Multivariate geostatistical methods for analysing the contribution of urban lakes and neighbouring greenery to mitigating PM2.5 under stressor indicators by Han Liu, Wenyu An, Arkadiusz Przybysz, Dingyi Hao, Yimei Sun, Junze Song, Jiayi Sui, Jiahan Sun, Chunyang Zhu

“…It allows the scientific community and relevant stakeholders to evaluate which stressors and their interactions in relation to PM removal share a common spatial pattern, and to assess independently the spatial covariation between stressors and PM removal at different spatial scales. …”
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Trust and Acceptance Challenges in the Adoption of AI Applications in Health Care: Quantitative Survey Analysis by Janne Kauttonen, Rebekah Rousi, Ari Alamäki

“…Nonlinear dependencies were observed, including an inverted U-shaped pattern in positivity toward AI based on self-reported AI knowledge. …”
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A study on ecological risk identification based on ecosystem service supply and demand in Xinjiang by Xuemei Wei, Abudukeyimu Abulizi, Le Yuan, Junxia Wang, Shaojie Bai, Shanshan Tang, Amanzhuli Yerkenhazi

“…Abstract Due to the rapid urbanization and global climate change, arid and semi-arid regions are becoming more vulnerable to the growing disparity between the supply and demand of ecosystem services. …”
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Oak Acorns as Functional Foods: Antioxidant Potential and Safety Assessment by Vesna Stankov Jovanović, Vladan Djurić, Violeta Mitić, Ana Barjaktarević, Snežana Cupara, Marija Ilić, Jelena Nikolić

“…With the growing interest in natural and health-supporting foods, oak acorns (<i>Quercus robur</i>) are gaining renewed attention for their nutritional and antioxidant potential. …”
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Primary succession of microbial communities in an aquifer from the Covey Hill formation in Quebec, Canada by Samuel Beauregard-Tousignant, Samuel Beauregard-Tousignant, Cassandre Sara Lazar, Cassandre Sara Lazar

“…Unexpectedly, the alpha diversity of the sessile and planktonic communities varied following similar patterns, but the planktonic ones varied with a wider amplitude. …”
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Analysing the behaviour of doubling rates in 8 major countries affected by COVID-19 virus by Devanshu Mishra, Abid Haleem, Mohd Javaid

“…These frameworks focus on the relationships instead of relational data, so here in graph structures, we have generated different patterns of doubling rates and drawn the inferences. …”
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Discrimination of mercury, cadmium and lead polluted rice leaves based on near infrared spectroscopy technology by ZHANG Long, PAN Jiarong, ZHU Cheng

“…The acquired spectra of leaves with different heavy metal treatments were firstly pretreated with wavelet transform and then input in pattern recognition models of back propagation neural network (BPNN) and radical basis function neural network (RBFNN).It was shown that the rice could grow, blossom and bear fruit in mercury, cadmium and lead polluted paddy field, the concentration of which was 1.5, 1 and 500 mg/kg respectively. …”
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Epidemic features and megagenomic analysis of childhood Mycoplasma pneumoniae post COVID-19 pandemic: a 6-year study in southern China by Yi Xu, Chen Yang, Panpan Sun, Fansen Zeng, Qian Wang, Jianlong Wu, Chunxiao Fang, Che Zhang, Jinping Wang, Yiling Gu, Xiaohuan Wu, Xiaoxian Zhang, Bin Yang, Juhua Yang, Hongwei Zhang, Jiacee Lian, Jinqiu Zhang, Li Huang, Qizhou Lian

“…This multicentre, retrospective study was designed to analyse the epidemic patterns of MPI before and after the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as genotypes and the macrolide-resistance-associated mutations in MP sampled from paediatric patients in Southern China. …”
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SERT-Deficient Mice Fed Western Diet Reveal Altered Metabolic and Pro-Inflammatory Responses of the Liver: A Link to Abnormal Behaviors by Raymond Cespuglio, Anna Gorlova, Konstantin Zabegalov, Kirill Chaprov, Evgeniy Svirin, Kseniia Sitdikova, Alisa Burova, Boris Shulgin, Ksenia Lebedeva, Alexei V. Deikin, Sergey Morozov, Tatyana Strekalova

“…Furthermore, there were profound differences in correlations between molecular, histological, and behavioral measurements across the two genotypes. …”
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Warming increases root water uptake on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau via changes in alpine meadows root tips by Baisha Weng, Siying Yan, Haotian Fang, Bin Deng

“…During the growing season of the alpine meadow, the transpiration increase in August is as high as 24.62∼25.87 %. …”
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Design of a Micro-Plant Factory Using a Validated CFD Model by Xinxin Chen, Tengyuan Hou, Shulin Liu, Yongxiu Guo, Jianping Hu, Gaoming Xu, Guoxin Ma, Wei Liu

“…The uniformity of the cultivation environment in a micro-plant factory plays a critical role in ensuring the consistent growth of seedlings, and an optimal airflow pattern is the key to maintaining environmental uniformity. …”
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Spatiotemporal dynamics of early oogenesis in pigs by Wei Ge, Yi-Lin Niu, Yu-Kang Li, Li Li, Han Wang, Wen-Wen Li, Tian Qiao, Yan-Ni Feng, Yu-Qing Feng, Jing Liu, Jun-Jie Wang, Xiao-Feng Sun, Shun-Feng Cheng, Lan Li, Wei Shen

“…Projection of the germ cell clusters at different stages of oogenesis into the spatial atlas unveils a “cortical to medullary (C-M)” distribution of germ cells in the developing porcine ovaries. …”
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Genetic identification of bud sport strain “11-06-25” from “Sanbenti” grape by PANG Yujie, LI Haiyan, ZHU Xiaoheng, GAO Fuming, YIN Yiming, JIA Huijuan

“…It is an essential source for breeding new varieties in fruit tree because when bud sports grow into branches, some of the characters appear different from the original type. …”
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The Assessment of Utility and the Role of Rural Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in West Azerbaijan Province by ali Gholami, Fatemeh Moohamadzadeh

“…Although these two sub-systems are favorable to the national pattern, but none of them perform well in the global model. …”
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Signals of complexity and fragmentation in accelerometer data. by Els Weinans, Jerrald L Rector, Sarah Charman, Renae J Stefanetti, Cecilia Jimenez-Moreno, Gráinne S Gorman, Ingrid van de Leemput, Daniël van As, René Melis, Baziel van Engelen

“…There is a growing interest to analyze physiological data from a complex systems perspective. …”
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Introduction by Verena Balz

“… Since the 1980s, planning approaches in European regions shifted as a result of increasing attention to spatial patterns of interaction and movement on regional levels of scale, and alongside “a relative decline of the role of the state, a growing involvement of nongovernmental actors in a range of state functions, the emergence of new forms of multi-agency partnerships and more flexible forms of networking at various spatial scales” (Davoudi, 2008, p.63). …”
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Innovations in animal health: artificial intelligence-enhanced hematocrit analysis for rapid anemia detection in small ruminants by Aftab Siddique, Sudhanshu S. Panda, Sophia Khan, Seymone T. Dargan, Savana Lewis, India Carter, Jan A. Van Wyk, Ajit K. Mahapatra, Eric R. Morgan, Thomas H. Terrill

“…The blood dispersion pattern on the glycerol-infused paper was then recorded using a smartphone after 180 s. …”
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Modelski’s Long Cycle Revisited by Layton Mandle

“… Despite flourishing after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the American order has been weakened by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, growing unilateral neo-isolationism within conservative American politics, and the meteoric rise of China as a great power rival. …”
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Comprehensive analysis of Dof transcription factors in Dendrobium species and functional characterization of DoDof4 in the accumulation of water-soluble polysaccharides by Zhangting Xu, Guihua Zhang, Feixiong Zheng, Xiaoji Deng, Yiming Sun, Jaime A. Teixeira da Silva, Xiaoxia Shen, Xiaoxia Shen, Zhenming Yu, Zhenming Yu

“…Therefore, it is necessary to study the regulatory manner involved in the accumulation of WSPs.MethodsD. officinale were treated with methyl jasmonate (MeJA), and WSPs content was measured at different time points to assess the dynamic accumulation pattern. …”
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El modelo de juego en el fútbol. De la concepción teórica al diseño práctico (Game models in soccer. From theoretical conception to practical design) by Alberto Martín-Barrero, Francisco Ignacio Martínez-Cabrera

“…This idea is based on the conception of game model as a fundamental element from which different game patterns grow, each of them needing to be reproduced later in the training. …”
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