith

“…Inconsistency models and sensitivity analyses to explore the impact of exacerbation data collection approach and data availability bias were carried out, and we created dev–dev plots. To explore whether participant characteristics modify the treatment effects, we fitted Bayesian NMR models that included treatment by covariate interactions for the outcomes: exacerbation, asthma control and FEV1. …”
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