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Background: High-load resistance training is the primary intervention to counteract sarcopenia; however, it may be contraindicated or poorly tolerated in some older adults. Low-load resistance training with blood flow restriction (LL-BFR) has been pr...

Nitrate, as a core component of water pollution, poses a severe threat to the ecological environment and human health. Electrochemical ammonia synthesis via nitrate reduction (NO₃RR) is a highly promising sustainable technology, yet the simultaneous...

Background/Objectives: To analyse trends in online information-seeking behaviour for five major cancers in Hungary, compare them with global trends, and assess changes during the COVID-19 pandemic, cancer-related awareness campaigns, and major cancer...

Background: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are important after hip fracture but can impose respondent burden. A simple global measure may provide complementary information about a patient’s overall perception of hip normality. The No...

Korea’s steel structure fabrication plant certification system requires applicants to submit a self-assessment form before certification assessment. This study evaluated the screening effectiveness of this mandatory self-assessment and its pote...

Artificial intelligence is widely used in network intrusion detection, but evidence regarding operational architecture remains fragmented across model families, fusion patterns, deployment environments, and evaluation practices. We conducted a PRISMA...

Pleuropulmonary blastoma (PPB) is a rare, paediatric, mesenchymal, pulmonary neoplasm that can be highly aggressive. To date, there are only two reports of PPB in animals. We describe the finding of pulmonary neoplasms with PPB-like features in two u...

Introduction: Surgical treatment for partial-thickness rotator cuff tendon (RCT) tears often involves open or arthroscopic conversion to a full-thickness tear. A novel method has been developed that utilizes sutureless bone-to-tendon fixation using a...

Background: Surface modification may influence tissue–implant interactions. This exploratory study compared the biomechanical, coating-integrity, and histological responses associated with uncoated titanium and carbon- or niobium-containing sur...

Background/Objectives: Breast cancer (BC), particularly aggressive subtypes such as triple-negative TNBC, remains a significant clinical challenge due to treatment resistance and therapeutic toxicity. This study evaluated the antitumor potential, ant...

Automated recognition of worker posture–structure relationships at scaffold platform edges is constrained by the scarcity of unsafe work-state images and bias associated with imaging conditions. We re-audited a single public dataset comprising...

Purpose: To investigate whether quantitative nuclear morphology from routine H&E images can be used as a biomarker for glioblastoma (GBM) biology and prognosis. Methods: Nuclear eccentricity, circularity, density, and heterogeneity were measured...

Background: Astrocytes play an important role in depression. However, their specific mechanisms, especially their subcellular mechanisms, remain unclear. Objective: We aimed to identify key genes associated with mitochondrial dynamics and astrocytes...

Structural deformation of large-scale phased-array antennas under complex service environments seriously degrades the electromagnetic performance of radar systems. It is critical to achieve high-precision full-field deformation reconstruction of ante...

Bovine coronavirus (BCoV) is an important pathogen of cattle and has also been detected in several non-bovine ruminants. Although BCoV infection has been reported in sheep, virus isolation and genomic characterization from this host have not been des...

All mammalian cells, which include cancer cells, express sugar chains on their cell surfaces. These sugar chains bind with proteins, lipids, and RNAs. These chains consist of as few as two or three monosaccharides in the shortest chains, and as many...

This study investigated the tolerance level and mechanism of a glyphosate-tolerant Abutilon theophrasti population (T2784) collected from a glyphosate-resistant soybean field. Whole-plant dose–response, EPSPS sequencing, gene expression analyse...

Traditional food knowledge is a cornerstone of community resilience, cultural identity, and food security, yet it is increasingly threatened worldwide by habitat loss, land-use change, and urbanization, which both clears wild food habitats and draws...

As physical rehabilitation and fitness monitoring increasingly shift toward autonomous and home-based healthcare, accurate and intelligent posture assessment systems have become essential for supporting personalized rehabilitation and clinical decisi...

This article addresses the output feedback control of nonlinear systems via a fuzzy affine model-based method and observer design technique. To acquire the estimation of the unmeasurable system states, a piecewise affine observer is first devised. By...

Arid inland river basins are ecologically fragile zones where habitat status is jointly shaped by anthropogenic land use interference and water-resource constraints; however, the combined effects of land use change and multi-scale hydrological condit...

Farmland ecosystems provide multiple ecosystem functions and ecosystem services and underpin regional ecological security and integrity. Despite substantial progress in FESFS research, integrated syntheses linking ecological mechanisms, multiple ecos...

Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFUs) pose a serious health risk to people with diabetes, with a high risk of recurrence following the first DFU and a risk of foot amputation or death. It greatly impacts patient quality of life and costs the NHS up to 0.7% of...

This study quantified irrigation–yield trade-offs in Northern Xinjiang under contrasting temperatures and evaluated the interannual performance of candidate irrigation schedules. We coupled APSIM-Cotton, calibrated and validated with field obse...

Hydrogen blending and biogas upgrading are usually treated as separate routes for decarbonizing gas networks. This work investigates their direct combination through a nonlinear optimization framework for the compositional design of natural gas (NG),...

The mechanical responses of five rice cultivars were measured to support the calibration of a bonded-particle discrete element model for shearing. Geometric measurements and shear, three-point bending, radial compression, and axial tensile tests were...

Background/Objectives: Restoration of anterior column support in the lower thoracic spine and thoracolumbar junction can be challenging in the setting of segmental kyphosis, particularly when endplate integrity is compromised. A conformable mesh inte...

Web openings in cold-formed steel members modify not only individual stiffness components but also the interactions between bending, shear, torsion, and warping. Capturing these effects in a compact structural model is essential for repeated assessme...

Hydroponic crop production in smart greenhouses requires accurate nutrient monitoring and reliable control, especially in recirculating systems. This review critically examines sensing principles, data acquisition, control strategies, actuation, feed...

Sustainable energy systems must accommodate renewable generation to ensure dependable service during severe disruptions. This paper presents a decentralized multi-agent system that integrates feeder reconfiguration, Q-learning-based restoration, coor...

Marine mammal monitoring research has expanded considerably alongside developments in acoustic, remote-sensing, telemetry, molecular, and computational approaches. This study used bibliometric analysis to characterise the structure and evolution of r...

Transparent toughening of poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) requires simultaneous control of mechanical energy dissipation and optical scattering, together with retention of properties under ultraviolet exposure. Here, silicone–acrylate (Si&ndas...

To address the low computational efficiency associated with the large deformation and transient evolution of the solid–liquid interface during the shoulder growth stage of sapphire crystals grown by the Kyropoulos method, a lightweight explicit...

Condition monitoring in injection moulding commonly relies on dedicated in-mould sensing, whereas the potential of routinely collected production data for indirect tooling-condition surveillance remains less established. This study proposes an interp...

Background/Objectives: Real-world data are limited for short-term renal and metabolic changes after the initiation of sodium–glucose co-transporter 2 (SGLT2) inhibitors in Turkish clinical practice. We described 1-year changes in these paramete...

InGaAs photocathodes operating in the 0.9–1.7 μm spectral band are fundamentally limited by optical reflection losses and incomplete light absorption in thin active layers. In this work, we constructed periodic micro-nanostructured InGaAs ph...

Background/Objectives: Forecasting the individual anatomical response to anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (anti-VEGF) therapy from optical coherence tomography (OCT) could support the management of diabetic retinal disease. Direct volumetric g...

Amputation and prosthetics represent vital themes in the history of medicine and zooarchaeology, reflecting the boundaries of therapeutic capabilities and evolving human–animal relationships. This study provides a comprehensive, comparative his...

Urban heat island networks characterize the spatial organization and potential connectivity of relatively high-temperature patches, but multi-temporal analyses are constrained by the limited availability of fine-resolution and temporally dense land s...

Glucolipotoxic stress contributes to diabetic muscle atrophy by disrupting myoblast homeostasis and myogenesis-associated responses. Fullerol is a water-soluble polyhydroxylated fullerene derivative with potent free-radical-scavenging activity. We in...

With increasing industrialization, heavy metal contamination poses a growing threat to ecosystem stability and human health. Cadmium (Cd) is taken up by medicinal plants through the soil–plant continuum, altering rhizosphere microbial communiti...

Relativistic motion introduces decoherence that limits quantum parameter estimation. Earlier treatments of bipartite Unruh–DeWitt detectors have often restricted the reduced state to the X-state form. We consider single-qubit and isolated-ancil...

Background/Objectives: Atrial fibrillation (AF) is associated with cognitive decline even without clinically apparent stroke, but the relative contributions of demographic, vascular, inflammatory and therapeutic factors remain unclear. We aimed to ex...

The growing demand for sustainable and biodegradable materials has increased interest in utilising agricultural residues as renewable sources of cellulose. Wheat straw is an abundant lignocellulosic by-product with significant potential for value-add...

Ectomycorrhizal external mycelium (EM) is a major functional component of forest ecosystems, mediating nutrient acquisition and carbon transfer between trees and soil. Using the nylon mesh bag technique, we quantified EM biomass and characterized the...

Festivals play an important role in promoting, preserving, and sustaining local cultural heritage. This study examines the relationships among festival quality, perceived value, cultural belonging, and loyalty among attendees of the Edirne Kakava-H&#...

Riverbank filtration (RBF) is a sustainable technology for securing drinking water resources; however, many existing systems operate below their design capacities due to lack of optimization for site-specific hydrogeological conditions. Improving the...

Background/Objectives: High-sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) is frequently elevated in decompensated heart failure (DHF), but its prognostic association may vary according to clinical context. We evaluated baseline and serial hs-cTnT in relat...

Land system multifunctionality is increasingly recognized as a key source of competition among production, living, and ecological functions. However, how these interactions are spatially manifested as functional competition within production–li...

Background : This study examined the maximum number of repetitions (MNR) that can be completed to muscular failure at different relative loads in the prone bench pull (PBP) exercise, its inter-individual variability, and potential anthropometric fact...