Quantifying evapotranspiration and crop coefficients of California 'Hass' avocado affected by various environmental and plant factors by Aliasghar Montazar, Ben Faber, Dennis Corwin, Alireza Pourreza, Richard L. Snyder

“…The findings demonstrated greater Kc act values during the flower bud development, and flowering through fruit set growth phases than the fruit development phase, ranging from an average of 0.7–0.85 over the season at the site with the highest values. …”
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Interplay between snow phenology and vegetation phenology in Alaska under climate change by Ya-Qiong Mu, Tao Che, Li-Yun Dai, Shi-Wei Liu, Gui-Gang Wang

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Estimativas do albedo em três ecossistemas da floresta amazônica Estimation of albedo in three ecosystems of the Amazon forest by Mário de M. V. B. R. Leitão, Jesus M. dos Santos, Gertrudes M. de Oliveira

“…Similar sensors were also installed at the soil surface to measure the cited parameters. Four microloggers were used for acquiring the daily data from 5 h 51 min to 18 h at intervals of one second and the average values for each minute were obtained and stored. …”
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Phyto-synthesis, characterization of silver nanoparticles from mint leaf extract and its evaluation in antimicrobial and pharmacological applications by Wasim Akhtar, Muhammad Imran Hamza, Sidra Qayyum, Muhammad Azhar Khan, Naila Mukhtar, Asif Kamal, Rizwan Sarwar, Moona Nazish, Abdulwahed Fahad Alrefae, Mikhlid H. Almutairi, Muhammad Tahir Naseem

“…UV–visible spectral investigation showed an absorption reading peak at 434 nm due to surface plasmon resonance, indicating phyto-reduction. …”
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Empowering Patients and Caregivers to Use Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision for Wound Monitoring: Nonrandomized, Single-Arm Feasibility Study by Rose Raizman, José Luis Ramírez-GarciaLuna, Tanmoy Newaz, Sheila C Wang, Gregory K Berry, Ling Yuan Kong, Heba Tallah Mohammed, Robert D J Fraser

“…A median wound closure surface area closure of 80% (range 15-100) was achieved across all patients, demonstrating the app’s clinical potential. …”
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Relationship between gender and perioperative clinical features in lung cancer patients who underwent VATS lobectomy by Wei Chen, Qiangqiang Zheng, Yi Shen, Min Liang, Yang Yuan, Yusong Lu, Yunfeng Zhou

“…Results There were statistically significant differences between male and female patients in age of onset, body surface area (BSA), smoking rate, alcohol consumption rate, hypertension incidence, pulmonary function and clinical stage. …”
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Driving factors of fragmentation in urban landscapes: Local contributions, spatial relationships, and causal effects by Simin Jiang, Fei Feng, Xinna Zhang, Chengyang Xu, Baoquan Jia, Raffaele Lafortezza

“…The influence of impervious surface expansion intensity showed an inverted “U” shape over time in spatial correlation and causal effect, suggesting that while initial urban expansion increases fragmentation, advanced urbanization and green space restoration can mitigate these effects.…”
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Auto-segmentation of surgical clips for target volume delineation in post-lumpectomy breast cancer radiotherapy by Xin Xie, Peng Huang, Zhihui Hu, Yuhan Fan, Jiawen Shang, Ke Zhang, Hui Yan

“…The segmentation accuracy of these models is evaluated by three metrics: Dice Similarity Coefficient (DSC), 95% Hausdorff Distance (HD95), and Average Surface Distance (ASD). Results The DSC, HD95 and ASD of the two-stage model are 0.844, 2.008 mm and 0.333 mm, while their values are 0.681, 2.494 mm and 0.785 mm for U-Net, 0.767, 2.331 mm and 0.497 mm for V-Net, 0.714, 2.660 mm and 0.772 mm for UNETR. …”
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Multifunctional physical simulation test system for deep coal rockburst development and its application by Shoujian PENG, Qingfeng XU, Jiang XU, Liang CHENG, Bin ZHOU, Yan YANG, Feng JIAO

“…The system can complete the impact failure test on the free surface, and the failure effect is intuitive and significant. …”
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Local gyrification index and sulcal depth as imaging markers of cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease by Yongsik Sim, Changmin Seo, Young-gun Lee, Byoung Seok Ye, Ilwoo Lyu, Ilwoo Lyu, Beomseok Sohn

“…Regarding language function, CT was associated with regions such as the superior temporal gyrus, while SD demonstrated correlations with the left supramarginal gyrus.ConclusionThe results indicate that certain changes in cortical shape features are associated with particular cognitive function scores. Surface-based morphometric features of SD and LGI provided complementary results to CT analyses. …”
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Spatial Prediction of Soil Total Phosphorus in a Karst Area: Comparing GWR and Residual-Centered Kriging by Laimou Lu, Penghui Li, Liang Zhong, Mingbao Luo, Liyuan Xing, Chunlai Zhang

“…The GWRK model exhibited superior accuracy (80.6%), with predicted concentration of TP closely aligning with observed TP values, effectively capturing fine spatial variations, and showing the lowest mean standardized error, average standard error, and mean absolute error. GWRK also achieved the highest R² (0.67), demonstrating robust predictive capability. …”
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The comparative effectiveness of 55 interventions in obese patients with polycystic ovary syndrome: A network meta-analysis of 101 randomized trials. by Mohamed Abdel-Maboud, Amr Menshawy, Elfatih A Hasabo, Mohamed Ibrahim Abdelraoof, Mohamed Alshandidy, Muhammad Eid, Esraa Menshawy, Oumaima Outani, Ahmed Menshawy

“…We performed both a pairwise meta-analysis and a network meta-analysis to evaluate the effect sizes with 95% CI, and we calculated the surface under the cumulative ranking curve (SUCRA) for each intervention.…”
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Synchrony on the reef: how environmental factors shape coral spawning patterns in Acropora corals in the Maldives by Kate Sheridan, Margaux A.A. Monfared, Simon P. Dixon, Amelia J.F. Errington, Thomas Le Berre

“…Generalised linear models (GLMs) were used to estimate the effect of average daily wind speed (mph), total daily precipitation (mm), tide depth (m), and mean sea surface temperature (SST) over a 30-day period prior to spawning, on the proportion of colonies to spawn per day and the spawning day deviation to full moon. …”
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Observed upper-ocean structure and seasonal production in the southern Kerguelen Plateau region, 1994-2021 by Man Liang, Annie Foppert, Annie Foppert, Karen J. Westwood, Karen J. Westwood, Sophie Bestley, Sophie Bestley

“…The study aims to investigate the mixed layer oceanography, the implications for nutrient supply from deep to near-surface waters, and associated biological production. …”
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A Novel CTC-Binding Probe: Enzymatic vs. Shear Stress-Based Detachment Approaches by Sophia Krakowski, Sara Campos, Henri Wolff, Gabi Bondzio, Felix Hehnen, Michael Lommel, Ulrich Kertzscher, Paul Friedrich Geus

“…Current investigations focus on the process of detaching bound cells from the BMProbe™ surface for cell cultivation and subsequent drug testing to enable personalized therapy planning. …”
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Change in the Ophthalmobiometric Parameters in Myopia and Hyperopia under the Influence of Cycloplegia by E. P. Tarutta, S. G. Harutyunyan, S. V. Milash, A. T. Khandzhyan, N. V. Khodzhabekyan

“…After cycloplegia, in both myopic and hyperopic eyes, DAC increases: in myopia, on average, 0.12 mm, with hyperopia — by 0.14 mm, and accordingly the thickness of the lens decreases. …”
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Variation Law of Infrared Radiation Temperature of Unloading Fracture of Composite Coal-Rock by Xin Li, Xue Wang, Zhen Yang, Hao Li, Yan Li, Weiman Sun

“…After jumping over the maximum stress, the temperature field decreases as a whole at the instability and rupture stage. (2) The variation of surface average thermal infrared radiation temperature (Tave) of composite coal-rock can be divided into the initial fluctuation stage, the linear heating stage, the local decline stage, the temperature sudden increase stage, and the fracture decline stage. …”
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Proximity of maxillary molar palatal roots to adjacent structures for endodontic microsurgery: a cone-beam computed tomography study by Xiaoxiang Huang, Jun Xu, Benxiang Hou, Ying Wang

“…Distances from the root apexes to the MSF and the cortical bone surface were measured. Results Of 500 teeth, 1352 roots were evaluated. …”
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Short Term Outcomes Utilizing Custom Total Talus Replacement with Subtalar Arthrodesis for Revision and Complex Total Ankle Arthroplasty by Kevin Horner MD, Kyle M. Schweser MD

“…One TTR had a talonavicular ingrowth surface. Patients included in this study had at least 12-week follow-up. …”
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Effects of Process Parameters on Microstructure Evolution of Pure Aluminum Target under Clock 135° Collaborative Hot Rolling: A Simulation Study by Rui Xu, Xin Xu, Shengcan Ma

“…Meanwhile, the average grain size below 80 µm accounts for ~61.8% of the total grains. …”
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