Characterization of the pork sector in the productive core of Argentina: a look at small producers by Carlos Figueroa, Diana Acosta, Matias Mac Allister, Gabriela Fernández, Mariano Merino

“…These findings show the need for professional intervention in smaller-scale pig farms to overcome structural barriers and access to the production chain. …”
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Alterations of white matter functional networks in pediatric drug-resistant temporal lobe epilepsy: A graph theory analysis study by Kexin Huang, Yuxin Xie, Haifeng Ran, Jie Hu, Yulun He, Gaoqiang Xu, Guiqin Chen, Qiane Yu, Xuhong Li, Junwei Liu, Heng Liu, Tijiang Zhang

“…We included 91 children (43 with DRTLE and 48 healthy controls), acquiring structural and functional MRI data to construct WM functional networks. …”
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Assessing flash flood occurrences and hazard zones along the mediterranean coasts: a GIS and mapping techniques approach in the Wadi Saf Saf Basin, Northeast Algeria by Amal Maou, Amal Maou, Sabrina Souadnia, Sabrina Souadnia, Khadeijah Faqeih, Afaf AlAmri, Riheb Hadji, Riheb Hadji, Somayah moshrif Alamri, Khaled Harizi, Eman Alamery, Griche Sonia, Griche Sonia, Boubazine Leila, Boubazine Leila, Jamilah Altwaiher

“…This integrated approach highlights the spatial variability of flood vulnerability across the Saf Saf watershed and offers essential support for disaster risk reduction, structural mitigation planning, and informed land-use management in Mediterranean catchments.…”
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Bringing a health systems modelling approach to complex evaluations: multicountry applications in HIV, TB and malaria by Adama Faye, Stephen S Lim, Bernardo Hernandez Prado, Herbert Duber, David E Phillips, Guillermo Ambrosio, Audrey Batzel, Carmen Cerezo, Ibrahima Gaye, Bethany Huntley, Edgar Kestler, Constant Kingongo, Emily Linebarger, Jorge Matute, Godefroid Mpanya, Salva Mulongo, Caitlin O'Brien-Carelli, Erin Palmisano, Francisco Rios Casas, Roger Tine, Daniel Whitaker, Jennifer M Ross

“…We collated available data to measure framework indicators and developed models for malaria in Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and tuberculosis in Guatemala and Senegal using Bayesian structural equation modelling. …”
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Association of cancer and outcomes of patients hospitalized for COVID-19 between 2020 and 2023 [version 2; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations, 1 not approved] by Robert F Terry, Rugiatu Z Kamara, Robert J Samuels, Donald S Grant, Sulaiman Lakoh, Mustapha Kabba, Innocent Nuwagira, Yusuf Sheku Tejan, Sia Morenike Tengbe, Ibrahim Franklyn Kamara, Shermarke Hassan, Abdulai Tejan Jalloh, Divya Nair, Laura Merson

“…Methods We conducted an analysis on data collected in a large prospective cohort study set-up by the International Severe Acute Respiratory and Emerging Infection Consortium (ISARIC). …”
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Translating community-wide spectral library into actionable chemical knowledge: a proof of concept with monoterpene indole alkaloids by Sarah Szwarc, Adriano Rutz, Kyungha Lee, Yassine Mejri, Olivier Bonnet, Hazrina Hazni, Adrien Jagora, Rany B. Mbeng Obame, Jin Kyoung Noh, Elvis Otogo N’Nang, Stephenie C. Alaribe, Khalijah Awang, Guillaume Bernadat, Young Hae Choi, Vincent Courdavault, Michel Frederich, Thomas Gaslonde, Florian Huber, Toh-Seok Kam, Yun Yee Low, Erwan Poupon, Justin J. J. van der Hooft, Kyo Bin Kang, Pierre Le Pogam, Mehdi A. Beniddir

“…Additionally, our work enabled the digitization of structural data for diverse MIA skeletons by converting them into machine-readable formats and thereby enhancing their dissemination for the scientific community. …”
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Unraveling the Mysteries of KS 1947+300: Multiwavelength Observations in a Low-eccentricity Be/X-Ray Binary by Wei Liu, Pablo Reig, Jingzhi Yan, Peng Zhang, Xiukun Li, Bo Gao, Guangcheng Xiao, Zhongmu Li, Qingzhong Liu

“…The fact that the amplitude of variability increased with wavelength suggests that the long-term decrease in the optical emission is due to weakening of the circumstellar disk. Structural changes in the disk may also be the origin of the periodic signals with periods ∼200 days detected in the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)- g and ZTF- r band light curves. …”
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Using Natural Language Processing to Explore Patient Perspectives on AI Avatars in Support Materials for Patients With Breast Cancer: Survey Study by Eleanor Cheese, Raouef Ahmed Bichoo, Kartikae Grover, Dorin Dumitru, Alexandros Zenonos, Joanne Groark, Douglas Gibson, Rebecca Pope

“…We applied and evaluated different NLP machine learning techniques to draw insights from these unstructured data, namely sentiment analysis, topic modeling, summarization, and term frequency–inverse document frequency word clouds. …”
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Socioeconomic status and lifestyle as factors of multimorbidity among older adults in China: results from the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Survey by Wei Gong, Wei Gong, Wei Gong, Xiaoxiao Hu, Huimin Cui, Huimin Cui, Yuxin Zhao, Yuxin Zhao, Hong Lin, Hong Lin, Hong Lin, Peng Sun, Peng Sun, Jianjun Yang, Jianjun Yang

“…Socioeconomic and functional variables were dominant factors associated with multimorbidity, suggesting structural roots of health inequality. These findings offered empirical and theoretical support for early risk stratification and targeted public health interventions aimed at mitigating multimorbidity in aging populations.…”
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Landslide susceptibility assessment in Western Henan Province based on a comparison of conventional and ensemble machine learning by Wen-geng Cao, Yu Fu, Qiu-yao Dong, Hai-gang Wang, Yu Ren, Ze-yan Li, Yue-ying Du

“…These areas have large terrain fluctuations, complicated geological structural environments and frequent human engineering activities. …”
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Whole-Genome Resequencing Analysis of Copy Number Variations Associated with Athletic Performance in Grassland-Thoroughbred by Wenqi Ding, Wendian Gong, Tugeqin Bou, Lin Shi, Yanan Lin, Xiaoyuan Shi, Zheng Li, Huize Wu, Manglai Dugarjaviin, Dongyi Bai

“…These findings provide new insights into the genetic structural variation in racing performance and adaptability, fill the gap in CNV studies in the genomics of Grassland-Thoroughbred horses, and offer valuable genomic data for optimizing breeding strategies in native racing horse populations.…”
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Development and Application of a Senolytic Predictor for Discovery of Novel Senolytic Compounds and Herbs by Jinjun Li, Kai Zhao, Guotai Yang, Haohao Lv, Renxin Zhang, Shuhan Li, Zhiyuan Chen, Min Xu, Naixue Yang, Shaoxing Dai

“…In the DrugBank database, 98 structurally novel candidate compounds with potential senolytic activity were identified. …”
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South Africa’s male homicide epidemic: Who is killing men and why do we ignore the victims? by Richard Matzopoulos, Morna Cornell, Brett Bowman, Lorna J. Martin, Rachel Jewkes, Naeema Abrahams

“…Broad population-based approaches are required to address the insidious effect of recalcitrant societal norms and structural interventions to overcome the root causes of poverty and inequality and the poor control of alcohol and firearms. …”
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Effects of Mg-Palygorskite Modified Biochar on the Growth of <i>Sedum alfredii</i> Hance in Heavy Metal Contaminated Soil by Tianwen Wang, Xianxiang Luo, Kun Chen, Hao Zheng, Zewei Song, Lize Zhao, Junhua Gong, Fengmin Li, Ruhai Liu

“…Further analysis via the Mantel test and structural equation modeling confirmed that modified biochar promoted the growth of <i>Sedum alfredii</i> Hance by reducing the available heavy metal content in the rhizosphere soil and increasing the NO₃⁻-N and AP contents. …”
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Sex differences in the association of Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers and cognition in a multicenter memory clinic study by Cecilia Boccalini, Debora Elisa Peretti, Max Scheffler, Linjing Mu, Alessandra Griffa, Nathalie Testart, Gilles Allali, John O. Prior, Nicholas J. Ashton, Henrik Zetterberg, Kaj Blennow, Giovanni B. Frisoni, Valentina Garibotto

“…Methods 249 participants (females/males:123/126), who underwent tau-PET, amyloid-PET, structural MRI, and plasma glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) measurement were included from Geneva and Lausanne Memory Clinics. …”
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Anti-HIV-1 Effect of the Fluoroquinolone Enoxacin and Modulation of Pro-Viral hsa-miR-132 Processing in CEM-SS Cells by Verena Schlösser, Helen Louise Lightfoot, Christine Leemann, Seyedeh Elnaz Banijamali, Aathma Merin Bejoy, Shashank Tiwari, Jeffrey L. Schloßhauer, Valentina Vongrad, Andreas Brunschweiger, Jonathan Hall, Karin J. Metzner, Jochen Imig

“…Results: We established that Enoxacin, but not the structurally similar compound nalidixic acid, exhibits strong anti-HIV-1 effects in the T-cell line CEM-SS, but not MT-4. …”
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Longitudinal Multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reveals Improvement in Verbal Fluency Over Time in Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury by Ana Luiza Zaninotto, Fabiola Macruz, Fabricio S. Feltrin, Celi S. Andrade, Claudia C. Leite, Vinicius Monteiro de Paula Guirado, Wellingson S. Paiva, Sylvain Bouix

“…Twenty-one adults with moderate and severe DAI were analyzed. Structural and diffusion data were acquired on a 3T system 3 and 6 months after the injury. …”
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Climate, soil and management factors drive the quantitative relationships between soil fertility and spring maize water productivity in northern China by Jiao Shi, Minggang Xu, Xinhua He, Huaiping Zhou, Jianhua Li

“…The random forest, partial least squares structural equation modeling and variance partitioning analysis were then applied to address the quantitative relationships (QRs) and relevant differences. …”
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PLB2Tau mice are impaired in novel and temporal object recognition and show corresponding traits in brain MRI by Jacques Micheau, Gwenaelle Catheline, Elodie Barse, Bassem Hiba, Anne Marcilhac, Michèle Allard, Bettina Platt, Gernot Riedel

“…Upon completion of their behavioural testing, animals were recorded in a 7 T MRI for brain structural integrity and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) analysis. …”
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Cardiovascular resource utilization in patients with diastolic dysfunction: A retrospective cohort analysis by Ato Howard, Paulomi Gohel, Virginia Singla, Aditi Naniwadekar, Floyd Thoma, Suresh Mulukutla, Aditya Bhonsale, Krishna Kancharla, Andrew Voigt, Alaa Shalaby, N.A. Mark Estes, III, Sandeep Jain, Samir Saba

“…HCRU included cardiac interventional, structural, surgical, and electrophysiology procedures, as well as diagnostic monitoring and imaging tests. …”
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