ABSTRACT Background Urban trees provide essential ecosystem services, but their growth and longevity are often limited by soil compaction. Although pneumatic lance injection (PLI) is increasingly promoted as a minimally invasive and efficient soil loosening technique, robust scientific evidence for its long‐term effectiveness remains limited.
Oliver Löwe +3 more
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Association between occupational exposure to gasoline and anemia: a retrospective cohort study in China. [PDF]
Lin L +10 more
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Maize Biofortification Approaches for Fighting Malnutrition in Sub‐Saharan Africa
ABSTRACT Maize is a staple food in sub‐Saharan Africa (SSA); however, commonly used maize varieties are deficient in essential nutrients, including lysine, tryptophan, vitamin A, and minerals such as iron (Fe) and zinc (Zn). As a result, millions of people in this region suffer from one or more nutrient deficiencies that commonly lead to malnutrition ...
Bitew Tilahun Engida +2 more
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Association Between Dietary Animal Protein and Depression in a General Population. [PDF]
Lee S.
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Abstract The Cenozoic topographic growth of the Iranian Plateau, situated at the Arabia‐Eurasia collision front, provides insights into continental collision dynamics. However, the relative contributions of tectonic shortening versus deep mantle processes to crustal thickening remain debated because systematic quantitative constraints on paleo‐crustal ...
Jun Hu +4 more
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High Prevalence of Sarcopenia in Noncirrhotic Women With Primary Biliary Cholangitis: A Comparative Study of Clinical Characteristics and Risk Factors. [PDF]
Zhang J, Xu J, Bao W, Tang Y.
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ABSTRACT This ex vivo study characterised the mesial root morphology of mandibular first molars with a middle mesial canal (MMC) using micro‐CT. Among 469 scanned molars, 42 (8.96%) presented an MMC. Morphological parameters analysed included canal configuration, chamber orifice features, dentine thickness, isthmus type, and aspect ratio.
Nuno Rodrigues dos Santos +3 more
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Prognostic effect of neutrophil percentage-to-albumin ratio (NPAR) on all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in diabetic kidney disease (DKD): NHANES 1999-2018. [PDF]
Tan J, Du J, Liu J, Zhao W, Liu Y.
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What Is the Contribution of Maternal BMI to the Risk of Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes?
ABSTRACT Background The associations between increased maternal body mass index (BMI) in pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes for women and their infants are well known. Describing and understanding risk accurately can be problematic for women and clinicians, with a true picture often obscured by common reporting practices such as categorisation of
Megan Mitchell +5 more
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Diagnostic and prognostic value of speckle tracking echocardiography for right ventricular dysfunction in sepsis: a retrospective observational study. [PDF]
Yao Y, Yang Q, Zhong M, He H, Song J.
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