Relationships between vegetation indices and surface reflectance: Implications for detecting and monitoring sandification in arid regions by Yifan Yue, Wenzhi Zhao, Rentao Liu

“…Soil factors functioned as key mediating variables by integrating climate and human influences, while geographical factors exhibited minimal contribution to the overall model (direct effects < 0.1). …”
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Semantic distances of WAIS Similarities word pairs in non-demented adults: An item-level index of semantic memory granularity by Matteo De Marco, Satyam Chauhan, Martina Bocchetta, Annalena Venneri

“…Six hundred sixty-nine non-demented participants completed a neuropsychological battery inclusive of SIM and consolidated tests of semantic memory and executive functioning. Hierarchical linear regressions were designed to test the association between LCH and semantic memory performance after controlling for major confounders. …”
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Suppression of ferromagnetism in rippled La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 membrane with process-induced strain prepared by epitaxial lift-off technique by Kota Kanda, Ryuji Atsumi, Takamasa Usami, Takumi Yamazaki, Kohei Ueda, Takeshi Seki, Shigeki Miyasaka, Jobu Matsuno, Junichi Shiogai

“…Transition metal oxides are a platform for exploring strain-engineered intriguing physical properties and developing spintronic or flexible electronic functionalities owing to the strong coupling of spin, charge, and lattice degrees of freedom. …”
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Adjuvant therapy of chronic gastroduodenitis in children with dysplasia of connective tissue by О. М. Mukvich, D. S. Yankovskyi, V. P. Shirobokov, H. S. Dyment, О. V. Lavrenchuk

“…CGD in such children is characterized by early appearance, aggressive, gradient course with frequent acute conditions and recurrences with evident symptoms of nonspecific intoxication manifestations. …”
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Integrated pixel-level crack detection and quantification using an ensemble of advanced U-Net architectures by Rakshitha R, Srinath S, N Vinay Kumar, Rashmi S, Poornima B V

“…A key contribution of this study is the evaluation of loss functions, including Binary Cross-Entropy (BCE) Loss, Dice Loss, and Binary Focal Loss. …”
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Forecasting Electricity Production in a Small Hydropower Plant (SHP) Using Artificial Intelligence (AI) by Dawid Maciejewski, Krzysztof Mudryk, Maciej Sporysz

“…Four AI methods were chosen to create predictive models: two types of Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs), Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and Radial Base Functions (RBFs), and two types of decision trees methods, Random Forest (RF) and Gradient-Boosted Decision Trees (GBDTs). …”
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Research on the Characteristics of Electrolytes in Integrated Carbon Capture and Utilization Systems: The Key to Promoting the Development of Green and Low-Carbon Technologies by Guoqing You, Yunzhi Li, Lihan Dong, Yichun Li, Yu Zhang

“…Ionic liquids (ILs) demonstrate unique advantages due to their tunability: imidazolium-based ILs improve formate selectivity to 85% via carboxylate intermediate formation, while amino-functionalized task-specific ILs (TSILs) achieve a 1:1 stoichiometric CO₂ absorption ratio. …”
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Spatio-Temporal Heterogeneity of Vegetation Coverage and Its Driving Mechanisms in the Agro-Pastoral Ecotone of Gansu Province: Insights from Multi-Source Remote Sensing and Geodet... by Macao Zhuo, Jianyu Yuan, Jie Li, Guang Li, Lijuan Yan

“…The multi-scale analytical framework developed here provides methodological and empirical support for precision ecological governance in climate-sensitive transitional zones, particularly for optimizing ecological barrier functions in arid and semi-arid regions.…”
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Mapping Wetlands with High-Resolution Planet SuperDove Satellite Imagery: An Assessment of Machine Learning Models Across the Diverse Waterscapes of New Zealand by Md. Saiful Islam Khan, Maria C. Vega-Corredor, Matthew D. Wilson

“…(1) Background: Wetlands are ecologically significant ecosystems that support biodiversity and contribute to essential environmental functions such as water purification, carbon storage and flood regulation. …”
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Spatial Pattern and Driving Mechanisms of Settlements in the Agro-Pastoral Ecotone of Northern China: A Case Study of Eastern Inner Mongolia by Ziqi Zhang, Xiaotong Wu, Song Chen, Lyuyuan Jia, Qianhui Wang, Zhiqing Zhang, Mingzhe Li, Ruofei Jia, Qing Lin

“…This study investigated the agro-pastoral ecotone of eastern Inner Mongolia, a representative region characterized by environmental heterogeneity and competing land use functions. Landscape pattern indices, ordinary least squares (OLS) regression, and geographically weighted regression (GWR) were employed to analyze settlement morphology and its environmental determinants. …”
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Efficiency and heat transport processes of low-temperature aquifer thermal energy storage systems: new insights from global sensitivity analyses by Luka Tas, Niels Hartog, Martin Bloemendal, David Simpson, Tanguy Robert, Robin Thibaut, Le Zhang, Thomas Hermans

“…The DGSA methodology validates that the hydraulic conductivity, the natural hydraulic gradient and the annual storage volume dominate the functioning of an ATES system in both hydrogeological settings. …”
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Non-symbiotic N2 fixation is less sensitive to changes in temperature than carbon mineralization in Northern forest soils by Eduardo Vázquez, Marie Spohn

“…Northern forests are characterized by low temperatures that play a key role in the whole ecosystem functioning. However, Northern forests are expected to experience the largest temperature increase of all forest biomes in the next decades, which could affect central ecosystem processes, such as carbon (C) mineralization and N2 fixation. …”
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Estuaries Hidrofisis Characteristic by Maxi Tendean

“…Physical characteristic of flow rate and the change of bed material transport sliding as bed load along the estuaries is spatially functioned by an expert to study water flow characteristic. …”
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Effects of Climate, Soil, Topography and Disturbance on Liana Prevalence by Emma J. Mackintosh, Catherine E. Waite, Francis E. Putz, Marion Pfeifer, Chengrong Chen, Zhongming Lan, Sophie Brennan, Andrew R. Marshall

“…ABSTRACT Lianas (woody vines and climbing monocots) are increasing in abundance in many tropical forests with uncertain consequences for forest functioning and recovery following disturbances. At a global scale, these increases are likely driven by disturbances and climate change. …”
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Numerical Simulation of Thermal Fields and Microstructure Evolution in SLM of Fe₃₂Cr₃₃Ni₂₉Al₃Ti₃ Alloy by Xuyun Peng, Xiaojun Tan, Haibing Xiao, Wei Zhang, Liang Guo, Wei Tan, Jian Huang, Chaojun Ding, Yushan Yang, Jieshun Yang, Haitao Chen, Qingmao Zhang

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Triple mass diffusion phenomenon in tangent hyperbolic fluid with variable thickness, Soret, and Dufour theory: Galerkin finite element method by Umar Nazir, Muhammad Sohail, Hashem Alyami, Masoud Alajmi, Jihad Younis, Hamad Almujibah

“…It is included that the velocity fields are decreasing function with increments of We, NR, and m but increasing function vs velocity fields and buoyancy ratios for salt 1 and 2 are investigated. …”
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Le réchauffement climatique va-t-il conduire les petites îles à être englouties sous les invasions biologiques ? by Jacques Tassin

“…The change in ecological niches will result in modifications observed at the respective levels of (i) the composition of species communities, (ii) the functioning of biotopes, (iii) but also the production of goods and ecosystemic services. …”
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Porcine or Bovine Tissue Valves: Which are Better for Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement? by Georgi Manchev, Valya Goranovska, Georgi Stoitsev, Boyan Markov, Vassil Gegouskov

“…Both prostheses demonstrated a small but significant increase in mean pressure gradients in the fifth year. Most patients enjoyed significant clinical improvement as assessed by NYHA functional class. …”
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Extracellular vesicles promote the infection and pathogenicity of Japanese encephalitis virus by Junyao Xiong, Ling'en Yang, Xiaowei Nan, Shuo Zhu, Mengxue Yan, Shengxian Xiang, Luping Zhang, Qi Li, Chengjie Yang, Xugang Wang, Ning Wei, Huanchun Chen, Youhui Si, Shengbo Cao, Jing Ye

“…Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have been known to play an important role in viral infection, but their specific functions in JEV infection remain unknown. Here, ultracentrifugation in combination with density gradient centrifugation was conducted to purify EVs from JEV‐infected cells. …”
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Simulating Hydrogen Diffusion in ZrH Moderator and its Impact on Coupled Neutronic-Thermal Simulation of a Heat Pipe Microreactor by Kendrick William Reed, Forget Benoit

“…This work couples OpenMC and MOOSE in order to solve the feedback loop of the coupled power distribution-thermal distribution-hydrogen migration without relying on mesh discretization. Functional expansions are used extensively as a method of transferring spatial information, and continuously varying material tracking is used in the neutronic solver to represent the change in hydrogen concentrations. …”
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