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Polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP) waste form a large part of polymer waste, and their separation is complicated by similar densities and frequent combination within a single product, making PE + PP co-pyrolysis a practically relevant recycling...

Background and Objectives: Vision-threatening vitreoretinal disease and the prospect of surgery may generate substantial emotional distress. This study examined anxiety, depressive symptoms, and coping strategies in patients undergoing pars plana vit...

Chad’s Zakouma National Park (ZNP) has faced several security crises over the last few decades. It has also protected exceptional wildlife populations through effective management changes, especially since 2010. As a result, and with sustained...

Chloroviruses (Phycodnaviridae) are large dsDNA viruses of green algae whose linear genomes end in covalently closed hairpin loops flanked by inverted terminal repeats (ITRs). Reads that pass around these hairpins can lead assemblers to retain duplic...

Low-dimensional heterogeneous catalysts are often discussed as though dimensionality itself were a catalytic descriptor. It is not. Shrinking a material to clusters, nanowires, or atomically thin sheets changes several quantities at once: coordinatio...

Forage production on salt-affected farmland must balance yield and nutritional quality. A two-year field experiment in the Hetao Irrigation District, China, compared barley (B) and hairy vetch (V) monocultures with their intercrop (B/V), with (T1) or...

As rice consumption demand has shifted from quantity to quality, improving quality has become a major objective. Organic fertilizer substitution and planting density are important cultivation practices for regulating rice quality; however, their inte...

Interlocking masonry offers a potential route for using locally available desert sand in modular construction. However, the relationship between mixture properties and assembly performance remains insufficiently understood. This study investigated ce...

Mechanized timber extraction using high-capacity machinery induces severe disturbances in forest soils, particularly under high moisture conditions. This study evaluated the vehicle–soil interaction during timber forwarding within a mixed monta...

Electrical load reflects changes in electricity demand, and accurately forecasting trends in load variation is important for refined electricity management in oilfields. However, oilfield electrical loads exhibit more complex dynamics at finer tempor...

Immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) can restore antitumor T-cell activity, but immune-desert, immune-excluded, and T-cell-inflamed yet dysfunctional tumors present different forms of resistance. Nitric oxide (NO), carbon monoxide (CO), and hydrogen sulf...

Background: Early glycemic variability (GV) may be associated with mortality in sepsis. Methods: We analyzed 11,907 adult ICU patients meeting Sepsis-3 criteria in MIMIC-IV who had at least six glucose measurements during the first 24 h. Four metrics...

The global energy sector, as the primary anthropogenic source of greenhouse gas emissions, is undergoing a profound eco-modernization driven by the “3D” concept of decarbonization, decentralization, and digitalization. However, fossil fue...

Background: Human factors are critical for road safety. Driving simulators offer controlled, repeatable conditions for studying driver performance, but it is unclear which simulator findings are supported by real-world evidence. Objective: This syste...

Depressive symptoms are an important public health concern among Myanmar migrants in Thailand, but the role of culturally embedded Buddhist ethical practices remains insufficiently understood. This cross-sectional study examined associations among ne...

Purse seiners transfer their catch to carrier vessels at sea while the loads of the net and catch are supported by the ship side and deck cranes, but the effect of these loads on stability has not been quantified. This study presents a numerical meth...

Background/Objectives: Longer duration of living alone may be associated with poorer dietary quality and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in older adults. This study examined whether dietary quality mediates this association and identified fact...

The declining pudu population highlights the need for genetic preservation strategies. This study characterized pudu oocyte morphology and evaluated in vitro competence against a bovine model. Pudu ovaries were collected from one juvenile female foll...

Background/Objectives: Chloroplast genome variation among geographically distinct populations of Allium caeruleum remains poorly understood. This study aimed to characterize plastome variation among representative accessions from ten natural populati...

Machine-learning classifiers for transmission-line faults often reach near-perfect accuracy on simulated benchmarks, usually under random splits of temporally ordered samples. This study tests whether this holds under deployment-oriented conditions o...

We investigate a physics-constrained neural network for reconstructing transient gas–liquid pipe flow under prescribed initial and boundary conditions. The method combines phase mass and mixture momentum equations with a horizontal drift-flux c...

Stereotypic behavior is a significant welfare concern in captive nonhuman primates, and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors have shown promise in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). However, evidence of their efficacy in cynomolgus monkeys (Macaca ...

Elderflowers are rich in volatile and phenolic compounds, making them valuable resources for nutraceutical, cosmetic, and medical applications. However, fresh elderflowers rapidly degrade, losing their phytochemical characteristics and aroma. Drying...

Natural fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites may be lighter, more recyclable, and easier to process than many conventional composite systems. However, fiber-matrix interface compatibility greatly affects composite performance. This review focuse...

Analgesia and sedation are essential components of intensive care, but general recommendations are largely derived from heterogeneous critically ill populations rather than cardiac patients, who present distinct pharmacokinetic, pharmacodynamic, and...

Background/Objectives: Nasal valve collapse is associated with continuous nasal obstruction refractory to medical treatment. Among various surgical techniques for nasal valve reconstruction, this study explored the efficacy and feasibility of the end...

Intracranial arterial aneurysm (IAA) is an important cause of hemorrhagic stroke in children and presents a unique diagnostic challenge for the clinician. Exhibiting failure of arterial wall integrity decades before the general population, this early...

Background/Objectives: Unsuccessful tuberculosis (TB) treatment outcomes impede disease control. This study identified associated factors and evaluated machine-learning models using Malaysian national registry data. Methods: A retrospective cohort st...

Cadmium (Cd) accumulation in food crops poses a major threat to safe agricultural production, whereas selenium (Se) biofortification demands precise regulation of Se concentrations in edible tissues. Biochar–Se co-application can reconcile thes...

Organizations require transparent methods for diagnosing documented process capabilities while preserving traceability to operational evidence. Service Blueprint is widely used to represent interactions among beneficiaries, visible service activities...

This paper separately evaluates whether euro-denominated Bitcoin returns are associated with a recursive euro-area HICP forecast error and whether Bitcoin offers protection during European equity-market stress. Monthly inflation innovations are treat...

In electrochemical machining (ECM), the inter-electrode gap changes during machining, so uniform machined dimensions are difficult to obtain and, in practice, a conservatively slow feed is used to avoid tool–workpiece contact. In this study, th...

Background/Objectives: No nutritional assessment method is accepted as a gold standard in pediatric oncology. We translated and culturally adapted Pediatric PG-SGA and SCAN into Turkish and evaluated content validity, 24-h test–retest reliabili...

Severely calcified coronary lesions remain among the most technically demanding substrates for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI), and their prevalence is rising with population ageing and the growing burden of diabetes mellitus and chronic kid...

Background/Objectives: Interpersonal difficulties are associated with problematic digital media use, but overall scores may conceal differences between specific difficulties. We examined three theory-based interpersonal problem patterns and the sensi...

The intermediate-conductance Ca²⁺-activated potassium channel KCa3.1 plays a crucial role in various cellular processes and is implicated in the pathogenesis of neuroimmune, inflammatory, cardiovascular, and oncological diseases. Pore blockers of KCa...

Background/Objectives: GLP-1-based therapies have attracted interest in endometrial cancer because obesity and metabolic dysfunction are common and biologically relevant to the disease. This review examines their metabolic, experimental, and emerging...

Flat-rib-stiffened plates are widely used in steel bridges, and their ultimate compressive capacity is critical to structural safety. Local buckling under uniform axial compression is the dominant failure mode and is strongly affected by geometric im...

Communication between tumors and the nervous system influences tumor growth, invasion, pain and immune regulation. This mini-review critically examines extracellular vesicle (EV)-mediated cancer–nerve communication in peripheral solid tumors, s...

Soybean is a major global source of vegetable oil and plant protein, making efficient harvesting an important component of crop production. Header losses remain a major limitation in mechanical soybean harvesting, particularly where low pods and matu...

Efficient power distribution is needed for visible GaN photonic integrated circuits. We investigate GaN-on-Si Y-branch splitters at 450 nm using three-dimensional beam propagation simulations, comparing planar geometry, slab removal, and backside opt...

Artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled markerless motion capture (MMC) estimates gait-related measures from video and may make repeated lower-limb assessment more accessible. Its validity depends on the task, output, population, acquisition protocol, s...

Lycium ruthenicum anthocyanins exert neuroprotective activity in experimental models, but the relationships between intestinal anthocyanin exposure, gut microbial features, and transcriptional responses remain uncertain. Male 5 × FAD mice were...

Architectural wall panels excluded from a building’s designated seismic-force-resisting system may nevertheless alter lateral response through deformation compatibility. This study compares three representations of a 28-story reinforced-concret...

Porcine oocytes are highly susceptible to vitrification-induced oxidative and metabolic stress because of their abundant intracellular lipids. This study investigated whether L-carnitine (L-Ca) and dibutyryl cAMP (DBcAMP) during in vitro maturation c...

Background: The association between surgical timing and postoperative outcomes following coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) for acute coronary syndrome (ACS) remains unclear, partly because clinical urgency influences the timing of surgery. We ex...

Urban development involves both the expansion of built-up areas and changes in urban activity intensity. Using nighttime light (NTL) and built-up land (BUL) data from 2002 to 2022, this study examined built-up area expansion, changes in nighttime act...

Removing topographic effects from optical satellite imagery is essential for monitoring vegetation in mountainous regions, because uneven solar illumination causes substantial reflectance variation within the same land-cover class. Existing topograph...

Human pegivirus 1 (HPgV-1) is a widespread RNA virus detected in lymphoid and other hematopoietic cells, although its principal cellular reservoir in vivo remains uncertain. In people living with HIV-1 (PLWH), persistent HPgV-1 viremia has been assoc...

The use of eosin in the field of histopathology has several disadvantages, including health hazards to laboratory technicians and negative environmental impacts. Due to the global need for natural, biodegradable alternatives, this study was designed...