Integrated genetic analysis of Alzheimer's disease and stroke subtypes: insights from LDSC, PLACO, and MR studies by Yu Long, Jinfeng Liu, Jinniu Guo, Jinzhao Jiang, Xiangyu Wang, Ruohan Sun

“…Results Manhattan plots revealed pleiotropic SNPs mainly on chromosomes 11 and 19, with additional loci on chromosomes 1, 2, and 3 for specific subgroups. …”
Get full text

Assessing the Impacts of Soil Water Conservation Activities and Slope Position on the Soil Properties of the Gelda Watershed, Northwest Ethiopia by Kefyalew Muche, Eyayu Molla

“…The results revealed that the clay particles, pH, soil organic matter (SOM), total nitrogen (TN), available phosphorus (AvP), cation-exchange capacity (CEC), and exchangeable Ca2+, Mg2+, and K+ were significantly (p<0.05) increased, while bulk density (BD) and the sand fractions decreased in SWC-treated plots. On the lower slope, significantly higher (p<0.05) clay, silt, pH, SOM, TN, AvP, CEC, and exchangeable bases were recorded, while the upper slope had the highest sand and BD values. …”
Get full text

Using of ASTER, ETM+ and Gamma Spectrometry Airborne Data to Find the Relationship Between the Distribution of Alkali Metasomatism and REE Mineralization in the Bafq Area, Central... by K. Khoshnoodi, M. Yazdi, M. Behzadi, M. Gannadi-Maragheh

“…The Advanced Space borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer (ASTER) and Landsat Enhanced Thematic Mapper Plus (ETM+) image-processing techniques, were used in satellite imagery through conventional and also modern processing methods including band ratios, color composite ratio images and spectral angle mapper to study the spectral discrimination of metasomatically altered rocks based on their mineral assemblages and to investigate critically the link between the distribution of Na-metasomatism and occurrence of REE mineralization through plotting the image processing results on preexisting airborne radiometric data. …”
Get full text

Effects of Tillage Disturbance on Slope Shape and Micro-topographic Features on Typical Sloping Cropland of Southwestern Alpine-canyon Area by WANG Jiaqi, WANG Yong, ZHANG Zehong, ZHANG Yixiong, LIU Jingyi, MA Zhenzhen, XIN Wang, QIN Wei, XU Haichao

“…[Methods] 50 times of conventional tillage and contour tillage events were applied to rectangular plots (5 m×20 m) with a slope of 15° to examine the impacts of tillage disturbance on the slope shape and micro-topographic features by combining the stylus method and 3 D laser scanning technology. …”
Get full text

505 Comparison of profile and utility measures of health-related quality of life in pediatric Hodgkin lymphoma by Brian Felter, Angie Mae Rodday, Susan K. Parsons

“…Results/Anticipated Results: The first step of our analysis will be to ascertain agreement in scoring for parent–child dyads for the HUI2, HUI3, and CHRIs scores by comparing mean scores via two-sample t-testing. Bland–Altman plots will be constructed to compare agreement between the scores for HUI2/3 and the CHRIs. …”
Get full text

Colors of Macroalgae: Distinguishing <italic>Ulva Prolifera</italic> and <italic>Sargassum Horneri</italic> Using Sentinel-2 L2A Images by Chi Feng, Yin Xing, Minjing Wang

“…First, since <italic>Ulva prolifera</italic> and <italic>Sargassum horneri</italic> have biologically different pigment compositions, the color difference between them was plotted in the CIE color space using data extracted from the Sentinel-2 L2A images. …”
Get full text

Heat waves reveal additive genetic effects leading to sunburn resilience of grapevine berries by Tom Heinekamp, Franco Röckel, Katja Herzog, Oliver Trapp, Reinhard Töpfer, Florian Schwander

“…The population consists of 150 genotypes cultivated in two adjacent plots with four plants per F1-individual each, providing sufficient grape material for a reliable evaluation. …”
Get full text

Computed tomography-based coronary lumen volume to myocardial mass ratio in patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve replacement: a novel method for risk assessment by Wenting Li, Ruichen Ren, Qingyuan Zhao, Chengcheng Qi, Zhiyu Chen, Yang Zhang

“…The cumulative incidence of the MACE was compared using Kaplan-Meyer plots and uni- and multivariate Cox proportional hazards regression analysis. …”
Get full text

Using the aeromagnetic data for mapping the basement depth and contact locations, at southern part of Tihamah region, western Yemen by Marwan A. Al-Badani, Yahia M. Al-Wathaf

“…The estimated Euler solutions were plotted on the tilt angle derivative map. An excellent correlation was noticed between these techniques indicating that both of them can be attributed in delineating the general structural framework of the area. …”
Get full text

Risk–Cost Equilibrium for Grid Reinforcement Under High Renewable Penetration: A Bi-Level Optimization Framework with GAN-Driven Scenario Learning by Feng Liang, Ying Mu, Dashun Guan, Dongliang Zhang, Wenliang Yin

“…Spatial congestion maps and scenario risk-density plots further illustrate the ability of adversarial learning to reveal latent structural bottlenecks not captured by conventional methods. …”
Get full text

A data science pipeline applied to Australia's 2022 COVID-19 Omicron waves by James M. Trauer, Angus E. Hughes, David S. Shipman, Michael T. Meehan, Alec S. Henderson, Emma S. McBryde, Romain Ragonnet

“…We developed a package for the construction of infectious disease models, integrated it with several open-source libraries and applied this composite pipeline to multiple data sources that provided insights into Australia's 2022 COVID-19 epidemic. …”
Get full text

Combined systemic immune-inflammatory index and prognostic nutritional index predicts the efficacy and prognosis of ES-SCLC patients receiving PD-L1 inhibitors combined with first-... by Yi Ge, Xiaoyu Liu, Yishi Xu, Yanwei Su, Yixin Li, Liping Wang

“…BackgroundThere is a strong association between inflammation and the formation, progression, and metastasis of malignant tumors, according to earlier studies. Some composite inflammation-nutritional indicators, such as the systemic immune-inflammation index (SII) and the prognostic nutritional index (PNI), have a certain predictive effect on the prognosis of patients with small cell lung cancer (SCLC). …”
Get full text

Host blood transcriptomic biomarkers of tuberculosis disease in people living with HIV: a systematic review protocol by Mary Shelton, Humphrey Mulenga, Stanley Kimbung Mbandi, Simon C Mendelsohn, Mark Hatherill, Fatoumatta Darboe, Thomas J Scriba

“…Eligible studies will include PLHIV in signature test or validation cohorts, and use microbiological, clinical, or composite reference standards for pulmonary or extrapulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis. …”
Get full text

Available Nitrogen as the Determinant of Variability in Soil Microbial Communities Throughout <i>Lycium chinense</i> Growth Zones in the Qaidam Basin, Qinghai, China by Qianqian Su, Jie Li, Jingui Wang, Gang Li, Yang Sun, Xiaoqin Liu, Lan Luo, Xinrui Wang, Guilong Zhang

“…Understanding the compositional and functional dynamics of soil microbial communities is crucial for optimizing soil fertility and promoting agricultural sustainability. …”
Get full text

Characteristics of Soil Nutrients Accumulation and Nitrogen and Phosphorus Loss of Greenhouse Vegetable Field by YANG Tao, CHEN Yuanhua, CHEN Feng, XU Changxu, ZHUANG Yanhua, TU Xiangming, CHEN Jingrui

“…［Conclusion］ The 6—10 years might be a “turning point” for the cumulative contents of nutrients in greenhouse vegetable plots. Excessive use of nutrients after 6—10 years could not increase the storage capacity of the soil, but it might increase the risk of pollution caused by the accumulation of available nutrients. …”
Get full text

The Short-Term Efficacy of Straw Incorporation on Soil Detachment in Sloping Farmland by Chong Yao, Songzhu Ye, Siyuan Chen, Zhijia Gu, Wei Yan, Ming Zhu, Li Song, Mingjun Zhang, Faqi Wu

“…The soil samples were collected from seven different plots (straw incorporation rates of 0 (CK), 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, and 1.2 kg m⁻² with rainfall simulation of 30 mm and without straw incorporation and rainfall simulation (CK0)) and subjected to flume scoring experiments. …”
Get full text

Application of metagenomics next-generation sequencing of pathogen in patients with pneumonia-induced sepsis by XU Feixiang, YU Feng, WANG Ruilan, SONG Zhenju, TONG Chaoyang, ZHU Changqing

“…Kaplan-Meier curves were plotted and Cox proportional hazards models were built to compare the risk of death between the two groups. …”
Get full text

Development and validation of a risk prediction model for adverse outcomes in patients with suspected coronary artery disease and no significant stenosis on angiography: a retrospe... by Tong Liu, Xue Wu, Lei Zhu, Seung-Woon Rha, Kang-Yin Chen, Zheng-Kai Xue, JingKun Zhang, Su-Tao Hu, Yu-Kun Zhang, Tian-Shu Gu

“…The prediction model showed robust discrimination for primary endpoint, achieving area under the curve (AUC) values of 0.82 (1 year), 0.90 (2 years) and 0.89 (3 years) in the derivation cohort, with corresponding validation cohort AUCs of 0.75, 0.77 and 0.78. Calibration plots revealed close alignment between predicted and actual event-free survival probabilities in both cohorts. …”
Get full text

Effect of elevation and aspect on carbon stock of bamboo stands (Bambusa nutans subsp. Cupulata) outside the forest area in Eastern Nepal by Santosh Ayer, Sachin Timilsina, Rajeev Joshi, Prakash Chaudhary, Jeetendra Gautam, Menuka Maharjan, Himlal Baral, Kishor Prasad Bhatta

“…For this study, three elevation zones (0–400 m, 400–800 m, 800–1200 m) and two aspects (East and West) were considered. A total of 30 square plots having a 100 m2 area were established utilizing purposive sampling due to the scattered distribution of bamboo. …”
Get full text

Effects of Conservation Agriculture and Conventional Tillage on the Soil Physicochemical Properties and Household Income in Southern Ethiopia by Lemlem Tajebe Lejissa, Feyera Senbeta Wakjira, Agena Anjulo Tanga

“…Representative soil samples were collected from selected four adjacent kebeles of the two districts. Eight farm plots per kebele were selected and a total of 32 composite samples were collected following a zigzag pattern to the depth of 30 cm. …”
Get full text