Towards ROXAS AI: automatic multi-species ring boundaries segmentation as regression in anatomical images by Marc Katzenmaier, Marc Katzenmaier, Vivien Sainte Fare Garnot, Jan Dirk Wegner, Georg von Arx, Georg von Arx

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Genetic Dissection of Triple Rust Resistance (Leaf, Yellow, and Stem Rust) in Kenyan Wheat Cultivar, “Kasuku” by Naeela Qureshi, Ravi Prakash Singh, Sridhar Bhavani

“…Climate change is driving the spread of transboundary wheat diseases, necessitating the development of resilient wheat varieties for sustainable agriculture. …”
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Feasibility randomised controlled trial to assess the delivery of a novel isometric exercise intervention for people diagnosed with uncomplicated stage 1 hypertension in the Nation... by Melanie Rees-Roberts, Douglas MacInnes, T Pellatt-Higgins, Jamie O’Driscoll, Ellie Santer, Alan West, John Darby, Timothy Doulton, Rachel Borthwick, Katerina Gousia, Vanessa Short, Pauline A Swift, Jim D Wiles, Katie Saxby, Ashley Mills, Chris K Farmer

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Landsat-observed changes in forest cover and attribution analysis over Northern China from 1996‒2020 by Xiaobang Liu, Shunlin Liang, Han Ma, Bing Li, Yufang Zhang, Yingying Li, Tao He, Guodong Zhang, Jianglei Xu, Changhao Xiong, Rui Ma, Wenfu Wu, Jiahua Teng

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Food insecurity and weight loss during wartime: a mixed-design study from the Gaza Strip by Asem Alnabih, Nour-Alhuda Alnabeh, Yousef Aljeesh, Belal Aldabbour

“…Quantitative data assessed weight loss among participants as a marker of starvation. …”
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Predicting future morphological changes of lesions from radiotracer uptake in 18F-FDG-PET images. by Ulas Bagci, Jianhua Yao, Kirsten Miller-Jaster, Xinjian Chen, Daniel J Mollura

“…The proposed framework predicts future morphological changes of lesions with high accuracy. The presented methodology has several benefits over conventional qualitative and semi-quantitative methods, due to its fully quantitative nature and high accuracy in each step of (i) detection, (ii) segmentation, and (iii) feature extraction. …”
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FACIT-Fatigue scale in patients with cold agglutinin disease: psychometric validation and estimation of clinically meaningful change by David Cella, Quentin A. Hill, Alia Karaouni, Florence Joly, Timothee Sourdille, Frank Shafer, Marek Wardęcki, Mark Kosinski, Alexander Röth

“…PurposeTo validate the use of Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-Fatigue) questionnaire in cold agglutinin disease (CAD) patients using qualitative and quantitative methods and to estimate meaningful within-patient change (MWPC).MethodsQualitative assessment used outcomes from a survey among CAD patients and their caregivers in US. …”
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Monitoring Kidney Microanatomy Changes During Ischemia-Reperfusion Process Using Texture Analysis of OCT Images by Zhifang Li, Qinggong Tang, Lili Jin, Peter M. Andrews, Yu Chen

“…Optical coherence tomography (OCT) has been applied to image changes in kidney microanatomy and microcirculation. …”
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Phenomenological Model of Information Distribution and Movement in the Systems of Organizational Management by M. F. Gumerov

“…Taking into account the given circumstance the article suggests the new interpretation of the concept about the economic and managerial information as the aggregate of intangible resources capable to give rise to quantitative and qualitative changes in material system, being the object of management. …”
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Comparison of the Impact of Atracurium and Cisatracurium on the Neutrophil-To-Lymphocyte Ratio in Addition to Hemodynamic Changes during Anesthesia Induction by Behzad Nazemroaya, Sahand Taei

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Effects of Climate Change on Women's Food Security in Mwea East Sub-County, Kirinyaga County, Kenya by Eva Mwai, Aloys Ojore, Nyumba Tobias

“…The study used descriptive research design and integrated qualitative and quantitative approaches. The researcher used purposive sampling to select Mwea East sub County which has experienced frequency and severity of climate change events of drought. …”
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Hidden in Plain Sight: A Scoping Review of Professional Grief in Healthcare and Charting a Path for Change by Carolyn S. Phillips, Katie Trainum, Megan C. Thomas Hebdon

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Enhancing employee’s outcomes through adopting the change leadership role of human resource professionals in sustainable enterprises by Ha Minh Nguyen, Diem Thi Pham

“…Grounded in the perceived organizational support of social exchange theory (Eisenberger et al., 1986) and the demands-resources theory (Bakker et al., 2003; Demerouti et al., 2001), the study explores the relationships between the degree of adopting HR change leadership role and employee outcomes of organizational commitment and work engagement in sustainable enterprises by employing the mix method of qualitative and quantitative researches. …”
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The Validation and Performance Analysis of a UV Air-Cleaning System for the Indoor Air Quality of Populated Indoor Spaces by Hao-Yuan Chou, Hsiu-Ju Cheng, Ling-Hang Hsu, Chen-Kang Huang

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Integrated Marketing Communication (IMC) and the role of Public Relations (PR) therein by Ilse Niemann-Struwig, Andrea Crystal, Anské Grobler

“…Based on these environmental changes, the Public Relations Division at University X commissioned the study on the research topic, which is the second consideration for the study. …”
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Changing Borders, Stable Attitudes: The National and European Identity Before and After the Most Recent EU Enlargements by Sergiu Gherghina

“…The descriptive statistics and multivariate quantitative analyses reveal that no relevant changes occur in the levels of national and European identities. …”
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Integrating landsat NDVI data with climate and anthropogenic factors reveals drivers of vegetation dynamics in the semi-arid Basin of Western China by Lina Li, Rui Xia, Ming Dou, Minhua Ling, Guiqiu Li, Cai Wang, Qingbin Mi

“…The Wei River Basin (WRB) is a semi-arid region in western China prone to climate change and sensitive to the environment. Driven by climate change and human activities, particularly the recent reforestation projects, the environment and landscape of this region have undergone significant changes. …”
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Mountain guides facing the effects of climate change. What perceptions and adaptation strategies at the foot of Mont Blanc? by Emmanuel Salim, Jacques Mourey, Ludovic Ravanel, Pietro Picco, Christophe Gauchon

“…The aim of this paper is therefore to identify how mountain guides from Chamonix and Courmayeur are impacted and the different adaptation strategies they developed to face climate change. By this cross-border study, using quantitative and qualitative methods, this paper is also showing that the adaptation strategies are controlled by the territory dynamics.…”
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Reduction in the potential distribution of bee species in low latitudes under different climate change scenarios: conservation implications by Xinggang Tang, Xinggang Tang, Zheng He, Zheng He, Yue Deng, Yue Deng, Yingdan Yuan, Kaiming Zeng, Kaiming Zeng

“…To quantify the climate-change impact on bees and guide conservation planning, we employed ecological niche modeling (ENM) driven by three representative concentration pathways (RCP 4.5, 6.0 and 8.5) and three general circulation models (CCSM4, HadGEM2-AO and MIROC-ESM-CHEM). …”
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The assessment of the effect of agricultural and climate changes on the spread of spring wheat diseases in the Predkamie Area of the Republic of Tatarstan by V. A. Kolesar, A. A. Ziganshin, R. I. Safin

“…Development of diseases of a root system, leaves and a head result in decrease of both quantitative and qualitative characteristics of wheat harvest. …”
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