The invisible threat: A 30-year review of air pollution's impact on diarrhoea from the global burden of disease study 2021 by Changhao Zhang, Kaiqi Yang, Yang Yu, Haoxi Liu, Yijun Chen, Jiaxuan Zuo, Minyue Yin, Yuchen Ding, Jinlong Chen, Xiujing Sun, Shutian Zhang

“…In addition, Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and Ensemble Smoothing (ES) models were used to predict the epidemic trends of diarrhoea from 2022 to 2046, and frontier analysis was conducted to explore the potential reduction in the burden of diarrhoea in different regions. …”
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La ferme à enclos quadrangulaire du Bois des Olivettes à Roncourt (Moselle) : une catégorie d’établissement romain largement diffusée dans la vallée mosellane by Gaël Brkojewitsch, Brice Chevaux

“…Among these settlements and in terms of analysis, small-scale farms –which are just as representative of the Gallo-Roman countryside as the more developed and luxurious settlements– have often been neglected, despite the growing number of discoveries. …”
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Differential Responses of Plankton Communities to Environmental Changes in the Liuqinghe Bay Estuary by Chenshi WENG, Zhixiang LI, Yingzhe WANG, Dongsheng DING, Zhengguo CUI, Keming QU, Haiyan HU, Yuqiu WEI

“…Therefore, we collected water samples from seven stations in the waters of the Liuqinghe Bay in March (spring), August (summer), and October (autumn) 2021. Redundancy analysis and Pearson's correlation analysis were used to explore the effects of environmental factors on dominant phytoplankton and zooplankton species and communities. …”
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Consistency of 3D reconstruction measurements of lower limb torsion at different segments with the CT gold standard by Shouliang Xiong, Yunpeng Luo, Shikuan Zhang, Zhongxuan Wu, Degang Huang, Hongzhou Sun

“…The age range of patients was 10 to 79 years old (average 54 years old). All patients underwent CT plain scan of bilateral lower extremity three joints (hip-knee-ankle) fixation. …”
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Effects of four physiologically active substances on the control of gray mold and fruit quality of blueberries by QIE Mengyu, WEI Jiali, ZHANG Suilin, HU Qipeng, XU Haigen, HOU Zhixia

“…The best group was selected by correlation analysis and principal component analysis. [Results] The four physiologically active substances could significantly inhibit the growth of gray staphylococcus mycelium. …”
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Nutritional Quality and Assessment of Contaminants in Farmed Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar L.) of Different Origins by Barbora Pohořelá, Tomáš Gramblička, Marek Doležal, Darina Dvořáková, Jana Pulkrabová, Lenka Kouřimská, Vojtech Ilko, Jan Pánek

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Organizational Culture and Stock Price Crash Risk by Gholamreza Kordestani, Ramin Eskandari, Mahdi Shams

“…This is assessed using a text analysis approach, following Behndari et al. (2022), to obtain the average cumulative scores for each cultural quadrant (both overall and by industry). …”
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Quality properties of Kishk (a dried fermented cereal-milk mixture) prepared from different raw materials by Mohamed G.E. Gadallah, Mohamed F.Y. Hassan

“…Keywords: Egyptian Kishk, Barley, Millet, Goat milk, Sensory properties, Microbiological analysis…”
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Mortality impact, risks, and benefits of general population screening for ovarian cancer: the UKCTOCS randomised controlled trial by Usha Menon, Aleksandra Gentry-Maharaj, Matthew Burnell, Andy Ryan, Jatinderpal K Kalsi, Naveena Singh, Anne Dawnay, Lesley Fallowfield, Alistair J McGuire, Stuart Campbell, Steven J Skates, Mahesh Parmar, Ian J Jacobs

“…Methods Participants Postmenopausal average-risk women, aged 50–74, with intact ovaries and no previous ovarian or current non-ovarian cancer. …”
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Supporting antiretroviral therapy uptake and adherence: the SUPA research programme and RCT by Rob Horne, Caroline Sabin, Trudie Chalder, Vanessa Cooper, Lucy Campbell, Elizabeth Glendinning, Iris Mosweu, Paul McCrone

“…Of the 112 participants (care as usual, n = 55; cognitive–behavioural therapy, n = 57) for whom sufficient data for primary end-point analysis were available, 17 (15.2%) met the primary end point (> 80% of months with an average monthly adherence of ≥ 90%) [9 (16.4%) in the care-as-usual group and 8 (14.0%) in the cognitive–behavioural therapy group (p = 0.94)]. …”
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Public health engagement in alcohol licensing in England and Scotland: the ExILEnS mixed-method, natural experiment evaluation by Niamh Fitzgerald, Matt Egan, Rachel O’Donnell, James Nicholls, Laura Mahon, Frank de Vocht, Cheryl McQuire, Colin Angus, Richard Purves, Madeleine Henney, Andrea Mohan, Nason Maani, Niamh Shortt, Linda Bauld

“…Future work Further analysis could consider the relative success of different public health team approaches in terms of changing alcohol availability and retailing. …”
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Evaluation of the NHS England Low-Calorie Diet implementation pilot: a coproduced mixed-method study by Louisa J Ells, Tamara Brown, Jamie Matu, Ken Clare, Simon Rowlands, Maria Maynard, Karina Kinsella, Kevin Drew, Jordan R Marwood, Pooja Dhir, Tamla S Evans, Maria Bryant, Wendy Burton, Duncan Radley, Jim McKenna, Catherine Homer, Adam Martin, Davide Tebaldi, Tayamika Zabula, Stuart W Flint, Chris Keyworth, Mick Marston, Tanefa Apekey, Janet E Cade, Chirag Bakhai

“…Findings were triangulated with clinical data from the National Health Service England’s first cohort analysis (n = 7540). Results Fifty-five per cent of service users who started total diet replacement completed the programme and lost an average of 10.3 kg; 32% of those with data available to measure remission achieved it. …”
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THE EFFECT OF COSMETICS RETAIL CHAIN STORES’ ATTRIBUTES ON CONSUMER CHOICE IN LITHUANIA by Elena Salamandic, Sonata AlijoÅ¡ienÄ—, Rasa GudonaviÄienÄ—

“…The authors conduct a survey analysis across a random sample of consumers to test the impact of ten store attributes on consumers’ choice. …”
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Effects of two foliar fertilizers on fruit quality and volatile flavor compounds in Jinhuangjin peach by YANG Xingwang, WANG Zhiqiang, DUAN Chenlei, WANG Yingying, XUE Guihong, PANG Lingzhi, SHI Meng, JI Xiaohao, ZHANG Deyan, WANG Xiaodi, WANG Haibo

“…The level of mechanization is relatively low, and the average age of fruit farmers exceeds 55 years old. …”
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The impact of knowledge management on business performance with emphasis on the role of accounting information quality (Case study: financial institutions listed on the Tehran Capi... by Rahele Mashaykhi, Ahmad Pifeh, Hamed Ahmadzade

“…In this study, after drawing the conceptual model, data analysis was performed using structural equation modeling with a partial least squares approach and through SEM-PLS and SPSS24 software. …”
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Differences in production performance, fore-digestive tract microbiota, and expression levels of nutrient transporters of Hu sheep with different feed conversion ratio by Xiaobin Yang, Jiangbo Cheng, Dan Xu, Chong Li, Deyin Zhang, Yukun Zhang, Kai Huang, Xiaolong Li, Yuan Zhao, Liming Zhao, Quanzhong Xu, Zongwu Ma, Huibin Tian, Xiuxiu Weng, Jie Peng, Xiaoxue Zhang, Weimin Wang

“…Based on 16S rDNA amplicon sequencing technology to compare rumen and small intestine microbial composition, the differences and similarities of production performance, expression level of intestinal nutrient-specific carrier, digestive enzyme activity, short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) content, muscle conventional nutrient content, and blood biochemical indexes of Hu sheep in high- and low-FCR groups were investigated, and correlation analysis was conducted. The results showed that Hu sheep in the low-FCR group had higher feed efficiency, average daily gain, and less fat deposition (P < 0.05). …”
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Exploring the effect of multi-modal intervention against cognitive decline on atrophy and small vessel disease imaging markers in the AgeWell.de imaging study by Frauke Beyer, Lukas Kleine, Andrea Zülke, Melanie Luppa, Toralf Mildner, Jochen Gensichen, Thomas Frese, David Czock, Birgitt Wiese, Hans-Helmut König, Hanna Kaduszkiewicz, Wolfgang Hoffmann, Jochen René Thyrian, Arno Villringer, Steffi Riedel-Heller, A.Veronica Witte

“…Results: 56 individuals (mean (sd) age: 68.8 (4.2) years, 26 females, 24/32 intervention/control group) were included at baseline and 41 returned after an average of 28 months for the second assessment. ECT and FW exhibited stronger decline in the intervention compared to the control group in preregistered models but not when adjusted for baseline differences. …”
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粒径对平底筒仓中心卸料的流态 及仓壁压力分布的影响Influence of particle size on the flow pattern and wall pressure distribution of central discharge in flat-bottom silo... by 杨世明1,刘克瑾2,姚辉江2,黄硕硕2,杜春来1,章敬波1 YANG Shiming1, LIU Kejin2, YAO Huijiang2, HUANG Shuoshuo2, DU Chunlai1, ZHANG Jingbo1

“…To provide a reference for the design and optimization of silos, based on a self-designed semi-cylindrical plexiglass flat-bottom silo model, indoor silo center discharge tests and discrete element numerical simulations were conducted using ceramic ball particles with average particle size of 15, 3.5 mm and 5.5 mm. Three methods of flow pattern observation, velocity analysis, and particle displacement tracking were used to explore the flow pattern evolution of the three groups of particles with different particle sizes. …”
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Efficacy of guselkumab, a selective IL-23 inhibitor, in Preventing Arthritis in a Multicentre Psoriasis At-Risk cohort (PAMPA): protocol of a randomised, double-blind, placebo cont... by Joseph F Merola, Lihi Eder, Proton Rahman, Soumya D Chakravarty, Jose U Scher, Alexis Ogdie, Rebecca B Blank, Vincent Piguet, C T Ritchlin, Jonathan Samuels, Kun Qian, Wayne Gulliver, Ralf G Thiele, Rebecca H Haberman, Rochelle Castillo, Cinty Gong, Andrea L Neimann, Katrina A MacFarlane, Sydney Catron, Michael Toprover, Zakwan Uddin, Jiyuan Hu, Francisco Tausk, Jensen Yeung

“…In most cases, psoriasis precedes synovio-entheseal inflammation by an average of 5–7 years, providing a unique opportunity for early and potentially preventive intervention in a susceptible and identifiable population. …”
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Development of a risk score for colorectal cancer in Chinese males: A prospective cohort study by Lanwei Guo, Hongda Chen, Gang Wang, Zhangyan Lyu, Xiaoshuang Feng, Luopei Wei, Xin Li, Yan Wen, Ming Lu, Yuheng Chen, Jufang Shi, Jiansong Ren, Chunqing Lin, Xinyang Yu, Shuohua Chen, Shouling Wu, Ni Li, Min Dai, Jie He

“…Abstract To build a simple predictive model as a guide to stratify average‐risk population for colonoscopy examinations. …”
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