2,064,132 Results Found

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...

Background: Inventory management for perishable products is challenging because demand variability, forecast reliability, shelf life, and batch constraints must be considered jointly. This study develops a data-driven decision-support framework for a...

The molecular features shared by non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and myocardial infarction (MI) remain incompletely understood. We analyzed six microarray cohorts from the GEO database to identify shared disease-associated transcriptomic fe...

Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) causes serious infections in intensive care units (ICUs), but the relationship between carbapenemase gene profiles and mortality remains uncertain. This prospective two-center cohort included 94 adult...

The study evaluated the effects of different LED light spectra on the morphological characteristics, photosynthetic pigments, total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC), and antioxidant activity (DPPH) of endive microgreens, and iden...

Feline panleukopenia (FP) is a highly fatal disease in cats caused by feline panleukopenia virus (FPV). The viral capsid protein VP2 determines immunogenicity and host range. We isolated an FPV strain, ZZ202501, and generated four monoclonal antibodi...

Objective: Shenqi Granules is a traditional Chinese medicine formula derived from the classic prescription Shenqi Formula (SQF), composed of Astragali Radix (Huangqi) and Codonopsis Radix (Dangshen). SQF shows neuroprotection in cerebral ischemia-rep...

Reversible data hiding (RDH) in structured images remains challenging: most deep-learning methods target natural images, where distortions can be spread across the entire picture. When the carrier contains functionally critical regions—the find...

This study investigates the compressive response of a caisson-ceiling-inspired (CC) lattice developed from curved supporting paths and hierarchical nesting in traditional Chinese caisson ceilings. Four lattice configurations were compared numerically...

In this paper, the effects of rotating magnetic field (RMF) excitation current intensity on Sn segregation, grain refinement, and mechanical properties of Cu-6Ni-6Sn alloy were systematically investigated. The results demonstrate that the application...

This meta-analysis was conducted to comprehensively assess the effects of dietary supplementation with Schizochytrium sp. microalgae on milk yield, milk composition, and the fatty acid profile of milk in dairy goats. A systematic literature search wa...

Selecting an appropriate demand response (DR) strategy for individual loads requires balancing network operating constraints, customer flexibility, and economic cost. This combinatorial decision problem becomes computationally expensive when it must...

Safety-aligned language models often encode that a request is harmful yet still comply with it. We turn this gap between internal recognition and observable behavior into an inference-time defense. The proposed activation-steering method uses a multi...

Background/Objectives: Hypohydration increases physiological strain and reduces physical and technical soccer performance. Nonetheless, there are limited data on fluid balance responses in elite soccer players training in cool environments. This stud...

Conventional ship-domain models often prescribe boundary geometries empirically or infer them statistically from observed traffic, which may limit their ability to represent the directional variation in modeled encounter risk. This study develops a r...

We use China Family Panel Studies data to construct a four-party model of local government, healthcare providers, a service-integration platform, and older households and examine why medical spending rises after hospitalization while changes in house...

Background: Social isolation and loneliness are established social determinants of health, associated with 25–30% higher mortality risk, yet their relationship with systemic inflammation and broader biological and clinical outcomes has not been...

Winter precipitation in Northeastern Asia has important implications for regional climate and weather hazards, yet its month-to-month evolution under global warming remains poorly understood. Using observations and the Policy Decision-making for Futu...

The effects of tempering temperature on the microstructure and mechanical properties of Cronidur 30 bearing steel were investigated by XRD, SEM, TEM, EBSD, and mechanical testing. The microstructure evolves systematically with increasing tempering te...

West Nile Virus (WNV) is a significant global health threat, and the molecular mechanisms of its pathogenic activity in human hosts remain partially understood. This study applies an extensive proteomic approach combining “top-down” (2DE/...

Chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) is one of the most widely consumed grain legumes worldwide, and its protein isolates are increasingly used as ingredients in plant-based foods. This study assessed the nutritional quality of a chickpea protein isolate pr...

Zinc oxide (ZnO) is increasingly used as a mineral UV filter, but its efficacy may be underestimated by conventional spectrophotometric in vitro methods based on mass application. This study investigated whether this underestimation reflects intrinsi...

Good science does not automatically translate into a good cosmetic product. In this Perspective, we examine four recurring misconceptions: that ingredient evidence can stand in for finished-product performance; that more actives, higher concentration...

Temporomandibular joint osteoarthritis (TMJ-OA) involves inflammation and degeneration of mandibular condylar cartilage and subchondral bone. Dedifferentiated fat cells (DFATs) were established from buccal fat pad tissue obtained from a single human...

Oteseconazole, a synthetic tetrazole antifungal, provides pharmacological advantages that suggest it can be a safe and effective treatment for Trichophyton rubrum onychomycosis. A Phase II study of oteseconazole (VT-1161) for onychomycosis demonstrat...

A novel lytic bacteriophage, designated vB_ValS-L9, infecting the potentially pathogenic bacterium Vibrio alginolyticus L4, was isolated from a coastal aquaculture area in Beihai, China. Transmission electron microscopy revealed that vB_ValS-L9 posse...

Submarine natural gas hydrate accumulation requires deep methane to enter the gas hydrate stability zone, become immobilized within a reservoir, and remain confined beneath a caprock. The long-term coupling among reservoir supply, caprock retention,...

Sojae Semen Praeparatum (SSP) is a traditional fermented soybean product with both dietary and medicinal uses in China. However, the dynamic metabolic changes and microbial community succession during SSP fermentation remain insufficiently characteri...

Next-generation Bruton’s tyrosine kinase inhibitors (BTKis) such as acalabrutinib and zanubrutinib have improved treatment outcomes in B-cell malignancies, including chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), and Waldenstr&...

Metabarcoding is increasingly used for monitoring, but its usefulness for assessing benthic diatom diversity in mountain lakes is poorly understood, especially for Italy. We assessed benthic diatom diversity in Upper Lake Balma (2204 m asl; North-Wes...

We develop an explicit operator and coefficient calculus for admissible $(\mathfrak{g},K)$ modules of $SU(2,2)$, where $\mathfrak{g}=\mathfrak{sl}(4,\mathbb{C})$ and $K=S\left(U\right(2)\times U(2\left)\right)$. The K-types are indexed by triples $(n,k,m)$. We introduce operators $A_{\delta }$ and $B_{\delta }$ associated with the n...

Background: Endothelial dysfunction and chronic inflammation are central pathophysiological mechanisms in the development of idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension (IPAH). EASIX, the endothelial activation and stress index, is a simple and recent...

Forest greening may vary considerably within the growing season, particularly in seasonally water-limited ecosystems. This study examined how long-term greening varies from spring to summer across the Zagros forests of western Iran and whether its en...

Serious Games (SGs) have increasingly been investigated as tools for education and intervention for individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), while emerging technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual Reality (VR), Extended Real...