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This study constructs a global transportation carbon emission spatial correlation network via a modified gravity model and explores its evolutionary characteristics and dynamic mechanisms by integrating three-dimensional evolutionary analysis (node,...

Early wildfire smoke detection is critical for preventing small ignitions from escalating into large-scale fires, yet early-stage smoke plumes are often faint, low-contrast, and spatially small. When full-resolution frames are resized to satisfy fixe...

Background and Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic profoundly disrupted global healthcare systems, limiting access to diagnostic and therapeutic services for chronic diseases. Patients with decompensated liver cirrhosis were particularly vulnerable due...

Background: Extrahepatic portal vein obstruction (EHPVO) accounts for more than two thirds of pediatric portal hypertension. Rex shunt is the preferred surgical management, as it restores hepatopetal flow and minimizes or reverses liver dysfunction....

Background/Objectives: Losartan, an angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) used to treat hypertension and heart failure, shows significant variability in pharmacokinetics (PK) and pharmacodynamics (PD) among individuals. Methods: In this study, we dev...

Hamatocaulis vernicosus and Calliergonella cuspidata commonly co-occur in base-rich fens, reflecting overlapping ecological niches. While C. cuspidata is a widespread and ecologically plastic fen species often associated with eutrophicated wetlands,...

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into education in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) is moving rapidly as it becomes increasingly mandatory, yet schools often lack the proper expertise and resources to achieve successful implementation. A...

Background/Objectives: Stress-induced hyperglycemia (SIH) is frequently observed in critically ill patients and has been associated with adverse outcomes in individuals both with and without known diabetes mellitus (DM). However, evidence regarding i...

The Neuroaesthetics-informed approach to the urban environment examines how the sensory properties of buildings, streets, and public spaces are processed by the human brain, and how this processing affects health, well-being, and behavior. Drawing on...

Fragmented, irregular, and scale-heterogeneous farmland parcels introduce high spatial complexity into high-resolution remote sensing imagery, leading to boundary ambiguity and inter-class spectral confusion that hinder effective feature discriminati...

Differential wavefront sensing (DWS) is widely adopted for high-precision angular detection in interferometric systems, yet its measurement range is constrained by the nonlinear implicit phase–angle relationship. This paper proposes a strategy-...

Foot-and-mouth disease virus (FMDV) is a highly contagious pathogen of cloven-hoofed livestock. Recombination is one of the mechanisms that contribute to genetic diversity of FMDV and facilitate the generation of new viral lineages, or recombinant fo...

Red yeast rice (RYR) food supplements are widely used for cholesterol management owing to their content of monacolin K (MK), which, in its lactone form, is chemically identical to the prescription statin lovastatin. Despite their popularity, RYR prod...

Silver fir bark (Abies alba Mill.) is an underutilized renewable resource containing valuable extractives and polyphenols of industrial importance. This study compared the influence of two storage methods on the extraction of total hydrophilic extrac...

Despite the enormous amounts of waste textiles produced by the world’s textile industry’s explosive growth, resource utilization rates are still poor. Cotton/polyester blended waste fabrics make up a sizable share, and sorting them precis...

Although the Eastern Mediterranean Sea is a hotspot for marine bioinvasions, the accurate identification and monitoring of non-indigenous species (NIS) remain impeded by the ambiguous morphologies of species and limited regional genetic data. This st...

Cropland constitutes a foundational resource for global food security and agricultural sustainability, and its accurate extraction from high-resolution remote sensing imagery is essential for agricultural monitoring and land management. However, exis...

This pilot EEG study examined the feasibility of a soundscape-based 40 Hz auditory stimulation format by using a soundscape-only condition as a contrast control. We tested whether a nature-based soundscape with an additively layered pure 40 Hz sine c...

The tooth flank distortion error occurring during the form-grinding (FG) of an involute helical gear can significantly compromise transmission performance. Conventional research approaches often focus on single-parameter optimization—either the...

Organic luminescent radicals with through-space charge-transfer (TSCT) excited states are attractive for optoelectronic applications, yet donor-dependent structure–property relationships remain underexplored. Here we report a new spirofluorene-...

This study investigated how collaboration between academia and local authorities creates sustainable frameworks for addressing urban challenges through environmental, social and governance (ESG) principles, benefiting both education and the long-term...

Amphiphilic copolymers based on polystyrene and polyglycidol combine the chemical inertness of polystyrene with the biocompatibility of polyglycidol, making them attractive materials for polymeric micelles. While comb-like architectures have been exp...

A high-definition (HD) map development framework providing real-time visualization of multimodal perception data for state estimation, motion planning, and decision-making in autonomous navigation is presented and experimentally validated. The propos...

The triply periodic minimal surface structure is receiving significant attention amongst the engineering community. The advantage of using such a structure is its ability to provide lightweight cooling to surfaces. In this paper, attention is drawn t...

Petrochemical hybrid renewable energy systems (PHRESs), integrating renewable and fossil energy sources, have garnered more and more attention for sustainable manufacturing. However, achieving concurrent optimization of energy supply reliability and...

Delayed reperfusion of an ischemic heart is known to impair the recovery of cardiac function, and the occurrence of intracellular Ca²⁺ overload in the myocardium is considered to play a critical role in the development of ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) i...

Traditional claim management relies heavily on manual analysis and expert judgment, resulting in inefficiencies, information omissions, and heightened risks of disputes. To address these challenges, this paper constructs a domain-specific ontology fo...

This study numerically investigates the hydrothermal behaviour of a Jeffrey nanofluid with relevance to maritime thermal systems. The coupled nonlinear governing equations for momentum, heat, and mass transport are solved using a shooting technique t...

Human Pegivirus (HPgV) is an understudied flavivirus that is highly prevalent and often persists in the blood and tissues of humans. HPgV-infected brain tissue from individuals with Parkinson’s disease has shown significant transcriptomic and i...

This study assessed the impact of the dietary inclusion of Prosopis laevigata pods (PLPs) on growth performance, carcass traits, and the metabolomic profiles of liver and meat in finishing lambs. A total of 28 crossbred lambs (38 ± 5 kg body w...

Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) serves as a prominent remote sensing (RS) technology, permitting continuous maritime surveillance regardless of weather or time. Although deep learning-based detectors have achieved promising results in SAR imagery, the...

The adoption of blockchain-based smart contracts for the trading of goods and services promises greater transparency, automation, and trustlessness, but also raises challenges related to payment integration and modularity. While business analysts (BA...

Background and Objectives: People with epilepsy frequently complain of poor sleep quality, excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), and insomnia. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate differences in anxiety and depression symptoms, as well as clinical c...

Background/Objectives: This study aimed to determine the potential roles of miR-4295, miR-4720-5p, miR-4773, miR-6831-5p, and miR-7161-5p in colorectal cancer by evaluating their expression levels in matched tumor and adjacent non-tumor tissues from...

Background/Objectives: Work–family conflict (WFC) is a common stressor for working parents and has been associated with poorer child adjustment. However, the mechanisms linking WFC to young children’s emotional and behavioral difficulties...

Influenza’s pandemic threat is driven by antigenic drift, which limits the efficacy of conventional vaccines. To address this challenge, we established a clinical serum-anchored computational design pipeline for a broad-spectrum multi-epitope m...

Introduction: Since its introduction in 1994, robot-assisted surgery has advanced significantly and has become a widely accepted tool in minimally invasive surgery. Over the past two decades, robotic technology has also been increasingly adopted in p...

Monitoring small water body coverage spatiotemporal evolution in karst areas of complex hydrogeology is pivotal for water resource management and disaster assessment. With recent infrastructure expansion, intensive tunnel excavation has occurred in C...

As an important ecological obstacle prone to climatic changes, the Tibetan Plateau has been transformed by retreating glaciers, degrading permafrost, and deteriorating grasslands. Recent ecological remote sensing evaluations typically use medium-reso...

Microfluidics-based preparation methods for cell-laden hydrogel microspheres are well-suited for large-scale comparative analysis of single or few cells. However, in existing studies, the preparation of cell-laden hydrogel microspheres and the cell c...

Background/Objectives: This study introduces a reproducible and interpretable graph-based framework for resting-state functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) that enables network-level biomarker discovery for Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Alt...

No US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved prophylaxis is currently available for Acute Radiation Syndrome (ARS), which remains a significant threat to military and civilian populations. In this study, we investigated Vasculotide (VT), a Tie2...

Metabolic Dysfunction-Associated Steatotic Liver Disease (MASLD) is a prevalent global health issue driven by metabolic syndrome, with cardiovascular disease being the leading cause of mortality. This review synthesizes current knowledge on its multi...

Against the backdrop of global climate change, climate warming and increasing nitrogen deposition are profoundly altering carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) cycling in terrestrial ecosystems. Short-term observations are critical for capturing the initial re...

Background: Nanomaterials have emerged as a transformative approach in modern pharmaceutical applications, offering advanced benefits compared to conventional therapies. Among available pharmaceutical nanomaterials, silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) have...

This paper examines the cultural and theological dimensions of Weet-Bix, an iconic Australian cereal produced by the Sanitarium Health Food Company, a department of the Seventh-day Adventist Church (SDA). It argues that Weet-Bix simultaneously embodi...

Owing to the superior reduction kinetics of limonite and goethite relative to silicates, coupled with the poor beneficiation performance of saprolite-type laterite, the direct carbothermal reduction of saprolite-type laterite exhibits limited nickel...

A breakthrough has been achieved in shale gas exploration of the Lower Carboniferous Shale in the Yaziluo Rift Trough, Dianqiangui Basin, with Well SY-1 yielding a daily gas production of 1.1 × 10⁴ m³. To clarify the main controls and evolution...

Background and Objectives: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is heterogeneous, and phenotype-based classification may better capture differences in clinical burden and healthcare needs beyond standard GOLD categories. We aimed to describe...

Lilies (Lilium spp.) are highly valued in China for their edible and medicinal properties; however, bitterness in certain varieties limits consumer acceptance. Although historically attributed to colchicine, the presence of alkaloids in lilies remain...