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Microbial communities associated with animal cadaver decomposition play a crucial role in biogeochemical cycles in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. However, it remains unclear regarding the diversity, succession, and assembly of phosphate-sol...

In this paper, we propose a multi-zone service control scheme to maximize the performance of each service zone when a large number of cellular service zones and Device-to-Device (D2D) service zones are composed into the 5G cellular network. This pape...

Emerging pollutants in the form of pharmaceuticals have drawn international attention during the past few decades. Ciprofloxacin (CIP) is a common drug widely found in effluents from hospitals, industrial and different wastewater treatment plants, as...

Quorum sensing is a well-studied cell-to-cell communication method that involves a cell-density dependent regulation of genes expression mediated by signalling molecules. In this study, a bacterium isolated from a plant material compost pile was foun...

Device to device (D2D) communication technology is the main component of future communication, which greatly improves the utilization of spectrum resources. However, in the D2D subscriber multiplex communication network, the interference between comm...

In C-V2X (cellular vehicle-to-everything) communication networks, dense spatial reuse of the available radio spectrum is required to achieve efficient spectral usage. Spectrum reuse causes severe network interference where signals from many undesired...

Mongolia has one of the highest viral hepatitis infection (B, C, and D) rates in the world. The aims of this study were to increase awareness of this disease and promote viral hepatitis screening in the Mongolian community living in Spain. Through a...

Jamming devices introduce unwanted signals into the network to disrupt primary communications. The effectiveness of these jamming signals mainly depends on the number and distribution of the jammers. The impact of clustered jamming has not been inves...

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbates the complexities of food inequity. As one of the social determinants of health, food insecurity significantly impacts overall health across the life course. Guided by the Getting to Equity Framework, this qualitative...

Cities worldwide are presently contending with the intricate task of formulating urban infrastructure that seamlessly blends sustainability and resilience to effectively tackle urgent challenges. An increasingly prominent strategy gaining swift tract...

We study ultimatum and dictator environments with one-way, unenforceable pre-play communication from the proposer to the recipient, semantically framed as a promise. After observing this promise regarding how much the proposer will offer if selected,...

We conducted a monocentric observational study aimed at evaluating the vaccine safety and the pharmaceutical service provided at a community pharmacy (C.PHARM) in the Puglia Region in the period from 29 December 2021 to 12 March 2022 using data from...

Clinical effects induced by arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy (ACM) originate from a large spectrum of genetic variations, including the missense mutation of the lamin A/C gene (LMNA), LMNA D192G. The aim of our study was to investigate the biophysical a...

Inclusive digital innovation (IDI) entails rolling out policies and digital innovations to ensure equal access to services and new goods by previously excluded and marginalized societies. Digital commerce (d-commerce) has the potential to foster an i...

Circular economy recycling-derived fertilizers (RDF) have the potential to replace linear economy fertilizers such as unsustainable superphosphates. Here, effects of ash RDF treatments in Irish grassland cultivation were investigated in a simulated s...

The paper studies a game theory model to ensure fairness and improve the communication efficiency in an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted cellular vehicle-to-everything (C-V2X) communication network using Markovian game theory in a federated lea...

Model microbial communities are often studied to better understand interactions and fluxes during fermentation processes. However, models that take into account the potential impact of bacteriophages (phages), which are recognized as drivers of micro...

Communication plays a crucial role in driving social change. Communication for Development (C4D) is a field that highlights the importance of communication in development, concentrating on how to effectively use a diverse range of media and communica...

Global warming is one of the most pressing environmental issues today. Our study aimed to investigate how warming affected plant and soil nematode communities in alpine meadows on the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau over the past seven years. An artifi...

Display-to-camera (D2C) communications has emerged as a key method for next-generation videos that offer side information to camera-equipped devices during normal viewing. This paper presents Deep learning-driven Complementary Color Barcode-based Opt...

Globally, rural conditions are in states of change. They are often highly vulnerable to climate and environmental change, extreme weather events, conflict, socio-economic changes, inequalities, and demographic changes. These changes are putting stres...

With its unique environment and strategic value, the near space (NS) has become the focus of global scientific and technological, military, and commercial fields. Aiming at the problem of communication interruption when the aircraft re-enters the atm...

Increasing the number of cores on a chip is one way to solve the bottleneck of exponential growth but an excessive number of cores can lead to problems such as communication blockage and overheating of the chip. Currently, networks-on-chip (NoC) can...

High-capacity, long-distance underwater wireless optical communication (UWOC) technology is an important component in building fast, flexible underwater sensing networks. Underwater communication with light as a carrier has a large communication capa...

We propose a design method for few-mode erbium-doped fiber (FM-EDF) incorporating stratified doping. In the simulation design, the FM-EDF effectively reduces the differential mode gain (DMG) through the utilization of stratified doping. Simulations i...

Recently, digital displays and cameras have been extensively used as new data transmission and reception devices in conjunction with optical camera communication (OCC) technology. This paper presents three types of frequency-based data-embedding mech...

In this paper, the temperature-dependent dielectric properties of vanadium-sesquioxide-based thin films are studied to assess their suitability for thermally tunable filters at optical communication wavelengths. Spectroscopic ellipsometry is utilized...

The aim of this article is to summarize the results of the 2022 Estonian Physical Activity Report Card across 10 indicators based on available scientific data and national databases, and, additionally, to compare the current results with previous Rep...

Higher moisture content in wheat benefits processing but impairs storage stability. Current research on quality changes in high-moisture wheat under varying storage temperatures remains limited. This study systematically evaluated wheat with 14% mois...

Background. We sought to investigate the mutual interplay between bone, glucose and lipid metabolism in a wide cohort of community-based subjects. Methods. We studied 1240 blood donors (F/M ratio 1/3.2, mean age 41.9 ± 11.7 SD). Serum ionized (Ca⁺⁺),...

Organisms with different life histories are able to act as indicators of different characteristics of their environment. Here, we compared the precision of habitat indication by the vegetation and soil microbial communities in four salt-affected past...

Throughout history, communities have struggled to build homes in places actively hostile to their presence, a challenge long faced by African descendants in the American diaspora. In cities across the U.S., including Washington, D.C., efforts have of...

In the last two years, nucleosides analogues, a class of well-established bioactive compounds, have been the subject of renewed interest from the scientific community thanks to their antiviral activity. The COVID-19 global pandemic, indeed, spread li...

Three-dimensional (3D)-chromatin organization is critical for proper enhancer-promoter communication and, therefore, for a precise execution of the transcriptional programs governing cellular processes. The emergence of Chromosome Conformation Captur...

Community pharmacists are essential front-line health workers, involved in relieving the COVID-19 burden. Their health-related quality of life status needs to be assessed, as lower levels could affect their functioning. In order to evaluate the curre...

Coastal zones are critical areas of marine ecosystems, where biodiversity is a key ecological element for maintaining ecosystem stability and ensuring the sustainability of fishery resources. The Shengsi Ma’an Archipelago Marine Special Reserve...

A prospective study was carried out from August 2010 to August 2014 in the community of Fengyutan (China). Six hundred and twenty two T2D subjects were collected. The incidence density of diabetic retinopathy (DR) was 1.81% person-year (95% confidenc...

We propose Strength of Crowd (SoC), a distributed Internet of Things (IoT) protocol that guarantees message broadcast from an initiator to all network nodes in the presence of either a reactive or a proactive jammer, that targets a variable portion o...

Background: Recently, we have shown that extremely high high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), which was observed mostly in heavy drinkers, was associated with the incidence of diabetes. However, the observed association was influenced by the...

The rapid development and extensive application of the Internet of Things (IoT) have brought new challenges and opportunities to the field of communication. By integrating quantum secure communication with the IoT, we can provide a higher level of se...

In this paper, a high-gain THz antenna array is presented. The array uses a polyimide substrate with a thickness of 10 $\mathsf{\mu }$m, a relative permittivity of 3.5, and an overall volume of 2920 $\mathsf{\mu }$m × 1055 $\mathsf{\mu }$m × 10 $\mathsf{\mu }$m, which can be employ...

The prevalence of Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) is sharply on the rise, both in Canada and worldwide. As addressing its root causes, i.e., promotion of healthy lifestyles and weight management, has been largely unsuccessful, new clues for primary prevention...

Indigenous peoples globally experience a high burden of type 2 diabetes in comparison to non-Indigenous peoples. While community-based exercise interventions designed for type 2 diabetes (T2D) management have garnered success in non-Indigenous popula...

This paper introduces an analog notch filtering-based coupling circuit for receivers in ultra-narrowband and narrowband power line communication systems, which are connected to low-voltage electric power grids. It is composed of a twin-T notch analog...

This is the fourth Active Healthy Kids (AHK) Wales Report Card. The 2021 card produced grades on children and young people’s physical activity (PA) using pre-COVID-19 data that were not used in previous versions. Eleven quality indicators of PA...

Renewable energy (RE) installations and civil works are beneficial in terms of sustainability, but a considerable amount of space in the landscape is required in order to harness this energy. In contemporary environmental theory the landscape is cons...

Gut microbiota are involved in both host health and disease and can be stratified based on bacteriological composition. However, gut microbiota clustering data are limited for Asians. In this study, fecal microbiota of 1803 Japanese subjects, includi...

Urban expansion causes coastal wetland loss, and environmental stressors associated with development can lead to wetland degradation and loss of ecosystem services. This study investigated the effect of urbanization on prokaryotic community compositi...

Revegetation by planting shrubs on moving sand dunes is widely used to control desertification in arid/semi-arid areas. The soil including microbial community can gradually be improved along with plantation development. The purposes of this study wer...

Background: RAD51C and RAD51D are crucial in homologous recombination (HR) DNA repair. The prevalence of the RAD51C and RAD51D mutations in breast cancer varies across ethnic groups. Associations of RAD51C and RAD51D germline pathogenic variants (GPV...