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To enable the rapid and accurate acquisition of phenotypic parameters during distinctness, uniformity, and stability (DUS) testing of edible mushroom varieties, and to address the low efficiency, strong subjectivity, and insufficient standardization...

Natural products are important sources of redox-active phytochemicals, but meaningful interpretation of their biological effects requires accurate botanical and chemical characterization. The vernacular label “lotus” is applied to botanic...

Mycotoxigenic fungi contaminate cereals, nuts, fruits, and other food commodities, threatening human and animal health. This review focuses on Aspergillus flavus, Fusarium verticillioides, and Alternaria alternata as representative mycotoxigenic fung...

To clarify the distribution patterns and interaction mechanisms of the in situ stress field, microstructures, and fractures and to provide geological support for efficient coal-bed methane (CBM) development in the Zhengzhuang Block, this study invest...

Background/Objectives: We evaluated changes in antibiotic resistance among urine culture isolates from children under five years hospitalized with urinary tract infection (UTI) at a single center in 2019–2020 and 2024–2025. Methods: This...

Background/Objectives: The Kazakh horse comprises several locally adapted types and ecotypes of the Eurasian Steppe. The Adai is its western ecotype, kept year-round on desert pasture in Mangystau, Western Kazakhstan, and recognised as a separate bre...

Introducing [¹⁷⁷Lu]Lu-PSMA-617 into metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer (mHSPC) raises questions about patient selection and treatment sequencing. This non-systematic narrative review examines PSMAddition alongside evidence on alternative tr...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) use and online information checking may be socially patterned in different ways. This cross-sectional study analysed the 2025 Turkish Statistical Institute ICT survey of 22,502 internet users aged 16–74 u...

Kolmogorov–Arnold networks (KANs) are increasingly applied to well-log and reservoir problems, but their evaluation protocols rarely control preprocessing leakage, replicate comparators across seeds, or test depth-shifted generalization. This s...

Background/Objectives: Arterial coupling in microsurgery remains technically challenging despite widespread venous coupler adoption. We developed a novel everter device to facilitate arterial anastomosis using mechanical couplers and evaluated its fe...

Periploca chevalieri (Apocynaceae Juss.) is an endemic medicinal plant from Cabo Verde that has long been used in traditional medicine, particularly for the management of diabetes and cough. However, to date, no studies focusing on potential adverse...

Background/Objectives: Human metapneumovirus (hMPV) is increasingly recognized as an important cause of adult respiratory infection, but data on pneumonia remain limited. We evaluated clinical characteristics, temporal detection patterns, and clinica...

Monosquarate-amides contain four-non protonated carbon environments that can be challenging to observe by routine ¹³C NMR spectroscopy. Using 3-((4-Bromobenzyl)(methyl)amino)-4-ethoxycyclobut-3-ene-1,2-dione as a representative example, the effects o...

Background/Objectives: This in vitro study compared color and roughness changes after simulated toothbrushing in milled GC Cerasmart 270 (CS) and 3D-printed Formlabs Permanent Crown (FL) following glazing or mechanical polishing. Methods: Eighty spec...

To solve the problems of high explosive consumption, coarse fragmentation, and low energy utilization efficiency in open-pit blasting of layered rock masses, an axial staggered charging technology is proposed. The core idea of this new technology is...

Background and Objectives: The main objective of this study was to examine the psychometric properties of a French adaptation of the Physical Literacy in Children Questionnaire (PL-C Quest). Methods: A sample of 196 French-speaking Canadian and Frenc...

Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming bioengineering, with applications ranging from diagnosis and biomedical imaging to wearable technologies, rehabilitation, biomaterials, biofabrication, and digital twins. This narrative review aims...

Background/Objectives: Cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) is heterogeneous, and individual autonomic measures may identify distinct clinical profiles. This study assessed the clinical, neuropathic, metabolic, and...

The formation of a species’ range generally involves dispersal and selection processes where dispersal enhancing species expansion is counterbalanced by selection that reduces mean population fitness at the edge of a species’ range. The a...

To compare the 1-year risk of biliary/pancreatic adverse events among patients with obesity and type 2 diabetes treated with glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor agonists (GLP-1RAs) versus dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors (DPP-4i), and to directly compa...

Background: This exploratory study assessed whether qualitative dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) time–intensity curves (TICs) differentiate non-progressive treatment-related changes (NPTRC) from tumor progression after stereotactic radio...

The autoimmune regulator (AIRE) is essential for central immune tolerance, but its role in thymic epithelial cell (TEC) differentiation and development remains incompletely understood. To address this, we knocked down AIRE in mouse embryonic stem cel...

Deep learning-based mineral image recognition from macroscopic hand-specimen photographs has emerged as an important approach for mineral identification. However, the inherent imbalance in the natural distribution and reserves of minerals leads to a...

This paper delves into the popularization of scientific topics related to health and well-being from an interdisciplinary perspective, between science, journalism, language, and communication studies. To this aim, we will address a subset of the Scie...

Most tropical soils exhibit low phosphorus (P) availability and a high adsorption capacity, resulting in low recovery of fertilizer-applied P. In addition to soil mineralogy, contact time, fertilizer source, and the type of coating (technology) emplo...

Gauging stations on large rivers are too sparse to resolve spatial patterns of water temperature; satellite thermal imagery can fill this gap. We calibrated 25 years (2000–2024, May–November) of Landsat 5, 7, 8 and 9 surface temperature a...

Energy piles are multifunctional deep foundations that structurally support buildings while enabling heat exchange between the superstructure and shallow subsurface. It is crucial for the wider use of energy piles and thus reliance on clean, renewabl...

Airway management remains one of the few domains of anaesthetic practice still governed by universal, dichotomous screening thresholds applied to profoundly heterogeneous populations. Conventional bedside tests—the modified Mallampati test, thy...

Complex optimization problems in engineering and data-driven modeling require effective exploration, stable convergence, and adaptability across different decision representations. This study proposes an Adaptive Reinforced Elite Gray Wolf Optimizer...

By introducing a data-driven human–machine collaboration performance evaluation Model (HMCPEM) that utilizes multiple regression and Monte Carlo simulation, the effectiveness and dependability of collaborative decision-making in smart agricultu...

Heart failure with preserved or mildly reduced ejection fraction (HFpEF/HFmrEF) accounts for approximately half of the global heart failure burden and remains a syndrome with limited device-based therapeutic options. It is often characterized by a di...

This research shows the combined effects of natural pozzolan (NP) and waste glass powder (WGP) on the mechanical strength of polypropylene fiber (PPF)-reinforced cement mortars. As the construction sector is looking for alternatives to traditional bi...

Light Commercial Vehicles (LCVs) need to be manufactured faster than ever, placing immense pressure on engineering teams to shorten development cycles. The double wishbone steering knuckle perfectly illustrates this challenge, as it must endure massi...

Accurately reconstructing consecutive missing measurement segments presents a major challenge in bridge structural health monitoring, due to the inherent complexity and non-stationary nature of the collected signals. To address this, a hybrid data re...

This study conducts a scenario-based analysis of the potential economic impacts of an eruption of Mount Fuji across Japan’s urban systems, with a particular focus on the infrastructure services that support urban functions. Using a dynamic inte...

Axial-flux motor (AFM) can achieve high torque and power density; however, integrated electromagnetic and thermal design is required to manage losses and heat generation during high-power operation. In this study, an AFM with a target output power of...

Originating in the East, lacquer is a natural polymeric material noted for its superior film-forming properties, corrosion resistance, and mechanical robustness. The decorative techniques associated with it have been inscribed on China’s nation...

The paper proposes a mathematical approach to adaptive superframe reconfiguration in hybrid MAC protocols for wireless mobile robotic networks. The considered network uses a hybrid access mechanism that combines contention-based and contention-free t...

This paper presents a hybrid TLS (Terrestrial Laser Scanning)—SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) framework for spatial data acquisition that integrates mobile laser scanning (Hovermap) with high-precision terrestrial laser scanning (R...

Background/Objectives: Fibromyalgia (FM) is diagnosed using symptom-based criteria, and clinician-assigned labels may diverge from standardized classification frameworks. FM may also coexist with musculoskeletal and other pain-related conditions. We...

Deep-learning post-processing can correct systematic errors in numerical wave forecasts, but its reliability under high-wave conditions remains unclear. We develop an error-correction framework in which deep networks predict the full future error tra...

Laser warning receivers (LWRs) locate laser threat sources by measuring the incident direction of incoming laser radiation. Parametric errors inherent in their optical systems constitute a critical factor that affects angle measurement accuracy. Exis...

As the scale of aquaculture continues to expand, aquaculture waters are under increasing environmental pressure, particularly regarding total nitrogen (TN) and total phosphorus (TP). To address this challenge, this study evaluated the efficacy of Nep...

Background/Objectives: Nutritional status is a potentially modifiable factor associated with frailty in older adults. However, the association between macronutrient balance and frailty remains understudied and may differ by energy intake sufficiency....

Offshore medium-to-deep edge-water heavy-oil reservoirs face challenges in high-pressure steam flooding due to restricted steam-chamber expansion and uncertainty in adaptability evaluation. This study focuses on steam flooding after cyclic steam stim...

Many animal species have unique patterns on their body that allow for individual identification, and these patterns often have a genetic basis. This individual-level pattern variation can be leveraged in ecological applications in a number of ways, s...

Objectives: To evaluate the impact of heart failure (HF) on one-year outcomes in patients hospitalized for diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs). Methods: A retrospective observational study including consecutive patients admitted in 2024 to a tertiary multidi...

Impaired ribosome biogenesis (RiBi) triggers the impaired ribosome biogenesis checkpoint (IRBC), a nucleolar stress pathway that stabilizes p53 and induces cellular senescence. Whether RiBi dysfunction directly drives renal interstitial fibrosis (RIF...

Physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) have recently emerged as an effective surrogate to classical numerical methods for solving partial differential equations (PDEs) in a wide range of physical systems. When augmented with supervised data, PINN p...

Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) are recognized as one of the effective technologies for reducing fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions. However, selecting the most suitable battery technology requires balancing technical performance, manufact...