Grading is a vital process during the postharvest of horticultural products as it dramatically affects consumer preference and satisfaction when goods reach the market. Manual grading is time-consuming, uneconomical, and potentially destructive. A no...
20 December 2021
The environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) expresses the relationship between environmental quality and economic growth. Based on the defects of previous studies on EKC using only environmental pollution indicators, this study holds that environmental qua...
Epithelial ovarian cancers (EOC) consist of several sub-types based on histology, clinical, molecular and epidemiological features that are termed “histo-types”, which can be categorized into less aggressive Type I and more aggressive Typ...
The Mediterranean diet (MD) has been incorporated as a healthy diet pattern in food-based dietary guidelines of countries all over Europe and the world. Testing the alignment of Nutri-Score with the MD Pyramid is a key step in ensuring that future fo...
Located in the Middle East, Haifa Port serves both local and international trade interests (from Asia, Europe, America, Africa, etc.). Due to its strategic location, the port is part of the Belt and Road initiative. This research investigates Haifa P...
Background/Objectives: Structured cytopathology reporting systems attach an evidence-based risk of malignancy (ROM) to every diagnostic category for the thyroid, salivary gland, urinary tract, lung and other sites. None exists for the oral cavity, an...
While the Mediterranean diet (MD) is championed as a healthy and sustainable dietary pattern, the NOVA classification is discussed as a tool to identify ultra-processed foods and further specify healthy food choices. We tested whether the NOVA System...
Background: The STRATified CANcer Surveillance (STRATCANS) model risk-stratifies patients with prostate cancer (PC) on active surveillance (AS) into three tiers based on their risk of disease progression. We applied STRATCANS to the Michigan Urologic...
22 June 2011
Objective: To determine the population-based epidemiology of fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) and other fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) in towns representative of the general population of central Italy. Methods: Slightly revised U.S. Institute o...
Background and Objectives: To propose an integrated qualitative and quantitative US strategy for improving the diagnostic accuracy of hepatic steatosis (HS) grading. Materials and Methods: We retrospectively identified patients at a tertiary hospital...
Objective: Modern high-intensity warfare, such as the Russo-Ukrainian conflict, generates a high incidence of multisystem polytrauma, blast-induced traumatic brain injury, and limb amputations often complicated by post-traumatic stress disorder and c...
20 January 2023
Background: Prehospital trauma triage tools are not tailored to identify severely injured older adults. Our trauma triage protocol based on a three-tier trauma severity grading system (A, B, and C) has never been studied in this population. The objec...
Vine control is a recurring silvicultural treatment, and the survey preceding it determines where treatment is directed. However, no comparative cost basis exists for choosing among survey methods, and the labor norms currently applied in the Republi...
The molecular characterization of endometrial endometrioid adenocarcinomas has provided major advances in its prognostic stratification. However, risk assessment of microsatellite instability (MSI) and copy-number (CN)-low cases remains a challenge....
Baseline web security configuration is a critical but often overlooked component of national cybersecurity posture, particularly in small and developing digital economies. This study presents a systematic empirical assessment of Tier-1 HTTP security...
Disease outbreaks are among the principal constraints on the sustainability of global aquaculture, yet diagnostic capacity remains concentrated in centralized laboratories far from the point of production. Point-of-care testing (POCT)—immunochr...
The key to promoting urbanization in China is to achieve urban integration of migrant peasant workers, and basic public health services may have a potential social impact on the subjective welfare of migrant peasant workers. In this paper, we use dat...
This study uses Shenyang as a case to integrate multi-source dynamic data with spatial modeling. A comprehensive resistance surface was planned using 12 indicators across the natural, built, and socio-economic dimensions, with objective weighting via...
Server-side capacity dimensioning in operator-managed Over-The-Top (OTT) and Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) systems requires analytical methods that can account for heterogeneous traffic classes, differentiated subscription tiers, and strict gra...
With the in-depth application of digital transformation in the oil industry, data-driven methods provide a new technical path for drilling engineering safety evaluation. In this paper, a data-driven drilling safety level evaluation system is proposed...
Improving window performance is a key strategy for reducing heating energy demand in residential buildings; however, the economic feasibility of upgrading to higher performance grades remains uncertain, particularly for single-detached houses. This s...
Rainfall-induced shallow loess landslides pose a significant threat to human life and property. Early warning and risk assessment of these landslides are critical prerequisites for engineering control and disaster loss reduction. The Transient Rainfa...
Rapid urban growth continues to reshape land development and the spatial distribution of population, yet the long-term and multiscale alignment of high-tier healthcare resources with this process remains insufficiently understood. This study examines...
In the Slovenian school system, the topic of microplastics is not included in the curriculum of science subjects such as science, biology, chemistry, physics, geography or environmental studies. Students encounter this topic only through optional act...
Background: The selection of assays suitable for testing the potency of clinical grade multipotent mesenchymal stromal cell (MSC)-based products and its interpretation is a challenge for both developers and regulators. Here, we present a bioprocess d...
Cell division through mitosis (microscopically visible as mitotic figures, MFs) is a highly regulated process. However, neoplastic cells may exhibit errors in chromosome segregation (microscopically visible as atypical mitotic figures, AMFs) resultin...
Objectives: To evaluate the association between European Society for Medical Oncology Magnitude of Clinical Benefit Scale (ESMO-MCBS) scores and treatment recommendations from European Society for Medical Oncology, National Comprehensive Cancer Netwo...
Background/Objectives: Mucoepidermoid carcinoma (MEC) is the most common malignant tumor of the minor salivary glands, often affecting the hard palate. Preoperative diagnosis and surgical planning are challenging due to anatomical complexity and limi...
Fraction understanding is foundational for later mathematics learning, yet many students with mathematics difficulties struggle with fraction concepts, procedures, and misconceptions. This quasi-experimental pilot study examined the preliminary promi...
The functions and application scenarios of AI glasses continue to expand; however, research on design optimization informed by user needs and usage experiences remains limited. This study develops a natural language processing framework for design op...
To enhance the risk management capacity of petrochemical enterprises, this paper presents a systematic and in-depth study of risk hierarchical control and hidden danger investigation technologies. Firstly, a risk hierarchical control system was devel...
The global textile industry, challenged by resource depletion and environmental pollution, urgently requires a shift toward a circular economy. However, recycling efforts remain limited, focusing mainly on conventional fibers and neglecting high-perf...
Generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has become an everyday study companion for secondary students, who use it intensively, largely outside any formal pedagogical design, within examination-driven systems that reward efficiency. Whether such us...
Early architectural decisions on orientation, window-to-wall ratio, shading, and envelope composition fix most of a building’s passive thermal performance long before dynamic energy simulation becomes feasible, leaving these decisions without a...
Learning Management Systems (LMS) generate rich activity and interaction logs that can be exploited using machine learning techniques. This study models temporal engagement patterns, such as early, middle, late, weekend, and night activity, derived f...
Primary ovarian large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma is an extremely rare and aggressive gynecologic malignancy with poorly defined molecular characteristics and no standard treatment protocols. We present a case of pure ovarian LCNEC in a postmenopau...
This study examined the longitudinal associations among academic self-handicapping, academic buoyancy, and academic burnout, and tested whether academic buoyancy played a mediating role in the association between academic self-handicapping and academ...
This study presents a novel technological framework that integrates web-based 3D modeling and digital prototyping into interdisciplinary design education. Addressing the gap between traditional theoretical assessment and modern industry demands, the...
Background/Objectives: Tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) have emerged as important indicators of tumour–host immune interaction in breast cancer, with increasing prognostic and predictive significance across molecular subtypes. However, mo...
The growing complexity of cryptocurrency ecosystems has created substantial difficulties for anti-money laundering (AML) enforcement across jurisdictions. Existing AML information-sharing mechanisms are fragmented, slow, and constrained by privacy re...
The newly delineated Xipu Dome, located in the central North Himalayan Gneiss Dome (NHGD), exhibits a significant spatiotemporal relationship with Himalayan polymetallic mineralization. Based on field geological surveys and geochronological analyses,...
An integrated evaluation framework merging the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and an improved matter–element extension model based on asymmetric proximity is developed to classify large deformation risk levels in soft-rock tunnel construction...
The study comprehensively evaluates low-cost CO2 sensors from different price tiers, assessing their performance against a reference-grade instrument and exploring the possibility of calibration using different machine learning techniques. Three sens...
Operational risk assessment in complex industrial systems like mineral processing plants is hindered by inherent uncertainty and incomplete information. This study presents an integrated grey system theory-based framework to address this challenge. C...
Conventional laboratory fatigue tests are often limited to single-stage loading. As a result, they do not fully capture the progressive damage caused by repeated traffic loading. To address this limitation, this study proposes an integrated multi-sta...
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common high-grade B-cell lymphoma found in Korea; it manifests with a variety of cellular morphologies and a high proliferation index. It is difficult to differentiate between DLBCL and Burkitt lympho...
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is diagnosed clinically, yet similarly exposed individuals follow markedly different courses, and clinicians increasingly encounter claims that genetic, epigenetic, or social information can personalize assessmen...
Clean-label strategies to lower the glycemic impact of starch-based foods are attracting growing interest, but supporting evidence remains fragmented across starch science, food engineering, digestion methodology, and clinical nutrition. This narrati...
To address the compatibility challenges in selecting gas fire suppression systems for three typical complex protected environments—data centers, museum artifact storage rooms, and aircraft cargo holds—this paper establishes a multi-level...
Quantifying the nonlinear response of crop systems to meteorological driving factors remains a core challenge in agrometeorology. Although Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) offers new approaches, existing SHAP-based threshold identification m...
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