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Environmental Studies
Doris Pivac, Miodrag Roic, Josip Krizanovic, Rinaldo Paar
Summary: This study examined the availability of cadastral documentation through catalog services and found that the largest percentage of documents is available through the discovery service. However, there was a lack of application of geoinformation metadata standards in these documents.
Article
Biochemical Research Methods
Jouni Luoma, Katerina Nastou, Tomoko Ohta, Harttu Toivonen, Evangelos Pafilis, Lars Juhl Jensen, Sampo Pyysalo
Summary: The recognition of species names in text is crucial for biomedical text mining, but current methods, including deep learning, have poor performance. This study introduces the S1000 corpus, which greatly improves the accuracy of species name recognition (F-score = 93.1%) for both deep learning and dictionary-based approaches.
Article
Chemistry, Medicinal
Marta Serafini, Sarah Cargnin, Alberto Massarotti, Gian Cesare Tron, Tracey Pirali, Armando A. Genazzani
Summary: This article explains the process of assigning common drug names by the World Health Organization and analyzes chemical entities from 2000 to 2021, describing changes in chemical structure, newer therapeutic targets (such as kinases), significant increases in the use of fluorine and heterocycles, as well as progressive increases in molecular weight. These analyses also reveal small signs of change, such as the rise in spirocyclic scaffolds and small rings, and the emergence of unconventional structural moieties that may predict future trends.
JOURNAL OF MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY
(2021)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Ahmet Ayaz, Ozcan Ozyurt, Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi, Said A. Salloum, Anna Shutaleva, Fahad Alblehai, Mohammed Habes
Summary: This study analyzed research patterns and trends within the gamification domain using topic modeling. The findings identified thirteen distinct topics, with health training, enhancing learning with technology, and game design framework being the most prominent.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Phillip J. Haubrock, Ross N. Cuthbert, Emma J. Hudgins, Robert Crystal-Ornelas, Melina Kourantidou, Desika Moodley, Chunlong Liu, Anna J. Turbelin, Boris Leroy, Franck Courchamp
Summary: Invasive alien species (IAS) pose a growing global ecological problem, with increasing economic costs and research interest. The costs of IAS, as well as the literature reporting these costs, have been found to increase significantly over time. These trends vary globally, with North America and Oceania accumulating the most cost literature, and Oceania, Europe, Africa, and North America experiencing the steepest increase in monetary costs. Certain taxonomic groups, such as flatworms, mammals, flowering plants, and vascular plants, show significantly increasing costs. These findings highlight the importance of understanding regional differences in cost reporting and the need for continued research on the impacts of biological invasions.
SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
(2022)
Article
Zoology
Carolina Reyes-Puig, Emilio Mancero
Summary: This study analyzed the descriptions of 591 Pristimantis species published to date, examining various details such as authorship, language, and country. The findings reveal the increasing participation of Latin American researchers since the 1990s, despite John D. Lynch and William E. Duellman being the most prolific authors. English is the most commonly used language for descriptions, followed by Spanish. Additionally, Ecuador stands out as the primary country for species descriptions, while female representation in the field remains low.
Article
Zoology
Stefano Mammola, Nathan Viel, Dylan Amiar, Atishya Mani, Christophe Herve, Stephen B. Heard, Diego Fontaneto, Julien Petillon
Summary: Based on a study of 48,464 spider etymologies, it was found that taxonomists' naming of species is deeply influenced by their cultural background, and naming practices have changed over time and space. The use of etymologies referring to morphology was most common in absolute terms, but their use declined over time while etymologies dedicated to people and geography increased. There was also a significant increase in etymologies referring to pop culture and other cultural aspects in the 2000-2020 period, particularly in Europe and the Americas.
ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Computer Science, Information Systems
Alfonso Quarati, Juliana E. Raffaghelli
Summary: Open research data (ORD) are important for scientific transparency, but they often suffer from low usage due to data friction. This study analyzed ORD published on the Figshare repository and found that most ORD are underutilized regardless of their metadata quality.
JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Lukas Gudmundsson, Julien Boulange, Hong X. Do, Simon N. Gosling, Manolis G. Grillakis, Aristeidis G. Koutroulis, Michael Leonard, Junguo Liu, Hannes Muller Schmied, Lamprini Papadimitriou, Yadu Pokhrel, Sonia Seneviratne, Yusuke Satoh, Wim Thiery, Seth Westra, Xuebin Zhang, Fang Zhao
Summary: The study analyzed global river flow data from 7250 observatories and found that anthropogenic climate change has an impact on river flow. The research showed that some regions are consistently experiencing drying trends, while others are consistently experiencing wetting trends.
Article
Plant Sciences
Daljeet S. Dhaliwal, Elizabeth A. Ainsworth, Martin M. Williams
Summary: The study found that over time, there has been an increase in per-area marketable ear mass at high densities, while per-plant yield remains unchanged at different density levels. Crate yield has improved for modern sweet corn hybrids, but processing sweet corn yield metrics have shown limited improvement. Plant architecture alone cannot accurately predict the PDT of individual hybrids.
FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Adeel Ahmad, Jiahua Zhang, Barjeece Bashir, Kashif Mahmood, Faisal Mumtaz
Summary: Studying the interaction between vegetation cover change and climate is important for understanding ecosystem stability. This study used the NDVI and climatic factors to investigate the relationship between vegetation and climate, and tracked spatiotemporal changes in vegetation in Pakistan from 2000 to 2020. The results showed an overall increase in vegetation in Pakistan, with the Punjab Province showing the highest significant vegetation trend. The response of vegetation to climate change varied by region, with rainfall having a stronger relationship with annual NDVI than temperature. The Hurst exponent values indicated consistent vegetation trends in the future, especially in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Review
Environmental Sciences
Nur Syamimi Mohamad, Ling Ling Tan, Nurul Izzati Mohd Ali, Nur-Fadhilah Mazlan, Edison Eukun Sage, Nurul Izzaty Hassan, Choo Ta Goh
Summary: The current study analyzes the research structures and trends in scholarly publications on the status of zinc in public health in order to provide a roadmap for future research. Journal articles published between 1978 and 2022 were included in the analysis. The findings reveal discipline heterogeneity, times cited and publications over time, and citation reports.
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND POLLUTION RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Engineering, Civil
Trevor Allen, Hadi Ghasemi, Jonathan D. Griffin
Summary: This article examines various area-based tests of long-term seismic hazard forecasts for Australia. By using observed seismicity, ShakeMaps were calculated for earthquakes that were predicted to generate moderate-to-high levels of ground shaking in Australia over the past 50 years. A composite ShakeMap was created to extract the maximum peak ground acceleration observed during this time period. The results were compared with four generations of Australian seismic hazard maps, and it was found that the recent hazard model had the closest match to the target annual exceedance probability.
EARTHQUAKE SPECTRA
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
N. M. Kuznetsov, V. V. Kovaleva, S. Belousov, S. N. Chvalun
Summary: This review systematically organizes the basic principles, physical foundations, rheological description methods, and modern research trends and directions of electrorheology. It also extensively discusses the compositions, types of fillers, operational characteristics, and application areas of electrorheological fluids. Researchers are particularly focused on materials with low concentration dispersed phase and a transition from viscous to elastic behavior under an electric field.
MATERIALS TODAY CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Article
Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
Sanaa Hobeichi, Gab Abramowitz, Jason P. Evans
Summary: Evapotranspiration plays a crucial role in linking the hydrological, energy, and carbon cycles on land, and understanding climate extremes. Two new versions of the Derived Optimal Linear Combination Evapotranspiration (DOLCE) product have been developed with observationally constrained uncertainty estimates, higher resolution, and extended temporal coverage. Novel ET climatology clusters have been derived based on the magnitude and variability of ET at each land location, showing robust increases in ET across most regions despite some areas exhibiting decreasing trends. The new datasets can be used for benchmarking global ET estimates and examining ET trends.
HYDROLOGY AND EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCES
(2021)
