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Nitrate contamination of aquatic environments and the high energy and carbon intensity of conventional ammonia production represent two major and increasingly interconnected sustainability challenges. Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia (NO...

This study examines whether financial development affects economic growth asymmetrically in Algeria using annual data for 1980–2020. Algeria represents a particularly relevant case because its hydrocarbon dependence, bank-based financial system...

Background: Last-mile delivery couples demand forecasting, heterogeneous fleet allocation, and routing under time windows, yet these decisions are usually studied in isolation. The object of this study is the forecast-to-route decision pipeline of an...

Geotextiles are often used in large scale civil engineering projects, such as dams and embankments. Failure of these structures can lead to significant economic losses as well as mortal danger. Still, current monitoring solutions of such structures o...

To address the difficulty of establishing unified displacement-level forward and inverse kinematics and effectively characterizing the orientation evolution of spherical-platform parallel mechanisms under pure rolling constraints, a 3-P(S) parallel m...

Global university rankings differ in methodology, yet their published positions are frequently compared across systems and monitored over time. This study examines two dimensions of ranking stability: cross-sectional consistency across ranking system...

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Cultural and creative industries (CCIs) operate on systems of local knowledge transmitted across generations, systems that dominant academic literature has progressively rendered invisible by privileging innovation models centred on technology and ec...

Photovoltaic (PV) energy continues to expand its role in modern power systems, accompanied by growing requirements for higher conversion efficiency, more effective energy extraction, accurate power forecasting, reliable grid integration, and improved...

Use of antidepressant medication has increased substantially nowadays. Investigations of their photostability in aqueous environment are therefore needed both for shelf life assessment of liquid pharmaceutical formulations and for development of wast...

Background and Objectives: Experimental studies suggest that melatonin can influence antioxidant, inflammatory, mitochondrial, and chronobiological pathways relevant to musculoskeletal degeneration, repair, and selected spine-related conditions, but...

Accurate short-term forecasting of meteorological variables remains a major challenge in tropical regions characterized by strong diurnal variability, seasonal transitions, intermittent atmospheric fluctuations, and highly non-stationary temporal dyn...

Background/Objectives: Brazil nut (Bertholletia excelsa (Be)) consumption, in the form of oil or seed, has been associated with health benefits in both the lean and obese conditions; however, the influence of sex on these effects is unknown. We analy...

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A collection of short stories about Barry Irwin Schneider (1940–2024), to whom this Special Issue of Atoms is dedicated.

Graphs are a conceptually demanding yet foundational component of school mathematics, yet their teaching is often shaped by procedural routines that can obscure weak conceptual understanding. A persistent concern is that teachers’ confidence in...

Supply chain management (SCM) optimisation is a critical but under-examined pathway for delivering circular economy outcomes in the construction sector, particularly in geographically remote and small- and medium-sized enterprise-dominated markets su...

Severe Influenza A virus (IAV) infection is associated with endothelial dysfunction, inflammation, and coagulation abnormalities. However, the mechanisms linking endothelial inflammatory activation to thrombosis remain incompletely understood. We inv...

Transformative Environmental Education and the One Health approach are key to preparing future teachers for the current ecosocial crisis. This study evaluated a Teaching–Learning Sequence (TLS) designed to address the origin, consequences, and...

This study examined the effect of social investment on corporate cash holdings in South African financial institutions, addressing a gap in the existing literature, which has largely concentrated on developed countries and non-financial industries. T...

Small and Medium-sized Manufacturing Enterprises (SMMEs) are increasingly adopting Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies to improve supply chain performance; however, selecting the most suitable technology from multiple alternatives remains...

A prior scoping review indicates that veterinarians use intravenous lipid emulsion (ILE) to treat poisoned animals, especially animals exposed to suspect neurotoxicants. The benefit of ILE in these cases remains uncertain. We conducted a systematic r...

Web accessibility assessment remains challenging because of the scale and heterogeneity of modern institutional websites and the difficulty of translating automatically detected violations into actionable remediation priorities. This paper introduces...

Bicycle road infrastructure on weak or organic subgrades requires ground improvement or foundation solutions that vary significantly in material demand and construction complexity, yet their environmental implications remain poorly understood. This s...

Luminescence spectroscopy is an essential, non-destructive technique for mineralogical identification, yet conventional DIY spectrometers face noise, lossy compression, and low sensitivity when capturing weak Stokes-shifted emissions. To address thes...

Background/Objectives: Decision-making in advanced cancer care is intertwined with diagnostic profiling, prognostic communication, supportive care, and anticancer treatment selection. An author-developed D-S-T × B/C/E conceptual mapping scaffol...

Japan’s hydrogen strategy faces three interrelated challenges in policy support, industrial deployment, and import security. This study builds a three-system framework covering policy, industry, and import security, and evaluates their coupling...

The economic output of sea urchin aquaculture depends almost entirely on a single organ. Gonads, marketed as uni, determine value through their size, color, texture and flavor, and feed formulations have been optimized empirically for decades with li...

Reliable detection of small unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is difficult in grayscale imagery degraded by low illumination, reduced contrast, noise, and blur. We propose stochastic degradation coverage training (SDCT), an offline strategy that broade...

Ports are cyber-physical systems, and compromising them has physical consequences: paralysed cranes, blocked gates and cargo that does not move. Research on protecting them remains divided between cybersecurity engineering, port management and supply...

Objective: To investigate the association between key components of prenatal nutrition education interventions and the prevention of GDM in pregnant women. Methods: We systematically searched PubMed, Web of Science, Embase, and the Cochrane Central R...

Symbolic execution is a key program analysis technique for ensuring the quality, security and safety of embedded, cyber–physical and electronic systems, but it is limited by path explosion and costly constraint solving. This study systematicall...

Traditional village built heritage conservation requires attention to both the preservation of heritage cores and their relationships with peripheral environments. Existing research has extensively examined heritage preservation, spatial change, and...

Medical ultrasound transducers require acoustic impedance matching layers to bridge the gap between piezoelectric ceramics (~30–38 MRayl) and biological tissue (~1.5–1.7 MRayl). Existing solutions—such as alumina–epoxy, anodic...

Buildings are major consumers of energy; therefore, making accurate thermal load predictions is essential for improving operational efficiency and annual planning. Although machine learning (ML) has enhanced predictive capabilities, most models remai...

Background/Objectives: Proton therapy is widely used in paediatric neuro-oncology because of its favourable dose distribution and reduced exposure to radiation of healthy tissue. Nevertheless, current knowledge regarding radiation-induced contrast en...

Autonomous network management requires balancing rapid incident resolution with strict operational safety. This paper introduces a production-inspired, end-to-end multi-agent orchestration architecture for network fault diagnosis and resolution. Buil...

Corneal transplantation depends on donor tissue that is stored before use, yet routine assessment of stored corneas relies on structural measures that do not describe the biochemical state of the tissue. In this study, Raman spectroscopy was used to...

Feline herpesvirus type 1 (FHV-1) causes respiratory and ocular disease in cats and establishes lifelong latency, but the extent to which vaccination modifies clinical disease, viral shedding, and latency-related outcomes remains uncertain. We system...

Closed, low-exchange systems are promoted for sustainable intensification, yet recirculating aquaculture systems (RASs) and biofloc technology (BFT) are rarely compared on a common evidence base. This review compares them across water quality, growth...

Background and Objectives: This study examined four pre-specified relationships in 47 preschool children (aged 4–7) undergoing adenotonsillectomy: the perioperative change in salivary cortisol in relation to postoperative emergence delirium (PA...

Conventional eye trackers are difficult to deploy in fashion-runway settings because they require head stabilization, wearable devices, close-range cameras, or infrared illumination. This study develops a far-field, non-contact eye-tracking framework...

Occult hepatitis B infection (OBI) is defined by detectable hepatitis B virus (HBV) DNA in liver tissue in the absence of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) and remains insufficiently characterized in low-endemic European settings. This study aimed...

This article attempts to sketch the conditions of ‘narrative philosophy’, an idea rooted in the philosophies of Friedrich Schelling and Franz Rosenzweig, insofar as it is both a historical philosophy and a messianic–eschatological u...

The diffusion of information-and-communication technologies (ICT) and, increasingly, artificial intelligence (AI) across higher education—the transition from ICT-supported teaching toward intelligent, data-driven, and sustainable educational ap...

The relationship between root morphometry, growth stages, and total saponin content (TS) by a vanillin-sulfuric acid method in the wild-growing Gypsophila paniculata (n 43), G. perfoliata (n 35), and Acanthophyllum pungens (n 47) from southeastern Ka...

Ground deformation, especially subsidence, is a geo-environmental hazard that needs to be assessed and predicted in advance to mitigate its effects efficiently and in a timely manner. Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) provides high-res...

Agentic translation systems, autonomous multi-agent architectures capable of planning, tool orchestration, and end-to-end translation, increasingly perform routine translation tasks that translator education programmes were historically designed to t...

Background: Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is a progressive fatal cardiovascular disorder characterized by pulmonary vascular remodeling, elevated pulmonary vascular resistance and right heart failure, mainly driven by chronic inflammation and...

Taxonomic notes on the genus Dolophrades Bates, 1884 are presented. D. tianmushanensis Yang, Xie & W. Wang sp. nov. from Tianmushan National Nature Reserve, Zhejiang Province, China, is described and illustrated. D. punctatus (Pic, 1934), stat. r...