Equitable transportation and resilience hubs: Analysis of underserved population needs, usage, and travel behaviour by Thayanne G.M. Ciriaco, Syeda Narmeen Zehra, Veronica Wambura, Stephen D. Wong

“…Extreme weather events and other hazardous events often require a range of strategies to safely shelter people, distribute resources, and facilitate recovery efforts. …”
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Catastrophic and violent tornadoes: a detailed review of physical-mathematical models by Sergey A. Arsen’yev, Lev V. Eppelbaum

“… Significant progress has been made in forecasting hazardous atmospheric events such as catastrophic and severe tornadoes (level EF3-EF5). …”
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Utilizing the subtractive proteomics approach to design ensemble vaccine against Candida lusitaniae for immune response stimulation; a bioinformatics study. by Habiba Naz, Rimsha Timotheous, Muhammad Farhan Sarwar, Tariq Nadeem, Mudassar Fareed Awan, Sajed Ali, Sophia Awais, Irfan Ahmed

“…Vaccine is one of those efficient therapeutic agents which stimulates immune response and prevents a certain infection to get hazardous. Keeping in view this very important concept, we have designed in-silico vaccine against C. lusitaniae by following the subtractive proteomics approach. …”
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Predicting nighttime black ice using atmospheric data for efficient winter road maintenance patrols by Jinhwan Jang

“…During winter, hazardous black ice can form anywhere on roads under various weather conditions, including fog, frost, rime ice, freezing rain, and snow. …”
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Trajectory of the arterial-alveolar oxygen gradient in COPD for a decade. by Kazuma Nagata, Susumu Sato, Kiyoshi Uemasu, Naoya Tanabe, Atsuyasu Sato, Shigeo Muro, Toyohiro Hirai

“…Kaplan-Meier analyses, and multivariate Cox proportional hazards analysis revealed that both baseline A-aDO2 and ΔA-aDO2 were significantly associated with the development of CRF. …”
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Study on the LES of Premixed Gas Flame Dynamics in a Weak Confinement Structure: The Influence of Continuous Obstacle Plates by X. Shao, J. Gao, B. Hao, B. Ai, Y. Han, Y. Wu, B. Guo

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Erratum to ‘Should post-operative stereotactic radiosurgery be the standard of care in Craniopharyngioma patients?’ [World Neurosurgery: X (22C) (2024) 100327] by Saurabh Gupta, Deepak Agrawal, Shweta Kedia, Shashank Sharad Kale

“…Kaplan–Meier analysis, and log-rank tests showed better 3-year PFS (92.3 % vs. 77.7 %, p = 0.03), and 3-year OS (97.1 % vs. 74.6 %, p = 0.009) for patients who received post-operative GKRS. Cox proportional-hazards showed post-operative GKRS (HR = 0.055, 95 % CI = 0.008–0.363) to be an independent prognostic factor for OS in craniopharyngioma patients. …”
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Global progress, challenges and strategies in eliminating public threat of viral hepatitis by Sihui Zhang, Fuqiang Cui

“…These actions promote the global goal of eliminating the public health hazards of viral hepatitis by 2030. Among the countries that have made remarkable progress in eliminating viral hepatitis policies, the key strategy is to simplify the diagnosis and treatment plan. …”
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Prevalence of Tactile Hallucination of Phone Vibration among Individuals Aged 18–22 Years by Tanisha Sunil Mali, Trupti Yadav

“…Background: Overuse of phones can lead to physiological health hazards. The repeated use of vibration mode leads to fake perception of device being vibrating when it is not. …”
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Chemicals That Disrupt the Endocrine System and Their Effects on Behavior by Yousaf Khan1, Abdul Sattar1, Syed Amin Ullah1, Zia-Ur-Rehman2, Hakimullah3, Madeeha Bibi4, Hina Sarfraz1, Anila Mukhtiar1

“…In the light of the above, there is dire need of research in this area so as to be familiar to the hazardous and health related issues in Humans caused by these disruptors and to find an alternative for the chemicals and items in order to save the humanity from the negative impacts of these disruptors. …”
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Real-Time Heterogeneous Collaborative Perception in Edge-Enabled Vehicular Environments by Samuel Thornton, Nithin Santhanam, Rajeev Chhajer, Sujit Dey

“…Using collaborative perception, the information obtained by vehicles with sensing capabilities can be expanded and improved, and older vehicles that lack external sensors and computing capabilities can be informed of potential hazards, opening the opportunity to improve traffic efficiency and safety on the roads. …”
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Health and associated economic benefits of reduced air pollution and increased physical activity from climate change policies in the UK by Heather Walton, David Dajnak, Mike Holland, Dimitris Evangelopoulos, Dylan Wood, Christian Brand, Nosha Assareh, Gregor Stewart, Andrew Beddows, Shawn YC Lee, Daniela Fecht, Yunzhe Liu, Bethan Davies, Anna Goodman, Tuan Vu, Sean Beevers

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Predicting cardiovascular disease and all-cause mortality using the lymphocyte-to-monocyte ratio: Insights from explainable machine learning models by Jichao Wu, Die Huang, Jiefang Li, Jingxing Yi, Yu Lei, Jun Yin

“…We employed various statistical methods, including weighted Cox proportional hazards models, restricted cubic spline models, and time-varying receiver operating characteristic curves, to examine the association between LMR and mortality risk. …”
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Inhaling arsenic aggravates airway hyperreactivity by upregulating PNEC-sourced 5-HT in OVA-induced allergic asthma by Xue Lu, Zhu-Xia Tan, Ya-Xin Yao, Ze-Yan Li, Yan-Yan Zhu, Qian-Qun Yang, Zhao Li, Kun Peng, Yan Wang, De-Xiang Xu

“…These results suggest that respiratory As exposure elevates airway hyperreactivity partially through upregulating PNEC-sourced 5-HT in OVA-induced allergic asthma, which provides significant insight about the hazards of environmental As exposure.…”
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Malnutrition risk, weight loss, and subsequent survival in patients listed for heart transplantation by Tae Kyung Yoo, MD, MS, Satoshi Miyashita, MD, Ariella Stein, MSCIS-HI, Michael Wu, BS, MPH, Lauren Parsly Read-Button, MPH, RD, LDN, Masashi Kawabori, MD, Greg S. Couper, MD, Edward Saltzman, MD, Amanda R. Vest, MBBS, MPH

“…We constructed Cox proportional hazards models and restricted cubic spline curves for each risk score at both HT listing and HT operation and inputted HT operation as a time-varying covariate for models commencing at listing. …”
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Impact of solid fuel use on asthma prognosis and consistent peak expiratory flow changes: Evidence from China by Yuexi Chen, Shuojia Xie, Xirong Chen, Xiaowen Zhong, Linhang Yang, Weitong Lin, Junfeng Huang, Ruchong Chen

“…The study applied logistic and linear regression for the cross-sectional data, Cox proportional hazards models and linear mixed effects methods were utilized to gauge the impact on mortality and PEF among subjects with asthma. …”
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Prospects for mine geological work in the intelligence age: Architecture of the intelligent geological guarantee technology system for mine exploitation by Yucheng XIA, Xueyang SUN, Lintian MIAO, Chen GUO, Rongjun DU

“…., the intelligent management subsystem for fundamental geological survey information, the intelligent prediction and early warning subsystem for geologic hazards in mines, the intelligent monitoring, prediction, and early warning subsystem for ecosystems in mining areas, the intelligent identification subsystem for favorable mining blocks, and the transparent mining face subsystem), as well as their core modules. …”
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Neonatal BCG vaccination and child survival in TB-exposed and TB-unexposed children: a prospective cohort study by Peter Aaby, Per Kallestrup, Christine Stabell Benn, Sanne M Thysen, Ane Fisker, Victor Francisco Gomes, Frauke Rudolf, Christian Wejse, Adam Roth

“…Children residing in the same house as a TB case were classified as TB-exposed from 3 months prior to case registration to the end of follow-up.Methods Using Cox-proportional hazards models with age as underlying time scale, we compared mortality of children with and without neonatal BCG between October 2003 and September 2017.Main outcome measure HR for neonatal BCG compared with no neonatal BCG by TB-exposure status.Results Among the 39 421 children who entered the analyses, 3022 (8%) had observation time as TB-exposed. …”
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Effect of soil-groundwater system on migration and transformation of organochlorine pesticides: A review by Haohao Li, Lin Huo, Rui Zhang, Xuefan Gu, Gang Chen, Ying Yuan, Wenbing Tan, Kunlong Hui, Yu Jiang

“…However, most studies on the pollution of OCPs have focused on the aboveground or surface water environment, and little consideration has been given to the pollution and hazards of OCPs to the deep soil and groundwater environment, especially the effects of different environmental factors on the transport and transformation of OCPs in soil-groundwater. …”
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THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ZINC AND RISEDRONATE ON BONE TURNOVER IN RAT MODEL OF OSTEOPOROSIS ASSESSED WITH THE EXPRESSION OF β-CROSSLAPS by Adam Fajar, Mohammad Rizal Chaidir, Dicky Mulyadi, Ahmad Ramdan, Yoyos Dias Ismiarto

“…Unfortunately, long term therapy can cause hazardous adverse effect to the patient. Previous research in rat model osteoporosis, Zinc have a potential effect to prevent and rebuild bone structure with osteoblast stimulation in bone formation and osteoclast activity inhibition in bone resorption by increasing Osteoprotegerin production, that inhibit bond between RANKL and RANK. …”
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