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Open AccessIntranational synergies and trade-offs reveal common and differentiated priorities of sustainable development goals in China
Accelerating efforts for the Sustainable Development Goals requires understanding their synergies and trade-offs at the national and sub-national levels, which will help identify the key hurdles and opportunit...
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Open AccessGlobal transboundary synergies and trade-offs among Sustainable Development Goals from an integrated sustainability perspective
Domestic attempts to advance the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in a country can have synergistic and/or trade-off effects on the advancement of SDGs in other countries. Transboundary SDG interactions ca...
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Open AccessComplex relationships between soybean trade destination and tropical deforestation
Over the last few years, understanding of the effects of increasingly interconnected global flows of agricultural commodities on coupled human and natural systems has significantly improved. However, many impo...
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Open AccessPhysics-assisted machine learning methods for predicting the splitting tensile strength of recycled aggregate concrete
Recycled aggregate concrete (RAC) has become a popular building material due to its eco-friendly features, but the difficulty in predicting the crack resistance of RAC is increasingly impeding its application....
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Open AccessPhysical and virtual nutrient flows in global telecoupled agricultural trade networks
Global agricultural trade creates multiple telecoupled flows of nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P). The flows of physical and virtual nutrients along with trade have discrepant effects on natural resources in dif...
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Open AccessSocioeconomic and environmental effects of soybean production in metacoupled systems
Human–environment interactions within and across borders are now more influential than ever, posing unprecedented sustainability challenges. The framework of metacoupling (interactions within and across adjace...
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Author Correction: Assessing progress towards sustainable development over space and time
A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03479-2.
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Open AccessStructural changes in the oral microbiome of the adolescent patients with moderate or severe dental fluorosis
Dental fluorosis is a very prevalent endemic disease. Although oral microbiome has been reported to correlate with different oral diseases, there appears to be an absence of research recognizing any relationsh...
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Open AccessImpacts of irrigated agriculture on food–energy–water–CO2 nexus across metacoupled systems
Irrigated agriculture has important implications for achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. However, there is a lack of systematic and quantitative analyses of its impacts on food–energy–w...
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Open AccessThe spatial and temporal dynamics of global meat trade networks
Rapid increases in meat trade generate complex global networks across countries. However, there has been little research quantifying the dynamics of meat trade networks and the underlying forces that structure...
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Open AccessAnalysis of Clinical and Laboratory Findings of Idiopathic Sudden Sensorineural Hearing Loss
Idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL) is an emergency disease requiring immediate diagnosis and treatment. The incidence of ISSNHL in the Western countries’ population was estimated to 5–20 per...
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Assessing progress towards sustainable development over space and time
To address global challenges1–4, 193 countries have committed to the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)5. Quantifying progress towards achieving the SDGs is essential to track global efforts t...
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Open AccessInteractive spatial scale effects on species distribution modeling: The case of the giant panda
Research has shown that varying spatial scale through the selection of the total extent of investigation and the grain size of environmental predictor variables has effects on species distribution model (SDM) ...
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Open AccessEnhanced osteogenic proliferation and differentiation of human adipose-derived stem cells on a porous n-HA/PGS-M composite scaffold
This study explored the applicability, cellular efficacy, and osteogenic activities of porous nano-hydroxyapatite/Poly (glycerol sebacate)-grafted maleic anhydride (n-HA/PGS-g-M) composite scaffolds. Nuclear m...
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Open AccessEosinophil recruitment is dynamically regulated by interplay among lung dendritic cell subsets after allergen challenge
Eosinophil infiltration, a hallmark of allergic asthma, is essential for type 2 immune responses. How the initial eosinophil recruitment is regulated by lung dendritic cell (DC) subsets during the memory stage...
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Open AccessCrop** System Conversion led to Organic Carbon Change in China’s Mollisols Regions
Land use change driven by diet, globalization, and technology advancement have greatly influenced agricultural production and environment in the mollisols region of China, with a marked impact on the depletion...
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Open AccessCharacterization of ozone in the lower troposphere during the 2016 G20 conference in Hangzhou
Recently, atmospheric ozone pollution has demonstrated an aggravating tendency in China. To date, most research about atmospheric ozone has been confined near the surface, and an understanding of the vertical ...
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Open AccessTristetraprolin inhibits macrophage IL-27-induced activation of antitumour cytotoxic T cell responses
IFN-γ-producing cytotoxic T lymphocytes are essential for host defense against viral infection and cancer. Here we show that the RNA-binding tristetraprolin, encoded by Zfp36, is needed for CD8+ T-cell production...
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Open AccessClimate variability and trends at a national scale
Climate variability and trends have significant environmental and socioeconomic impacts. Global challenges such as food security, biodiversity loss, water scarcity and human health are affected by reference ev...
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Open Access“APEC Blue”: Secondary Aerosol Reductions from Emission Controls in Bei**g
China implemented strict emission control measures in Bei**g and surrounding regions to ensure good air quality during the 2014 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit. We conducted synchronous aeroso...
