The effect of ambient temperature on thyroid function parameters: a daily level panel study by Tao Wang, Hailin Ma, Zhaoqing Jin, Ting Yang, Zhiqiang Zhao, Aerdake Wulalibieke, Qishan Wang, Yu Cao, Shenghong Yang

“…Objective We sought to examine non-linear and lagged patterns in how extremely low ambient temperature is associated with thyroid function parameters. …”
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Genome-Wide Characterization, Evolution and Expression Profiling of the UDP-Glycosyltransferase Family in Grapes (Vitis vinifera) by WANG Yuanyuan, LIU Yunqing, XU Jingyu, LIU Yunting, HU Xixi, ZHANG Chao, JIANG Zeyu, ZHU Lei

“…Transcriptome analysis showed that the expression patterns of 85 VvUGT genes with high expression levels during the veraison process showed significant differences between varieties and growth periods. …”
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Assessment Of Temporal Variability In The Level Of Population Vulnerability To Natural And Man-Made Hazards (The Case Of Moscow Districts) by Roman A. Babkin, Svetlana V. Badina, Alexander N. Bereznyatsky

“…The object of the study is the administrative districts of Moscow; the subject is the temporal patterns of vulnerability of their population to potential natural and man-made hazards. …”
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Plant development influences dynamic shifts in the root compartment microbiomes of wild and domesticated finger millet cultivars by Fantaye Ayele Dadi, Saraladevi Muthusamy, Samrat Ghosh, Diriba Muleta, Kassahun Tesfaye, Fassil Assefa, Jie Xu, Farideh Ghadamgahi, Rodomiro Ortiz, Ramesh Raju Vetukuri

“…Pseudomonadota, Actinomycedota, and Bacteroidota were the dominant bacterial phyla, while Ascomycota and Basidiomycota were the primary fungal phyla across all samples, displaying distinct abundance patterns. Notably, an increase in Actinomycedota in the endosphere correlated with a reduction in Pseudomonadota. …”
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Impact of environmental drivers on ecosystem service-delivery of small garden trees in a temperate climate by Elisabeth K. Larsen, Tijana Blanusa, Tijana Blanusa, Rachael Tanner, Joseph Barker, Nick Dunn, Mark B. Gush

“…In this paper, we focused on the sap flux patterns of selected taxa in response to measured environmental drivers (solar radiation, air temperature, relative humidity, wind speed and soil temperature), as well as trees’ above-ground size and biomass growth. …”
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fMRI study of brain activation associated with earnings management techniques in proximity to debt covenant violations by Hassan R. HassabElnaby, Ahmed Abdel-Maksoud, Amal Said, Andrew S. Cotton, Ashley Y. Wang, Haitham Elsamaloty

“…These activation patterns reveal shared and distinct neural processes in applying EMTs. …”
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Effects of K-wire diameter and insertion angle on femoral bone medial closing-wedge osteotomies: a finite element study by Ayda K. Dastgerdi, Alireza Y. Bavil, Markus T. Berninger, Imke A. K. Fiedler, Björn Busse, Matthias Krause, Felix N. von Brackel

“…This study examines the introduction of k-wires at different angles (30°, 45°, and 60°) and diameters (1.6, 1.8, and 2 mm) using computed tomography-based finite element models to assess structural integrity during femoral medial closing-wedge osteotomy. Results reveal angle-dependent stress variations, with 60° configurations exhibiting favorable patterns that reduce tensile and compressive loads and plastic deformation—crucial in preventing hinge fractures. …”
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DSGAU: Dual-Scale Graph Attention U-Nets for Hyperspectral Image Classification With Limited Samples by Hongzhuang Ji, Leying Song, Zhaohui Xue, Hongjun Su

“…This enables the simultaneous learning of local spectral features and global contextual patterns within HSI data. However, the convolutional operations in traditional GCNs require the inclusion of all data points during graph construction, leading to significant computational overhead, particularly for large-scale datasets. …”
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Childlessness and its associated factors among Chinese women: a nationwide population-based study by Qing Han, Junhua Dang, Yibo Wu, Wenting Ye

“…Results The comparison of reproductive patterns among women across different age groups showed a dramatic decline in the proportion of having three or more children, and a gradual increase in the childlessness over time. …”
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SARS-CoV-2 Alchemy: Understanding the dynamics of age, vaccination, and geography in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in India. by Mansi Patel, Uzma Shamim, Umang Umang, Rajesh Pandey, Jitendra Narayan

“…We employed bioinformatics and statistical analyses, to explore genetic diversity patterns and substitution frequencies across the age groups.…”
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Natural language processing to identify suicidal ideation and anhedonia in major depressive disorder by L. Alexander Vance, Leslie Way, Deepali Kulkarni, Emily O. C. Palmer, Abhijit Ghosh, Melissa Unruh, Kelly M. Y. Chan, Amey Girdhari, Joydeep Sarkar

“…A novel transformer architecture-based NLP model was trained on clinical notes to recognize linguistic patterns and contextual cues. Each sentence was categorized into one of four labels: (1) anhedonia; (2) suicidal ideation without intent or plan; (3) suicidal ideation with intent or plan; (4) absence of suicidal ideation or anhedonia. …”
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State of health prediction of lithium-ion batteries in charging chambers based on multi-modal deep learning by ZHAO Yinghua, CHEN Anbi, ZHANG Zengyu, LI Wenzhong, HAN Yu

“…The Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory Network (BiLSTM) established bidirectional temporal dependencies through bidirectional Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs), effectively identifying both forward and reverse degradation features during battery deterioration. The Transformer layer dynamically allocated feature weights through a multi-head self-attention mechanism, focusing on key features of global degradation patterns. …”
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Investigation of landslide triggers on Mount Oku, Cameroon, using Newmark displacement and cluster analysis by D. L. W. Djukem, A. Braun, X. Fan, A. S. L. Wouatong, T. M. Fernandez-Steeger, H. B. Havenith

“…Afterward, the relationship between FS, assumed ND, and observed landslides was analyzed in a cluster analysis, to derive patterns of climatically and seismically triggered landslides. …”
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Comparison of temperature and wind profiles between ground-based remote sensing observations and numerical weather prediction model in complex Alpine topography: the Meiringen camp... by A. Bugnard, M. Collaud Coen, M. Hervo, D. Leuenberger, M. Arpagaus, S. Monhart

“…The complex interactions that lead to the observed weather patterns are challenging for numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. …”
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Translation of the UK Pediatric Influenza Vaccination Programme in Primary Schools to 13 European Countries Using a Dynamic Transmission Model by Laetitia Gerlier, Judith Hackett, Richard Lawson, Sofia Dos Santos Mendes, Martin Eichner

“… # Methods We used a deterministic, age-structured, dynamic transmission model adapted to the demography, contact patterns and influenza incidence of 13 European countries, with a 10-year horizon. …”
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Initiation, cessation and relapse of tobacco smoking over a 3-year period among participants aged ≥15 years in a large longitudinal cohort in rural South Africa. by Ronel Sewpaul, Stephen Olivier, Hloniphile Ngubane, Thando Zulu, Mareca Sithole, Vukuzazi Team, Willem A Hanekom, Gina Kruse, Nancy A Rigotti, Mark J Siedner, Emily B Wong, Krishna P Reddy

“…Tobacco smoking is increasing in many low-and-middle-income countries, but data about initiation and cessation patterns are sparse, particularly in rural areas. We investigated changes in smoking status and their determinants in rural South Africa. …”
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Revolutionizing Electric Vehicle Charging Stations with Efficient Deep Q Networks Powered by Multimodal Bioinspired Analysis for Improved Performance by Sugunakar Mamidala, Yellapragada Venkata Pavan Kumar, Rammohan Mallipeddi

“…Unlike conventional geographic placement models that overlook evolving travel patterns, this system dynamically adapts to user behavior, optimizing both onboard and offboard charging systems. …”
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Analysis of sociodemographic and clinical factors associated with Lassa fever disease and mortality in Nigeria. by Adebola T Olayinka, Kelly Elimian, Oladipupo Ipadeola, Chioma Dan-Nwafor, Jack Gibson, Chinwe Ochu, Yuki Furuse, Akanimo Iniobong, Adejoke Akano, Lorna Enenche, Michael Onoja, Chukwuemeka Uzoho, Nkem Ugbogulu, Favour Makava, Chinedu Arinze, Geoffrey Namara, Esther Muwanguzi, Kamji Jan, Winifred Ukponu, Tochi Okwor, Chimezie Anueyiagu, Muhammad Saleh, Anthony Ahumibe, Chibuzo Eneh, Elsie Ilori, Nwando Mba, Chikwe Ihekweazu

“…Diverse factors were associated with both LF disease and related death. A closer look at patterns of clinical variables would be helpful to support early detection and management of cases. …”
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Dual RNA-Seq Unveils Candidate Key Virulence Genes of <i>Vibrio harveyi</i> at the Early Stage of Infection in Hybrid Grouper (♀ <i>Epinephelus polyphekadion</i> × ♂ <i>E. fuscogut... by Yan-Hua Zeng, Wen Li, He Xu, Xiao-Xiao Gong, Yu-Mei Zhang, Hao Long, Zhen-Yu Xie

“…Dual RNA-seq is a cutting-edge RNA sequencing technology that is ideal for investigating the gene expression patterns of pathogens within the host, which is highly effective in identifying key virulence genes. …”
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Fasting Ramadan in Yemeni Patients with Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes: A Comparative Study on the Ability to Fast in 2 Consecutive years by Al-Sharafi BA, Mohsen DF, Almurtadha AS

“…We found that there were significant associations between breaking fasting patterns and age (p = 0.023), type 1 diabetes (p = 0.041), insulin use (p = 0.017), and those that had a history of breaking their fast in a previous year (p&lt; 0.001). …”
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