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The C-reactive protein-to-albumin ratio (CAR) is a readily available composite biomarker reflecting systemic inflammatory activity and changes in circulating albumin, but its nutritional interpretation and clinical utility remain incompletely defined...

Quantitative characterization of pore-structure heterogeneity is an important problem in tight sandstone reservoirs, and because pore systems depend on scale, a single fractal dimension cannot fully describe multiscale pore complexity. Sixteen tight...

Comparative full-scale blast data for buried reinforced-concrete (RC) boxes in crushable coral sand remain scarce. Four lateral-detonation tests used the same instrumented box: three in loess (0.6, 1.0 and 2.0 kg TNT) and one in coral sand (1.0 kg)....

Cardiovascular diseases remain a major global health challenge, highlighting the need for accessible, intelligent, and real-time cardiac monitoring solutions. This paper presents Moroccan VitaTrack GeoMed, a patented Made-in-Morocco 12-lead ECG monit...

In this study, four papal bulls preserved in the historical archive of the Santuario della Beata Vergine di Saronno were studied for the first time through a fully non-invasive approach, combining Multiband Imaging (MBI) and Ion Beam Analysis (IBA)....

Obesity and pulmonary hypertension (PH) frequently coexist, but obesity is not a distinct PH group. This narrative review of the literature published through 27 September 2026 appraises the evidence by PH group. Obesity is most clearly linked to PH t...

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are zinc-dependent endopeptidases which play essential roles in extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling. Among them, MMP-2 and MMP-9 are mainly associated with tumor invasion, angiogenesis, metastasis, and other patholo...

Nitric oxide (NO) regulates neuronal signaling and neurovascular function, but its rapid diffusion, short lifetime, and reactivity complicate real-time detection in tissue. We developed flexible platinum microelectrode arrays (MEAs) modified with nan...

Background/Objectives: Despite several FDA-approved therapies, metastatic melanoma remains a major clinical challenge, particularly in patients with brain metastases, which are associated with treatment failure and melanoma-related mortality. The mol...

Water temperature critically influences growth and gonadal development in teleosts, yet its effects on adult black scraper (Thamnaconus modestus) remain unclear. To address this, 590-day-old T. modestus were reared for 4 months under three thermal re...

Background/Objectives: Blood deficiency syndrome (BDS) shows disturbed hematopoietic and immune homeostasis under conditions of chronic stress. Ferulic acid (FA), the principal bioactive constituent of the dried root of Angelica sinensis (Oliv.) Diel...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are naturally well suited to serve as distributed receivers for multi-static sensing owing to their widely deployed nodes. However, the limited energy and processing capability of individual nodes imply that continuous...

Background/Objectives: Endothelin receptor antagonists (ERAs) lower albuminuria in chronic kidney disease (CKD) but cause dose-dependent fluid retention, which natriuretic sodium–glucose cotransporter-2 inhibitors (SGLT2is) may offset. We compa...

Evaluating the quality of knowledge discovered by association rule mining remains an open problem. Existing interestingness measures assess individual rules in isolation rather than how well a rule set stands in for the original dataset. This paper e...

Coastal flooding threatens lives, infrastructure, ecosystems, and economic activity, making reliable assessments essential for coastal planning and adaptation to sea-level rise. Coastal flood assessments over regional to global scales must reconcile...

Background: Axial symptoms in Parkinson’s disease (PD) are challenging to treat, even with deep brain stimulation (DBS). Trans-spinal magnetic stimulation (TsMS) has emerged as a potential neuromodulatory approach for gait and balance dysfuncti...

Cellphone return rates remain low despite increasing awareness of electronic waste and established recycling programs. Existing reverse logistics strategies rely on static rules that fail to adapt to sequential decision-making under uncertainty, resu...

Tea quality is shaped by dynamic metabolic changes, with aroma as the primary determinant of commodity value and consumer preference. As a biomimetic sensing technology, the electronic nose (E-nose) avoids limitations of conventional methods such as...

Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) offer a sustainable alternative to chemical fertilizers in rice production, yet the mechanisms underlying multifunctional growth promotion by individual strains remain insufficiently characterized. In this...

Configuring an Internet of Things (IoT) platform produces interdependent device definitions, relationships, access controls, data processing rules, alerting rules, and dashboards. Commercial platforms generate such artifacts from natural language, bu...

Terrestrial ecosystems are a major component of the global carbon cycle, yet their sequestration capacity is not directly observable as a single quantity. This review provides an overview of methods for estimating carbon stocks, stock changes, net ex...

In recent years, the co-production of natural gas hydrate and shallow gas has been regarded as a promising technical solution to tackle the aforementioned challenges; however, the influence of well-type adaptability of single-wellbore in co-productio...

The human midline-1 (MID1) protein is an important E3 ubiquitin ligase that regulates cellular homeostasis by catalyzing the ubiquitination of protein phosphatase 2A (PP2A), alpha4 (α4), and Fu kinase. The E3 ubiquitin ligase activity of MID1 i...

Adipocyte differentiation is central to adipose-tissue homeostasis, but its regulatory landscape remains incompletely defined in human cells. Here, we perform a genome-wide CRISPR/Cas9 knockout screen in oleic acid-differentiated human SW872 preadipo...

Background/Objectives: We evaluated the association between early alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) decline and documented disease control during first-line immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI)-based therapy for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). Method...

Evidence has increasingly shown that the HB53/40/21 clade within HD-ZIP I plays an important role in floral organ development in plants. In this study, we performed genome-wide identification of HD-ZIP family members in Chinese chestnut Castanea moll...

Background/Objectives: Metabolic dysfunction is increasingly recognised as a key contributor to heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF), yet the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Therefore, robust animal models that r...

Seasonal atmospheric particulate matter (PM_2.5) pollution has become a recurrent environmental health challenge in northern Thailand, particularly acute in border regions where economic development, transportation, population mobility, and transbound...

Estragole (EST), a naturally occurring phenylpropanoid found in several aromatic plants and essential oils, has demonstrated a range of biological effects, including cytotoxic activity in experimental cancer models. However, its molecular effects on...

Objectives: The reproductive impact of bowel involvement in deep endometriosis (DE) after fertility-preserving surgery remains controversial. We aimed to determine whether bowel endometriosis (BE) is independently associated with postoperative pregna...

Photosynthesis determines plant growth but is sensitive to heat stress. Photosystem II (PSII) exhibits greater thermosensitivity than photosystem I (PSI). In tomato (Solanum lycopersicum), we found that the PSII low-molecular-weight protein, SlPsbTn,...

Background: The development of resistance to conventional therapies remains one of the major challenges in the treatment of breast and colorectal cancers, highlighting the urgent need for novel anticancer agents with improved efficacy. In the present...

(1) Background: Home-based telework has expanded rapidly and is increasingly promoted worldwide as an accessible employment option for people with disabilities. However, evidence regarding its impacts on inclusion, accommodation, and employment exper...

ByteTrack remains a strong tracking-by-detection framework for online multi-object tracking. Its BYTE association splits detections at a high-score threshold $T_{\mathrm{high}}$ that decides which boxes enter the first matching pass and which unmatched boxes may s...

To address the conflict between fast response and strict safety constraints in aeroengine transient control, this paper proposes a hierarchical safe reinforcement learning method based on a control barrier function (CBF) safety filter. Under the same...

Accurate estimation of crop evapotranspiration (ETc) plays an important role in sustainable agricultural water management, precision irrigation planning, and food security under a dynamically changing climate. Physics-based models such as the FAO-56...

We investigate the variational boundary-value problem for a finite Friedmann–Lemaître–Robertson–Walker (FLRW) spacetime globally completed by an exterior Schwarzschild vacuum. To construct the solution, we introduce a spherica...

In this paper, we introduce a new distribution for modeling asymmetric bimodal data supported on the real line, based on the bimodal-logistic (BL) distribution. This new distribution is derived using the skewness methodology introduced by Azzalini, r...

In cervids, age at first reproduction is an important life-history trait that can influence reproductive potential and population dynamics. Early reproduction in water deer may contribute to the persistence of hunted populations, but the reproductive...

Youth unemployment remains a significant challenge in Kenya, and access to affordable vocational education and training (VET) is limited, particularly in rural areas where reliable electricity, internet connectivity, and qualified teachers are scarce...

Nowadays, more than half of the world’s population lives in cities. Urban mass transportation represents a big issue, and its design and operation must cope with environmental concerns. Trams are certainly one of the least energy-consuming and...

Background/Objectives: Benztropine, a muscarinic acetylcholine receptor antagonist used to treat Parkinson’s disease, has been used clinically for decades, and weight loss has been reported during its use; however, its role in adipocyte differe...

Parafoil airdrop systems are sensitive to atmospheric wind disturbances, and wind prediction accuracy is critical for trajectory planning. However, the relationship between prediction accuracy and landing precision is poorly quantified. This study pr...

This study aims to advance the development of metal-based antimicrobial materials by exploring the correlation between synthesis parameters and functional characteristics of sol–gel-derived TiO₂/CuO/ZnO powders. The examined sample has a nomina...

Background/Objectives: Cemented total knee arthroplasty (cTKA) remains the most widely used fixation strategy, while cementless TKA (clTKA) has gained interest with advances in implant design and biomaterials. This systematic review compared survivor...

Synaptic dysfunction and neurodegeneration in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are accompanied by neuroinflammation and peripheral immune activation. Activation of humoral immunity is known to be associated with the formation of catalytic antibodies ca...

Continuous monitoring of the thermal environment and air quality in animal production facilities is essential for animal welfare and productive efficiency. The objective was to develop and validate a low-cost device, based on an ESP32 microcontroller...

FMS-like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3) inhibitors improve outcomes in FLT3-mutated acute myeloid leukemia (AML), but interpreting cardiovascular events is complicated by prior or concurrent anthracycline exposure, hematopoietic stem cell transplantation,...

Background: Quercetin is a flavonol-type polyphenol abundant in vegetables and fruits that has various physiological activities. Quercetin glycosides are enzymatically produced by conjugating sugars to quercetin. This study investigated the effects o...

Electromagnetic interference (EMI) in high-frequency communication systems demands sophisticated shielding technologies that provide protection over multiple frequency bands while retaining reliable performance of the devices. In order to reduce EMI...