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Determining mechanisms of plant establishment in ecological communities can be particularly difficult in disturbance-dominated ecosystems. Longleaf pine (Pinus palustris Mill.) and its associated plant community exemplify systems that evolved with di...

Objectives: This study seeks to provide an understanding of the changing experiences in caregivers of end-of-life patients in Hong Kong through exploring their caregiving journey. Methods: Using longitudinal individual qualitative interviews, a total...

End-stage renal disease and hemodialysis therapy cause a number of changes, not only somatic but also psychosocial, including the patient’s perception and assessment of their quality of life. The literature describes predispositions to patholog...

The aim of this paper is to propose a methodology for supporting decision making in design activities; in case of new projects or retrofitting of existing buildings. A multidisciplinary approach is adopted; involving Real Estate Appraisal and Economi...

Malaria is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in tropical and sub-tropical regions. This research proposed a malaria diagnosis system based on the you only look once algorithm for malaria parasite detection and the convolutional neural networ...

This paper assesses the environmental loads of polypropylene and PP-PE-PET mixed-plastic products throughout the products’ life cycle in the production stage, with particular focus on the looping method. A life cycle model of homogeneous and mixed-pl...

Remaining useful life (RUL) prediction of wind-turbine bearings is challenged by nonstationary wind loads, multistage degradation, substantial lifetime dispersion, and strict deployment constraints. Conventional single-task regressors apply a unified...

Wildlife is chronically exposed to various sources of ionizing radiations, both environmental or anthropic, due to nuclear energy use, which can induce several defects in organisms. In invertebrates, reproduction, which directly impacts population dy...

Tool condition monitoring can be employed to ensure safe and full utilization of the cutting tool. Hence, remaining useful life (RUL) prediction of a cutting tool is an important issue for an effective high-speed milling process-monitoring system. Ho...

(1) Background: Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) can be managed with one- or two-stage revision surgery protocol. Despite several studies analyzing the eradication rates between both procedures, there are no comparative studies that analyze patie...

Enterprises in socio-economic ecosystems, like organisms in natural ecosystems, have life cycles. Since the enterprise life cycle theory was proposed, how to measure the enterprise life cycle has been a hot research topic. In order to assess the life...

Background: Knowledge of quality-of-life after cytoreductive surgery is important to counsel patients with advanced-stage epithelial ovarian cancer prior to surgery. The aim of this study was to determine whether the use of the PlasmaJet Surgical dev...

Cheyletus malaccensis Oudemans is a predatory mite inhabiting grain depots in China. The relationship between temperature and the population growth rate of C. malaccensis is useful for predicting its population dynamics. Age-stage, two-sex life table...

The relationship between perceived risk and behavioral intention (BI) in e-shopping, based on family life cycle (FLC) stages, has been analyzed in this work. Although FLC stages are considered to have a better predictive ability than age, few e-shopp...

Decisions made in the early stages of construction projects significantly influence the costs incurred in subsequent stages. Therefore, such decisions must be based on the life-cycle cost (LCC), which includes the maintenance, repair, and replacement...

Population aging has increased reliance on family carers, whose psychosocial burdens and support needs vary by life stage. This exploratory study aimed to compare psychosocial care burdens and support needs between middle-aged family carers (MFCs) an...

Hydraulic engineering-driven thermal lag disturbs natural water temperature and induces thermal stress in early-life-stage Chinese sturgeon (Acipenser sinensis), yet stage-specific molecular stress mechanisms remain unclear. This study assessed pheno...

The accurate estimation of the remaining useful life (RUL) for aircraft engines is essential for ensuring safety and uninterrupted operations in the aviation industry. Numerous investigations have leveraged the success of the attention-based Transfor...

For rigid-flexible composite pavement structures, traditional macroscopic assessment of crack-resistant interlayers is typically based on total fatigue life alone, without differentiating between crack propagation through the rigid substrate and crac...

The construction industry’s high energy consumption and carbon emissions significantly burden the ecological environment. Thus, it is necessary to study measures and strategies for emissions reduction during construction for an improved, safe a...

Background: There is wide variation in the application of adjuvant chemotherapy in early-stage epithelial ovarian cancer. Our aim was to assess differences in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) between patients with early-stage ovarian cancer who...

Advanced-stage lung cancer (LC) causes significant morbidity and impacts patients’ quality of life (QoL). Exercise has been proven to be safe, feasible, and beneficial for symptom reduction and QoL improvement in many types of cancers, but rese...

This research delves into the intricate interplay between green innovation performance (GIP), firm performance (FP), and corporate social responsibility (CSR) reporting, leveraging enterprise life stage performance as a pivotal moderator. Analyzing a...

The increasing abundance of ticks poses a growing public health concern due to heightened human exposure to tick bites. The lone star tick (Amblyomma americanum: Ixodida: Ixodidae), a common human-biting species in the United States, has expanded its...

Bentho-pelagic life cycles are the dominant reproductive strategy in marine invertebrates, providing great dispersal ability, access to different resources, and the opportunity to settle in suitable habitats upon the trigger of environmental cues at...

In the present study, the developmental toxicity and endocrine-disrupting effects of fenpropathrin on Gobiocypris rarus during the early life stage were studied using a semi-static water exposure method. The results showed that the LOEC (lowest obser...

Educators who keep teaching under wartime missile threat occupy a demanding dual role, sustaining instruction and students’ emotional needs while personally exposed. This descriptive cross-sectional study examined dispositional and life-stage c...

Under the background of global climate change, frequent drought events have significantly impacted plant–insect interaction. This study focuses on Ficus microcarpa, an important landscaping and urban greening tree species in tropical and subtro...

Megalurothrips usitatus (Bagnall) is a major pest of cowpeas that severely affects their yield and quality. Spinetoram (a semi-synthetic derivative of natural spinosyns, modified to improve potency, residual activity, and stability) is currently one...

The development and reproduction of the fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, which were reared on artificial diets containing nano-graphene oxide (GO), were determined based on age-stage, two-sex life table analysis. The results showed that GO...

Cardiovascular complications are the most prominent causes of morbidity and mortality among chronic kidney disease (CKD) and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients undergoing standard hemodialysis (HD) therapy. Cardiovascular disease risk is increas...

Zeugodacus tau Walker (Diptera: Tephritidae) is a quarantine pest of cucurbit crops in China. In recent years, the damage it has caused to Trichosanthes kirilowii (Cucurbitales: Cucurbitaceae) has increased, but evidence for host adaptation and popul...

Welded steel details are critical components from the aspect of fatigue. Additional fatigue resistance can be achieved by the High-Frequency Mechanical Impact (HFMI) treatment. This treatment increases the crack initiation period by improving the wel...

Cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC) is a widely used surfactant that has been detected in various water ecosystems. However, knowledge on the toxicity of CPC to fish remains scarce. Here, we examined the survival, development, behavior, and oxidative stre...

Temperature is a critical single factor influencing insect population dynamics, and is foundational for improving our understanding of the phenology of invasive species adapting to new agroecosystems or in the process of range expansion. An age-stage...

We compare the perioperative course, postoperative pain, and quality-of-life (QOL) in patients undergoing anatomic resections of early-stage lung cancer by means of robotic surgery (RATS), video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS), or muscle-sparing tho...

Accurate prediction of lithium battery remaining useful life (RUL) is crucial for battery management systems to monitor battery health status. However, RUL prediction remains challenging due to capacity non-stationarity caused by capacity regeneratio...

Background/Objectives This systematic review and network meta-analysis aimed to determine the most effective therapeutic exercise modality for improving quality of life (QoL) in patients with advanced-stage cancer. Specifically, the study compared th...

To improve the long-term adaptability of photovoltaic-storage-charging systems under rapidly increasing electric vehicle charging demand, this study develops a multi-stage dynamic programming and life-cycle economic assessment framework for the Hasuh...

Amblyseius orientalis Ehara is a predatory mite that belongs to the family Phytoseiidae. It is mainly found in Jiangxi, Shanghai, Guangdong, and other areas of China. Although A. orientalis is a dominant predatory mite species in China and is also im...

In stage IV periodontitis patients with pathologic tooth migration (PTM), interdisciplinary treatment includes regenerative periodontal surgery (RPS) with an application of biomaterials and orthodontic therapy (OT) to restore function, esthetics and...

Background/Objectives: End-stage renal disease (ESRD) profoundly affects patients’ daily functioning and well-being, particularly among individuals receiving long-term hemodialysis. Evaluating quality of life (QoL) is therefore essential for un...

Reliable bearing-failure prognosis in induction machines remains a critical research challenge, as it directly impacts system availability, maintenance efficiency, and overall operational safety. To address this challenge, it is essential to develop...

Bactrocera dorsalis (Hendel), as a quarantine pest in many countries and regions, has shown a trend of northward diffusion in the past century in China. In order to determine whether B. dorsalis will cause great harm to the dominant northern fruits,...

Eocanthecona furcellata Wolff, a predatory stinkbug, has garnered much attention as a biological control against Lepidoptera, Coleoptera, and Hemiptera pests across various crops. The continuous and high-quality supply of prey is essential for its la...

Background: Patients with end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) often experience significant symptom burden and reduced quality of life (QoL). This study compared these outcomes between hemodialysis (HD) and non-dialysis (ND) ESKD patients in India. Method...

The human lifespan has been increasing but will soon reach a plateau. A new direction based on the principal law of lifespan (PLOSP) may enable the human lifespan to be extremely healthy and long by the proper manipulation of the well-defined growing...

Construction is a crucial sector in terms of worldwide environmental impacts. Building material production along with transport and demolition are no exception, because in the last decades, they have constantly increased their carbon dioxide (CO₂) em...

Despite the general agreement that a firm embodies its own culture, there is still a lack of empirical research on how a firm’s culture affects its value. Another caveat on previous studies is that they implicitly assume that a firm’s culture does no...

Studies addressing seasonal changes in diet quality and hormones are important for understanding the interactions between ecology and physiology. We collected fecal samples from free-ranging adult female pronghorn (Antilocapra americana) to examine t...