Environmental factors predicting blood lead levels in pregnant women in the UK: the ALSPAC study. by Caroline M Taylor, Jean Golding, Joseph Hibbeln, Alan M Emond

“…Self-completion postal questionnaires were used to collect data during pregnancy on lifestyle, diet and other environmental exposures. …”
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Advanced methods for geological interpretation of depositional environments and lithofacies: insights into hydrocarbon potential in the northern Norwegian North Sea by Ali Al Janabi, Camelia C. Knapp, Ziyad Albesher

“…Exploration in the northern Norwegian North Sea is limited by complex Paleogene stratigraphy and underexplored stratigraphic traps in the Sele and Lista formations due to ambiguous well logs and scarce core data. This study addresses the critical scientific challenge of accurately characterizing these formations to assess their hydrocarbon potential. …”
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Transcriptomics of the Anthopleura Sea Anemone Reveals Unique Adaptive Strategies to Shallow‐Water Hydrothermal Vent by Mei‐Fang Lin, Li‐Lian Liu, Chen‐Tung Arthur Chen

“…To identify shared genetic mechanisms in vent‐dwelling anemones, specific orthologs conserved in vent sea anemones were identified by comparing the genomic data of Anthopleura species and other sea anemones. …”
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Epidemiological, Biological, and Clinical Characteristics of Central Nervous System Enterovirus Infections Among Hospitalized Patients at Ibn Sina University Hospital Center in Rab... by Chemsdine Echiguer, Ghizlane El Amin, Amal Zouaki, Jalila Zirar, Myriam Seffar, Chafiq Mahraoui, Hakima Kabbaj

“…The aims of our study were to describe and develop the current epidemiological, biological, and clinical aspects of these infections as well as to enrich Moroccan data. …”
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Research on the Factors and Pathways Affecting Users’ Willingness to Use AR Animations for Science Popularization: An Extension of the Technology Acceptance Model by Xu Zhang, Kai Zhang, Lei Liang, Ji Zhang, Junming Chen

“…The study investigates the pathways connecting these factors and puts forward 15 associated hypotheses. Data analysis from 347 respondents indicates that entertainment, interactivity, visual appeal, self-efficacy, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and attitude are significant factors affecting users’ willingness to engage. …”
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NMR and SEM fractal dimensions explore shale pore structure taking the Upper Paleozoic shale in Ordos Basin as an example. by Keying Zhao, Zhanghua Zhang

“…Fractal dimension analysis of SEM images reveals that the shale pores of the Shanxi Formation can be divided into organic pores, inter-granular pores and micro-fractures. …”
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Mass drug administration for trachoma elimination in a pastoral conflict area in Baringo County, Kenya: A study on barriers to coverage and compliance. by Bridget W Kimani, Tabitha W Kanyui, Paul M Gichuki, Collins O Okoyo, Titus K Watitu, Wyckliff P Omondi, Doris W Njomo

“…All study participants were purposively selected and the number of FGDs, interviews, and micro-narrative surveys were determined by the saturation model, an iterative design was employed for data collection and analysis and further sample selection to give early insights and influence the selection of more participants. …”
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MEDICAL AND SOCIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MODERN INFERTILE WOMEN ACCORDING TO THE REGISTRY OF INFERTILITY COUPLES IN THE TRANSBAIKAL REGION by Татьяна Евгеньевна Белокриницкая, Наталия Ивановна Фролова, Дмитрий Владимирович Малько

“…Retrospective comparative study. An analysis of the medical and social characteristics of patients with infertility was carried out according to the data of an electronic questionnaire, which has been developed based on materials from the World Health Organization [WHO-RHR-HRP-19.3]. 1st group included 103 women living in city; 2nd group – 85 women living in the village. …”
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Exploring the diversity of Gardnerella vaginalis in the genitourinary tract microbiota of monogamous couples through subtle nucleotide variation. by A Murat Eren, Marcela Zozaya, Christopher M Taylor, Scot E Dowd, David H Martin, Michael J Ferris

“…This study also highlights the fact that a few, reproducible nucleotide variations within the 16S rRNA gene can reveal clinical or epidemiological associations that would be missed by genus-level or species-level categorization of 16S rRNA data.…”
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Assessment of Phosphine Resistance in Major Stored-Product Insects in Greece Using Two Diagnostic Protocols by Paraskevi Agrafioti, Efstathios Kaloudis, Dimitrios Kateris, Christos G. Athanassiou

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Risk of all-cause mortality associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and the role of healthy ageing trajectories: a population-based study of middle-aged and older adu... by Josep Maria Haro, Daniel Fernandez, Ivet Bayes-Marin, Albert Sanchez-Niubo, Beatriz Olaya

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Zoonotic Babesia: A scoping review of the global evidence. by Kaitlin M Young, Tricia Corrin, Barbara Wilhelm, Carl Uhland, Judy Greig, Mariola Mascarenhas, Lisa A Waddell

“…Two reviewers screened titles and abstracts for relevance and characterized full-text articles using a relevance screening and data characterization tool developed a priori.<h4>Results</h4>This review included 1394 articles relevant to human babesiosis and/or zoonotic Babesia species. …”
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Utilization of borax and its impact on the income and the livelihood of miners and other stakeholders: A case of Uganda. by James Natweta Baguma, Victoria Mukasa, D K Sekimpi, Daniel Sekabojja, Victoria Nabankema, Kamese Geoffrey, Eva Magambo, John Ssempebwa, Margrethe Smidth

“…Analysis was conducted using Atlas ti version 7.0 and Stata Version 15.0.…”
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Novel cuproptosis-related lncRNAs risk model to predicting prognosis and guiding immunotherapy for OSCC patients by Lingbo Kong, Chenfei Wang, Xiaohui Lu, Qianqi Zhu, Yihua Song, Xingmei Feng

“…Methods Long noncoding RNA (lncRNA) data were downloaded from the Cancer Genome Atlas database (TCGA). …”
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Optimizing Spatial Distribution of Urban Green Spaces by Balancing Supply and Demand for Ecosystem Services by Yi-Wen Ji, Lang Zhang, Jie Liu, Qicheng Zhong, Xinxin Zhang

“…The capacity and ecological flows of ecosystem services as well as the demand for them are key areas of urban and rural ecological planning that have been studied using the spatial-explicit model as a decision support tool. This study develops a framework for mapping the relationships among the capacity of and demand for ecosystem services, ecological flows, and planning management. …”
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Research on Surrogate Model of Variable Geometry Turbine Performance Based on Backpropagation Neural Network by Liping Deng, Hu Wu, Yuhang Liu, Qi’an Xie

“…To address the high-dimensional, multi-variable data fitting problem of variable geometry turbines considering the effects of cooling air, this study adopted a BP neural network to further establish a surrogate model for variable geometry turbine performance. …”
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PENGARUH KUALITAS PELAYANAN TERHADAP MINAT BELI ULANG DENGAN KEPUASAN PELANGGAN SEBAGAI VARIABEL INTERVENING PADA MIXUE GWALK by Geofrey Gunardy, Liestya Padmawidjaja

“…The type of research used is quantitative research, and in carrying out data analysis, SmartPLS 3.0 is used. The research method used is non-probability sampling, namely purposive sampling to take samples. …”
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Cyclicality and Economic Growth Dynamics: Business Cycles’ Typologization, Dating, and Matching with Oil Price Fluctuations by Habiba Bouguerroumi, Yacine Belarbi

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Home Health Care Nurses' Challenges in Implementing Person-Centered Care among Elderly Patients with Dementia by Abdulkarim Omar Agga, Nada Sattar, Veronica Cristina Brillantes Macaraeg

“…The nurses underwent thorough face-to-face interviews with the researchers. Inductive thematic analysis by Braun and Clarke was used to pragmatically organize the lived experiences. …”
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Association between gamma-glutamyl transferase levels and the retinal age gap by Kai Yang, Xiaoxuan Zhu, Ziyu Li, Wei Lian, Jinxia Yan, Shasha Ding, Zhenqing Wang, Yudie Wang, Jiaqi Ai, Zhengyang Guo, Binbin Su, Jia Qu, Fan Lu, Lele Cui, Ming Li

“…The mean age of the participants in the analysis dataset was 43.7 ± 10.4 years, and 1987 (48.7%) participants were women. …”
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