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Antimicrobial resistance is a major global health concern, intensified by the misuse of antibiotics and the lack of new effective treatments. Bacteria capable of forming biofilms exhibit increased resistance, making infections more difficult to treat...

Background/Objective: Women after cesarean delivery (CD) may feel discomfort and pain until the gastrointestinal (GI) activation. Standard care approaches following an elective cesarean delivery often fail to address the needs of patients. Nurses car...

Remote sensing semantic segmentation encounters several challenges, including scale variation, the coexistence of class similarity and intra-class diversity, difficulties in modeling long-range dependencies, and shadow occlusions. Slender structures...

During pathogen infection, lysosomes are not only pivotal targets exploited by pathogens to evade host defenses and induce cell death, but also an essential frontline of host protection that restricts infection by degrading invading microbes and repa...

General-purpose vision–language models (VLMs) are increasingly applied to imaging tasks, yet their reliability on medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) remains unclear. We investigate how three state-of-the-art VLMs—ViLT, BLIP, and...

We report the first examples of bent-shaped LC dimers based on a seven-membered bridged stilbene. We synthesized nonylene- and ether-linked cyano-terminated dimers (sC9-tCN and sOC7O-tCN, respectively) and a homologous series of nonylene-linked alkyl...

Background/Objectives: Unequal access to cervical cancer screening and treatment remains a significant contributor to preventable morbidity and mortality for women in the Amazon Basin, compounded by geographic, social and infrastructural barriers. Gi...

The increasing demand and production of neodymium-iron-boron-based permanent magnets (NdFeB-PMs) for the electronics, energy sector, and automobile industries led to disposal consequences. The NdFeB-PMs contain a substantial amount of rare earth elem...

This paper proposes a valorization approach for solid lavender residue, a by-product of the essential oil industry. The biomass residue was carbonized at atmospheric pressure and two temperatures (450 °C and 650 °C), followed by solvothermal...

Background: Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is associated with chronic pain and reduced quality of life, even in the absence of active intestinal inflammation. International studies suggest that fibromyalgia (FM), a chronic pain disorder characteriz...

Background: Stromal hyaluronic acid (HA) poses a physical barrier and protects tumor cells from immune surveillance. Stroma targeting with pegylated human recombinant PH20 hyaluronidase (PEGPH20) demonstrated improved infiltration of cytotoxic T-lymp...

We investigated the effects of a root-restricted cultivation experiment of netted melons in a greenhouse in south China over two cropping seasons (autumn–winter and spring–summer) with three root-zone volumes (R1: 15 L/plant, R2: 5 L/plan...

Bacterial sourcing in urban watersheds is a critical water quality concern because elevated index bacteria concentrations routinely trigger beach advisories and closures in coastal Southern California and elsewhere. This study evaluates diurnal contr...

Knee disorders are a major indication for musculoskeletal imaging, yet MRI reliability remains constrained by signal nonuniformity, motion artefacts, protocol variability, and reader-dependent effects. This study presents an integrated two-vector fra...

Leucine-rich repeats and immunoglobulin-like domains protein 1 (Lrig1) is a functional inhibitor of the epidermal growth factor receptor. Lrig1-positive stem cells are located in the isthmus region of the mouse hair follicle (HF) and are known contri...

A new fluorescence detection method for PO₄³⁻ was developed through the in situ synthesis of cadmium sulfide quantum dots (CdS QDs). Without PO₄³⁻, the CdS QDs could not be effectively formed by only the S²⁻ and Cd²⁺ in the solution...

Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is now prevalent in multiple regions worldwide, posing a serious threat to human health. In this study, we have successfully established a rhesus macaque model of Chikungunya virus infection. Notably, while no viral load was...

Seeds possess long-lived messenger RNAs (mRNAs), some of which are involved in triggering germination and supporting seed longevity. Nevertheless, comprehensive studies on longevity-associated long-lived mRNAs in sweet corn are still scarce. To addre...

This study develops a generalized Newton method to address the nonlinear Kolmogorov forward equation (KFE) under the local stochastic volatility (LSV) framework. Analytical convergence conditions are derived via the geometric series theorem, and empi...

The rapid expansion of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) across diverse application domains has underscored the need for reliable autonomy in complex and dynamic environments. To advance toward this goal, in recent years, learning-based control strateg...

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) provide essential benefits for both animal and human health due to their probiotic potential and their role in maintaining gut microbiome homeostasis [...]

Access to valid and reliable measures of structural racism is essential for addressing health inequities, yet few validated ecological-level indices exist for assessing structural racism affecting Black and Hispanic populations in the United States....

In recent years, the increasing frequency of strong and super typhoons has been attributed to rising sea surface temperatures due to global warming. This study utilized the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) and Simulating WAves Nearshore (SWAN)...

Infrasound, physically defined as sound at frequencies below 20 Hertz, can travel long distances with minimal attenuation and permeate biological tissues due to its marked particle displacement and deep penetration. Generated by both natural phenomen...

This study developed a 60K single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) liquid-phase chip (‘Shenxin I’) based on genotyping by target sequencing (GBTS) technology. The chip was used to genotype 1451 individuals spanning five conserved local pig b...

‘Korlaxiangli’ pear occupies a pivotal position in the pear industry of Xinjiang, with both its cultivation area and total output ranking first in the region. However, ‘Korlaxiangli’ is vulnerable to freezing injury and has su...

There are 266 nature parks in Türkiye, including Aşıkpaşa Nature Park, covering a total area of approximately 109,023 ha; however, information regarding soil organic carbon stocks (SOCS), soil nitrogen stocks (NS), and nutrient st...

This paper proposes a closed-form feedback control framework for rear- and front-wheel-drive car-like vehicles, aiming to solve trajectory tracking and collision avoidance tasks operating in complex environments. This method constructs novel risk ass...

The present systematic review and meta-analysis aims to establish whether the brain, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), serum/plasma whole blood, urine, and hair levels of copper, ceruloplasmin, zinc, and manganese are related to the risk for Parkinson&rsquo...

Throughout her oeuvre, Mary Lavin (1912–1996) engages with the nuances of “celibate moments” within masculine life cycles. This periodic sexlessness is often expressed through the complexities of strained or upended marital unions,...

Ovarian cancer remains the most lethal gynecological malignancy, largely due to its early dissemination and extensive peritoneal metastasis. The tumor microenvironment (TME), particularly tumor-associated macrophages, promotes this invasive phenotype...

Background: The majority of cleft palate patients have been reported to suffer from otitis media with effusion (OME). The improvement of velopharyngeal function (VPF) after palatoplasty might be evidence for the improvement of the function of the Eus...

The emergence of radio frequency machine learning has significantly propelled the application of deep learning (DL) methods in automatic modulation classification (AMC). However, under non-cooperative scenarios, the performance of DL-based AMC suffer...

The performance of metaheuristic algorithms in solving high-dimensional, non-convex optimization problems is intricately linked to the balance between global exploration and local exploitation. Inspired by biomimetic principles of swarm intelligence,...

This work proposes new architecture, supported by analytical modelling and computer-aided design (CAD) simulations, for a highly sensitive monolayer graphene-gated AlGaN/GaN HEMT terahertz (THz) detector operating at room temperature (RT). The monola...

Background and Objectives: Controlled breathing can influence autonomic regulation and haemodynamics; however, the role of its timing relative to exercise remains unclear. Materials and Methods: Fourteen healthy, physically active men (mean age 21.8...

Sentiment analysis of Arabic text, particularly on social media platforms, presents a formidable set of unique challenges that stem from the language’s complex morphology, its numerous dialectal variations, and the frequent and nuanced use of e...

Remote sensing image scene classification holds significant application value and has long been a research hotspot in remote sensing. However, remote sensing images contain diverse objects and complex backgrounds. Reducing background interference whi...

A commercially available attapulgite sample (Red Attapulgite) was acid-pretreated to enhance its catalytic activity. It turned out to efficiently facilitate the dehydration of a range of substituted alcohols. The dehydration of the primary alcohol wa...

This article examines some postcolonial dimensions of a global literary movement in the twenty-first century called Neo-Decadence. It begins by highlighting the artistic and political preoccupations of the movement within the context of the century&r...

This study presents the first documented case of a disease syndrome in cultured largefin longbarbel catfish (Hemibagrus macropterus). The condition is characterized by massive abdominal pseudotumor formation, severe cachexia, and functional gonadal a...

Rapid depressurization and warming during recovery can trigger stress in deep-sea microbes and accelerate RNA degradation. We developed a remotely operated vehicle (ROV)-oriented multi-sequence microbial sampler for 2000 m sampling (20 MPa, 2 °C)...

The performance upgrading of stratospheric airships hinges on breakthroughs in the mechanical properties of envelope materials. As a multi-layer composite, the envelope’s load-bearing layer exhibits orthotropic and nonlinear mechanical behavior...

Background/Objectives: Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism (HH) is an uncommon but treatable cause of non-obstructive azoospermia (NOA). Fertility can often be restored with gonadotropin therapy. This study evaluated spermatogenic and reproductive outcomes...

Global climate policy requires constant attention due to shifting interests and alliances between national negotiators. Whether represented at global or national scales, three universal features of fused climate policy conjoin the wealthy and emergin...

Two exact solutions are constructed for viscous compressible gas dynamics in two and three dimensions. The first is a steady vortex, with explicit solutions for the full Navier–Stokes system of velocity, density, temperature and pressure. In co...

Prostate cancer remains largely refractory to immunotherapy, implying the existence of context-specific immune landscape programs that diverge between circulation and tumor. Here, we integrate bulk RNA sequencing from three cohorts (patient periphera...

Cerium oxide (CeO₂) nanozymes, also known as nanoceria have emerged as a versatile class of catalytic nanomaterials capable of mimicking key redox enzymes, including oxidases and peroxidases. Their tunable Ce³⁺/Ce⁴⁺ redox cycling, high density of oxy...

CubeSat missions increasingly rely on microwave-band communication systems, whose antennas often exhibit directional radiation patterns. As a result, multiple antennas are commonly used to improve coverage; however, a quantitative method to evaluate...

Flood events driven by climate variability and change pose significant risks for socio-economic activities in the Awash Basin, necessitating advanced forecasting tools. This study benchmarks five deep learning (DL) architectures, Convolutional Neural...