Primary healthcare professionals’ perceptions, attitudes and ideas regarding asthma management in Greece: A mixed-method study by Izolde Bouloukaki, Christos Spanias, Despo Ierodiakonou, Nikolaos Tzanakis, Siân Williams, Ioanna Tsiligianni

“…Background Implementing asthma guideline recommendations is challenging and there is variation between countries, and different healthcare professionals (HCPs). …”
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Age-related differences in Rostral-Middle locus coeruleus microstructure: A critical role in cognitive decline revealed by magnetic resonance relaxometry by Jonghyun Bae, Zhaoyuan Gong, Caio Mazucanti, Murat Bilgel, John P. Laporte, Mary E. Faulkner, Alex Guo, Christopher M. Bergeron, Josephine M. Egan, Susan M. Resnick, Christopher E. Ramsden, Mustapha Bouhrara

“…Our MR relaxometry biomarkers, especially in the rostral LC, serve as sensitive imaging biomarkers of early structural alterations and cognitive declines in aging.…”
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The Necessity of Prenatal Diagnosis by CMA for the Women with NIPS-Positive Results by Jun Xu, Ying Xue, Jing Wang, Qin Zhou, Bin Zhang, Bin Yu, Ting Wang

“…There were 418 (54.9%) abnormal results, and most (99.5%) were chromosome aneuploidy or structural abnormalities. Only three cases were confirmed as pathogenic copy number variation (CNVs), which were found only with CMA and not by karyotype analysis. …”
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Deep Screening for X Chromosome Parent-of-Origin Effects on Neurobehavioral and Neuroanatomical Phenotypes in 47,XXY Klinefelter Syndrome by Isabella G. Larsen, Rachel Gore Moses, Bryce A. Seifert, Siyuan Liu, Samuel Li, Andrew J. Oler, Elizabeth Levitis, Lukas Schaffer, Rylee Duncan, Colleen Jodarski, Michael Kamen, Jia Yan, François M. Lalonde, Rajarshi Ghosh, Erin Torres, Liv S. Clasen, Jonathan Blumenthal, Morgan Similuk, Armin Raznahan, Magdalena A. Walkiewicz

“…Background: X chromosome parent of origin (POX) has been proposed as a source of phenotypic variation within sex chromosome aneuploidies such as Klinefelter syndrome (XXY/KS) and between XX and XY individuals. …”
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Research on the microstructure influence mechanism of hydraulic asphalt concrete based on fuzzy sets by Fang Jianyin, Bian Junhua, Constantinos Soutis, Dang Faning, Qin Yuan, Ren Jie, Gao Jun

“…Aggregate content emerges as the primary determinant of compressive strength, while asphalt mortar composition governs plastic deformation characteristics. Structural analysis reveals a distinct phase transition at 38.5 % aggregate ratio: below this threshold, the material maintains a suspension-dense configuration, whereas exceeding it induces transformation into a dense-skeleton architecture. …”
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Investigating the relationship between the population of Pleioblastus amarus (Keng) Keng f. and its growing environment in Zhongtai, Hangzhou, China by Weiwei Zhu, Yue Huang, Jun Liu, Jiasen Wu, Yuchen Ding, Xinchun Lin, Xiangyu Li

“…We examined the physical properties of the fourth, fifth, and sixth internodes, the ideal sections for crafting flutes, finding minimal variation and consistent structural integrity among these segments. …”
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Design and Performance Test of Variable-Capacity Spoon-Type Oat Precision Hill Seeder by Wenxue Dong, Anbin Zhang, Fei Liu, Xuan Zhao, Yuxing Ren, Hongbin Bai, Dezheng Xuan, Xiang Kong, Shuhan Yang, Xu Yang

“…Conventional oat seeders suffer from poor seeding uniformity, a large coefficient of variation in seed volume, and significant seed wastage. …”
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Brolucizumab for the Treatment of Diabetic Macular Edema: An Optical Coherence Tomography-Based Analysis by Marco R. Pastore, Serena Milan, Stefano Gouigoux, Olimpia Colombo, Silvia Rinaldi, Gabriella Cirigliano, Daniele Tognetto

“…<b>Objectives</b>: The objectives of this study were to evaluate the structural and functional outcomes after the loading phase with brolucizumab in switched patients with diabetic macular edema (DME) and to identify potential predictive biomarkers of treatment response. …”
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Spatio-temporal dynamics and drivers of cropland ecosystem services value during the past two decades in Yangtze river economic belt, China by Hanjun Xia, Pengbo Zhang, Qi Zhang, Baofa Peng, Chenxin Zhou, Qian Zhu, Songchao Chen, Bifeng Hu

“…Secondly, the Sen-MK trend analysis was used to analyze the change trend of Crop-ESV in the YREB. Finally, structural equation modeling and multi-scale geographically weighted regression were employed to analyze the influence of physical and socio-economic factors on the Crop-ESV within the YREB.ResultsOur results showed that the Crop-ESV in the YREB exhibited an increasing trend over the past two decades, from 10,674 billion yuan in 2001 to 11,564 billion yuan in 2020, representing an average annual increase of 0.94 million yuan/ha (p-value &lt; 0.05). …”
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Control of pili synthesis and putrescine homeostasis in Escherichia coli by Iti Mehta, Jacob B Hogins, Sydney R Hall, Gabrielle Vragel, Sankalya Ambagaspitiye, Philippe E Zimmern, Larry Reitzer

“…Comparative RNAseq analysis of a wild type and ΔspeB mutant which exhibits impaired pili synthesis showed that the latter had fewer transcripts for pili structural genes and for fimB which codes for the phase variation recombinase that orients the fim operon promoter in the ON phase, although loss of speB did not affect the promoter orientation. …”
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A scoping review of evidence for the effects of seven global deer species on woody vegetation by Amy Gresham, John R. Healey, Peter J. Lawrence, Markus P. Eichhorn, Graeme Shannon

“…Despite extensive reviews on how deer affect forests, variation in effects across deer species has received less attention. …”
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Initial characterization of the Pf-Int recombinase from the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum. by Mehdi Ghorbal, Christine Scheidig-Benatar, Salma Bouizem, Christophe Thomas, Genevieve Paisley, Claire Faltermeier, Melanie Liu, Artur Scherf, Jose-Juan Lopez-Rubio, Deshmukh N Gopaul

“…<h4>Background</h4>Genetic variation is an essential means of evolution and adaptation in many organisms in response to environmental change. …”
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Characterizing bacterial communities of wild birds: Insights from three southern African hornbill species by María Dolores Barón, Mark Stanback, Ester Martínez‐Renau, Juan José Soler, Manuel Martín‐Vivaldi

“…This study contributes to our understanding of the role of the nest environment in structuring bacterial communities in wild birds and provides the first thorough characterization of the microbiome inhabiting different body integuments of southern African hornbills.…”
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Dynamics of Oleo-Pneumatic Landing Gear Systems for Carrier-Based Unmanned Aerial Vehicles by Ali Dinc, Faruk Yildiz, Junkun Ma, Reg Pecen, Suleiman Obeidat, Ali Mamedov, Murat Otkur

“…The simulation results confirm that the current design effectively mitigates impact forces, maintaining vertical accelerations within the design constraints and ensuring structural integrity during landing maneuvers. Key findings include the ability of the shock absorber to handle high sink rates typical of carrier-based operations, with calculated vertical accelerations and force values indicating robust performance. …”
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Impact of the Internet Using Experience on the Peculiarities of the Internet Texts Understanding by Наталія Акімова, Катерина Олександренко

“…The peculiarities of the Internet texts include enhanced dialogue, divisibility, external informativity, reduced connectivity and comprehension, pragmatic and mostly formal integrity, conditional completeness, complicated structural, as well as hybrid and high degree of permeability, multimedia, presentation, inclination to speech game and collective authorship, saturation with neologisms, emoticons and abbreviations, fragmentation, non-compliance with linguistic norms, and the functioning of a special language etiquette. …”
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Study of Multi-Objective Tracking Method to Extract Multi-Vehicle Motion Tracking State in Dynamic Weighing Region by Yan Zhao, Chengliang Ren, Shuanfeng Zhao, Jian Yao, Xiaoyu Li, Maoquan Wang

“…The variation in driving behaviors among different drivers contributes to this issue. …”
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A Comprehensive Survey on Resource Management for IoT Applications in Edge-Fog-Cloud Environments by Nour El Houda Boubaker, Karim Zarour, Nawal Guermouche, Djamel Benmerzoug

“…The survey delves into five key aspects: task scheduling, resource placement, allocation, offloading, and service migration. We propose a structured taxonomy categorizing over 70 works (2017-2025) by objectives, techniques, QoS decision-making mechanisms, and environmental factors such as user mobility and network variation. …”
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ECONOMICS OF UNDERUTILIZED CROP PRODUCTION IN AKOKNORTH WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENTAREA, ONDO STATE, NIGERIA: A CASE STUDY OF PIGEON PEA (Cajanus cajan) by Olutope Stephen OJO

“…To achieve these, 120 pigeon pea farmers were selected and interviewed with the use of a well – structured questionnaire. Multistage sampling technique was used for the study. …”
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Understanding good communication in ambulance pre-alerts to the emergency department: findings from a qualitative study of UK emergency services by Rachel O’Hara, Joanne Coster, Fiona C Sampson, Jaqui Long

“…We undertook qualitative research to understand how pre-alert communication may be improved to optimise the ED response for pre-alerted patients.Design, setting and participants Data collection took place within three UK Ambulance Services and six EDs between August 2022 and April 2023. We undertook semi-structured interviews with 34 ambulance and 40 ED staff and 156 hours non-participation observation of pre-alert practice (143 pre-alerts). …”
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Genetic parameters of growth and leaf traits and genetic gains with MGIDI in three Populus simonii × P. nigra families at two spacings by Tianxin Wang, Jingshan Ren, Qinjun Huang, Jinhua Li

“…Growth and its functional and structural determinants exhibiting a high level of variability are not only controlled by genetics, but also affected by environment, as well as genotype and environment interaction (G×E). …”
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