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The METEO Unit of the National Observatory of Athens has developed a suite of operational early warning systems for five Greek municipalities and one region, aimed at providing timely observational and forecast information to support preparedness and...

(1) Background: To address formaldehyde-related health hazards and cadaver scarcity in anatomy education, silicone plastination offers a biosafe alternative, yet organ-specific structural responses at each stage remain inadequately characterized. (2)...

Based on the eXtreme Gradient Boosting (XGBoost) model and SHapley Additive exPlanations (SHAP) dependence plots, this study identified the fire-risk thresholds of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and the Dead Fuel Index (DFI), and a...

Debt maturity, the split of a firm’s borrowing between short- and long-term debt, determines its exposure to refinancing risk, yet for small unlisted firms, it has rarely been studied as an outcome. This paper asks whether the debt maturity of...

World models represent environments and predict how their states evolve under interventions. Their use in generative simulation and interactive environments, autonomous driving, and robotics and embodied control is growing, yet application validation...

This study addresses the integration of a photovoltaic (PV) subsystem and a digital twin into the power supply system of bakery production. A four-level architecture is proposed, comprising a physical level, a data acquisition level, an analytical le...

The increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) in judicial systems raises a fundamental question under Article 6 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR): can an AI system genuinely fulfil a litigant’s right to be heard? This artic...

Generative artificial intelligence services combine functional performance with humanlike interaction, yet it remains unclear whether perceived humanlikeness contributes directly to post-use satisfaction or is associated primarily with more proximal...

Background/Objectives: Anemia and abnormalities in iron-related biomarkers are common in chronic heart failure (CHF), but their relationships with biological sex and left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) remain incompletely understood. This study...

In many African societies, the transition from the realm of the living to the realm of the dead requires adherence to a variety of traditional mortuary rites, some of which specific individuals or groups perform. Elders and specialized individuals or...

Background: Herpes zoster results from the reactivation of varicella–zoster virus (VZV), with incidence increasing with age and immunosuppression. The recombinant zoster vaccine (RZV, Shingrix^®, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals SA, Rixensart, Be...

Winter surface condensation on the walls and false ceiling of paper production halls degrades the building fabric, promotes mould growth and disturbs the process environment, yet the choice between the available remedies—envelope insulation, ve...

Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases (EIDs and REIDs) continue to pose a major threat to human and animal health globally. The close interactions among wildlife, livestock, and humans especially in areas where natural habitats are disturbed c...

Phosphorus fertilization can regulate starch accumulation and quality in cereal grains, but its effects on sorghum starch remain insufficiently understood. This study investigated sorghum cultivar Liaoza 82 under four phosphorus levels: 0, 40, 80, an...

Background: Small-bowel bleeding accounts for a minority of gastrointestinal hemorrhage and may pose a diagnostic challenge after negative bidirectional endoscopy. Malignant melanoma involving the small intestine is usually metastatic, whereas a true...

Understanding the temporal ecology of endemic species is important for conservation planning in biodiversity hotspots during global climate change and habitat alteration. We used three years of camera-trap monitoring across two deployment periods to...

Scholarship on Chinese popular religion has demonstrated the complex interactions between local cults and Confucian ritual norms and explored multiple historical pathways toward cult standardization or orthodoxification. Less attention, however, has...

Initially considered secure against interception, fiber-optic networks were subsequently found susceptible to covert tapping, although such attacks require different coupling mechanisms and components than those used for twisted pair and coaxial cabl...

In this paper, we deal with a challenging problem in Discrete Geometry. The problem is to maximize the number of halving lines for finite sets in the plane. With respect to this, we improve the lower bounds for the maximum number of halving lines for...

To facilitate the graded resource utilization of granite tunnel slag (GTS), the mix proportions of GTS aggregate concrete were optimized using the mortar surplus coefficient (MSC) as a mix-design parameter. Concrete mixtures with different MSC values...

Background: Seasonal allergic conjunctivitis (SAC) is the most prevalent form of ocular allergy, characterized by recurrent episodes of IgE-mediated conjunctival inflammation triggered by seasonal aeroallergens (pollens). Its clinical course typicall...

Nowadays, maximizing agricultural productivity and profitability increasingly relies on timely analysis of heterogeneous information sources, including field sensor measurements, weather conditions, and market trends. Consequently, mobile agricultura...

Melanins were synthesized using a variety of precursors, some of which are precursors of naturally occurring eumelanin or allomelanin. Purified materials were evaluated using absorbance or FT-IR spectroscopy and compared for their common physical and...

The geographic pattern of the number of species in functional or phyletic groups is simultaneously highly derivative and fundamental to our understanding of community ecology [...]

It is commonly held, on the authority of Hirschman, that interest was elaborated in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as a countervailing principle against the destructive passions, and that commercial society rests upon the substitution of ca...

Reservoirs can alter river responses to climatic water deficits, but distinguishing regulation-associated differences from hydroclimatic variability remains difficult. We use a large-sample matched-basin design to compare full-record meteorological&n...

This study evaluated the iron status and diagnostic usefulness of iron-related parameters in patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection upon admission to the hospital and during hospitalization. The study group included 87 patients with COVID-19 and 45 healt...

Historic commercial districts sustain urban memory and public life, yet variations in their spatial conditions and user experiences present challenges for renewal. However, existing studies often examine accessibility, spatial vitality, and user perc...

Lead (Pb) is a toxic element that easily accumulates in vegetables grown in contaminated areas, posing significant human health risks. In this study, spinach (Spinacia oleracea), lettuce (Lactuca sativa L.), tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum), cucumbers...

Fluorescent labeling of pharmaceutical compounds provides a valuable approach for monitoring drug distribution and behavior in biological systems. In this work, a BODIPY-based fluorescent labeling strategy was used for carboxylic acid-containing drug...

High-Andean drylands are environmentally heterogeneous ecosystems, yet soil bacterial communities in southern Peru remain poorly characterized. This exploratory study examined bacterial communities in 23 soil samples collected from five sites in Cand...

The podocyte is a terminally differentiated cell whose foot processes and slit diaphragm form the final layer of the glomerular filtration barrier. Because podocytes are not effectively replaced after birth, and nephron number is fixed before it, the...

Clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC) is characterized by loss of the functional von Hippel–Lindau (VHL) complex and distinctive clear cell morphology associated with intracellular glycogen and lipid accumulation. However, the mechanism under...

Designing guided inquiry requires more than reducing teacher direction: open-ended science tasks must preserve learner decision making while providing sufficient support for disciplinary reasoning. Adopting an interpretivist perspective, this qualita...

Ketamine produces rapid antidepressant-like effects across a range of subanesthetic doses, yet how dose shapes behavioral efficacy and region-specific molecular signaling following adolescent chronic unpredictable stress (CUS) is not well understood....

In Assistive technologies, robotics, and automated machines are progressively reshaping the healthcare domain, supporting patients, caregivers, and healthcare professionals across an increasingly broad range of applications [...]

Interferometric measurement of large aperture freeform surfaces often requires sub-aperture stitching to achieve full aperture measurement. We propose layout preselection based on the Hessian response of the design surface to two planar translations...

Background/Objectives: Chronic topical antiglaucoma therapy may affect the ocular surface. We assessed documented dry eye disease (DED) and its associations with active-ingredient burden, treatment duration, and preservative exposure. Methods: This r...

Mullite–alumina composite ceramics were fabricated via in situ reaction sintering by modulating the kaolin-to-calcium phosphate (K/C) mass ratio (3, 6, 9, and 12) within an 80 wt% alumina matrix. The effects of liquid-phase sintering aid conten...

We developed a multiscale numerical model that couples a macroscopic temperature field with a cellular automaton (CA) model to investigate the evolution of the solidification microstructure in the molten pool of Q450NQR1 weathering steel during low-f...

Background: Accurate field triage is a cornerstone of an inclusive trauma system, but pediatric undertriage remains poorly characterized outside North America. We aimed to estimate the rate of major trauma undertriage in a Spanish pediatric trauma ce...

Musculoskeletal injuries are a major occupational health concern in the fire service and can affect firefighter health, operational readiness, staffing, and injury-related costs. Although prior research has described the epidemiology of firefighter i...

Odontogenic sinusitis (ODS) is increasingly recognized as a distinct form of sinonasal disease in which dental and sinus pathology coexist and frequently require coordinated management. Although systemic antibiotics are commonly prescribed, their pre...

Differential interferometric synthetic aperture radar (D-InSAR) provides a potential approach for retrieving mountain snow depth at high spatial resolution using Sentinel-1 interferometric phase information. However, its performance in complex mounta...

Seams in upholstery fabrics are subjected to repeated mechanical loading during use, which may lead to progressive seam opening. This study evaluated a double-pass stitching variant in which the second pass follows the same nominal seam line as the f...

Collision tumors are exceptionally rare. We report here a case of a cutaneous collision tumor composed of metastatic melanoma and small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL). A 56-year-old man with a prior history of melanoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (C...

Maintaining cognitive load that is neither too high nor too low is key for workplace safety and efficiency. Cognitive load assessment research is often conducted in highly controlled laboratory environments that, by nature, come short of fully recrea...

Validation-based rules often decide when synthetic minority augmentation should replace conventional imbalance treatment but may not transfer to new targets. We audited this retrospectively on public Seagate time-series-2 data, whose 11 key quality i...

Background/Objectives: Studies of socioeconomic differences in DNA methylation-based ageing mainly report regression coefficients, group contrasts, mediation estimates, or decompositions, which do not describe how complete epigenetic age acceleration...

Background/Objectives: In patients with suspected acute deep vein thrombosis (DVT), new blood biomarkers with high specificity for DVT could potentially lower the proportion of patients requiring imaging. The plasma microRNAs (miRs) miR-134-5p, miR-1...