The burden of acute respiratory infection attributable to fine particulate matter brought by dust storms among children under 5 years of age in low- and middle-income countries by Hong Lu, Mingkun Tong, Ruohan Wang, Ning Kang, Xueqiu Ni, Jianyu Deng, Jiajianghui Li, Pengfei Li, Tianjia Guan, Tong Zhu, Tao Xue

“…Method: We combined population data derived from the Demographic and Health Survey covering 53 LMICs, with environmental data, including the gridded concentration of dust PM2.5. …”
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homeRNA self-blood collection enables high-frequency temporal profiling of presymptomatic host immune kinetics to respiratory viral infection: a prospective cohort studyResearch in... by Fang Yun Lim, Hannah G. Lea, Ashley M. Dostie, Soo-Young Kim, Tammi L. van Neel, Grant W. Hassan, Meg G. Takezawa, Lea M. Starita, Karen N. Adams, Michael Boeckh, Joshua T. Schiffer, Ollivier Hyrien, Alpana Waghmare, Erwin Berthier, Ashleigh B. Theberge

“…Findings: Between June 2021 and April 2022, 68 participants across 26 U.S. states completed the study and self-collected a total of 691 and 466 longitudinal blood and nasal swab samples along with 688 symptom surveys. SARS-CoV-2 was detected in 17 out of 22 individuals with study-confirmed respiratory infection, of which five were still presymptomatic or pre-shedding, enabling us to profile detailed expression kinetics of the earliest blood transcriptional response to contemporaneous variants of concern. 51% of the genes assessed were found to be temporally dynamic during COVID-19 infection. …”
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Functionally important respiratory symptoms and continued cigarette use versus e-cigarette switching: population assessment of tobacco and health study waves 2-6Research in context by James D. Sargent, Kristin Lauten, Kathryn C. Edwards, Susanne E. Tanski, Todd A. MacKenzie, Laura M. Paulin, Mary F. Brunette, Maciej L. Goniewicz, Amanda Malasky, Debra Stark, Fernando B. de Moura, Holly Griffin, Kimberly H. Nguyen, Eric Backlund, Heather L. Kimmel, John H. Kingsbury, Jenny E. Ozga, K Michael Cummings, Andrew Hyland

“…Methods: Longitudinal analysis of data from waves 2–6 (W2–W6; 2014–2021) of the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health (PATH) Study, an observational cohort study that surveyed 5653 US adults ≥18 years without COPD/chronic bronchitis/emphysema. …”
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Study on the status of liver function abnormalities and its related factors in patients with severe mental disorders in Shanghai community by ZHANG Yixuan, CHEN Chunmei, ZHU Youwei, ZHU Yi, HE Siyuan, LIU Yanli, WANG Na, CAI Jun, XIE Bin, ZHANG Weibo

“…ObjectiveTo investigate the status of liver function abnormalities in patients with severe mental disorder (SMD) in Shanghai community, to explore the related factors to abnormal liver function in patients with SMD, and to analyze the effects of the types of mental disorders and medication status on liver function abnormalities.MethodsThe patients with SMD in Jinshan District, Minhang District, Hongkou District and Xuhui District of Shanghai were selected as the research subjects. Questionnaire survey, physical examination and laboratory tests were conducted to obtain their demographic characteristics and liver function indicators such as alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and total bilirubin (TBil). …”
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Editorial by Lindsay B. Flynn

“…The authors leverage the design of the Eurobarometer survey to test the relative strength of each possibility, contrasting how people in different age groups assess their own housing situations relative to how they view the country’s housing situation. …”
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Evaluation of a 90-minute school-based resuscitation course with 340 middle school students – a multicenter intervention study by Josephina Kehlert

“…Background This study aimed to exploratorily evaluate the learning success of a 90-minute resuscitation class taught by recently trained teachers in the German state of Brandenburg before a statewide implementation of these classes.Methods In five public schools, teachers, trained by professional first aid instructors, taught 90-minute resuscitation courses to 340 seventh (7th) grade students. We surveyed the students’ knowledge immediately before their course and their knowledge, self-confidence, and willingness to perform resuscitation one month afterward using standardized self-report questionnaires. …”
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Osiąganie kompromisu potrzeb człowieka i przyrody by Karol Lewandowski

“…There are existing also wide possibilities to explore, discover, and research spontaneous ecoengineering effects, that so far have escaped researchers' notice. Similar site surveys can be run in other parts of Poland or other lands. …”
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Effectiveness of a personalised self-management intervention for people living with long covid (Listen trial): pragmatic, multicentre, parallel group, randomised controlled trial by Fiona Jones, Nick Sevdalis, Adrian Edwards, Bernadette Sewell, Monica Busse, Philip Pallmann, Rachel Lowe, Shaun Harris, Aloysius Niroshan Siriwardena, Jessica Fish, Claire Potter, Muhammad Riaz, Fiona J Leggat, Andrea Jane Longman, Jackie McRae

“…Secondary outcomes included Ox-PAQ emotional wellbeing and social engagement scale scores, the Short Form-12 (SF-12) health survey, the fatigue impact scale, and the generalised self-efficacy scale at three months. …”
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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

“…The research was applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-survey in terms of method and correlation type. The statistical population of the research included all the employees of the companies producing dairy products in Ardabil province, according to Cochran's formula, 260 people were selected as a sample, and these people were selected from the statistical population as available. …”
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Association between dietary patterns and glycemic control in type II diabetes mellitus patients by Ye Qiang, Xingchen Lu, Yuchao Zhang

“…Site: The 2015–2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES). Participants: A total of 1646 T2DM patients were included, of whom 854 were hyperglycemia. …”
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Potential and limitations of noise-based surface-wave tomography for numerical site effect estimation: a case study in the French Rhône valley by Lavoué, François, Froment, Bérénice, Gélis, Céline, Boué, Pierre,  Chaljub, Emmanuel, Stehly, Laurent, Beauprêtre, Sophie, De Martin, Florent,  Gisselbrecht, Loïc, Pilz, Marco, Moiriat, Denis, Cushing, Edward Marc

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Farmers’ climate change perception, impacts and adaptation strategies in response to drought in the Northwest area of Bangladesh by J.M. Adeeb Salman Chowdhury, Md. Abdul Khalek, Md. Kamruzzaman

“…The factors influencing the farmers’ adaptation practices were determined using a multinomial logistic model (MNL). During survey, farmers’ perceptions about climate change were identical to the meteorological trends of the last 60 years (1960–2022) except for Dinajpur station. …”
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Alimentation et gestion de l’eau sur la colline de Fourvière à Lyon : les aménagements hydrauliques, la ville et ses monuments by Aldo Borlenghi, Éric Leroy

“…This situation therefore meant that, over a long period of time, other types of hydraulic works would have been used to exploit the water table, located at a great depth, or rainwater.Thanks to the new possibilities offered by tools such as the Archaeological Map of Lyon, the Topographic Atlas and the Alyas GIS of the Archaeological Service of the City of Lyon (SAVL), our survey of wells, cisterns, reservoirs as well as fountains and thermal baths aims to provide a synthesis of the different forms of water supply and distribution on the hill in order to understand the relationship between these structures and aqueducts and the urban development of the settlement. …”
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Wetland birds of middle Vistula River during breeding season: the impact of human activities on the distribution, abundance and richness of species by Dariusz Bukaciński, Monika Bukacińska, Arkadiusz Buczyński

“…The total density was very low and did not exceed 1.5 pairs/km along the river. The yearly surveys of birds in the years previous to and after beginning of a gravel and sand mining from the river bottom allowed to estimate if the development had changed somehow the status of riparian bird populations. …”
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Gaps in U.S. livestock data are a barrier to effective environmental and disease management by Rebecca Logsdon Muenich, Sanskriti Aryal, Amanda J Ashworth, Michelle L Bell, Melanie R Boudreau, Stephanie A Cunningham, K Colton Flynn, Kerry A Hamilton, Ting Liu, Michael L Mashtare, Natalie G Nelson, Barira Rashid, Arghajeet Saha, Danica Schaffer-Smith, Callie Showalter, Aureliane Tchamdja, Jada Thompson

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Relationship between physical activity level, leisure sedentary time, and frailty among residents aged 30 – 79 years in Wuzhong district, Suzhou city: a baseline surveillance data... by Xikang FAN, Jiang HUA, Jian SU, Hao YU, Yan LU, Yujie HUA, Jianrong JIN, Pei PEI, Dianjianyi SUN, Canqing YU, Jun LYU, Jinyi ZHOU, Ran TAO

“…MethodsData were collected from 53 269 residents aged 30 – 79 years in Wuzhong district, Suzhou city, who participated in the baseline survey of the China Kadoorie Biobank (CKB) from November 2004 to January 2008. …”
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New Horizons In The Treatment Of Metastatic Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer by Zein El Amir

“…But has this been a wise decision? Surveys show that most medical students feel that more hours and detail should be invested in dissections and prosections.   …”
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Anatomy In The Undergraduate Medical Curriculum; Blending The Old And New by Ayesha Yousaf

“…But has this been a wise decision? Surveys show that most medical students feel that more hours and detail should be invested in dissections and prosections. …”
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Geological, alteration, mineralogy and geochemical studies of the Copper deposit in the Kalatehno prospect area, northwest of Gonabad (Khorasan Razavi province) by Sedigheh Zirjanizadeh, Roohollah Miri Bydokhti

“…After conducting field surveys and collecting 100 rock samples from different geological units and 60 samples from mineral veins, suitable samples were selected and prepared for laboratory studies. 30 thin sections were prepared and studied for a geological and alteration map with a scale of 1:5000. …”
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GOSI9: UK Global Ocean and Sea Ice configurations by C. Guiavarc'h, D. Storkey, A. T. Blaker, E. Blockley, A. Megann, H. Hewitt, M. J. Bell, D. Calvert, D. Copsey, B. Sinha, S. Moreton, P. Mathiot, P. Mathiot, B. An

“…GOSI9 has been developed as part of the UK's Joint Marine Modelling Programme (JMMP), a partnership between the Met Office, the National Oceanography Centre, the British Antarctic Survey, and the Centre for Polar Observation and Modelling. …”
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