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Woody plant encroachment drives the decline of a grassland bird: The fate of golden-shouldered parrot (Psephotellus chrysopterygius) nests
Grasslands are the world’s most threatened terrestrial biome, with consequences for grassland-dependent species. Many remnant grasslands are threatened by woody plant encroachment (hereafter “encroach...
A ceratopsid-dominated tracksite from the Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) at Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada
The badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Park (Alberta, Canada) are renowned for the exceptional abundance and diversity of Campanian-aged vertebrate body fossils, especially dinosaurs. Due to the steep ex...
Federated fault diagnosis method for collaborative self-diagnosis and cross-robot peer diagnosis
In multi-robot collaboration, individual failures can propagate to other robots due to the topological coupling between them. Existing fault diagnosis models are designed for single robots and fail to...
Expression of Concern: Urban-rural disparities in institutional delivery among women in East Africa: A decomposition analysis
E-concussion? an investigation of the representation of head impact events and concussion within popular sport-based video games
Guidelines have been produced to support the management of concussion, an injury commonly experienced in amateur and elite sports. To improve adherence to concussion guidelines, there is a need to imp...
Adolescent perspectives on the effect of cooperative classroom learning on social networks and health
Cooperative learning is a small-group pedagogical technique hypothesized to impact health by altering classroom social dynamics. Using a grounded theory approach, we performed semi-structured intervie...
The influence of game-based learning on tactical awareness and skill development in golf training programs
Objective To investigate the effects of game-based learning on tactical awareness and skill development in golf training programs. Methods A randomized controlled trial was conducted with 45 male at...
It’s all in the music: A systematic review on the effects of musical characteristics on participants’ experience and behavior during leisure activities
Background Excessively loud music is frequently played at leisure activities, posing significant health risks. However, the lack of consensus on consumers’ preferred music settings makes it difficult...
Improvement analysis of organic light emitting diode temperature control by integrating whale algorithm in PID control system
Organic Light-Emitting Diode (OLED) is a high-performance display technology. Its performance and lifespan are extremely sensitive to the operating temperature. The existing temperature control method...
Molecular identification and genetic variations of forensically significant blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) from Eastern India using DNA barcoding
Flies, especially those from the Calliphoridae family, play a crucial role in decomposition and are the first to colonize a cadaver. Firstly, accurate species identification is a prerequisite for ento...
Busulfan damages spermatogenic function by inducing orchitis
In order to clarify injure mechanism of busulfan to spermatogenic function, we treated mice with busulfan, the testicular and epididymal weights and sperm concentration significantly decreased and the...
“No reason for children to go hungry”: Rural U.S. caregivers’ perceptions of elected officials and their impacts on food policy
In the context of the increasingly polarized U.S. political environments of the 2016 and 2020 elections, how did rural caregivers think about food and health policies? To answer this question, researc...
Neuro-cognitive specificities in prosocial disobedience: A comparative fMRI study of civilian and military populations
The literature highlighted that compliance with or resistance to authority orders to inflict pain involves cognitive processes like empathy, guilt, mentalization, cognitive conflict, and sense of agen...
Key technologies of robotic arm motion control based on compound control and improved SCSO
As modern industrial automation advances towards intelligence and flexibility, robotic arms are widely used in precision manufacturing, intelligent assembly, and medical surgery. To meet the high-prec...
Risk factors for pulmonary infection in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes: A protocol for systematic review and meta-analysis
Background Lung infection is a prevalent chronic consequence of diabetes. Abnormal blood sugar levels, vascular endothelial damage, and alterations in capillary permeability predispose diabetes patien...
Factors associated with weighing a child at birth: Evidence from 16 sub-Saharan African countries
Background Several children from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are not weighed at birth. The lack of birthweight data is a significant challenge in monitoring the global prevalence of extreme birthweight,...
Energy aware resource association in RIS assisted VLC-RF communication network
Owing to the rapid surge in the number of intelligent devices and data-intensive applications, the demand for reliable communication support has increased. This has put an undue burden on the radio fr...
Independent assessment of a point of care HCV RNA test by laboratory analytical testing and a prospective field study in the U.S
Improvements in HCV testing, including Point of Care (POC) HCV RNA tests, are necessary to eliminate HCV. With this goal in mind, we established methods to collect capillary whole blood (CWB) via fing...
Total proximal tibial osteotomy and cranial closing wedge ostectomy for treating concomitant medial patellar luxation and cranial cruciate ligament disease in dogs with excessive tibial torsion
Medial patellar luxation (MPL) and cranial cruciate ligament disease (CCLD) frequently co-occur in dogs, with excessive tibial torsion adding surgical complexity. This study evaluates the clinical out...
Study on the extension law of fractures in shale reservoirs under impact loads
Fracturing technology is an important technique in the development of shale reservoirs. Compared with conventional hydraulic fracturing, explosive fracturing technology has the advantages of low cost...
Correction: Prevalence of comorbidities associated with sickle cell disease among non-elderly individuals with commercial insurance–A retrospective cohort study
Application of flexible parametric cure model in determination of effective factors on the technique of survival peritoneal dialysis patients in adults of Iran
Objective Peritoneal Dialysis (PD) is one of the most common methods of dialysis performed in patients with kidney failure. This study presents the application of flexible parametric cure models, whic...
Noncovarying storage effect: Balancing and positive directional selection on mutant alleles that amplify random fitness and demographic fluctuations
Temporally variable environments in natural populations generate fluctuations in both population size and the fitness effects of mutant alleles. The theory of storage effect, a species/allelic diversi...
Datavzrd: Rapid programming- and maintenance-free interactive visualization and communication of tabular data
Tabular data, often scattered across multiple tables, is the primary output of data analyses in virtually all scientific fields. Exchange and communication of tabular data is therefore a central chall...
Post-vaccination Streptococcus pneumoniae colonization and respiratory manifestations in children: A prospective cohort study
Background Streptococcus pneumoniae is considered one of the main agents for pneumonia, meningitis, bacteremia, sinusitis, and acute otitis media (AOM)especially in children under 5 years, and a cause...