Identifying populations at high risk of malaria: a mixed-methods case–control study to inform targeted interventions in Senegal by Tidiane Thiam, Demba Kande, Henry Ntuku, Caterina Guinovart, Natalie Galles, Laura Merriman, Moustapha Cissé, Abiboulaye Sall, Ndack Diop, Aichatou Barry Diouf, Mama Moussa Diaw, Mamadou Diop, Baba Camara, Niene Seck, Aliou Ndour, Yakou Dieye, Jennifer Smith, Adam Bennett

“…Consultations with the National Malaria Control Programme (NMCP) and a review of available data identified nomadic pastoralists, gold miners, and Koranic school students as potential high-risk populations (HRPs). …”
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Microascus microspora sp. nov. and Tolypocladium terrae sp. nov.; Two Novel Fungal Species Isolated from Soil in Korea by Seong-Keun Lim, Das Kallol, Jun-Woo Choi, Min-Gyu Kim, Chang-Gi Back, In-Kyu Kang, Seung-Yeol Lee, Hee-Young Jung

“…Detailed descriptions, illustrations, and phylogenetic data are provided to support the recognition of these new species.…”
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PCA Weight Determination-Based InSAR Baseline Optimization Method: A Case Study of the HaiKou Phosphate Mining Area in Kunming, Yunnan Province, China by Weimeng Xu, Jingchun Zhou, Jinliang Wang, Huihui Mei, Xianjun Ou, Baixuan Li

“…Additionally, the GACOS (Generic Atmospheric Correction Online Service) atmospheric correction product is applied to further enhance data quality. Taking the Haikou Phosphate Mine area in Kunming, Yunnan, as the study area, surface deformation information was extracted using the SBAS-InSAR technique, and the spatiotemporal characteristics of subsidence were analyzed. …”
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Current Framework of Italian Agriculture and Changes between the 2010 and 2020 Censuses by Luca Altamore, Pietro Chinnici, Simona Bacarella, Stefania Chironi, Marzia Ingrassia

“…Farms’ type of activities, structure, digitalization/computerization, innovation, and workforces’ characteristics were analyzed. …”
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Healthy Ageing and Gut Microbiota: A Study on Longevity in Adults by Lihua Deng, Jun Xu, Qian Xue, Yanan Wei, Jingtong Wang

“…Gut microbiota structure and functional pathways were analysed by Metagenomics. …”
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Dynamic change in maternal cardiac function during pregnancy by Xiu-Juan Wang, Ling-Ling Chen, Ming-Huan Hong, Ling-Yun Kong, Wei Xiang, Li Fu, Xiao-Wei Li, Fang Liu

“…Clinical and echocardiographic data of the subjects were collected. The difference in cardiac structure and function among the 4 groups were analyzed. …”
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QTL mapping provides new insights into emamectin benzoate resistance in salmon lice, Lepeophtheirus salmonis by Armin Sturm, Greta Carmona-Antoñanzas, Joseph L. Humble, Claudia Croton, Sally Boyd, Rapule Mphuti, John B. Taggart, David I. Bassett, Ross D. Houston, Karim Gharbi, James E. Bron, Michaël Bekaert

“…Genes transcriptionally up-regulated in EMB resistant parasites include a β spectrin, a cytoskeletal protein with still incompletely understood roles in neuron structure and function, as well as glutathione S-transferase, an enzyme with potential roles in the biochemical defence against toxicants.…”
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Investigation of the overall stability of welded I-beams with a cross-corrugated wall of the Zeman range by S. A. Makeyev, N. G. Silina, M. A. Stupin

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Simulation-Based Assessment of Urban Pollution in Almaty: Influence of Meteorological and Environmental Parameters by Lyazat Naizabayeva, Kateryna Kolesnikova, Victoriia Khrutba

“…Meteorological fields are synthesized along all spatial axes to account for vortex structures, urban heat islands, and stratification effects. …”
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Critical review of OCT in clinical practice for the assessment of oral lesions by Fariba Esperouz, Domenico Ciavarella, Mauro Lorusso, Andrea Santarelli, Lorenzo Lo Muzio, Giuseppina Campisi, Lucio Lo Russo

“…In oral oncology, OCT offers high-resolution, non-invasive (uses non-ionizing light), label-free, real-time imaging, providing detailed insights into tissue microanatomy and cellular structures, thus having the potential to improve early detection, monitoring and cost-effective screening of high-risk populations. …”
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Investigate on dynamic mechanical and mesoscopic damage characteristics of high-temperature treated granite based on SPH-FEM coupling algorithm by Liu Zilu, Yu Weijian, Wu Genshui, Zhang Zizheng, Wang Ping

“…The loss of various types of moisture within the rock intensifies the damage to its crystalline structure, elevated temperatures can lead to the metamorphism of the mineral components in granite, resulting in alterations to its macro-mechanical properties. …”
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Biomechanical Kinetic Chain Analysis of Service Motion for Speed Ball Prediction Through SBM-03 App Development by Ricko Irawan, Bambang Priyono, Soedjatmiko Soedjatmiko, Imam Ciptaning Wahyu Santoso, Agung Wahyudi, Adi S

“…Every segment generated force and acted as a stabilizer structure for the next segment’s activity. Fifty-one percent of kinetic energy and 54 up to 60 percent of the total force were produced this way. …”
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Sympathetic nerves are sparsely distributed in rat mesenteric perivascular adipose tissue by William F. Jackson, Emma D. Flood, D. Adam Lauver, Gregory D. Fink, Stephanie W. Watts, Brian D. Gulbransen

“…Z-stacks of the fluorescently labeled tissues were then acquired and fluorescence of labeled structure quantified in background-subtracted, maximum-intensity z-projections after thresholding. …”
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Leaf functional traits highlight phenotypic variation of two tree species in the urban environment by Ahram Cho, Nicole Dziedzic, Aria Davis, Cindy Hanson, Jangho Lee, Gabriela C. Nunez-Mir, Miquel A. Gonzalez-Meler

“…This study investigates the environmental differences and tree leaf structure and morphology in urban and suburban sites in the Chicago Metropolitan Region. …”
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Divergence and convergence in epiphytic and endophytic phyllosphere bacterial communities of rice landraces by Pratibha Sanjenbam, Deepa Agashe

“…As a result, we expect greater variability in epiphytic than endophytic communities. We analyzed the structure and stability of leaf phyllosphere microbiota of four traditionally cultivated rice landraces and one commercial variety from northeast India grown in the field for 3 consecutive years, supplemented with opportunistic sampling of eight other landraces. …”
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Mathematical model of on-demand route formation for public transport based on individual passenger requests in low-density population area by Svetlana S. Titova, Andrey V. Ostroukh

“…Route optimization was performed using dynamic programming algorithms that accounted for variable demand structure and resource limitations. Practical testing of the model was conducted using data from a specific region with low population density, enabling the collection of reliable results and drawing conclusions about the effectiveness of the proposed approach to organizing transport services. …”
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Modeling the compressive strength of concrete at different curing regimes using machine learning by Kennedy C. Onyelowe, Ahmed M. Ebid, Rosa Belén Ramos Jiménez, Angel Geovanny Lozano Guamán, Diego Ramiro Ñacato Estrella, Juan Carlos Cayán Martínez, Eduardo Francisco García Cabezas, Paul Awoyera

“…Abstract In this research work, a representative data of 334 collected from literature of concrete admixed with highly pozzolanic industrial waste materials, which are nano-silica (nSi), nano-alumina (nAl) and micro-silica (mSi) has been deployed to the learning abilities of the artificial neural network (ANN), genetic programming (GP), and the evolutionary polynomial regression (EPR) under the influence of the variable structure neuron interface in the hidden layer and the levels complexity of the techniques. …”
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The effect of 8 weeks of aquatic and land exercise training on balance and proprioception of the ankle joint in children with diplegia cerebral palsy by Hamid Abbasi, Hossein Ghasemsharifi, Saeed Abedinzadeh, Reza Sharifatpour

“…Background and Purpose: Children with spastic cerebral palsy have many problems in terms of movement and balance. The crooked structure of children with spastic cerebral palsy disturbs their balance function. …”
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Adaptation of the Mertz-Hong Reactance Scale in a Russian-speaking Sample by N.V. Nichko, S.D. Gurieva

“…SPSS 26.0 and Jamovi 2.6.2 were used for data processing. <br><strong>Results.</strong> A four-factor scale structure was obtained, Cronbach's alpha = 0,812; McDonald's <em>&omega;</em> = 0,823; Retest reliability after 4-5 weeks (48 people), Pearson's <em>r</em> = 0,746 (<em>p</em> = 0,01). …”
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Human-geographical features of transport accessibility research of pre-school and secondary education institutions in the cities of Kharkiv and Warsaw by Kateryna Kravchenko, Yevhen Shpak, Yevhen Khabusev

“…It was established that the cities of Kharkiv and Warsaw have a well-developed transport infrastructure, in the city of Kharkiv the structure of passenger traffic by type of transport is dominated by the subway, in the city of Warsaw - bus transport. …”
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