30 Years of simultaneous crop & land cover land use maps for Middle Rio Grande from 1994 to 2024 by Saman Ebrahimi, Mahdis Khorram, Raquel Neri Barranco, Rosario Sanchez, Rocky Talchabhadel, Santosh S. Palmate, Marisol Dominguez-Tuda, Elizabeth F. Racine, Saurav Kumar

“…Dual-month (July and December) Landsat composites and a semantic segmentation model, MANet with ResNeXt-101 encoder, under four strategies were used to address sensor and temporal variability. …”
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Axial compressive performance of low-carbon high-strength recycled aggregate concrete by Jian Li, Tan Wang, Jian Hong, Sumei Liu, Chao Zheng, Yin Chi

“…Based on experimental data, empirical models were developed to predict the influence of key control variables on the compressive strength, peak strain, elastic modulus, and the uniaxial compressive stress–strain behavior of LCHRAC. …”
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Analysing factors underlying the reporting of established non-native species by Phillip J. Haubrock, Ismael Soto, Ross N. Cuthbert, Irmak Kurtul, Elizabeta Briski

“…Abstract A nexus of natural and human variables mediate the success of non-native species that threaten global biodiversity and ecological stability. …”
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Targeting Ocular Biofilms with Plant-Derived Antimicrobials in the Era of Antibiotic Resistance by Monika Dzięgielewska, Michał Tomczyk, Adrian Wiater, Aleksandra Woytoń, Adam Junka

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Studying pollen representation of vegetation and plant richness from Pampean coastal dunes (Argentina, South America): exploring from local to landscape quantitative linkages by Carolina Vásquez, Gonzalo Sottile, Victor Merino-Campos, Silvina Stutz

“…Conclusions: We report the first quantitative analysis on pollen-vegetation relationship of coastal ecosystems showing that pollen records reflect landscape vegetation attributes, encouraging the study of past plant diversity and landscape variability based on pollen records. …”
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Temperature and Stress Effects on the Compressive Creep Behavior of Parallel Strand Bamboo by Yanyan Liu, Yulin Bian, Dong He, Jiao Liu, Aiping Zhou

“…It is expected that the use of this composite will continue to grow because of its excellent mechanical performance, relatively low variability in material properties, and shape standardization. …”
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Effects of meglumine antimoniate and allopurinol treatment on the fecal microbiome profile in dogs with leishmaniosis by Joan Martí-Carreras, Marina Carrasco, Marc Noguera-Julian, Olga Francino, Rodolfo Oliveira Leal, Lluís Ferrer, Gaetano Oliva, Jenifer Molina, Xavier Roura

“…Results The gut microbiome of Leishmania-infected dogs (BL) is dominated by Prevotella, Collinsella, Bacteroides, and Blautia, with individual variability being the primary determinant of microbiome composition. …”
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Determination of the effect of alkaline chemical modification using sodium hydroxide on the acoustic and thermal properties of bagasse fibers by Roohalah Hajizadeh, Amirhossein Montazeri, Mehrana Esnaasharieh, Mohammad Hossein Beheshti, Zeinab Garavand

“…Additionally, after conducting the experiments, analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to develop models describing the relationships between the investigated parameters and response variables to predict optimal conditions. …”
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Association between energy intake and prognosis in Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) stages 3–5: an ambispective cohort study by Di Yang, Huifen Chen, Yan Han, Yuhan Shen, Guixin Liang, Tao Zhou, Fang Tang, Lizhe Fu, Yifan Wu, Meizhu Ding

“…The main variable was energy intake. Kaplan–Meier analysis, restricted cubic splines, and Cox regression models were performed to assess the association.Results 85 (36.3%) individuals reached the endpoint with a median follow-up of 33 months. …”
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Optimization of synthesis conditions of hydrochar and pyrohydrochar from fish bones for their use in the adsorption of fluoride from water by Sergio Armando Cruz Briano, Nahum Andrés Medellín Castillo, Juan Carlos Moreno Piraján, Liliana Giraldo Gutiérrez, Guillermo Javier Castro Larragoitia, Pablo Delgado Sánchez, Alfredo Israel Flores Rojas, Hilda Guadalupe Cisneros Ontiveros

“…In this study, the optimization of the synthesis variables of hydrochar (HC) and pyrohydrochar (PHC) obtained from pleco fish spines that would generate the highest fluoride adsorption capacity and synthesis yield was carried out. …”
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Park quality and chronic disease: A city-level analysis by Lauren S. Pongetti, OTR/L, Fazlay S. Faruque, PhD, Benjamin H. Walker, PhD

“…Additionally, sociodemographic variables including access to health insurance, income, education, race and ethnicity were significantly associated with disease prevalence. …”
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Digital Isolation and Dementia Risk in Older Adults: Longitudinal Cohort Study by Cheng Deng, Na Shen, Guangzhou Li, Ke Zhang, Shijun Yang

“…Cox proportional hazards models were used to estimate the association between digital isolation and dementia risk, adjusting for potential confounders including sociodemographic factors, baseline health conditions, and lifestyle variables. …”
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Nurturing networks: Connecting the dots between social capital and antenatal care in south Karnataka, India by Avita R. Johnson, Sakthi Arasu, S Rathnakumari, William T. Story

“…Bivariate associations with socio-demographic variables, obstetric factors, and social capital were assessed. …”
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Impact of healthy pregnancy and lifestyle in mothers on developmental delay in their offspring: a strength-based analysis of a longitudinal study among indigenous children in Austr... by Md Irteja Islam, Thomas Stubbs, Tuguy Esgin, Alexandra Martiniuk

“…A composite score (ranging from 0 to 3, score = 3 refers to most healthy pregnancy) was created for a healthy pregnancy and lifestyle variable using three criteria − (1) a lack of medical conditions, (2) no substance use including smoking/alcohol/illicit drugs, and (3) intake of iron/folic acid during pregnancy. …”
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Medical honey for canine nasal intertrigo: A randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled, adaptive clinical trial to support antimicrobial stewardship in veterinary dermatology. by Gabrielle Brosseau, Nadia Pagé, Caroline de Jaham, Jérôme R E Del Castillo

“…The fixed effects of time, treatment, and animal-related variables on the pruritus and on each composite score, accounting for random dog effect, were estimated separately with generalized linear mixed models for repeated count outcomes (α = 0.05). …”
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Seasonally Robust Offshore Wind Turbine Detection in Sentinel-2 Imagery Using Imaging Geometry-Aware Deep Learning by Xike Song, Ziyang Li

“…This approach is implemented using Faster R-CNN as the baseline, with three enhanced extensions: (1) direct integration of imaging parameters, where Geowise-Net incorporates solar and view angular information of satellite metadata to improve geometric awareness; (2) implicit geometry learning, where Contrast-Net employs contrastive learning on seasonal image pairs to capture variability in turbine appearance and shadows caused by changes in solar and viewing geometry; and (3) a Composite model that integrates the above two geometry-aware models to utilize their complementary strengths. …”
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Assessment the Relationship between Rural Sustainability and Tourism Development by Modifier Role of Local People Perception by Mohammad Najjarzadeh, Majid Nematolahi, Hosain Balochi

“…It means that addressing just one dimension of this variable will cause disorder in the region and retard growth rate and development in the long term. …”
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Research on the Combined Load-Bearing Mechanism of Deeply Buried Pressure Pipelines Under High Internal Water Pressure by LIU Yijie, ZHANG Xuhui, HUANG Bensheng, YANG Fengjie, YUAN Mingdao, XU Yunqian

“…This method accounted for the loss of circumferential bearing capacity due to concrete layer cracking by modeling it as a spring layer with a specific stiffness coefficient. …”
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Remnant–to–LDL cholesterol discordance as a predictor of thromboembolic events in anticoagulated patients with atrial fibrillation: a report from the prospective Murcia AF project... by Eva Soler-Espejo, Yang Chen, José Miguel Rivera-Caravaca, María Pilar Ramos-Bratos, Raquel López-Gálvez, Francisco Marín, Vanessa Roldán, Gregory Y.H. Lip

“…Associations between RC levels and clinical outcomes across LDL-C strata were assessed using multivariable Cox proportional hazards models and as a continuous variable using restricted cubic spline (RCS) analyses. …”
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Consequences, costs and cost-effectiveness of workforce configurations in English acute hospitals by Peter Griffiths, Christina Saville, Jane Ball, David Culliford, Jeremy Jones, Francesca Lambert, Paul Meredith, Bruna Rubbo, Lesley Turner, Chiara Dall’Ora

“…We used the national standardised hospital mortality indicator model to adjust for risk of death and for national patient and the staff experience models included the Trust’s mortality rate to adjust for the acuity of the case mix. …”
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