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Background/Objectives: Coupling mobile health (mHealth) technology with community-based nutrition programs may enhance diet quality in adolescents. This pilot study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of integrating Por...

Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is thought to be a multifactorial disease that includes a direct involvement of bacteria that trigger inflammation and contribute to CRS pathogenesis. Staphylococcus aureus infection and persistence is associated with chr...

High-precision total electron content (TEC) prediction can improve the accuracy of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS)-based applications. The existing deep learning models for TEC prediction mainly include long short-term memory (LSTM), co...

This paper proposes a convolutional Long Short-Term Memory (ConvLSTM) network integrated with multi-channel features dedicated to ionospheric total electron content (TEC) forecasting. To improve generalization, solar, and geomagnetic activity indices...

Music plays an increasingly vital role in modern society, becoming a fundamental part of everyday life. Beyond entertainment, it contributes to emotional well-being by helping individuals express their feelings, process emotions, and find comfort dur...

There is a need to disseminate evidence-based childhood obesity prevention interventions on a broader scale to reduce obesity-related disparities among underserved children. The purpose of this study was to test the comparative effectiveness of an ev...

The aim of this work was the qualitative and quantitative determination of selected phenolic compounds in three Crataegus species grown in Bosnia. Crataegus plants are consumed for medicinal purposes and as foodstuff in the form of canned fruit, jam,...

To address the issue of traffic accidents caused by livestock crossing roads on grassland highways, this paper proposes an adaptive cruise control method for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) based on an ensemble Q-network and a Soft Actor-Critic (SAC)...

Video image stabilization technology is a crucial foundation for applications such as video image target identification, monitoring, and tracking. Satellite video covers a wide range of areas with complex and similar types of objects on the ground an...

Background: Although the value of point-of-care ultrasound (PoCUS) is well-established for specific diseases and in the hands of trained users, its broader impact on overall ED efficiency is not yet fully known. This study aims to evaluate the associ...

Elderly patients, when they present to the emergency department (ED) or are admitted to the hospital, are at higher risk of adverse outcomes such as higher mortality and longer hospital stays. This is mainly due to their age and their increased fragi...

Twisted Edwards curves have been at the center of attention since their introduction by Bernstein et al. in 2007. The curve ED25519, used for Edwards-curve Digital Signature Algorithm (EdDSA), provides faster digital signatures than existing schemes...

The emergency department (ED) is uniquely positioned to improve care for older adults and affect patient outcome trajectories. The Mount Sinai Hospital ED cares for 15,000+ patients >65 years old annually. From 2012 to 2015, emergency care in a de...

Introducing educational technology (EdTech) into school classrooms constitutes one of the strongest educational reforms of recent decades worldwide, and as a discursive or ideological background of it, there has been the optimistic consensus on the u...

Anthracnose, induced by Colletotrichum gloeosporioides, poses a substantial economic threat to rubber tree yields and various other tropical crops. Ede1, an endocytic scaffolding protein, plays a crucial role in endocytic site initiation and maturati...

Plants are able to produce various types of crystals through metabolic processes, serving functions ranging from herbivore deterrence to photosynthetic efficiency. However, the structural analysis of these crystals has remained challenging due to the...

Calcium phosphates (CPs) used as biomaterials have been intensively studied in recent years. In most studies, the determination of the chemical composition is mandatory. Due to the versatility and possibilities of performing qualitative and quantitat...

Food resource management (FRM) behaviors are key components within nutrition education programs designed to help food insecure households maximize their food dollars. However, little is known about the association between FRM self-confidence and fina...

This paper reflects on the lived experiences of young refugees located in Pakistan and Rwanda when interacting with education technology (EdTech) during and following displacement. We offer a broad decolonial commentary on issues related to the desig...

Until now, the comprehensive structural analysis of single crystals of zeolite ECR-1, an aluminosilicate with the EON topology, has been hindered owing to the submicron dimensions of the obtained crystals. Additionally, this zeolite, which is charact...

Background: The purpose of this study is to assess how the socio–family demographic status of patients is related to the onset of delirium in a large cohort of older adults aged ≥65 years evaluated in the emergency department (ED) using a co...

The crucial roles of the lipase-like protein enhanced disease susceptibility 1 (EDS1) and phytoalexin deficient 4 (PAD4) in disease resistance in Arabidopsis have been identified. However, their function in rice (Oryza sativa L.) resistance to brown...

The focus of the present study is on fibre-reinforced geopolymer composites, whose optimization and application necessarily need a detailed chemical characterization at the micro-nanoscale. In this regard, many geopolymer composites presenting micro...

In the study of English denominal adjectives, scholarly attention has predominantly centred on those with Latinate suffixes (e.g., -al, -ary, and -ic/-ical), which are well-known as relational adjectives (RAdjs) and are extensively scrutinised in the...

This work compared the multi-element analysis of human hair and nails using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP MS) with an easy, fast, cheap, non-destructive method using energy-dispersive x-ray fluorescence (ED XRF). The ICP MS-based...

Lesion Simulating Disease 1 (LSD1), Enhanced Disease Susceptibility (EDS1) and Phytoalexin Deficient 4 (PAD4) were discovered a quarter century ago as regulators of programmed cell death and biotic stress responses in Arabidopsis thaliana. Recent stu...

The development of a dengue (DENV) vaccine remains challenging due to the heteroserotypic infection, which can result in a potentially deadly hemorrhagic fever or dengue shock syndrome, and only a tetravalent vaccine can overcome this issue. Here, we...

Endocrine disruptors (EDs), including natural estrogens, such as 17β-estradiol (E2) and synthetic chemicals (e.g., bisphenol A (BPA) and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS)), pose environmental and human health risks due to their ability...

Exact interaction formulae for the plastic resistances of Z-sections under a combination of three internal forces, i.e., the bending moment about the strong axis M_y,Ed, bending moment about the weak axis M_z,Ed and bimoment B_Ed, were created and analy...

Superconducting electrodynamic suspension (EDS) maglev technology has strong potential for ultra-high-speed transportation, with advantages such as self-stability and a large suspension gap. The magneto-electric force relationship between the onboard...

The resistances of HVH sections (H—horizontal upper flange, V—vertical web, H—horizontal bottom flange) were investigated by the authors in the frame of the large parametrical studies focused on the complete HVH-section categories:...

Consumption of alcohol mixed with energy drinks (AmED) has been associated with various alcohol-related consequences among college students. However, more information is required to assess how this relationship is affected by sociodemographic and env...

Objectives: This research presents a retrospective analysis of cases of epistaxis in patients arriving at the Emergency Department (ED ENT) of the Provincial Hospital in Bielsko-Biala throughout 2015–2019. Methods: The analysis covered two peri...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of different decontamination treatments on the surface roughness and elemental deposition of pristine dental implants using scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy...

Coffee, a widely consumed important agricultural product, is mainly produced from two species, Coffea arabica (Arabica coffee) and C. canephora (Robusta coffee). Timor Hybrid (HDT) is a population resulting from a natural cross between C. arabica and...

Diagnostic analyses on a contemporary painting on canvas were performed with X-ray fluorescence (XRF), multispectral imaging and scanning electron microscope/energy dispersive spectroscopy (SEM/EDS). The results of each method provided complementary...

Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) in the environment are considered a motif of concern, due to the widespread occurrence and potential adverse ecological and human health effects. The natural estrogen, 17β-estradiol (E2), is frequently detec...

Background/Objectives: Eating disorders (EDs) are among the most severe psychiatric conditions affecting young people, with increasing prevalence in the post-pandemic period. This study assessed the prevalence of ED risk and dysfunctional eating beha...

In the complex and harsh environment of agriculture, rolling bearings, as the key transmission components in agricultural machinery, are very prone to failure, so research on the intelligent fault diagnosis of agricultural machinery components is cri...

This review supports an overview of selected high-performance fibers and functional fiber materials. A review of several properties and applications is given. For fiber materials and fabrics, microscopic images taken by scanning electron microscopy (...

In recent years, machine learning (ML) has been promisingly applied in many fields of clinical medicine, both for diagnosis and prognosis prediction. Aims of this narrative review were to summarize the basic concepts of ML applied to clinical medicin...

Musculocontractural Ehlers–Danlos syndrome (EDS) caused by pathogenic variants in CHST14 (mcEDS-CHST14) is a subtype of EDS characterized by multisystem malformations and progressive fragility-related manifestations. A recent international coll...

A correct determination of the mineral and chemical composition of specimens is of the utmost importance to answer questions regarding the Cultural Heritage field. Because of the preciousness and often very low quantity of sample available, with text...

Herein is reported the first evidence of the protective role of D-aspartic acid (D-Asp) in preventing the toxic effect exerted by the alkylating agent ethane dimethane sulfonate (EDS) in the rat testis. We confirmed that EDS treatment specifically de...

Cell death is the ultimate end of a cell cycle that occurs in all living organisms during development or responses to biotic and abiotic stresses. In the course of evolution, plants and animals evolve various molecular mechanisms to regulate cell dea...

The aim of this paper is to present the results of X-ray diffraction (XRD) tests and scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) analyses on a natural and lime-treated clay, in order to determine the percentage of lime...

Introduction: Ehlers–Danlos Syndromes (EDSs) are a heterogeneous group of monogenic connective tissue disorders (e.g., joint hypermobility and dislocation, skin hyperelasticity and fragility, chronic pain, delayed wound healing process,, etc.)....

Steel slags are major by-products of steelmaking, and their variable composition complicates recycling and valorization strategies. This study investigates four representative slag samples obtained from different production pathways at an industrial...

In cryptography, elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) is considered an efficient and secure method to implement digital signature algorithms (DSAs). ECC plays an essential role in many security applications, such as transport layer security (TLS), inter...

Coordination of care for patients with neuro-ophthalmic disorders can be very challenging in the community emergency department (ED) setting. Unlike university- or tertiary hospital-based EDs, the general ophthalmologist is often not as familiar with...