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This study established a stepwise procedure for calibrating the contact parameters and Tavares UFRJ breakage-model parameters required for discrete element method (DEM) simulations of Denghai 605 maize kernels. Kernel–kernel and kernel–ca...

Potato leaf diseases seriously affect potato yield and quality. Accurate recognition and localization of visible lesions associated with potato early blight and late blight can support preliminary disease screening and targeted field inspection. Obje...

Step-counting remains difficult in irregular walking, where step timing and signal patterns are less consistent than in controlled walking. We propose a step-counting model that uses step timing annotations as temporal supervision during training. Ea...

Ultrasound–assisted additive manufacturing forms bonds through rapid interfacial events that are difficult to observe in situ, particularly because the deposition tool moves continuously. This study presents an energy–based acoustic frame...

Background/Objectives. Chemical assessment of dental biomaterials in food and beverage media is complicated by endogenous matrix constituents and matrix-dependent analytical recovery, so post-immersion concentrations cannot be assigned to material-de...

Leprosy remains a public health challenge due to delayed diagnosis, disability, and persistent transmission despite the availability of effective treatment. This study aimed to describe the sociodemographic, clinical, and epidemiological profile of l...

This work performs conventional and advanced exergy assessments on a trigeneration system supported by solar-powered direct steam generation (DSG). The system utilized parabolic trough collector (PTC) as the energy source, a Rankine cycle for electri...

Cardiovascular disease is shaped not only by cardiomyocyte excitability but also by electrophysiological and membrane-signaling programs in cardiac fibroblasts, endothelial cells, mural cells, immune cells, and adipocytes. Recent single-cell RNA sequ...

Recently, the solution of aerial refueling scheduling problems has become increasingly important. The aerial refueling scheduling problem can be defined as scheduling aircraft on tankers, where aircraft become available at ready times and should comp...

Rails are critical load-bearing components in railway transportation systems, and the quality of their welded joints is essential to operational safety. However, the large variation in rail cross-sectional geometry makes it difficult to achieve suita...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are a global concern because of their toxicity and persistence, yet seasonal dynamics, pollution-level dependencies, and inhalation risks of PM_2.5-bound PFASs in haze-prone industrial cities remain underexp...

Single-atom–nanocluster (SA–NC) architectures combine atomically dispersed metal sites and nanoscale ensembles, leveraging high utilization, defined coordination, cooperative adsorption, and tunable electronics to generate synergy via spa...

Green hydrogen is a key energy vector for low-carbon transition, yet water electrolysis remains constrained by sluggish reaction kinetics and the high cost of noble-metal catalysts. High-entropy oxides (HEOs), which contain multiple metal cations, ex...

Age-linked tissue dysfunction is associated with mitochondrial degeneration manifested as organelle fragmentation and respiratory dysfunction. Efforts to mitigate downstream consequences of mitochondrial degeneration, as with ROS scavengers, have not...

This work presents a comprehensive physics-based simulation framework designed to model and assess the performance of acoustic intensity dual-microphone probes under dynamic conditions. The measured quantity, acoustic intensity, is a vector represent...

Urban vineyards are expanding worldwide, driven by cultural and environmental motivations and their potential contribution to sustainable food systems. This study assessed grapevine (Vitis vinifera L.) responses to urban atmospheric conditions and ex...

Wing icing poses a significant challenge to the safe operation of battery-powered low-altitude aircraft, while conventional electrothermal deicing is constrained by its high electrical power demand. This study investigates a thermoelectric heat pump...

Periplaneta americana (American cockroach) is a traditional medicinal insect rich in bioactive peptides and amino acids, yet its efficient and green extraction remains challenging due to its complex matrix and the thermolabile nature of its active co...

Hematological and blood biochemical parameters are useful tools for monitoring fish physiological status; however, information on their variation between sexes during reproductive development remains limited for Colossoma macropomum. This study evalu...

Micro- and nanoplastics (MNPs) are increasingly detected in human tissues, but whether they influence biological ageing remains unresolved. This critical narrative review evaluates whether experimental evidence supports MNPs as potential chronic abio...

Background/Objectives: New-onset atrial fibrillation is a common complication of acute myocardial infarction and is associated with increased mortality, heart failure, and recurrent cardiovascular events. Prediction models for the occurrence of atria...

Post hoc feature attributions are often interpreted from a single run, although their reproducibility and agreement with other explanatory views can depend on resampling, model family, representation, audit lens, output orientation, and inspection sc...

Cellular and perforated substrate roots are stated to improve the output of piezoelectric cantilever energy harvesters, which serve as the primary vibration power source for self-powered wireless sensor nodes. The present work applies stricter contro...

Dependency distance measures the linear separation between syntactically related words but does not describe how information is distributed across their interval. We analyzed summed XGLM-2.9B word surprisal in 1,346,122 dependency spans from 22 Unive...

The vector network analyzer (VNA) is the core instrument for S-parameter measurements in microwave and millimeter-wave bands. Frequency extension modules are indispensable for high-frequency testing, in which the directivity of the directional couple...

Background: Breast cancer (BC) significantly affects patients’ quality of life (QoL), not only through the physical burden of disease and its treatment but also through psychological mechanisms. The aim of this study was to investigate the asso...

Background: Craniofacial and skull base procedures place cranial nerves at risk of injury, with consequences for movement, sensation, hearing, swallowing, vision, and quality of life. Methods: This narrative review integrates 46 original publications...

Hot workability of GTD222 nickel-based superalloy was examined by isothermal compression over 1010–1090 °C and 0.01–10 s⁻¹ to a true strain of 1.2. The flow resistance increased as the temperature decreased or the strain rate in...

Background: Serotonin, as an important neurotransmitter and signaling molecule, can affect thoracic aortic aneurysm (TAA) by regulating vascular cell proliferation, angiogenesis, and immune status. This research aimed to conduct a comprehensive analy...

The co-smelting of complex gold concentrates with copper concentrates via the matte capturing process generates substantial high-arsenic acidic wastewater (HAAW) containing H₂SO₄ 50–60 g/L, As 15–30 g/L, and coexisting Cu, Pb, Zn, Cd, F^&m...

Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prediction for aircraft engines is a critical task in prognostics and health management, aiming to extract degradation information from multi-sensor operational data to support maintenance scheduling and operational risk m...

High temperature is an important environmental constraint affecting lettuce growth and physiological performance. This study comparatively evaluated the responses of lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. var. romana) to individually applied foliar methyl jasmon...

Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71), belonging to the Picornaviridae family, is the primary causative agent of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) in children under five years of age, and no specific broad-spectrum antiviral therapy is currently available. Des...

Cremastra appendiculata (D. Don) Makino is a rare orchid species possessing both ornamental and medicinal value. The process by which its protocorms develop into pseudobulbs represents not only a critical stage for seedling establishment but also a k...

Electrocardiogram (ECG) monitoring via wearable devices generates rich physiological data, yet conventional time-domain representations offer limited support for spatial interpretation and immersive visualization. We introduce a novel vertex-time rep...

The thermal field distribution in the vertical gradient freeze (VGF) process strongly influences the formation of dislocations, residual thermal stress, and twins in germanium (Ge) single crystals, and its effective control is essential for reducing...

An energetic Lagrangian approach is applied to formulate coupled dynamic equations for unknown time-dependent displacements with respect to girder mid-span and vehicle suspension interaction, along with their rates and accelerations. The paper provid...

With growing demands for thermal management in the modern systems of engineering, increase in heat transfer in porous structures has become one of the key areas of research priorities. The nanofluids, which are developed by dispersing nanoscale parti...

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models has increased significantly in recent years, with rapid advances across domains such as natural language processing, computer vision, code generation, and scientific computing....

Hydrogen is being extensively investigated as a carbon-free energy carrier, particularly for fuel-cell vehicles and long-term energy storage. Because H₂ can form explosive mixtures in air at concentrations as low as 4%, its safe use requires inexpens...

Weakly textured closed pipelines—including energy and buried drainage conduits—require timely inspection of cracks, corrosion, joints and related defects. Weak illumination, sparse texture and repetitive cylindrical geometry degrade visua...

Plant intracellular nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat receptors (NLRs) are central to effector-triggered immunity (ETI), but the rapid expansion of structural data has outpaced an integrated explanation of how receptor architecture, oligomerizat...

Objective: The objective of this study was to determine whether individuals with dengue who received doxycycline had a shorter hospitalization time. Methods: An observational, retrospective, and comparative study was conducted in an anonymized databa...

Coastlines possess significant ecological and resource values, which are intricately associated with marine ecological civilization, the marine green economy, and coastal human well-being. Comprehending the spatiotemporal variations and driving mecha...

This study investigated employee-based relocation in electric car-sharing (ECS) systems when two staff members share part of a route. Employee ride sharing can reduce empty travel and relocation cost, yet it complicates joint rebalancing and rechargi...

Vegetation restoration is accompanied by changes in plant functional traits, soil properties, and microbial communities, yet how these components covary along long-term restoration chronosequences remains poorly understood. We investigated Caragana m...

Particle pollution has been recognized as a significant form of environmental pollution. More specifically, the inhalation of very small (ultrafine) airborne particulate matter that is emitted from the burning of fossil fuels poses one of the most se...

Mountainous rainfall exhibits strong spatial heterogeneity associated with topographic effects. Understanding modulating patterns and non-linear responses of rainfall to terrain factors supports mountain storm-disaster mitigation. Taking the Yanshan...

Coral reefs throughout the Caribbean are increasingly exposed to climate-driven thermal variability, yet long-term coral growth records remain scarce for Haiti. This study examined long-term growth variability in four massive coral colonies (Siderast...

Cadmium (Cd) exposure can affect metal handling, metabolism and tissue condition in bivalves on different timescales. We examined these responses in the blood clam Anadara kagoshimensis (Tokunaga, 1906) exposed to a nominal Cd concentration of 100 &m...