Shear-capacity predictions for beams with fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) longitudinal bars and stirrups can be biased, while data-driven corrections can introduce inconsistent parameter responses. Using 106 published tests, six design methods were ev...
To investigate fire-induced smoke transport in continuous inclined evacuation passages of deep-buried metro stations, a 1:15 reduced-scale model was constructed according to the Froude similarity criterion. Experiments were conducted using nominal fi...
The xyloglucan endotransglucosylase/hydrolase (XTH) gene family plays key roles in plant cell wall remodeling and aluminum (Al) stress responses. However, a systematic genome-wide identification and functional characterization of the XTH gene family...
Performance above aspirations can support favorable stakeholder evaluations, but it may also create pressure to sustain them. Drawing on temporal comparison theory and social comparison theory, this study examines how performance above historical and...
Coagulation factor VIII (FVIII) is a key therapeutic protein for hemophilia A, an inherited bleeding disorder caused by FVIII deficiency or dysfunction. The development and production of FVIII-based therapeutics remains challenging due to the intrins...
Drought affects meteorological forcing, root-zone water availability and land-surface functioning at different spatial and temporal supports. We evaluated Uruguay’s 2020–2023 drought using an observational 2016–2024 panel of 1423 SM...
Finite-resolution phase-only antenna synthesis is a constrained, multimodal combinatorial search problem in which small changes in digital phase codes can substantially alter interference suppression. This study applies the Enhanced Rüppell&rsqu...
Background: An increasing number of patients and consumers using health-related products are affected by lactose intolerance or follow vegan diets. These individuals seek pharmaceutical products, nutraceuticals, and dietary supplements that are free...
Traditionally, during a latency-based functional analysis (FA), implementers end sessions upon the first instance of challenging behavior. Given that latency-based FAs rely on antecedent control because challenging behavior is exposed to the continge...
Integrating the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) into smart grids improves their operational efficiency but expands their attack surface. Federated learning (FL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative anomaly detection, but exchanged model upda...
Modelling multiple seasonal time series is a pervasive challenge across diverse domains, including energy, transportation, and financial markets. Existing Bayesian methods for seasonal vector autoregressive (SeVAR) models treat lag-order identificati...
How far can reservoir operation displace a river’s calendar? We address the question with 92 years of monthly discharge on the Naryn River, the transboundary artery of the Syr Darya basin, together with an unregulated headwater gauge, two mount...
This study evaluates the performance of five conceptual hydrological models namely AWBM, BUDYKO, GR2M, IHACRES, and SIMHYD in simulating monthly streamflow across twelve tropical catchments in the Northern Pacific Region of Costa Rica. Building on ex...
(1) Background: Pesticide poisoning is an inherent risk associated with the widespread use of pesticides in agriculture, and treatment largely depends on the type of pesticide involved. Thus, this retrospective study aimed to evaluate the clinical ma...
The growth payoff of the digital economy may depend on complementary national capacities. This study quantifies the growth effect of deepening the digital economy. It tests how financial development and human-capital investment moderate it in 58 OECD...
Simultaneous determination of salivary cortisol and testosterone levels could provide complementary information on the physiological status of the human body. However multiplex immunoassays are challenging because the two analytes occur at different...
Biochar performance in alkaline, low-fertility soil depends on feedstock, pyrolysis temperature, and application rate, yet the effects of mining-affected Artemisia biomass remain poorly characterized. Artemisia (SBC) and maize straw (BC) biochars pro...
Quadrotors attract broad military and civilian interest, yet their underactuated, highly coupled, and nonlinear dynamics make precise control difficult. While sliding-mode control (SMC) offers robust trajectory tracking, tuning its parameters remains...
The weldability of neutron-irradiated austenitic stainless steels in pressurized water reactors (PWRs) deteriorates significantly due to helium accumulation at grain boundaries (GB) originating from nuclear transmutation reactions. This study develop...
Sacred processions are among the most visible ways living cultural traditions persist today, yet many are threatened by declining community participation, standardized attendance, and a widening gap between ritual meaning and touristic spectacle. Thi...
This study investigates a composition-tunable power-to-syngas platform in which a natural-gas-fired Allam–Fetvedt (AF) supercritical CO2 (sCO2) power cycle is coupled with three electrolysis architectures for converting internally available CO2...
Biopolymer-based hydrogels offer adaptable platforms for localized cancer therapy by regulating administration, tissue retention, payload protection, and therapeutic release. This review critically examines polysaccharide-, protein-, peptide-, and po...
Scene text image super-resolution must preserve character identity and glyph geometry, including approximate symmetry where present and asymmetric details that distinguish characters. Erroneous optical character recognition (OCR) priors can distort c...
To address the challenge of intense pressure manifestation induced by remaining coal pillar from gently inclined multi-coal seam mining, a physical similarity simulation experiment was conducted using microseismic, thermal infrared, and borehole tele...
The durability of fiber-reinforced epoxy composites in marine environments depends on the interaction among interfacial characteristics, moisture transport, and damage evolution. However, it remains poorly understood whether E-CR/PP hybridization mer...
Background: The analysis of chromosomal variation can help to assess genetic diversity, understand evolutionary processes and phylogenetic relationships, and manage the conservation of animal populations. In the genus Pseudois, karyotypic characteris...
This article examines how time-limited, project-based public funding instruments (the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the Recovery and Resilience Plan (PRR), EU LIFE, and Erasmus+) mediate rural cooperation. Integrating policy instrumentation, inno...
Imaging problems, including image reconstruction, restoration, enhancement, segmentation,
classification, object detection, and secure image transmission, have traditionally
been addressed using analytical methods derived from mathematical models and d...
Apiaceae plants have documented uses for pruritic and inflammatory skin conditions. Their coumarins include clinical photosensitizers and experimental candidates, but botanical occurrence alone does not establish equivalence to traditional preparatio...
A special measure of carriageway grooving in the prestressed concrete lining of a water delivery shield tunnel locally weakens the cross-section, raising issues concerning the safe operation of the tunnel under high internal water pressure and the tr...
White onion (Allium fistulosum L.) is a major source of income for smallholders in the Ecuadorian Andes, where fungal root and foliar diseases reduce yield and commercial quality and are controlled mainly with single-site fungicides. We evaluated the...
Synchronized fixed-frequency current control (SFFC) enables inverter-dominated islanded microgrids to regulate power without relying on frequency deviations. However, conventional SFFC may exhibit power oscillations when battery storage systems (BSSs...
Growing demand for renewable energy from biomass has prompted exploration of timber transportation concepts. This study evaluated the operational and regulatory boundaries of whole-tree hauling using a modified log trailer in the southeastern United...
Vision–language–action (VLA) models provide a promising interface between semantic reasoning and executable behavior for end-to-end autonomous driving, yet sparse closed-loop feedback leaves the decisive time step and responsible componen...
Illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is a major driver of biodiversity loss, and birds are among the most heavily trafficked taxa. Although China has one of the world’s largest wildlife markets, the spatial, temporal, and taxonomic structure of its dom...
Noncontact fish body mass estimation requires accurate body extraction and reliable physical scale under changing underwater observations. This study develops a measurement-oriented instance segmentation and selective stereo-measurement method for la...
Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) exhibits substantial biological heterogeneity that may contribute to variable therapeutic responses and complicate the translation of immunotherapies from experimental models to patients. This Review examines how...
Face images are widely used in recognition, social media, and digital evidence, so tampering can undermine trust. This study proposes a blind tamper detection and self-recovery method for aligned, grayscale CelebA face images. A vector-quantized vari...
Statistical outlier detection is routine preprocessing for high-frequency water-quality records, but extreme values are of two kinds: technical anomalies and the response to short-term hydrological events. This study asks how that choice affects a to...
Kumquat (Fortunella), as a fruit with both medicinal and edible properties, contains various bioactive components and possesses multiple functional activities. In this study, 13 kumquat germplasms were used as experimental materials, and untargeted m...
Aligning regional innovation capability with territorial space use efficiency (TSUE) is important for regional sustainable development. Using data from 2010 to 2020, this study examines their spatiotemporal patterns and matching-type transitions in t...
Microtubules constitute fundamental cytoskeletal polymers that orchestrate cell division, intracellular trafficking, and the maintenance of cellular architecture across eukaryotic lineages. The biogenesis, folding, and steady-state homeostasis of &al...
Background: This pilot study evaluated changes in eating behavior, appetite, and dietary habits during semaglutide or tirzepatide treatment in adults with obesity. Methods: In this prospective observational study, 38 non-diabetic adults with obesity...
Multi-UAV observation improves the efficiency and coverage of three-dimensional scene acquisition, but continuous onboard Gaussian Splatting reconstruction is computationally expensive, whereas transmitting dense RGB-D streams wastes communication ba...
Hydrodynamic plain bearings are widely used in heavy-duty applications, e.g., wind turbine drivetrains or ship propulsion systems. However, abnormal events such as mechanical overload causing overheating or particle contamination can lead to rapid be...
Hydroclimatic variability and land-use and land-cover (LULC) change were investigated in the Ribeira de Iguape River Basin, Brazil, using precipitation records from 14 gauges and mean, maximum and minimum streamflow from 10 stations within 1960&ndash...
Equity index models usually rely on the index’s own history, which leaves open how far macroeconomic and risk conditions alone can track its level. This study maps five contemporaneous United States predictors, the economic, financial, and poli...
We investigate equilibrium-consistent reservoir-computing (RC) prediction and adaptively weighted model predictive control (MPC) for a nonlinear pitch–plunge flutter benchmark at
Tip leakage flow originates from the pressure difference between the pressure and suction sides of a blade, which drives fluid through the finite tip clearance. After leaving the clearance, the leakage jet interacts with the passage flow and casing b...
The characteristics and formation mechanisms of lightning activity during the lifetime of Super Typhoon Doksuri (2023) were investigated using ERA5 reanalysis data and observation data from the World-Wide Lightning Location Network (WWLLN) and Himawa...
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