Land Use Dynamics and Ecological Effects of Photovoltaic Development in Xinjiang: A Remote Sensing and Geospatial Analysis by Babierjiang Dilixiati, Hongwei Wang, Lichun Gong, Jianxin Wei, Cheng Lei, Lingzhi Dang, Xinyuan Zhang, Wen Gu, Huanjun Zhang, Jiayue Zhang

“…Utilizing multi-temporal satellite remote sensing data and geospatial analysis techniques on the Google Earth Engine (GEE) platform, we constructed a Remote Sensing Ecological Index (RSEI) model to quantify the long-term ecological response to PV development. …”
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Hidden Brain State-Based Internal Evaluation Using Kernel Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Brain-Machine Interfaces by Jieyuan Tan, Xiang Zhang, Shenghui Wu, Zhiwei Song, Yiwen Wang

“…In this paper, we propose a hidden brain state-based kernel inverse reinforcement learning (HBS-KIRL) method to accurately infer the subject-specific internal evaluation from neural activity during the BMI task. The state-space model is applied to project the neural state into low-dimensional hidden brain state space, which greatly reduces the exploration dimension. …”
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Genomic, socio-environmental, and sequencing capability patterns in the surveillance of SARS-CoV-2 in Latin America and the Caribbean up to 2023 by Macarena Concha-Toloza, Luis Collado González, Alfredo Herrera Estrella, Darío Fernández Do Porto, Rebeca Campos Sánchez, Jose Arturo Molina-Mora

“…Additionally, correlation and generalized linear model (GLM) analyses were conducted to explore potential associations between 89 socio-environmental variables and five COVID-19 indicators at the country level. …”
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Genome-Wide Association Study for Belly Traits in Canadian Commercial Crossbred Pigs by Zohre Mozduri, Graham Plastow, Jack Dekkers, Kerry Houlahan, Robert Kemp, Manuel Juárez

“…To identify quantitative trait loci (QTLs) and genes linked to key carcass traits, we conducted a genome-wide association study (GWAS) using whole-genome sequencing data from 1118 commercial pigs (Duroc sires and Yorkshire/Landrace F1 dams). …”
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Climatic Characteristics of Heavy Snowfall and the Water Vapor Transport Characteristics in Typical Snowfall Events in Hunan Province of China by Yan Hu, Enrong Zhao, Hongwu Liu, Lin Xu, Kexin Tan, Huanqian Liu, Qingxia Wang

“…Based on the daily precipitation data in Hunan Province from 1961 to 2021, the regional heavy snowfall processes are classified by using the synoptic diagnostic method. …”
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Bifidobacterium species associated with breastfeeding alleviate neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia via the gut microbiota-α-linolenic and linoleic acid metabolism-enterohepatic circulati... by Chunxiu Lin, Yugui Lin, Rui Xiao, Min Guo, Hao Zhang, Wei Chen, Gang Wang

“…However, data suggested that these species might promote the accumulation of arachidonic acid and docosahexaenoic acid by regulating the gut microbiota’s structure and function. …”
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Development of a new wealth index for South Sudan: association between household wealth and malaria prevention practices in the context of seasonal malaria chemoprevention in North... by Sikai Huang, Jamshed Khan, Francis Lokang, Abubaker Rom Ayuiel, Kevin Baker, Ahmed Julla, Sol Richardson

“…While household access to SMC showed a low degree of wealth-associated disparities, reflecting the equitable coverage of the door-to-door SMC delivery model, significant inequities remain in household access to other malaria prevention practices, such as mosquito nets. …”
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Mock Observations: Morphological Analysis of Galaxies in TNG100 Simulations by Jun-Yu Gong, Weipeng Lin, Lin Tang, Yanyao Lan

“…These divergences may stem from simulation properties such as elevated star formation efficiency at the low-mass end or resolution limits. Observational effects, including the impact of the point-spread function, sky background, and instrumental noise, can independently cause approximately 7.87% morphological misclassifications by our CNN model. …”
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The environmental justice implications of retirement age assumptions in domestic well vulnerability analyses by Kristin Babson Dobbin, Darcy Bostic

“…However, information gaps related to well activity status introduce significant uncertainties into these models. In this technical note, we create a hypothetical groundwater surface for California’s Central Valley based on locally developed sustainable groundwater management plans and compare both the degree of domestic well dewatering and the distribution of dewatering across the population under a range of different retirement age assumptions. …”
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Prevalence of non-communicable diseases risk factors and their determinants: Results from STEPS survey 2019, Nepal. by Bihungum Bista, Meghnath Dhimal, Saroj Bhattarai, Tamanna Neupane, Yvonne Yiru Xu, Achyut Raj Pandey, Nick Townsend, Pradip Gyanwali, Anjani Kumar Jha

“…The aim of this study was to assess the distribution and determinants of NCD risk factors in Nepal, a low-income country, in which two-thirds (66%) of annual deaths are attributable to NCDs.…”
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The Role of Small and Medium Entrepreneurship in the Economy of Russia by Iuliia S. Pinkovetskaia, Irina N. Nikitina, Tatiana V. Gromova

“…The study was based on official statistical data all SMEs in Russia for 2015. For modeling we used functions of normal distribution, quality of approximation empirical data by these functions was analyzed by tests Kolmogorov-Smirnov, Pearson, and ShapiroVilk. …”
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On the Very Bright Dropouts Selected Using the James Webb Space Telescope NIRCam Instrument by Bangzheng Sun, Haojing Yan

“…Their spectral energy distribution analysis shows that these objects are dominated by low-redshift ( z ∼ 1–4) galaxies (≳67%). …”
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Trade-offs and synergies for urban Production-Living-Ecological spatial Patterns-Comparison study between Fuzhou, China, and Saskatoon, Canada by Xi Wang, Xiaomei Li, Jinming Sha, Hao Zhang, Eshetu Shifaw, Xulin Guo, Shuhui Lai, Jinliang Wang

“…This study aims to compare the characteristics of PLE spatial patterns and the trade-offs & synergies of PLE spaces between Fuzhou city, China and Saskatoon, Canada for developing the eco-city models. First, the paper identified the PLE spaces by integrating multi-source data, then analyzed the PLE spatial agglomeration characteristics by using the average nearest neighbor and kernel density analysis, finally detected the trade-offs and synergies between functional spaces by Spearman correlation and bivariate spatial autocorrelation. …”
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Conceptualizing ‘cannabis harm reduction’: lessons learned from cannabis compassion clubs and medical dispensaries in British Columbia (Canada) by Marilou Gagnon, Heather Hobbs

“…Finally, we suggest that structurally-oriented advocacy is needed to achieve community-oriented models of cannabis cultivation, distribution, and consumption and that this advocacy would benefit harm reduction more broadly.…”
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Adaptive deep feature representation learning for cross-subject EEG decoding by Shuang Liang, Linzhe Li, Wei Zu, Wei Feng, Wenlong Hang

“…Abstract Background: The collection of substantial amounts of electroencephalogram (EEG) data is typically time-consuming and labor-intensive, which adversely impacts the development of decoding models with strong generalizability, particularly when the available data is limited. …”
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Evolution of the burden of disease for high BMI-associated colorectal cancer, 1990–2021: Global trends, regional heterogeneity, and population risk stratification by Guangyi zhu, Yilan Sun, Dongbo Lian, Buhe Amin, Guangzhong Xu, Jing Wang, Nengwei Zhang, Dezhong Wang

“…Demographic decomposition models quantified the contributions of population aging, epidemiological changes, and growth. …”
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An explainable AI framework for spatiotemporal risk factor analysis in public health: a case study of cardiovascular mortality in South Korea by Eunjin Kang, Dongjin Cho, Siwoo Lee, Jungho Im, Dongwook Lee, Cheolhee Yoo

“…We evaluated this framework by analyzing the association between cardiovascular age-standardized mortality rate (CVD-ASMR) and various risk factors in South Korea from 2010 to 2019, using high-performing random forest and light gradient boosting models with additive Shapley explanation. Compared to previous purely data-driven XAI-based analyses, the proposed schemes achieved significantly better results in capturing regional exposure-response relationships. …”
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New Symbiotic Stars from LAMOST DR10 Spectra and Multiband Photometry by Jing Chen, Liang Wang, Yin-Bi Li, Xiao-Xiao Ma, A-Li Luo, Zi-Chong Zhang, Ming-Yi Ding, Kai Zhang

“…Furthermore, we estimated the WD temperatures by fitting their observed spectral energy distributions using a combination of the Kurucz stellar atmosphere model and the Koester WD model. …”
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Reconstructing a Fine Resolution Landscape of Annual Gross Primary Product (1895–2013) with Tree-Ring Indices by Hang Li, James H. Speer, Collins C. Malubeni, Emma Wilson

“…However, most previous research has only focused on the quantity and spatial distribution of gross primary product (GPP) for the past 50 years because most satellite launches, the main GPP data source, were no earlier than 1980. …”
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Spatiotemporal Assessment of Desertification in Wadi Fatimah by Abdullah F. Alqurashi, Omar A. Alharbi

“…This study aimed to assess the spatial distribution of desertification in Wadi Fatimah using satellite and climate data. …”
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