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Drivers and forecasting of carbon emissions with extended LMDI and Bagging models: A case study of China’s Bohai Rim region
The Bohai Rim region, one of the prominent coastal economic zones in China, has garnered considerable attention regarding its carbon emission characteristics and driving factors. This paper computes t...
Reconstructing smoking history through dental cementum analysis - a preliminary investigation on modern and archaeological teeth
Acellular extrinsic fibre cementum (AEFC) has been widely utilised in cementochronology to estimate age at death, seasonality, and for life-history reconstruction. Smoking has been commonplace in the...
Assessing social cognition and risk-taking behaviour in patients with young-onset dementia: Study protocol for the YOD-RiSoCo observational prospective cohort study
Background Certain subtypes of young onset dementia (YOD), such as the behavioural variant of FTD or the behavioural variant of AD (bvYOD), present with changes in social behaviour instead of memory i...
GNN-FTuckER: A novel link prediction model for identifying suitable populations for tea varieties
Current research on tea primarily focuses on foundational studies of phenotypic characteristics, with insufficient exploration of the relationship between tea varieties and suitable populations. To ad...
Screening of agronomic and qualitative physical and chemical traits of 83 naked oats strains
Naked oats (Avena nuda) are a key cereal crop that are valued for their high nutritional content and desirable agronomic traits. In this study, 80 developed strains and three bred varieties were evalu...
Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation targeted with MRI based neuro-navigation in major depressive episode: a double-blind, multicenter randomized controlled trial
Context High-frequency (HF) transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is widely used in Major Depressive Episode (MDE). Optimization of its efficacy w...
The efficacy of Netrod Six-electrode Radiofrequency Renal Denervation system: mathematical modeling, phantom experiments and animal studies
The principle of NetrodTM Renal Denervation RF Generator is based on the heating of radiofrequency electrodes to achieve the therapeutic temperature for peripheral nerve ablation with minimal impact o...
Fractional order tracking control of a disturbed differential mobile robot
A trajectory tracking problem for a wheeled mobile robot, under skidding and slipping effects, is addressed. A sliding mode control scheme with fractional order reaching dynamics is proposed to solve...
Methanolic crude extract of Litsea Monopetala leaves combats oxidative stress, clot formation, inflammation and stool frequency in animal model
Introduction Litsea monopetala (LM) leaves are used in traditional medicine system in the South Asian region for treating ailments such as digestive issues, respiratory problems and skin disorders. In...
Effect of switching from prior Nucleos(t)ide Analogue(s) to Tenofovir alafenamide on lipid profile and cardiovascular risk in patients with Chronic Hepatitis B
Introduction Tenofovir alafenamide (TAF) is recommended for chronic hepatitis B (CHB) treatment in international guidelines according to its efficacy and safety. However, in phase III study, an increa...
Proteomes of aging and omega-3 supplementation in rat soleus skeletal muscle
Aging is a pan-organ process with an intricate and multimodal nature. Deciphering the aging phenomenon is complex, yet recent attention is analyzing the potential benefits of non-invasive life adjustm...
Retraction: Clinical features of 375 COVID-19 cases imported from Russia through the Suifenhe port and countermeasures
Functional safeguards for conservation: Identifying climate change refugia for frugivorous and nectarivorous birds in a degraded area of Colombia
Habitat loss and climate change are major drivers of biodiversity loss, but their synergistic effects and functional perspectives have to be better understood. We employed species distribution models...
An Interval-valued intuitionistic Fuzzy group decision-making approach based on projection measurement extended VIKOR for patent quality evaluation
Patent quality assessment is a multi-attribute decision-making problem. The increasingly complex social environment makes group decision-making based on interval-valued intuitionistic fuzzy (IVIF) inf...
Small means immoral? The impact of spatial size metaphor on moral judgment
This study aims to explore the unconscious relationship between moral concepts and the spatial dimension of size, as well as to examine whether the unknown size of a room influences participants’ mora...
InBRwSANet: Self-attention based parallel inverted residual bottleneck architecture for human action recognition in smart cities
Human Action Recognition (HAR) has grown significantly because of its many uses, including real-time surveillance and human-computer interaction. Various variations in routine human actions make the r...
Efficacy and safety of acupuncture for early postpartum stress urinary incontinence: A protocol for a pilot randomized controlled trial
Objective Postpartum stress urinary incontinence (PSUI) is a common condition among women after childbirth. While acupuncture is a common clinical treatment for PSUI, high-quality clinical evidence su...
Global, regional, and national burden of osteoarthritis from 1990 to 2021 and projections to 2035: A cross-sectional study for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
Objective This study aims to report the trends and cross-national disparities in the burden of osteoarthritis (OA) by region, age, gender, and time from 1990 to 2021, and to further project changes th...
Serum IL-6 and PTX3 predict severe outcome from COVID-19 in ambulatory subjects: Impact for future therapeutic decisions
SARS-CoV-2 infections lead to a wide-range of outcomes from mild or asymptomatic illness to serious complications and death. While many studies have characterized hospitalized SARS-CoV-2 patient immun...
Do all women shy away from competition? Competitive preferences among Dutch and non-Western females in the Netherlands
This study explores the willingness to compete among native Dutch individuals and non-Western migrants in the Netherlands, with a particular focus on first-generation non-Western migrant women. Drawin...
Estimating multiplicity of infection, haplotype frequencies, and linkage disequilibria from multi-allelic markers for molecular disease surveillance
Background Molecular/genetic methods are becoming increasingly important for surveillance of diseases like malaria. Such methods allow monitoring routes of disease transmission or...
Retraction: Digital inclusive finance, agricultural green technology innovation and agricultural carbon emissions: Impact mechanism and empirical test
Cnot4 heterozygosity attenuates high fat diet-induced obesity in mice and impairs PPARγ-mediated adipocyte differentiation
Adipocyte differentiation is crucial for formation and expansion of white adipose tissue and is also associated with the pathologies of obesity. CNOT4 is an E3 ubiquitin ligase and also contains RNA b...
An optimal integrated control strategy of urban expressway and adjacent signalized intersection with rolling horizon framework in MPC method
Urban expressway congestion around on-ramp bottlenecks is associated with traffic conditions on the main road, on-ramp and adjacent signalized intersection. Existing coordinated control strategies hav...
Assessment of cross-cultural adaptations and patient-reported outcome measures relevant to shoulder disorders in Turkish: A systematic review using the COSMIN methodology
Background There are many shoulder assessment outcome measures in the literature that have been studied for validity and reliability. However, there is no study examining the Turkish-adapted patient o...