Rootstocks for Florida Stone Fruit by Ali Sarkhosh, Mercy Olmstead, Jose Chaparro, Thomas Beckman

“…Longer-term observations in Florida also suggest that trees on ‘Nemaguard’ rootstock do not perform well in soils infested with M. floridensis. …”
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Long-term efficacy and safety of endoscopic surgery versus small bone window craniotomy for spontaneous supratentorial intracerebral hemorrhage: a meta-analysis and trial sequentia... by Chen Guo, Yang Bai, Xiaobin Zhang, Pinjing Zhang, Song Han, Di Fan

“…The hematoma evacuation rate was also higher in the ES group (mean difference [MD] 6.41, 95% CI 1.83–10.99, I² = 95%); however, the TSA did not support this result due to the potential false-positive. …”
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Cumbre de Sistemas Alimentarios de la ONU 2021: Desmantelando la democracia y restableciendo el control corporativo de los sistemas alimentarios by Matthew Canfield, Molly D Anderson, Philip McMichael

“…A medida que la pandemia de COVID-19 ilumina las vulnerabilidades estructurales del modelo neoliberal de los sistemas alimentarios y las consecuencias del cambio climático para la producción de alimentos, ahora más que nunca se necesita un compromiso de alto nivel con los sistemas alimentarios equitativos y sostenibles. …”
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Resilience in the time of crisis: A review of the maternal, perinatal and reproductive health effects of COVID-19 in South Africa by S Fawcus, S Gebhardt, R Niit, R Pattinson

“…The increase in maternal deaths was predominantly due to COVID‐19 respiratory complications, but also an increase in obstetric haemorrhage. Stillbirths increased significantly (10%) for birthweights between 2 000 g and 2 499 g, categorised mostly as unexplained stillbirths or preterm labour, but no increase in neonatal deaths was observed. …”
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Time-varying harmonic impedance estimation based on locally-geographically weighted regression by XU Fangwei, XIE Pei′ang, WANG Chuan, LIU Kai, GUO Kai, FAN Lijuan

“…Under strong background harmonic fluctuations, the recommended method can not only identify abrupt changes in impedance, but also estimate the trend of utility harmonic impedance. …”
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Assessment of Clavicular Shortening in Displaced Midshaft Clavicular Fractures Treated by Nonoperative Method, Plating, and Elastic Nailing: Comparative Functional Analysis—A Case... by Makesh Ram Sriraghavan, Poornima Kumararaja, Balakannan Jeyabalan

“…The treatment choice is not solely based on fracture configuration but also considers other factors, including the patient's age, activity level, and the surgeon's judgment. …”
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A Bidirectional Mendelian Randomization Study Investigating the Causal Relationship Between Ankylosing Spondylitis and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease by Pan D, Dai X, Li P, Xue L

“…Sensitivity analyses were also performed to evaluate the impact of heterogeneity and pleiotropy on the MR results.Results: The study included two datasets related to AS (ebi-a-GCST005529 and ukb-a-88) and two datasets related to COPD (ebi-a-GCST90018807 and finn-b-J10_COPD). …”
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Charge-on-the-move solutions for future mobility: A review of current and future prospects by Mohd Aiman Khan, Wilco Burghout, Oded Cats, Erik Jenelius, Matej Cebecauer

“…The study critically evaluates state-of-the-art dynamic charging technologies, including their benefits, limitations, and applicability to future mobility systems, while also comparing these solutions based on infrastructure costs, readiness, and scalability. …”
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The Empowerment of High-Impact Educational Practice Construct Based on Kelantan Rabbani Education Policy by Rahim Kamarul Zaman, Mujiburrahman Muhammad Saleh, Nur Shahidah Ab Hamid, Mazlan Ibrahim, Azizi Umar

“…The Malaysian Education Development Plan for Higher Education (2015-2025) prioritises a holistic, comprehensive and integrated approach to curriculum development. The plan is also supported by High-Impact Educational Practices (HIEP) to produce holistic graduates who are knowledgeable and ethically aligned with the National Higher Education Philosophy. …”
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The mental health impact of COVID-19: the need for community interventions and collaboration for recovery by Nadarajah Rajeshkannan, Daya Somasundaram, Balachandran Kumarendran, Thirunavukarasu Kumanan, Ivan Dinesh Aloysius, Nalayini Sugirthan, Sivanantham Sasikumar, Nalayini Jegathesan

“…At the community level, there were signs of collective (mass) hysteria from panic buying to conspiracy theories, public shaming, fake news, and disinformation spreading on social media and mass protests. There were also positive effects such as better understanding of bio-knowledge, interventions and discoveries, online learning, gratitude toward health-care workers, increased community and family cohesion, reduction in road traffic accidents, and drop in other respiratory infections with their resultant morbidity and mortality. …”
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Dyskryminacja dzieci pozamałżeńskich w ustawodawstwie cywilnym w Drugiej Rzeczypospolitej i próby jej przezwyciężenia w projektach kodyfikacyjnych by Leonard Górnicki

“…At the same time, the author stresses that the new thoughts expressed in Stanisław Gołąb’s original draft, which constituted an important legislative advance, also found expression in the version passed and still being amended by the Subcommittee, in particular the idea of essentially equating children born out of wedlock with marital children, the care of the court (office) of guardianship and social welfare authorities over children born out of wedlock, as well as the principle of exercising parental rights solely in the interests of the child, including those born out of wedlock. …”
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How to survive the mutational meltdown: lessons from plant RNA viruses by Lafforgue, Guillaume, Lefebvre, Marie, Michon, Thierry, Elena, Santiago F.

“…These findings demonstrate that Muller's ratchet can be halted not only by increasing the number of founder viruses but also by incorporating phases of exponential growth to large populations between bottlenecks. …”
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Atmospheric Wet Deposition of PCDD/Fs in the Ambient Air by Xueying Tian, Kangping Cui, Hwey-Lin Sheu, Yen-Kung Hsieh, Fanxuan Yu

“…In addition, the gas-particle partitioning of wet deposition, the total PCDD/Fs-WHO2005-TEQ concentrations in the rain, the PM2.5-bound total PCDD/Fs-WHO2005-TEQ content, and the PM2.5 concentration were also studied for Beijing and Tianjin City, respectively. …”
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Long-Term Results of the Etiotropic Therapy of Subcompensed Liver Cirrhosis in the Outcome of Chronic Hepatitis C by P. O. Bogomolov, A. O. Bueverov, V. E. Bakirova, E. O. Lyusina, E. A. Fedosyina, S. V. Koblov, O. V. Sumtsova

“…Longterm follow-up results indicate a significant improvement of liver function, but also a continuing high risk of developing complications of underlying disease, primarily HCC.…”
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ONLINE PROJECTS AS A FORM OF SPREADING PEDAGOGICAL BIOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE IN THE CONTEXT OF OPEN SCIENCE by Larysa D. Berezivska, Oleksandr P. Mikhno, Olha P. Pinchuk

“…It has been proven that the use of social networks for the dissemination of pedagogical biography in the form of online projects in the educational and scientific space is not only an effective way of providing access to the results of scientific research to a wide audience, but it also contributes to the restoration and preservation of the national memory. …”
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Investigating PFAS emissions of light- and heavy-duty fuel cell electric vehicles by T. Lange, M. Dietrich, H. Schlottmann, V. Valkov, V. Mackert, I. Radev, H. Hoster

“…Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been linked to different adverse health effects, highlighting the need to address the examination of all potential emission sources. This also includes applications that are used in key components of the hydrogen economy using proton exchange membranes, e.g. …”
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Selective epithelial expression of KRASG12D in the Oncopig pancreas drives ductal proliferation and desmoplasia that is accompanied by an immune response by Carlos P. Jara, Al-Murtadha Al-Gahmi, Audrey Lazenby, Michael A. Hollingsworth, Mark A. Carlson

“…All doses of the vector induced epithelial proliferation; the higher doses also produced stromal alterations, metaplasia, and possible neoplastic transformation. …”
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Coupling relationship between land use transition and rural transformation development: A case study of county-level regions in Jiangsu Province by GE Dazhuan, WANG Rumin, LU Xiaoxue

“…Rural transformation development was not only affected by itself but also impacted by the land use transition, and showed strong self-promotional characteristics, while land use transition exerted certain coercive effects on rural transformation development. …”
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Fishing on Facebook: Using Social Media and Citizen Science to Crowd-Source Trophy Murray Cod by Matthew O’Connell, Dirk Spennemann, Jennifer Bond, R. Keller Kopf, Nicole McCasker, Paul Humphries

“…Trophy specimens are cultural and social objects but also are examples of informal historical records that may supply biological tissue and supplement formal natural history collections. …”
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Evaluating the toxicity of sea-dumped conventional and chemical munition degradation products to fish and human cells using a combination of cell viability assays by João Barbosa, Colin R. Janssen, Marijke Neyts, Koen Parmentier, Frédéric Laduron, Kris Geukens, Philippe François, Jana Asselman

“…Notably, the EC10 and EC50 values for tetryl and 1,3-DNB in RTgill-W1 align with concentrations detected near North American dumpsites, reflecting environmentally relevant conditions. The study also reveals inter-species and inter-organ variability in toxicity mechanisms, identifying potential adverse outcome pathways such as AOP 220. …”
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