Associations of internal persistent organic pollutant levels with sex hormones: An analysis by sex and menopausal status in a Spanish cohort by Celia Pérez-Díaz, Ruth Echeverría, Francisco M. Pérez-Carrascosa, Inmaculada Salcedo-Bellido, Pilar Requena, Rocío Barrios-Rodríguez, Juan José Ramos, Nicolás Olea, Mariana F. Fernández, Piedad Martín-Olmedo, Juan Pedro Arrebola

“…Data analyses included robust linear regression and weighted quantile sum regression. …”
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Comparative analysis of anticoagulant influence on PMI estimation based on porcine blood metabolomics profile measured using GC-MS by Patrycja Mojsak, Paulina Samczuk, Paulina Samczuk, Paulina Klimaszewska, Michal Burdukiewicz, Michal Burdukiewicz, Jaroslaw Chilimoniuk, Krystyna Grzesiak, Krystyna Grzesiak, Karolina Pietrowska, Justyna Ciborowska, Anna Niemcunowicz-Janica, Adam Kretowski, Adam Kretowski, Michal Ciborowski, Michal Ciborowski, Michal Szeremeta

“…Moreover, similar errors were observed for samples with and without EDTA (33.32 h and 32.34 h, respectively). …”
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Fecal microbiota transplantation from postmenopausal osteoporosis human donors accelerated bone mass loss in mice by Tinglong Chen, Tinglong Chen, Ning Wang, Ning Wang, Yongqiang Hao, Yongqiang Hao, Lingjie Fu, Lingjie Fu

“…These mice were categorized into two groups: the Vehicle group (n=7) received fecal samples from individuals with normal bone mass, and the FMT group (n=7) received fecal samples from individuals with osteoporosis. …”
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Spatial distribution of black fly (Diptera: Simuliidae) immature taxocenoses from the Pedra Branca State Park, Brazil by Tayanna Rodrigues da Costa, Tatiana Nascimento Docile, Christina de Albuquerque Ferreira, Tainá Maria Miranda Souza-Martins, Ivyn Karla Lima-de-Sousa, Leonardo Henrique Gil-Azevedo, Ronaldo Figueiró

“…Species richness was determined using pupae in a linear regression with the Ephemeroptera, Plecoptera Trichoptera (EPT) index. …”
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Gas Chromatography of Environmentally Active Aromatic Amines in Industrial Dyes Effluents and Human Blood Serum by Asma Chanar, Taj Muhammad Khuhawar, Muhammad Khuhawar, Muzamil Khuhawar, Saima Ghoto, Muhammad Lanjwani

“…The 1.5 ml /min was nitrogen flow with divided ratio 10:1. Linear calibration range of each of the compound was obtained with 1-20 ng/ml with coefficient of determination (r2) 0.9969-0.9970. …”
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Analysis of the Digestion Dynamics and Dietary Risk Assessment of Fluridone in Cotton Fields via QuEChERS Coupled with HPLC by Sen Wang, Ruitong Yang, Yuxuan Li, Zhiqiang Jin, Yutian Xia, Yipin Zhao, Xiaoqiang Han, Guoqiang Zhang, Chunjuan Wang, Ting Ma, Cailan Wu, Desong Yang

“…The results showed that in a certain concentration range, the concentration and peak area of fluridone showed a good linear relationship (R² > 0.99), with limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantification (LOQ) values of 0.00090–0.00108 mg·kg⁻¹ and 0.0030–0.0033 mg·kg⁻¹, respectively. …”
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Development and Validation of a Hydrophilic Interaction Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry Method for the Determination of Asparagine in Human Serum by Haoyang Lu, Xiaoyun Zeng, Lihua Yu, Zhanzhang Wang, Danna Lin, Xiaojia Ni, Dewei Shang, Ming Zhang, Jinqing Hu, Shuhua Deng, Xiuqing Zhu, Yuqing Chen, Huanshan Xie, Lihua Yang, Yuguan Wen

“…Serum ASN concentrations were determined over a linear calibration curve range of 2–200 μM, with acceptable accuracies and precisions. …”
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Aptamer-based Gold Nanoparticles Colorimetric Method for Rapid Detection of Chlorpyrifos by Yao WANG, Xiyan YANG, Yanfei LI, Jiaxiang HUANG, Sijia LI, Kaile WANG, Aoshun HE, Shilin WANG, Yanyan LI, Zhaozhou LI, Xiujin CHEN, Huaibin KANG

“…The recoveries of chlorpyrifos in fortified spinach and celery samples were 94.9%~102.8% and 97.2%~102.5%, respectively. …”
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Plasma and Urine Metabolites Associated with Microperimetric Retinal Sensitivity in Age-Related Macular Degeneration by Krupa Sourirajan, Kevin Mendez, Ines Lains, Gregory Tsougranis, Haemin Kang, Georgiy Kozak, Augustine Bannerman, Roshni Bhat, Hanna Choi, Archana Nigalye, Ivana K. Kim, Demetrios G. Vavvas, David M. Wu, Liming Liang, John B. Miller, Joan W. Miller, Jessica Lasky-Su, Deeba Husain

“…Multilevel mixed-effects linear models were used to assess associations between the metabolites and retinal sensitivity. …”
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A data-driven model for quantifying how maize yields in North-East China respond to summer climate by Andrew Cottrell, Edward Pope, Jemma Davie, Peiqun Zhang, Pete Falloon, Tom Crocker, Catherine Bradshaw, James Bacon

“…The approach uses a two-dimensional Gaussian function to parametrise the relationship between the detrended maize yields and summer climate conditions, which allows for non-linear growth responses to the individual climate variables. …”
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Structural, physical, optical, mechanical, and radiation shielding investigation of tantalum pentoxide doped Germanate-Tellurite-Borate based glass system by M.I. Sayyed, M.H.A. Mhareb, M.Kh. Hamad, Abed Jawad Kadhim, Kawa M. Kaky, Yasser Maghrbi

“…At 0.05 MeV, the linear attenuation coefficient (LAC) is approximately 100 cm−1 for the Ta0.5 sample, while it is higher for the Ta2.5 sample, reaching around 105 cm−1. …”
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A Microsphere-Based Sensor for Point-of-Care and Non-Invasive Acetone Detection by Oscar Osorio Perez, Ngan Anh Nguyen, Landon Denham, Asher Hendricks, Rodrigo E. Dominguez, Eun Ju Jeong, Marcio S. Carvalho, Mateus Lima, Jarrett Eshima, Nanxi Yu, Barbara Smith, Shaopeng Wang, Doina Kulick, Erica Forzani

“…The correlation between the microsphere sensor and GC-MS produced a linear fit with a slope of 0.948 and an adjusted R-squared value of 0.954. …”
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Exploring the relationships between Early Childhood Adversity, Social Cognition, and Aggression in a South African Study of People Living with Schizophrenia by K. van der Walt, O. Wootton, J. Rokicki, A. Vaskinn, D. Jonker, M. Campbell, E. Susser, U.K. Haukvik, R.C. Gur, D.J. Stein, C. Friestad

“…Group differences in CTQ, ER, LHA, and selected demographic and clinical factors were assessed using t-tests and chi-square tests. Multivariable linear regressions were employed to test for associations among CTQ, ER, and LHA. …”
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Microextraction of Polycyclic Musks from Surface Water with Deep-Eutectic-Solvent-Coated Membrane Followed by Gas-Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry Analysis by Fabiana Terlizzi, José O. Fernandes, Tamara Gonzalez, Mateus H. Petrarca, Leandro dos S. Silva, Rafaela S. Lamarca, Mario H. Gonzalez, Rui Lapa, Sara C. Cunha

“…The validated method was successfully applied to real samples, allowing us to find the presence of galaxolide and tonalide.…”
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Design and Evaluation of Real-Time Data Storage and Signal Processing in a Long-Range Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) Using Cloud-Based Services by Abdusomad Nur, Yonas Muanenda

“…In addition, the scalability of the DynamoDB-based data storage scheme is evaluated for linear and nonlinear variations of number of batches of access and a wide range of data sample sizes corresponding to sensing ranges of 1–110 km. …”
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Identification of unknown pollutants in drinking water based on solid-phase extraction and supramolecular solvent extraction by Zixin QIAN, Yuhang CHEN, Chao FENG, Yuanjie LIN, Qian XU, Ziwei LIANG, Xinyu WANG, Dasheng LU, Ping XIAO, Zhijun ZHOU

“…The detection method developed based on these conditions showed a good linear relationship for all target compounds in the range of 0.1-100.0 ng·mL−1, with R² > 0.99. …”
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Dye‐based recombinase‐aided amplification assay with enhanced sensitivity and specificity by Zijin Zhao, Yanbo You, Shaowei Hua, Xinxin Shen, Lingjun Li, Xuejun Ma

“…EvaGreen‐RAA had linear amplification in real time in the range of 1–105 copies/μL of the plasmids of SA and LM. …”
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Vegetation Cover Stratification of Different Land Uses on Loess Plateau by Lyu Du, Zhang Xiaoping, Liu Baoyuan, He Liang, He Jie

“…[Methods] Seven vegetation sample plots under different land use types on the Loess Plateau were selected. …”
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Efficacy of a stabilized liquid potassium sorbate preservative to prevent bacterial proliferation in bovine colostrum and milk by S.M. Godden, E. Royster, J. Timmerman, Brian A. Crooker, N. Brown

“…For RF BTM, results showed little difference in bacteria concentrations in either PSP or CON samples over 96 h, with the exception of a smaller decrease in Salmonella in CON samples between 0 to 24 h. …”
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Harnessing Raman spectroscopy and multimodal imaging of cartilage for osteoarthritis diagnosis by Anna Crisford, Hiroki Cook, Konstantinos Bourdakos, Seshasailam Venkateswaran, Douglas Dunlop, Richard O. C. Oreffo, Sumeet Mahajan

“…Principal component and linear discriminant analysis was used to identify the peaks that contributed significantly to classification accuracy of the different samples. …”
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