- [Research and Practice of Vehicle-mounted Mobile CT Based on Emergency Medical Rescue]. [Journal Article]Zhongguo Yi Liao Qi Xie Za Zhi. 2023 Jan 30; 47(1):66-69.ZY
- CONCLUSIONS: The vehicle CT has high stability, fast scanning speed and high social and economic value.
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- Commentary: Natural disaster studies on prenatal stress - moving forward - a commentary/reflection on Nomura et al. (2022). [Journal Article]J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2023 Feb 07 [Online ahead of print]JC
- This commentary is based on the premise that the goal of scientific publications is to advance knowledge and inspire scientific discussion. First, the Nomura et al. paper is briefly summarized and shortly discussed to illustrate some of the challenges faced in this field, and suggestions for improvement are made. Then, the reader is invited to take a step back and reflect on how to continue inves…
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- Impact of COVID-19 on poultry market in Bangladesh. [Journal Article]Heliyon. 2023 Feb 02 [Online ahead of print]H
- As a result of COVID-19 spread, Bangladesh implemented a range of measures including general holidays, lockdown, no lockdown, and strict lockdown which resulted in the dramatic ups and downs of the price level of the products. This study aimed to examine the influence of COVID-19 on poultry products (meat and eggs) in Bangladesh using Gazipur-an intensive poultry growing area - as a case study. M…
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- Gaps in protection: the actual challenge in malaria elimination. [Review]Malar J. 2023 Feb 07; 22(1):46.MJ
- Progress in reducing both malaria cases and deaths has stalled with regression seen in many geographies. While significant attention is given to the contributing challenges of drug and insecticide resistance, 'residual' malaria is often diminished to transmission resulting from outdoor-biting or zoophagic/opportunistic mosquito vectors. These specific vector bionomic traits are only part of the p…
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- Characterisation of meteorological drought at sub-catchment scale in Afghanistan using station-observed climate data. [Journal Article]PLoS One. 2023; 18(2):e0280522.Plos
- Droughts have severely affected Afghanistan over the last four decades, leading to critical food shortages where two-thirds of the country's population are in a food crisis. Long years of conflict have lowered the country's ability to deal with hazards such as drought which can rapidly escalate into disasters. Understanding the spatial and temporal distribution of droughts is needed to be able to…
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- Protocol for a cross-sectional study on COVID-19 vaccination programmes in primary health care. [Journal Article]Afr J Prim Health Care Fam Med. 2023 Jan 31; 15(1):e1-e7.AJ
- CONCLUSIONS: Integrated health systems can lead to a greater impact in the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine and can ensure that we are better prepared for crises that threaten human health, not only limited to infectious pandemics but also the rising tide of chronic disease, natural and conflict-driven disasters and climate change.Contribution: This study will provide insight and key learnings for improving vaccination efforts for COVID-19 and possible future pandemics.
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- Perceived climate change risk and global green activism among young people. [Journal Article]
- In recent years, the increasing number of natural disasters has raised concerns about the sustainability of our planet's future. As young people comprise the generation that will suffer from the negative effects of climate change, they have become involved in a new climate activism that is also gaining interest in the public debate thanks to the Fridays for Future (FFF) movement. This paper analy…
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- Required parameters for modelling heterogeneous geographically dispersed manufacturing systems. [Journal Article]
- COVID-19 and global crises/events are driving governments to rethink their national manufacturing strategies. The drastic change of societal conditions has exposed our reliance on a constrained set of production practices. Furthermore, the future manufacturing landscape indicates - supply chain crises, trade agreements and natural disasters - a high level of volatility which requires a response t…
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- Public opinion changing patterns under the double-hazard scenario of natural disaster and public health event. [Journal Article]
- In the context of the COVID-19 epidemic, a "double-hazard scenario" consisting of a natural disaster and a public health event occurring simultaneously is likely to arise. Focusing on this double-hazard scenario, this study developed a new opinion dynamics model that verifies the effect of opinion dynamic in practical applications and extends the realistic meaning of the logic matrix. The new mod…
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- Integrative pathway and network analysis provide insights on flooding-tolerance genes in soybean. [Journal Article]
- Soybean is highly sensitive to flooding and extreme rainfall. The phenotypic variation of flooding tolerance is a complex quantitative trait controlled by many genes and their interaction with environmental factors. We previously constructed a gene-pool relevant to soybean flooding-tolerant responses from integrated multiple omics and non-omics databases, and selected 144 prioritized flooding tol…
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- Health of Post-Institutionalized Haitian Children Adopted to the United States. [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: Children adopted from Haiti face complex medical challenges undoubtedly related to the country's low socioeconomic status (SES) and the impact of recurrent natural disasters and governmental neglect on public health infrastructure. Appropriate care is critical in preventing and avoiding transmission of infectious diseases in adoptees and family members. The high incidence of anemia and elevated lead levels may further exacerbate the developmental effects of early institutional deprivation.
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- Sponge cities for healthier populations. [News]Bull World Health Organ. 2023 Feb 01; 101(2):86-87.BW
- Nature-based approaches to enhancing the absorbency of urban environments are being used to address the linked issues of climate change, flooding, sanitation and health. Fid Thompson reports.
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- The Royal Tajo Opera Theatre of Lisbon: From architecture to acoustics. [Journal Article]J Acoust Soc Am. 2023 Jan; 153(1):400.JA
- Throughout history, many buildings of significant cultural value have been lost due to natural disasters (e.g., earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, subsidence, etc.) as well as other human causes (e.g., fire, war destruction, etc.). The Tajo Opera theatre was hit by an earthquake that led to the collapse of the entire structure eight months after it was built. This paper deals with the revival of th…
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- Insights into geospatial heterogeneity of landslide susceptibility based on the SHAP-XGBoost model. [Journal Article]J Environ Manage. 2023 Jan 31; 332:117357.JE
- The spatial heterogeneity of landslide influencing factors is the main reason for the poor generalizability of the susceptibility evaluation model. This study aimed to construct a comprehensive explanatory framework for landslide susceptibility evaluation models based on the SHAP (SHapley Additive explanation)-XGBoost (eXtreme Gradient Boosting) algorithm, analyze the regional characteristics and…
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- The public finance response to floods of local governments in Italy. [Journal Article]J Environ Manage. 2023 Feb 01; 332:117352.JE
- This paper aims to empirically test the dynamics of budget outcomes of Italian municipalities in the aftermath of floods by accounting for heterogeneous levels of resilience and vulnerability to natural disasters. Our findings are based on a dynamic difference-in-differences model after propensity score matching. They point to substantial impacts in terms of increased capital expenditure and reve…
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- Possible factors determining global-scale patterns of crop yield sensitivity to drought. [Journal Article]
- In recent decades, droughts have critically limited crop production, inducing food system shocks regionally and globally. It was estimated that crop yield variability in around one-third to three-fourths of global harvested areas is explained significantly by drought, revealing the notable vulnerability of crop systems to such climate-related stressors. However, understanding the key factors dete…
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- The impact of climate-related disasters on children's communication and wellbeing: Addressing Sustainable Development Goals. [Journal Article]Int J Speech Lang Pathol. 2023 Feb 02 [Online ahead of print]IJ
- CONCLUSIONS: Climate change increases the frequency and severity of bushfires and other natural disasters with significant consequences for vulnerable and at-risk communities. Children with communication needs are particularly vulnerable during and following these disasters. High quality, evidence-based interventions are needed to support the health, wellbeing, and communication needs of children, with opportunities for involvement of speech-language pathologists. This commentary paper focusses on SDG 1, SDG 3, SDG 4, SDG 9, SDG 10, SDG 11, SDG 13, and SDG 15.
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- Disaster nursing and disaster preparedness: an investigation of nursing students' knowledge, competence and attitudes. [Journal Article]Nurs Manag (Harrow). 2023 Feb 02; 30(1):25-31.NM
- CONCLUSIONS: Enhancing nursing students' awareness of the importance of disaster preparedness and competence in disaster nursing can potentially save lives. Disaster nursing and disaster preparedness should be part of undergraduate nurse education curricula and nurse educators should develop innovative educational interventions on these topics.
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- Sociocultural Factors Affecting Breastfeeding Practices of Mothers During Natural Disasters: A Critical Ethnography in Rural Pakistan. [Journal Article]
- Natural disasters affect the health and well-being of mothers with young children. During natural disasters, this population is at risk of discontinuation of their breastfeeding practices. Pakistan is a middle-income country that is susceptible to natural disasters. This study intended to examine sociocultural factors that shape the breastfeeding experiences and practices of internally displaced …
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- Identifying the Preparedness Components for Sexual Violence in Natural Disasters: A Systematic Review. [Review]
- Background: The probability of sexual violence in areas affected by natural disasters may increase. An increase in the rate of unwanted pregnancies and subsequent intentional abortions, physical and mental injuries, and death can be the consequences of sexual violence. One of the characteristics of natural disasters is their unpredictability and ambiguity. Since decisions must be made quickly dur…
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- Genome-wide identification and characterization of polycomb repressive complex 2 core components in upland cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.). [Journal Article]
- CONCLUSIONS: We identified PRC2 core components in upland cotton, and systematically investigated their classifications, phylogenetic and synteny relationships, gene structures, domain organizations, subcellular localizations, protein interactions, tissue-specific and stresses-responsive expression patterns. Our results will provide insights into the evolution and composition of cotton PRC2, and lay the foundation for further investigation of their biological functions and regulatory mechanisms.
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- Variations in leaf anatomical characteristics drive the decrease of mesophyll conductance in poplar under elevated ozone. [Journal Article]Glob Chang Biol. 2023 Jan 31 [Online ahead of print]GC
- Decline in mesophyll conductance (gm) plays a key role in limiting photosynthesis in plants exposed to elevated ozone (O3). Leaf anatomical traits are known to influence gm , but the potential effects of O3 -induced changes in leaf anatomy on gm has not yet been clarified. Here, two poplar clones were exposed to elevated O3 . The effects of O3 on the photosynthetic capacity and anatomical charact…
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- Interruptions to HIV Care Delivery During Pandemics and Natural Disasters: A Qualitative Study of Challenges and Opportunities From Frontline Healthcare Providers in Western Kenya. [Journal Article]
- During public health crises, people living with HIV (PLWH) may become disengaged from care. The goal of this study was to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and recent flooding disasters on HIV care delivery in western Kenya. We conducted ten individual in-depth interviews with HIV providers across four health facilities. We used an iterative and integrated inductive and deductive dat…
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- Coral reef structural complexity loss exposes coastlines to waves. [Journal Article]
- Coral reefs offer natural coastal protection by attenuating incoming waves. Here we combine unique coral disturbance-recovery observations with hydrodynamic models to quantify how structural complexity dissipates incoming wave energy. We find that if the structural complexity of healthy coral reefs conditions is halved, extreme wave run-up heights that occur once in a 100-years will become 50 tim…
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- Semi-supervised automatic dental age and sex estimation using a hybrid transformer model. [Journal Article]Int J Legal Med. 2023 Jan 31 [Online ahead of print]IJ
- Teeth-based age and sex estimation is an important task in mass disasters, criminal scenes, and archeology. Although various methods have been proposed, most of them are subjective and influenced by observers' experiences. In this study, we aimed to develop a deep learning model for automatic dental age and sex estimation from orthopantomograms (OPGs) and compare to manual methods. A large datase…
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- Coupling machine learning with signal process techniques and particle swarm optimization for forecasting flood routing calculations in the Eastern Black Sea Basin, Türkiye. [Journal Article]Environ Sci Pollut Res Int. 2023 Jan 30 [Online ahead of print]ES
- With the effect of global warming, the frequency of floods, one of the most important natural disasters, increases, and this increases the damage it causes to people and the environment. Flood routing models play an important role in predicting floods so that all necessary precautions are taken before floods reach the region, loss of life and property in the region is prevented, and agricultural …
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- "We're going on a virtual trip!": a switching-replications experiment of 360-degree videos as a physical field trip alternative in primary education. [Journal Article]
- Field trips are steadily declining due to limited funding, time constraints, safety concerns, and other logistical issues. Many schools are resorting to a virtual field trip (VFT), especially when education is disrupted due to public health concerns, natural disasters, or other unforeseen significant events. Virtual reality as a common form of VFT is likely not an option for many schools due to c…
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- Analysis of plant flooding response. [Journal Article]Methods Enzymol. 2023; 680:461-491.ME
- Flooding represents an environmental stress that has widespread effects on plants in natural ecosystems as well as causing major crop losses. As climate change leads to more severe weather extremes, severe flooding events are likely to become even more frequent. Thus, there is intense interest in understanding how flooding affects plants and in identifying cellular and molecular targets for engin…
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