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Retinal degenerative diseases, including age-related macular degeneration (AMD), retinitis pigmentosa (RP), and Stargardt disease, represent leading causes of irreversible vision loss worldwide, collectively affecting hundreds of millions of people....

Industrial 2219 aluminum alloy ring production requires quality assessment before a prescribed rolling plan is executed. At the investigated site, independent geometric inspection is incomplete and forming-quality feedback is not used for in-process...

Digital connectivity, remote and hybrid work, and expectations of constant availability have made “always-on” work cultures a central feature of contemporary organising, yet work engagement research has only partially incorporated these c...

Radon is an established environmental cause of lung cancer, but residential surveillance is limited in Brazil. This study comprised two complementary, analytically independent components: indoor radon monitoring in Caçador, and Hospital Cancer...

Background: Hamstring strains and anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears commonly occur in court and field sport athletes, with prevalence being higher in females. The likelihood of such injuries has been related to the hamstring-to-quadriceps (H:Q)...

Lexical-disambiguation tasks with supplied context do not reveal whether readers would choose to seek evidence before deciding. Therefore, we adapted the spatial T-maze in the active-inference package pymdp to show how agents seek and use contextual...

African Pentecostal ritual is more than the preservation of religious tradition. It is a dynamic social and theological process through which gender, power, and identity are negotiated, reproduced, and sometimes transformed. This article examines Pen...

Clade V-MLOs are associated with powdery mildew susceptibility in several plants. In grapevine, four MLO genes (MLO3, MLO4, MLO13, and MLO17) belong to clade V and have been studied to determine their contribution to susceptibility to Erysiphe necato...

Next-generation probiotics (NGPs) are promoted as precision tools for animal health, yet the term is often applied to uncommon taxa before causality, safety and target-species efficacy are established. This critical narrative review reframes animal N...

The optical properties of SiO₂@Au core–shell nanospheres are related to the core radius, shell thickness, and particle number concentration. However, simultaneously retrieving their joint distribution of core radius and shell thickness, togethe...

Backpack load carriage can alter gait mechanics and dynamic stability, while existing assistive backpacks have primarily targeted load transmission and metabolic cost. This study investigated whether active vertical repositioning of a moving mass wit...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (Glomeromycota) offer routes to inoculum production, crop management, phytomanagement of contaminated soils, and modulation of plant metabolites. This critical narrative review integrates 102 selected original studies, in...

Background: Hallux valgus (HV) is a three-dimensional deformity, and preoperative assessment of sesamoid position and first metatarsal rotation is important for surgical planning. Weight-bearing computed tomography (WBCT) enables three-dimensional as...

With the continuous development of new technologies, these new technologies have a profound impact on the labor market. This paper uses micro-individual data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2016 to 2022 and provincial-level macro-data...

Firearm-related violent injuries are a leading cause of death among U.S. youth, yet little is known about what predicts youths’ violent use of firearms. This study examined how hypothesized predictors across social-ecological domains, identifie...

The interaction of light with biological matter offers a unique combination of analytical capabilities, making photonics a powerful platform for sensing, imaging, and monitoring across a broad range of bioapplications [...]

A panel of monoclonal nanobodies (VHH) specific to poliovirus Sabin strains types 2 and 3 has been generated and characterized. For poliovirus Sabin type 2, a panel of four serotype-specific single-domain antibodies was obtained. Notably, two of thes...

Epigenetic regulation involves multiple molecular layers, including DNA and RNA modifications, histone post-translational modifications (PTMs), and chromatin accessibility. These processes contribute to cell identity, development, and disease, but th...

Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) is essential for maximizing photovoltaic (PV) energy extraction under changing operating conditions. This paper investigates a two-stage machine-learning framework combining K-means or fuzzy C-means (FCM) clusterin...

Histone deacetylases (HDACs) are crucial epigenetic regulators that modulate chromatin structure and gene expression through histone deacetylation. Stevia rebaudiana, a natural source of high-intensity sweeteners, faces significant cultivation challe...

The prevalence of kidney stone (KS) disease and cardiometabolic diseases are simultaneously increasing in the United States. Dyslipidemia has been associated with an increased risk for KS formation and recurrence due to alterations in metabolism of p...

Litchi is an important cash crop in China. Accurate litchi orchard extraction is crucial for agricultural management and economic development. However, litchi orchards are spectrally very similar to evergreen broad-leaved forests and are poorly resol...

Punching shear is a brittle failure mode in reinforced-concrete slab–column connections, requiring predictive models with explicit validity limits. This study develops a mechanics-informed machine-learning workflow using 1068 quality-controlled...

The integration of artificial intelligence and search technology is transforming traditional online shopping models, particularly cross-border e-commerce (CBEC), which involves complex customer multi-attribute decision-making with numerous considerat...

Background/Objectives: Cancer-related pain remains difficult to control in a substantial proportion of patients despite contemporary pharmacological treatment, and interventional procedures may provide additional analgesic benefit. However, the relat...

Gut health is maintained through interactions among intestinal barrier integrity, microbial homeostasis, host-immune function, and redox balance. Eggshell membrane (ESM), a protein-rich poultry by-product, contains structural components and derived p...

High-resolution snow depth (SD) information supports hydrological and cryospheric studies in complex mountain regions. Coarse SD products limit representation of terrain-related snow variability in these environments. This study proposes SDFNet, a Sn...

Aluminum oxide nanoparticles (Al₂O₃ NPs) are frequently incorporated into fertilizers and pesticides. Nevertheless, the effects of Al₂O₃ NPs on plants growing in acidic soils with elevated aluminum toxicity remain poorly understood. In this context,...

Plant multidrug and toxic compound extrusion (MATE) transporters participate in citrate transport, aluminium detoxification, and mineral homeostasis, yet their diversity and genomic organisation in Vaccinium remain poorly understood. In this study, w...

Cinnabarinic acid (CA) is a phenoxazinone metabolite produced by Pycnoporus fungi and reported to have antibacterial activity. This study compared CA production by Pycnoporus cinnabarinus HEMIM-53 in three culture systems, Shake flasks (FSK), a Stirr...

Aging is associated with inflammation and is the greatest risk factor for chronic disease. Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and exosomes have anti-inflammatory, pro-healing, and immunomodulatory effects that make them appealing candidates to reverse tis...

Background/Objectives: The shoulder girdle is a frequent injury location in judo, and sport-specific shoulder-complex adaptations have been described in overhead sports, but these areas have not been synthesised for judo athletes. We synthesised evid...

Objective: This study evaluated the association between the preoperative 5-factor Modified Frailty Index (mFI-5) and in-hospital cumulative postoperative morbidity, as measured by the Comprehensive Complication Index (CCI), in patients undergoing col...

Building envelopes are addressed by two largely separate bodies of research: adaptive façade design, which treats change as behaviour during operation, and design for disassembly, which treats it as an end-of-life property. This study asks whe...

Background/Objectives: Individual spikes are difficult to track through recurrent cortical circuits, where convergence, divergence, and nonlinear dynamics rapidly transform activity. However, the statistical properties of an input may remain detectab...

Natural fibers from different plants are widely used as reinforcing fillers in polymers due to their ecological, economic and technical benefits, with applications in all major industries. Since a typical drawback of incorporating natural fibers into...

With the rapid deployment of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), accurate sensor calibration is increasingly important for reliable functional performance. This study investigates how different geometric calibration settings of the front radar...

Background: In all, 90% of patients in Germany are insured with statutory (SHI) instead of private health insurance (PHI). PHI offers significantly better benefits including earlier and more comprehensive diagnosis and therapy, which can reduce the c...

Background: In the Australian Capital Territory (ACT) during the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) testing using the World Health Organization’s (WHO) oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) was replac...

This study presents an experimental investigation to evaluate the effectiveness of four schemes for strengthening circular reinforced concrete (RC) columns. The columns were cast using ultra-high-performance concrete (UHPC). Ten RC columns, categoriz...

Hepatic steatosis is the hallmark of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), the most prevalent chronic liver disease worldwide. Lipotoxicity, resulting from excessive accumulation of fatty acids and bioactive lipid intermed...

Body condition may be associated with postoperative orthopedic outcomes, but its relationship with early radiographic osteotomy healing following tibial plateau leveling osteotomy (TPLO) remains unclear. This retrospective study evaluated the associa...

Polyethylenimine supported on silica (PEI–SiO₂) is an efficient heterogeneous catalyst for the Knoevenagel condensation of dehydroacetic acid (DHA) with aromatic and heteroaromatic aldehydes. The combination of the basic PEI phase with the acid...

Digital technologies are becoming increasingly embedded in undergraduate dental curricula, with the potential to support learning and skills development. This scoping review mapped recent evidence on the implementation and educational applications of...

Clinical redox studies usually sample a single compartment. In a single-centre, cross-sectional case–control study, we measured serum thiol-disulfide homeostasis, a bulk extracellular thiol measure, and erythrocyte glutathione, an intracellular...

Solid lesions of the mandibular–sublingual salivary gland complex are rare in dogs. We report the case of an 11-year-old, 5 kg, intact female Maltese dog that presented with a non-painful, 2–3 cm left cervical swelling, soft at the surfac...

Aim: This study aimed to explore pregnant women’s experiences of obstetric abdominal ultrasound and examine the emotional, cognitive, and relational dimensions of these experiences. Methods: A qualitative descriptive study was conducted with 20...

Herbaceous perennials contribute to the functional stability and ornamental quality of urban plantings, but these dimensions are rarely assessed together. This study evaluated nine perennial taxa in an established municipal planting in southern Polan...

Thermal processing facilitates the transformation of major ginsenosides into rare ginsenosides, thereby enhancing the bioactive molecular profile of American ginseng. This study examined the impact of 1–4 cycles of high-temperature and high-pre...

Breast cancer remains a major cause of cancer-related mortality, highlighting the need for improved molecular characterization of breast pathologies. Raman spectroscopy (RS) provides a label-free, non-destructive approach for probing tissue biochemic...