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Cognitive disorders present significant medical and social challenges nowadays, due to their high prevalence, progressive course and a lack of effective methods for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases and comorbid pathologies. An important area o...

The thermal forcing of the Tibetan Plateau (TP) significantly influences the Asian summer monsoon. However, its interaction with cloud feedbacks remains unclear due to the limitations of synchronous analysis and traditional cloud classification over...

Reduction planning has been implemented to mitigate urban sprawl in Chinese megacities. However, few studies have focused on the spatial implementation of urban land consolidation, and tools to estimate and simulate urban land consolidation are still...

Introduction: Severe acute pancreatitis (SAP) is a critical condition that affects 20–30% of people with acute pancreatitis (AP). Prompt detection and accurate classification are crucial to direct prompt interventions, increase resource allocat...

Background: Asthma and atherosclerosis frequently coexist in clinical populations and share convergent immunometabolic pathways amplified by gut microbial dysbiosis. We propose the gut–lung–vascular axis as a unifying mechanistic framewor...

The proliferation of photovoltaic energy in the electricity grid presents a significant challenge in terms of management, control, and optimization, especially due to its dependence on weather behavior and cloud passing. Even if there are a great num...

Gliomas are the most common malignant primary brain tumors in adults. The treatment of high-grade gliomas is very limited due to their diffuse infiltration, high plasticity, and resistance to conventional therapies. Although they were long considered...

Eco-anxiety—emotional distress arising from awareness of environmental collapse—has become a critical dimension of social sustainability, linking mental well-being, professional functioning, institutional trust, and climate governance. Th...

This study evaluates the impact of fortifying pimento-paste stuffed olives with nutritional chloride salts (KCl, CaCl2, and MgCl2) on the quality characteristics of the products, using a D-optimal mixture design and Response Surface Methodology. To t...

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images are highly valuable for detecting water surfaces characterized by low roughness and minimal microwave reflection, which makes them essential for flood detection. Despite these advantages, SAR imagery still faces...

Vehicle remote driving services are increasingly used in urban settings. Yet, vehicle-operator communication time delays may pose a challenge for teleoperators in maintaining safety and efficiency. The purpose of this study was to examine whether Pre...

In recent years, numerous studies have been conducted to characterize the physical parameters that define the behavior of surfaces coated with epoxy resins, particularly in terms of hardness and resistance. Many of these surfaces have been doped with...

Oxidative stress plays a central role in the pathogenesis of neurodegenerative disorders, including Parkinson’s disease. Therefore, compounds with antioxidant and neuroprotective properties represent promising candidates for therapeutic develop...

The large-scale integration of renewable energy systems requires hydrogen storage technologies that can decouple energy production from energy utilization and allow for seasonal storage. Metal hydrides can offer higher volumetric energy density and o...

Defect engineering has been demonstrated to be an attractive strategy to improve the catalytic performance of g−C3N4−based catalysts. Herein, three graphite carbon nitrides (labeled “CN”) containing a certain number of cyano g...

Natural products represent one of the most diverse and functionally sophisticated groups of bioactive molecules found across plants, fungi, bacteria, and marine organisms. Recent advances in genomics, metabolomics, and chemical ecology have fundament...

Eye tracking (ET) technology is increasingly used in both research and clinical practice, but its accuracy may be compromised by the presence of ophthalmic lenses. This study systematically evaluated the influence of different optical prescriptions a...

Climate change increasingly challenges viticulture, demanding innovative and sustainable strategies to preserve grapevine productivity and grape quality. MicroRNA-encoded peptides (miPEPs) have emerged as natural regulators of gene expression, provid...

Mycotoxins are toxic secondary metabolites produced mainly by filamentous fungi of the genera Aspergillus, Penicillium, and Fusarium and pose a significant food safety concern. This review summarizes current literature on the occurrence of major regu...

The atmospheric reentry of hypersonic vehicles generates a plasma sheath enveloping the vehicle surface. This fluid medium moves at velocities distinct from the vehicle body, significantly altering its electromagnetic scattering properties. This pape...

Background: Immune aging is a complex process involving various cellular changes, such as a myeloid bias, decreased functional activity of immune cells, accumulation of senescent cells, and alterations in serum levels of bactericidal humoral factors....

Background/Objectives: Teledermatology has transformed access to dermatologic care, yet its association with melanoma prognostic parameters and diagnostic pathways in tertiary settings remains incompletely characterized. To compare the clinicopatholo...

This study numerically investigates the critical fuel concentration and flammable regions of methane–air and methane oxy-fuel counterflow diffusion flames. The goal is to determine the effects of strain rate, oxidizer composition, and radiative...

The high salt concentration in kitchen waste (KW) can impede the performance of subsequent biological treatment. However, the impact of salt stress on the quality of vermicomposting products generated from KW remains unclear. In this study, the effec...

Urban welfare can deteriorate over a few weeks, yet most official indicators are only updated quarterly. This mismatch in time scales leaves city administrations effectively blind to the early stages of emerging crises, especially in areas where vuln...

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), which significantly enhances the absorption capacity of plant roots, forms a mutually beneficial symbiotic relationship with plants and is known as the “underground internet of plants”. To explore the c...

The embedded through-section (ETS) technique is a promising method for fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP)-strengthening reinforced concrete (RC) structures, offering higher bond resistance and reduced surface preparation compared to externally bonded or...

In this paper, we bring forth several new general formulae in the classic study of conics in the Analytic Geometry: the coordinates of all vertices and focal points of arbitrary parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas; lengths for all latera recta from a...

This study introduces SquareSwish, a smooth, self-gated activation f(x) = xσ(x)2, and benchmarks it against ten established activations (ReLU, LeakyReLU, ELU, SELU, GELU, Snake, LearnSnake, Swish, Mish, Hard-Swish) across six CNN architectures...

This essay reads Grant Allen’s “Pallinghurst Barrow” as folk horror about the late-Victorian spiritualist debates. We read Allen’s story as not only sympathetic to spiritualism, but also as critical of the gendered and genred...

Universities frequently provide employability training, such as interview techniques, within classroom settings. However, limited engagement from both students and staff has prompted exploration of alternative content and delivery methods. Three-dime...

Many manufacturers operate dual-channel supply chains, selling through both direct online and reselling channels, with market shares that are generally asymmetric. At the same time, consumers increasingly demand trustworthy traceability information....

This study investigates the transition to the circular economy (CE) model and its increasing application in industrial companies. The research context is the textile district of Prato, Tuscany region, that relies on a long historical tradition of CE...

Background/Objectives: Diaschisis, reduced neural activity, perfusion, and metabolism in structurally intact but anatomically connected regions, is a network-level consequence of focal brain injury. Despite the extensive literature, its prevalence ac...

In naturally ventilated dairy barns, many questions regarding airflow, indoor air quality, and emissions are still unanswered, often resulting in inaccurate environmental control of the housing. Particularly, limited understanding of the implications...

Solar irradiance is one of the main factors affecting the output of photovoltaic power stations. The cloud distribution above the photovoltaic power station can determine the strength of the absorbed solar irradiance. Cloud estimation is another impo...

Background: Cystic echinococcosis (CE) remains a significant zoonotic burden in the pastoral regions of China. Yili Prefecture in Xinjiang is a high-risk area, yet comprehensive data are lacking on the prevalence and molecular characteristics of Echi...

Predicting information diffusion in social networks is a fundamental problem in many applications, and one of the primary challenges is to predict the future popularity of information in social networks. However, most existing models fail to simultan...

The integration of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Large Language Models (LLMs) is rapidly transforming enterprise knowledge management, yet a comprehensive understanding of their deployment in real-world workflows remains limited. This stu...

This work presents a compact printed MIMO antenna specifically designed for portable wireless applications, offering strong isolation between its elements. The antenna consists of two ultra-low-profile inverted-F antenna (IFA) elements placed back to...

Background/Objectives: Identifying pathological distinctions among mild cognitive impairment (MCI) subtypes is important for differentiating dementia. The purpose of this study is to investigate subtype-specific structural alterations in amnestic MCI...

Noise pollution represents a significant environmental stressor that compromises the health and welfare of farm animals. While music enrichment has been suggested to mitigate stress, the specific mechanisms by which it protects against noise-induced...

Temperature strongly influences physiological processes in ectotherms, including digestion, yet its effects on digestive enzyme activity remain poorly understood. We examined the temperature dependence of digestive performance in eight Mediterranean...

Accurate mapping of soil organic matter (SOM) is essential for soil management. Remote sensing (RS) provides broad spatial coverage, while visible and near-infrared (VisNIR) laboratory spectroscopy enables accurate point-scale SOM prediction. Convent...

This paper presents the second stage of an experimental investigation into the creep behavior of two-layer reinforced concrete beams over a one-year period. It follows our previous study, which examined linear creep over 90 days as the first stage of...

Breast cancer, the most prevalent malignant tumor in women, is closely linked to the human microbiota. The microbiome participates throughout breast cancer pathogenesis, including its occurrence, progression, response to anti-tumor therapies, and tre...

To address the localization and mapping challenges for quadruped robots autonomously scouting under corn canopies, this paper proposes CK-SLAM, a SLAM algorithm integrating robot motion constraints and crop row features. The algorithm is implemented...

This study proposes an indirect approach that estimates roll force from motor current signals in a rolling mill. Motor current is first converted to motor torque using an induction-motor equivalent-circuit model, then to roll torque via the gear rati...

The Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon constitutes one of the most significant climate-related challenges for contemporary cities, intensifying thermal stress, energy demand, and social vulnerability. This study proposes a methodological framework th...

Weissella viridescens has been proposed as a probiotic candidate, but strain-level multi-omics evidence remains limited. The complete genome of the human-derived W. viridescens strain Wv2365 was sequenced through a hybrid assembly of Illumina and Pac...