What factors are associated with informal carers’ psychological morbidity during end-of-life home care? A systematic review and thematic synthesis of observational quantitative stu... by Tracey Shield, Kerin Bayliss, Alexander Hodkinson, Maria Panagioti, Alison Wearden, Jackie Flynn, Christine Rowland, Penny Bee, Morag Farquhar, Danielle Harris, Gunn Grande

“…Newcastle–Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale was used. Thematic analysis with box score presentation, and meta-analysis were done where data permitted. …”
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The Transit Signal of KOI-1755 Originates from a Background Eclipsing Binary Star—Extracting the Light Curve of a Faint Background Star from Kepler Target Pixel File Data by Haozhi Wang, Ali Esamdin, Chenglong Lv, Lixian Shen, Jin-zhong Liu, Abdusamatjan Iskandar, Umut Mahmut, Rivkat Karimov, Shuhrat A. Ehgamberdiev

“…Through careful pixel-level flux modeling, centroid shift measurements, and cross-matching with the Gaia DR3 catalog, we conclusively determined that the dimming signals originate from a faint background eclipsing binary (EB), rather than KOI-1755 itself. …”
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Nip in the Bud: A spatiotemporal pattern of soil heavy metals in Chinese herbal medicine planting region and its prevention strategy by Jiale Wang, Qi Yan, Haiyi Mi, Hua Luo, Xinke Zhang, Bashir Ahmad, Baozhong Duan, Jun Zhu, Lin Fang Huang

“…Here, we extracted concentrations of five HMs (Pb, Cd, Hg, As, and Cu) in CHMP soils, and assessed the national pattern of spatiotemporal distribution of CHMP soils HMs between 2007 and 2024 using the standard deviation ellipse method. The spatial analysis revealed a trend of the gravity center of HMs pollution migrating inland towards the northwest. …”
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Insights into alleviating high brittleness of TiCu compound by doping C and O as interstitials: First-principle calculations by Yujie Tao, Yibo Liu, Yue Liu, Qi Sun, Haoyu Kong, Qingjie Sun

“…Seven different doping models were tested to determine the optimal concentration of C and O, with a comprehensive analysis of their impacts on the phase stability, mechanical properties, and electronic structure of TiCu conducted via first-principle calculations. …”
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Adsorption properties and competitive adsorption mechanism exhibited by carbon-nanotube-modified biochar for removal of crude oil and Ni(II) pollutants from water by Di Cao, Ruiyan Niu, Guanglu Mo, Huiwen Deng, Rui Liu, Jie Liu, Jialin Fan

“…Various physicochemical characterization techniques were employed, including SEM, BET analysis, FTIR, and XPS. Kinetic and isothermal adsorption characteristics were analyzed. …”
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Association between a large change between the minimum and maximum monthly values of solar insolation and a history of suicide attempts in bipolar I disorder by Philipp Ritter, Tasha Glenn, Eric D. Achtyes, Martin Alda, Esen Agaoglu, Kürsat Altınbaş, Ole A. Andreassen, Elias Angelopoulos, Raffaella Ardau, Memduha Aydin, Yavuz Ayhan, Christopher Baethge, Rita Bauer, Bernhard T. Baune, Ceylan Balaban, Claudia Becerra-Palars, Aniruddh P. Behere, Prakash B. Behere, Habte Belete, Tilahun Belete, Gabriel Okawa Belizario, Frank Bellivier, Robert H. Belmaker, Francesco Benedetti, Michael Berk, Yuly Bersudsky, Şule Bicakci, Harriet Birabwa-Oketcho, Thomas D. Bjella, Conan Brady, Jorge Cabrera, Marco Cappucciati, Angela Marianne Paredes Castro, Wei-Ling Chen, Eric Y. W. Cheung, Silvia Chiesa, Margarita Chanopoulou, Marie Crowe, Alessandro Cuomo, Sara Dallaspezia, Pratikkumar Desai, Seetal Dodd, Bruno Etain, Andrea Fagiolini, Frederike T. Fellendorf, Ewa Ferensztajn-Rochowiak, Jess G. Fiedorowicz, Kostas N. Fountoulakis, Mark A. Frye, Pierre A. Geoffroy, Michael J. Gitlin, Ana Gonzalez-Pinto, John F. Gottlieb, Paul Grof, Bartholomeus C. M. Haarman, Hirohiko Harima, Mathias Hasse-Sousa, Chantal Henry, Lone Hoffding, Josselin Houenou, Massimiliano Imbesi, Erkki T. Isometsä, Maja Ivkovic, Sven Janno, Simon Johnsen, Flávio Kapczinski, Grigorios N. Karakatsoulis, Mathias Kardell, Lars Vedel Kessing, Seong Jae Kim, Barbara König, Timur L. Kot, Michael Koval, Mauricio Kunz, Beny Lafer, Mikael Landén, Erik R. Larsen, Rasmus W. Licht, Vera M. Ludwig, Carlos Lopez-Jaramillo, Alan MacKenzie, Helle Østergaard Madsen, Simone Alberte Kongstad A. Madsen, Jayant Mahadevan, Agustine Mahardika, Mirko Manchia, Wendy Marsh, Monica Martinez-Cengotitabengoa, Julia Martini, Klaus Martiny, Yuki Mashima, Declan M. McLoughlin, Alie N. R. Meesters, Ybe Meesters, Ingrid Melle, Fátima Meza-Urzúa, Elisabeth Michaelis, Pavol Mikolas, Yee Ming Mok, Scott Monteith, Muthukumaran Moorthy, Gunnar Morken, Enrica Mosca, Anton A. Mozzhegorov, Rodrigo Munoz, Starlin V. Mythri, Fethi Nacef, Ravi K. Nadella, Takako Nakanotani, René Ernst Nielsen, Claire O’Donovan, Adel Omrani, Yamima Osher, Uta Ouali, Maja Pantovic-Stefanovic, Pornjira Pariwatcharakul, Joanne Petite, Johannes Petzold, Andrea Pfennig, Maximilian Pilhatsch, Yolanda Pica Ruiz, Marco Pinna, Maurizio Pompili, Richard Porter, Danilo Quiroz, Francisco Diego Rabelo-da-Ponte, Raj Ramesar, Natalie Rasgon, Woraphat Ratta-apha, Maria Redahan, M. S. Reddy, Andreas Reif, Eva Z. Reininghaus, Jenny Gringer Richards, Janusz K. Rybakowski, Leela Sathyaputri, Angela M. Scippa, Christian Simhandl, Daniel Smith, José Smith, Paul W. Stackhouse, Dan J. Stein, Kellen Stilwell, Sergio Strejilevich, Kuan-Pin Su, Mythily Subramaniam, Ahmad Hatim Sulaiman, Kirsi Suominen, Andi J. Tanra, Yoshitaka Tatebayashi, Wen Lin Teh, Leonardo Tondo, Carla Torrent, Daniel Tuinstra, Takahito Uchida, Arne E. Vaaler, Eduard Vieta, Biju Viswanath, Carlo Volf, Kai-Jie Yang, Maria Yoldi-Negrete, Oguz Kaan Yalcinkaya, Allan H. Young, Yosra Zgueb, Peter C. Whybrow, Michael Bauer

“…A large change in solar insolation between the minimum and maximum monthly values was associated with a history of suicide attempts in patients with bipolar I disorder, a replication of our prior analysis. The estimated model also associated state sponsored religion in the onset country, female gender, a history of alcohol or substance abuse, and being part of a younger birth cohort with a history of suicide attempts. …”
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Should the Food and Drug Administration Limit Placebo-Controlled Trials? by Max Goodman, Connor Pedersen

“…Instead, under the PCT model, the market is saturated with a plethora of drugs to choose from. …”
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A reconstruction of the ice thickness of the Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet north of 70° S by K. Shahateet, K. Shahateet, K. Shahateet, J. J. Fürst, F. Navarro, T. Seehaus, D. Farinotti, D. Farinotti, M. Braun

“…Our thickness results show relatively low deviations from other reconstructions on the glaciers used for validation. Qualitative analysis further reveals that our method properly reproduces the observed morphology of regional features, such as plateau areas, ice falls, and valley glaciers, although there are large errors when compared to independent validation data. …”
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Emotional literacy programme in special schools for children with a learning disability in England: the ZF-SEND feasibility RCT by Biza Stenfert Kroese, Gemma Unwin, Richard Hastings, Andrew Jahoda, Rachel McNamara, David Gillespie, Jeremy Segrott, Kate Ingarfield, Myrsini Gianatsi, Elizabeth Randell, Zoe Mather, Barbara Barrett, Poushali Ganguli, John Rose, Mariam Sahle, Emily Warren, Nathan Da Cruz

“…To inform a future trial, effect sizes and 95% CIs were estimated around the between-group comparisons of clinical measures (secondary outcomes) collected as part of the study. This analysis was based on the intention-to-treat principle and controlled for the clustered nature of children within schools using two-level mixed models. …”
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Exploring associations among pro-inflammatory cytokines, osteoarthritis, and gut microbiome composition in individuals with obesity using machine learning by Cameron Kurz, Liubov Arbeeva, M. Andrea Azcarate-Peril, Delisha A. Stewart, B. Duncan X. Lascelles, Richard F. Loeser, Amanda E. Nelson

“…Design: Johnston County OA Project participants (n ​= ​64) with (cases) and without (controls) OA in hands and knees, with age ≥55 years and obesity (BMI ≥30 ​kg/m2), provided samples for multiplex cytokine, LPS, and fecal microbiota analysis. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), a machine learning method to detect latent groups within data, was used to identify microbial enterotypes. …”
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The longitudinal bidirectional association between cardiovascular disease and depressive symptoms among middle-aged and elderly adults: evidence from a nationwide cohort study in C... by Jie He, Mingyue Liu, Ziying Zhang, Mingzhu Fang, Liang Wu, Haisheng Wu, Zhe Li, Zhe Li

“…Cross-lagged panel models were performed to evaluate bidirectional associations and strength of temporal relationships simultaneously. …”
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Enhancing CO₂ selectivity in MOFs through a dual-ligand strategy: Experimental and theoretical insights by Amir Kazemi, Akram Karbalaee Hosseini, Mahyar Ashourzadeh Pordsari, Mohsen Tamtaji, Saber Keshavarz, Faranak Manteghi, Azadeh Tadjarodi, Ahad Ghaemi, Sohrab Rohani, William A. Goddard

“…In addition, to validate the data and improve the analysis, theoretical studies indicated moderate interactions between CO₂ and the metal centers. …”
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Prognostic value of myocardial bridging versus non-obstructive CAD: a long-term follow-up study by Zengfa Huang, Beibei Cao, Yang Yang, Yi Ding, Xinyu Du, Wanpeng Wang, Mei Li, Zuoqin Li, Xi Wang, Xu Zhao, Xiang Wang

“…This study included 4176 consecutive patients with suspected CAD underwent coronary computed tomography angiography (CTA) at two hospitals in Wuhan, China, between September 2016 and December 2017 for finial analysis. Kaplan-Meier method was used to estimate the cumulative event-free survival of non-obstructive CAD burden and MB burden classifications, respectively. …”
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Effects of Mg-Palygorskite Modified Biochar on the Growth of <i>Sedum alfredii</i> Hance in Heavy Metal Contaminated Soil by Tianwen Wang, Xianxiang Luo, Kun Chen, Hao Zheng, Zewei Song, Lize Zhao, Junhua Gong, Fengmin Li, Ruhai Liu

“…The modified biochar significantly reduced the content of available heavy metals in the rhizosphere soil, with a passivation effect in the order of MPB > MBC > BPM > BCM, and the 3% addition had the greatest effect. Further analysis via the Mantel test and structural equation modeling confirmed that modified biochar promoted the growth of <i>Sedum alfredii</i> Hance by reducing the available heavy metal content in the rhizosphere soil and increasing the NO₃⁻-N and AP contents. …”
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Evaluation of eco-driving performance of electric vehicles using driving behavior-enabled graph spectrums: A naturalistic driving study in China by Hui Zhang, Yiyue Luo, Naikan Ding, Toshiyuki Yamamoto, Chenming Fan, Chunhui Yang, Wei Xu, Chaozhong Wu

“…This study proposes a method for visualizing ecology driving behavior that not only help understand the individual characteristics of ecological driving behaviors, but also offers substantial application value for the subsequent construction of Ecological driving behavior regulation models.…”
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Factors Affecting the Counterproductive Behaviors of Employees in the Organization; Emphasizing the Role of Organizational Embeddedness, Emotional Intelligence and Psychological Ow... by Marziyeh Dehghanizadeh, Mehdi Kheirandish, Hojjat Kheirandish

“…The validity of the questionnaires was confirmed a panel of experts in the field, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient and composite reliability were used to estimate the reliability of the instruments. The analysis method used in this research was the structural equation modeling technique.…”
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Validation of the role of apolipoproteins in coronary artery disease patients with impaired kidney function for prognosis: a prospective cohort study in China by Zixiang Ye, Enmin Xie, Zhangyu Lin, Chenxi Song, Rui zhang, Haoyu Wang, Yongbao Zhang, Kefei Dou

“…MACE, defined as a composite of all-cause mortality, cardiovascular death, nonfatal myocardial infarctions, strokes, and unplanned revascularizations, was tracked post-procedure, with statistical analyses including Kaplan–Meier survival curves and Cox regression models to identify associations with apolipoproteins. …”
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STUDENT'S LEARNING DIFFICULTIES ON MATHEMATICAL UNDERSTANDING OF A NUMBER PATTERN by Ratu Sarah Fauziah Iskandar, Darhim Darhim, Jarnawi Afgani Dahlan, Al Jupri

“…These interviews took place post the analysis of initial test (a diagnostic tests). The result showed that the difficulty in discerning the regularity of the numerical arrangement: 1) In calculating the formula for the nth term in a number pattern, modeling is used; 2) Students frequently employ the direct proportion method to generalize patterns without taking into account the overall arrangement of numbers; 3) Observing the arrangement of numbers causes uncertainty in seeing order; 4) In generalizing number patterns, damage occurs; 5) illustrating that number patterns always have regularities, and these regularities are not always in the form of numerical differences. …”
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Experimental Study on Blockage Mechanism and Blockage Locations for Polymer-Flooded Reservoirs in the Henan Oilfield by Yu Li, Meilong Fu, Baofeng Hou, Zhiyuan Zhang, Ruiyi Sun

“…To address the issues of reservoir blockage and sharp decline in fluid output of production wells in the polymer injection zone of the Henan oilfield, physical modeling has been used to study the blockage mechanism and blockage locations of the polymer-flooded reservoir based on oil reservoir characteristics and blockage knowledge. …”
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Laser Transmission Characteristics of Seawater for Underwater Wireless Optical Communication by Ruiman Yuan, Tinglu Zhang, Cong Li, Hong Gao, Lianbo Hu

“…This study systematically examined the transmission characteristics of underwater blue-green laser communication, such as the angle of arrival, beam spreading, and channel loss, based on the Monte Carlo ray tracing method, across three different waters. The statistical analysis has led to the following definitive conclusions: (a) The differences in average AOA are profound in clear water and at short attenuation lengths in coastal and turbid harbor waters and are small at long attenuation lengths. …”
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