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Excessive groundwater abstraction and water scarcity threaten regional ecosystems and socio-economic stability, particularly in semi-arid agricultural basins like Güzelyurt in northern Cyprus. This study presents a comprehensive methodological f...

Background: Egyptian Generation Z adolescents are heavily engaged with screens for several purposes, including education, entertainment, social media, and gaming. This raises red flags about how screen culture may affect sleep quality, posture-relate...

Background and Objectives: Shear-wave elastography (SWE) is a quantitative ultrasound technique that estimates tissue stiffness based on the propagation velocity of shear waves. In musculoskeletal pain, it can provide biomechanical information that c...

Chronic liver disease represents a substantial global health burden, yet effective anti-fibrotic therapies remain elusive, largely due to an incomplete understanding of extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling. While historical research prioritized the...

Bone and soft tissue sarcomas remain challenging to diagnose and monitor because of their rarity, molecular heterogeneity, low circulating biomarker abundance, and the limited sensitivity of conventional surveillance for microscopic disease. This nar...

Background/Objectives: Intermittent hypoxia (IH), a feature of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), is associated with hippocampal inflammation and cognitive dysfunction. We examined SOCS3 expression and a possible MALAT1/EZH2/H3K27me3 regulatory relations...

Occupational lead exposure is a relevant health concern, but the relationships between lead exposure, biomarkers, and individual, occupational, and hygienic characteristics remain incompletely understood. This study investigated associations between...

Background/Objectives: Few studies have examined the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the clinical readiness of dental students in the provision of care. This study examined whether dental students who graduated during the pre-pandemic period (201...

Tomato is an economically important crop, and its secondary metabolites produced in leaves, fruits, and roots are crucial for environmental stress responses and fruit quality formation. Leaf glandular trichomes mainly synthesize defensive compounds,...

Laser self-mixing interference (SMI) with dual external-cavity optical feedback exhibits a distinct characteristic: a change in the length of one external cavity periodically modulates the amplitude of the SMI signal produced by the other external ca...

Background: Antimicrobial administration is a major contributor to healthcare-associated waste. We evaluated the environmental impact of changing the default metronidazole dosing frequency from three-times-daily (TID) to twice-daily (BID) administrat...

Nitrogen (N) form is a key factor influencing plant growth, N utilization efficiency (NUE), and sustainable crop production. Information on N-source effects on N uptake, allocation, and growth of ‘Daruma’ wasabi remains limited. This stud...

Accurate out-of-sample yield-curve forecasting requires models that capture complex non-linear temporal dynamics while respecting the cross-sectional economic structure of the term structure. This paper introduces an economically structured deep sequ...

Ethylene response factor (ERF) proteins constitute a major branch of the AP2/ERF transcription factor superfamily and are conventionally divided into six groups (B1–B6) on the basis of conserved sequences and phylogenetic relationships. ERFs re...

Autoimmune diseases, immune-mediated inflammatory diseases, and cancer are distinct pathological conditions that can intersect through immune dysregulation, chronic inflammation, impaired host defense, and altered host–microbe interactions. In...

Plasmablastic/anaplastic plasma cell neoplasms (P/APC-N) and plasmablastic lymphoma (PBL) represent two categories of highly aggressive hematolymphoid malignancies. Their distinction is clinically important because they are classified and treated wit...

Background/Objectives: The MUC5B rs35705950 polymorphism is the strongest common genetic risk factor for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), whereas its role in fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis (fHP) remains incompletely characterized, particul...

Citrullination of various proteins including the major structural protein of articular cartilage, collagen type II (COL2), has been indicated to play a role in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Humoral responses against citrullinated COL2 epitopes have also...

Liquid-cooled mini-channel heat sinks can remove heat from compact electronic footprints, but comparisons among experiments, analytical correlations, and CFD can be distorted when external tubing/header losses are treated as channel losses or when on...

Class imbalance remains a central problem in machine learning because the rare class is often the event of scientific, clinical, financial, or operational interest. Yet the literature is fragmented across sampling, cost-sensitive learning, ensembles,...

S-adenosylmethionine (SAMe) depletion may represent a rate-limiting nexus linking oxidative/nitrosative stress to epigenetic failure during neurulation. In this review, we synthesize evidence that diverse teratogenic and metabolic insults, including...

mRNA vaccines have emerged as a promising platform in vaccinology, enabling rapid and flexible antigen design. By delivering mRNA encoding target antigens, they allow in situ protein expression and induction of adaptive immune responses. Advances in...

The large-scale integration of offshore wind power increases the flexibility requirements of the integrated power grid. To address this issue, a low-carbon dispatch strategy is proposed for an offshore-wind-integrated electricity–gas–meth...

We present a generalized electrostatic SWAP gate realized in a chain of two double quantum dots operated in the single-electron regime. Using a minimalist tight-binding model, we derive analytical results and corroborate them with numerical simulatio...

Because of the adverse ecological impact of rapid urbanization, coupling the study of urban land use efficiency (ULUE) and ecological carrying capacity (ECC) is vital for harmonizing socioeconomic growth and environmental protection, and promoting re...

Electroencephalography (EEG) is a cost-effective and noninvasive modality for identifying neurophysiological alterations associated with Alzheimer’s disease (AD). To robustly extract disease-specific features, this study presents contrastive mu...

Crude petroleum oil (CPO), acting as an abiotic soil factor, significantly influences the chemical properties of tropical riverine mangrove roots; however, there has been a lack of systematic explanation regarding the effects of varying concentration...

Aortic aneurysms are associated with substantial morbidity and mortalitbecause of the risk of progressive dilation, rupture, and related acute aortic complications. Although diabetes mellitus (DM) is a major cardiovascular risk factor, epidemiologica...

Museum digitalization is often evaluated through adoption, satisfaction, or operational efficiency, while its relationship to cultural sustainability is less clearly specified. This study examines the association between museum digital service qualit...

Mamba has recently become a popular visual representation architecture for building change detection (BCD) in the remote sensing field. Although it effectively models global spatial dependencies, it still struggles to capture fine-grained local struc...

The nonlinear interaction between storm surge and astronomical tide controls coastal flood levels in macrotidal regions, but the effect of tidal phase on the surge of a given typhoon is rarely quantified. Using a high-resolution MIKE 21 FM model of t...

Objectives: Epidemiological surveys in rural China have reported comparatively high adolescent self-harm rates. Evidence on how peer relationships and father involvement jointly relate to this risk and on whether depression or anxiety helps to explai...

This study presents a practical approach to developing a prototype outdoor cleaning robot with reduced hardware and software complexity. While indoor cleaning robots are widely adopted, their outdoor counterparts remain costly and less accessible due...

Rapid landslide mapping is important for disaster response, yet modern segmentation networks can require substantial computation and storage. This study proposes Geography-, Boundary-, and Scar-Aware Structured Pruning (GeoBASP) for compact landslide...

Background/Objectives. Although onabotulinumtoxinA (BoNTA) is an established therapy for chronic migraine (CM), its effectiveness in high-frequency episodic migraine (HFEM) remains uncertain. We conducted an 18-year, single-center, retrospective stud...

PSY is a three-herb formula comprising Patriniae Radix, Mori Cortex Radicis, and Coix Seed that was previously shown to inhibit STAT3 signaling in colorectal cancer (CRC) cells. Here, we investigated molecular and metabolic responses to PSY, its anti...

The transition from peat-based to sustainable, compost-based growing media represents a critical challenge and opportunity in modern organic horticulture. This review comprehensively analyzes the theoretical frameworks, methodological approaches, and...

Rapid encroachment of edge and bottom water in ultra-deep gas reservoirs often leads to water breakthrough in gas wells and productivity decline, which has become a major engineering issue restricting the long-term stable development of the Keshen Bl...

This paper presents a circular ultra-thin vapor chamber (UTVC) with a thickness of 1.3 mm for LED lamp thermal management. Superhydrophilic patterned microstructure (SPMS) arrays are fabricated on the upper and bottom covers to replace the traditiona...

Large gravity anchorages founded on soft marine deposits often rely on partial cement-based ground improvement, creating a composite-foundation base in which treated area and mechanical contribution are not equivalent. This study develops a normal-lo...

Frictional finite-element solves of spur-gear tooth stress take tens of seconds. A ten-member Fourier neural operator (FNO) ensemble, trained on 270 of 432 quasi-static plane-strain solutions with Coulomb friction in the single-tooth contact zone, pr...

Forest resources are globally valuable and critical in many ecological processes. The forest canopy remote sensing model is an essential tool for understanding forest growth conditions. Over time, the model has evolved to consider the effects of the...

The fire safety of lithium-ion battery systems in electric vehicles is often examined through separate studies of thermal runaway, propagation, early warning, and fire suppression, making it difficult to translate fragmented evidence into system-leve...

Acute heat exposure challenges honey bee (Apis mellifera) workers, yet the associated small-molecule response and its relationship to nutritional status remain incompletely resolved. Workers were conditioned for 7 days on bee bread plus sucrose (B+S)...

Urban shrinkage causes inefficient land utilization and landscape fragmentation. Green spaces are critical nature-based solutions for the sustainable development of shrinking cities, and play an important role in enhancing urban environmental quality...

Driven by the digital economy, a new model of activities that integrates online and offline elements is reshaping the spatial patterns of urban vitality. Taking the central urban area of Changsha as the study region, this paper constructs an evaluati...

Styrene–acrylic elastomeric waterproofing membranes are widely used in exterior construction because of their flexibility, adhesion, and ease of application; however, their long-term performance depends on resistance to environmental aging and...

Whole black wheat increases the dietary fiber and anthocyanin content of bread, but reduces loaf-specific volume and increases crumb firmness. This study evaluated Cili (Rosa roxburghii Tratt.) fruit co-culture fermented with Bacillus subtilis and La...

This paper presents the design and preliminary mechanical validation of a bistable switching module driven by shape memory alloy (SMA) springs for CubeSat reflector-panel applications. A pre-compressed curved compliant beam provides passive state ret...

Although acute aerobic exercise selectively influences specific subcomponents of working memory, whether such benefits transfer to a subsequent cognitive task engaging a different domain remains unclear. Forty-seven participants completed, in randomi...