Analysis of Trend and Associated Factors of Neuropsychological Development of Infants and Toddlers Based on Longitudinal Data by Deng Chen, Yunzhe Huang, Andrew Swain, Xiaoguang Yang, Jinming Yu

“…For the areas of gross motor and self-care, the growth of qualification rate with the extension of follow-up was not obvious in the medium and high age group (both <i>p</i> trend > 0.05). Some impact factors of development in all areas were identified. …”
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Environmental Impact Assessment of Construction Waste Recycling versus Disposal Scenarios Using an LCA-BIM Tool during the Design Stage by Carmen Llatas, Rocío Quiñones, Nuria Bizcocho

“…The CW-LCA-BIM tool uses impact factors obtained from an LCA model applied to CW and was applied to the structural system of a building in Spain. …”
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Slope Stability Evaluation Using Tangent Similarity Measure of Fuzzy Cube Sets by Jingmeng Wang, Wenhua Cui, Jun Ye

“…This study selects nine impact factors: the lithology type, the slope structure, the development degree of discontinuity, the relationship between inclination and slope of discontinuities, the slope height, the slope angle, the mean annual precipitation, the weathering degree of rock, and the degree of human action, which can be expressed as the fuzzy cubic information (the hybrid information of both a fuzzy value and an interval-valued fuzzy number). …”
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Differences and influencing factors related to underground water carbon uptake by karsts in the Houzhai Basin, southwestern China by J. Zhang, Z. Bian, M. Dai, L. Wang, C. Zeng, W. Su

“…We used flow and carbon ion concentration data from three stations with different environmental background conditions in the Houzhai Basin, southwestern China, to analyse the differences in carbon uptake between stations and to determine their impact factors. The results show that carbon sink discharge was mainly controlled by the flow at each site. …”
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Monte Carlo simulations of synchrotron X-ray dose affecting root growth during in vivo tomographic imaging by Isabela C. Moraes, Dean Hesterberg, Fernando A. Bacchim Neto, Nathaly L. Archilha, Carlos A. Pérez, Maria Victória A. Araújo, Talita R. Ferreira

“…The dose rate and cumulative absorbed dose in roots were modelled using the Monte Carlo code FLUKA for different experimental conditions of polychromatic and quasi-monochromatic X-ray beam configurations. The most impactful factors affecting damage to roots were incident X-ray energy spectrum, stored current in the accelerator machine, position of the root in the soil, and possibly the number of exposures during the 4D XCT experiments. …”
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Design with nature and eco-city design by Yegang Wu, Robert E. Swain, Nan Jiang, Mengying Qiao, Haihua Wang, Jialin Bai, Xi Zhou, Xuefeng Sun, Jing Xu, Meng Xu, Chen Hu, Yimin Xing, Jenny Z. Wu

“…“Designing with nature” also means that we must, as we are dealing with resources, consider and understand all the impacting factors and ecosystem capacities. China’s biggest challenge has been to restore water quality, aquatic ecosystems, and landscape patterns. …”
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Assessment of Land Cover Changes in the Hinterland of Barranquilla (Colombia) Using Landsat Imagery and Logistic Regression by Henry Schubert, Andrés Caballero Calvo, Markus Rauchecker, Oscar Rojas-Zamora, Grischa Brokamp, Brigitta Schütt

“…Regression analyses were performed to identify the impact factors of detected vegetation cover changes. Computed logistic regression models included 20 independent variables, such as relief, climate, soil, proximity characteristics and socio-economic data. …”
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The Construction of Seaports in the Arctic: Prospects and Environmental Consequences by Irina Makarova, Polina Buyvol, Eduard Mukhametdinov, Aleksey Boyko

“…It systematizes the basic terminology used within different subject areas of ecology and risks and allows one to visualize the relationships between elements of the natural environment, objects, port systems, their parameters and impact factors to assess the impact of the seaport on the natural environment. …”
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Biogeography and Population Divergence of Microeukaryotes Associated with Fluids and Chimneys in the Hydrothermal Vents of the Southwest Indian Ocean by Yue Zhang, Ning Huang, Hongmei Jing

“…Based on high-throughput sequencing and network analysis of the 18S rRNA gene, distinct biogeographical distribution patterns and impacting factors were revealed from samples in the three hydrothermal fields of the southwest Indian Ocean, where higher gene abundance of microeukaryotes appeared in chimneys. …”
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Molecular regulation of high muscle mass in developing Blonde d'Aquitaine cattle foetuses by Isabelle Cassar-Malek, Céline Boby, Brigitte Picard, Antonio Reverter, Nicholas J. Hudson

“…We used a combination of differential expression (DE) and regulatory impact factors (RIF) to compare and contrast muscle gene expression between the breeds. …”
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Hydrodynamic and sediment dynamic impact of human engineering activity on Liyashan oyster reefs, China by Feng Luo, Feng Luo, Feng Luo, Zhipeng Chen, Hongbo Wu, Fei Zhu, Jingwei Zeng, Weimin Quan

“…In general, our study provided a paradigm for analyzing the degree of impact on oyster reefs, showed the advantages of hydrodynamic models in quantitatively analyzing impact factors, and had reliable results.…”
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Profile of bile acid subspecies is similar in blood and follicular fluid of cattle by Carina Blaschka, Alberto Sánchez‐Guijo, Stefan A. Wudy, Christine Wrenzycki

“…FF is an essential impacting factor on the oocyte quality and therefore resulting embryos. …”
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A Spatial Analysis Methodology Based on Lazy Ensembled Adaptive Associative Classifier and GIS For Examining the Influential Factors on Traffic Fatalities by Chong Zhai, Zheng Li, Feifeng Jiang, Jack J. Ma, Zherui Xu

“…This study combines the road-based GIS analysis and the results from association rule analysis to spatially analyze the relationships between the impact factors and the traffic fatalities. Specific suggestions on city management and traffic control were proposed thereafter.…”
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Improvement of Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Method for Single Bacterial Cell Analysis by Yingchun Yan, Yingchun Yan, Yong Nie, Liyun An, Liyun An, Yue-Qin Tang, Zimu Xu, Xiao-Lei Wu, Xiao-Lei Wu

“…To optimize the SERS enhancement method, the centrifugal force, method for preparing AgNPs, concentration of AgNPs, ionic strength of the solution used to suspend the cells, and density of the cells were chosen as impact factors and optimized through orthogonal experiments. …”
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Impact of Aerosol Mixing State and Hygroscopicity on the Lidar Ratio by Zhijie Zhang, Li Liu, Baomin Wang, Haobo Tan, Changxing Lan, Ye Wang, Pakwai Chan

“…In this study, we simulated the optical parameters to investigate the impact factors of the <i>LR</i> using a three-component optical aerosol assumption based on the Mie model. …”
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Incorporating the Filling–Spilling Feature of Depressions into Hydrologic Modeling by Lan Zeng, Haoyong Shen, Yali Cui, Xuefeng Chu, Jingli Shao

“…Surface depressions are one of the important impact factors of hydrologic processes and catchment responses. …”
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Construction of Air Quality Level Prediction Model Based on STEPDISC-PCA-BP by Min Liu, Hua Hu, Liqian Zhang, Yongan Zhang, Jia Li

“…The results showed that, at the significance level of 0.01, the STEPDISC method retained 9 significant impact factors. The PCA method made an orthogonal linear combination of the 9 factors to form the principal components, and the contribution of the top 5 principal components were 37.6%, 19.2%, 15.3%, 8.8%, and 7.7%. …”
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Evaluation of the Resilience of the Catering Industry in Hong Kong before and after the COVID-19 Outbreak Based on Point-of-Interest Data by Yijia Liu, Wenzhong Shi, Yue Yu, Linya Peng, Anshu Zhang

“…An ordinary least squares (OLS) regression model is adopted to identify impactful factors on resilience. The results reveal that the resilience of restaurants is quite stable in local central areas, but areas near the checking points at Shenzhen in mainland China are severely affected. …”
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Risk Evaluation of Navigation Environment Based on Dynamic Weight Model and Its Application by Shuzhe Chen, Lei Wu, Cheng Xie, Li Zhou, Rui Wang, Zhao Liu, Quanlong Zhu, Lianzhong Zhu

“…Finally, the dynamic risk evaluation is carried out by constructing a dynamic weight evaluation model for the safety risk of the navigation environment based on the weight fusion of subjective and objective impact factors. The waters under the jurisdiction of Sanya, China were selected for the study, and the navigation risk of the waters in the jurisdiction was calculated by using the dynamic weight evaluation model based on navigation risk. …”
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The Impacts of Urban Form on Carbon Emissions: A Comprehensive Review by Changlong Sun, Yongli Zhang, Wenwen Ma, Rong Wu, Shaojian Wang

“…The first is the budding stage, which is characterized by preliminary research on the atmospheric environmental impact factors. The second stage is the development stage, with urban areas becoming the leading research object of carbon theory. …”
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