Environmental phenolic endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are ubiquitous in the environment and human matrices, raising growing concerns regarding maternal and child health. Here, we present a sensitive analytical method for the simultaneous quant...
Legal question answering is usually evaluated as if the law were static. In Kazakhstan, it changed twice within one year: a new Constitution replaced the 1995 text on 1 July 2026, and a new Tax Code replaced its predecessor on 1 January 2026, both re...
Background: Regional HIV data can support surveillance only when the meaning, timing, and completeness of core variables are explicit. We audited a regional HIV registry extract from Bihor County, Northwestern Romania, and described recorded diagnose...
Motion blur weakens multi-view geometric consistency, causing 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) to produce inaccurate geometry, floating artifacts, and blurred structures due to missing high-frequency information. Event cameras provide microsecond-level t...
This study aims to evaluate the effects of two cover crop management practices on soil fertility. Key bioindicators, such as organic carbon content, were measured, along with the amount and activity of microbial biomass, which are mainly responsible...
Urban seismic risk governance in the Global South faces a persistent implementation gap: although the technical knowledge and policy instruments required to assess and reduce building vulnerability are increasingly available, translating them into su...
Having reliable information on the main influences on the conservation behaviour of individuals is crucial to the evaluation of policy measures intended to promote sustainability. Knowing the potential for survey respondents to overstate the frequenc...
Conventional stability analysis of hydropower units focuses on damping ratios, which characterize how fast oscillations decay but cannot explain why different mechanical variables exhibit distinct waveforms under the same disturbance. This paper prop...
UAV-based monitoring has been increasingly employed in various urban applications, including traffic analysis and infrastructure inspection. For continuous monitoring, timely information must be derived from newly acquired UAV images while maintainin...
Shale formations commonly develop bedding structures and micro-fractures and exhibit strong elastic anisotropy; however, existing wellbore breakdown pressure models are mostly based on isotropic assumptions. We hypothesize that the elastic modulus an...
This study investigates how large language models (LLMs), specifically GPT-4, can analyze, explain, and enrich concepts in the International Vocabulary of Metrology (VIM). It uses a white-box approach, in which “white-box” qualifies the i...
In recent years, many studies have focused on the robustness of federated learning (FL) systems against Byzantine attacks. Prior work has shown that integrating stochastic optimization algorithms with momentum can effectively enhance the robustness,...
Grounded in situated expectancy-value theory and a person-centered approach, the present study employed a three-wave longitudinal design to examine short-term transitions in first-year undergraduates’ expectancy-value-cost profiles across the f...
Cognitive diseases/disorders are a major cause of disability affecting millions of people worldwide due to pathologies or conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, vascular cognitive impairment, and attention deficit/hy...
Background/Objectives: Poria cocos (PC), a well-known medicine–food homologous fungus, has promising reno-protective potential against diabetic kidney disease (DKD); however, its bioactive constituents and underlying molecular mechanisms remain...
Hydrogen (H2) is increasingly recognised as a potential subsurface energy resource, both as a naturally occurring gas and as a candidate for underground storage. A critical challenge for hydrogen exploration and monitoring is whether existing wirelin...
Highly accurate, robust, and continuous localization is essential for the safe navigation and control of autonomous vehicles. Modern autonomous systems, including ROS 2-based platforms, rely on heterogeneous localization methods operating at differen...
We define the characteristic function operator
The global restriction or elimination of antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) has intensified the search for effective and sustainable alternatives in livestock production. Among the proposed strategies, probiotic supplementation has received increasin...
The chemical fixation of CO2 into cyclic carbonates represents an efficient atom-economical route to valorize this almost unreactive greenhouse gas. In this work, a series of metal-free, guanylated cyclophosphazenes (1–3) were synthesized and e...
Background: Fetal Heart Quantification (FetalHQ) enables detailed assessment of fetal cardiac morphology and function using two-dimensional speckle-tracking echocardiography. However, previous studies have focused primarily on conventional reproducib...
Background/Objectives: Dupilumab blocks the interleukin-4 receptor alpha (IL-4Rα) subunit, thereby inhibiting IL-4- and IL-13-mediated signaling, and is an effective treatment for severe chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP). This s...
This study comparatively analyzed the experimental methods used in previous studies to generate primary and secondary arc beads, with particular emphasis on the conductor temperature conditions. On this basis, the suitability of these methods was cri...
This study presents PAGER-Life, an adaptive hybrid framework for the early prediction of lithium-ion battery service life under heterogeneous operating conditions. The system integrates physically interpretable degradation features and standardized c...
Background/Objectives: Reliable and reproducible imaging-response assessment is essential for endpoint evaluation in glioblastoma clinical trials. The Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncology (RANO) criteria provide a rule-based framework for standardis...
Scientific and rational agricultural land suitability assessment is essential for improving land resource use efficiency and promoting sustainable agricultural development. In arid and ecologically fragile regions, agricultural production is jointly...
2-(1,3-Dioxan-4-yl)ethanamines 6 and 7 display high affinity towards the PCP binding site of NMDA receptors and σ1 receptors depending on the substitution pattern in 2-position of the 1,3-dioxane ring. Herein, conformationally restricted 2-(1,3...
Whether ESG rating improvements precede observable environmental progress remains an empirical question. Using 38,430 firm-year observations for Chinese A-share firms covering rating changes from 2010 to 2023, this study examines subsequent recorded...
The dispersion behavior of reclaimed asphalt pavement (RAP) particles during hot mixing directly affects the blending of aged and virgin materials and consequently influences the cracking performance of plant-mixed hot recycled asphalt mixtures (PHRA...
Background/Objectives: Treatment-resistant depression (TRD) is heterogeneous and recurrent. Psilocybin administered with structured psychological support can reduce symptoms rapidly. Support protocols differ in content and intensity, and trial design...
Due to the vast territory of Inner Mongolia, full-coverage inspection of transformers within the jurisdiction consumes substantial manpower and material resources, making it difficult to efficiently assess the overall fault status of regional transfo...
As renewable energy grows, photovoltaic power integration into power grids has increased, and high solar penetration creates challenges for power system operation. Accurate, near-real-time solar power forecasting over short time intervals is therefor...
The rapid adoption of large language models (LLMs) transformed the way users obtained travel recommendations and generated personalized travel plans. However, standardized methods for comparing AI-generated travel itineraries across heterogeneous pro...
Oxidative stress and intestinal health are critical factors that are closely linked to the production performance and physiological status of laying hens. This work assessed how dietary incorporation of Pieris japonica leaf powder (PJP) shapes egg qu...
A mechanics-based mathematical model is developed for the support-parameter design of a pre-stressed expandable prop group in horizontal and gently inclined thin-vein stopes. First, pressure-arch theory and equivalent-beam theory are combined to deri...
Background/Objectives: Bupivacaine hydrochloride (Bupi-HCl) is a widely used local anesthetic; however, rapid diffusion from the site of administration and concentration-dependent cytotoxicity may limit its local therapeutic efficacy. This study aime...
Monitoring pilot manipulation behavior is central to civil aviation safety. However, calibrated multi-camera rigs cannot be installed in a cockpit, and a single deployable depth camera yields degraded skeletons. Recognition must therefore transfer ac...
When a disaster disables terrestrial infrastructure, the command, control and situational-awareness traffic of the response teams loses its network. Fleets of unmanned aerial vehicles can restore connectivity within minutes, but most designs treat cl...
Background: Postoperative sepsis and related infectious complications remain major causes of morbidity after abdominal surgery. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) models may support earlier risk stratification, but their generaliz...
Recently we started building a bridge between two cases of Langlands duality. The latter is one of the most influential topics in mathematical research. It has many different appearances and influential subtopics. Yet there is a topic that, until now...
Background/Objective: Anemia patterns may differ between population and hospital-tested cohorts. This paper aims to examine anemia frequency and red-cell size across estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) in hospital records. Methods: This retro...
The evaluation and diagnosis of water resources carrying capacity are crucial for optimizing regional water resources management. This study focuses on the Yishusi River Basin over the period 2008–2017, using a combined single-element and multi...
Image encryption requires effective local transformation together with reliable propagation across image blocks. This study proposes a block-based encryption scheme that transforms a symmetric circulant graph into a key-dependent asymmetric directed...
Background. Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) can progress despite contemporary kidney-protective treatment, motivating the development of additional mechanism-based interventions. This critical narrative review evaluates whether gene-, RNA-, and cell-ba...
Gastrointestinal infections remain a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Conventional antibiotic treatment can be ineffective or inappropriate in some settings, particularly in the context of increasing antimicrobial resistance. In many...
This study investigated Fourier-transform mid-infrared (FT-MIR) spectroscopy coupled with chemometric tools as a rapid, non-destructive approach for monitoring oxidation in linseed oil supplemented with mangrove-derived extracts. Young and mature lea...
Time-varying nonlinear mechanical systems, such as robotic manipulators and chaotic systems, face significant challenges in trajectory tracking due to strong nonlinearities, parameter perturbations, external disturbances, and physical constraints. Co...
Acacia mangium × A. auriculiformis (hybrid acacia) combines high productivity with strong ecological adaptability and is therefore an important species for plantation establishment and germplasm innovation in southern China. Yet large-scale see...
Knowledge extraction serves as a critical technique for constructing domain-specific knowledge graphs and enabling intelligent text parsing. In the vertical agricultural domain, wheat variety approval texts contain abundant agronomic trait entities a...
Conventional urban flood assessments primarily characterise inundation under predefined events but provide limited information on how controlled changes in hydrometeorological conditions, antecedent catchment state, and infrastructure operation alter...
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