The internal organ at risk volume (IRV) concept might improve toxicity profiles in stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). We studied (1) clinical aspects in central vs. peripheral tumors, (2) the IRV concep...
Irving Greenberg (b. 1933), among the most influential American Jewish theologians responding to the Holocaust, consistently describes his theological approach as “postmodern”—emphasising the breakdown of absolutes, fragmentation, a...
Colorectal polyps in the colon or rectum are precancerous growths that can lead to a more severe disease called colorectal cancer. Accurate segmentation of polyps using medical imaging data is essential for effective diagnosis. However, manual segmen...
In volcanic regions, rockfalls represent a major hazard strongly conditioned by the geomechanical behaviour of volcanic materials, the geomorphological characteristics of the relief and the climatic conditions. Volcanic rocks possess very different p...
Multiple hazards, which threaten people’s lives and property, are the main concern for engineers in preventing dangers to buildings. In particular, densely populated areas, such as capital cities and tall buildings, are exposed to higher risks...
When the icebreaker sails in the polar region, it adopts continuous and ramming icebreaking operations. When the ice condition exceeds the design working condition, it uses the ramming icebreaking method to advance. The nonlinear icebreaking process...
The development of the concept of mental discipline can be understood from three clues, as a puritanical phenomenon, as a phenomenon rooted in the classics, and, on the other hand, as one rooted in faculty psychology. The aim of this research is to e...
Carbon quantum dots (CQDs) are an excellent eco-friendly fluorescence material, ideal for various ecological testing systems. Herein, we establish uniform microwave synthesis of the group of carbon quantum dots with specific functionalization of ethy...
Background/Objectives: Circulating influenza strains antigenically differing from vaccine antigens increase disease burden by decreasing vaccine efficacy. Nucleoside-modified mRNA (modRNA) influenza vaccines may facilitate rapid production allowing l...
Mediterranean sharks, rays, and chimaeras face substantial conservation pressures, yet comparative regional assessments integrating life-history, ecological, and fisheries-related traits remain limited. We compiled and standardized 1634 species-speci...
The current genome editing system Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats Cas9 (CRISPR/Cas9) has already confirmed its proficiency, adaptability, and simplicity in several plant-based applications. Together with the availability of...
Pyrazinamide (PZA) is a key drug for tuberculosis treatment. The active form of PZA, pyrazinoic acid (POA), appears to inhibit multiple targets in M. tuberculosis. Recently, the bifunctional enzyme Rv2783 was reported as a new target of POA. However,...
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The virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) is related to many factors, including intracellular survival, cell wall permeability, and cell envelope proteins. However, the biological function of the M. tuberculosis membrane protein R...
Background: Bedaquiline (BDQ) is critical for multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) treatment, but emerging resistance threatens its efficacy. Detection of BDQ resistance relies on slow phenotypic drug-susceptibility testing (pDST), delaying trea...
Insulin-regulated glucose uptake is a central mechanism in maintaining systemic glucose homeostasis, primarily occurring in skeletal muscle and adipose tissue. This process relies on the insulin-stimulated translocation of the glucose transporter, GL...
Drought presents significant challenges in arid regions, influencing local climate and environmental dynamics. While the large-scale climatic phenomena in Xinjiang, northwest China, are well-documented, the finer-scale climatic variability in subregi...
Background/Objectives: A preventative vaccine against human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) infection and disease remains an unmet medical need. Several attenuated virus and antigen-based HCMV vaccine candidates have been proposed; however, development challe...
Background/Objectives: Managing ventilatory strategies in patients with obesity under general anesthesia presents significant challenges due to obesity-related pathophysiological changes. Inverse ratio ventilation (IRV) has emerged as a potential str...
Objective: Analysis and presentation of the capabilities of the new ultrasound technique —the index of volume remodeling (IRV), which allows comprehensive assessing of pathological remodeling of the heart as an integrated functional anatomical...
The mechanism of convection initiation (CI) over Ili River Valley (IRV) in Xinjiang, Northwest China, was investigated based on both weather stations and radar observations and Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model simulation. Observations sho...
Because the penetration level of renewable energy sources has increased rapidly in recent years, uncertainty in power system operation is gradually increasing. As an efficient tool for power system analysis under uncertainty, probabilistic power flow...
It is now more than 90 years since Irving Langmuir used the technical term “plasma” to describe an ionized gas [...]
Only a few decades ago, the neoconservative writer Irving Kristol could dismiss economic inequality as a social problem (Kristol 1980).[...]
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Interprofessional learning (IPL) is essential to prepare healthcare trainees as the future public health workforce. WHIRL (Workplace Health InteRprofessional Learning) was an innovative IPL intervention that engaged volunteer healthcare trainees (n =...
Hybrid rice technology has been used for more than 50 years, and eating and cooking quality (ECQ) has been a major focus throughout this period. Waxy (Wx) and alkaline denaturation (ALK) genes have received attention owing to their pivotal roles in d...
Effective monitoring of rock fracture and seepage is an important information means to ensure the safety of geotechnical engineering. Therefore, sandstone samples were subject to uniaxial compression under different hydraulic conditions in the presen...
A thorough assessment of Life-Cycle effects involved by vehicle lightweighting needs a rigorous evaluation of mass-induced consumption, on which energy and sustainability benefits during use stage directly depend. The paper proposes an analytical cal...
Background/Objectives: Papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC) is the most common endocrine malignancy. The classic variant (cPTC) is characterized by indolent behavior and excellent prognosis. However, rare subtypes of PTC most often exhibit adverse clini...
The Stable Fixtures problem (Irving and Scott (2007)) is a generalized matching model that nests the well-known Stable Roommates, Stable Marriage, and College Admissions problems as special cases. This paper extends a result of the Stable Roommates p...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Cyclone Global Navigation Satellite System (CYGNSS) mission was launched in December 2016. CYGNSS provides ocean surface wind speed retrieval along specular reflection tracks at an interval res...
Background/Objectives: COPD patients often complain of severe dyspnea when walking uphill, even up a mild incline. This study aimed to determine whether the dyspnea experienced during uphill walking is disproportionate to the increased mechanical wor...
The inability of existing super-resolution methods to jointly model short-range and long-range spatial dependencies in remote sensing imagery limits reconstruction efficacy. To address this, we propose LSTMConvSR, a novel framework inspired by top-do...
The complexes of Ephedrine with Nickel, Zinc and Cadmium ions have been investigated spectrophotometricalfy using the method of corresponding solutions [I-3] and pH-metrically using Irving and Rossoti technique [4] Two compositions were observed spec...
In the process of uniaxial loading of rocks, the original temperature information of infrared radiation is easily submerged in the noise signal, which leads to distortion of the obtained infrared radiation response information. In this paper, we prop...
There is currently no vaccine available for human use for any parasitic infections, including the helminth disease, schistosomiasis. Despite many researchers working towards this goal, one of the focuses has been on identifying new antigenic targets....
This study compares the performance of the Vernier (Logger Pro) and BIOPAC (MP36, L12 Pulmonary Function I module) spirometers in the assessment of pulmonary function. One healthy adult subject performed spirometric measurements on both devices with...
Lightweight single-image super-resolution (SISR) requires effective local structural representation and broader contextual modeling under a restricted computational budget. We propose DPALSR, a Dual Prior-Aware Lightweight Super-Resolution Network th...
Tropical cyclone (TC) intensity observations considerably improve forecast models. They are particularly used to continuously measure TC intensity for landfalling cyclones to improve their forecast. For example, TC Irving, which operated in the Gulf...
This study presents a quantitative investigation of substituent effects on the stability of 1:2 complexes formed between para-substituted 2-phenylbenzimidazole ligands and Cu(II) or Co(II) ions. The ligands, featuring hydroxyl (–OH), chloro (&n...
We investigate the molecular origin of shear-thinning in melts of flexible, semiflexible and rigid oligomers with coarse-grained simulations of a sheared melt. Entanglements, alignment, stretching and tumbling modes or suppression of the latter all c...
Logarithms of stability constants, log K1 and log β2, of the first transition series metal mono- and bis-complexes with any of four aliphatic amino acids (glycine, alanine, valine and leucine) decrease monotonously with third order valence connectivi...
Colorectal cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related death worldwide. The early diagnosis of colon cancer not only reduces mortality but also reduces the burden related to the treatment strategies such as chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy....
Prussian blue analogs (PBAs) have been reported as promising ammonia (NH3) adsorbents with a high capacity compared to activated carbon, zeolite, and ion exchange resins. The adsorbed NH3 was desorbed by heating and washing with water or acid. Recent...
Candida albicans is one of the most impactful fungal pathogens and the most common cause of invasive candidiasis, which is associated with very high mortality rates. With the rise in the frequency of multidrug-resistant clinical isolates, the identif...
Mutations in the Crumbs homolog 1 (CRB1) gene lead to severe inherited retinal dystrophies (IRDs), accounting for nearly 80,000 cases worldwide. To date, there is no therapeutic option for patients suffering from CRB1-IRDs. Therefore, it is of great...
Saffron (Crocus sativus L.) is a vegetatively propagated crop of high economic and cultural value, potentially affected by viral infections that may impact its productivity. Despite Iran’s dominance in global saffron production, knowledge of it...
The COVID-19 pandemic has altered all aspects of human life since its breakout in March 2020 in the USA and around the world. There has been a tremendous increase in the use of plastic products as most of the PPE (masks, gloves, and other medical equ...
Neck disorders have a significant impact on people because of their high incidence. The head-mounted display (HMD) systems, such as Meta Quest 2, grant access to immersive virtual reality (iRV) experiences. This study aims to validate the Meta Quest...
This study aims to characterize graphene epoxy nanocomposite properties using multiscale modeling. Molecular dynamics was used to study the nanocomposite at the nanoscale and finite element analysis at the macroscale to complete the multiscale modeli...
There are a huge number of harmonics in the railway power supply system. Accurately estimating the harmonic impedance of the system is the key to evaluating the harmonic emission level of the power supply system. A harmonic impedance estimation metho...
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