Self-limited focal epilepsies in childhood (SELFEs), formerly referred to as “benign epilepsies in childhood”, constitute a heterogeneous group of epileptic conditions with onset predominantly in the neonatal, infantile, and childhood per...
The spread of emerging self-limiting infectious diseases is closely related to medical resources. This paper introduces the concept of safe medical resources, i.e., the minimum medical resources that are needed to prevent the overburden of medical re...
We present results demonstrating directed self-assembly of nanometer-scale mounds during molecular beam epitaxial growth on patterned GaAs (001) surfaces. The mound arrangement is tunable via the growth temperature, with an inverse spacing or spatial...
The development of new convenient tools for the design of multicomponent nucleic acid (NA) complexes is one of the challenges in biomedicine and NA nanotechnology. In this paper, we analyzed the formation of hybrid RNA/DNA concatemers and self-limite...
Municipal waste management is conceptualized as a circular energy supply chain in which waste flows through parallel recovery pathways. This study examines Istanbul’s waste-to-energy transition between 2020 and 2024 using portfolio decompositio...
HfO2-based resistive random-access memory (RRAM) with a Ti buffer layer has been extensively studied as an emerging nonvolatile memory (eNVM) candidate because of its excellent resistive switching (RS) properties and CMOS process compatibility. Howev...
New tool development for various nucleic acid applications is an essential task in RNA nanotechnology. Here, we determined the ability of self-limited complex formation by a pair of oligoribonucleotides carrying two pairwise complementary blocks conn...
The high pace of gene discovery has resulted in thrilling advances in the field of epilepsy genetics. Clinical testing with comprehensive gene panels, exomes, or genomes are now increasingly available and have led to a significant higher diagnostic y...
God’s power is usually discussed in terms of omnipotence. However, the problems associated with omnipotence are complex, and even if some think that the problems are resolvable, many find the purported resolutions unsatisfactory. I turn away fr...
Background: As much as there are unmet needs for brief frailty assessment in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the lack of a simplified and comprehensive dyspnea evaluation system that focuses on the patients’ percepti...
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) demonstrate great potential in numerous applications. However, these applications require a precise control of layer thickness at the atomic scale. In this work, we present an in-situ study of the self-limitin...
In the last decade, the self-field critical current density Jc(s.f.) in Type-II superconductors has been considered fundamentally limited by a Silsbee-like criterion of Jc(s.f.) = Hc1/λ. We show that this universal limit to self-field critical...
(1) Background: Pyemotes ventricosus dermatitis, caused by free-living mites, could be difficult to diagnose since bites are painless and ectoparasites are not visible. We present an unpublished clinical case that occurred in Italy and an extensive r...
14 November 2026
Background/Objectives: Although self-limited epilepsy with centrotemporal spikes (SeLECTS) generally has a favorable prognosis, some patients experience persistent seizures or develop spike-wave activation in sleep (SWAS). This study evaluated the ef...
Pathogenic KCNQ2 variants are associated with neonatal epilepsies, ranging from self-limited neonatal epilepsy to KCNQ2–developmental and epileptic encephalopathy (DEE). In this study, next-generation sequencing was performed, applying a panel...
In marine hot–humid and salt spray environments, shipborne snap-action limit switches operating under micro-current loads are prone to triggering failures caused by the accumulation of heterogeneous films on electrical contact interfaces, which...
Background: the aim of this study was to assess the 2-year pulp survival of deep carious lesions in teeth excavated using a self-limiting protocol in a single-blind randomized controlled clinical trial. Methods: At baseline, 101 teeth with deep cario...
This article establishes a nonlinear flutter system for a long-span suspension bridge, aiming to analyze its supercritical flutter response under the influence of nonlinear aerodynamic self-excited force. By fitting the experimental discrete values o...
This study proposes a novel wireless power transfer (WPT) resonance compensation design method based on the SS topology with a self-limitation function that achieves fault tolerance without additional components when the secondary circuit is in a sho...
This study explores the application of Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) to functionalize high-surface-area carbon supports with metal and metal oxide films and particles for applications in catalysis and electrocatalysis. The work reported here demonstr...
Halo nevus (HN), also known as Sutton nevus or leukoderma acquisitum centrifugum, is a melanocytic lesion characterized by a depigmented halo surrounding a central nevus. Although HN is a benign dermatological condition, increasing evidence indicates...
Background: Self-limited epilepsy with autonomic seizures (SeLEAS), formerly known as Panayiotopoulos syndrome (PS), is a common multifocal autonomic childhood epileptic syndrome. SeLEAS affects 6% of children in between the ages of 1 and 15 years wh...
To date, eight of ten Canadian provinces have authorized pharmacists to prescribe for minor ailments. Prompted by a request by the Ontario Minister of Health, draft regulations were submitted to enable this pharmacy service in Ontario. Differences ex...
The Mediterranean fruit fly (medfly), Ceratitis capitata, is a significant pest of stone and pome fruit that causes considerable economic losses worldwide. Current control is primarily based on insecticides, which are often mixed with protein baits....
This paper reports on the use of low-damage atomic layer etching (ALE) performed using O2 and BCl3 plasma for etching (Al)GaN. The proposed ALE process led to excellent self-limiting etch characteristics with a low direct current (DC) self-bias, whic...
Background and objectives: The present study is the first known in Latin America to enroll a substantial number of Kawasaki disease (KD) patients with an extended follow-up. This study aimed to: (1) to expose the difficulties and delays in the diagno...
Objectives. There are various subcutaneous lesions in children and often there is difficulty in obtaining an accurate diagnosis by non-invasive diagnostic procedures. Subcutaneous granuloma annulare (SGA) is a rare granulomatous disease that, even af...
The goal of this study is to investigate the probable intermediate hosts and the allergenicity of the notorious virus SARS-CoV-2 to understand how this virus emerged. The phylogenetic analysis of the virus spike proteins indicates that SARS-CoV-2 fal...
The atomic layer technique is generating a lot of excitement and study due to its profound physics and enormous potential in device fabrication. This article reviews current developments in atomic layer technology for spintronics, including atomic la...
Focal active colitis (FAC) is described as a histolopathological term indicating the isolated finding of focal neutrophil infiltration in the colonic crypts. Currently, there exist numerous debates regarding the clinical significance of diagnosing FA...
Mass insect rearing can have a range of applications, for example in biological control of pests. The competitive fitness of released insects is extremely important in a number of applications. Here, we investigated how to improve the fitness of a tr...
Thermosensitive nanogels are highly sensitive to temperature fluctuations, making precise thermal control critical for uniform particle formation and consistent product quality. This study introduces a TRIZ-guided reactor design that integrates mater...
Accurate tree species mapping is critical for forest inventory, biodiversity assessment, and ecosystem management. In mountainous regions, terrain-induced radiometric non-stationarity and limited field access often produce scarce, clustered, and envi...
Nowadays, stationary battery storage systems are generally used to optimize the self-consumption of electricity generated locally or to limit the peak load of the local grid connection. Self-consumption optimization aims to achieve economic benefits...
This paper presents the structure and principle of operation of two circuit configurations of self-limiting LC oscillators using monolithic positive second-generation current conveyors (CCII+s), that are implemented using Current-Feedback Operational...
Conventional resistive-type superconducting fault-current limiters (RSFCLs) rely exclusively on fault currents and temperature increases to trigger quenching, resulting in delayed fault response and excessive heat buildup under short-circuit conditio...
Alternative techniques have been investigated for effectiveness in caries removal because conventional metallic dental burs can lead to an excessive loss of sound tissue. The aim of the present study is to realize a preliminary approach in obtaining...
To achieve high performance, most deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) require a significant amount of training data with ground truth labels. However, creating ground-truth labels for semantic segmentation requires more time, human effort, and...
A current-limiting device (CLD) on a 400 Hz shipboard bus protects its load by turning an IGBT path off and diverting the current into a reactor. An IGBT that has failed stuck-on keeps supplying the load and appears healthy, so the loss of turn-off c...
How older adults psychologically appraise their health while managing multiple chronic conditions is a behavioral-science question as much as a clinical one. This study estimated the weighted prevalence of favorable mental-health self-appraisal, iden...
This paper investigates brain–behaviour associations between interictal epileptic discharges and cognitive performance in a population of children with self-limited focal epilepsy with centro-temporal spikes (SeLECTS). Sixteen patients with SeL...
Stand density management is important for decision-making regarding adaptive silviculture and thinning, growth modelling, and yield prediction in forests, especially plantations. Although substantial research related to the self-thinning rule and max...
We show that the limits for dynamical systems of self-similar groups are eventually conjugate if, and only if, there is an isomorphism between their Deaconu groupoid preserving cocycles. For limit solenoids of self-similar groups, we show that the co...
Vibration signals collected in real industrial environments are usually limited and unlabeled. In this case, fault diagnosis methods based on deep learning tend to perform poorly. Previous work mainly used the unlabeled data of the same diagnostic ob...
Pulsed electron–electron double resonance (PELDOR) spectroscopy is a powerful method for determining nucleic acid (NA) structure and conformational dynamics. PELDOR with molecular dynamics (MD) simulations opens up unique possibilities for defi...
The transition from outcrossing to selfing is a common evolutionary trend in flowering plants, and floral traits change significantly with the evolution of selfing. Whether or not plant traits are subjected to selection remains an open question in sp...
Dysregulation of vitamin D receptor (VDR) is implicated in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. However, whether VDR dysregulation contributes to the development of pulmonary fibrosis remains largely unknown. Analysis of bulk and single-cell RNA pr...
11 October 2026
As South Korea has developed into a super-aged society, preserving functional ability among older adults has become an important public health priority. This study examined sex-specific sociodemographic, physical, and mental health factors associated...
The self-oscillating systems based on stimuli-responsive materials, without complex controllers and additional batteries, have great application prospects in the fields of intelligent machines, soft robotics, and light-powered motors. Recently, the p...
The gravitational instability, responsible for the formation of the structure of the Universe, occurs below energy thresholds and above spatial scales of a self-gravitating expanding region, when thermal energy can no longer counterbalance self-gravi...
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