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Compared with traditional laser cladding, high-speed laser cladding offers higher coating deposition efficiency and a smaller heat-affected zone. However, the causes of melt-pool asymmetry on the substrate surface and their effects on the substrate m...

Background/Objectives: Music education can provide a meaningful educational context for promoting the well-being, participation, and development of students enrolled in special education schools. This study analyzes the available evidence on the cont...

Background/Objectives: Prostate Imaging Reporting and Data System (PI-RADS) category 3 lesions are equivocal, and the value of prostate-specific antigen density (PSAD) may depend on lesion zone. We compared whole-gland PSAD with transition-zone PSAD...

Cardiovascular diseases frequently exhibit overlapping clinical symptoms, complicating the interpretation of disease–symptom relationships and coexisting diagnostic states. This study presents an interpretable logical framework for identifying...

Pinus densiflora extracts contain diverse bioactive components with antioxidant, antimicrobial, and skin-protective properties. A P. densiflora dried extract (PDDE) was prepared by self-steam extraction followed by reverse osmosis (RO) processing to...

Given the augmented sampling and ancestry stratification of the Genome Aggregation Database (gnomAD) v4.1 compared with v2.1.1, population evidence for globin gene variants was assessed for changes in fulfillment of the American College of Medical Ge...

Background/Objectives: The relative visual acuity benefit of toric intraocular lenses (IOLs) in eyes with low-to-moderate corneal astigmatism remains incompletely defined. This study compared early visual acuity outcomes after monofocal toric versus...

Tidal-flat islands often lack scheduled ferries because their landings dry out at low water. We propose a transferable, tide-constrained framework for planners and naval architects to assess the operability of an island ferry and specify its principa...

Background/Objectives: Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly used in clinical practice in Saudi Arabia, particularly in radiology, yet AI-related anxiety among residents remains poorly characterized. This study compared AI-related anxiety scor...

Assessing corporate sustainability requires interpreting environmental ratings alongside evidence of firms’ environmental impacts. This study examines whether environmental attention in annual reports is associated with subsequent environmental...

Anthocyanins are natural pigments known for their red color and are often used as powdered food colorants. However, they can be unstable under light and heat. This study evaluated how inlet air temperature and zein-to-gum arabic ratio affect anthocya...

Rapid electric vehicle (EV) adoption in emerging markets often outpaces the development of public charging infrastructure, creating systemic socio-technical friction. This study conceptualizes and operationalizes this dynamic as the “Jordanian...

Milk proteins are divided into 80% caseins, α_S1-, α_S2-, β-, and κ-casein, and 20% whey proteins, α-lactalbumin (α-LA), β-lactoglobulin (β-LG), and bovine serum albumin (BSA). Sodium Alginate (SA) is an ani...

Background/Objectives: Periodontitis and peri-implantitis are biofilm-associated inflammatory diseases in which conventional clinical and radiographic measures mainly reflect accumulated tissue damage, rather than ongoing molecular activity. Extracel...

Transportation planning with heterogeneous vehicle capacities, integer-trip requirements, limited fleet availability, and restricted routes creates a mixed-integer decision space that grows rapidly with network size. Although a full mixed-integer lin...

Background and Aims: Walled-off pancreatic necrosis (WON) and infected necrotizing pancreatitis are managed with drainage and, when required, step-up debridement. The relative benefits of endoscopic, minimally invasive surgical, and open strategies r...

To reveal the evolutionary mechanism of the mechanical behaviour of sea ice under the combined action of low-temperature freezing and impact loading, and to address the drawback that existing constitutive models contain excessive parameters and canno...

Potassium phosphite (PHIK) is a harmless salt, used as a plant invigorator and antifungal agent for strawberry root diseases. This work evaluated the effect of PHIK as a preharvest treatment on fruit quality at harvest and on postharvest B. cinerea i...

Hardfacing is widely used to restore worn gate-valve surfaces, but the choice of process parameters must account for residual stress, distortion, plastic strain, and the heat-affected zone (HAZ). This study investigated the hardfacing of 09G2S steel...

A Legendre pseudospectral method (LPM) is developed here for multi-order fractional differential equations arising in electrical circuit models. The governing equations are first recast as a first-order system, then discretized in time using piecewis...

Automated network response must stop attacks without restricting legitimate hosts. We evaluate deterministic evidence checks applied before a source is blocked, in a pipeline that combines XGBoost flow scoring, optional arbitration by a local languag...

IEEE 802.11ax (Wi-Fi 6) was designed to improve capacity and efficiency in dense wireless environments, but most evaluations rely on simulation, and empirical evidence from real noisy and interference-prone sites is limited. This paper reports field...

Water-induced argillization of thin interlayers can promote lateral extrusion and differential deformation in coal ribs. This study combines material characterization, field investigation, mechanical analysis, numerical comparisons, and field applica...

Manganese (Mn) participates in soil organic matter transformation, yet how Mn enrichment affects microbial communities and carbon cycling in subtropical forest soils remains unclear. We combined measurements of soil respiration and organic carbon fra...

Gut aging is characterized by progressive impairment of epithelial renewal, barrier integrity, immune–metabolic homeostasis, and microbial ecology. Fermented foods represent a promising dietary platform for modulating these processes because th...

Iterative process optimization in two-photon lithography (TPL) is fundamentally constrained by a critical metrology bottleneck: the reliance on slow, resource-intensive, and destructive scanning electron microscopy (SEM) for structural verification....

The translation of triboelectric tactile sensing from laboratory demonstrations to operational robotic platforms remains limited by high-impedance signal acquisition, mechanical integration, surface coverings, and robot-induced disturbances. Herein,...

Background/Objectives: We evaluated whether herbal steam bath (HSB) added to standard care improved persistent symptoms following COVID-19. Methods: Sixty-eight adults were randomized equally to HSB plus standard care or standard care alone. Outcome...

Background: The association between hormone replacement therapy (HRT) use and rotator cuff outcomes remains uncertain. This study evaluated the association of baseline HRT documentation with subsequently recorded rotator cuff tear diagnoses and repai...

Walking speed shapes the energetic burden of wearing a knee-constraining orthosis. We reanalyzed an open dataset comparing a passive 250 g left-knee orthosis with no orthosis at 0.4, 0.8, and 1.1 m s⁻¹. Nineteen neurotypical adults contributed...

Background: Sleep problems and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) can substantially affect quality of life (QOL) in children. This study aimed to assess sleep-related QOL using the scores from the caregiver-administered OSA-18 questionna...

Background/Objectives: Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) exhibits marked cell-state heterogeneity, complicating the identification of candidate therapeutic vulnerabilities. We aimed to identify molecular features associated with primitive AML states and p...

Background: Pre-conception maternal co-morbidities can contribute to adverse pregnancy outcomes. Women that begin pregnancy with obesity and/or hypertension have a greater risk of developing preeclampsia (PE), late gestational hypertension and multio...

This study systematically analyzed the composition and differences in volatile and non-volatile organic compounds in three major pitaya varieties: red peel with red flesh (HR), red peel with white flesh (HW), and yellow peel with white flesh (HY). Te...

Chatter is a source of instability in milling operations, affecting surface quality and machining performance. This study presents a multidomain approach for chatter analysis based on acceleration and displacement measurements. Milling experiments we...

In May 2025, Sorrento, a tourist destination in southern Italy, entered a severe political crisis following the arrest of its incumbent mayor on charges relating to public office. This article examines how the crisis was publicly interpreted and how...

Geranium robertianum L. (Herb Robert), a well-known member of the Geraniaceae family distributed widely across Europe, Asia, and North Africa, has a long-standing history in traditional medicine for treating inflammatory skin disorders, wounds, and m...

Airborne rubber powdery mildew conidia are difficult to collect and distinguish from morphologically similar particles in microscopic samples. This study investigated a microfluidic chip combined with SGS-YOLO-assisted image analysis for the localiza...

Biomass-derived hard carbon (BHC) is a promising anode material for sodium-ion batteries owing to its renewable feedstocks, low cost, and favorable sodium-storage performance. However, variations in biomass composition and pyrolysis behavior pose cha...

Fabrication of a ZK60 (Mg-Zn-Zr) magnesium alloy using electron-beam additive manufacturing (EBAM) is an exceptionally challenging task due to the low boiling point of Mg, high thermal stress, solidification cracking, and some physical limitations of...

Aiming at improving and complementing some known results, this article considers the global Mittag–Leffler attractive set (or GMLAS for short) and global stability for a general Caputo fractional-order complex Lorenz system by employing Lyapuno...

Background: Caffeic acid phenethyl ester (CAPE) exhibits reported anticancer activity, but its potential molecular targets in breast cancer remain incompletely characterized. Methods: Network pharmacology and comparative transcriptomic, genomic, prot...

Surplus photovoltaic (PV) generation can cause sustained overvoltage in rural feeders that inverter reactive-power control alone may not resolve. Agricultural cold storage can absorb surplus generation through refrigeration load shifting, but its gri...

Calcium carbonate (CaCO₃) micro- and nanoparticles are biocompatible, biodegradable and pH-responsive carriers, but as free suspensions, they aggregate in biological fluids and migrate from the site of administration. A hydrogel matrix prevents both...

Large Language Models (LLMs) offer opportunities for automated security code review, but vulnerability detection alone cannot establish evidence reliability or remediation effectiveness. This study introduces Structured Evidence-Centred Review Evalua...

An ionic liquid/carboxylated multiwalled carbon nanotube/Cu-ZIF-67 composite was used to modify a glassy carbon electrode (IL/c-MWCNTs@Cu-ZIF-67/GCE) for the individual determination of bisphenol A (BPA) and bisphenol S (BPS). XRD, FTIR, SEM/EDS, and...

Magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) materials belong to a class of materials that can be reversibly and rapidly controlled under the influence of an applied magnetic field. Silicone rubber types are widely used in laboratory studies because they are e...

Background: Combining extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) and continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT) raises questions concerning vascular access, circuit pressures, anticoagulation, and kidney recovery. We describe a single-center experie...

Fungal communities inhabiting high-altitude environments are exposed to multiple environmental constraints, yet their diversity and genomic characteristics remain poorly characterized. Here, we investigated fungal diversity across 10 high-altitude lo...

Background/Objectives: Endoscopic ultrasound point shear-wave elastography (EUS-pSWE) enables quantitative assessment of spleen stiffness, but the reproducibility of repeated measurements remains poorly established. This study evaluated within-sessio...