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Non-minimum-phase behavior introduces an additional limitation in predictive process control because directly inverting a right-half-plane zero can result in an unstable controller. This study develops a Stable-Inverse Fractional-Order Predictive PID...

Underlay cognitive radio non-orthogonal multiple access (CR-NOMA) enables secondary spectrum reuse under primary-user quality-of-service (QoS) protection, and cooperative amplify-and-forward (AF) relaying extends coverage for edge secondary users. Ho...

Global forest ecosystems face escalating threats from intensive anthropogenic disturbances. Plants inhabiting forests with contrasting disturbance histories often evolve divergent life history strategies, as reflected in functional trait differences...

Fiber-reinforced polymers (FRPs) offer many benefits, but their low ductility limits their use in primary components of moment-resisting frames (MRFs), where beam-end plastic hinging is expected. To overcome this drawback, this study introduced an in...

Peritoneal fibrosis is a major cause of progressive peritoneal membrane dysfunction and technique failure in patients receiving long-term peritoneal dialysis. Conventional models emphasize repeated chemical injury, sterile inflammation, angiogenesis,...

Background: Finerenone improves cardiorenal outcomes in patients with chronic kidney disease and type 2 diabetes, but its early real-world effect on albuminuria, the relative safety and effectiveness of standard versus reduced-dose regimens, and the...

Background: Intermittent retail sales create substantial uncertainty for inventory control, particularly across large portfolios of heterogeneous item–location systems. This study develops a scalable GPU-accelerated Fokker–Planck framewor...

Guests weight negative and positive attribute performance asymmetrically, and destination and culture shape service expectations. Whether destination alters this asymmetry itself has received little direct testing. Extending stimulus–organism&n...

The pathogenesis of chronic pain includes persistent neuroimmune interactions that contribute to both peripheral and central pain sensitization. Tissue injury and peripheral nerve injury activate immune and glial pathways through various cytokines, c...

Background: Identification of immunogenic neoantigens remains one of the major computational bottlenecks limiting the development of effective personalized cancer vaccines. Although various computational methods have been proposed for neoantigen disc...

Background: Public breast ultrasound datasets are assembled around lesions. Of eight sources examined here, five contain no normal images, and under leave-one-dataset-out evaluation, the normal class is therefore almost perfectly confounded with the...

Flatfoot (pes planus) is a common foot deformity associated with altered lower-extremity muscle activity during gait. Conventional foot orthoses and insoles can provide arch support but have limitations related to comfort, adherence, and everyday usa...

Dynamic fire evacuation in complex multistory buildings requires route planning across interconnected corridors, stairwells, transfer spaces, and exits while hazards, passage accessibility, and circulation capacity change over time. This study presen...

Grouted rock masses are rarely homogeneous due to heterogeneous grout transport, yet its effect on hydro-mechanical properties is unclear. This study conducted a single chamber-scale grouting experiment on fractured rock, from which 36 cylindrical sp...

The Artificial Bee Colony (ABC) algorithm demonstrates strong exploration but converges slowly. To address this, AMRABC_Ts introduces an adaptive dimension modification rate mechanism with two search strategies. The exploration-favoured CABC strategy...

Background/Objectives: Hyperinsulinaemia reflects compensatory systemic insulin resistance and may indicate early metabolic–vascular dysregulation. We investigated associations between insulin dysregulation and the retinal neuronal structure, p...

Indoor localization based on Received Signal Strength (RSS) fingerprinting remains a prominent paradigm owing to its economic viability and seamless integration with existing wireless infrastructure. Nevertheless, positioning accuracy is frequently c...

Methane (CH₄), the primary constituent of natural gas, is a colorless, odorless, combustible gas prevalent in petroleum and natural gas transmission pipelines as well as coal mines. However, conventional n-type semiconductor sensors face significant...

Background: PDAC is a highly aggressive malignancy driven predominantly by activating KRAS mutations, and allele-specific and pan-RAS inhibitors have emerged as candidate targeted therapies. Evidence supporting them is dominated by experimental studi...

Unsupervised anomaly detection is critical for industrial surface inspection, especially for resin cut-off wheels where defect samples are scarce and morphologically diverse. GANomaly serves as a classic reconstruction-based baseline using latent vec...

Background/Objectives: Schizophrenia pathophysiology has been linked to immune dysregulation, but the role of interleukin-33 (IL-33) during acute psychotic relapse remains insufficiently investigated. This exploratory admission–discharge study...

Physical layer protection can complement conventional cryptography, but its contribution under repeated key use depends on whether an adversary can learn the channel’s input–output map. We evaluate a pump-keyed multi-core fiber (MCF) arch...

The increasing penetration of variable renewable energy sources necessitates flexible regulation resources, among which physical energy storage (PES) plays an indispensable role. However, unlike electrochemical storage, PES relies on rotating machine...

The pantograph–catenary system serves as the core power supply device, ensuring stable operation of high-speed trains, and its contact interface represents a typical current-carrying friction system, where the introduction of electric current s...

Background: Physically-based, coupled hydrological–low-impact-development (LID) models, such as the U.S. EPA Storm Water Management Model (SWMM), estimate green infrastructure (GI) performance in detail but are computationally expensive to run...

A series of novel quinazolinone-based aldazine and ketazine derivatives (4a–l and 6) was synthesized through the condensation of hydrazine intermediate 2 with substituted aldehydes and isatin using chitosan sulfonic acid (CS–SO₃H) as a re...

In this study, we used silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and sea cucumber (Apostichopus japonicus) as the primary protein sources and supplemented them with konjac glucomannan (KGM) or inulin (INU) at concentrations of 0%, 0.5%, 1.0%, and 1.5...

As CPUs alone are often insufficiently efficient for running Vision Transformers (ViTs), contemporary computing platforms, particularly edge systems, increasingly adopt heterogeneous architectures that combine CPUs with GPUs and Neural Processing Uni...

Rain fade is the dominant weather disturbance for high-frequency radio telescopes in the tropics, where convective storms develop within minutes and long-term statistical models such as ITU-R P.618 offer no short-term guidance. We present the first s...

Food hydrogels are multiscale, water-rich networks whose functionality depends not only on composition but also on how processing energy is deposited and redistributed during network formation. Although acoustic, electric, magnetic, and pressure-base...

Molecular dynamics simulations were employed to investigate the effects of cutting speed and cutting depth on the nanocutting behavior of carbon nanotube (CNT)-reinforced Ni composites. The results show that increasing cutting speed from 50 to 200 m/...

SARS-CoV-2 has adapted continuously since 2019, yet no multi-parameter framework has characterized this trajectory across geographically distinct United States populations. We present a systematic 13-parameter analysis of 137,059 high-quality genomes...

Hexaflumuron is a benzoylurea insecticide with potential application against arthropod ectoparasites in aquaculture, but its toxicity to non-target fish remains insufficiently characterized. This study evaluated acute toxicity and intestinal response...

Background: Accurate detection and classification of segmental left ventricular hypertrophy (LVH) are challenging due to rib and reverberation artifacts in two-dimensional short-axis (2D-SAX) echocardiography view. These artifacts lead to ambiguity i...

Objective: To systematically analyze the practical application and differences in vaccination compliance of two rabies post-exposure prophylaxis regimens based on real-world data, and to explore the associated influencing factors of vaccination compl...

Traditional proportional-integral-derivative (PID) tuning methods often struggle in nonlinear systems with limited measurement availability. This study investigates PID controller tuning within a Riccati-based static output-feedback (SOF) optimizatio...

Preload loss and plastic deformation of titanium abutment screws under repeated tightening are clinically significant yet incompletely characterized across systems with differing head geometries and surface treatments. Two ISO 14801-certified titaniu...

Tungsten oxide (WO₃) is an attractive phase-sensitive chromogenic material whose photoinduced optical response produces reversible coloration of interest light responsive optical devices. Here, WO₃ nanoparticles (NPs) are synthesized via a simple sur...

Rapid urbanization has intensified the demand for sustainable strategies that balance food production, energy efficiency, and environmental quality within cities. Rooftop greenhouses (RTGs) have emerged as a promising architectural typology that inte...

Limestone calcined clay cements offer a promising route to reducing CO₂ emissions in cement production, but their relatively low reactivity and strength at very early ages may limit their use in construction applications requiring rapid demolding or...

The synchronization of chaotic systems is a critical issue in nonlinear control theory, providing a foundation for various practical applications, such as fault detection, image encryption, and secure communication. However, chaotic systems are highl...

This paper presents numerical studies on the effects of upstream porous treatments on the hydrodynamic and hydroacoustic performances of a hydrofoil. The inflow velocity is 5 m/s and the chord-based Reynolds number is 2.5 × 10⁷. A rapid turbule...

Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a metabolic disorder characterized by insufficient insulin production and diminished insulin receptor sensitivity. Prediabetes, which often precedes T2DM, involves elevated blood glucose levels that do not yet meet...

This paper establishes a family of two-sided Ostrowski-type inequalities on arbitrary time scales under variable derivative bounds. The main approach is based on auxiliary functions that provide variable lower and upper envelopes for the delta deriva...

Efficient forward and inverse design of laminated non-pneumatic tires requires repeated evaluation of their load-bearing and tire–ground contact responses. The high-fidelity laminated beam–grounding analysis (LB-GA) formulation captures t...

This paper presents the RaDICAL sensing framework, a monostatic passive radar concept that combines a Sparse Uniform Circular Array (SUCA), deterministic multifrequency dither, and dictionary-based waveform recognition for target detection and classi...

Serious games offer a pedagogical alternative to mitigate the generational disconnect and demotivation in higher education. However, empirical research often evaluates single game interventions, leaving a gap in understanding general student percepti...

Quinoa (Chenopodium quinoa Willd.) is widely recognized for its relatively high tolerance to salinity, but substantial genotypic variation exists, with some varieties remaining sensitive to severe salt stress. Valorizing quinoa biomass and processing...

A new species of Tanystylum pycnogonid is described, based on 59 specimens simultaneously collected in San Francisco, California, USA. A precise description of each body part is provided, along with population structure, and biometric measurements. D...

Improvements in urban spatial environmental quality do not necessarily lead to corresponding improvements in residents’ subjective well-being, and spatial mismatch may exist between objective environmental provision and residents’ actual...