We demonstrate a complete and experimentally validated self-testing protocol for two-qubit partially entangled states, which avoids the need for full tomographic reconstruction. Using a room-temperature type-II PPKTP polarization-entangled source and...
Detecting structural defects is one of the primary challenges engineers face. Consequently, the development of techniques and methods capable of detecting structural defects has always been critical. It should be emphasized that crack detection is on...
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Rates of alcohol use and exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are elevated among youth in the legal system (YILS) compared to their non-legally involved peers. Exposure to ACEs has been associated with later alcohol use and delinquency, a...
This study aimed to assess cytokine levels in blood plasma and serum, and saliva of juvenile pigs in response to acute systemic inflammation. The objectives were to: (1) validate an analytical method for quantifying cytokines in serum; (2) assess the...
Current management strategies for sorghum aphids heavily rely on indiscriminate chemical application, leading to severe environmental consequences and impacting food safety. While precision spraying offers a viable remediation for pesticide overuse,...
In Minkowski 3-space, we establish a geometric framework to osculate Type-II ruled surfaces by utilizing the Type-II Bishop frame in (E13). Our analysis extends to higher-order singularities such as butterflies and pyramids, including explicit singul...
Steel slag (SS), as a major solid waste of the steel industry, has CO2 sequestration potential due to its rich calcium and magnesium alkaline components. SS carbonation is a promising strategy gaining industrial traction to simultaneously treat indus...
The adoption of circular economy approaches in agri-food value chains in developing countries remains underexplored, particularly in contexts dominated by smallholder farmers. This paper aims to analyze existing circular practices and identify key ba...
Daily runoff series exhibit high complexity and significant fluctuations, which often lead to large prediction errors and limit the scientific basis of water resource scheduling and management. This study proposes a runoff prediction framework that i...
Background/Objectives: Southeastern Europe and Croatia have served as a genetic crossroads between the Near East and Europe since prehistoric times, shaped by numerous and repeated migrations. By integrating 19 newly generated ancient genomes with 28...
Gut-derived metabolites, particularly trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO), have been implicated in the pathophysiology of heart failure (HF). This study investigated the associations between TMAO, cardiac function, and clinical parameters to evaluate TMAO&...
Plant nutrient content is spatially and temporally dynamic, exposing insect herbivores to substantial nutritional variability. Such variability can constrain insects to feeding on sub-optimal diets, but it can also allow them to regulate their intake...
Objective: To determine the optimal layer thickness for multi-planar volume reconstruction (MPVR) in differentiating invasive adenocarcinoma from non-invasive and minimally invasive lesions in pulmonary nodules (≤ 15 mm). Materials and Methods: Th...
The silkworm, Bombyx mori, is an economically important insect severely impacted by Bombyx mori nucleopolyhedrovirus (BmNPV), a double-stranded DNA virus that causes substantial losses to the sericulture industry. To elucidate the mechanisms of BmNPV...
New-generation geostationary meteorological satellite radiometric imagers widely employ multi-column redundant long-linear-array detectors, for which the Best Detector Selection (BDS) strategy is crucial for enhancing the quality of remote sensing da...
Undergraduate civil engineering students frequently struggle to transition from deterministic to probabilistic reasoning, a conceptual shift essential for modern structural design practice governed by reliability-based codes. This paper presents a de...
Plant disease specimens are invaluable resources for investigating the origin and spread mechanisms of plant pathogenic microorganisms. Citrus canker, caused by Xanthomonas citri pv. citri (Xcc), is one of the most devastating bacterial diseases in c...
In an auction, each party bids a certain amount, and the one who bids the highest is the winner. Interestingly, auctions can also be used as models for other real-world systems. In an all-pay auction all parties must pay a forfeit for bidding. In the...
Farmland shelterbelts are crucial elements in safeguarding agricultural ecological security and sustainable development, with their precise extraction being vital for regional ecological monitoring and precision agriculture management. However, const...
This study presents a Tau-theory-based guidance methodology for obstacle avoidance in low-altitude, high-speed rotorcraft operations, especially within obstacle-dense and degraded visual environments (DVEs). A geometric approach is employed to develo...
Wind-assisted ship propulsion (WASP) has gained considerable interest as a means of reducing fuel consumption and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, with further benefits when combined with weather-optimized routing. This study employs and extends a Nat...
As a core sector of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and dual-circulation pattern, Xinjiang’s cultural tourism industry—its ninth-largest industrial cluster—plays a key role in enhancing industrial competitiveness and regional coo...
Background and Objectives: Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are pattern recognition receptors with an essential role in regulating both the innate and adaptive immune response. Given their pleiotropic effects in mounting an immune response, previous studie...
To address the dual challenges of improving precast cable trench joint performance and promoting solid waste recycling for carbon neutrality, this study developed a jute fiber-reinforced recycled aggregate concrete (JFRAC) and established a complete...
Inadequate intake of Fe and Zn is prevalent in a large part of the world’s population, and agronomic biofortification has been a strategy to improve the nutritional quality of food and, consequently, the nutrient intake by people. The objective...
China’s Green Finance Reform and Innovation Pilot Zones (GFRIPZ) policy has emerged as a central instrument for promoting sustainable urban development and strengthening Urban Ecological and Environmental Resilience (UEER). However, systematic...
Nowadays various coupling strategies have been developed to combine the strengths of different numerical methods in computational fluid dynamics (CFD), among which the coupled algorithm of the lattice Boltzmann-finite volume method (LBM-FVM) has gain...
Fruit shrubs’ lignocellulosic biomass remaining as waste after harvesting and/or after pruning is an underutilized, little-explored bioresource. Sea buckthorn (Hippophae rhamnoides L.), aronia (Aronia melanocarpa) and blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum...
The stability of nanoparticles (NPs) in ODS steel is an important factor affecting their long-term service behavior. In the current work, the 9Cr-ODS steel samples were irradiated using 3.5 MeV Fe13+ ion irradiation up to 20 dpa at 350–650 °...
Dinosaurs repeatedly evolved adaptations for sexual selection over their 150-million year history, including adaptations for display and intraspecific combat. Adaptations for intraspecific combat have not previously been described in non-avian manira...
Researchers are increasingly engaged in studies to determine and correct negative welfare consequences of animal husbandry and behaviour modification procedures, not least in response to industries’ growing need to maintain their social licence...
Urban villages (UVs) are widespread in rapidly urbanizing regions, but their fine-grained delineation from high-resolution remote sensing imagery remains a challenge due to complex spatial textures and ambiguous boundaries. To address this issue, thi...
Accurate estimation of hourly near-surface air temperature (NSAT) is critical for climate analysis, environmental monitoring, and urban thermal studies. However, existing temperature datasets remain constrained by coarse spatial resolution and limite...
Objectives: This study evaluated the anatomical suitability of two single-branched thoracic stent grafts—the Castor (Endovastec, China) and the Thoracic Branch Endoprosthesis (TBE, Gore, USA)—for proximal landing in aortic arch zone 2, in...
Influenza-associated encephalitis/encephalopathy (IAE) is a severe neurological complication characterized by central nervous system dysfunction and structural damage following influenza virus infection. Predominantly affecting infants and young chil...
Synthetic cathinones are cathinone analogues that humans have artificially created. The first compounds appeared on the European market in 2005. They belong to a class of drugs called stimulants, classified as new psychoactive substances. Synthetic c...
Background/Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the serum activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4) and toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) levels in patients with metabolic dysfunction–associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD), and to explain the...
Selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs), a highly promising candidate as a nutrient fortificant and food additive, face challenges in stability and biosafety. These limitations hinder their application in the food industry. In this study, Ganoderma lucidum me...
Pollen identification is critical for melissopalynology (honey authentication), ecological monitoring, and allergen tracking, yet manual microscopic analysis remains labor-intensive, subjective, and error-prone when multiple grains overlap in realist...
The avalanche speed is an important indicator for measuring the intensity of avalanches, and its measurement method is relatively complex. In practical engineering, empirical formulas based on statistics are usually adopted. However, research on the...
Protein-based materials such as human serum albumin (HSA) have demonstrated significant potential for the development of novel wound management materials. For the first time, the formation of HSA-based hydrogels was proposed using a combination of th...
Self-supervised monocular depth estimation has demonstrated high practical utility, as it can be trained using a photometric image reconstruction loss between the original image and a reprojected image generated from the estimated depth and relative...
Based on the collected mobile phone location data, this paper analyzes changes in four mobile location-based indicators and their spatiotemporal distribution characteristics before and after the earthquake, summarizing crowd movement patterns and com...
Background/Objectives: Despite large-scale measles and rubella (MR) vaccination campaigns in West Africa, measles outbreaks persist, raising concerns about campaign effectiveness, coverage, and underlying determinants. This study assesses the impact...
Modern police work requires a high degree of versatility, shifting between sedentary tasks and intense physical demands. While bicycle patrols are recognized as a tool for enhancing community policing, few empirical studies have examined the specific...
Radar systems with exceptional anti-jamming performance are critical to meeting the high-performance requirements of future intelligent sensing systems. To address the deception jamming challenges encountered by intelligent sensing systems environmen...
Keeping the levels of soil major nutrients (total nitrogen, TN; available phosphorous, AP; and available potassium, AK) in optimum condition is important to achieve the goals of precision agriculture systems. To address the issues of slow speed and l...
The reproductive behavior and nest-building activity of the sand-dwelling goby Hazeus ammophilus were investigated to examine its nesting characteristics and to determine how and why this species builds radial structures around its nests. Field obser...
Base isolation is known as a useful and popular technique for seismic upgrading of reinforced concrete buildings. Predicting damage levels based on relative inter-story drift plays an important role for designing optimal base isolation systems. Howev...
Spatial cognition refers to the mental processing, perception, and interpretation of spatial information. It is often operationalized through self-assessments like sense of direction and mental rotation ability or field-based real-world tasks like po...
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