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The bioremediation and restoration of soils damaged by military operations constitute a critically important and complex challenge. It has been shown that the bacterial strain Pseudomonas sp. PS-17 is capable of growing on media containing various hy...

Wood is a hygroscopic material, and water uptake causes dimensional changes associated with swelling. When swelling is restrained, internal stresses and swelling pressure develop, which may contribute to cracking, deformation and damage to wood eleme...

Tryptophan (Trp) is a low-abundance amino acid whose indole side chain contributes to molecular recognition, membrane association and protein–protein interactions. These roles make Trp a useful target for late-stage peptide modification, but th...

This study examined context-dependent behavioural variation and concurrent attacking output in professional football. Wyscout data covered the 2023/2024 EFL Championship. After a data audit, 546 matches contributed 1092 team-match observations and 21...

Borehole strainmeters can measure deformation too small for GNSS and too slow for seismometers, but their precision transducers are complex, and this has limited them to specialized applications as either isolated instruments or sparse arrays. We dev...

Visual generative artificial intelligence (visual GenAI) is increasingly used to communicate urban regeneration proposals, but how public evaluations relate to scheme support remains insufficiently understood. Using the Fengtian Factory in Shenyang,...

The geometry of building corners affects pedestrian acoustic conditions, but its design relevance depends on the functions of adjacent urban space. This study investigates how controlled acoustic and perceptual comparisons can inform preliminary sust...

Global water scarcity and increasing amount of polymer waste pose two major environmental challenges that require urgent attention. One approach to addressing both these issues consists of the reuse of superabsorbent polymer (SAP) gels derived from b...

SparseProto combines global convolutional features with a top-k prototype-assignment histogram in a biomedical image classifier with 41,187 to 42,759 parameters. We evaluate predictive performance, parameter count, counted operations, and measured la...

Background/Objectives: Deep networks trained to recognise oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) in histopathology perform well on held-out images from the same collections, but a recent study found that such a network lost most of its discriminative ab...

International solidarity is routinely invoked as a normative cornerstone of humanitarian action, yet the concept remains analytically underdetermined and politically contested in political theory and humanitarian studies. This article conceptualises...

The interleukin 17 (IL17) cytokine family and its receptors are essential to normal host immune function, and their dysregulation has been linked to a broad range of human diseases, most notably inflammatory conditions and cancer. Interleukin 17 rece...

Background/Objectives:AI-assisted documentation and coding tools add diagnoses to health records, and self-updating AI agents may soon learn from the codes they generate. The objective was to develop a framework for asking whether such systems could...

The development of bimetallic metal–organic frameworks (BMOFs) represents a promising strategy to meet critical requirements of CO₂ capture in flue gas, where CO₂ exists at low partial pressure (0.15 bar, 298–333 K) due to the synergistic...

Although mechanistic–empirical approaches have gained increasing prominence in pavement design, the evaluation and selection of soil–aggregate mixtures still frequently rely on gradation criteria and the California Bearing Ratio (CBR), wh...

Background and Objective. Epistaxis is a frequent bleeding manifestation in patients receiving antithrombotic therapy, and its management falls between otolaryngology and cardiology guidance. We aimed to translate the evidence into an operational fra...

Camellia tuxingsunii (Theaceae), a new species of sect. Camellia from central Yunnan, Southwest China, is described and illustrated. The species is distinguished by its relatively small leaves, flowers and fruits, and may represent one of the smalles...

The creative economy has become an important driver of innovation and sustainable economic growth, yet evidence on its economy-wide and regional effects remains limited. This study evaluates Thailand’s 2009 Creative Economy Policy by integratin...

Provincial carbon footprint factors of electricity underpin product carbon footprints, green certificate trading, and carbon border adjustment, yet their uncertainty is usually reported as one aggregate interval that does not show which part better m...

Tool wear directly affects the accuracy and reliability of machined workpieces; accurately predicting wear trends is crucial for developing reasonable tool-change strategies and avoiding sudden tool failure. Traditional parametric Inverse Gaussian (I...

Background: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) retinal layer segmentation supports quantitative clinical assessment, but its robustness to different image degradation has not been systematically characterized. Methods: This study evaluates a U-Net tr...

The generalized Liénard equation, an important subclass of polynomial planar vector fields closely related to the limit-cycle problem in the second part of Hilbert’s 16th problem, has been extensively studied for real limit cycles, whose...

Background: Advanced endometriosis substantially impairs health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This prospective cohort study assessed six-month changes in HRQoL and pain following surgical treatment and postoperative hormonal therapy and explored w...

Surface waviness is one of the most important factors affecting bearing vibration. How to effectively control waviness in actual production is a technical challenge in bearing mass production at present. This study established a ball bearing vibratio...

This study examines the effects of one-sided laser shock peening (LSP) on friction-stir-welded (FSW) 7075 aluminium alloy joints. It compares depth-dependent grain refinement, residual stress and local hardness in the nugget zone and relates these me...

This study evaluates video-level behavior recognition on the seven-class Construction Meta Action (CMA) benchmark using a neuro-symbolic spatiotemporal Vision Transformer. An MViTv2-S backbone feeds a neural classification head and eight weakly super...

Free air in the pericardial space is called pneumopericardium, a rare phenomenon. Increased intra-alveolar pressure may cause alveolar rupture, releasing air that travels to the pericardial space. This condition can occur following trauma or surgical...

Accurate road extraction from high-resolution satellite imagery is important for transportation planning, infrastructure monitoring, and geospatial updating, but blurred boundaries and fragmented segments still limit practical large-area applications...

Background/Objectives: Prenatal outcomes after mosaic embryo transfer are generally reassuring. However, evidence remains limited on how an abnormal first-trimester chorionic villus sampling (CVS) result should be interpreted. We evaluated first-trim...

This study aims to examine pre-service teachers’ perceptions of the use of digital tech-nologies in promoting creative leadership within higher education for sustainability. A case study design was employed, and data were collected from pre-ser...

Polyethylene film mulching improves crop productivity in arid regions, but conventional full-surface use increases plastic input and post-season waste. This three-year field study evaluated localized strip mulching for drip-irrigated melon (Cucumis m...

This study investigates the Esoteric Buddhist murals in Cave 465 of the Mogao Caves, Dunhuang. Widespread discolouration renders the present colours black, grey, dark-toned or mottled white. Previous iconographic identifications relied solely on morp...

In this paper, an estimation algorithm for human interaction forces is presented, which can potentially be applied when a Parallel Kinematic Manipulator (PKM) is used on supervised physiotherapy exercises. The estimation algorithm is based on the dyn...

University faculty frequently navigate competing demands across their professional and family roles, making job autonomy an important yet complex resource for well-being. Although prior research has established a positive association between job auto...

The low-energy massive Dirac Hamiltonian of strained monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), including the effects of strain-induced pseudomagnetic fields and intrinsic spin–orbit coupling (SOC), was employed to investigate the elect...

Decentralized cyber–physical systems (CPSs) improve scalability and fault tolerance but expose local controllers and neighbor-to-neighbor coordination to integrity, availability, and multi-agent attacks. This study presents a PRISMA-guided syst...

Shock waves generated by underwater nanosecond pulsed discharge offer advantages such as high peak pressure, broad bandwidth, and strong controllability, showing promising application prospects in areas like underwater acoustic sources. Current resea...

Phenomic traits can support soybean breeding when genetic signal, temporal redundancy, and uncertainty are evaluated together. We assessed 30 tropical soybean genotypes in ELO_25A using chlorophyll fluorescence and SPAD measurements, UAV-derived RGB...

In this study, we comprehensively evaluate the simulation performance of a 12 km high-resolution multi-physics ensemble of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model, utilizing the CORDEX-East Asia (CORDEX-EA) Phase 2 grid domain. An eight-memb...

Periodic sensorless finite-control-set model predictive control (FCS-MPC) evaluates all eight voltage vectors every $10\mathsf{\mu }\mathrm{s}$, even when the applied vector is still adequate. This study develops a controller that reuses the applied vector when one held...

Construction safety inspections require identifying violated rules and localizing the associated workers or hazardous areas. Although multimodal large language models can describe hazards, supervision based solely on structured answers does not expli...

Sheet metal forming is widely used to manufacture parts with complex geometries, but dimensional accuracy is often reduced by springback. This study investigates the springback behavior of SUS304 stainless steel during V-bending by combining numerica...

Farmed tilapia fillets are often perceived as having poor eating quality due to their soft texture and low content of n-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA). Dietary α-linolenic acid (ALA) has been proposed as a potential strategy...

Reliable monitoring of an underground mining area requires separating movement of the monitored surface from instability of the reference frame while maintaining the feasibility of observations within short field windows. At a monitoring site coverin...

Online platforms often begin as intermediaries for third-party sellers but may later introduce private-label products. We develop a model in which a manufacturer sells through a platform that can introduce its own private label. Both firms procure fr...

While global decarbonization and low-temperature engines curb nitrogen oxides, they risk significant N₂O emissions, which is also one of the greenhouse gases. This review evaluates N₂O monitoring strategies across maritime and industrial combustion e...

Nickel-free high-nitrogen austenitic stainless steels (HNSS) are increasingly considered for biomedical applications owing to their excellent biocompatibility, corrosion resistance, and favourable mechanical properties. Their mechanical behaviour is...

This article examines how the governance idea of co-creation is translated into practice within an area-based initiative addressing socio-economic challenges in a Norwegian municipality. Drawing on interviews, documents and field notes collected betw...

Urban land grading can support sustainable urban planning by revealing spatial differences in commercial, transport, public service and environmental conditions. We developed a reproducible 100 m × 100 m grid-based framework for Haikou’s...

Blood coagulation is a vital physiological process; however, its dysregulation may result in excessive clotting and adverse health outcomes. Current anticoagulant therapies, such as heparin, are commonly employed to prevent and treat thrombosis, but...