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Storm-cast macroalgae represent an abundant and renewable biomass source, but environmental degradation and the thermal instability of lipids limit their utilization. This study evaluates an ultrasound-assisted extraction method using a hydrophobic d...

Quantum algorithms often require many repeated circuit executions to estimate observables, guide optimization, or verify results. These repetitions, known as shots, consume quantum hardware resources and can make otherwise promising computations expe...

With the increasing use of finite element method (FEM) analyses not only to design but also to ensure the structural safety of complex aerospace composite structures, it is paramount to have calibration practices to validate the computational models....

Buy-Online-Return-in-Store (BORS) partnerships, in which an online retailer routes returns through a partnering offline retailer’s physical stores, have become common in omni-channel retailing. These arrangements respond to a structural feature...

Background/Objectives: The Sepsis Tracheostomy early Prediction (STeP) score was developed in Japan to predict tracheostomy within 14 days in mechanically ventilated patients with sepsis and has not been tested elsewhere. We evaluated the score in a...

Arsenic (As) contamination in farmland soils poses a severe threat to the safety of rice production. Selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs), a novel selenium-based material, remain poorly understood in terms of their regulatory effects on As uptake and accum...

This study aimed to valorize industrial wafer sheet waste by developing a sustainable, clean-label savory wafer cream enriched with olive oil and oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus) powder. A Response Surface Methodology-Rotatable Central Composite...

Spinal cord injury (SCI) disrupts supraspinal regulation of autonomic function, leading to altered cardiovascular, physiological, and behavioral outcomes that may contribute to long-term morbidity. However, acute autonomic alterations following sever...

Residual feed intake (RFI) measures feed efficiency after accounting for growth and body size. We examined its association with whole-blood gene expression in slow-growing ducks. Of 800 males phenotyped from 21 to 42 d of age, 527 had valid RFI estim...

Background/Objectives: Medication-related osteonecrosis of the jaw (MRONJ) is a serious adverse effect associated mainly with potent antiresorptive therapy. Reliable preclinical models are needed to evaluate preventive strategies for dentoalveolar su...

Background: In experimental models, injured tubular cells with increased pyrimidine metabolism activate fibroblasts through the pyrimidine receptor P2Y6R, promoting fibrosis. We explored whether this axis can be traced in human kidney disease. Method...

To address the challenge of scarce and expensive pixel-level annotations in rail surface defect detection, semi-supervised semantic segmentation offers a practical solution. However, existing semi-supervised frameworks often suffer from insufficient...

Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are an important component of the tumor microenvironment (TME) but their role in canine oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) remains uncertain. We aimed to characterize the spatial distribution of cells expressing the Treg-a...

Steel cellular beams have become widely used in construction projects, particularly for long-span structures. This work focuses on stainless steel, which exhibits a nonlinear stress–strain behavior from low strain levels, without a well-defined...

Background: Full-thickness supraspinatus tears are commonly treated surgically, but the optimal repair construct and value of adjunctive strategies remain uncertain. Methods: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis reported according to PR...

This study investigates Mode I fracture of Chilean Pinus radiata D. Don bonded with one-component polyurethane (1C-PUR) through 20 Double Cantilever Beam (DCB) tests in the tangential–longitudinal (TL) and radial–longitudinal (RL) planes....

This study investigates stable downstream-pool ignition, combustion-coupling enhancement, and radiative characteristics of separated tandem square ethanol pool fires under longitudinal wind. Experiments employed two pool sizes, four spacings (5&ndash...

Facial expression recognition remains challenging because subtle expression-related deformations are often obscured by variations in identity, pose, illumination, and class imbalance. This study proposes a hybrid framework that combines an explicit R...

Growing renewable energy deployment requires large-scale, long-duration energy storage and transport. Chemical energy carriers can meet this demand by enabling easy storage and transport of renewable electricity. While liquid-phase energy carriers su...

Hotel guests increasingly rely on digital interfaces to evaluate accommodation options and services before and during their stay. Drawing on the experience economy perspective, the SOR framework, expectancy-disconfirmation theory, and the trust compo...

Multi-story car parks in hot-arid cities are subject to punching-sensitive flat slabs, repetitive vehicle loading, and carbonation exposure; however, they are mostly verified by deterministic finite element (FE) analysis. This study introduces a four...

(1) Background: Recovered unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight artifacts are increasingly used as evidence, yet recovery is still reported in binary terms, with no quantitative statement of how useful the recovered data are for the question at hand....

Automating insulin delivery requires controllers that remain well-behaved despite large inter-patient variability. This paper investigates a fractional-order proportional–integral (FOPI) controller for blood glucose regulation and compares it w...

Background: Postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMOP) is a systemic metabolic bone disease characterized by impaired microarchitecture and increased fracture risk. Although angiogenesis and programmed cell death (PCD) play essential roles in bone homeostasi...

Hydrological connectivity is a fundamental regulator of material exchange, sediment transport, and ecological functioning in tidal flat ecosystems; yet, its long-term quantification remains challenging due to highly dynamic tidal inundation. Remote s...

Typhoon disasters expand single-section faults into multiple simultaneous faults. Conventional switching functions construct expected nodal states under unidirectional main-source dominance, neglecting the blocking of downstream supply paths and leav...

Background: Clinical translation of non-invasive scalp electroencephalography (EEG) seizure prediction is severely hindered by patient-dependency, elevated false alarm rates, and excessive computational latency. This study introduces a computationall...

This study comprehensively integrated expert assessment with measurements of hair parameters to investigate the voluminous hair greasiness content for maintaining voluminous hair in Chinese women with different hair texture types, aiming to provide p...

The transition toward multi-tier time-of-use (TOU) tariffs in smart grids requires efficient battery energy storage system (BESS) management to reduce urban prosumer electricity costs. This paper presents a two-stage evaluation framework comparing mi...

Free-living amoebae (FLA) are common in the environment, and some of them are pathogenic to animals and humans. The presence of FLA in the lower gastrointestinal tract and feces of vertebrates, and their role in the host organism, is a young field th...

Research data repositories are essential infrastructure for scientific inquiry and for ensuring research datasets follow FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable) principles. At the same time, the effectiveness of repositories at promo...

The recovery of high-temperature industrial waste heat and the valorization of coal-derived solid wastes are important for sustainable thermal energy systems. In this study, modified coal gasification slag (MCGS) and fly ash (MFA) were used as a poro...

Integrating renewable generation with carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) can facilitate power-sector decarbonization but also introduces coupled operational and carbon-quota shortfall risks under renewable uncertainty. Wind-power forecas...

Long-horizon peak-demand projections combine statistical uncertainty with assumptions about electrification and new connections. This study separates those sources of variation. A statistical baseline combines long short-term memory, LightGBM and tem...

In geological exploration and oil and gas drilling engineering, rock brittleness is a key indicator for evaluating formation drillability and reservoir fracability. The tight sandstone reservoir of the Chang 3 Member of the Yanchang Formation in the...

Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASSs) require timely human intervention when collision risks develop. This study presents a spatiotemporal decision-support framework that maps Velocity Obstacle (VO) collision-risk directions onto ownship-centered...

Mechanical-load emulation enables motor-drive testing under different load conditions without physically replacing the load. However, forward-dynamics-based mechanical-load emulation is challenging when a commercial load-motor drive has fixed proprie...

Mulching is a widely used practice in perennial systems to improve soil moisture retention, regulate temperature, and suppress weeds, but its effects on soil physicochemical and biological processes remain insufficiently understood. This study evalua...

Background/Objectives: Proteus mirabilis is an opportunistic foodborne and intestinal pathogen associated with animal-derived food contamination, gastrointestinal infection, biofilm formation, and increasing antimicrobial resistance. Although plant-d...

Two peaks in lifetime data can arise from an intrinsically bimodal distribution, from discrete latent classes or from continuous unobserved heterogeneity. These mechanisms imply different hazards, tails and interpretations, but the conditions under w...

Vibration-control applications such as vehicle suspensions require inertance, stiffness, and damping that can be adjusted in real time, which is difficult to achieve with mechanical inerter–spring–damper (ISD) devices. Electric machines c...

Accurate and reproducible quantitative assessment of cardiac size from thoracic radiographs remains challenging because conventional measurements require manual identification of multiple anatomical structures and geometric relationships. This study...

Exercise reduces liver fat in metabolic-dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), but whether particulate matter (PM) exposure modifies this benefit remains uncertain. This narrative review examines studies of PM exposure, physical acti...

Cancer remains a major global health challenge, highlighting the need for novel therapeutic strategies that combine anticancer efficacy with improved safety profiles. Ginger (Zingiber officinale Roscoe) contains several bioactive compounds, particula...

Coastal areas worldwide have experienced substantial land-use change, affecting both biodiversity and ecosystem services. Assisted natural regeneration (ANR) is a cost-effective approach widely used for ecological restoration, but it has limited appl...

Perpendicular parking is a common low-speed function of road vehicles, including electrified vehicles (xEVs). The lateral room for pose adjustment lies outside the slot, so the initial position and how closely the planned arcs are tracked decide whet...

Exogenous dietary microRNAs, commonly referred to as xenomiRs, have been proposed to survive digestion, enter animal tissues, and regulate host gene expression, with plant-derived miRNAs representing one of the most debated sources. This review criti...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and digital infrastructure (DI) have become critical forms of productive capital, yet their expansion creates competing economic, social, and environmental objectives that complicate investment allocation. Existing studie...

Unmanned aerial vehicle ad hoc networks (UANETs) are a key enabler of air–ground integrated information networks, yet their deployment is hindered by dynamic topologies with relative speeds often exceeding 30 m/s, stringent onboard energy const...

Bitruss maintenance updates the hierarchy of cohesive subgraphs in a bipartite graph as edges are inserted or deleted. Existing support-driven methods repeatedly search the graph for butterflies during candidate expansion and support recomputation. W...