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Evidence on generative artificial intelligence adoption remains limited in Latin American engineering education, particularly for undergraduate populations in which paid employment may shape study practices. This exploratory study examined reported C...

Zeb1 is a well-known epithelial–mesenchymal transition (EMT) transcription factor and is highly expressed in aggressive cancers. Tumor hybrids, which were derived from fusion events between cancer cells and normal cells, such as macrophage and...

This review critically evaluates the impact of positive reinforcement training (PRT) on wild mammals maintained in ex situ environments, highlighting its role in enhancing animal welfare. The synthesis consolidates recent research on how PRT influenc...

Active responsive façades are commonly classified by function or technology, while their visual organization across component and whole-façade scales remains underexplored. This study asks whether image features can organize cross-scale...

This study examines how accounting professionals’ self-reported forensic-auditing capabilities relate to their attitudinal readiness to recognize suspicious anti-money-laundering (AML) indicators, using a transparent hybrid design that combines...

Multi-label node classification requires capturing complex label-co-occurrence patterns, which are critical for accurate predictions. However, traditional methods often treat label prediction as an independent task, overlooking the semantic relations...

Accurate modelling of price formation in electricity markets requires capturing the underlying supply and demand structure rather than predicting scalar prices alone. This structure is based on the participants’ bidding process, who submit ener...

Background: Ipsilateral graft retear after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) remains a major concern in athletes, while the relationship between postoperative mechanical and functional measures and retear remains uncertain. Methods: Th...

Carbon-based quantum dots and their nitrogen- and sulfur-doped derivatives were used as platforms to improve the aqueous solubility for Paclitaxel, Violacein and Tetrandrine, drugs with known high partition coefficients (Log P). Paclitaxel, Violacein...

This article develops an analytic hierarchy process (AHP)-assisted model-reduction approach for a higher-order airport-centric microgrid (ACM). The full-order ACM model is approximated by a computationally simpler lower-order transfer function while...

Background: Indonesia is the world’s third-largest banana producer, yet its value chains remain structurally fragmented, with pervasive information asymmetries and substantial technical inefficiencies among smallholder farmers. Research integra...

The growing water demand and shift in climatic conditions accentuate drought impacts on regional water resources. This study applies a comparative MCDM framework based on Entropy weighting, TOPSIS and VIKOR to evaluate monthly drought conditions usin...

SQL and NoSQL databases are at risk from injection attacks, which is one of the most serious threats to the security of today’s data-centric systems. To address this issue, this research proposes an architecture for evaluating a new hybrid tech...

As exhibition halls become highly adaptable and technology-driven, they risk excluding aging demographics due to cognitive barriers. Addressing the empirical gap regarding this tension, this study validates a quantitative evaluation model based on th...

The growing adoption of lithium iron phosphate (LiFePO₄, LFP) batteries in renewable energy storage systems is expected to generate substantial volumes of end-of-life batteries, presenting both waste-management challenges and opportunities for critic...

Tasks related to relational understanding are useful for arguing about basic mathematical structures and relationships, and for encouraging long-term mathematical thinking. It has been determined that learners in primary school have considerable diff...

Background: Psoriasis in pregnancy is a highly prevalent inflammatory condition worldwide, with patients asking how the disease itself, as well as the medications that they take, would affect the general health of the fetus and the course of pregnanc...

Post-disaster territorial reconstruction processes reveal a persistent gap between the recognition of heritage as having a cultural, memorial, or landscape value and its effective integration into spatial decision-making. Drawing on the post-volcanic...

Biopolymers functionalized with chromophores exhibit interesting optical properties with a high potential for applications in photonics. Quinoline yellow (QY), sunset yellow (SY) and riboflavin (RB) are commonly used as colorants in the food industry...

Magnetoelectric materials couple magnetic and electrical order parameters and can convert remotely applied magnetic fields into localized electrical responses. At the nanoscale, this functionality is commonly pursued through core–shell architec...

Background: Osteitis pubis (OP) is a recognized contributor of anterior pelvic and groin pain, particularly in athletic populations, and is currently included within the wider spectrum of pubic-related groin pain. Despite the growing body of literatu...

The visual whiteness of sugar is a key factor in determining its quality and purity. Consequently, the development of rapid and cost-effective methods for the color evaluation of sugar samples is of critical importance to the sugar industry. This stu...

In a growing number of administrative systems, public organizations are governed through digital indicator regimes: standardized indices of compliance, integrity, and risk, published as open data and often read by regulators and intermediaries as pro...

High shares of renewable generation make intraday dispatch sensitive to forecast error, reserve deliverability, and credible equipment outages. This paper presents a Polynomial Chaos Expansion (PCE)-guided reliability-aware reserve policy that coordi...

Background/Objectives: Diabetes mellitus (DM) and pancreatic cancer (PC) have a bidirectional relationship. Although new-onset DM (NODM) is recognized as a potential clue to PC, worsening glycemic control in long-standing DM (LSDM) may also precede P...

Cannabidiol (CBD), the non-psychoactive component of the hemp plant, has been investigated as a potential novel antimicrobial agent. This study was aimed at understanding the interactions between CBD and the outer membrane proteins (OMPs) of Salmonel...

Since the first conference on the Sustainable Development of Energy, Water, and Environment Systems (SDEWES) in Dubrovnik in 2002, this conference series has provided a global forum for researchers and practitioners committed to addressing the interc...

In complex environments, communication networks within an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) swarm are vulnerable to disruption due to terrain-induced blockage, high node mobility, and limited communication ranges. Employing an unmanned aerial vehicle (UA...

This paper evaluates the energy performance and lifecycle environmental impact of three retrofit pathways—conventional insulation, an extensive green roof, and rooftop photovoltaics—for two lamella-type residential buildings (three-story,...

The presence of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) micro/nanoplastics (MNPs) in water poses significant environmental and public health challenges, making their effective removal a pressing research problem. This study investigates the integration of air nanob...

Background: Patient-derived xenograft (PDX) models retain clinically relevant features of the donor tumor, but the establishment of colorectal cancer (CRC) PDX models succeeds in only a fraction of attempts. Whether routinely available clinicopatholo...

Welfare assessments at traditional equestrian events in Brazil are scarce. This study aimed to systematize and stratify assessments based on the Five Domains (5DMs) model into subdomains (sDMs) for vaquejada and gait events and to adapt them to refle...

The aim of this study is to evaluate whether a random-forest model trained on conventional well logs can reconstruct missing shear-wave slowness (DTS) with sufficient transparency for downstream geomechanical calculations. Field-acquired DTS and 12 c...

With the rapid advancement of quantum computing technology, IoT edge devices widely deployed in industrial settings are facing severe threats to their quantum-resistant security. This work focuses on the challenges of adapting Quantum Key Distributio...

Visual working memory (vWM) undergoes age-related decline, affecting storage capacity, representational precision, feature binding, and inhibitory control, with consequences for everyday functioning. Nevertheless, accumulating evidence indicates that...

This article presents the development and preliminary validation of a questionnaire examining trainee teachers’ perceptions and use of digital sources in La Araucanía (Chile) as a source of information about the regional State–Mapu...

Background: Intra-oral halitosis is sustained by tongue-coating biofilm, but ecological and host inflammatory responses to adjunctive therapy remain unclear. Methods: In a 4-week randomized pragmatic trial (117 adults; 39 per arm; ClinicalTrials.gov...

In this study, we report the facile synthesis of perovskite CoTiO₃ nanorods and their application as an efficient, noble-metal-free cocatalyst for visible-light-driven photocatalytic CO₂ reduction to CO. Under optimized conditions (MeCN/H₂O/TEOA, &la...

To address the issues of inadequate construction process adaptability and the lack of a rapid on-site evaluation system for loess improved by the LM-1 cement-based curing agent in practical engineering, this study systematically carried out material...

With the continuous escalation of antimicrobial resistance, drug repurposing based on approved drugs has emerged as a promising strategy for the development of novel anti-infective agents. This study aimed to evaluate the antibacterial effect of the...

The high invasiveness and metastatic potential of malignant tumors represent major obstacles to successful clinical treatment and are closely associated with poor patient prognosis. These processes rely heavily on the dynamic remodeling of the tumor...

Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) diagnosis relies heavily on subjective behavioural ratings, which are susceptible to informant bias. This study examined whether combining a psychometric cognitive assessment with behavioural rating sca...

Background: Donation after circulatory death (DCD) and donation after brain death (DBD) donor lungs are widely used in lung transplantation yet managed as equivalent with respect to ischemia–reperfusion injury (IRI), despite fundamentally diffe...

In this work, we investigate the activation of CO₂ on bimetallic Ni–Fe catalysts, using Fe as the base metal and Ni as a dopant at low concentrations. Our aim is to evaluate how the presence of Ni, either as a substitutional atom or as an adato...

As Christians have explored the Christian life through history, they have found themselves recovering not only ancient spiritual practices, but also practice-encompassing forms of life. One ancient set of forms is known as “monasticism”,...

To identify whether a relationship exists between COVID-19 and appendicitis and compare the incidence of appendicitis during three pandemic years to the year prior to the pandemic, we conducted two observational retrospective studies: a propensity sc...

Qatar offers small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) an unusually uniform environment for digitalization, with advanced infrastructure, generous public programs, and strong market pressure, yet digital adoption varies widely between firms. This stu...

During marination and boiling processes, structural rearrangement of muscle proteins plays an important role in determining the texture, water retention, and flavor quality of fish products. This study investigated the effects of Chaenomeles speciosa...

Natural wines are produced with minimal or no additives, utilizing organic cultivation methods and emphasizing the high-quality and unique characteristics of terroir. In the last decade, natural wines have received considerable attention; however, th...

Gellan gum (GG) is an anionic microbial polysaccharide widely used in foods because of its efficient gelation, thermal stability, and ion-responsive structuring. However, the contrasting limitations of high- and low-acyl GG, together with their sensi...