A Fusion XGBoost Approach for Large-Scale Monitoring of Soil Heavy Metal in Farmland Using Hyperspectral Imagery by Xuqing Li, Huitao Gu, Ruiyin Tang, Bin Zou, Xiangnan Liu, Huiping Ou, Xuying Chen, Yubin Song, Wei Luo, Bin Wen

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A weather-forecast driven early warning system for wheat blast disease: User-centered design, validation, and scaling in Bangladesh and Brazil by Timothy J. Krupnik, José Mauricio Cunha Fernandes, Felipe Vargas, Emerson Medeiros Del Ponte, Khaled Hossain, Mustafa Kamal, Mutasim Billah, Md. Harun-Or-Rashid, Sk. Ghulam Hussain, Pawan Kumar Singh, Krishna Kanta Roy, Carlos Augusto Pizolotto, Md. Shah Kamal Khan, Willingthon Pavan, Golam Faruq

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The Impact of physical activity and related factors on the risk of melanoma development and progression of the disease - A literature review by Joanna Szuba, Magdalena Rędaszka, Oliwia Barańska, Małgorzata Chańko, Justyna Drożdżał, Adam Krzaczkowski, Emilia Niedzieska, Zofia Szular, Tymon Wojczulis, Katarzyna Ziemek

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FOXK2 in skeletal muscle development: a new pathogenic gene for congenital myopathy with ptosis by Peixuan Wu, Nan Song, Yang Xiang, Zhe Tao, Bing Mao, Ruochen Guo, Xin Wang, Dan Wu, Zhenzhen Zhang, Xin Chen, Duan Ma, Tianyu Zhang, Bingtao Hao, Jing Ma

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Chinese herbal medicine for the treatment of children with cerebral palsy: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials with core herbs exploration by Ying-Yu Huang, Ya-Yun Cheng, Hsing-Yu Chen, Hsing-Yu Chen, Ren-Huei Fu, Yi-Jung Chang, Tsung-Hsien Yang, Tsung-Hsien Yang

“…IntroductionChinese herbal medicine (CHM) taken orally is frequently utilized to enhance functional ability and independence in cerebral palsy (CP); nonetheless, there is a lack of current evidence regarding the efficacy of oral CHM in treating CP. Additionally, the general complexities of CHM prescriptions often obscure the underlying mechanisms. …”
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Monitoring Spatial-Temporal Variability of Vegetation Coverage and Its Influencing Factors in the Yellow River Source Region from 2000 to 2020 by Boyang Wang, Jianhua Si, Bing Jia, Xiaohui He, Dongmeng Zhou, Xinglin Zhu, Zijin Liu, Boniface Ndayambaza, Xue Bai

“…The outcomes suggested the following: (1) On the temporal scale, vegetation coverage exhibited a general upward trend between 2000 and 2020, with the YRSR showing a yearly growth rate of 0.23% (<i>p</i> < 0.001). …”
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Comparing acoustic representations for deep learning-based classification of underwater acoustic signals: A case study on orca (Orcinus orca) vocalizations by Fabio Frazao, Ruth Joy, Michael Dowd

“…For our case study, we recommend a combination of mel spectrograms and frequency similarity matrices for the orca detectors focusing on stereotypical tonal calls. In general, we encourage developers working on similar tools to consider testing and combining different acoustic representations for improved classification performance.…”
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Individual-level characteristics and geospatial factors associated with cervical cancer screening participation in Alberta, Canada: a population-based cross-sectional study by Jessica Law, Geneviève Jessiman-Perreault, Amanda Alberga Machado, Linan Xu, Bonnie Chiang, Huiming Yang, Lisa Allen Scott, Rizwan Shahid, Curtis Mabilangan, Alvin Li, Kamala Adhikari, Gary Teare

“…Compared with those who are currently up-to-date for screening, those who have no record of screening tend to be older (OR: 3.63; 95% CI: 3.57 to 3.70), reside in the South Zone (OR: 1.51; 95% CI: 1.47 to 1.55), were health system non-users (OR: 2.95: 95% CI: 2.86 to 3.04), did not see a general practitioner (OR: 13.86; 95% CI: 13.32 to 14.43), or had no usual provider of care (OR: 3.227; 95% CI: 3.141 to 3.315). …”
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Evolutionary Dynamics and Functional Conservation of <i>amh</i> Signaling in Teleost Lineages by Lingqun Zhang, Qingke Zhang, Kai Hu, Wei Lu, Weigang Li, Fengchi Wang, Jie Cheng

“…The results revealed generally conserved gene copy number, phylogeny, structure, and synteny, among teleost <i>amh</i> signaling genes. …”
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Meningitis due to Gemella sp. in a patient with severe ENT conditions: case report and review of the literature by Ilyès Benhalima, Lola Jacquemont, Laurine Milière, Alina Tone, Nicolas Ettahar, Gisèle Dewulf, Edith Mazars

“…A literature review identified 22 reported cases of central nervous system (CNS) infections caused by various Gemella species from 1980 to 2022. …”
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Feasibility Study of the “HemoTypeSC” Test for the Rapid Screening of Sickle Cell Disease in Côte D’Ivoire by Jeannette Bassimbié Kakou Danho, Yao Nicaise Atiméré, Daouda Koné, Donafologo Daouda Yéo, Line Couitchéré

“…It is very widespread in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly at the Lehmann “sickle belt” level, where the prevalence of the hemoglobin S involves at least 10% of the population in West Africa and can reach 40% in Central Africa. In Côte d’Ivoire, the prevalence of the hemoglobin S is about 12–14% in the general population and about 11.71% in the child population in Abidjan. …”
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Nivolumab plus cabozantinib in metastatic renal cell carcinoma: real-world evidence from the international ARON-1 study by Maria T. Bourlon, Maria T. Bourlon, Luca Galli, Enrique Grande, Se Hoon Park, Bohuslav Melichar, Timothy J. Schieber, Maria José Juan-Fita, Yüksel Ürün, Javier Molina-Cerrillo, Teresa Alonso-Gordoa, Ugo De Giorgi, Jakub Kucharz, Esther Pérez Calabuig, Vincenza Conteduca, Tarek Taha, Tarek Taha, Pasquale Rescigno, Hussam Abu-Sini, Gian Paolo Spinelli, Ray Manneh Kopp, Alessia Salfi, Dipen Bhuva, Paola Valdez-Sandoval, Sofia Mendez-Bribiesca, Ondrej Fiala, Ondrej Fiala, Sebastiano Buti, Sebastiano Buti, Fernando Sabino Marques Monteiro, Fernando Sabino Marques Monteiro, Aristotelis Bamias, Marwan Ghosn, Francesco Massari, Francesco Massari, Jawaher Ansari, Matteo Santoni

“…Poor performance status, sarcomatoid de-differentiation, bone or central nervous system metastases and IMDC poor risk group were confirmed as negative prognostic factors.…”
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The protein kinases family in fungi: adaptability, virulence and conservation between species by Emanoelle La Santrer, Cláudia Barbosa Assunção, Thiago Miguelito Navarro de Camargo, Izabella Rodrigues, Sabrina Sidney Campolina, Edgar Lacerda de Aguiar, Thiago de Souza Rodrigues, Rachel Basques Caligiorne

“…To better understand the mechanistic role of GCN2 and related kinases in amino acid sensing and stress response, we present a review based on studying the central role of kinases in fungal stress adaptation, discussing how the high conservation of their catalytic kinase domains makes them valuable as phylogenetic markers and therapeutic targets.…”
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Influence of the Plant Training System on Yield and Nut Traits of European Hazelnut (<i>Corylus avellana</i> L.) Cultivar Nocchione by Alberto Pacchiarelli, Cristian Silvestri, Massimo Muganu, Valerio Cristofori

“…Over five growing seasons (2019–2023), measurements included pruned wood removed, yield, vigor, yield efficiency, nut and kernel traits, and incidence of the main commercial defects. In general, treatment A outperformed other plant-shaping systems, maintaining high yield levels particularly in the two last growing seasons, and showing a mean kernel/nut ratio of 37.7 and a low incidence of defects. …”
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Evaluation of Soil Moisture Retrievals from a Portable L-Band Microwave Radiometer by Runze Zhang, Abhi Nayak, Derek Houtz, Adam Watts, Elahe Soltanaghai, Mohamad Alipour

“…This study aims to provide an initial assessment of the performance of PoLRa-derived soil moisture at a spatial resolution of approximately 0.7 m × 0.7 m at a set of sampling pixels in central Illinois, USA. This preliminary evaluation focuses on (1) the consistency of PoLRa-measured brightness temperatures from different viewing directions over the same area and (2) whether PoLRa-derived soil moisture retrievals are within an acceptable accuracy range. …”
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Prevalence and contributing factors of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) in iran: a systematic review by Salman Daneshi, Esmaeil Barkhori Mehni, Mohammad Kamali, Eshagh Barfar, Fatemeh Bagher Barahouei, Kiavash Hushmandi, Rasoul Raesi

“…Results Between 2000 and 2023, the prevalence of MDR-TB in Iran ranged from 5.1 to 11.3% among general TB cases, increasing to 36% among retreatment cases and 18.5% in border provinces such as Sistan-Baluchestan. …”
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Diagenetic facies of the Fengcheng Formation tight reservoir in the alkaline lake sedimentary environment, the southern margin of Mahu Sag, Junggar Basin, China by Zongbin Zhang, Jun Qin, Zhongchen Ba, Wenbiao Huang, Mengyun Han, Yuhui Gao, Dong Wu

“…The dissolution phases near the central and southern faults prevailed, with an average porosity of 9%. …”
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Global trends in the burden of ischemic heart disease attributable to smoking from 1990 to 2021: A systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Yifei Wang, Qing Li, Lei Bi, Bin Wang, Tingting Lv, Ping Zhang

“…Regional disparities were most pronounced in low- and middle-income areas, particularly in Eastern Europe and Central Asia, where smoking related IHD burden remains high. …”
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Analysis of Russian pharmaceutical specialists labor market for 2019–2022 by D. V. Kurkin, Yu. S. Knyazeva, O. V. Ivanova, Yu. A. Kolosov, Yu. V. Gorbunova, D. A. Bakulin, I. S. Krysanov, D. L. Klabukova, M. A. Javakhyan, V. I. Zvereva, N. A. Lycheva, V. N. Shoich, V. V. Neyolova, E. V. Pavlova, E. I. Morkovin, E. A. Kalashnikova, A. B. Bosenko, D. Z. Zyazikova, R. E. Musaev, A. G. Gadzhiev, B. M. Gabrielyan, A. A. Agamirova, V. I. Petrov

“…Salary levels of specialists with higher or secondary education are almost comparable on average from 50 to 75 thousand rubles, but employers generally prefer to hire specialists with higher education.Conclusion. …”
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Genome-wide association of body fat distribution in African ancestry populations suggests new loci. by Ching-Ti Liu, Keri L Monda, Kira C Taylor, Leslie Lange, Ellen W Demerath, Walter Palmas, Mary K Wojczynski, Jaclyn C Ellis, Mara Z Vitolins, Simin Liu, George J Papanicolaou, Marguerite R Irvin, Luting Xue, Paula J Griffin, Michael A Nalls, Adebowale Adeyemo, Jiankang Liu, Guo Li, Edward A Ruiz-Narvaez, Wei-Min Chen, Fang Chen, Brian E Henderson, Robert C Millikan, Christine B Ambrosone, Sara S Strom, Xiuqing Guo, Jeanette S Andrews, Yan V Sun, Thomas H Mosley, Lisa R Yanek, Daniel Shriner, Talin Haritunians, Jerome I Rotter, Elizabeth K Speliotes, Megan Smith, Lynn Rosenberg, Josyf Mychaleckyj, Uma Nayak, Ida Spruill, W Timothy Garvey, Curtis Pettaway, Sarah Nyante, Elisa V Bandera, Angela F Britton, Alan B Zonderman, Laura J Rasmussen-Torvik, Yii-Der Ida Chen, Jingzhong Ding, Kurt Lohman, Stephen B Kritchevsky, Wei Zhao, Patricia A Peyser, Sharon L R Kardia, Edmond Kabagambe, Ulrich Broeckel, Guanjie Chen, Jie Zhou, Sylvia Wassertheil-Smoller, Marian L Neuhouser, Evadnie Rampersaud, Bruce Psaty, Charles Kooperberg, Joann E Manson, Lewis H Kuller, Heather M Ochs-Balcom, Karen C Johnson, Lara Sucheston, Jose M Ordovas, Julie R Palmer, Christopher A Haiman, Barbara McKnight, Barbara V Howard, Diane M Becker, Lawrence F Bielak, Yongmei Liu, Matthew A Allison, Struan F A Grant, Gregory L Burke, Sanjay R Patel, Pamela J Schreiner, Ingrid B Borecki, Michele K Evans, Herman Taylor, Michele M Sale, Virginia Howard, Christopher S Carlson, Charles N Rotimi, Mary Cushman, Tamara B Harris, Alexander P Reiner, L Adrienne Cupples, Kari E North, Caroline S Fox

“…Central obesity, measured by waist circumference (WC) or waist-hip ratio (WHR), is a marker of body fat distribution. …”
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