Evidence on the association between dietary component, dietary pattern and nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) is scarce.A major challenge is the high degree of correlation among dietary constituents.We aimed to identify dietary pattern associated with NPC and to illustrate the dose-response relationship between the identified dietary pattern scores and
The distribution of functional traits within and across spatiotemporal scales has been used to quantify and infer the relative resilience across ecosystems.We use explicit spatial modeling to evaluate within- and cross-scale redundancy in headwater streams, an ecosystem type with a hierarchical and dendritic network structure.We assessed the cross-
The assessment of welfare in aquatic animals is currently under debate, especially concerning those kept by humans.The classic concept of animal welfare includes three elements: The emotional state of the organism (including the absence of negative experiences), the possibility of expressing normal behaviors, and the proper functioning of the organ
As energy demands and costs rise, enhancing energy efficiency in Food and Drink Cold Storage (FDCS) rooms is important for reducing expenses and achieving environmental sustainability ambitions.Forecasting electricity use in FDCSs can help optimise operations and minimise energy consumption by enabling door opening frequency, maintenance, and resto
The failure of a weak snow layer buried below cohesive slab layers is a necessary, but insufficient, condition for the release here of a dry-snow slab avalanche.The size of the crack in the weak layer must also exceed a critical length to propagate across a slope.In contrast to pioneering shear-based approaches, recent developments account for weak