Integration of nontarget screening and QSAR modeling to identify novel butachlor transformation products of high priority in soil and water environment by Feng Chen, Chi Wu, Lan Zhang, Liangang Mao, Lizhen Zhu, Xingang Liu

“…Butachlor (BTR), a widely used chloroacetanilide herbicide in rice paddies worldwide, has raised concerns due to limited data on its environmental transformation products (TPs) and their ecotoxicological effects. …”
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Clouds Detection in Polar Icy Terrains: A Deformable Attention-Based Deep Neural Network for Multispectral Polar Scene Parsing by Shaojin Dong, Cailan Gong, Yong Hu, Long Cheng, Yang Wang, Fuqiang Zheng

“…DLACD-Net incorporates a nested U-shaped encoder–decoder structure and proposes DSACRSU at each encoding–decoding stage. …”
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Drought-induced shifts in cowpea rhizoplane bacterial communities across different vegetative and reproductive stages by Durga P.M. Chinthalapudi, Nisarga Kodadinne Narayana, Sujan Poudel, John P. Brooks, Shankar Ganapathi Shanmugam, Raju Bheemanahalli

“…Beta diversity results revealed that genotype and drought significantly influenced microbial community structure across growth stages. Proteobacteria dominated the root zone of the EpicSelect4 genotype, while UCR369 showed an increase in Actinobacteria under drought conditions. …”
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Isobutyrate Confers Resistance to Inflammatory Bowel Disease through Host–Microbiota Interactions in Pigs by Xiuyu Fang, Haiyang Liu, Junling Liu, Yongqing Du, Zihan Chi, Yiqi Bian, Xuan Zhao, Teng Teng, Baoming Shi

“…However, the therapeutic effects and mechanisms of action of isobutyrate in IBD remain unclear. Clinical data indicate that the fecal levels of isobutyrate are markedly lower in patients with Crohn’s disease than in healthy controls. …”
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Tick-borne encephalitis virus seroprevalence and infection incidence in Switzerland, 2020–2021 by Arthur Brêchet, Philipp Kohler, Tamara Dörr, Fabian Grässli, Michael Vock, Jiří Salát, Daniel Růžek, Andrée Friedl, Danielle Vuichard-Gysin, Antony Croxatto, Reto Lienhard, Rahel Ackermann-Gäumann

“…Questionnaire data were used to determine vaccination status and risk factors. …”
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Barriers and facilitators to accessing healthcare services among elderly people living in a rural Amazonian community, Brazil by Gleica Soyan Barbosa Alves, Fernando José Herkrath, Rosana Cristina Pereira Parente, Rita Dariene da Silva Pinheiro, Mario Vianna Vettore

“…The outcome was utilisation of medical services in the public health system in the last 12 months. Structural equation modelling was guided by Andersen’s behavioural model. …”
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Uncovering the impact of multiple determinants on vegetation NPP in Inner Mongolia by Zhiwei Yu, Lijuan Miao, Qiang Liu, Giri Raj Kattel, Gang Bao, Xiaowei Chuai, Yuyang Zhang, Hui Zhang

“…Focusing on Inner Mongolia, the primary factors influencing grassland growth were systematically analyzed using Geodetector and structural equation modeling, leveraging multi-source remote sensing data and statistical information. …”
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Preliminary Analysis of a Novel Spaceborne Pseudo Tripe-Frequency Radar Observations on Cloud and Precipitation: EarthCARE CPR-GPM DPR Coincidence Dataset by Zhen Li, Shurui Ge, Xiong Hu, Weihua Ai, Jiajia Tang, Junqi Qiao, Shensen Hu, Xianbin Zhao, Haihan Wu

“…By integrating EarthCARE W-band doppler cloud radar observations with GPM Ku/Ka-band dual-frequency precipitation radar data, this study constructs a novel global “pseudo tripe-frequency” radar coincidence dataset comprising 2886 coincidence events (about one-third of the events detected precipitation), aiming to systematically investigating band-dependent responses to cloud and precipitation structure. …”
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Analysis of the dynamics of occupational morbidity and its consequences in Ukraine in comparison with other countries of the world by M.H. Prodanchuk, A.V. Basanets, O.P. Kravchuk, K.Y. Hashynova, V.A. Hvozdetskyy

“…The most common occupational diseases in Ukraine are diseases caused by dust exposure: pneumoconiosis, chronic bronchitis, COPD, which make up 39% of the occupational morbidity structure. The global indicator of Disability Adjusted Life Year (DALYs) from the occupational exposure factors in the world (5.1%) is 3 times higher than the similar one in Ukraine (1.53%). …”
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Genetic aspects of nonimmune hydrops fetalis by H. A. Sarkisyan, S. V. Dumova, E. I. Shabelnikova, A. A. Fadeeva, K. S. Zizyukina, I. Yu. Zyablova, A. P. Khokhlova, O. I. Savateeva, D. M. Muscherova, I. V. Zhuravleva

“…The prevalence of nonimmune hydrops fetalis, according to various data, ranges from 0.05 to 0.5%, or about 1:4000 live births. …”
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Women’s and girls’ sexual empowerment differs by geographical context: a population-based validation study by Shannon N. Wood, Jessica L. Dozier, Celia Karp, Funmilola M. OlaOlorun, Elizabeth Omoluabi, Rosine Mosso, Pierre Z. Akilimali, Simon Peter Sebina Kibira, Frederick Makumbi, Georges Guiella, Peter Gichangi, Anoop Khanna, Sani Oumarou, Caroline Moreau

“…Findings Final models confirm the theoretical structure of the sexual empowerment measure, including two- dimensions: “existence of choice” and “exercise of choice”, each comprised of three items, with moderate internal consistency ranging from 0.59 to 0.69. …”
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Genomic signal selection analysis reveals genes related to the lambing trait of Hotan sheep by XinKun Wang, Wei Li, QiaoYan Huang, HuiPing Sun, LeXiao Zhu, RuoHuai Gu, Feng Xing

“…To identify the population genetic structure and linkage disequilibrium associated with SLE and TLE traits, we employed two complementary genome selection signals: the interpopulation genetic differentiation index (FST) and nucleotide diversity. …”
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A comparative analysis of imaging-based algorithms for detecting focal cortical dysplasia type II in children by Jan Šanda, Zuzana Holubová, David Kala, Kateřina Jiránková, Martin Kudr, Tomáš Masák, Anežka Bělohlávková, Pavel Kršek, Jakub Otáhal, Martin Kynčl

“…Three imaging-based detection algorithms were applied to T1-weighted images, each targeting key structural features: cortical thickness, gray matter intensity (extension), and gray–white matter junction blurring. …”
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Patterns of blue and green water in the Yellow River Basin from 1998 to 2020: Influence of climate change and human activity by Dongxue Yu, Qiuan Zhu, Jiang Zhang, Le Wang, Xiaoli Wu, Shanhu Jiang, Xiuqin Fang, Jiaxin Jin, Yanfen Wang, Liliang Ren

“…Furthermore, the Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) method is used to quantify the respective contributions of climate change and human activities to these observed patterns. …”
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Physicians’ perspectives on COVID-19 vaccinations for children: a qualitative exploration in Ontario, Canada by Barbara Fallon, Kathryn Hodwitz, Catherine S. Birken, Jonathon L. Maguire, Jannah Wigle, Clara Juando-Prats, Kate Allan, Xuedi Li, Janet A. Parsons

“…We explored physicians’ experiences providing COVID-19 vaccination recommendations to parents and their reflections on the contextual factors that shaped these experiences.Design We conducted an interpretive qualitative study using in-depth interviews. We analyzed the data using reflexive thematic analysis and a socioecological framework.Setting This study involved primary care practices associated with The Applied Research Group for Kids (TARGet Kids!) …”
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Slope—sedimentary source rock-type helium enrichment model: a case study of Shenmu Gas Field, Ordos Basin by Zhengang DING, Chenglin LIU, Liyong FAN, Rui KANG, Jianfa CHEN, Haidong WANG, Sijie HONG, Aslam Khan MUHAMMAD

“…The enrichment of helium in these gas fields is often closely related to the development of faults. However, the structural background within the basin is complex. To study the characteristics and controlling factors of helium enrichment under different geological backgrounds within the basin, an analysis of natural gas composition was conducted in the northeastern Yishan Slope of the Ordos Basin. …”
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Investigation of the Velocities of Coals of Diverse Rank under Water- or Gas-Saturated Conditions for Application in Coalbed Methane Recovery by Jizhao Xu, Cheng Zhai, Pathegama Gamage Ranjith, Yong Sun, Jisheng Guo, Zheng Ma, Huiteng Ma, Lei Qin

“…The discrete velocity ratio data were fit as negative linear correlations with UPVs, and different coals had different declining degrees, the difference of which might be attributed to the characteristics of structural cracks and the inherent properties of the coal, such as grain size and pore shape, which result in decreasing coal integrity and strength. …”
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Influence of digital transformation and strategic learning on agility and performance of Thai hotels by Sirinthra Sungthong, Kanokwan Meesook, Charoenchai Agmapisarn, Abror Abror, Narinthon Imjai, Somnuk Aujirapongpan

“…The sample consisted of 303 4–5-star hotels, selected through simple random sampling from a total population of 2,079 hotels nationwide. Data were collected through questionnaires and analyzed using structural equation modeling. …”
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Epiphytic lichen as a bioindicator of air pollution across selected urban, suburban, and rural areas in Malaysia by Nur Syafiqah Abd Hakim, Asmida Ismail, Mohd Talib Latif, Faezah Pardi, Rosla Zamzuri, Sofia Khalid, Faeiza Buyong

“…A strong negative correlation between IAP and PM10 (r = -0.957) underscores the impact of fine particulates on lichen community structure. Environmental variables such as bark pH, temperature, and humidity also influenced species distribution but played a secondary role compared to air pollutants. …”
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Effects of Drought Stress on the Relationship Between Solar-Induced Chlorophyll Fluorescence and Gross Primary Productivity in a Chinese Cork Oak Plantation by Qingmei Pan, Chunxia He, Shoujia Sun, Jinsong Zhang, Xiangfen Cheng, Meijun Hu, Xin Wang

“…Physiological coupling strengthened the GPP-SIF relationship under drought, while canopy structure effects were negligible. Random forest and path analyses revealed that VPD was the key factor reducing the GPP-SIF correlation during drought. …”
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