To support the educational and technical developmental pipeline for future nanosatellite development, this research presents the design, development, and validation of an engineering model for KSU’s first 1p PocketQube. The development of the e...
Successful establishment during the first growing season is essential for productive short-rotation coppice plantations, yet the effectiveness of establishment management under mountainous conditions remains poorly understood. We evaluated early esta...
Conventional flexible food packaging often relies on multilayer structures based on non-biodegradable petrochemical materials to achieve the required barrier performance, generating persistent waste and making recycling difficult. Replacing these sys...
Automated blood-cell detection can support microscopic analysis, but detector performance depends strongly on the training configuration. This study investigates a topology-guided Ant Colony Optimization (ACO) strategy for jointly selecting 21 hyperp...
Predicting recurrence after a first venous thromboembolism episode remains difficult: existing risk scores use few variables and generalize poorly, whereas machine learning often lacks mechanistic interpretability. We developed a hybrid framework com...
Extreme operational environments can affect cognitive regulation, the control of emotions, and decision-making processes. Although stress-related impairments have been studied extensively, adaptive mechanisms that support functional action when under...
There are no widely used standardized tests of pickleball skill. The purpose of this research was to develop a test to represent general paddle-stroke ability via evaluation of the serve. This paper describes multiple phases of sequential exploratory...
Skin hyperpigmentation caused by excessive melanin production has led to increasing interest in the development of effective anti-melanogenic agents. In this study, the anti-melanogenic effects and underlying mechanisms of nicotinamide mononucleotide...
The study of the conceptual framework examined climate change, water civilization, and socio-economic development in ancient Dalmatia (Croatia). The study examined the cultural and social development centered on managing and depending on water from 3...
Chlorophyll fluorescence parameters are sensitive indicators of photosystem II (PSII) functionality and overall photosynthetic performance; however, their genetic architecture in wheat remains poorly understood. This study aimed to elucidate the gene...
Dementia-related disorders, particularly Alzheimer’s disease (AD), represent a growing global health challenge, increasing the need for early and reliable detection. Electroencephalography (EEG), a non-invasive and cost-effective neurophysiolog...
Rapid and accurate detection of pathogenic bacteria is of critical concern in the food and pharmaceutical sectors. In this study, a gene membrane chip detection method combining multiplex PCR with reverse dot blot hybridization was developed to enabl...
This study integrates microbial biotechnology, bioprocess optimization, and circular bioeconomy principles to valorize oilseed agro-industrial coproducts as low-cost inducing substrates for lipase production. Palm kernel cake (PKC), canola cake, andi...
Background: Removing explicit protected health information (PHI) does not necessarily make a clinical narrative non-identifiable. Rare diagnoses, social circumstances, locations, temporal patterns, and treatment trajectories may still permit re-ident...
Background: This study explored the observations and experiences of athletic trainers (ATs) regarding food security constraints and drivers among collegiate student-athletes through the framework of the social determinants of health (SDOH). Methods:...
A numerical bifurcation analysis is presented for inductively coupled plasmas and wall-stabilized arcs for argon and hydrogen. Because of the non-linear transport and radiative properties, both problems admit multiple solutions, up to three for argon...
Bentonite slurry is frequently used as a support fluid in the construction of drilled shafts. During the piling process, the slurry acts as a sealant and slightly penetrates the nearby soil. However, the degree to which bentonite slurry penetrates th...
Cyclic triaxial tests are often used to evaluate the behavior of soils under seismic loads. The stress conditions imposed on a soil specimen during a cyclic triaxial test, however, are very different than those acting on an element of soil during an...
Frailty is a geriatric syndrome associated with adverse outcomes, particularly in super-aged societies. Hospitalization-related inactivity may contribute to frailty progression and worsen prognosis and post-discharge quality of life; however, frailty...
Waterflooding in oilfields for oil displacement and reservoir pressure maintenance has led to the production of scale in several reservoirs. The formation of scale occurs both in the porous media of the reservoir and in the production equipment, lead...
mRNA vaccines are a relevant approach in cancer immunotherapy, using messenger RNA to induce immune responses against tumor-associated antigens. In this review, BNT111 and BNT122 are compared as representative off-the-shelf and personalized models. B...
Lifestyle-related diseases such as diabetes are closely influenced by daily habits, yet the complex interactions between lifestyle factors and blood glucose variation remain insufficiently quantified. This study proposes a natural language processing...
Precision Livestock Farming (PLF) has emerged as an approach in modern animal production, integrating advanced technologies such as sensors, automation, data analytics, and artificial intelligence to enable continuous, individualised monitoring of li...
All-inorganic cesium lead iodide (CsPbI3) has been investigated for more than a decade as an absorber for perovskite photovoltaics thanks to its attractive bandgap, thermal robustness compared with hybrid perovskites, and compatibility with tandem co...
The dystrophin gene encodes multiple dystrophin isoforms with tissue-specific functions, including several shorter isoforms expressed in the central nervous system and retina. While Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) has historically been characterize...
Gas atomization is one method for producing fine metal powder. In close-coupled gas atomization, a high-speed gas jet is ejected near the molten metal, and the molten metal is further broken down in the shear layer at the outer edge of the jet, produ...
Information and communication technologies have evolved exponentially in recent years, significantly expanding their diversification and applicability. Extended reality (XR) technologies—including virtual, augmented, and mixed reality—hav...
Background: Non-classical MHC class I molecules MICA and MICB are stress-inducible NKG2D ligands that contribute to immune surveillance, non-HLA antibody formation, and alloreactivity in solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; popula...
This work demonstrates that simple calibration procedures can reduce the errors in determining relative humidity with a psychrometer by up to 75 times. The psychrometer uses two temperature transducers to measure relative humidity. The calibration co...
This study presents a passive mechanical filter designed to enhance sub-Hertz Venusquake detection by shaping the seismic transfer path. The mechanism uses a tunable, high-Q pendulum mounted inside a cylindrical enclosure on a three-ring gimbal to en...
Optical synaptic transistors employing polymer dielectrics have emerged as promising building blocks for neuromorphic computing due to their low power consumption and rich photo-induced memory behaviors. While extensive experimental studies have demo...
Since Reynolds’ work, turbulence has been one of the most important subjects in fluid dynamics. Although its complete understanding seems still out of reach, there is at least one established physical basis that turbulence is a phenomenon of a...
The Internet of Things (IoT) is increasingly deployed at the edge under resource and environmental constraints, which limits the practicality of traditional intrusion detection systems (IDSs) on IoT hardware. This paper presents two IDS configuration...
Due to the limitations of conventional antibiotics, antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have emerged as promising therapeutic alternatives for the prevention and treatment of oral infections. This study systematically evaluated in vitro evidence regarding...
Change in direction ability (COD) is a fitness component that may be related to safe and effective participation in pickleball. The general aim of the research was to examine a COD test that may be specific to the movement demands of the sport. There...
Quantitative analyses in drug-delivery research are frequently distributed across multiple tools, which increases manual handling and the risk of transcription errors. NanoEDW 1.0 is an open source Python application that integrates calibration-curve...
Banana pseudostem is an abundant lignocellulosic residue with potential for value-added applications. This study evaluated five banana varieties to determine their suitability for bioplastic production, with Williams showing the highest cellulose yie...
The medical discourse entails the analysis of the modalities, which are far from unbiased, by which hypotheses and results are laid out in the dissemination of findings in scientific publications. This gives different emphases on the background, rele...
This study discusses the role of the equivalence factor and penalty function in improving the performance of energy consumption minimization strategies in Range Extended Electric Vehicles (REEVs). In conventional ECMS, equivalence factors are typical...
Conventional cancer treatments have limited efficacy for aggressive subtypes such as triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), which points to the importance of new therapeutic strategies. Functionalized nanoparticles in conjunction with photodynamic the...
In this study, we successfully cloned the fluorescent proteins eGFP and DsRed in-frame with the antimicrobial peptide epinecidin-1 (FIFHIIKGLFHAGKMIHGLV) at the N-terminal. The cloning strategy involved inserting the fluorescent reporters into the ex...
The simultaneous occurrence of tuberculosis (TB) and COVID-19 posed a major public health challenge, particularly in regions heavily impacted by both diseases, due to their shared effects on the lungs, immune system dysfunction, and the possibility o...
The occurrence patterns of important words found in six texts (one historical pamphlet and five renowned academic books) are analyzed using both univariate and multivariate Hawkes processes. By treating the occurrence patterns as binary time-series d...
Fish have become increasingly prominent as experimental models due to their unique capacity to bridge basic biological research with translational applications across diverse scientific disciplines. Their biological traits, such as external fertiliza...
In recent decades, simulation has emerged as a pivotal educational tool, bolstering scientific knowledge and honing decision-making skills across diverse disciplines. Surgery and flight simulators are well-known tools used to practice and train safel...
In an era marked by powerful AI content generators and the rapid spread of information on social media, the role of a scientific journal as a bastion of trustworthy knowledge has never been more critical [...]
Pesticides are used in agriculture to protect crops from disease. Among these, the herbicide glyphosate, the insecticide deltamethrin, and the fungicides propamocarb and tebuconazole are approved for use in Europe. These pesticides, along with their...
During the last decades, there have been increasing concerns in public health debates regarding the production and consumption of red meat, considering connections between the occurrence of nutrition transition and an increase in the prevalence of ch...
Sustainable pavement design requires a balanced consideration of economic, environmental, and social impacts. In line with Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) guidelines for sustainable roadway infrastructure, incorporating recycled materials such...
Background/Objectives: To analyze how the different phases of the menstrual cycle affect agility in female football players. Methods: A total of 11 female football players were selected from the third tier of the Spanish Football Federation (Third RF...
