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This paper uses the LOCUST program to perform simulation calculations on the steady-state operating conditions of the primary loop and steam generator of the Qinshan Nuclear Power Plant. By comparing the simulation results with the actual operating p...

Photobiomodulation (PBM) may improve diabetic wound repair, but the temporal relationship between local angiogenic signaling and tissue-level healing remains incompletely defined. We examined previously unreported tissue vascular endothelial growth f...

Routing a medical-delivery UAV to multiple hospitals must jointly account for distance, flight time, payload, and clinical priority. We present a reproducible GIS-based framework for multi-stop UAV emergency medical routing in Khartoum State, Sudan,...

The monitoring of agroclimatic variables is one of the fundamental pillars for anticipating and mitigating frost phenomena in potato crops, especially in the rural mountain area located in the municipality of La Calera (Colombia). Low-power, long-ran...

Introduction: Active scars can be defined as “pain generators”: the pain associated with them may have an important impact on the patient’s quality of life. During the healing process, several local and systemic neurochemical change...

The brain age gap (BAG)—the difference between the predicted and chronological age—does not describe the imaging patterns underlying such deviation. To characterize these patterns, we developed a semantic-guided mixture-of-experts model u...

Against the backdrop of rapid advances in digital technologies and widespread adoption, digital skills are significantly associated with higher employment quality for migrant workers, particularly for the employment prospects and continued labor mark...

We investigate the feasibility of interactive 3D vehicle modeling using multi-view 2D inputs and generative AI. Specifically, we examine whether a generative model (Meshy AI) can produce consistent 3D models from four-view vehicle images and whether...

Background: This study examined whether measured walking performance, body mass index (BMI) and estimated cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) differ across the six provinces of Apulia (southern Italy), and whether physical fitness components and psycholo...

In frigid environments, antiquated office structures are typically marked by elevated energy usage owing to the constraints of their building shell. This research centres on Xi’an, a city famous for its frigid winters and oppressive summers. Th...

Extracting instantaneous waterlines on tidal flats is challenging because spectral confusion among turbid water, wet bare tidal flats, and residual channel water can cause misclassification and boundary displacement. This study proposes a Topography-...

Digital health technologies are playing an increasingly important role in patient monitoring, able to capture longitudinal data to supplement scheduled episodic evaluations conducted by clinicians. Rapid advances in sensors and data processing algori...

The emergence of AI agents and open-domain automation frameworks such as OpenClaw has enabled large language model (LLM) reasoning to directly control microcontroller-based IoT devices. However, when agents issue concurrent asynchronous tool calls, c...

UAV-to-satellite visual localization can provide absolute position observations when Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals are denied or lost. Without a reliable initial position, however, cross-view differences and repetitive textures ca...

Ottoman külliyes have structured urban life and city landscapes for centuries through the integration of monumental architecture, public functions, courtyards, circulation, vegetation, and constructed landscape elements. This study examines whet...

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Ecological restoration of waste slag sites is often constrained by topsoil scarcity and nutrient deficiency. Therefore, this study investigated organic acid-matured granite rock powder (M-GRP) to evaluate its mineral nutrient-release behavior and str...

Rice irrigation management influences soil conditions, crop physiology, productivity, and environmental outcomes, but the links among these responses remain incompletely understood. This review critically integrates evidence on continuous flooding (C...

The rapid expansion of seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) desalination has raised concern about the effects of brine discharges on coastal marine ecosystems. This study evaluated stress biomarkers in two benthic species with contrasting physiological st...

Building Information Modelling (BIM) is the main tool of the ongoing digital transformation in the engineering and construction industry. At the same time sustainability requirements are enhanced in modern regulations and codes. A literature review w...

Background/Objectives: Whether country-level sexual norms, religious salience and belief, and HIV-related social distancing are independently associated with HIV and non-HIV STI burden beyond economic conditions remains uncertain. Methods: We analyze...

Background: Biomarkers reflecting innate immune activation may complement clinical severity scores in community-acquired pneumonia (CAP). This study evaluated serum presepsin and pentraxin-3 (PTX3) concentrations in patients with CAP and healthy cont...

Carbohydrate-derived isothiocyanates are attractive glycomimetic redox modulators because the sugar scaffold can tune the chemical environment of the electrophilic N=C=S group. Two complementary families of S-glycosyl isothiocyanates bearing the ITC...

Intelligent sensors are becoming indispensable for environmental monitoring, biosensing and human–machine interaction. Among the various device platforms, organic electrochemical transistors (OECTs) stand out for their high sensitivity, low ope...

This paper presents a systematic study of active polarization imaging in turbid water, focusing on the comparison between circular and linear polarization and the independent separation of forward and backward scattering contributions. Underwater ima...

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disorder, and its pathology accumulates for years before symptoms appear, which places the mild cognitive impairment (MCI) stage at the centre of early detection. Machine learning (M...

Introduction: Congenital heart defects (CHDs) are the most frequent group of major congenital anomalies and impose a disproportionate burden on neonatal services. Antenatal detection determines where and how an affected newborn is delivered, yet repo...

Background/Objectives: Fermentation is recognized for improving the nutritional content and health benefits of soy products. Gastro-AD^® (GAD) is a postbiotic ingredient produced from soy flour by controlled fermentation with a proprietary strain...

Piper guineense, a West African spice and medicinal plant, is traditionally used for wound healing, though its molecular mechanisms remain unclear. This study employed a network pharmacology approach to elucidate its therapeutic potential. Phytochemi...

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG), agentic systems, and human authors produce text with inline citations, but the cited sources do not always support the claims attributed to them. We present HallucinationNerd, a modular citation-verification engi...

In the intelligent assembly of prefabricated concrete column joints based on a multimodal transformer and digital twin, a finite element model is constructed using a digital twin to map physical entities from multiple dimensions, accurately set the m...

Aiming to mitigate the issues of heat buildup and excessive flow resistance in traditional cold plates applied to lithium-ion batteries, this work develops a topology optimization framework and produces two optimized layouts (Case III and Case IV) wi...

Sugarcane and energy cane (Saccharum spp. hybrids) yields are significantly threatened by smut disease, caused by the fungus Sporisorium scitamineum. Gene expression studies are essential for understanding molecular responses in this pathosystem; how...

The development of safer and more sustainable polymer electrolytes is essential for next-generation energy storage technologies. In this work, PVDF-based ionogels containing 1-butyl-1-methylpyrrolidinium bis(trifluoromethylsulfonyl)imide were synthes...

Efficient irrigation management is important to increase agriculture water use efficiency and achieve sustainable crop production under increasing water scarcity and climatic variability. Based on advanced devices and artificial intelligence (AI) alg...

Background: Lateralplasty is a minimally invasive method releasing the nail edge from soft tissue to reduce inflammation and granulation tissue. This study aimed to evaluate its effectiveness and clinical outcomes. Methods: This retrospective study i...

Generative Artificial Intelligence (Generative Agentic AI) models, such as Large Language Models (LLMs), and agentic AI have recently gained widespread attention in both research and industry. They have rapidly emerged as a concept that elevates Gene...

Metal dyshomeostasis contributes to Alzheimer’s disease (AD) by influencing amyloid aggregation, oxidative imbalance, and impaired clearance mechanisms. Safranal, a bioactive constituent of Crocus sativus, exhibits antioxidant properties, but i...

Micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) thermal flow sensors are attractive for compact gas-flow measurement because of their small size, rapid response and low power consumption. However, under non-clean operating conditions, particles carried by the...

Background/Objectives: The purpose of this prospective study was to investigate the preferred reconstruction SPECT parameters for generating reprojected planar images in bone studies, and to evaluate, by visual reader assessment, the feasibility of u...

Hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles (HFCVs) are expected to contribute to transport decarbonisation, but their successful deployment will depend not only on technological and infrastructural developments but also on attitudes and adoption intentions. This st...

Objectives: Crosslinking enhances solid dispersion (SD) stability but often restricts drug release, and this trade-off remains unresolved. In this study, crosslinked polyvinyl alcohol–suberic acid ester (CPSE) carriers with different crosslinki...

Vascular calcification and atherosclerotic arterial disease are complex processes involving multiple inhibitory and pro-calcific mechanisms. Matrix Gla protein (MGP) is an important inhibitor of vascular calcification, and its inactive dephosphorylat...

Forecasting extreme-tail risk in energy equities involves temporal-memory mismatch, quantile crossing, and scarce extreme observations. This study proposes a multi-scale entropy-gated deep quantile learning model, EntropyFusion-VaR. Weighted permutat...

Background/Objectives: Primary graft dysfunction (PGD) remains a major cause of early morbidity and mortality after heart transplantation, and peripheral veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) represents an established rescue the...

Background/Objectives: Cutaneous melanoma spreads preferentially through the lymphatic system, and sentinel lymph node status is among the strongest prognostic factors. Whether tumour angiogenesis and lymphangiogenesis add prognostic information beyo...

Background: Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and plasma biomarkers provide complementary information about Alzheimer’s disease (AD), but matched analytes are commonly evaluated separately. We investigated whether relative CSF–plasma analyte sign...

Spherical starch nanoparticles (7.08 ± 3.30 nm) were synthesized and used for coal depression during the flotation of a sub-bituminous coal (SBC) and a low-rank carbonaceous mineral (LRCM). The nanoparticles rejected 29.3% of the coal into the...

Wind turbine blades (WTBs) are critical for wind capture and energy conversion; their condition therefore determines turbine efficiency and safety. Exposed to sustained aerodynamic loading and harsh environments, blades commonly suffer surface erosio...

Tea, a globally important cash crop with abundant bioactive constituents, suffers widespread postharvest quality deterioration that causes substantial economic losses. This review compares the divergence of deterioration pathways between postharvest...