Highly Clonal Structure and Abundance of One Haplotype Characterise the <i>Diplodia sapinea</i> Populations in Europe and Western Asia by Kalev Adamson, Marili Laas, Kathrin Blumenstein, Johanna Busskamp, Gitta J. Langer, Darta Klavina, Anu Kaur, Tiit Maaten, Martin S. Mullett, Michael M. Müller, Emília Ondrušková, Allar Padari, Enn Pilt, Taavi Riit, Halvor Solheim, Liina Soonvald, Leho Tedersoo, Eeva Terhonen, Rein Drenkhan

“…The recently detected subpopulations of <i>D. sapinea</i> in northern Europe (Estonia) share several haplotypes with the German subpopulation. …”
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Numenius arquata (Charadriiformes, Aves) abundance trends in agrolandscapes in the southern Republic of Karelia (Northwest Russia) by Sergey A. Simonov, Alexander V. Artemyev, Nikolay V. Lapshin, Andrey O. Tolstoguzov, Maria V. Matantseva

“…Olonets grasslands (61.041111° N, 32.931389° E) are the most extensive agrolandscapes in the Republic of Karelia (Northwest Russia), one of the largest spring stopovers of migrating birds in Northern Europe and a breeding area of farmland-associated birds. …”
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The effect of clouds and precipitation on the aerosol concentrations and composition in a boreal forest environment by S. Isokääntä, P. Kim, S. Mikkonen, S. Mikkonen, T. Kühn, T. Kühn, T. Kühn, H. Kokkola, T. Yli-Juuti, L. Heikkinen, L. Heikkinen, K. Luoma, T. Petäjä, Z. Kipling, D. Partridge, A. Virtanen

“…We studied how wet scavenging and cloud processes affect particle concentrations and composition during transport to a rural boreal forest site in northern Europe. For this investigation, we employed air mass history analysis and observational data. …”
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Multidisciplinary approaches to identifying and managing global airways disease: Expert recommendations based on qualitative discussions by Vibeke Backer, Lars Olaf Cardell, Lars Olaf Cardell, Lauri Lehtimäki, Lauri Lehtimäki, Sanna Toppila-Salmi, Leif Bjermer, Sietze Reitsma, Peter W. Hellings, Peter W. Hellings, Peter W. Hellings, Dan Weinfeld, Kasper Aanæs, Charlotte Suppli Ulrik, Charlotte Suppli Ulrik, Gert-Jan Braunstahl, Gert-Jan Braunstahl, Bernt Bøgvald Aarli, Bernt Bøgvald Aarli, Arild Danielsen, Hannu Kankaanranta, Hannu Kankaanranta, Hannu Kankaanranta, Sverre Steinsvåg, Claus Bachert, Claus Bachert, Claus Bachert

“…Our objectives were to explore expert opinion to give practical suggestions to identify adults needing global airways care; enhance cross-specialty working; and widen knowledge to support diagnosis and management, integrate with existing care pathways, and supplement existing guidelines.MethodsSixteen practicing physicians from northern Europe were invited for their national and/or international standing in treating asthma and/or chronic rhinosinusitis. …”
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Spatial and temporal variation in the abundance of Culicoides biting midges (Diptera: Ceratopogonidae) in nine European countries by Ana Carolina Cuéllar, Lene Jung Kjær, Carsten Kirkeby, Henrik Skovgard, Søren Achim Nielsen, Anders Stockmarr, Gunnar Andersson, Anders Lindstrom, Jan Chirico, Renke Lühken, Sonja Steinke, Ellen Kiel, Jörn Gethmann, Franz J. Conraths, Magdalena Larska, Inger Hamnes, Ståle Sviland, Petter Hopp, Katharina Brugger, Franz Rubel, Thomas Balenghien, Claire Garros, Ignace Rakotoarivony, Xavier Allène, Jonathan Lhoir, David Chavernac, Jean-Claude Delécolle, Bruno Mathieu, Delphine Delécolle, Marie-Laure Setier-Rio, Roger Venail, Bethsabée Scheid, Miguel Ángel Miranda Chueca, Carlos Barceló, Javier Lucientes, Rosa Estrada, Alexander Mathis, Wesley Tack, Rene Bødker

“…There was a clear spatial trend in the accumulated annual abundance from southern to northern Europe, with the Obsoletus ensemble steadily increasing from 4000 per year in southern Europe to 500,000 in Scandinavia. …”
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Yield performance of 14 novel inter‐ and intra‐species Miscanthus hybrids across Europe by Danny Awty‐Carroll, Elena Magenau, Mohamad Al Hassan, Enrico Martani, Mislav Kontek, Philip van derPluijm, Chris Ashman, Emmanuel deMaupeou, Jon McCalmont, Gert‐Jan Petrie, Chris Davey, Kasper van derCruijsen, Vanja Jurišić, Stefano Amaducci, Isabelle Lamy, Anita Shepherd, Jason Kam, Annick Hoogendam, Michele Croci, Oene Dolstra, Andrea Ferrarini, Iris Lewandowski, Luisa M. Trindade, Andreas Kiesel, John Clifton‐Brown

“…The sin × sin hybrids appeared better adapted to northern Europe and sac × sin hybrids to southern Europe. …”
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Routine laboratory parameters predict intensive care unit admission and hospitalization in patients suffering stab injuries by Tazio Maleitzke, Tazio Maleitzke, Tazio Maleitzke, Sijia Zhou, Dario Zocholl, Florian Nima Fleckenstein, David Alexander Back, David Alexander Back, Julius Maximilian Plewe, Jérôme Weber, Jérôme Weber, Tobias Winkler, Tobias Winkler, Tobias Winkler, Ulrich Stöckle, Serafeim Tsitsilonis, Serafeim Tsitsilonis, Sven Märdian

“…BackgroundKnife crime has increased considerably in recent years in Northern Europe. Affected patients often require immediate surgical care due to traumatic organ injury. …”
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General practitioners’ perceptions on opportunistic single-time point screening for atrial fibrillation: A European quantitative survey by Paulien Vermunicht, Paulien Vermunicht, Mihaela Grecu, Jean-Claude Deharo, Claire M. Buckley, Elena Palà, Georges H. Mairesse, Michal M. Farkowski, Marco Bergonti, Marco Bergonti, Helmut Pürerfellner, Coral L. Hanson, Lis Neubeck, Ben Freedman, Ben Freedman, Henning Witt, Mellanie T. Hills, Jenny Lund, Katrina Giskes, Katrina Giskes, Daniel Engler, Daniel Engler, Renate B. Schnabel, Renate B. Schnabel, Hein Heidbuchel, Hein Heidbuchel, Hein Heidbuchel, Lien Desteghe, Lien Desteghe, Lien Desteghe, Lien Desteghe, for the AFFECT-EU investigators

“…BackgroundThere is no clear guidance on how to implement opportunistic atrial fibrillation (AF) screening in daily clinical practice.ObjectivesThis study evaluated the perception of general practitioners (GPs) about value and practicalities of implementing screening for AF, focusing on opportunistic single-time point screening with a single-lead electrocardiogram (ECG) device.MethodsA descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with a survey developed to assess overall perception concerning AF screening, feasibility of opportunistic single-lead ECG screening and implementation requirements and barriers.ResultsA total of 659 responses were collected (36.1% Eastern, 33.4% Western, 12.1% Southern, 10.0% Northern Europe, 8.3% United Kingdom &amp; Ireland). The perceived need for standardized AF screening was rated as 82.7 on a scale from 0 to 100. …”
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Predictors of changing patterns of adherence to containment measures during the early stage of COVID-19 pandemic: an international longitudinal study by Yuen Yu Chong, Wai Tong Chien, Ho Yu Cheng, Demetris Lamnisos, Jeļena Ļubenko, Giovambattista Presti, Valeria Squatrito, Marios Constantinou, Christiana Nicolaou, Savvas Papacostas, Gökçen Aydin, Francisco J. Ruiz, Maria B. Garcia-Martin, Diana P. Obando-Posada, Miguel A. Segura-Vargas, Vasilis S. Vasiliou, Louise McHugh, Stefan Höfer, Adriana Baban, David Dias Neto, Ana Nunes da Silva, Jean-Louis Monestès, Javier Alvarez-Galvez, Marisa Paez Blarrina, Francisco Montesinos, Sonsoles Valdivia Salas, Dorottya Őri, Bartosz Kleszcz, Raimo Lappalainen, Iva Ivanović, David Gosar, Frederick Dionne, Rhonda M. Merwin, Andrew T. Gloster, Angelos P. Kassianos, Maria Karekla

“…Results In total, 2189 adult participants (82% female, 57.2% aged 31–59 years) from East Asia (217 [9.7%]), West Asia (246 [11.2%]), North and South America (131 [6.0%]), Northern Europe (600 [27.4%]), Western Europe (322 [14.7%]), Southern Europe (433 [19.8%]), Eastern Europe (148 [6.8%]) and other regions (96 [4.4%]) were analyzed. …”
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Spectrum and Frequency of Germline <i>FANCM</i> Protein-Truncating Variants in 44,803 European Female Breast Cancer Cases by Gisella Figlioli, Amandine Billaud, Qin Wang, Manjeet K. Bolla, Joe Dennis, Michael Lush, Anders Kvist, Muriel A. Adank, Thomas U. Ahearn, Natalia N. Antonenkova, Päivi Auvinen, Sabine Behrens, Marina Bermisheva, Natalia V. Bogdanova, Stig E. Bojesen, Bernardo Bonanni, Thomas Brüning, Nicola J. Camp, Archie Campbell, Jose E. Castelao, Melissa H. Cessna, NBCS Collaborators, Kamila Czene, Peter Devilee, Thilo Dörk, Mikael Eriksson, Peter A. Fasching, Henrik Flyger, Marike Gabrielson, Manuela Gago-Dominguez, Montserrat García-Closas, Gord Glendon, Encarna B. Gómez Garcia, Anna González-Neira, Felix Grassmann, Pascal Guénel, Eric Hahnen, Ute Hamann, Peter Hillemanns, Maartje J. Hooning, Reiner Hoppe, Anthony Howell, Keith Humphreys, kConFab Investigators, Anna Jakubowska, Elza K. Khusnutdinova, Vessela N. Kristensen, Annika Lindblom, Maria A. Loizidou, Jan Lubiński, Arto Mannermaa, Tabea Maurer, Dimitrios Mavroudis, William G. Newman, Nadia Obi, Mihalis I. Panayiotidis, Paolo Radice, Muhammad U. Rashid, Valerie Rhenius, Matthias Ruebner, Emmanouil Saloustros, Elinor J. Sawyer, Marjanka K. Schmidt, Rita K. Schmutzler, Mitul Shah, Melissa C. Southey, Ian Tomlinson, Thérèse Truong, Elke M. van Veen, Camilla Wendt, Xiaohong R. Yang, Kyriaki Michailidou, Alison M. Dunning, Paul D. P. Pharoah, Douglas F. Easton, Irene L. Andrulis, D. Gareth Evans, Antoinette Hollestelle, Jenny Chang-Claude, Roger L. Milne, Paolo Peterlongo

“…We confirmed that p.Gln1701* was the most common PTV in Northern Europe with lower frequencies in Southern Europe. …”
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Les textiles dans les tombes gauloises à dépôt de crémation en vase métallique : usages pratiques, mises en scène et perspectives anthropologiques (seconde moitié du vie s.-ve s. a... by Elsa Desplanques

“…The phenomenon of metal vase cremation deposits appeared, or rather reappeared, suddenly and markedly, for about 50 or even 100 years, particularly in Gaul, the Greek world, Northern Europe and the Italian peninsula. Textiles were frequently present among the burnt bones of these metal ossuary assemblages. …”
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Pan-European Study on the Prevalence of the Feline Leukaemia Virus Infection – Reported by the European Advisory Board on Cat Diseases (ABCD Europe) by Nadine Studer, Hans Lutz, Claude Saegerman, Enikö Gönczi, Marina L. Meli, Gianluca Boo, Katrin Hartmann, Margaret J. Hosie, Karin Moestl, Séverine Tasker, Sándor Belák, Albert Lloret, Corine Boucraut-Baralon, Herman F. Egberink, Maria-Grazia Pennisi, Uwe Truyen, Tadeusz Frymus, Etienne Thiry, Fulvio Marsilio, Diane Addie, Manfred Hochleithner, Filip Tkalec, Zsuzsanna Vizi, Anna Brunetti, Boyko Georgiev, Louisa F. Ludwig-Begall, Flurin Tschuor, Carmel T. Mooney, Catarina Eliasson, Janne Orro, Helle Johansen, Kirsi Juuti, Igor Krampl, Kaspars Kovalenko, Jakov Šengaut, Cristina Sobral, Petra Borska, Simona Kovaříková, Regina Hofmann-Lehmann

“…Using multivariate analysis, seven risk factors (Southern Europe, male intact, 1&#8722;6 years of age, indoor and outdoor or outdoor-only living, living in a group of &#8805;5 cats, illness), and three protective factors (Northern Europe, Western Europe, pedigree cats) were identified. …”
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A Comparative Study of the most significant Components of Romanticism in the Poems of Louis Aragon and Ahmad Shamloo by Mahdi Rahimi, Abolghasem Rahimi, Mohammad Kianidust, Azam Negarian

“…(FLAUBERT, 1887–1893: 1/37) This school emerged in the late eighteenth century in England, Germany, France, and northern Europe. Important features of this school include attention to human feelings and emotions, sadness, justice and freedom, excessive influence of environments, events and heroism; Some literary critics believe that the importance of Romanticism is due to its tremendous impact on Western thought and the world, and that all the changes of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are derived from the principles of this school. …”
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Impact of long-term exposure to ambient ozone on lung function over a course of 20 years (The ECRHS study): a prospective cohort study in adultsResearch in context by Tianyu Zhao, Iana Markevych, Elaine Fuertes, Kees de Hoogh, Simone Accordini, Anne Boudier, Lidia Casas, Bertil Forsberg, Judith Garcia Aymerich, Marco Gnesi, Mathias Holm, Christer Janson, Deborah Jarvis, Ane Johannessen, Rudolf A. Jörres, Stefan Karrasch, Benedicte Leynaert, José Antonio Maldonado Perez, Andrei Malinovschi, Jesús Martínez-Moratalla, Lars Modig, Dennis Nowak, James Potts, Nicole Probst-Hensch, José Luis Sánchez-Ramos, Valerie Siroux, Isabel Urrutia Landa, Danielle Vienneau, Simona Villani, Bénédicte Jacquemin, Joachim Heinrich

“…The associations were more pronounced in residents of northern Europe and individuals who were older at baseline. …”
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The study of Gotic-literary contents within two novels: "Sane-al-Zalam" and "Negahban by Saeede Vahabi, Maryam Rahmati Torkashvand, Turaj Zeinivand

“…Most of the sources in the field of analysis and the study of the meanings and concepts of the words, in explaining the meaning of the word Gothic, mention it as an attribute attributed to the peoples from Northern Europe (Germanic peoples) known as Goths, their prominent feature that is mentioned in most of these sources. …”
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The variability of mass concentrations and source apportionment analysis of equivalent black carbon across urban Europe by Marjan Savadkoohi, Marco Pandolfi, Cristina Reche, Jarkko V. Niemi, Dennis Mooibroek, Gloria Titos, David C. Green, Anja H. Tremper, Christoph Hueglin, Eleni Liakakou, Nikos Mihalopoulos, Iasonas Stavroulas, Begoña Artiñano, Esther Coz, Lucas Alados-Arboledas, David Beddows, Véronique Riffault, Joel F. De Brito, Susanne Bastian, Alexia Baudic, Cristina Colombi, Francesca Costabile, Benjamin Chazeau, Nicolas Marchand, José Luis Gómez-Amo, Víctor Estellés, Violeta Matos, Ed van der Gaag, Grégory Gille, Krista Luoma, Hanna E. Manninen, Michael Norman, Sanna Silvergren, Jean-Eudes Petit, Jean-Philippe Putaud, Oliver V. Rattigan, Hilkka Timonen, Thomas Tuch, Maik Merkel, Kay Weinhold, Stergios Vratolis, Jeni Vasilescu, Olivier Favez, Roy M. Harrison, Paolo Laj, Alfred Wiedensohler, Philip K. Hopke, Tuukka Petäjä, Andrés Alastuey, Xavier Querol

“…Furthermore, a clear decreasing trend in eBC concentrations was observed in the UB sites moving from Southern to Northern Europe. The eBC mass concentrations exhibited significant spatiotemporal heterogeneity, including marked differences in eBC mass concentration and variable contributions of pollution sources to bulk eBC between different cities. …”
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A European aerosol phenomenology - 7: High-time resolution chemical characteristics of submicron particulate matter across Europe by M. Bressi, F. Cavalli, J.P. Putaud, R. Fröhlich, J.-E. Petit, W. Aas, M. Äijälä, A. Alastuey, J.D. Allan, M. Aurela, M. Berico, A. Bougiatioti, N. Bukowiecki, F. Canonaco, V. Crenn, S. Dusanter, M. Ehn, M. Elsasser, H. Flentje, P. Graf, D.C. Green, L. Heikkinen, H. Hermann, R. Holzinger, C. Hueglin, H. Keernik, A. Kiendler-Scharr, L. Kubelová, C. Lunder, M. Maasikmets, O. Makeš, A. Malaguti, N. Mihalopoulos, J.B. Nicolas, C. O'Dowd, J. Ovadnevaite, E. Petralia, L. Poulain, M. Priestman, V. Riffault, A. Ripoll, P. Schlag, J. Schwarz, J. Sciare, J. Slowik, Y. Sosedova, I. Stavroulas, E. Teinemaa, M. Via, P. Vodička, P.I. Williams, A. Wiedensohler, D.E. Young, S. Zhang, O. Favez, M.C. Minguillón, A.S.H. Prevot

“…They are mostly larger in the mid-latitude band than in southern and northern Europe. On average, organics account for the major part (36–64%) of NR-PM1 followed by sulfate (12–44%) and nitrate (6–35%). …”
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The Biological Assessment and Rehabilitation of the World’s Rivers: An Overview by Maria João Feio, Robert M. Hughes, Marcos Callisto, Susan J. Nichols, Oghenekaro N. Odume, Bernardo R. Quintella, Mathias Kuemmerlen, Francisca C. Aguiar, Salomé F.P. Almeida, Perla Alonso-EguíaLis, Francis O. Arimoro, Fiona J. Dyer, Jon S. Harding, Sukhwan Jang, Philip R. Kaufmann, Samhee Lee, Jianhua Li, Diego R. Macedo, Ana Mendes, Norman Mercado-Silva, Wendy Monk, Keigo Nakamura, George G. Ndiritu, Ralph Ogden, Michael Peat, Trefor B. Reynoldson, Blanca Rios-Touma, Pedro Segurado, Adam G. Yates

“…Regarding river rehabilitation, the greatest implementation has occurred in North America, Australia, Northern Europe, Japan, Singapore, and the Republic of Korea. …”
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Clinician treatment choices for post-traumatic stress disorder: ambassadors survey of psychiatrists in 39 European countries by Martina Rojnic Kuzman, Frank Padberg, Benedikt L. Amann, Meryam Schouler-Ocak, Zarko Bajic, Tarja Melartin, Adrian James, Julian Beezhold, Jordi Artigue Gómez, Celso Arango, Tihana Jendricko, Jamila Ismayilov, William Flannery, Egor Chumakov, Koray Başar, Simavi Vahip, Dominika Dudek, Jerzy Samochowiec, Goran Mihajlovic, Fulvia Rota, Gabriela Stoppe, Geert Dom, Kirsten Catthoor, Eka Chkonia, Maria João Heitor Dos Santos, Diogo Telles, Peter Falkai, Philippe Courtet, Michal Patarák, Lubomira Izakova, Oleg Skugarevski, Stojan Barjaktarov, Dragan Babic, Goran Racetovic, Andrea Fiorillo, Bernardo Carpiniello, Maris Taube, Yuval Melamed, Jana Chihai, Doina Constanta Maria Cozman, Pavel Mohr, György Szekeres, Mirjana Delic, Ramunė Mazaliauskienė, Aleksandar Tomcuk, Nataliya Maruta, Philip Gorwood

“…Methods The case-based analysis included 611 participants, who correctly classified the vignette as a case of PTSD, from Central/ Eastern Europe (CEE) (n = 279), Southern Europe (SE) (n = 92), Northern Europe (NE) (n = 92), and Western Europe (WE) (N = 148). …”
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Phenomenology of ultrafine particle concentrations and size distribution across urban Europe by Pedro Trechera, Meritxell Garcia-Marlès, Xiansheng Liu, Cristina Reche, Noemí Pérez, Marjan Savadkoohi, David Beddows, Imre Salma, Máté Vörösmarty, Andrea Casans, Juan Andrés Casquero-Vera, Christoph Hueglin, Nicolas Marchand, Benjamin Chazeau, Grégory Gille, Panayiotis Kalkavouras, Nikos Mihalopoulos, Jakub Ondracek, Nadia Zikova, Jarkko V. Niemi, Hanna E. Manninen, David C. Green, Anja H. Tremper, Michael Norman, Stergios Vratolis, Konstantinos Eleftheriadis, Francisco J. Gómez-Moreno, Elisabeth Alonso-Blanco, Holger Gerwig, Alfred Wiedensohler, Kay Weinhold, Maik Merkel, Susanne Bastian, Jean-Eudes Petit, Olivier Favez, Suzanne Crumeyrolle, Nicolas Ferlay, Sebastiao Martins Dos Santos, Jean-Philippe Putaud, Hilkka Timonen, Janne Lampilahti, Christof Asbach, Carmen Wolf, Heinz Kaminski, Hicran Altug, Barbara Hoffmann, David Q. Rich, Marco Pandolfi, Roy M. Harrison, Philip K. Hopke, Tuukka Petäjä, Andrés Alastuey, Xavier Querol

“…PNC and Black Carbon (BC) progressively increase from Northern Europe to Southern Europe and from Western to Eastern Europe. …”
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