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Serpentine concrete is a key shielding material in nuclear engineering, and its thermal damage behaviour under irradiation-induced self-heating is closely related to structural safety. This study compares microwave volumetric heating (MW), which simu...

Neural network-based instance segmentation methods are essential for the automated diagnosis of patients with acne. However, a lack of pixel-wise annotations, which are time-consuming and labor-intensive to generate, severely impedes the development...

Worldwide, the 20-minute neighborhood has gained popularity as a promising urban planning paradigm, emphasizing active mobility and proximity for residents to access essential urban services within a short distance. This concept aims to create a utop...

Surface engineering strategies have been widely used in various technological fields. Particularly, they have been widely utilized in the biosensing field, to improve interfacial properties and facilitate molecular recognition. Among the various targ...

Purpose: To investigate the mechanical-damage behavior and energy-evolution characteristics of the sandstone–concrete interface when subjected to freeze–thaw cycles. Method: Uniaxial compression tests were conducted on sandstone–con...

Group decision-making is important in many real-world applications, particularly in smart grid planning, where different stakeholders need to work together to identify appropriate strategies for energy infrastructure deployment. In this study, we dev...

Smartphone-based human activity recognition (HAR) requires discriminative temporal modeling and careful assessment of computational cost. This study evaluates a Physics-Informed ConvFormer with State-Space Gating for six-class HAR on the WISDM v1.1 a...

Classifying Arabic music genres is a challenging task because Arabic music encompasses a wide range of rhythms, melodies, and musical structures. Multimodal learning combines complementary information from multiple representations to improve classifi...

Electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) systems depend on outbound Domain Name System (DNS) resolution for firmware retrieval, backend discovery, and fleet synchronization, making DNS tunneling an attractive covert command-a...

Background: K. pneumoniae is a major opportunistic pathogen recognized by the World Health Organization as a critical-priority antimicrobial-resistant pathogen. This study characterized isolates for antibiotic resistance determinants, virulence-...

3D Concrete Printing (3DCP) represents a pivotal advancement for establishing sustainable extraterrestrial infrastructure. This review synthesizes recent progress in lunar regolith-based composites, analyzing the interplay between material formulatio...

Thermal-sprayed WC–Co–Cr coatings are widely used to improve the wear and corrosion resistance of steel components operating under severe service conditions. This study investigates WC–Co–Cr coatings deposited by detonation sp...

Background: The molecular basis of myocarditis is often associated with genetic cardiomyopathies and truncating or loss-of-function variants in the titin gene (TTNtv/lof). Here, we hypothesize that titin serum levels increase in patients with myocard...

Background/Objectives: Breast cancer management relies on multidisciplinary team (MDT) decisions that integrate clinical, radiological, pathological, and patient-related factors. Large language models (LLMs) may support such decisions, but evidence b...

This paper is intended to study the fatigue behaviour of low-carbon steel DD11 with the combined effect of pre-strain and notch geometry, which are important in components working under cyclic loading in service. To this end, experimental fatigue tes...

To solve the problems of low efficiency, poor uniformity and high labor intensity in the manual distribution of rehydrated pellet feed for young silkworms, a distributing machine for silkworm rehydrated pellet feed was developed. According to the fee...

Due to global climate change, short periods of unusually warm temperatures occur during winter and early spring with increasing frequency. Although temperature effects on wheat development have been extensively studied during later reproductive stage...

This study evaluated the biomedical potential of ethanolic extracts from five native Thai mushrooms, revealing distinct biological activities associated with their metabolomic profiles. Termitomyces clypeatus R. Heim demonstrated exceptional biocompa...

As living standards improve and environmental awareness deepens, consumers are increasingly favoring green and organic food, and the agricultural sector has been pressed to reconcile two goals that once appeared to be in tension: raising productivity...

Large language models are increasingly used for financial question answering, while they are prone to generating hallucinated content. In this research, we propose a multi-signal framework for hallucination detection and mitigation. Our framework com...

Reference-based logo colorization aims to generate controllable color schemes while preserving clear contours and consistent colors within graphic regions. However, existing colorization and style transfer methods often suffer from ambiguous color as...

Maize (Zea mays L.) plays an irreplaceable role in food, feed, and energy security. However, abiotic stresses, including drought, high temperature, salinity, and waterlogging, driven by climate warming, cause yield losses of 20–30% of global ma...

Background: An ambient-temperature eligibility criterion of ≥22 °C was treated as an operational lower boundary spanning moderate or mildly warm to hot conditions, not as a universal physiological threshold for heat stress. This systematic rev...

There is an increasing global burden of ocular disorders, with an estimated 43.3 million people worldwide currently blind and a further 295 million living with moderate-to-severe vision impairment, driven by a complex pathogenesis that involves multi...

Background: The hominoid loss of urate oxidase (uricase) represents a classic evolutionary trade-off, shifting uric acid (UA) from a metabolic waste product to a potent physiological modulator. In modern metabolic environments, however, this adaptati...

Genetic selection for rapid growth, improved feed efficiency, and increased breast-muscle yield has substantially enhanced broiler production; however, it has also increased the functional demands placed on the locomotor system. This review criticall...

The increasing accumulation of plastics in agricultural soils poses a threat to soil ecosystems, plants and human life. Under environmental conditions, the accumulation leads to the formation of more reactive forms of plastics such as micro (<5 mm...

Tensor-product dictionaries improve the expressiveness of finite-dimensional Koopman models but produce exponentially large dense operators, while least-squares fitting is sensitive to incomplete and contaminated data. We propose a robust tensor Koop...

Background/Objectives: Person-centred care necessitates addressing the growing biopsychosocial vulnerability within public health. This study analysed eating behaviours and sociocultural pressures regarding physical appearance in a convenience sample...

Nature has long provided solutions for human needs, from medicine and food to materials and energy. The scope of this study focuses on plants, fungi and algae as sources of diverse classes of compounds with biological activity, named Bioactive Natura...

What do African religious traditions and the Bible teach about the human person, and what might their dialogue contribute to debates about artificial intelligence (AI)? Sustained comparison between African religious sources and biblical anthropology...

Polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) remains the material of choice for denture base fabrication; however, its limited mechanical durability and susceptibility to microbial colonization continue to compromise long-term clinical performance. This study aime...

Motivated by the altermagnet order reported for CrSb and evidence of electron correlations in this compound, we address the role of dynamical Coulomb interactions on its hexagonal Dirac fermion regime. We find that a Dirac-to-Fermi liquid crossover d...

Background: Metabolically healthy obesity and metabolically unhealthy obesity may occupy different positions along a continuum of adipose-tissue dysfunction, but stable molecular distinctions remain uncertain. Methods: We integrated three public huma...

Background: Kalanchoe pinnata (Lam.) Pers. is a medicinal species of the Crassulaceae family with a long history of ethnomedicinal use and a chemically diverse profile comprising flavonoids, bufadienolides, phenolic acids, triterpenes, and other...

Building energy codes (BECs) are essential policy tools for promoting building energy efficiency; however, their effectiveness depends on appropriate implementation, enforcement, and compliance. Despite Jordan’s adoption of BECs, systematic evi...

Plant-derived extracellular vesicle-like nanoparticles (EVNPs) have emerged as bioactive nanomaterials with potential applications in skin biology; however, their isolation from complex plant matrices and their integrated biological effects remain in...

Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) is increasingly used to produce scientific–visual material, but a polished result is not evidence that its content is correct or its sources are checkable. This study examined 41 infographics on scanni...

Background: This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to evaluate antimicrobial resistance patterns among selected Gram-negative bacterial isolates recovered from tracheal aspirate cultures in Türkiye. Methods: The systematic review was con...

Viral therapy requires effective control of intracellular viral replication while limiting harmful host responses that may contribute to disease progression and complications. Thymoquinone (TQ), a major bioactive constituent of Nigella sativa, has po...

Premature ovarian insufficiency (POI) affects 1–3.7% of women and causes infertility and long-term morbidity. Next-generation sequencing has identified more than 130 POI-associated genes. The diagnostic yield of genetic testing depends on cohor...

Software-Defined Perimeter (SDP) hides protected services until communicating entities have been authenticated and authorized. In operational SDP gateways, each successful Single Packet Authorization (SPA) request creates transient authorization stat...

High-density polyethylene (HDPE) has attracted attention as an alternative material for marine structures because of its chemical resistance, processability, and recyclability. However, internal pores formed during extrusion welding can reduce weld q...

Underwater visual perception is degraded by wavelength-dependent absorption and scattering, the effects of which vary with the camera-to-scene distance. Many underwater image enhancement methods nevertheless apply image-level transformations or use r...

Energy vulnerability has become an important concern for sustainable development, particularly in countries facing financial and structural constraints in strengthening their energy systems. This study examines whether energy aid reduces energy vulne...

Background: MS begins before age 18 in 3–10% of cases (pediatric-onset MS, POMS). Adult MS epidemiology is increasingly characterized across the Gulf, but whether the pediatric literature is sufficiently mature and ho0m1ogeneous to support a qu...

Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.), the fifth-most important cereal crop globally, serves as a cornerstone crop for food security, forage production, and bioenergy feedstock on arid and semi-arid marginal lands, owing to its high water use efficiency deriv...

Comparative evidence on the performance of urea and ammonium nitrate within integrated organo-mineral fertilization systems in acidic Luvisols under humid subtropical kiwifruit production remains limited. This study evaluated compost (30 t ha⁻¹...

Managing endangered wildlife in pre-release or semi-wild training programs requires an understanding of how animals balance strict energetic constraints against environmental health risks. We investigated the behavioral and spatial coping mechanisms...

Adolescence is a critical period characterized by heightened emotional and behavioral challenges, profoundly impacting young people’s social adaptation and future development. Previous research has predominantly employed traditional latent vari...