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Accurate node localization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is challenging under variable signal propagation and strict energy constraints. This paper presents a hybrid localization framework that combines a deep neural network (DNN) with particle...

Osteosarcoma (OS) is a highly aggressive bone cancer with limited therapeutic options. Carnosic acid (CA), a phenolic diterpene with well-established antioxidant properties, has shown anticancer activity, yet its mechanisms in OS remain unclear. In t...

Background/Objectives: Healthcare workers (HCWs) have a crucial role in addressing vaccine hesitancy in ethnic minority populations as they are a trusted source of information. The aim of this systematic review is to synthesise and evaluate behaviour...

There are numerous operating parameters that affect the thermodynamic and thermoeconomic performance of gas turbine cycles, and many studies based on energy, exergy, and economic analyses have been conducted in the literature by considering these par...

Quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) is a widespread method to quantify RNA or DNA. The results are reported as cycle of quantification (Cq), scaled to absolute numbers of copies or relative to reference genes. The reported Cq values of the...

Macrophages differentiated with macrophage colony-stimulating factor (M-CSF) (M-Mac) are widely used as an experimental model. Interleukin 27 (IL-27)-polarized M-Mac (27M-Mac) suppresses HIV replication; however, the effects of IL-27 polarization on...

The loss of estrogen following menopause is associated with a marked increase in cardiometabolic risk, accompanied by adverse changes in lipid metabolism, insulin sensitivity, vascular function, and systemic inflammatory tone. Emerging evidence sugge...

Climate change is reshaping global hydrological cycles, intensifying scarcity and heightening health risks in vulnerable regions. This study examines the health impacts of climate-driven water scarcity across the Middle East, South Asia, and Sub-Saha...

Public Open Spaces (POSs) on university campuses play a vital role in promoting student well-being, fostering social interaction, and enhancing academic engagement. Yet, in Indian technical institutions, these spaces are often underutilized due to po...

Neurodegenerative diseases share a mitochondrial–immune axis in which impaired oxidative phosphorylation reshapes neuronal metabolism and drives chronic inflammation. Complex I play a redox gatekeeper role at the coenzyme Q junction: catalytic...

Introduction: Bacteriophages are emerging as viable food safety tools, yet their global implementation is hindered by regulatory fragmentation and a lack of harmonized data standards. This review addresses the gap between scientific maturity and gove...

Nitrophenol (NP) and methylene blue (MB) are considered among the most hazardous organic contaminants frequently released from pharmaceutical, textile, and paper industries, posing significant risks to both human health and the environmentThe convent...

Textile materials represent a versatile class of engineering substrates widely used in apparel, domestic products, and medical protective systems. Despite their extensive application, large-scale textile production has seen limited integration of fun...

Gut microbiota dysbiosis is implicated in metabolic disorders, yet taxonomic and functional alterations in canine diabetes remain incompletely defined. Here, we performed shotgun metagenomic sequencing of fecal samples from 38 diabetic dogs and 37 he...

Approximately 795,000 people experience new or recurrent strokes in the United States each year; between 10 to 20% of these are spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhages (ICH). Uncontrolled hypertension is not only the most common cause of ICH but also a...

Although Telenomus remus is an important parasitoid of Spodoptera frugiperda, the chemical basis for its host selection behavior remains unclear. To elucidate the chemical basis of this behavior, this study combined behavioral ecology and chemical ec...

Accurate and stable measurement of carbon dioxide (CO₂) concentrations in industrial flue gases is critical for emissions monitoring and carbon management. The present study developed a wavelength-modulated tunable diode laser absorption spectroscopy...

The study investigates the catalytic activity of vanadium-containing catalysts in the selective oxidation of 4-methylpyridine (4-MP) in the gas phase. V-Cr, V-Ti, and V-Ti-Cr catalysts were synthesised and studied. The phase composition and structura...

Bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) is a major cause of economic losses in the global cattle industry, particularly in countries characterized by intensive livestock production systems. Pestivirus tauri, formerly known as Bovine viral diarrhea virus type 2 (...

Battery Emergency Mobile Power Systems (BEMPSs) play a critical role in disaster recovery, remote electrification, and grid reinforcement, where resilient, rapidly deployable power supply is essential. However, conventional grid-forming (GFM) control...

Crohn’s disease (CD) is a complex inflammatory bowel disease, defined by chronic transmural inflammation and marked heterogeneity in both anatomical distribution and disease behavior, with potential involvement of any segment of the gastrointes...

Currently, there are very few efficient treatment options for hepatobiliary pancreatic cancer (HPC), which comprises pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC), biliary tract cancer (BTC), and hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). The HPC tumors are the most...

Background: Frontal lobe involvement represents an important but heterogeneously expressed feature across neurodegenerative and vascular cognitive disorders. While frontal atrophy has been described in Alzheimer’s disease (AD), detailed volumet...

Noise elimination in current signals of three-phase induction motors, considered as energy systems for electromechanical conversion, is a critical preprocessing step for reliable condition monitoring and fault diagnosis. However, conventional wavelet...

Background: Persistent endodontic infections remain a significant challenge in root canal therapy, primarily due to the complexity of root canal anatomy and the formation of resistant microbial biofilms. Conventional irrigants, including sodium hypoc...

Broccoli is rich in glucosinolates (GSLs), secondary metabolites that contribute to both plant defense and human health. Optimizing the composition of major aliphatic GSLs is an important breeding objective, yet robust molecular markers for marker-as...

Background: Orthostatic intolerance (OI) is an important factor affecting daily functional capacity in patients with long COVID. Traditionally, most OI symptoms have been attributed to exaggerated sympathetic nervous system activation associated with...

Background/Objectives: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized the treatment of various malignancies, but their use is frequently accompanied by immune-related adverse events, among which immune-mediated colitis (IMC) represents one o...

The mechanical behavior of deep rock masses under high-stress conditions exhibits significant nonlinear characteristics. However, current in situ stress field inversion methods typically rely on linear elastic constitutive models and multiple linear...

We prospectively evaluated whether cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) activation and T-cell receptor (TCR) Vβ clonality predict treatment-free remission (TFR) after tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) cessation in chronic-phase chronic myeloid leukemia (C...

RNA origami enables genetically encoded, single-stranded RNA nanostructures that can self-assemble through co-transcriptional folding and are increasingly deployed as scaffolds for biosensing, synthetic biology, and nanomedicine. A recurring practica...

This paper examines public architecture in Baghdad during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, focusing on how public buildings contributed to the formation of urban centrality and how this process interacted with local architectural pr...

Background/Objective: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common mental illness that lacks objective diagnostic biomarkers and has a complicated pathogenesis. Peripheral blood-based gene expression profiling provides a potential, non-invasive method...

Male urological cancers, including clear cell renal cell carcinoma (ccRCC), bladder cancer (BC), and prostate cancer (PCa), are characterized by extensive heterogeneity and complex ecosystems, yet the underlying mechanisms remain incompletely underst...

Mental health disorders (MHDs) and acute coronary syndromes (ACSs) demonstrate reciprocal pathophysiological connections with substantial prognostic implications. Despite robust evidence linking MHDs to adverse cardiovascular outcomes, the bidirectio...

Accurate detection and positioning of road users are essential for vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I)-assisted autonomous driving. For this purpose, the road user’s ground contact point is usually detected in a monocular camera image. Then, a homo...

Almost all publications in biomedical literature have employed statistical tests, with p-values being considered of particular importance in the assessment of the presence of a link between two variables. However, these tests and p-values have been t...

Peripheral nerve injuries pose a significant clinical challenge due to the limited self-repair capacity and the complexity of neural tissue architecture. Tissue engineering strategies applied to the peripheral nerve system aim to restore functional n...

Functional analysis of SLC22A5 variants can improve diagnostic accuracy in patients with primary carnitine deficiency (PCD). Herein, we performed a genetic analysis of three neonates with PCD. Two of the patients harbored a novel synonymous SLC22A5 v...

Re-entry flights of reusable first or upper stages typically foresee phases in the hypersonic flight regime, characterized by severe aero-thermal loads which could become critical for the most exposed components, like the vehicle forebody or the fin...

The effects of three metabolizable energy (ME) levels and the use of guanidinoacetic acid (GAA) were evaluated on broiler performance and nutrient digestibility from 1 to 35 d of age. In total, 1944-d-old Ross AP95 male broilers were randomly distrib...

In the family of Vespidae there are examples of social evolution that are particular, compared to those found among other social insects. The characteristics of eusociality are, however, found only in three subfamilies, those of Stenogastrinae, Vespi...

Background/Objectives: Healthcare systems increasingly rely on standardized diagnostic information to support clinical decision-making, reimbursement, and public health governance. Although accreditation of medical laboratories underpins trust in dia...

Atmospheric moisture availability plays a central role in regulating the occurrence and persistence of extreme precipitation, but its temporal linkage with large-scale moisture transport remains insufficiently quantified at the global scale. This stu...

The identification of calcareous foraminifera and nannofossils in archaeological ceramics (tiles and bricks from the Archaic to Roman ages) of Naxos and Taormina (Sicily) has, along with other evidence and archaeometric analyses, addressed aspects of...

The nature of nonlinear dynamics of financial markets results in fractal geometry and chaotic behavior that can be viewed on a variety of scales in time. This paper conducts research on the fractal characteristics of the stock network and its contrib...

Low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite networks require real-time routing to cope with dynamic topology variations caused by continuous orbital motion. As an alternative to conventional routing approaches, deep reinforcement learning (DRL) has recently gain...

This study systematically investigates the influence of temperature on the defect formation mechanisms in uranium nitride (UN) crystals using first-principles calculations. The formation energies and lattice distortion characteristics of various defe...

Meat quality characteristics are important economic traits of ducks. To identify the molecular bases of these traits, we performed an integrated multi-omics analysis (metabolomics, transcriptomics, and miRNAomics) that compared the breast muscle of 3...

The intermittent and variable nature of solar energy poses challenges for maintaining stable thermal performance in solar heating systems. One effective approach to mitigate this limitation is to store surplus thermal energy during periods of high so...