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The increasing frequency and severity of agricultural drought pose a growing threat to Mediterranean farming systems, intensifying soil water deficits, crop water stress, productivity losses, and degradation of water quality. This study evaluates ECM...

Tandem photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells made exclusively of earth-abundant oxides are a promising route to solar hydrogen, but bias-free operation and durability remain challenging, particularly in acidic environments. This work presents a 1 cm² zero...

Region-specific skin appendage phenotypes enable animals to meet diverse environmental and functional demands, yet the molecular basis of this specialization remains incompletely understood. Feathers vary markedly in size and shape across the avian b...

Background/Objectives: Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA)-based acrylic materials are widely used in dentistry, but they are not completely biologically inert and have been associated with hypersensitivity and allergic reactions in both patients and dent...

Background/Objectives: The Crohn’s disease exclusion diet (CDED) offers a structured nutritional strategy for adults with Crohn’s disease. We evaluated remission outcomes by comparator, assessment time, and analysis population to clarify...

Maize in Mexico suffers severe economic losses due to root-feeding and defoliating pests, among which Macrodactylus nigripes is particularly damaging, attacking roots during its larval stage and reducing pollination in adults. The intensive use of ch...

The growing adoption of artificial intelligence in space communications has imposed increasingly demanding efficiency requirements on deep learning training for tasks such as intelligent signal processing and resource allocation. However, performance...

Autoimmune diseases (AIDs), a group of diseases induced by dysfunction of the immune system, are currently prompting the search for novel intervention strategies. Recent studies have found that plant-derived exosome-like nanoparticles (PELNs) have th...

Infectious bursal disease virus (IBDV) is a major immunosuppressive pathogen of poultry that can compromise immune function and increase susceptibility to secondary infections; however, its segment-level genomic diversity in Brazil remains insufficie...

Objective: The roots of Aucklandia costus are traditionally used as medicine and as the main source of A. costus essential oil, with versatile applications in a lot of fields, which has led to the overexploitation of this medicinal plant resource. To...

Background: Intestinal epithelial barrier dysfunction, a major consequence of inflammatory and oxidative stress, contributes to enteric disorder progression. Salvianolic acid B (SAB), a prominent water-soluble phenolic compound in Salvia miltiorrhiza...

Emotional competence underpins adolescent well-being and represents an important dimension of socio-emotional learning relevant to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs 3 and 4). This study examined the associations between perceived...

Sweet corn is widely cultivated for fresh consumption and processing, and kernel size and weight are important yield-related traits. However, the genetic architecture of these traits in sweet corn remains poorly understood. In this study, the SHL01 &...

Background: Can predictive algorithms trained on survey data affected by systematic measurement error meet official statistics quality standards? This study examines the tension between design-based inference and algorithmic modelling in poverty esti...

Sericulture generates large volumes of organic residues that are rarely reintegrated into production systems. We evaluated a closed-loop system in which silkworm (Bombyx mori) frass, uneaten leaves and larval litter were composted for 2.5 months in a...

Maritime disruptions increasingly redirect vessels and cargo towards alternative routes and ports. Although rerouting can preserve connectivity, its effectiveness cannot be assessed through route availability or port capacity alone, as redirected flo...

Bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) is a promising polysaccharide whose properties depend on the supramolecular structure of its crystalline component. The search for cost-effective alternative nutrient media for BNC production requires a deep understandin...

Bovine endometritis frequently progresses to endometrial fibrosis, a leading cause of implantation failure and infertility in dairy cows, yet the upstream events that disrupt endometrial autophagy during uterine inflammation remain poorly defined, an...

Bio-based inputs are increasingly promoted as alternatives or complements to conventional agricultural inputs, yet evidence on their adoption remains fragmented across product categories, behavioural outcomes, and farming contexts. This scoping revie...

As renewable energy integration increases, improving wind energy utilization and reducing carbon emissions from thermal power units have become key challenges for low-carbon power system operation. This study proposes a low-carbon control strategy fo...

A crosslinked hydroxypropyl guar (HPG) aqueous gel was investigated as the continuous, structure-forming phase of a CO₂-rich mixed-phase fracturing fluid for unconventional gas reservoirs. The CO₂ fraction was first screened by fluid-loss tests, afte...

Integrating non-corrosive reinforcement offers a transformative opportunity to reduce concrete cover and enable material-efficient additive manufacturing. However, compatible reinforcement strategies remain rare, and their environmental performance i...

Drought is one of the most complex extreme hydrometeorological phenomena to study and affects extensive regions worldwide. This study aimed to characterize droughts in the state of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. The analysis employed the parametric...

Shale oil stands as a critical growth engine for global unconventional hydrocarbon exploration and production. Sandstone interlayers within shale successions have become the primary reservoir units and key development intervals for interbedded shale...

Aristotle holds that character virtue is acquired through repeated action even though the learner does not yet possess the stable character and practical wisdom of the virtuous agent. Recent scholarship has shown that habituation involves guided prac...

Historic hill towns require geometric information capable of relating urban morphology, construction features, and structural details within a common spatial and semantic framework. This paper presents a multi-sensor, multi-scale geomatics workflow f...

Gateway regions contain operating ports, planned airports and logistics districts with different delivery horizons. This article develops anticipatory gateway regionalization as a conditional framework for the formation of complementary capabilities...

Hydrogen has emerged as a strategic energy vector for hard-to-electrify sectors, including maritime and inland waterway transport. However, important gaps remain between hydrogen policy frameworks and the practical conditions required for implementat...

Spatially uneven lithium (Li) growth in garnet solid electrolytes can accompany local mechanical damage. Here, operando scanning electron microscopy was used to follow Li growth on tantalum-doped lithium lanthanum zirconium oxide (LLZTO) under a loca...

Background: Achieving efficient extravascular nanoparticle delivery to deep viscera is hindered by rapid reticuloendothelial clearance and multiple biological barriers. We explored whether the linea alba (LA) interstitium acts as a route for gold nan...

Oxidative stress and proteotoxic endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress are interconnected cellular stress processes implicated in neuronal injury. J147 reportedly exerts neuroprotective effects through ATP synthase α-subunit (ATP5A)-associated mito...

Unmanned ground vehicle control in unknown environments is hindered by terrain variation, obstacle complexity, and sensor noise. This study proposes a light-detection-and-ranging-based control system that integrates fuzzy terrain traversability asses...

Water hyssop (Bacopa monnieri (L.) Wettst.) is a water-demanding medicinal plant whose responses to declining soil moisture remain insufficiently characterized, particularly in relation to phenolic accumulation. This study investigated the morphologi...

Quadruped navigation for future lunar missions requires route selection over unstructured terrain that accounts for terrain characteristics and controller execution capabilities. Fixed geometric rules cannot fully capture controller-specific executio...

Conventional large-scale structure-based virtual screening typically relies on fixed-receptor docking, in which ligand poses are sampled against a predefined receptor conformation. Protein-ligand co-folding models can instead generate candidate compl...

Driven by global climate goals and stringent shipping decarbonization policies led by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the European Union, green alternative fuels have become a key pathway toward net-zero shipping. Life cycle assessm...

The concept of cyclotron resonance near the equatorial plane of the Earth’s magnetosphere between whistlers and energetic electrons originated in the 1960s. Since then, the subject has advanced substantially, with experimental, theoretical and...

This paper presents a Chebyshev–Legendre (CL) collocation method for the optimal energy management of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). The method combines spectral collocation with a regularity analysis. We prove that the collocation error deca...

This systematic literature review examines cross-cultural differences in attitudes towards the security of personal data and online privacy. As digital technologies increasingly collect, store, and analyse personal information, understanding how priv...

Copper tailings are generated in large quantities, and their efficient utilization remains challenging because of their complex mineralogical composition and relatively low reactivity. This study investigated the feasibility of partially replacing ce...

Background: Arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy (ARVC) is a hereditary disorder characterized by fibrous or fibro-fatty myocardial tissue replacement leading to the life-threatening ventricular arrhythmias and progressive heart failure (H...

Korea produces comparatively less summer-cultivated paprika from August to September due to unfavorable environmental circumstances, particularly high temperatures that begin in late June. As a result of this, managing a greenhouse climate well durin...

Background/Objectives: Competence in physiotherapy is multidimensional, but person-centred analyses may either reveal distinct configurations or primarily reproduce differences in overall level. This secondary analysis examined whether reproducible c...

Background: Breast cancer (BC) and colorectal cancer (CRC) are leading malignancies among women in Singapore, but their temporal drivers may differ despite occurring within the same healthcare system. We compared both cancers using a common analytica...

Semiochemicals can provide species-selective pest monitoring and behavioral control, but their volatility, chemical instability, and sensitivity to field conditions make delivery technology decisive for efficacy. This narrative review examines solid...

Background: Severe skeletal Class III malocclusion in adult patients often requires a combined orthodontic–surgical approach to achieve optimal functional and aesthetic outcomes. Methods: a 25-year-old female presented with severe skeletal Clas...

Dental implants are widely used to replace missing teeth. The aim of this study was to develop a patient-specific screw-type dental implant using a computed tomography (CT)-based modeling approach and to evaluate its biomechanical behavior through fi...

Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus)-induced mastitis poses a severe threat to the global dairy industry and raw milk safety. This study aimed to evaluate the protective effects of lytic phage JXAU-SA-P1, recently isolated in our laboratory, against S. ...

Syllabi are often required documents at higher education institutions in the United States, used to inform students about course information and expectations at the beginning of a new term. Whether syllabi are an effective pedagogical tool has been l...

Background: This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of percutaneous internal ring suturing (PIRS) for pediatric inguinal hernia. While previous reviews have addressed pediatric laparoscopic hernia repair more broadly, the present review specif...