Vertical bacterial variability in oxidation ponds in the tropical zone by C. Tudsanaton, T. Pattamapitoon, O. Phewnil, W. Wararam, K. Chunkao, P. Maskulrath, M. Srichomphu

“…The purpose of this study is to examine the vertical variability of bacteria in natural treatment oxidation ponds in tropical zones.METHODS: Wastewater samples were collected from an oxidation pond at 3 different depths (0–0.6, 0.6–1.5 and more than 1.5 meter), and their chemical, physical and biological qualities were analysed. …”
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Enhancing direct carbonation performance of basic oxygen furnace slag through potassium chloride activation by Rong SUN, Weicheng XU, Hongming LONG, Rufei WEI

“…The use of steel slag to capture and sequester CO2 is an effective method for coupling solid waste resource utilization with carbon emission reduction. …”
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Global burden of asthma attributable to high body mass index in older adults 1990–2021 and prediction to 2050: An analysis of Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Zhikang Wang, MPH, Yifang Liu, PhD, Yilin Li, MPH, Qi Wang, PhD, Junan Liu, PhD

“…Age-standardized mortality rates and disability-adjusted life years rates were more severe in regions with lower SDI, such as Oceania. …”
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Climate Change and Topography Drive the Expansion of Betula ermanii in the Alpine Treeline Ecotone of the Changbai Mountain by Yingyi Chen, Yongfeng Gu, Wen J. Wang, Lei Wang, Xiaodong Li, Shengwei Zong, Mai‐He Li, Zhengfang Wu, Hong S. He, Yu Cong, Ming Jiang

“…This study employed the Geodetector method to analyze how interactions between climatic and topographic factors influence the expansion of Betula ermanii on different aspect slopes. …”
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Study on the reaction mechanism and kinetics of limestone hydrogenation by micro fluidized bed: Effect of H2 concentration and natural limestone by Hengrui Jin, Haiping Yang, Xianhua Wang, Yang Yang, Yingquan Chen

“…Limestone decomposition is the first step in cement production, which produces a significant amount of CO2 and poses a significant challenge to achieve carbon neutrality. …”
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Global, regional, and national burden and trends of rheumatoid arthritis among the elderly population: an analysis based on the 2021 Global Burden of Disease study by Lu Wei, Lu Wei, Xiang Chen, Mengmeng Liu

“…In elderly patients, the disease progresses more rapidly, involves more complications, and places a greater burden on health. …”
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Price relationships and market linkages of by-product critical metals across multiple time scales: A case study of copper and cobalt by SU Hui, WU Qiaosheng, CHENG Jinhua, ZHOU Na, BI Zhiwei

“…These markets exhibit more intense price volatility and more complex linkages. …”
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An Algorithm of Decomposing the Trend and Cyclical Components of FDI Inflows: the Case of Ukraine by Bogdan A. Moskalenko, Pavlin Mitev

“…The relevance of solving this problem is that the country investment potential evaluation is often based on investigating the impact of foreign direct investment`s determinants in a domestic economy while ignoring cyclical macroeconomic processes within and outside the country, on which those determinants often have not responded yet or reacted late. The methodical tools of the research are carried out in the following logical sequence: systematization of existing statistical methods for trend component decomposing; analysis of data that will be used in the decomposition process and in further country investment potential evaluation; application of the Hodrick-Prescott filter and trend component decomposing in foreign direct investment net inflows dynamics into the economy of Ukraine. …”
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Youth lost to homicides: disparities in survival in Latin America and the Caribbean by Vladimir Canudas-Romo, José Manuel Aburto

“…The contribution by homicide deaths to the change in life expectancy, over time and as a difference between two populations, was quantified using decomposition methods.Results The contribution by homicide mortality to changes in life expectancy levels differed widely across the examined LAC countries. …”
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A Global Irradiance Prediction Model Using Convolutional Neural Networks, Wavelet Neural Networks, and Masked Multi-Head Attention Mechanism by Walid Mchara, Lazhar Manai, Mohamed Abdellatif Khalfa, Monia Raissi, Salah Hannechi

“…Existing approaches, including statistical methods, conventional machine learning models, and standalone deep learning techniques like LSTM, fail to integrate local features and long-term dependencies simultaneously, creating a need for more robust solutions. …”
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The Metrics for Promising R&D Early Forecast by Sergey Petrovich Kovalev

“…The key questions are described in details for source data formation to calculate more complex functional-based metrics using some lexical-graph R&D text models, to solve decomposition tasks and path search on graphs of terms collocations and co-words with the purpose of terminology evolution investigations, tautological definitions localization, and texts structure quality estimation. …”
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Tagus River microbial profile through nanopore sequencing on samples gathered from Prainha do Braco de Prata, Lisbon [version 3; peer review: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservatio... by Mariana Pestana, Cristiano Pedroso-Roussado, Mónica Nunes, Ricardo Dias, Marcelo Pereira, Pedro Pascoal, Nuno Nunes

“…Additionally, through a literature review we found that the ecosystem services provided by these genera are mostly related to organic matter decomposition. Conclusions Despite the need for a more robust sampling and analyses, we conclude that there is potential to use microbial profile approaches to help define the relevant microbial biomarkers to clarify the ecosystem services in the Tagus River freshwater ecosystem.…”
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An analysis of the global, regional, and national burden of blindness and vision loss between 1990 and 2021: the findings of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021 by Lijuan Que, Qin Zhu, Chun Jiang, Qianyi Lu

“…ObjectivesTo evaluate the global burden of blindness and vision loss (BVL) from 1990 to 2021 using a retrospective analysis of epidemiological data from Global Burden of Disease (GBD) study 2021 and to project trends over the next 15 years.MethodsThis retrospective study analyzed data on years lived with disability (YLDs) and prevalence across 204 countries and territories. …”
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On Issue of Permissible Content of Ammonium Ions in Chemical Additives for Concrete by P. I. Yukhnevskiy

“…These circumstances necessitate research and development of methods for determining the safe amount of ammoniumcontaining additives in concrete. …”
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Recent Trends in Proxy Model Development for Well Placement Optimization Employing Machine Learning Techniques by Sameer Salasakar, Sabyasachi Prakash, Ganesh Thakur

“…., a ROM, uses proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) methods to reduce the dimensionality of the problem. …”
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Trends and Patterns of Inequality in Utilizing Antenatal Care among Women in Bangladesh by Israt Jahan Juie, Nusrat Jahan, Mortuja Mahmud Tohan, Sanjay Kumar Chanda, Md. Ashfikur Rahman

“…Decomposition analysis and multivariable logistic regression were used to analyze data. …”
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Comprehensive Analysis of Trends in Ocean Surface Current by Delineating Kuroshio Extent Using an Optimized Segmentation Algorithm by Mohammed Abdul Athick A.S., Shih-Yu Lee, Chian-Yi Liu

“…Regarding computational efficiency, Detecting Breakpoints and Estimating Segments in Trend (DBEST) and Wavelet Transform (WT) outperformed the other methods. Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) and Seasonal Trend Loess (STL) have similar levels of efficiency. …”
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Estimating changes in life expectancy in Hong Kong during the COVID-19 pandemic: a longitudinal ecological studyResearch in context by Alexandra H.T. Law, Anne M. Presanis, Justin K. Cheung, Peng Wu, C. Mary Schooling, Benjamin J. Cowling, Jessica Y. Wong

“…We used Arriaga’s decomposition method to estimate age- and cause-specific contributions to overall changes in life expectancy for 2020–2023, with 2019 as the reference year. …”
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Aerobic and anaerobic biological treatment of extracted chicken manure mixed with cassava dregs for potential use as liquid organic biofertilizer by Viagian Pastawan, Muhammad Daffa Shiddiq, Zulhammi Ahsan, Dimas Hand Vidya Paradhipta, Muhamad Khoiru Zaki, Mohammad Zainal Abidin, Nanung Agus Fitriyanto

“… • The application of biological wastewater treatments reduces the solids content (TS and TVS) in liquid fertilizers by more than 40%. …”
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Kinematic changes in dairy cows with induced, unilateral forelimb lameness during straight line walk by A. Leclercq, K. Ask, Y. Mellbin, A. Byström, M. Söderlind, E. Telezhenko, C. Bergsten, P. Haubro Andersen, M. Rhodin, E. Hernlund

“…A lameness induction method causing increased claw pressure was used to introduce mild, reversible, unilateral forelimb lameness. …”
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