Variation Characteristics of Land Use Change Within the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei Region During 1985–2022 by Huijuan Wang, Zhiguo Qi, Haiming Yan, Huicai Yang

“…Land use change generally varies greatly among functional zones in a large area. This study reveals land use change characteristics across seven functional zones in the Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei region during 1985–2022 based on the latest land use planning data, with the land use dynamic degree, transfer matrix, and comprehensive index of land use intensity. …”
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Full-Cycle Rehabilitation Management of Coronary Atherosclerotic Heart Disease in the Elderly by DONG Anqin

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Enhancing AI Explainability Through the EXACT Framework: A User-Centric Approach by Sara S. Alhasan, Reem A. Alnanih

“…Participants completed six tasks designed to evaluate their perception, memory, and language-related cognitive functions. The experimental group outperformed the control group across all tasks, demonstrating significantly improved performance. …”
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Time-Resolved Information-Theoretic and Spectral Analysis of fNIRS Signals from Multi-Channel Prototypal Device by Irene Franzone, Yuri Antonacci, Fabrizio Giuliano, Riccardo Pernice, Alessandro Busacca, Luca Faes, Giuseppe Costantino Giaconia

“…Functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) is a non-invasive imaging technique that measures brain hemodynamic activity by detecting changes in oxyhemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin concentrations using light in the near-infrared spectrum. …”
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In vitro biological activity and nutritional evaluation of purple potato (Solanum tuberosum L. var. Vitelotte) by Merve Sabuncu, Dilek Dulger Altıner, Yasemin Sahan

“…Abstract This study aimed to produce functional flour from purple potatoes, which are relatively less known and have limited usage. …”
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Study on multimodal crack growth of FG-TBCs and its influence on interface cracking by Kun Liu, Dongyang Lv, Yihui Du, Guoyong Ye, Yu Wang, Wei Fan, Lei Zhang, Yang Cao

“…Functionally graded thermal barrier coatings (FG-TBCs) face cracking challenges under extreme thermal shocks, yet the failure mechanisms involving multimodal surface cracks remain unclear. …”
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Electronic Interactions Between the Receptor-Binding Domain of Omicron Variants and Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme 2: A Novel Amino Acid–Amino Acid Bond Pair Concept by Puja Adhikari, Bahaa Jawad, Wai-Yim Ching

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Biological Decline of Alfalfa Is Accompanied by Negative Succession of Rhizosphere Soil Microbial Communities by Yuanyuan Ma, Yan Shen, Xiaoping Zhou, Hongbin Ma, Jian Lan, Bingzhe Fu, Quanhong Xue

“…This study explored the successional pattern of rhizosphere microbial communities across different aged alfalfa stands and its relationship with alfalfa decline. …”
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Stress Hyperglycemia Ratio and Hemoglobin to RDW Ratio in Predicting the Outcomes of Thrombolysis-Treated Stroke: A Retrospective Cohort Study by Sarawut Krongsut, Nat Na-Ek

“…These associations remained robust across sensitivity analyses. The combination of SHR ≥1.18 and HB/RDW ≤0.76 predicted IHM with an AuROC of 0.78 (95% CI: 0.73–0.83). …”
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Immediate modulatory effects of transcutaneous vagus nerve stimulation on patients with Parkinson’s disease: a crossover self-controlled fMRI study by Chengwei Fu, Chengwei Fu, Chengwei Fu, Xiaoyan Hou, Chunye Zheng, Yue Zhang, Zhijie Gao, Zhijie Gao, Zhaoxian Yan, Yongsong Ye, Bo Liu

“…Each patient underwent three sessions of resting-state functional magnetic resonance imaging (rs-fMRI) under three conditions: real taVNS, sham taVNS, and no taVNS intervention. …”
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NH3 release during the snow evaporation process in typical cities in Northeast China by Xiaoteng Liu, Hongsheng Jia, Yunze Zhao, Yachao Zhang, Haodong Hou, Yingying Xu

“…Significant variations in R were observed across multiple functional areas, which were ranked in descending order as follows: commercial areas (R = 26.16%), residential areas (R = 22.01%), cultural and educational areas (R = 20.7%), and industrial areas (R = 18.01%). …”
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On the Enhanced p‐Type Performance of Back‐Gated WS2 Devices by Carlos Marquez, Farzan Gity, Jose C. Galdon, Alberto Martinez, Norberto Salazar, Lida Ansari, Hazel Neill, Luca Donetti, Francisco Lorenzo, Manuel Caño‐Garcia, Ruben Ortega, Carlos Navarro, Carlos Sampedro, Paul K. Hurley, Francisco Gamiz

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Real-time fMRI using multi-band echo-volumar imaging with millimeter spatial resolution and sub-second temporal resolution at 3 tesla by Stefan Posse, Stefan Posse, Sudhir Ramanna, Steen Moeller, Kishore Vakamudi, Kishore Vakamudi, Ricardo Otazo, Ricardo Otazo, Bruno Sa de La Rocque Guimaraes, Bruno Sa de La Rocque Guimaraes, Michael Mullen, Essa Yacoub

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Assessment of social emotional, cognitive and communicative development and adaptive behavior in children with spinal muscular atrophy 5q by Yu. O. Papina, N. N. Zavadenko, E. A. Melnik, S. B. Artemyeva, I. A. Berdalina, D. V. Vlodavets

“…SMA type 1 patients with dysphagia showed lower scores across all subscales except motor skills (p ≤0.015). …”
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A second horizon scan of biogeography: Golden Ages, Midas touches, and the Red Queen by Michael N Dawson, Jan C. Axmacher, Carl Beierkuhnlein, Jessica L. Blois, Bethany A. Bradley, Anna F. Cord, Jürgen Dengler, Kate S. He, Lawrence R. Heaney, Roland Jansson, Miguel D. Mahecha, Corinne Myers, David Nogués-Bravo, Anna Papadopoulou, Björn Reu, Francisco Rodríguez-Sánchez, Manuel J. Steinbauer, Alycia Stigall, Mao-Ning Tuanmu, Daniel G. Gavin

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Remotely Sensed Variables Predict Grassland Diversity Better at Scales Below 1,000 km as Opposed to Abiotic Variables That Predict It Better at Larger Scales by Yujin Zhao, Bernhard Schmid, Zhaoju Zheng, Yang Wang, Jin Wu, Yao Wang, Ziyan Chen, Xia Zhao, Dan Zhao, Yuan Zeng, Yongfei Bai

“…Here we used vegetation survey data from 1,609 field sites (>4,000 plots of 1 m2), remotely sensed data (ecosystem productivity and phenology, habitat heterogeneity, functional traits and spectral diversity), and abiotic data (water‐ and energy‐related, characterizing climate‐dominated environment) together with machine learning and spatial autoregressive models to predict and map grassland species richness per 100 m2 across the Mongolian Plateau at 500 m resolution. …”
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Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs) in Modern International Processes by M. A. Nebolsina

“…Non-state security actors look back on a history that stretches to mid- and the second half of the 20th century – the period of national liberation movements across the world. Meanwhile, the 1990s marked the rapid growth in the number of PMSCs and in the development and enlargement of the market in private security services. …”
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RETRACTED: LINGUISTIC AND CULTURAL PECULIARITIES OF INTERETHNIC DIALOGUE IN THE TEXT OF AN ANIMATED TELEVISION SERIES by T. N. Lomteva, E. V. Patrusheva

“…RETRACTED ARTICLEThe paper focuses on considering linguistic and cultural aspects of interethnic dialogue functioning in the text of an animated television series from theoretical standpoint. …”
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Rapid Soil Tests for Assessing Soil Health by Jan Adriaan Reijneveld, Oene Oenema

“…The tool evaluates a wide range of soil characteristics with high accuracy (R² ≥ 0.88 for most parameters) and has been evaluated across more than 15 countries, including those in Europe, China, New Zealand, and Vietnam. …”
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Measurement of level of PTSD with the International Trauma Questionnaire (ITQ): bias and precision when using full ordinal or dichotomized items by Tine Nielsen, Ask Elklit, Sabrina Brødsgaard Nielsen, Mikkel Auning-Hansen, Svend Kreiner, Maria Louison Vang

“…Previous research using the original ordinal polytomous items supported the construct validity of the ITQ across different language versions in a sample of refugees in treatment and found evidence of locally dependent items and differential item functioning (DIF) relative to gender and time since trauma in the PTSD subscale. …”
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