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Evolutionary history of the host may influence the skeletal morphology of scleractinian corals. However, its effects on the assembly and function of endolithic microbiomes remain unknown. We analyzed bacterial and archaeal microbiomes from the coral...

Thermochromic smart windows are a promising technology to reduce energy consumption in buildings, particularly in tropical regions where cooling demands are high. Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is the most studied thermochromic material due to its reversible...

To maintain reliability, safety, and sustainability in power transmission, insulator defect detection has become a critical task in power line inspection. Due to the complex backgrounds and small defect sizes encountered in insulator defect images, i...

Background: A sedentary lifestyle contributes to chronic disease risk in adults and may predict unfavourable body composition in adolescents. Declining physical activity and rising sedentary behaviour are linked to increasing global obesity rates. Gi...

Vaccination remains a cornerstone of infection prevention in adult solid organ transplant (SOT) recipients, a population at heightened risk for vaccine-preventable diseases due to chronic immunosuppression and comorbidities. Updated guidelines from t...

In recent years, heavy metal emissions in Lhasa have been increasing, which has an impact on the local water environment. The negative effects of copper (Cu2+) on aquatic ecosystems have attracted much attention, as even low concentrations of Cu2+ ca...

Covered karst collapse is a key geotechnical hazard in infrastructure construction in karst regions of China. In particular, strata consisting of an overlying clay layer and an underlying sand layer are prone to abrupt collapse induced by sand leakag...

A reading of the American Revolution and the post-Civil War Reconstruction period through the lens of W.E.B. Du Bois’s early writings provides new insights into his theory of racial monopoly capitalism. Many Americans saw the 1776 revolution as...

The study investigates repetitive and time-consuming professional activities performed by occupational health and safety (OHS) specialists in the construction sector in Poland and their attitudes toward the use of modern digital tools, including solu...

Objectives: This study aims to evaluate the efficacy of hydroxyapatite-tricalcium phosphate (HAP-TCP) as a bone substitute in subantral augmentation for dental implants. Specifically, it investigates the effects of HAP-TCP on bone quality, density, a...

Background: School bullying, be it in its traditional form or as cyberbullying, is a worldwide phenomenon, with significant impacts on schoolchildren’s wellbeing, and its accurate evaluation is thus key in prevention and intervention. The aim o...

Multi-object tracking (MOT) has attracted increasing attention and achieved remarkable progress. However, accurately tracking objects with homogeneous appearance, heterogeneous motion, and heavy occlusion remains a challenge because of two problems:...

Background: Transportation delays pose significant challenges for perishable products by reducing freshness, shortening selling duration, and causing lost sales during the delay. Methods: Motivated by the growing importance of transportation delays o...

Social sustainability has become a central concern in development-induced resettlement, yet little is known about how social integration and community relations are sustained over long time horizons. Drawing on a retrospective longitudinal ethnograph...

Chronic, low-grade inflammation is a characteristic of metabolic diseases like type 2 diabetes. Despite recommendations to select low- or non-fat dairy foods over full-fat dairy foods for metabolic health, recent research suggests potential anti-infl...

Understanding how plant community characteristics and soil properties vary along altitudinal gradients is essential for ecosystem conservation, restoration, and for predicting ecosystem responses to global environmental change. This study investigate...

Carrots are exceptional sources of bioactive compounds with potential health benefits. This study investigated the relationship between the biodiversity of carrot cultivars (colour and size) and their potential chemopreventive properties. Four distin...

The optimization of grinding is a multi-objective problem characterized by high dimensionality, non-linearity, and complexity. Solving this multi-objective optimization (MOO) problem is one of the most challenging tasks in the field of mechanical eng...

Background: Acute necrotizing esophagitis (ANE), also known as “black esophagus,” is a rare but life-threatening condition typically occurring in critically ill patients with profound systemic disturbances. Extreme hyperglycemic crises re...

Cervical cancer (CC) remains a significant public health problem. Despite the availability of standard treatment strategies, chemotherapy-resistant tumors persist, highlighting the need to explore new therapeutic approaches or adjuvant strategies. Th...

Emotion recognition from physiological signals is pivotal for advancing human–computer interaction, yet unimodal pipelines frequently underperform due to limited information, constrained data diversity, and suboptimal cross-modal fusion. Addres...

Long-term excessive fat intake can easily induce metabolic diseases such as fatty liver and hyperlipidemia. As a natural active ingredient, polysaccharides exhibit notable lipid-lowering effects and can serve as effective lipid regulators. Neverthele...

The emergence of SARS-CoV-2, the etiological agent of COVID-19, has resulted in widespread global infection and millions of deaths. Viral entry is initiated by the interaction between the viral spike (S) protein and the host cell receptor ACE2, follo...

The invasive hornet Vespa velutina nigrithorax was first recorded in Spain in 2010 and in Italy in 2012. Control strategies to reduce V. v. nigrithorax infestation level in apiaries include nest neutralization and trapping of adult hornets. Trapping...

Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are essential regulators of fertilization and early embryo development in mammals, including humans and various animal models, but they exert detrimental effects when produced in excess. In assisted reproductive technolo...

European plum (Prunus domestica) orchards in the Kashi region, Xinjiang, China, suffer from fruit brown spot disease. The disease typically appears as red spots on the fruit surface that expand into brown necrotic lesions; affected fruit flesh can sh...

The imbalance between water supply and demand in the arid and semi-arid regions of northwest China has become increasingly severe, highlighting the urgent need to develop and utilize unconventional water resources. Return flow, originating from canal...

Functional food plays an increasingly important role in shaping healthy dietary habits by integrating health-promoting components into consumers’ everyday diets and helping reduce food waste. Products developed using by-products and raw materia...

Ionic liquids (ILs) have emerged as multifunctional compounds with low volatility, high thermal stability, and tunable solvation capabilities, making them highly promising for biomedical applications. First explored in the late 1990s and early 2000s...

Domoic acid (DA) is a neurotoxic terpenoid compound produced by certain marine algae. It accumulates through the food web and poses a significant threat to humans and animals by selectively targeting hippocampal neurons, leading to neuronal degenerat...

Gesture recognition is important for rehabilitation assistance and intelligent prosthetic control. However, surface electromyography (sEMG) signals exhibit strong non-stationarity, and conventional deep-learning models require long training time and...

The development of energy systems toward a decarbonized economy is increasingly constrained not only by technological challenges, but also by deficiencies in the organization, coordination, and governability of sustainable financing. This study aims...

HDAC8 is a histone deacetylase enzyme that plays a key role in the development of various diseases in humans, including cancers, neurodegenerative diseases, and alcohol use disorder. Although HDAC8 is classified as a Zn2+-dependent metalloenzyme, ava...

Vision-language models can leverage natural language descriptions to encode stable farmland characteristics, providing a new paradigm for farmland extraction, yet existing methods face challenges in ambiguous text-visual alignment and loss of high-fr...

To investigate the influence of particle characteristics on wear in slurry pump flow-through components, this study established a computational fluid dynamics-discrete element method (CFD-DEM) coupled with the Archard wear model for numerical simulat...

In the current digital age, children are exposed to electronic media at an increasingly early age. The issue of excessive electronic media use has become a significant risk factor affecting the healthy development of young children. To examine the as...

Plasma-activated water (PAW) has gained attention across agricultural, medical, cosmetic, and sterilization fields due to its production of reactive oxygen and nitrogen species (ROS and RNS). Although PAW has been primarily explored for seed germinat...

We investigate the profitability of systematic sector rotation strategies in the Canadian equity market using TSX 60 constituents (2000–2025). Testing 72 distinct strategies across three theoretical frameworks—momentum, mean-reversion, an...

This study evaluates the non-carcinogenic risk associated with chemical elements in drinking water in Jequié, Brazil, where mining activities occur. However, intensive mineral exploration, especially of metals such as vanadium (V), manganese (...

Background: Irisin, a muscle-derived hormone, enhances the energy metabolism by activating the brown adipose tissue and acts as a bone-forming agent across the entire life span. No consistent clinical data in humans have been published so far to high...

Light plays a critical role in the physiology and pigmentation of aquatic animals. Regulating the light environment of aquatic animals offers insights into healthy aquaculture practices. In this study, Procambarus clarkii were reared under four diffe...

Background and Clinical Significance: Annular pancreas is a rare congenital anomaly in which pancreatic tissue partially or completely encircles the duodenum, potentially causing duodenal obstruction. Clinical presentation varies from asymptomatic ca...

Cutaneous leishmaniasis is a zoonotic disease caused by Leishmania parasites and leads to chronic, non-healing skin lesions. Although current drugs can control the disease, their use is limited by systemic side effects, low efficacy, and inadequate l...

With the increasing complexity of cyber threats and the inefficiency of traditional vulnerability management, artificial intelligence has been increasingly integrated into cybersecurity. This review provides a comprehensive evaluation of AI-powered s...

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In light of the growing prevalence of the autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis (MS), accurate detection of MS lesions in brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) images plays a critical role in assisting neurologists with timely diagnosis. The high si...

Here, we present published data on the influence of ambient current on the pumping rate of sponges, and subsequently, we make interpretations based on a fluid-mechanical approach for analyzing the sponge–pump system. Ambient water flow past a b...

In this study, we applied dynamical system theory to analyze evolutionary trends of the higher education system, consisting of three indicators: university scale development, government financial investment, and student fee standards. The higher educ...

The impact of genetic variation in sickle cell patients plays a significant role in opioid therapy individual response and pain management. This review aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the importance of exploring genetic variability and it...

Background: This study assesses the robustness of a legacy N-glycan profiling method for the therapeutic antibody MAB1 with different Peptide-N-glycosidase F (PNGase F) enzyme sources, solid phase extraction (SPE) cartridges, and reagent stability, a...