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Open AccessClinical clues for suspecting wild-type transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis in patients with monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance: a case report
Myeloproliferative disorders, including monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance (MGUS), are often associated with amyloid light-chain (AL)-type cardiac amyloidosis (CA) but occasionally with wild-ty...
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Clinical features, future cardiac events, and prognostic factors following percutaneous coronary intervention in young female patients
The proportion of young females among the patients who undergo percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) is relatively small, and information on their clinical characteristics is limited. This study investigate...
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The ridge line of left pulmonary vein isolation from left atrial appendage can subsequently increase the completion rate of the mitral isthmus block line
Mitral isthmus (MI) ablation for mitral flutter is technically difficult, and incomplete block line is not uncommon. The objective of this study is to investigate the effect of the ridge line of left pulmonary...
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Bridging Peace and Sustainability Amidst Global Transformations
Researchers, practitioners, and policymakers have long recognized the mutually reinforcing nature of peace and sustainability. This recognition has been reinforced by the unanimous adoption of the 2030 Agenda ...
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Integrated Approaches to Peace and Sustainability
Peace and sustainability are already widely recognized in academic discourses as intrinsically related. Despite this, there is still a lack of integrated approaches to peace and sustainability in policy and pr...
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Open AccessHow strong is demand for public transport service in Nepal? A case study of Kathmandu using a choice-based conjoint experiment
A public transport system is the most efficient and equitable solution to the challenges of urban mobility and climate change. To improve public transport, technological innovations, policy interventions, and ...
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Open AccessComparison of the empirical linear ablation and low voltage area-guided ablation in addition to pulmonary vein isolation in patients with persistent atrial fibrillation: a propensity score-matched analysis
The efficacy of pulmonary vein isolation (PVI) alone is not guaranteed for persistent atrial fibrillation (PeAF), and it is unclear which type of ablation approach should be applied in addition to PVI. This st...
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The sustainability–peace nexus: why is it important?
Sustainability and peace have long been recognized within academic and policy circles as intrinsically interrelated. Although there are some studies that examine impacts of sustainability on peace and vice ver...
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A co-designed heuristic guide for investigating the peace-sustainability nexus in the context of global change
The interlinkages between peace and sustainability are embedded in several international agreements and declarations and recognized by various research studies. However, the characteristics of their bidirectio...
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Three decades of research on climate change and peace: a bibliometrics analysis
Over the past 3 decades, a vast body of research has been published on the interactions between climate change and events that undermine negative peace. Consequently, several review papers have been published ...
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A quantitative evaluation of soil mass held by tree roots
Tree roots hold soil that is dramatically heavier than the tree biomass, wet or dried. This soil might compensate for the imbalance between above- and belowground mass.
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Soil carbon stock changes due to afforestation in Japan by the paired sampling method on an equivalent mass basis
To identify the soil carbon stock changes from croplands/grasslands to forestlands in Japan, we compared the soil carbon stock of a cropland/grassland with that of an adjacent forestland at 22 different sites....
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: A dataset of 137Cs activity concentration and inventory in forests contaminated by the Fukushima accident
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-021-00855-5.
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The literature landscape on peace–sustainability nexus: A scientometric analysis
Academics, policymakers, and practitioners have long considered peace and sustainability to be fundamentally linked. However, despite the increased attention paid toward the intersection of peace and sustainab...
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Soil-Forming Factors
Because the current of Japan ranges from subtropical to subarctic, also varies from hyperthermic to frigid. The ranges from less than 1000 to over 2500 mm. The climate also affected the development of ...
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Open AccessA dataset of 137Cs activity concentration and inventory in forests contaminated by the Fukushima accident
The majority of the area contaminated by the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident is covered with forests. We developed a dataset for radiocaesium (137Cs) in trees, soil, and mushrooms measured at numer...
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Water for life: ceaseless routine efforts for collecting drinking water in remote mountainous villages of Nepal
The objective of this research was to investigate the current status of water-collection behaviours and their determinants, which are associated with the burden of collecting water. This research was focused o...
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Low-Temperature Sintering of Gahnite Ceramic Using Cu-Nb-O Additive and Evaluation of Dielectric and Thermal Properties
Low-temperature sintering of gahnite (ZnAl2O4) ceramic, which has the potential to exhibit higher thermal conductivity than alumina but sinters densely at a moderate temperature of approximately 1500°C, has been ...