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B-mode ultrasonography is widely used for pregnancy monitoring in small ruminants, yet direct longitudinal comparisons of ovine and caprine foetal biometry under a common protocol remain scarce. This study characterised foetal development and derived...

Machine learning may support the prioritisation of reported maritime occurrences for expert review, but its usefulness depends on performance across time and geographical regions. This study assessed a leakage-controlled framework for ranking occurre...

Cannabis and hemp-derived products are becoming increasingly important in Europe for agricultural and medical purposes; however, their regulation remains complex. In this study, we reviewed national rules and legislation on cannabis cultivation, use,...

Background: Total calcanectomy has been proposed as a definitive limb-salvage strategy in non-ambulatory patients with heel ulceration and calcaneal osteomyelitis, potentially facilitating primary wound closure and reducing complications associated w...

Background/Objectives: Progressive pulmonary fibrosis (PPF) is an important outcome in autoimmune-associated ILD, but practical biomarkers for identifying patients at increased risk before overt progression remain limited. We investigated the inciden...

Background/Objectives: This study examined longitudinal changes in body composition, physical performance, lipid profiles, and fasting glucose during a 36-week multicomponent training program combined with nutritional education and psychoeducation in...

Daily and weekly load profiles provide useful forecasting baselines, but the benefit of learning detailed mixing weights remains uncertain. This study separates the value of periodic output structure from calibration complexity through controlled com...

Background/Objectives: Acute pancreatitis (AP) is a severe inflammatory disorder driven by complex immune responses and oxidative stress. While macrophages are central to AP pathogenesis, the subsets associated with oxidative stress remain poorly def...

Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains one of the most aggressive breast cancer subtypes and is frequently associated with aberrant activation of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway. Because tankyrase 1 and 2 (TNKS1/2) promote Wnt pathway...

Extreme environments, arising from natural processes or human activities, harbor microorganisms adapted to high salinity, temperature extremes, atypical pH, and other restrictive conditions. Similar stresses occur during food fermentation and process...

Climate zoning is widely used to establish building-envelope requirements and estimate residential heating and cooling demand. However, regulatory classifications based primarily on outdoor climatic variables may not adequately represent the diversit...

Background/Objectives: This in vitro study evaluated the effect of PEEK scan body splinting on geometric scan-body measurements obtained from complete-arch digital implant scans using two intraoral scanners under two simulated clinical scenarios. Met...

Inactive sourdough contains fermentation-derived compounds that may influence dough properties and bread quality. This study investigated four commercial inactive sourdoughs—wheat-based Sapore Rigoletto (SR) and Medea (SM), and rye-based Sapore...

Ammonium perchlorate (AP) is a widely used oxidizer in composite solid propellants, but its high decomposition temperature and hygroscopicity limit energy utilization and moisture resistance. Here, AP/Co₃O₄ and AP/Co₃O₄/PTFE composite particles were...

Transportation noise is an established cardiovascular risk factor. More than 112 million Europeans are chronically exposed above the thresholds of the Environmental Noise Directive, with approximately 73,000 premature deaths and 1.5 million disabilit...

Vaccine adjuvants enhance immune responses and improve the effectiveness of veterinary vaccines. However, their performance and safety vary across animal species, vaccine formulations, and production systems. This narrative review examines the histor...

Streptococcosis caused by oxytetracycline (OTC)-resistant Streptococcus agalactiae is a major constraint in Nile tilapia aquaculture, where antibiotic options are increasingly limited. This study evaluated the in vitro antibacterial activity of canna...

Objectives: Extreme acidemia is associated with high mortality, but prognosis may depend more on the clinical context than on pH alone. This study evaluated 24-h and 30-day mortality and associated prognostic factors in adults presenting to the emerg...

Breast magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) offers three-dimensional anatomical information for reconstruction-oriented analysis, but annotated public datasets targeting implant-based reconstruction are limited. ImageBR contains MRI volumes from 44 patie...

Empirical standoff and look-ahead selection motivates this closed-form law for passive dual-UAV bearing-only localization in a wall-type leader–follower formation. An off-axis-dependent bearing-noise model with a nonzero floor yields the Fisher...

The benefit of motion-based solar irradiance forecasts can vary with spatial texture even when their pooled skill is favorable. We compare a fixed history-only Farnebäck extrapolation with solar-geometry-adjusted persistence on the hourly Tang/T...

Flutter tests approach the instability boundary from the subcritical side, but predicting it from limited subcritical data involves large extrapolation uncertainty and lacks reliability and risk information. A physics-constrained Bayesian ARX method...

Gastrointestinal parasites (GIPs) can affect wildlife health and livestock productivity and are of epidemiological interest at wildlife–livestock interfaces. This study characterised GIP occurrence and faecal parasite output (FPO) in wild mamma...

The increasing use of generative artificial intelligence in teaching English as a foreign language (EFL) writing is becoming prevalent, though there is still a gap between writing performance and cognitive and motivational variables. This explanatory...

We report on four anchor-group modified diruthenium macrocycles obtained from two different bis(alkenyl)-diruthenium precursors and two dicarboxylate linkers by coordination-driven self-assembly. They were characterized using NMR spectroscopy and UHR...

Municipal solid waste management remains a major environmental and public health challenge in rapidly urbanising cities in sub-Saharan Africa. This study analyses municipal solid waste management in Luanda, Angola, focusing on institutional, regulato...

Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks pose a serious threat to the availability and reliability of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted Space–Air–Ground Integrated Networks (SAGIN). In such networks, UAVs can serve as aerial acce...

In Agile/Scrum software development, the product backlog is a key artefact specifying software requirements. However, when starting work in Agile/Scrum settings, many junior software developers struggle with requirements specification, even when deta...

Escherichia coli (E. coli) causes most urinary tract infections in children, while antimicrobial-resistance patterns vary across settings and have worsened for several clinically important agents. Conventional urine culture identifies organisms recov...

Extended realignment matrices give computable lower bounds on bipartite entanglement measures, but introduce auxiliary parameters whose optimization is generally left numerical. We show that the supremum of the two-parameter realignment excess equals...

JPEG AI, the first international standard for learned image compression, supports a continuous bit-rate range through four models whose operating points are adjusted by a Gain Unit. To reach a target bit rate, the Bit Rate Matching (BRM) process of t...

(1) Background: American ginseng (Panax quinquefolius L.) cultivation faces severe continuous cropping obstacles, presenting a trade-off between short-term quality and long-term soil microecological health under different planting systems. (2) Method...

Chronic inflammatory dermatoses are increasingly recognized as systemic diseases whose manifestations may also involve the eye. One of the most commonly observed ophthalmic abnormalities is meibomian gland dysfunction (MGD), which leads to tear film...

Background/Objectives: Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) is an acute and febrile infectious disease that spreads rapidly among cloven-hoofed animals. Vaccination is one of the most effective methods for controlling FMD. However, commercially available FMD...

Anxiety and depression are prevalent neuropsychiatric disorders, and Lamiaceae species have shown neuroprotective and psychotropic properties. However, no systematic review with quantitative synthesis has specifically assessed phytochemically charact...

Submerged swirl-generating piers guide inflow toward an annular weir and promote rotating flow in the upper shaft, but also restrict the inlet passages. This study examines the resulting tradeoff using a 1:50 Froude-scaled physical model and three-di...

Random numbers are used to generate cryptographic keys, to run Monte Carlo simulations, and to train and sample machine learning models. Most software obtains them from deterministic pseudo-random number generators, which have good statistical proper...

Saccharomyces boulardii is widely distributed throughout the world. Storage in various laboratories leads to the accumulation of independent genetic changes. To introduce the S. boulardii strain into scientific use, and, particularly, in space biolog...

We present an empirical study of the Bachelier implied volatility smile for spread options on crude oil futures. It is known that the at-the-money (ATM) spread implied volatility is simply related to the futures prices and volatilities and their corr...

Cancer remains a major global health challenge, and despite advances in chemotherapy, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, and targeted therapy, treatment outcomes are still limited by systemic toxicity, poor tumor selectivity, multidrug resistance, and inad...

Toxoplasma gondii undergoes multiple developmental transitions during its complex life cycle, which are controlled by coordinated transcriptional and epigenetic regulation. The MORC/HDAC3/ApiAP2 complex has been implicated in the repression of merozo...

Wall suction creates a low-pressure field in a tunnel, but its magnitude depends on the extraction rate and the paths supplying air to the slot. Steady, fully turbulent Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes simulations of a circular tunnel with an an...

Dynamic estimation of pedestrian route flows in intermodal stations is essential to understand how passengers are distributed within complex infrastructures and to support operational management, planning and sustainable mobility. However, estimating...

Aquaculture is an important source of food, employment and economic development, but maintaining appropriate water quality remains a major challenge for farmers. Parameters like temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen (DO), turbidity and salinity have sign...

European public procurement of construction works has been open to competition across Member States for three decades, yet cross-border award shares remain low. This paper separates two quantities the standard statistic confounds: whether a cross-bor...

Background/Objectives: Denosumab has been reported as an adjunctive or alternative treatment for selected aggressive benign bone tumours, but its role in spinal osteoblastoma remains unclear. This systematic review aimed to summarise the reported ind...

Significant amounts of antibiotics are found in wastewater and drinking water streams due to their widespread use in human and veterinary medicine and their incomplete uptake by living organisms. Among the technologies developed to address this probl...

Given sequential metal-surface images, crack video segmentation seeks accurate crack masks and stable crack-tip localization across frames. Thin cracks with low contrasts are difficult to distinguish from the background, and specimen motion further c...

Observation-spectrum targets can supplement reconstruction in deep hyperspectral unmixing, but their effects depend on target construction and the network interface. We evaluate these effects across adapted backbones using response-conditioned observ...

The mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) signaling pathway is often aberrantly activated in cancers, including colorectal cancers. Long non-coding RNA (lncRNA) is a subset of non-coding transcripts with a minimum length of 200 nucleotides that can re...