We report a cross-station replication of endogenous circadian rhythms in plant bioelectric voltage, recorded continuously for 42 days at three independent sensor stations within a public science exhibition (Phänomena, Dietikon, Switzerland; Marc...
The knowledge of beekeeping flora of an area and of each plant’s provision is crucial for beekeepers to plan their hive transfers when practicing nomadic beekeeping. Thus, in the present study, we evaluated the use of pollen traps as a means of...
Long-distance triathlon has become a major model for studying endurance performance. Research has nonetheless been constrained by distance-specific datasets that separate full-distance from half-distance events and largely omit transition times. Our...
Background/Objectives: The timing of medication intake can influence therapeutic efficacy and adverse effects, yet little is known about when medications are actually taken in daily life. We aimed to characterize real-world temporal patterns of medic...
Human genetic disorders, such as Down syndrome, have a wide variety of clinical phenotypic presentations, and characterizing each nuanced phenotype and subtype can be difficult. In this study, we examined the electronic health records of 4095 individ...
Orthographic knowledge is a critical component of skilled language use, yet its large-scale behavioral signatures remain understudied in Spanish. To address this gap, we developed OrthoKnow-SP, a megastudy that captures spelling decisions from 27,185...
Background/Objectives: Reported CWH43 variants in idiopathic normal-pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) have been interpreted under differing inheritance models. Methods: We reassessed five previously reported variants (L533Ter, K696fs, A626V, I292T, and A...
Field-based phenotyping of water-related traits for precision irrigation in tropical agroecosystems poses a persistent methodological challenge, driven by high climatic variability and the complex water-use physiology of Crassulacean Acid Metabolism...
Objectives: Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) impose substantial clinical and public health burdens, while treatment options remain limited. We developed a novel mechanism-agnostic Medication-Wide Association Study (MWAS) approac...
Background: A common cause of posterior ankle pain is posterior ankle impingement syndrome (PAIS). Many studies about PAIS have been conducted on special groups such as athletes and dancers; there has been no previous study of a nonathletic populatio...
Population data are key indicators of policymaking, public health, and land use in urban and ecological systems; however, traditional censuses are time-consuming, expensive, and laborious. This study proposes a method of modelling population density...
Mobile phone data are a novel data source to generate mobility information from Call Detail Records (CDRs). Although mobile phone data can provide us with valuable insights in human mobility, they often show a biased picture of the traveling populati...
Arid environments are characterized by rare rain events that are highly variable, as a result of which plant populations often exhibit episodic recruitment and mortality dynamics. However, direct records and observations of such events are rare becau...
Estimating and mapping population distributions dynamically at a city-wide spatial scale, including those covering suburban areas, has profound, practical, applications such as urban and transportation planning, public safety warning, disaster impact...
We evaluated the global distribution of Anolis sagrei based on bibliographic records, GBIF, and iNaturalist data. Native to Cuba and the Bahamas, this lizard has spread across mainland America, particularly in the Caribbean, Central America, and part...
Koala populations in Australia are declining due to threats such as chlamydiosis, wild dog predation and vehicle collision. In the last decade, grazing livestock emerged anecdotally as a threat to koala survival in areas where koala habitat and lives...
Background/Objectives: The median nerve exhibits clinically relevant anatomical variability, with critical implications for surgical exposure, regional anesthesia, peripheral nerve repair, and diagnostic imaging. Despite extensive descriptive reports...
Sterilization programs for owned outdoor dogs aim to reduce uncontrolled breeding and subsequent abandonment, but population-level evidence remains limited. This study examined short-term associations between the Korean government-funded sterilizatio...
Long-term forest landscape change in mountainous rural areas reflects interactions among land-use pressure, forest structure and human activities. This study had two primary objectives: (i) to quantify 53 years of change in forest extent, stand struc...
Mitigating population exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is a core prerequisite for advancing Sustainable Development Goal 11.6.2 and global urban sustainability. This study integrated 0.1° × 0.1° gridded PM2.5 reanalysis data,...
End-of-line (EOL) vibration screening with deep anomaly detectors normalizes every recording before inference, which removes the absolute-amplitude scale that separates impact faults in reciprocating refrigerator compressors. The objective of this wo...
Dietary record tools such as food frequency questionnaire (FFQ) and food diaries (FD) are the most commonly used choices for assessing dietary intakes in most large-scale epidemiological studies. The authors developed a self-administered 360-item foo...
How can one test for a multiplicative topological difference between two structured network populations whose fixed-scale additive Betti summaries agree? We model each population as a probability law over finite graphs, considered up to isomorphism,...
Respiratory sound analysis is becoming increasingly popular as a non-invasive method for detecting adventitious sounds and aiding in the diagnosis of respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma, and pneumonia. Ho...
myfood24 is an online 24 hr dietary recall tool developed for nutritional epidemiological research. Its clinical application has been unexplored. This mixed methods study explores the feasibility and usability of myfood24 as a food record in a clinic...
Accurate information on species distributions and population sizes is essential for effective biodiversity conservation, yet such data are often lacking at national scales. This study addresses this gap by assessing the distribution and abundance of...
Background: The increase in life expectancy worldwide has led to a larger population of older people, which in turn entails a rising prevalence of cancer. One of the main complications of cancer is delirium, especially in advanced stages. Objective:...
Background/Objectives: Patient characteristics and concomitant injuries may influence hospital length of stay (LOS) and discharge disposition after rib fractures. We examined these associations in a selected Japanese trauma-registry population. Metho...
Measuring the mineral composition of milk is of major interest in the dairy sector. This study aims to develop and validate robust multi-breed and multi-country models predicting the major minerals through milk mid-infrared spectrometry using partial...
The COVID-19 pandemic started in the last week of December, 2019. An emergency was declared throughout the globe as the virus spread over 208 counties within a short amount of time. This pandemic had significant negative impacts on common men living...
The study of spatial bias in opportunistic data produced by citizen science programs is mainly approached either from a geographical angle (site proximity, accessibility, habitat quality) or from the angle of human behavior and volunteer engagement....
Considering settlement characteristics and population dynamics together over multiple spatio-temporal scales, the present study analyzes the spatial distribution of sparse settlements and population surrounding a large city in Southern Europe (Athens...
Canadian high-frequency temperature time series exhibit physical heterogeneity in the coexistence of radiative and advective populations in the total air temperature sample. This work examines forty-five Canadian hourly air temperature records to stu...
Preventing the loss of biodiversity is a major challenge in mega-diverse ecosystems such as coral reefs where there is a critical shortage of baseline demographic data. Threatened species assessments play a valuable role in guiding conservation actio...
Background/Objectives: AI-assisted documentation and coding tools add diagnoses to health records, and self-updating AI agents may soon learn from the codes they generate. The objective was to develop a framework for asking whether such systems could...
Seismic drift comparisons in reinforced-concrete (RC) piloti buildings depend on core configuration, response statistic and ground-motion composition. This study compares the capacity spectrum method coupled with Monte Carlo simulation (CSM–MCS...
Whether local observers and instrumental records describe environmental change alike is a recurrent question in climate-perception research. We address it for beekeeping, whose output depends on a variable that conventional monitoring does not record...
This systematic review aimed to assess the available body of published peer-reviewed articles related to the effects of Olympic combat sports (OCS) on cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) in the non-athlete population. The methodological quality and certa...
To prevent adverse health effects, the World Health Organization promotes the diffusion of the ultraviolet radiation index (UVI), with messages promoting precautionary behaviors, through a scale that considers extreme UVI values to be larger than 11....
Numerosity perception is an evolutionarily conserved ability observed across diverse taxa, from insects and fish to birds and primates. Unlike traditional visual categories, numerosity possesses an intrinsic metric structure, making it well suited fo...
Accurate, real-time and fine-spatial population distribution is crucial for urban planning, government management, and advertisement promotion. Limited by technics and tools, we rely on the census to obtain this information in the past, which is coar...
Understanding the spatial distribution of populations at a finer spatial scale has important value for many applications, such as disaster risk rescue operations, business decision-making, and regional planning. In this study, a random forest (RF)-ba...
This review article seeks to systematically identify appropriate ways to measure the consumption behavior of organic fruits. The systematic review of the literature was performed according to the criteria of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systemat...
In this study an analysis of the water supply variability for three towns in Puglia (Southern Italy), Roccaforzata, Palagianello and Palagiano was carried out, based on a time series continuously recorded over three years. The towns’ population range...
The Great Reef of Toliara, on the southwestern coast of Madagascar, has been documented as harbouring flourishing reef communities in the 1960s, but has since been affected by various threats, causing a coral decline last reported in 2008. In 2017, w...
Fish population fluctuations have been widely documented and are often attributed to climate variability, but little is known about their relationship. This is a barrier that restricts our capacity to understand climate effects on fish fluctuations....
This study presents a quantitative, scenario-based framework for analyzing humanity’s potential progression along the Kardashev scale, with emphasis on the transition to Type I (planetary-scale) and Type II (stellar-scale) civilization status....
The growing concern for the ongoing biodiversity loss drives researchers towards practical and large-scale automated systems to monitor wild animal populations. Primates, with most species threatened by extinction, face substantial risks. We focused...
The elevational range where montane species live is a key factor of spatial niche partitioning, because the limits of such ranges are influenced by interspecies interaction, abiotic stress, and dispersal barriers. At the regional scale, unimodal dist...
The coconut scale insect, Aspidiotus rigidus Reyne, caused a major pest outbreak in coconut plantations and stands in the Southern Tagalog region of Luzon Island in the Philippines between 2010 and 2015. To determine if parasitism by Comperiella cala...
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