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Ultra-processed foods (UPFs) represent one of the major sources of industrial food additives (IFAs). The increasing consumption of UPFs has determined an enhancement of dietary exposure to IFAs, including phosphorus, sodium and potassium-based compou...

Photovoltaic applications require stable output voltage regulation across a wide input voltage range and varying load conditions. The Zeta converter offers advantages for these applications; however, its fourth-order, switched, nonlinear dynamics cre...

Coffee husk and disposable surgical masks are contrasting feedstocks for thermochemical co-processing. This study examined how blend ratio and heating rate affect non-additive mass-loss behavior during co-pyrolysis under nitrogen. Thermogravimetric a...

Hydrogels are an important class of biomaterials due to their high water content, structural versatility, and ability to interact with biological environments [...]

Cloud data storage and retrieval systems use attribute-based cryptographic primitives to obtain fine-grained access control, data-owner anonymity, and search-result verifiability without a trusted online authority. The schemes that achieve these prop...

High-density polyethylene (HDPE) geomembrane composite cutoff walls are used to limit groundwater flow and contaminant migration, but panel joints can form localized transport pathways. The unresolved question is how predefined interlocking configura...

Food-associated xenobiotics may influence innate immune responses, but the relevance of experimental findings to human dietary exposure remains uncertain. This narrative review critically examines evidence concerning imazalil, tert-butylhydroquinone...

Background. The mesiodens is a supernumerary tooth located at the midline of the maxilla and represents the most common form of hyperdontia. When symptomatic or threatening the eruption or alignment of adjacent permanent incisors, surgical removal is...

Heat stress poses a critical threat to dairy cattle productivity, fertility and welfare, yet the genetic mechanisms underlying individual variation in thermotolerance remain poorly understood. While previous studies have focused predominantly on miRN...

The present study introduces a two-parameter general-shift Lucas basis from the classical Lucas family via an affine argument transformation, which then forms the basis of a spectral collocation approach for the numerical treatment of nonlinear time-...

Last-mile delivery robots frequently navigate pedestrian-rich local corridors, where sensing, tracking, communication, and computation delays can make pedestrian observations stale and degrade collision-risk estimation. This paper develops a delay-aw...

Epimedium is a traditional herb that has been investigated for its potential osteogenic and bone-regenerative effects, yet systematic analyses of its multi-component, multi-target mechanisms in bone metabolism and tissue engineering applications are...

Background & Aims: Accurate assessment of hydration status is particularly relevant in hospitalized patients receiving parenteral support in whom fluid disturbances are common and may be associated with adverse outcomes. However, the prognostic s...

Colletotrichum camelliae, the primary causative agent of anthracnose, severely threatens oil-tea camellia (Camellia oleifera) cultivation. Microbial lipopeptides are efficient, eco-friendly secondary metabolites that exhibit broad-spectrum antifungal...

L-band Vegetation Optical Depth (VOD) retrievals in tropical forest almost always use the $\tau$–$\omega$ model, which parameterizes canopy scattering with an effective single-scattering albedo and usually neglects higher-order scattering. This w...

This paper proposes a multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) framework for autonomous trajectory tracking of the TAT Nasnas Mk.1 fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), using a nonlinear six-degree-of-freedom (6-DOF) model implemented in MATLAB/...

Background: Extraspinal sacrococcygeal ependymoma is a rare pediatric neoplasm that frequently presents as a superficial sacrococcygeal mass, closely resembling benign conditions such as pilonidal disease or cysts. As a result, preoperative diagnosis...

Frailty is highly prevalent in patients with heart failure (HF) and frequently coexists with malnutrition, sarcopenia, cachexia, and obesity, creating substantial challenges for nutritional assessment and management. These conditions overlap clinical...

When I began working on RNA, non-coding transcripts were still widely dismissed as transcriptional noise [...]

Early detection of fine cracks is crucial for preventing structural failures in civil engineering. Conventional manual inspection approaches for structural surface cracks often suffer from limited operational efficiency and inevitable subjective bias...

Industrial heritage adaptive reuse depends partly on public support for conservation, cultural continuity, and continued use. However, how visitors’ overall experience relates to such support remains insufficiently explained. Drawing on the Sti...

The firefighting capacity of water distribution networks following earthquakes is essential for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals on resilient infrastructure and sustainable communities. Isolating broken pipes to curb leakage can preserve w...

The bovine Toll-like receptor 2 (TLR2) R152Q substitution lies in an extracellular leucine-rich repeat domain and may alter pathogen-associated molecular pattern recognition, but its association with neutrophil function remains unknown. We genotyped...

Small heat shock proteins (sHSPs) are involved in a wide range of abiotic stresses, yet the functional roles of sHSP family genes in rubber tree salt tolerance remain largely uncharacterized. In this study, HbsHSP23.8a, a novel sHSP gene from rubber...

Background/Objectives: Dietary interventions are central to irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) management, but evidence directly comparing a low-FODMAP diet (LF), adapted NICE dietary advice (NICE), and adapted NICE dietary advice combined with intermitt...

Background: Retained subretinal perfluorocarbon liquid (PFCL) is a potentially vision-threatening complication of retinal detachment surgery. No standardized surgical approach exists. This study describes an internal limiting membrane (ILM) flap-assi...

MgCaZn metallic glasses have attracted interest as potential materials for biodegradable biomedical scaffolds due to their combination of metallic glass properties and biodegradability. In this work, molecular dynamics simulations are employed to inv...

Fintech adoption increasingly takes place in digital environments where users must balance the convenience of financial technologies against persistent risks of fraud, scams, account misuse, and unauthorized access. This study examines the associatio...

Multifractal analysis has evolved from a formalism for heterogeneous scaling into a broader framework for investigating structure, dynamics, representation, computation, and learning systems. This critical integrative review synthesizes methodologica...

We study a Durrmeyer–Beta-type positive linear operator on the half-line, constructed from rising-factorial weights and a normalized beta-prime kernel. Exact raw moments through degree four and the corresponding central moments are derived unde...

FastSAM is a lightweight general-purpose segmentation model built upon YOLOv8-seg as its backbone network, which demonstrates several advantages including fast inference speed, low deployment cost, and high training efficiency. However, it suffers fr...

Traditional Tujia wooden dwellings are important carriers of regional architectural culture, yet research on their indoor thermal environment and climate-adaptive optimization remains limited. This study investigates a typical “‘一&...

Background and Objectives: Nonunion remains an important clinical concern after nonoperative treatment of humeral shaft fractures. Although several patient- and fracture-related variables have been proposed as determinants of healing, their independe...

The integration of large amounts of uncertainties in renewable energies into integrated electricity and heating systems gives rise to new challenges and threatens security. This paper presents a distributionally robust risk dispatch (DRRD) model desi...

The recovery of areas affected by mining tailings is one of the main challenges for the sustainability of the mining industry, particularly under increasing water scarcity. This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of growing maize (Zea mays L.) i...

This paper presents the current status of nucleosynthesis for heavy elements beyond strontium, focusing specifically on the mass range 88 ≤ A ≤ 142. We perform a critical comparison of Solar System abundance contributions from two independent p...

To investigate the load-bearing behavior and damage evolution characteristics of the grout–sandstone composite structure formed by the consolidated grout and overlying key stratum after bed-separation grouting under mining-induced stress distur...

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) equalization is essential for robust coherent optical transmission. However, conventional $2\times 2$ complex-valued equalizers provide limited compensation for in-phase and quadrature (IQ) imbalance, degrading sig...

Regulation can make a system’s behavior much simpler despite changing disturbances. We show when this simplification requires the regulator to contain a model of its world. If the simplification is large and little additional information is nee...

Conventional polyacrylamide-based plugging hydrogels suffer from severe performance deterioration caused by dehydration-induced shrinkage and subsequent gel migration under high-temperature reservoir conditions. Most existing modification strategies...

Single crystals of bis(thiourea) lead dinitrate (BTD) were successfully grown by the slow evaporation solution growth technique. Single-crystal X-ray diffraction analysis revealed that BTD crystallizes in the centrosymmetric monoclinic crystal system...

Wetlands sustain biodiversity and regulate hydrology, yet their internal functional heterogeneity is still poorly understood. Using a two-stage approach, we surveyed ten plots along the upper, middle, and lower reaches for plant communities, abovegro...

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Multiple Sclerosis (MS) are clinically and biologically distinct entities, yet research in both fields increasingly examines how genetic susceptibility may interact with environmental and metabolic exposures ov...

Background: Excessive salt intake is a major modifiable risk factor for hypertension and cardiovascular diseases. Caregivers of preschool children play an important role in shaping children’s dietary behaviors. This study aimed to evaluate the...

Ductile behavior of the materials applied in seismic structural design is highly appreciated. During damaging response, the structures shall form well controlled plastic hinges. The localization of these hinges is critical for ensuring the integrity...

Water use and its environmental responses in artificially planted sand–fixing shrubs in arid and semi–arid regions are important for evaluating the sustainability of ecological restoration. This study investigated artificially planted Sal...

Milk-based cocoa beverages are susceptible to physical instability, particularly sedimentation and creaming, because of the poor dispersibility and structural characteristics of cocoa particles. This study investigated the synergistic effects of gell...

Promoting farmers’ adoption of ecological aquaculture practices is important for the environmental sustainability and green transformation of aquaculture. Using survey data from 278 aquaculture farmers in Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China, this...

To investigate electrochemical migration (ECM) and related failure of Ag electrodes in negative temperature coefficient (NTC) sensors under complex environments, screen-printed coplanar Ag electrodes were tested by means of real-time resistance monit...

Australian native medicinal plants represent a largely untapped resource for previously undescribed bioactive compounds with unique chemical scaffolds. This review examines recent advances in the identification, characterisation, and therapeutic pote...