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Mathematics is a discipline that forms the foundation of many fields and should be learned gradually, starting from early childhood. However, some subjects can be difficult to learn due to their abstract nature, the need for attention and planning, a...

Objectives: Real-world evidence that supports decision-making must meet numerous criteria, including validated identification of clinical outcomes. This study aimed to develop and validate a method for identifying new cases of myocardial infarction (...

Over the last 40 years, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) has experienced economic growth that has driven urbanization and infrastructure improvements. However, this has also led to high resource use and poor planning, exacerbating climate challenges...

This review elucidates the foundational principles of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) homeostasis in humans, emphasizing its depletion during aging and in age-associated disorders. Subsequently, the discussion extends to NAD+ precursors and...

Thanks to both endogenous and exogenous antioxidants (AOs), the antioxidant defense system ensures redox homeostasis, which is crucial for protecting the body from oxidative stress and maintaining overall health. The food industry also exploits the a...

Stilbenes are a group of polyphenols that are gaining steady attention and have promising biological activity. While much attention is given to polyhydroxy compounds derived from resveratrol, other substituents remain largely unexplored. In this work...

This study quantifies vertical earth pressure on the roofs of box culverts under high fills in valley terrain using centrifuge model tests with expanded polystyrene (EPS) geofoam for load mitigation. We compare buried-type culverts with valley-terrai...

Background/Objectives: This study aimed to examine the effect of different forgetting strategies on intentional forgetting, specifically comparing the passive decay strategy (‘forgetting by keeping the mind blank’) and the active rehearsa...

A Ni2MnSn Heusler alloy composition of elemental powders was high-energy milled for a short time for powder activation. The milling times were chosen to be 1 and 4 h to study how mechanical mixing triggers the phase formation in the Ni-Mn-Sn system....

Backgruond: Chronic pain is a prevalent and disabling condition, affecting 20–30% of the global population, which requires multidisciplinary approaches integrating non-pharmacological therapies and promoting patient engagement in self-managemen...

Background and Clinical Significance: Methyltransferase-like protein 5 (METTL5) is a conserved RNA methyltransferase responsible for catalyzing the N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification of 18S ribosomal RNA, a process critical for ribosome biogenesis...

This study evaluated the effects of including additional roughage and the timing of roughage addition on rumen temperature (TRUM), rumen pH, dry matter intake as a percentage of live weight (DMILW), water consumption as a percentage of live weight (W...

Tritium (3H) is a low-energy β emitter commonly found in environmental water samples, and its routine monitoring requires highly sensitive techniques capable of achieving low detection limits. Liquid scintillation counting (LSC) is the standard...

This study evaluates the feasibility of implementing water markets and improving decision-making for irrigated agriculture in transboundary water basins. It analyzes the physical and economic potential of cooperation between institutions and users in...

Mangrove sediments in the South China Sea, particularly in the Hainan Island region, play a crucial role in regulating heavy metal migration and sequestration. However, the impact of converting mangrove areas to fish and shrimp culture ponds on heavy...

Olive (Olea europaea L.) cultivars often exhibit genotype-specific responses to micronutrient management. In this study, we investigated the metabolic leaf fingerprinting of three cultivars ‘Rošinjola’, ‘Leccino’, and &...

In this modern era, attention has been devoted to blind super-resolution design, which improves image restoration performance by combining self-attention networks and explicitly introducing degradation information. This paper proposes a novel model c...

Soil conservation technologies are widely studied for their effects on soil organic carbon (SOC) preservation, yet their impact on the composition of soil organic matter (SOM) remains underinvestigated. This study evaluated the effects of two non-inv...

The construction industry remains a cornerstone of the global economy; however, it continues to face persistent challenges, including low productivity, frequent workplace accidents, and environmental degradation. This study employs a systematic liter...

To ensure all-day detection performance, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) usually need both visible and infrared images for dual-modality fusion object detection. However, misalignment between the RGB-IR image pairs and complexity of fusion models con...

Anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins (PAs), as flavonoid compounds with potent antioxidant activity, exhibit significant health-promoting and medicinal properties. Black wolfberry (Lycium ruthenicum Murr.) is renowned for its exceptional anthocyanin co...

Canine epilepsy often resists conventional antiepileptic drugs (AEDs), which affects their quality of life. Cannabidiol (CBD) has anticonvulsant properties; however, evidence of its use in canine epilepsy is limited and contradictory. This prospectiv...

Relational aggression (RA) is characterised by social manipulation and covert harm, often involving fluid and overlapping experiences of both perpetration and victimisation. We used latent profile analysis (LPA) to identify subgroups of young Austral...

Background: Ethical decision-making in medical care increasingly requires balancing clinical values, professional duties, and organizational reasoning. Understanding how healthcare professionals navigate moral dilemmas necessitates examining the phil...

It is recognized that a ship’s performance, speed, fuel consumption, and resistance are impacted by the marine environment. The magnitude of this effect, which can be altered by ship design and operational conditions, necessitates added resista...

Water replenishment projects (WRP) are widely regarded by lake managers as an effective method for ecological restoration. But studies on multiple water receiving lakes indicate that multi-source water supplementation may exacerbate spatial heterogen...

In humans, iron deficiency is commonly associated with reactive thrombocytosis, which has clinically relevant consequences. To investigate the relationship between serum iron parameters and platelet indices in dogs and to assess for associations betw...

Micro milling of metallic materials presents unique dynamic challenges due to highly nonlinear cutting forces and the susceptibility to self-excited vibrations (chatter). This paper presents a novel mathematical model for chatter prediction in micro...

In the history of Turkish-Islamic culture, every stage of human life—from birth to death—has been ritualized with profound symbolic and spiritual meanings. Turkish religious music has functioned as a fundamental element in these transitio...

A video satellite has continuous imaging capabilities, which grants it great potential for tracking and monitoring moving targets. The Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF) are commonly used in the above process. However, the...

Leukodystrophies (LDs) constitute a heterogeneous group of genetic diseases in which mutations in glial cell genes lead to alterations in myelin formation and/or maintenance, ultimately causing white matter dysfunction. Increasing evidence on the gen...

The practical characterization algorithm is presented to find the optimized damage constants and critical damages of the traditional damage models formulated by some unknown damage constants. The flow characterization of the material SWCH45F is condu...

Accurate and timely identification of cutter anomalies is crucial for ensuring the safety and efficiency of shield tunneling. To address the issues of poor timeliness and high costs associated with traditional periodic manual inspection methods, this...

Background/Objectives: Postbiotics derived from lactic acid bacteria are emerging as promising antimicrobial agents due to their antibacterial, antibiofilm, and immunomodulatory properties. Among their metabolites, lactic acid (LA) is thought to play...

The Gannan navel orange (GNO) industry is large but constrained by limited deep-processing. This study employed vacuum freeze-drying (FD) and hot-air drying (HD) methods to prepare dried GNO slices, comparing their physical properties, volatile/non-v...

Harmful substances in food and agricultural environments pose significant risks to human health, necessitating the development of sensitive detection technologies. Electrochemical sensors are ideal for rapid monitoring because of their low cost, high...

The reliability of electric vehicle (EV) batteries requires detecting surface defects but also precisely locating them on the physical module for automated inspection, repair, and process optimisation. Conventional 2D computer vision methods, though...

Scandium (Sc)-doped aluminum nitride (AlN) thin films are critical for high-frequency, high-power surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices. A composite Sc doping strategy for AlN thin films is proposed, which combines magnetron sputtering pre-doping with...

The investigation of topological structures and phases in photonics has created unprecedented opportunities for developing advanced on-chip terahertz waveguide devices. Topological waveguides, which exhibit reduced backscattering and improved turning...

Background: Many biological drugs have a rival version produced from different cell lines by other manufacturers; these drugs are referred to as biosimilars. By providing accurate information, encouraging patient and medical community acceptance, and...

Honeybee products (HBPs), including honey, bee pollen, bee bread, royal jelly, propolis, beeswax, and bee brood, are increasingly used in food, nutraceutical, and cosmetic contexts. Because of their natural origin, HBPs can provoke allergic reactions...

Background: Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is a rare neutrophilic dermatosis characterized by chronic, painful ulcerations. Despite increasing evidence suggesting immunological dysregulation, the role of IL-36 cytokines in PG remains poorly defined. Objec...

The performance of conventional bentonite-based drilling fluids is severely compromised in high-salinity and high-hardness brines, creating a need for salt-tolerant viscosifiers. This work provides a comprehensive performance evaluation of an activat...

Longitudinal studies consistently demonstrate that repeated exposure to peer victimisation can have enduring consequences for children and adolescents’ mental health. Documented outcomes include elevated risks of disorders such as depression, a...

Bacterial biofilms are critical contributors to chronic infections and antimicrobial resistance. Among the diverse extracellular matrix components, extracellular DNA (eDNA) and amyloid proteins have recently emerged as pivotal structural and function...

Background/Objective: In recent years, there has been a growing public interest in natural products, including those derived from bees. While most scientific research on bee products has focused on their pharmacological properties, insufficient atten...

This paper presents an analytically derived optimal control strategy for wound-rotor synchronous machines (WRSM) based on minimising the Joule losses in both the stator and rotor windings. The presented control strategy is analysed in terms of analyt...

Effective turn-taking is fundamental to conversational interactions, shaping the fluidity of communication across human dialogues and interactions with spoken dialogue systems (SDS). Despite its apparent simplicity, conversational turn-taking involve...

The impacts of microaggressions and the Model Minority Myth on self-rated mental health among Asian American (AA) women are unclear. A total of 152 AA women completed an online questionnaire including select items from the Racial and Ethnic Microaggr...

Non-invasive brain stimulation (NIBS) techniques—including repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS), theta-burst stimulation (TBS), paired associative stimulation (PAS), transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), and transcrania...