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Medical image segmentation is essential for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Despite the notable performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs), they encounter difficulties in capturing long-range relationships crucial for precise boun...

Polydeoxyribonucleotide (PDRN) is a DNA-derived material conventionally sourced from salmon, which has prompted interest in scalable non-animal alternatives. Here, we characterized an excipient-free polynucleotide purified from cultivated Porphyra/Py...

Catalytic steam reforming of oxygenated feedstocks is an important route to hydrogen-rich gases, but methanol, ethanol, and glycerol differ substantially in C–C bond content, reaction-network complexity, catalyst requirements, and deactivation...

Object detection in remote sensing imagery is a fundamental and crucial task within the remote sensing domain. However, small object detection in remote sensing images remains a challenge for SOTA methods. This is because small objects often have lar...

Forecast-driven dispatch studies for renewable-storage microgrids can be weakened by feature leakage, non-receding dispatch windows, and inconsistent planned/realized evaluation scopes. This article presents a reproducible workflow-oriented low-code...

Background/Objectives: Resistance to cytotoxic chemotherapy and radiotherapy is usually attributed to DNA repair, drug efflux and apoptotic threshold. Chloride channels intersect these processes but are rarely considered as a group. This review asks...

Ultrafine coal dust is difficult to capture with water because its small size promotes suspension while hydrophobic surface domains hinder droplet spreading. Due to its unique surface properties and chemical environment, the effectiveness of conventi...

Social media platforms are increasingly used to access health-related information, yet the terminology used in searches may be associated with differences in both the content retrieved and the discursive frames through which health conditions are rep...

Bearing fault diagnosis under varying load conditions is challenged by load-dependent changes in bearing dynamic responses and the resulting cross-load feature distribution shifts. This paper proposes a Class-Conditional Cross-Load Alignment Multi-Sc...

Various plant by-products have attracted increasing attention as sources of biologically active compounds, particularly polyphenols. In this study, tannin-rich polyphenolic fractions were isolated from the leaves of Rhus glabra L. and Pistacia vera L...

Background/Objectives: Morin is the first flavonoid isolated from plants in the Moraceae family and has been reported to exhibit anticancer and antioxidant activity. It is classified as a Class IV compound in the Biopharmaceutical Classification Syst...

A spectral proxy parameter linking remote sensing reflectance (R_rs) and inherent optical properties (IOPs) was evaluated for six selected areas of the Baltic Sea. Measured IOPs from the individual optical datasets were used to calculate Morel’s...

Microdissection testicular sperm extraction (micro-TESE) is the standard surgical approach for sperm retrieval in men with non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA). However, further procedures may be required either after successful retrieval to support add...

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a prevalent disorder for which accessible non-invasive screening approaches remain of interest. This study evaluated photographic craniofacial descriptors and speech-derived acoustic features for Apnea–Hypopnea...

The ongoing energy transition, driven by the increasing electrification of end-use sectors, the widespread deployment of renewable energy sources, and the decentralization of power generation, is modifying the operation of modern energy systems. In t...

Long-term forest recovery is often summarized by net changes in forest extent, but net gains may mask substantial land-cover reorganization, and the factors associated with current forest distribution may differ from those associated with long-term c...

Floating debris threatens aquatic ecosystems, yet detecting it in close-range aquatic remote sensing imagery remains difficult because small, irregular, or partially submerged objects resemble specular highlights and ripples. This study proposes FLNe...

Standard federated averaging gives clients with larger training datasets greater weight. How reducing these weight differences affects overall and client-level short message service (SMS) spam detection remains unclear. We compare nine federated meth...

This study evaluates the flame retardant efficiency of hybrid systems based on natural cellulose extracted from agricultural wastes (pecan nutshell and guayule), combined with azodicarbonamide (ADA), porous silicon dioxide (SiO₂) scaffolds, and ammon...

Historical digital personas are a promising means of interactive and personalized access to cultural heritage; however, their practical deployment requires simultaneous control over factual accuracy, source provenance, persona consistency, and multim...

Theranostic imaging agents combine molecular diagnosis, targeted therapy and monitoring of treatment response into a single paradigm of precision medicine. This review summarizes the current development and translational landscape of theranostic imag...

Background/Objectives: Cone-beam breast computed tomography (CBBCT) is a promising alternative to digital mammography (mammography), producing true 3D images without breast manipulation or compression. This technological difference is expected to imp...

Magnetically coupled resonant wireless power transfer technology provides a contactless power supply solution for permanent magnet synchronous motors in urban electric buses. By utilizing road-embedded transmitting coils, energy can be harvested in r...

In tamoxifen-related endometrial alterations, a challenge arises due to the similarity between clinically significant diseases and both benign proliferation and benign polyps. This narrative review examines the clinical assessment, imaging, tissue sa...

This paper introduces the Slash Q-Lindley (SQL) distribution, a new heavy-tailed model for positive data obtained as the ratio of a Q-Lindley variable to an independent power-distributed variable. The SQL inherits the flexibility of the baseline Q-Li...

This paper investigates the well-posedness (WP) and asymptotic stability of a standby repairable system with partial failure and priority, wherein components in a partial failure state remain unrepaired during system operation. The governing integro-...

Nature-based solutions (NBS) are valuable instruments for climate adaptation and resilience. Existing research on urban NBS barriers focuses mostly on structural and technical elements, while co-creation and local knowledge are regularly cited as cri...

The eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is a commercially important fruit crop; however, research on the cell wall polysaccharide composition is limited. The aim of this study was to provide a plant cell wall profile for eggplant for future research and...

To develop sustainable extraction of bioactive compounds, this study evaluated the potential of betaine-based deep eutectic solvents (DES). Betaine was applied as a natural, safe hydrogen-bond acceptor in fourteen DES, using polyols/sugars/acids as h...

Background/Objectives: Conduction system pacing (CSP) has emerged as a more physiological alternative to biventricular pacing (BiVP) in heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF) and wide QRS, but recent randomized controlled trials (RCTs)...

To mitigate mutual coupling and enhance the degrees of freedom (DOFs), this paper proposes a two-level large-spacing symmetric nested array (TLSSNA). Unlike conventional nested arrays, the proposed configuration does not restrict the minimum inter-el...

As child-friendly city initiatives expand, the need for better outdoor spaces in residential communities is growing. At the same time, urban development is shifting toward the renewal of existing areas, where limited resources and practical constrain...

RGB-T semantic segmentation improves scene understanding under adverse illumination by exploiting complementary visible and thermal cues. However, conventional intermediate fusion networks preserve two modality-specific encoder branches and repeatedl...

The apsidal motion in close eccentric binaries has long been known as a powerful means to unveil the internal structure of stars. It originates mostly from the tidal interactions that occur between the two stars through the internal stellar structure...

Lime-based materials intended for stone crack repair in humid environments must balance liquid-water uptake, workability, mechanical performance, and moisture release. This study screens oyster-shell lime–silica fume–sodium silicate formu...

Background: Zirconia has become a widely used material in dentistry, and it is easy to see why. It offers excellent mechanical strength, great biocompatibility, and from an aesthetic point of view, it closely resembles natural teeth. Add to that the...

Background/Objectives: Under fixed-fee reimbursement such as Japan’s Diagnosis Procedure Combination/Per Diem Payment System (DPC/PDPS), hospitals bear the cost of operations that run longer than planned, yet conventional time-driven activity-b...

Probabilistic maps of gas reservoir effective thickness are increasingly used in development decisions, but production workflows rarely show how structural guidance carries into predictive uncertainty and threshold-based interpretation. We present a...

The construction industry is characterized by high physical demands, where workers are regularly engaged in manual handling and labor-intensive tasks, making fatigue a common occupational challenge. This study aims to quantify the combined effects of...

Medium-resolution NDVI products can smooth small vegetation patches, land-cover boundaries, and local gradients. This study presents a two-part evaluation of single-band NDVI spatial downscaling: a controlled synthetic Sentinel-2 benchmark and a sepa...

Seasonal environmental variation is a widespread stressor for wildlife and can induce plastic changes in DNA methylation. Blood DNA methylation is an integrative molecular indicator of overall physiological status, yet its seasonal dynamics in the gi...

Existing field-programmable gate array (FPGA) implementations of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) still suffer from limited speed compared to high-performance industrial controllers or restricted programming flexibility, if a control algorithm i...

Blended braking combines regenerative braking from traction motors with friction braking to meet braking safety and stability requirements while recovering kinetic energy. Existing reviews have mainly addressed regenerative-braking architectures, bra...

Background/Objectives: Systematically elucidating the neural mechanisms of bowel and bladder control is crucial for developing closed-loop brain–computer interface (BCI) neurorehabilitation for patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). This study...

Lightweight single-image super-resolution (SISR) requires effective local structural representation and broader contextual modeling under a restricted computational budget. We propose DPALSR, a Dual Prior-Aware Lightweight Super-Resolution Network th...

Accurate indoor-temperature forecasting underpins feed-forward control in broiler production, yet the horizons at which data-driven models add value are unclear. Two questions are addressed: at which horizons learned models measurably beat persistenc...

Overheating in naturally ventilated West African housing is usually tackled measure by measure, which leaves the relative value of roof solar control, insulation, and wall construction unresolved. This study ranks them inside one calibrated EnergyPlu...

Collection state and post-harvest drying may influence both the structural matrix of macroalgal biomass and the compounds recovered by solvent extraction. We combined whole-biomass ATR-FTIR with UV–visible absorption, fluorescence excitation an...

Wooden breast (WB) in broilers has been linked to impaired mitochondrial function in the breast muscle. When mitochondrial function declines, organs receive less ATP and experience oxidative stress. Muscle development is linked to the optimal functio...

Background: Most existing digital cognitive assessment tools are simple adaptations of paper-and-pencil tests, lacking adequate validation in older adults and showing poor sensitivity to domain-specific deficits common in high vascular risk populatio...