Diagnostic errors have been a critical concern in healthcare, leading to substantial financial burdens and serious threats to patient safety. The Improving Diagnosis in Health Care report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medici...
The growing strain on global healthcare systems, driven by aging populations, rising prevalence of chronic diseases, and workforce shortages, has increased interest in strategies that enhance perioperative outcomes and healthcare sustainability. From...
The refractive index change obtained after annealed proton exchange (APE) in lithium niobate (LiNbO3) crystals depends on both the proton exchange process carried out in hot acid and the structure of the crystals. In devices produced by the APE metho...
11 January 2026
The agri-food supply chain is a relevant contributor to the Italian economy but shows a high incidence of occupational injuries and musculoskeletal disorders, such as lower back pain. Repetitive manual handling and biomechanical overload highlight th...
The transportation sector is undergoing electrification to gain advantages such as lighter weight, improved reliability, and enhanced efficiency. As contributors to the safety of embedded critical functions in electrified systems, better sizing of el...
Shifting towards electrified industrial energy systems is pivotal for meeting global decarbonization objectives, especially since process heat is a significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions in the industrial sector. This review examines the...
The transport sector is one of the leading contributors of anthropogenic climate change. Particularly, internal combustion engine (ICE) dominancy coupled with heavy private motor vehicle dependency are among the main issues that need to be addressed...
Vietnam is a country most at risk for experiencing climate change effects, especially increasing temperatures. Agricultural production is one of the biggest contributors to Vietnam’s economy. Recent research has explored how climate change will...
Digital twin technology is reshaping modern agriculture. Digital twins are the virtual replicas of real-world farming systems, which are continuously updated with real-time data, and are revolutionizing the monitoring, simulation, and optimization of...
Background: Post-exercise recovery involves coordinated metabolic restoration and redox rebalancing. Although dietary polyphenols have been proposed to facilitate recovery, the metabolic mechanisms underlying their effects—particularly during t...
The concept of crowdsourcing is nowadays extensively used to refer to the collection of data and the generation of information by large groups of users/contributors. OpenStreetMap (OSM) is a very successful example of a crowd-sourced geospatial data...
This study characterizes cancer and non-cancer risks due to inhalation exposure to volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in a border city of Windsor in southern Ontario, Canada, using hourly ambient concentrations collected from 17 November 2021 to 17 Ma...
Global warming is now considered to be one of the greatest challenges worldwide. International environmental agreements have been developed in response to climate change since the 1970s. The construction industry is considered one of the main contrib...
Although obesity and a sedentary lifestyle are well-known risk factors for type 2 diabetes, at molecular level, the oxidative stress is regarded as the primary contributor to the pathogenic process. Our work intends to evidence how the thinking model...
VGI (Volunteered Geographic Information) refers to spatial data collected, created, and shared voluntarily by users. Georeferenced tracks are one of the most common components of VGI, and, as such, are not free from errors. The cleaning of GNSS (Glob...
The average PM10 daily levels over the urban area of Thessaloniki, Greece, usually exceed the air quality limits and therefore the improved PM chemical composition and air quality modeling results that will facilitate the design of the most appropria...
Hospital projects or healthcare projects (HPs) are major contributors of greenhouse gas emissions, high energy consumption, and environmental pollution. These problems serve as a clarion call for the development of a standardized list of metrics that...
Remotely piloted aircraft are a fast-emerging sector of the aviation industry. Although technical failures have been the largest cause of accident occurrences for Remotely Piloted Aircraft Systems (RPASs), if they are to follow the path of convention...
26 October 2021
Heavy metal pollution has become a great concern due to its adverse effects on the ecological system and human health. The present study investigated the concentrations of six common heavy metals (Cr, Cu, Zn, As, Cd, and Pb) in the Tianjin coastal ar...
We utilized a high dimensional financial network to investigate the systemic risk contagion between different industries in China and to explore the impacts of monetary policy and industry heterogeneity factors. The empirical results suggest that the...
Groundwater-influenced ecosystems (GIEs) are increasingly vulnerable due to groundwater extraction, land-use practices, and climate change. These ecosystems receive groundwater inflow as a portion of their baseflow or water budget, which can maintain...
The pathogenesis of an increasing number of chronic diseases is being attributed to effects of the immune system. However, its role in the development and maintenance of anorexia nervosa is seemingly under-appreciated. Yet, in examining the available...
Oral health is crucial to overall health, and periodontal disease (PDD) is a chronic inflammatory disease. Over the past decade, PDD has been recognized as a significant contributor to systemic inflammation. Here, we relate our seminal work defining...
Plant-based nutritional supplementation has been shown to attenuate and reduce mortality in the processes of both acute and chronic disorders, including diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, cancer, inflammatory diseases, and neurological and ne...
Open Source Software (OSS) development is a complex socio-technical system in which collaborator attitudes influence the outcomes. This study empirically analyzes the impact of participant sentiment (positive, neutral, negative) on productivity, defi...
Environmental sustainability continues to attract global interest, especially due to the issue of climate change. The agri-food sector is considered a major contributor to climate change as processes and activities within the sector can negatively im...
The convection initiation (CI) mechanisms of severe storms have received increasing attention because severe storms have been occurring more frequently around the globe in recent years. In this work, the CI mechanisms of severe convective weather ass...
In this convergent parallel mixed-methods study, we investigated the early impact of the COVID-19 stay-at-home mandate in Illinois on 16 caregivers of children with autism. Our goal was to understand contributors to caregivers’ stress by integr...
Investigating atmospheric volatile organic compounds (VOCs) is critical for understanding their sources, chemical reactivity, and impacts on air quality, climate, and human health, especially in remote regions like the Tibetan Plateau where baseline...
FPGA technology is widely used in the finance domain. We describe the design of a financial trading system order processing component using FPGAs, implemented with high-level synthesis (HLS) flow. The order processing component is the major contribut...
Mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress are major contributors to the pathophysiology of neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s disease (AD). However, the mechanisms driving mitochondrial dysfunction and oxidative stress are u...
This study investigated the occurrence, sources, and health risks of 16 polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in commonly consumed fish and crayfish from the Caohai Lake, a typical plateau lake in southwest China. Four dominant species (crucian car...
Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neurodegenerative disease caused by deficiency of the survival motor neuron (SMN) protein. Although SMA is a genetic disease, environmental factors contribute to disease progression. Common pathogen components such...
The understanding of occupancy patterns has been identified as a key contributor to achieve improvements in energy efficiency in buildings since occupancy information can benefit different systems, such as HVAC (Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditio...
Quality of care is a complex performance measure of healthcare performance that considers the influence of several contributors. This study enlarges our understanding of how such influences occur. We analyze individual and organizational level charac...
The integration of sustainability rating systems in healthcare projects and healthcare building envelope specifications is a growing concern in the construction industry, especially in the arid region. The external facade of healthcare buildings is o...
Rice-crayfish system has been extensively promoted in China in recent years. However, the presence of toxic elements in soil may threaten the quality of agricultural products. In this study, eight toxic elements were determined in multi-medium includ...
In this study, a fuzzy bi-level chance constraint programming (FBCP) model is developed for urban ecological management in Xiamen, China. FBCP has advantages in balancing trade-offs between multiple decision makers and can address fuzzy and stochasti...
Cloud computing has become a major component of the modern IT ecosystem. A key contributor to this has been the development of Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) architecture, in which users’ virtual machines (VMs) are run on the service provid...
This study aims to design a 16.4 MW photovoltaic solar system located in the Brazilian Northeast and quantify the associated greenhouse gas emissions and environmental payback. The energy system was designed to minimize the Levelized Cost of Energy....
High-calorie diets and chronic stress are major contributors to the development of obesity and metabolic disorders. These two risk factors regulate the activity of the sympathetic nervous system (SNS). The present study showed a key role of the canna...
Inflammation is a complicated physiological process that contributes to a variety of disorders including osteoarthritis (OA) and rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Endocannabinoids and the endocannabinoid system (ECS) play a pivotal role in the physiological...
Background/Objectives: Oxidative stress and systemic inflammation are significant contributors to the development and progression of cardiovascular disease, causing adverse effects on vascular health and atherosclerosis from an early age. Patients wi...
Land use and land cover (LULC) mapping is often undertaken by national mapping agencies, where these LULC products are used for different types of monitoring and reporting applications. Updating of LULC databases is often done on a multi-year cycle d...
A novel comprehensive resilience assessment framework for drinking water systems is proposed integrating different resilience perspectives (i.e., robustness, autonomy, flexibility, reliability, preparedness and recovery), oriented by objectives, crit...
The current global prevalence of heart failure is estimated at 64.34 million cases, and it is expected to increase in the coming years, especially in countries with a medium-low sociodemographic index where the prevalence of risk factors is increasin...
Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) cells are highly heterogeneous in their metabolism and typically experience elevated reactive oxygen species (ROS) levels such as superoxide and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) in the tumor microenvironment. Tum...
Background/Objectives: Hypertriglyceridaemia and systemic inflammation are prevalent in patients with schizophrenia and contribute to an increased risk of cardiovascular disease. Although elevated triglycerides (TGs) and remnant cholesterol are linke...
This study demonstrates how mathematical ideas can be developed through genuine applications to problems that are attractive to the learners of mathematics due to consistency with their life experiences. To this end, the paper provides several exampl...
Malignant tumors of the central nervous system (CNS) are among cancers with the poorest prognosis, indicated by their association with tumors of high-level morbidity and mortality. Gliomas, the most common primary CNS tumors that arise from neuroglia...
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