The Changing and Predicted Trends in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Burden in China, the United States, and India from 1990 to 2030 by Guo B, Gan H, Xue M, Huang Z, Lin Z, Li S, Zheng P, Sun B

“…Smoking and ambient particulate matter pollution are the two most significant risk factors for COPD, while household air pollution from solid fuels and low temperatures are the least impactful factors in the United States and India, respectively. …”
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Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index Decomposition Based on Kaya Identity of GHG Emissions from Agricultural Sector in Baltic States by Daiva Makutėnienė, Dalia Perkumienė, Valdemaras Makutėnas

“…This paper investigates the GHG trends in agriculture from 1995 to 2019 and the driving forces of changes in GHG emissions from the agricultural sectors in the Baltic States (Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia), which are helpful for formulating effective carbon reduction policies and strategies. The impact factors have on GHG emissions was analysed by using the Logarithmic Mean Divisia Index (LMDI) method based on Kaya identity. …”
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Soil microbial community and physicochemical properties together drive soil organic carbon in Cunninghamia lanceolata plantations of different stand ages by Ye Yuan, Juan Li, Liang Yao

“…The effects of the main impact factors on SOC were investigated. The results showed that: the middle-aged plantation had significantly higher SOC (10.63 g kg−1) than the young plantation (5.33 g kg−1), and that of the mature plantation (7.83 g kg−1) was in between. …”
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The labor potential reproduction in depopulation period of 2019–2035 and the compensating role of migration by A. V. Topilin, O. D. Vorob’eva, A. S. Maksimova

“…To examine the dynamics of reproduction of labor potential and labor supply in Russia for the period up to 2035, depending on the impact factors of its reproduction: generation change (changes in the proportion of cohort, entering and leaving at the age composition of the labor potential), fertility and mortality rates, migration balance in the individual age cohorts.  …”
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Infant mortality in South Africa - distribution, associations and policy implications, 2007: an ecological spatial analysis by Sartorius Benn KD, Sartorius Kurt, Chirwa Tobias F, Fonn Sharon

“…The "novel" integration of determinant prevalence at the sub-district and coefficient estimates to estimate attributable fractions further elucidates the "high impact" factors in particular areas and has considerable potential to be applied in other locations. …”
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Investigating Global Trends in Open Access: The Influence of Policies, Culturalization, and Funds on the Future of Iran's Scientific Position by Ali Gazni, Forough Rahimi

“…Additionally, while journals with higher impact factors tend to publish more open access documents, the proportion of open access documents in journals with different citation degrees is relatively consistent.Conclusion: The future of open access will be affected by the approach of financial sponsors in science, publishers and universities and research centers, but sooner or later a large part of the articles will be published as open access, an issue that will affect the future of the country's scientific position, especially with regard to financial dimensions. …”
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Tracking Theory Building and Use Trends in Selected LIS Journals: More Research is Needed by Carol Perryman

“…Subjects – Two international journals, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (JASIST) and Library and Information Science Research (LISR) were selected based on their high ranking in the Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) impact factors. Two Korean journals, Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management (JKSIM) and Journal of the Korean Society for Library and Information Science (JKSLIS) were selected. …”
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Current situation and influencing factors of each turnover of kindergarten teachers – a questionnaire survey by Xiaoling Ren, Zhonglian Yan, Zedong Zhang, Jiewen Chen, Yun Tian

“…Kindergarten teachers reported basic information and the impact factors of their first, second, and third turnover through online questionnaires. …”
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Spatio-Temporal Patterns of NDVI and Its Influencing Factors Based on the ESTARFM in the Loess Plateau of China by Xinyi Fan, Peng Gao, Biqing Tian, Changxue Wu, Xingmin Mu

“…The study of the distribution patterns of vegetation and its impact factors has important guiding meaning for ecological construction in the region. …”
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Publication of Postgraduate Thesis in Pathology: An Introspection by Pooja Sharma Kala, AR Piyush, Hari Shankar Pandey, Naveen Thapliyal

“…The principal investigator was the first author in 81% of published theses. The mean impact factors of national and international journals were 0.696 and 3.532±1.828, respectively. …”
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A genetic variant in the promoter of lncRNA MALAT1 is related to susceptibility of ischemic stroke by Yan Wang, Xi-Xi Gu, Hua-Tuo Huang, Chun-Hong Liu, Ye-Sheng Wei

“…Logistic regression analysis identified some independent impact factors for IS including rs1194338 AC/AA, TC, TG, HDL-C, LDL-C, Apo-A1, Apo-B and NEFA (P < 0.05). …”
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Debris Flow Prediction Based on the Fast Multiple Principal Component Extraction and Optimized Broad Learning by Genqi Xu, Xin-E Yan, Ning Cao, Jing Ma, Guokun Xie, Lu Li

“…Aiming at the problems of low prediction accuracy and long prediction time in the current debris flow research, firstly, six debris flow impact factors were selected relying on the fast multiple principal component extraction (FMPCE) algorithm, including rainfall, slope gradient, gully bed gradient, relative height difference, soil moisture content and pore water pressure. …”
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Spatiotemporal Pattern Identification and Driving Mechanism of Urban Shrinkage in the Yellow River Basin from 2000 to 2020 by Wei Gao, Xinzheng Zhao, Jianwei Li, Dekang Zhang, Yang Rui, Tongsheng Li, Min Lei

“…The nighttime lighting dimension can reflect the structural shrinkage characteristics of the city more accurately and sensitively, and the representation of population loss is lagging. (4) The main impact factors and the intensity of urban shrinkage are the aggravated aging level, the declining level of industrial greening and intensification under market-driven economic structure adjustments, and the decreased natural growth rate in the population structure and public service facilities.…”
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Urban bird diversity conservation plan based on the systematic conservation planning approach - A case study of Beijing Ecological Cultivation Area by Jianqi Yu, Xiaoyan Ma, Li Feng

“…This paper quantifies the land costs, ecological values and human impact factors of the planning area in a comprehensive climate context with the theme of conserving urban bird diversity. …”
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Development of sustainable rural tourism at Sungai Sedim Amenity Forest, Kedah, Malaysia from a tourism stakeholders’ perspective by Che Aziz, Roslizawati

“…The social, economic and environment elements have been identified as the impact factors that contributed to the development of tourism activities at SSAF. …”
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Water Quality Characteristics and Source Analysis of Pollutants in the Maotiao River Basin (SW China) by Yinjiu Li, Qiuhua Li, Shulin Jiao, Chen Liu, Liuying Yang, Guojia Huang, Si Zhou, Mengshu Han, Anton Brancelj

“…Due to the influence of spatial scale, settlements have a small influence on the spatial distribution of water quality. Their impact factors were 0.38, −0.24, and −0.05, respectively. …”
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Baseline MRI-based radiomics model assisted predicting disease progression in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients with complete response after treatment by Dan Bao, Zhou Liu, Yayuan Geng, Lin Li, Haijun Xu, Ya Zhang, Lei Hu, Xinming Zhao, Yanfeng Zhao, Dehong Luo

“…The nine independent impact factors were entered into the nomogram. The calibration curves for probability of 3-year disease progression showed good agreement. …”
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A nomogram based on HBeAg, AST, and age to predict non-minimal liver inflammation in CHB patients with ALT <80 U/L by Lu Zhang, Xiaoyue Bi, Xiaoxue Chen, Luxue Zhang, Qiqiu Xiong, Weihua Cao, Weihua Cao, Yanjie Lin, Liu Yang, Tingting Jiang, Wen Deng, Shiyu Wang, Shuling Wu, Ruyu Liu, Yuanjiao Gao, Ge Shen, Min Chang, Hongxiao Hao, Mengjiao Xu, Leiping Hu, Yao Lu, Minghui Li, Minghui Li, Yao Xie, Yao Xie

“…Multivariate logistic regression analysis identified independent impact factors. A nomogram to predict significant liver inflammation was developed and validated.ResultsMultivariate logistic regression analysis showed that HBeAg, AST, and age were independent risk factors for predicting non-minimal liver inflammation in untreated CHB patients. …”
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Food-burying behavior in red imported fire ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Wenquan Qin, Xuan Chen, Linda M. Hooper-Bùi, Jiacheng Cai, Lei Wang, Zhaohui Sun, Xiujun Wen, Cai Wang

“…The red imported fire ants, Solenopsis invicta Buren, is an invasive pest in many areas of the world that usually performing food-burying during the foraging processes. However, the impacted factors and measureable patterns of this behavior is largely unknown. …”
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Spatial-temporal pattern and influencing factors of tourism ecological security in Huangshan City by Jingxuan Ma, Jingxuan Ma, Jinhe Zhang, Jinhe Zhang, Feng Sun, Feng Sun, Chenxi Zou, Chenxi Zou, Tianchi Ma, Tianchi Ma

“…The study focuses on the “characteristics of the impact factors on tourism ecological security at different levels” of tourism ecological security that have been neglected in the previous literature. …”
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