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How does occupational prestige of migrant workers affect farmland transfer in China?
Occupational prestige, a socioeconomic status metric, has received limited attention in prior studies regarding its influence on farmland transfer. Based on data from the China Family Panel Studies (C...
Social determinants of health on all-cause and cause-specific mortality in US adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: NHANES 2005–2018
Background Social determinants of health (SDoH) are nonmedical societal factors that influence health outcomes. However, their relationship with mortality risk in patients with chronic obstructive pul...
Genomic insights into the serovar prevalence, antimicrobial resistance gene, and genetic diversity of Salmonella enterica in Mexico
The research aims to provide insights into the sources of contamination, prevalence of common serovars, determination of sequence types, prediction of genes associated with antimicrobial resistance, a...
Does continuing learning help middle-aged and elderly people find employment in China? A propensity score matching analysis
Background The global aging workforce, driven by declining fertility and increased longevity, poses challenges to socio-economic systems and highlights the need for policies addressing age-related emp...
The global response to the pandemic: An empirical cluster analysis of policies targeting COVID-19
It is well known that countries differed in their response to the COVID-19 pandemic in terms of the timing and intensity of specific measures such as lockdowns, face masks and vaccine rollout. However...
Psychometric validation of the Thai version of the 12-item Zarit Burden Interview among informal caregivers in a palliative care setting in the south of Thailand
The Thai version of the 12-item Zarit Burden Interview (ZBI) is valid for measuring caregiver burden in psychiatric caregivers. Nevertheless, it has not been verified in a larger palliative care (PC)...
Effect of UV-A on endophyte colonisation of Arabidopsis thaliana
UV-A, an important part of sunlight radiation, is typically absent in experiments on plant-endophyte interactions. We examined the impact of UV-A in the 350–400 nm range (UV-A1 waveband) on the plant...
Diagnostic, prognostic, and immunological roles of FUT8 in lung adenocarcinoma and lung squamous cell carcinoma
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of malignant tumors worldwide in terms of the incidence and mortality, posing a significant threat to human health. Given that distant metastases typically occur...
Early childhood female genital mutilation in Sierra Leone, 2008–2019
Background Female genital mutilation remains a public health concern and human rights violation affecting young girls in Sierra Leone, despite global efforts to eliminate the practice. With its divers...
An observational study protocol on wastewater measurements and diaper culture to estimate antimicrobial resistance in long-term care facilities for people with intellectual disabilities: The GIRAF-MIC study protocol
Introduction Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) has become one of the leading global health threats. It is critical to understand the burden of AMR, particularly among vulnerable populations such as peopl...
RETRACTED: Enhancing pipa tuning stability with piezoelectric materials: An adaptive system for real-time performance adjustment
Introduction The study explores the development and performance evaluation of a Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System (NFIS) for adaptive tuning of a pipa string instrument under varying en...
Business and entrepreneurship is declining as scholarly field: Empirical evidence
This paper presents evidence from 68,792 papers published between 1961 and 2020 that progress in the scholarly field of business and entrepreneurship is declining. It is found that the annual number o...
Effect of screw access hole or vent hole opening strategies on the adhesive filling rate of oral implant cement-retained posterior crowns
Purpose This study investigated the adhesive filling rate (AFR) of implant prostheses on the abutment shoulder and axial surfaces under various hole opening strategies,and examined the correlation bet...
Identifying distinct subgroups with severe pain in sickle cell disease: A cluster analysis of the GRNDaD multi-center registry
Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects millions of individuals worldwide, and is characterized by both acute, episodic pain and chronic, persistent pain. Despite the significant burden of the disease, clin...
Within-subjects ultra-short sleep-wake protocol for characterising circadian variations in retinal function
Prior studies suggest that visual functions undergo time-of-day variations. Under naturalistic entrainment, diurnal changes in physiology may be driven by circadian and/or homeostatic processes, and r...
Characterization of small extracellular vesicles from ovarian cancer patients and pre-diagnostic patient samples: Evidence from the Danish blood donor study
Aim Ovarian cancer (OC) is the leading cause of gynecological cancer deaths. Current biomarkers of OC are not specific or sensitive enough. Extracellular vesicles (EVs), EV surface proteins and their...
Novel forms for the expression of aspect in heritage Greek across majority languages
This paper investigates, on the one hand, which verbal features are re-organized in heritage grammars and, on the other hand, the production of novel non-canonical forms for the expression of verbal a...
Needle in a haystack: Coarse-to-fine alignment network for moment retrieval from large-scale video collections
Moment retrieval from large-scale video collections aims to search and localize the temporal boundary of a video moment from a collection of numerous videos according to the given natural language que...
Quality of life and retention in care among people living with HIV initiated on ART in the era of “Universal Test and Treat” policy at a large HIV Clinic in South Western Uganda
Background Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) improves the quality of life (QoL) among people living with human immunodeficiency virus (PLWH). Most studies documenting the gains in QoL have been conducted...
Usefulness of a standardized scleral buckling technique for primary rhegmatogenous retinal detachment
Purpose Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment (RRD) requires timely treatment to prevent vision loss. Buckling surgery is a vital intervention; however, surgeon proficiency in buckling surgery is declinin...
The effects of virtual reality and augmented reality technologies on students’ story retelling performance
This study aims to compare the retelling performance of two groups that engaged in reading activities with virtual reality and augmented reality texts. Furthermore, the results of the interventions us...
Klotho null mutation leads to retinal degeneration characterized by functional impairment, gliosis, and deposition of amyloid-beta and hyperphosphorylated tau proteins
Background Klotho mutation has been known to accelerate aging and degenerative pathogenesis, notably in the kidney and the brain. Nevertheless, the aftermath of Klotho function deprivation in the reti...
Influence of soil spatial variability on the reliability of sandy slopes incorporating anisotropy and non-stationarity
Influence of soil spatial variability on the reliability of cohesive soil slopes has been investigated extensively in the previous studies. However, it is seldom investigated for sandy slopes, especia...
Retraction: Dual generative adversarial networks based on regression and neighbor characteristics
Research on path planning of robotic arms based on DAPF-RRT algorithm
In response to the widely used RRT-Connect path planning algorithm in the field of robotic arms, which has problems such as long search time, random node growth, multiple and unsmooth path turns, a pa...