Dietary risk factors and cancer mortality burden from 1990 to 2021: a comparative study of China and global regions with varying sociodemographic development levels based on the Gl... by Chunxiu Zhao, Qian Ruan, Bingbing Xiang, Xuehe Zhang, Pingliang Yang, Shun Wang

“…ObjectiveTo analyze temporal trends of diet-attributable cancer mortality in China (1990–2021), compare patterns between China and regions with varying development levels, and explore gender-specific characteristics to inform targeted prevention strategies.Study designCross-sectional and time-series analyses.MethodsWe conducted cross-sectional and time-series analyses of nine dietary risk factors across China, the global region, and five Socio-demographic Index (SDI) - stratified regions. …”
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Local Realities and the Adoption of Piecemeal Planning Practices in Mlandizi and Sirari, Tanzania by Yamungu, Nestory E., Donaldson, Ronnie, Spocter, Manfred

“…The findings indicate rapid and informal urbanization, evidenced by annual average population growth rates exceeding the national average. …”
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Evaluation of Borama tuberculosis control program in Somaliland, Somalia by Mohamed Gedi Qayad, Gianfranco Tarsitani

“…The following TB treatment outcomes were estimated: treatment success, treatment failure, case fatality, treatment interruption and transfer rates, along with percentage of patients with sputum specimen prior to treatment, percentage of patients from neighboring countries, and monthly average patients enrolled in treatment. The pre-event to post-event outcomes and measures were compared using descriptive and multivariate analyses. …”
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Dietary carotenoid intake and fracture risk based on NHANES 2013–2018 data: a propensity score matching by Tesfaye Getachew Charkos, Hunde Lemi, Kemal Sherefa Oumer

“…Results A total of 5491 (1140 cases and 4351 control) subjects were included in this study. The average age of the subjects was 55.62 ± 14.84 years old. …”
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Fine description of natural fractures in the tight sandstone reservoir of the Yanchang reservoirs in the southern Ordos Basin by Hongjian Wu, Xiangwei Kong

“…At a microscopic level, shear-type and tensile-shear type fractures are relatively developed, with average micro-fracture densities of 0.62 and 1.59 mm⁻1, respectively, and an average micro-length value of approximately 0.00065 m, with widths ranging from 2 to 20 μm. …”
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Impact of radial modification coefficient of bevel gear on the load-bearing characteristics of differential by XI Junjie, BAO Menghao, LIANG Zhaowei, LI Kaixuan, ZENG Guang, ZHANG Yishuai, LIU Yuanpeng

“…Under different torque loadings, as the radial modification coefficient x1​ of the planet gear increases from 0.1 to 0.2, the maximum stress at the tooth root decreases, while the average stress along the meshing line increases. When the radial modification coefficient x2​ of the side gear decreases from -0.1 to -0.2, the maximum stress at the tooth root of the gear increases, and so does the average stress along the meshing line. …”
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Position-Keeping Method for Unmanned Sailboats Based on NMPC Maximum Speed and Heading Control by Kai Liu, Jiancheng Yu, Wentao Zhao, Zhaoyang Sun

“…Subsequently, simulation and hierarchical analyses were conducted to assess the effectiveness of these strategies. …”
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Whole genome characterization of the mechanisms of daptomycin resistance in clinical and laboratory derived isolates of Staphylococcus aureus. by Anton Y Peleg, Spiros Miyakis, Doyle V Ward, Ashlee M Earl, Aileen Rubio, David R Cameron, Satish Pillai, Robert C Moellering, George M Eliopoulos

“…Electron microscopy (EM) and lipid membrane studies were performed on selected isolates.<h4>Results</h4>On average, six coding region mutations were observed across the genome in the clinical daptomycin exposed strains, whereas only two mutations on average were seen in the laboratory exposed pairs. …”
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Optional and mandatory assignment strategies for dynamic vehicle routing with time windows by Mustafa Demirbilek

“…The proposed methods increase the average acceptance rate by up to 81% and reduce average daily travel times by up to 48% compared to CW. …”
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Synthesis of PMMA-b-PU-b-PMMA tri-block copolymers through ARGET ATRP in the presence of air by P. Krol, P. Chmielarz

“…As the polymerization time increases, both the monomer conversion and ln([M]0/[M]) increased and the molecular weight of copolymer increases linearly with increasing conversion. Theoretical number-average molecular weight (Mn, th) of the tri-block copolymers was found to be comparable with number-average molecular weight determined by GPC analyses (Mn, GPC). …”
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Total Hip Arthroplasty Performed by a Canadian Short-Stay Surgical Team in Ecuador by Michael Schlegelmilch, Saifee Rashiq, Barbara Moreau, Patricia Jarrín, Bach Tran, Anderson Chuck

“…The cost per surgery was divided by the average lifetime QALYs gained to estimate an incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER) in Canadian dollars per QALY. …”
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Crystal Structure and Cyclic Voltammetric Studies on the Metal Complexes of N-(Dimethylcarbamothioyl)-4-fluorobenzamide by Gun Binzet, Ersan Turunc, Ulrich Flörke, Nevzat Külcü, Hakan Arslan

“…It appeared that the lengths of the thiocarbonyl and carbonyl bonds are longer than the average for C=S and C=O; meanwhile the C‐N bonds in the complex ring appeared to be shorter than the average for C‐N single bonds. …”
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The Status of Honey Bee Health in Italy: Results from the Nationwide Bee Monitoring Network. by Claudio Porrini, Franco Mutinelli, Laura Bortolotti, Anna Granato, Lynn Laurenson, Katherine Roberts, Albino Gallina, Nicholas Silvester, Piotr Medrzycki, Teresa Renzi, Fabio Sgolastra, Marco Lodesani

“…Colonies were sampled four times per year, in order to assess the health status and to collect samples for pathogen, chemical and pollen analyses. The prevalence of Nosema ceranae ranged, on average, from 47-69% in 2009 and from 30-60% in 2010, with strong seasonal variation. …”
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Association of the systemic host immune response with acute hyperglycemia in mechanically ventilated septic patients. by Nauman Farooq, Byron Chuan, Hussain Mahmud, Samar R El Khoudary, Seyed Mehdi Nouraie, John Evankovich, Libing Yang, Daniel Dunlap, William Bain, Georgios Kitsios, Yingze Zhang, Christopher P O'Donnell, Bryan J McVerry, Faraaz Ali Shah

“…Baseline plasma levels of ST2 and procalcitonin were positively correlated with average blood glucose and glycemic variability in the first two days of ICU admission in unadjusted and adjusted analyses. …”
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Adaptive Covariance and Quaternion-Focused Hybrid Error-State EKF/UKF for Visual-Inertial Odometry by Ufuk Asil, Efendi Nasibov

“…Comprehensive experimental analyses on the EuRoC MAV dataset demonstrate key advantages: an average improvement of 49% in position accuracy in challenging scenarios, an average of 57% in rotation accuracy over ESKF-based methods, and SUKF-comparable accuracy achieved with approximately 48% lower computational cost than a full SUKF implementation. …”
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Economic valuation of high natural value areas in Central Roztocze by Grażyna Gawrońska, Krzysztof Gawroński, Dorota Dymek, Edward Sankowski, Betty Harris

“…The paper discusses and analyses some basic issues about economic valuation of high natural value areas. …”
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Acoustic and linguistic influences on rise-time modulations in natural English speech: evidence from a sensorimotor synchronization paradigm by Chia-Yuan Lin, Tamara Rathcke

“…As expected, amplitude rise-time was reflective of both acoustic-phonetic (nucleus duration and average intensity) and linguistic (onset complexity and metrical weight) factors. …”
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Optimal energy management of multi-carrier energy system considering uncertainty in renewable generation by Ankit Garg, K. R. Niazi, Shubham Tiwari, Sachin Sharma, Tanuj Rawat

“…To evaluate system adaptability, two performance indicators are introduced: the Average Energy Generation Flexibility Index (AEGFI) and the Average Thermal Generation Flexibility Index (ATGFI). …”
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Economic viability of irrigated coffee with different water regimes in the Cerrado by Patrícia Carvalho da Silva, Maísa Santos Joaquim, Maria Lucrecia Gerosa Ramos, Walter Quadros Ribeiro Junior, Adriano Delly Veiga

“…Four scenarios were evaluated: I. scenario before significant climate events and the pandemic, II. scenario with the effects of pandemic and climate events, III. scenario with average national productivity and average productivity in irrigated areas, and IV. scenario of specialty coffees. …”
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New insights on femoral head trabecular bone directionality in elderly humans using a micro-CT-based analysis by Amit Hadad, Yaron Bar-Ziv, Hila May

“…Furthermore, the multi-slice average demonstrated significantly lower direction and higher dispersion values than those in the single-slice analyses. …”
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