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Screening for unconventional pesticides in tropical fruits and vegetables from Hainan, China
Hainan Province, a major tropical fruit and vegetable production region in China, faces potential threats to food safety and the ecological environment due to pesticide residue issues. However, the cu...
A GNN-based approach for accurate trade balance forecasting and interpretable analysis
In this study, we developed a machine learning pipeline to predict trade balances across 229 countries, utilizing a Graph Neural Network (GNN), and compared it with several deep learning and regressio...
“My Pronouns Are”: Pronoun-face mismatch performance and self-report attitudes to gender categorizaton across generations
Gender attribution based on face categorization may undergo age-related changes. Specifically, older individuals with more exposure to faces may have stronger stereotypical representations which leads...
Expression of Concern: TMEM41A overexpression correlates with poor prognosis and immune alterations in patients with endometrial carcinoma
Temporal evolution of the environmental footprints of intensive farming across England
The agriculture sector continues to face expectations regarding documenting its unintended environmental footprints through time given increasing awareness of the need to deliver food more sustainably...
Assessing the association between musculoskeletal injury and mental health in rugby players—A cross-sectional study
Background Musculoskeletal injuries are common among athletes and can negatively affect both physical and psychological wellbeing. Beyond physical disability, injuries have been li...
A game-theoretic analysis of production and coordination under combined carbon policies
To mitigate the growing threat of global warming, countries have increasingly adopted carbon policies to control industrial carbon emissions. Although previous research has analysed the effectiveness...
Research on emergency truck dispatching scheme for the high speed railway freight interruption
Subject to the risk of disruptions in high-speed rail (HSR) logistics networks caused by natural disasters or equipment failures, this study proposes an emergency scheduling optimization framework bas...
A network-centric approach reveals novel pathways impacted by Prader-Willi Syndrome
Prader-Willi Syndrome (PWS), a rare multi-system disorder characterized by insatiable appetite, growth abnormalities, and cognitive delay, results from genetic defects in a paternally expressed region...
Correction: Exploring the physical, mental, and social dimensions of middle-aged adults for active and healthy aging: A cross-sectional study
Spatial distribution patterns and causal mechanisms of rainfall-induced clustered landslides: A case study from Southwestern Yunnan Province, China
Based on two major rainfall events that triggered clustered landslides in Changning, Baoshan, southwestern Yunnan Province, China, this study integrates multi-scale spatial analysis, systematic field...
Syntactic language change in English and German: Metrics, parsers, and convergences
Syntactic language change has gained increasing attention in recent years. Previous computational work based on dependency relations has focused on diachronic trends in dependency distance, which meas...
Single-cell profiling unveils key regulators of skeletal stem cells in chicken and human embryonic limb development
Skeletal stem cells (SSCs) are well characterized in humans and mice, providing valuable insights into bone development and regeneration. However, their identification in poultry, particularly in chic...
Traffic flow prediction via dynamic hypergraph learning
In the field of intelligent transportation systems, efficiently and accurately predicting traffic flow and its evolution trends has become an important and urgent research task. Graph neural networks...
Density-equalized RANDT scan matching with integrated outlier removal and point density uniformity
The significance of three-dimensional point cloud data in generating high precision point cloud maps for environmental sensing, geo-spatial analysis and autonomous driving is increasing today with the...
From discrimination to growth? Student stress in the association between perceived discrimination and posttraumatic growth among African international students in South Africa
Background International students relocating across borders often face perceived discrimination, a form of cumulative adversity that may undermine well-being and may also be releva...
Decision time is associated with future cooperation and social rewiring decisions in network public goods games
Previous research suggests that encouraging cooperation in social networks by engaging cooperators with defectors is only effective when individual heterogeneity is considered. However, this heterogen...
Safety-oriented and explainable machine learning for KSI crash risk prediction: Evidence from the United Kingdom
Road traffic crashes pose a serious public safety challenge, particularly due to fatal and serious injuries. Although machine learning (ML) has been widely used for crash severity prediction, many stu...
Expression of Concern: Hemorrhagic and thrombotic manifestations in the central nervous system in COVID-19: A large observational study in the Brazilian Amazon with a complete autopsy series
Determinants of clinical severity in children with sickle cell disease and confirmed asthma
Background Asthma is a frequent comorbidity in children with sickle cell disease and has been associated with an increased risk of acute complications, particularly vaso-occlusive...
Clinical acuity and National Early Warning Scores (NEWS2) of remotely monitored patients on virtual wards: A retrospective cohort study
Background Virtual wards are an NHS priority, designed to deliver acute care, monitoring and treatment to people at home, providing an alternative to hospital admissions or facilit...
Image quality improvement of liver ultrasound using unsupervised deep learning
Chronic liver disease (CLD) and subsequent liver cirrhosis (LC) are common causes of death and healthcare-related socio-economical costs worldwide. Ultrasound (US) is the first-line imaging modality f...
Mapping programmes for mental health promotion in Singapore: A scoping review
Mental health disorders are on the rise globally, with policies promoting programmes that aim to enhance mental wellbeing across various population domains. This scoping review aims to examine the lit...
Comparative study of ocular and generalized myasthenia gravis in a South Korean cohort
Purpose To compare ocular myasthenia gravis (OMG) and generalized myasthenia gravis (GMG) in a South Korean cohort through an integrated analysis of clinical characteristics, diagn...