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Nigeria bears a substantial burden of prostate cancer, which represents the leading cause of cancer mortality and the most frequently diagnosed malignancy among its male population [...].

Microgrid scheduling is a nonlinear, multimodal, and highly constrained optimization problem that requires effective coordination among renewable generation, controllable distributed generators, energy storage, and grid interaction. To improve the se...

Hydrogel-based flexible sensors have emerged as a promising platform at the intersection of materials science, flexible electronics, and biomedical engineering, owing to their tissue-like mechanical compliance, tunable ionic conductivity, and versati...

Post-COVID-19 balance and postural control alterations have been reported after SARS-CoV-2 infection, but individual-level phenotyping remains challenging because post-acute sequelae are heterogeneous and often lack clear clinical ground truths. We a...

Collaborating with service users with lived experience of systems and processes, including the Criminal Justice System, can help tailor services, which in turn might increase accessibility, engagement, and satisfaction. Despite domestic abuse survivo...

The red-claw crayfish, Cherax quadricarinatus, is a commercially valuable freshwater aquaculture species, with muscle flavor representing a core trait driving consumer preference and market value. Under identical farming conditions, same-batch crayfi...

This article studies how narrativity, performativity and visuality are employed in Shakespeare comics: single-volume adaptations of individual Shakespeare plays in comic book, graphic novel or manga form. The cases studied include two Classics Illust...

Accurate diagnosis of locoregional spread in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) is critical for prognosis and treatment planning. However, the currently available pre-surgical staging modalities often fail to detect occult nodal metastasis...

The ethical risks associated with generative large language models (GLLMs) raise concerns about their implications for corporate social responsibility (CSR). Drawing on firm-year observations for Chinese A-share companies over 2015–2024, we inv...

Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM)-based hydrogels are “smart” materials of great interest and demand, primarily in a variety of biomedical applications, due to their LCST close to physiological temperature. The basic biomedical applica...

Air pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHGs) share some anthropogenic emission sources. However, their source-category contributions, city-level emission magnitudes, and spatial patterns are not fully consistent. Therefore, universal co-control effects...

Chronic wounds remain a challenging medical problem due to the involvement of multiple biological processes that can delay normal tissue repair. Medicinal plants may contain diverse bioactive compounds with potential relevance for wound management. H...

Establishing data continuity across satellite missions is essential for multi-decadal ocean color time-series. This study presents an integration framework to achieve radiometric harmonization and spectral continuity between the First and Second Geos...

Background/Objectives: Caregiver burden is common among family caregivers providing home-based care and may be associated with anticipatory grief (i.e., the emotional response to an expected loss before death), family-needs satisfaction, and care-rel...

White-collar crime causes major economic and social harm, yet research on its psychological mechanisms remains fragmented across criminology, behavioral ethics, accounting and finance. To synthesize research on cognitive biases and moral-regulatory m...

Since different geographical origins of black beans have different nutritional and economic values, their classification is of great significance in the field of agriculture. Therefore, this study aims to develop a classification model for black bean...

Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) is a major pathogen responsible for diarrhea and mortality in piglets, causing substantial economic losses to the swine industry. Its pathogenicity relies on the synergistic action of colonization factors and e...

The digital transformation of engineering education has created new opportunities to support laboratory learning through continuous formative assessment. However, digital technologies are frequently implemented as isolated tools rather than as compon...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the delivery of mental health services, yet public trust in AI-based psychological counseling remains a significant challenge. Drawing on a “technology–context–trust” framework, thi...

The widespread use of Computer-Aided Learning Platforms (CALPs) has led to several cybersecurity issues, like illegal access, data breaches, privacy violations, insecure communications, and service disruptions. Deciding on a safe educational platform...

Blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum) is rich in polyphenols and is known for its antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties, yet its processing byproducts (pomace) remain underutilized. This study aimed to develop and characterize R. nigrum pomace extract-l...

Background and Aims: Currently, no standard approach exists for substrate ablation in persistent atrial fibrillation (AF). This study aimed to assess whether repeat pulmonary vein isolation (Re-PVI) plus targeted substrate ablation improves long-term...

Running-specific prostheses are widely used in Paralympic sport and their performance assessment under real running conditions requires wearable monitoring systems capable of capturing both prosthesis dynamics and athlete kinematics. Existing solutio...

Membership inference attacks (MIAs) determine whether a sample was used to train a target model. Existing attacks often require abundant auxiliary data or many reference models, which may be unavailable in restricted services. We propose a meta-learn...

Maternal embryonic leucine zipper kinase (MELK) is a cell cycle-regulated serine/threonine kinase frequently overexpressed in human malignancies that has been controversially pursued as an anticancer target. Here we applied an integrated computationa...

The mathematical constants π and e are irrational and transcendental numbers whose infinite, non-repeating decimal expansions mimic randomness. This study investigates potential underlying structures within these sequences by treating their digits...

Existing and prospective maritime carbon-pricing regimes, together with uncertain renewable generation, complicate the low-carbon operation of shipboard integrated energy systems (SIES), particularly when network voltages and coupled electrical, heat...

Solar-induced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) provides a new pathway for the accurate estimation of gross primary productivity (GPP) by directly probing vegetation photosynthetic functioning, but mechanistic estimation is still constrained by the diff...

Background: Glucocorticoids (GCs) remain the cornerstone of polymyalgia rheumatica (PMR) management, but their cumulative toxicity necessitates effective GC-sparing strategies. Recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating targeted therapies...

This study compares the environmental conditions and hydrometeor characteristics of successive light hail and moderate rain showers produced by two independent convective cells at Guiyang Airport on 11 April 2025. Automatic weather observations, micr...

Nutritional estimation pipelines built on large language models are entering biomarker research, but free-text meal descriptions have no ground truth, so outputs cannot be validated against a reference standard. What can be established without one is...

Accurate representation of frequency-dependent cable parameters is essential for evaluating power losses and series-voltage effects in medium-voltage wind-farm collection networks. This paper develops a MATLAB-based electromagnetic framework that der...

Accurate kiwifruit counting is a core technical prerequisite for smart orchards to achieve automated fruit thinning, intelligent harvesting, and yield prediction. However, factors such as small fruit size, severe occlusion, and scale variation in com...

The effects of shading with pearl- and red-colored nets on the essential oil content, yield per hectare, chemical composition, and antioxidant potential of rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) were evaluated in comparison with plants grown under non-...

We study the monotone variational inclusion $0\in \Phi \left(x\right)+\psi \left(x\right)$ on a finite-dimensional Hadamard manifold $\mathcal{M}$, where $\Phi$ is a single-valued monotone vector field and $\psi$ is maximal monotone. Two features distinguish the present work from the e...

There is renewed interest in the phenomenon of limiting shear stress (LSS); an essential component of friction modeling in elastohydrodynamic lubrication (EHL), perhaps because it is thought to be detectable and measurable by a simple friction measur...

Vehicle-level battery labels paired with many charging records create a weakly supervised rare-event problem. We evaluated a two-level multiple-instance framework on 191 vehicles (184 normal and seven source-coded abnormal) from the public EVBattery...

Sustained neurogenesis underlies retinal regeneration in teleosts, but is largely absent in mammals, making comparative studies of closely related fish species a powerful approach to uncover regulatory mechanisms and evolutionary constraints. Environ...

The increasing use of multi-material automotive structures has intensified the demand for reliable joining technologies capable of integrating lightweight aluminum alloys with ultra-high-strength steels. This study investigated the formation mechanis...

Background/Objectives: Plasmid-mediated dissemination of antimicrobial resistance genes complicates the control of bacterial infections. Identifying bacterial hosts likely to harbour these genes could guide genomic surveillance before such associatio...

Technical-support and engineering knowledge services must decide whether one selected passage is sufficient or additional retrieved evidence should enter the generation prompt. Aggregate accuracy and mean context size conceal whether expansion recove...

Background and Objectives: Squamous cell tumors arise from squamous epithelial cells. Polymorphisms in the FOXP3 gene may influence malignancy susceptibility. This study evaluated the potential association of FOXP3 rs3761548 (−3279 A/C) and rs2...

Significant advancements in, and increased access to, antiretroviral therapy (ART) have substantially reduced the risk of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV. However, antiretroviral drug resistance (HIVDR) is a serious challenge affecting bot...

To meet the deterministic and low-latency communication demands of Industry 4.0, this paper formulates resilient scheduling in interference-prone 6TiSCH industrial wireless networks as an explicit mixed-integer linear program (MILP) and proposes Dual...

To elucidate the molecular basis of the functional deterioration of Qula-derived casein, proteomic analysis was conducted, and the protein composition, structural characteristics, and functional properties of imported casein, fresh yak milk casein, a...

Reliable short-term water-supply forecasting supports sustainable urban water management by informing pump scheduling, water allocation, and operational planning. This study proposes a wavelet-guided STL–VMD–Informer framework for direct...

Cyber-enabled fraud can move victim funds from social or messaging platforms into banks, virtual-asset service providers, self-hosted wallets, cross-chain services and offshore venues before a report becomes effective preservation or restraint. This...

The vibration damping behavior of monolayer and bilayer graphene is investigated through molecular dynamics simulations, with particular emphasis on the effects of excitation frequency and interlayer interactions on mechanical energy dissipation. Gra...

Background/Objectives: Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) requiring extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) remains one of the most challenging conditions in neonatal critical care. Despite advances in prenatal assessment and neonatal managemen...

Against the backdrop of the continuing spread of cross-border telecommunications fraud and the scarcity of conventional data, this study examines how publicly accessible multi-source data can be used to monitor and characterize the spatiotemporal evo...