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Surface subsidence in mining areas is characterized by extensive spatial coverage, complex evolutionary processes, and diverse influencing factors. Conventional monitoring methods and prediction models can hardly meet the demands of large-area contin...

The Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) provides an important case for examining high-quality economic development and its implications for sustainable and coordinated regional development. However, systematic assessments of...

Low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) serving as aerial base stations for ground vehicles create air-to-vehicle (A2V) links in which both endpoints move, compressing the channel coherence time so that the reported channel quality indicator (CQ...

Circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) is a minimally invasive biomarker in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), but the prognostic information added by multigene ctDNA metrics beyond KRAS and carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) is uncertain. In this prosp...

Background/Objectives: Atypical sensory processing in adults experiencing mental illness has been widely studied. The purpose of this review is to systematically map and synthesise literature examining the relationship between atypical sensory proces...

The production of sustainable gaseous fuels via anaerobic digestion (AD) is a promising pathway to decarbonize fossil-reliant heat and electricity systems. Despite their potential, the development and optimization of biogas and renewable natural gas...

This study focuses on Y_1−x Eu_xNbO₄ (x = 0.01–0.40) ceramic solid solutions. The precursor powders were obtained via a liquid-phase route, and the final ceramics were fabricated using conventional ceramic processing (conventional sintering...

Progressive urbanization is limiting residents’ access to areas conducive to short-term psychological restoration. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of various types of waterside and wooded landscapes on people’s levels of re...

Generating accurately annotated training data remains a major bottleneck for deploying computer-vision-based sorting systems in heterogeneous waste streams. This work evaluates whether general-purpose zero-shot object detectors can reduce annotation...

To reduce the risk associated with 3-nitropropanoic acid (3-NPA) contamination, an efficient and accurate analytical method for 3-NPA determination in sugarcane samples was established by combining magnetic solid-phase extraction (MSPE) with high-per...

Dual-mobility cups (DMCs) are traditionally manufactured from stainless steel or cobalt–chromium, materials with substantially greater stiffness than cancellous bone that may contribute to stress shielding and periacetabular bone resorption. A...

The inverted pendulum represents a problem of considerable complexity in the field of systems control due to its unstable and nonlinear behavior. In this context, the objective of this research is to design and implement control algorithms for a QUBE...

Contemporary global tourism is undergoing a structural transformation toward immersive, experiential “diving” modalities, establishing the countryside as a critical axis for constructive and regenerative travel. Despite this shift, academ...

Background/Objectives: Family-related factors are central to type 1 diabetes (T1D) management during childhood and adolescence. This systematic review aimed to synthesise the available evidence on the associations between parental feeding practices,...

Background: Genetic testing is an increasingly important component in the diagnostic evaluation of kidney diseases. Pathogenic variants in the HNF1B gene cause a disorder classically known as renal cysts and diabetes (RCAD) syndrome, typically charac...

Objectives: This in vitro study evaluated the effect of prolonged exposure to aqueous solutions with different pH values on the surface microhardness of four commercially available resin composites, simulating conditions associated with gastroesophag...

Background/Objectives: This study examined the joint association of sedentary time and physical activity with metabolic syndrome among Korean adults and whether physical activity modified this association. Methods: This cross-sectional study analyzed...

Pedestrian-involved road traffic accidents remain a major road safety concern and require a comprehensive analysis of the interactions within the “driver–vehicle–road–environment” system. Despite the substantial body of...

Chicken skin and related poultry by-products are rich in collagen and lipids but remain underutilized, creating opportunities for their conversion into value-added functional ingredients. This study developed chicken-skin-based protein–fat emul...

The rapid development of artificial intelligence over the past few years has significantly impacted all levels of education. Despite the widespread adoption of generative AI in education, empirical studies simultaneously analyzing the attitudes of te...

To address the stringent sealing requirements of specialized equipment in extreme deep-sea environments, where traditional unidirectional sealing structures often fail to accommodate complex bidirectional pressure fluctuations, this study focuses on...

Salt rock is an ideal host for compressed air energy storage (CAES) due to its low permeability, creep self-healing, and stable properties. Chinese bedded salt deposits have thin salt layers and frequent mudstone interlayers. The response law of surr...

Accurate and precise mass modelling of strong lensing systems is essential for extracting insights into cosmology, galaxy environments, and the nature of dark matter. The Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program (HSC-SSP), which has mapped ∼100...

Accurate estimation of crop evapotranspiration (ETc) is fundamental to irrigation planning and sustainable agricultural water management, particularly under increasing climate variability and water scarcity. Conventional flux measurement systems, inc...

This essay reads the video game Sneaky Sasquatch as a moving-image environment whose interfaces administer the world they display. The essay examines administrative recognition as a modality of performative imaging: interfaces make institutional stan...

Background: Cydonia oblonga Mill. is a promising plant-derived ingredient for topical formulations due to its phytochemical composition and potential biological and technological properties. This study aimed to evaluate C. oblonga extract as a multif...

The constant increase in multidrug resistance has necessitated bioprospecting of marine actinomycetes for potent antibacterial and immunomodulatory activities. The aim of this study was to investigate the antibacterial and potential host-immunomodula...

This article presents the results of research on compromising emanations generated by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in the context of potential electromagnetic eavesdropping and the reconstruction of transmitted video data. Two commercial UAV syste...

Excessive telomere shortening contributes to pulmonary fibrosis (PF), with at least 30% of familial cases attributed to telomere biology disorders (TBDs). However, TBD-associated PF remains underdiagnosed because of unidentified disease-causing mutat...

With the increasing deployment of hydrogen pipeline transportation, hydrogen embrittlement (HE) of high-strength pipeline steels such as X80 has become a critical concern for structural integrity. In service, surface defects such as notches formed by...

Although microcrystalline cellulose (MCC) and cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) possess the same cellulose backbone, it remains unclear whether they have similar effects on solution viscosity behavior in tetrabutylammonium fluoride (TBAF)/dimethyl sulfox...

Rapidly increasing volumes of visual content on online travel platforms require hotel photographs not only to be classified accurately but also to be presented to users within a meaningful information organization structure. Accordingly, the effectiv...

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Sustainable mobility requires reducing energy use and emissions while considering accessibility and pressure on low-carbon resources. This study assesses passenger transport in Spain to 2050 with a system-dynamics model linking demand, modal and powe...

Background/Objectives: Understanding whether children’s perceptions of food, that is, what a child recognizes as healthy, are associated with their actual consumption is key to designing effective nutritional interventions, but this has rarely...

Background/Objectives: Icteric hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is characterized by obstructive jaundice, impaired liver function, and limited treatment options. Biliary drainage may relieve jaundice and permit subsequent anticancer therapy, but the cl...

We investigate the relationship between the graphical symmetry of symbols and their frequency of occurrence in culturally evolved symbolic systems and compare the observed tendencies with those found in physical structures. Capital letters of the Eng...

In a battery electric vehicle, the way an adaptive cruise controller brakes decides how much energy a trip loses, because braking beyond the regeneration power limit is dissipated in the friction brakes. We develop a longitudinal model predictive con...

Background/Objectives: Smartphone-based analysis of electrocardiograms (ECGs) and vital signs may support risk assessment without an integrated electronic health record feed. We evaluated MEDI-AI for 24 h mortality and unplanned intensive care unit (...

Inverted small-area perovskite solar cells fabricated in the laboratory have achieved a power conversion efficiency of 28%. Nevertheless, stability remains the key bottleneck. This review systematically analyses external stressors moisture, heat, lig...

Background: This study evaluated relationships between glycemic variability, bone turnover markers, Sema3A pathway components, and bone mineral density in postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Methods: In this single-center cross...

The growing scale and heterogeneity of Internet of Things (IoT) environments are shifting machine learning (ML) from centralized cloud infrastructures toward distributed intelligence across the IoT–edge–cloud continuum [...]

Background: The 2023 Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS) Scope of Nursing and Midwifery Practice document was Saudi Arabia’s first formal, category-differentiated scope framework. Nurses’ enacted scope of practice, organizatio...

The estimation accuracy of the battery state of charge (SOC) directly affects the reliable and stable operation of the battery management system (BMS). In complex operating conditions such as vehicle-mounted applications and energy storage power stat...

Communication of screen-positive newborn bloodspot screening (NBS) results is inherently challenging for both parents and HCPs. There is no internationally accepted gold-standard model, with heterogeneity in practice and with many jurisdictions repor...

Most Urban Air Mobility (UAM) siting studies treat vertiport location as an isolated spatial-optimization problem, calibrated to cities with mature transport infrastructure and regulatory systems. This study instead develops an integrated planning fr...

With increasing demand for water and declining water availability, the imperative to manage water and balance competing needs has become more important than ever [...]

Background/Objectives: Management of joint infections is evolving from using intravenous antimicrobials to oral therapies. Optimal treatment requires awareness of antimicrobial resistance patterns. This study aimed to produce a cumulative antimicrobi...

The role of the Ross Sea continental shelf in global carbon cycling has been studied under variable ecological conditions. Here, the spatial distributions of microfossil assemblages and silica-rich spherules from surface sediments across the Ross Sea...

Three series of benzylidene cinnamoylhydrazides (21 compounds) were synthesized and evaluated for cytotoxic activity against malignant and non-malignant cell lines. Among the compounds tested, 2d and 3c were the most active against Jurkat and CEM leu...