Global warming severely threatens parasitic plants worldwide. However, little is known about how a parasite with multiple hosts responds to climate change in its distribution. Sapria himalayana is an endangered endo-holoparasite, obligately parasitiz...
11 February 2026
This paper presents a disc-type stepper motor based on PCB technology. Aiming to provide a solution for the difficulty of torque enhancement in multi-pole PCB stepper motors under the limited wiring space of the PCB stator, a novel spiral winding con...
11 February 2026
The intricate layout of underground mine tunnels and the operation of large-scale mining equipment create extensive blind zones, leading to an average of 17 personnel collision accidents per 100,000 working hours in China’s metal mines. To tack...
Cracks and holes are commonly found in wooden components, and ancient Chinese wooden buildings, represented by the Yingxian Wooden Pagoda, demonstrate the ability to work with defects. This study systematically investigated the effects of longitudina...
To address the need for high-efficiency vibration isolation in marine rotary pump units, this paper proposes a coupled isolation system that integrates vibration isolators and flexible connectors, and systematically investigates its vibration suppres...
Preoperative psychological stress is a highly prevalent but mostly underrecognized factor influencing perioperative physiology and postoperative outcomes. This narrative review synthesizes current evidence on the known mechanisms connecting preoperat...
Face wrinkles caused by skin aging can be classified into dynamic wrinkles, which are caused by repetitive contraction of facial expression muscles, and static wrinkles, which are related to extracellular matrix damage and collagen breakdown caused b...
To mitigate structural vibrations caused by liquid sloshing inside the suspended water tank of high-speed trains and to prevent issues such as baffle fatigue failure and water leakage from tank cracking, this study designed an acoustic black hole (AB...
Background/Objectives: Parental health literacy is linked to child health outcomes, but the evidence relies mainly on parent proxy reports. This study examined the association between parental health literacy and proxy-reported mental health outcomes...
11 February 2026
Male genitourinary (mGU) malignancies, including prostate, bladder, kidney, testicular, and penile cancers, represent a clinically and epidemiologically significant subset of global cancer burden. Although well-established etiological factors such as...
Background: Large urban centers in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) often have persistent pockets of under-immunized children, despite higher overall vaccination coverage than rural areas. Lahore, a megacity in Pakistan, had the lowest rate o...
Optical waveguide lightmode spectroscopy (OWLS) is an integrated-optical technique for probing structures at the solid/gas and solid/liquid interface. Spatial resolution perpendicular to the interface is sub-ångström. Thanks to good time r...
This study investigated premixed NH3 combustion in a closed circular duct using two-dimensional numerical simulations. By varying the equivalence ratio and the oxygen volume fraction from 21% to 30%, the evolution of flame morphology, flame propagati...
Background: The cytotoxic agent eribulin has been shown to promote EMT reversion, reduce treatment resistance, and potentially enhance responses to a range of therapeutic agents. Methods: We examined the effects of eribulin in patient-derived breast...
The valorization of waste cooking oils (WCOs) provides a strategy to reduce environmental impact while converting residues from the food industry into valuable products. This study developed and characterized antimicrobial soaps from purified WCOs (s...
WRKY transcription factors serve as key regulators in plants, playing important roles in growth and development, secondary metabolism, and stress responses. Here, a comprehensive genome-wide analysis identified 58 WRKY genes (LcWRKYs) in litchi for t...
11 February 2026
This study systematically investigates the effects of rope length, lifting position, and load on the dynamic behavior and wind-induced fatigue life of flat-jib tower cranes. Firstly, natural frequencies of a representative crane (40 m tower, 66 m jib...
Lung cancer remains one of the deadliest forms of cancer worldwide; thus, there is an urgent need to continually devise new strategies to effectively treat this condition. In this review, we will discuss one of the previously less studied but importa...
Blueberry rust disease is caused by the fungal pathogen Pucciniastrum minimum (syn. Thekopsora minima). Despite its importance as a plant pathogen, there are relatively few published studies on P. minimum. This study investigated and refined methodol...
11 February 2026
The existence of friction, flow–pressure coupling, load variations, internal leakage, and other fluidic nonlinearities makes it challenging to design classical model-based controllers for servo-valve-driven electro-hydraulic actuators (EHAs). T...
Renewable energy sources (RESs) play a key role in the global energy transition by reducing carbon emissions, enhancing energy security, and supporting sustainable development. This study presents a fairness-oriented energy management strategy for re...
Background/Objectives: Traditional histopathological classification of endometrial cancer (EC) exhibits limited prognostic precision due to interobserver variability and incomplete reflection of tumor biology. The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) introduce...
This study reports on the performance of alumina-supported copper-based catalysts in the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane, with copper dispersed on two distinct commercial aluminium oxide supports made of micro- and nanosized alumina, respectivel...
Non-crimp fabric (NCF) composites are increasingly adopted for structural components due to their high mechanical performance and processability. Like other fibre-reinforced plastics, NCFs remain vulnerable to in-service damage from tool drops or uni...
11 February 2026
Traditional manual phase adjustment technology has limitations in maintaining long-term three-phase balance, and the large-scale integration of new energy into low-voltage distribution networks further exacerbates the challenges of voltage limit viol...
Congenital vertebral malformations (CVMs), affecting approximately 0.5–1 per 1000 live births, occur either in an isolated form or as part of syndromic disorders. Despite the identification of numerous causative genes for CVMs, the molecular et...
Background/Objectives: Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in Europe, and most cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage. Screening with low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) has been shown to reduce lung cancer mortality in hig...
In a rapidly changing professional landscape marked by digitization, socio-economic transformations, and post-pandemic upheavals, understanding career trajectories has become an interdisciplinary concern. This study presents a systematic bibliometric...
Personal experiences, even when recounted as autobiographical novels, can deepen our understanding of the past, as they present a lived history of real events. In the novel De două mii de ani (For Two Thousand Years), Iosef Mendel Hechter, using...
Although combination therapies with mitogen activated protein kinase inhibitors remain among the most effective treatments for malignant melanoma, they are not universally applicable to all subtypes of this cancer, and their efficacy decreases in the...
Accurate identification of dynamic parameters, specifically natural frequency and damping ratio, is critical for optimizing the disturbance rejection performance of laser level self-leveling mechanisms. However, traditional Finite Element Analysis (F...
Background and Objectives: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) triggers oxidative stress, mitochondrial dysfunction, and sterile inflammation. Amantadine (ATD), a weak NMDA receptor antagonist, has shown neuroprotective potential, but its mechanistic basis...
Background/Objectives: Several studies described how diets should be adapted to meet textural, nutritional and organoleptic needs of older people with oropharyngeal dysphagia. However, few studies have evaluated the implementation of texture-modified...
To address the issues of limited soft-switching range and high inductor current peak in traditional single phase shift (SPS) modulation for AC–DC converters under a wide range of voltage conversion ratio conditions, this paper proposes an optim...
This comprehensive study presents an integrated analysis of NOx reduction strategies and operational optimization for the HYUNDAI-HiMSEN 7H35DFP dual-fuel marine engine. The optimization scope focuses on selective catalytic reduction control strategi...
This research proposes two new estimators which use auxiliary information to derive estimates of population means in cases where populations are considered rare and clustered in line with the General Inverse Adaptive Cluster Sampling (GIACS) framewor...
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) represents significant therapeutic challenges due to its aggressive behavior, metabolic plasticity, and lack of targeted treatments, prompting investigation of biologically active triterpene glycosides from the st...
Playing sports remains one of the most common avenues for youth engagement in physical activity. Yet mental health challenges, such as performance anxiety, depressive symptoms, reduced motivation, and burnout, place many young athletes at risk. As ke...
11 February 2026
Let G be a connected graph in which the distance between any two distinct vertices of degree of at least three is at least three. We find the structure of G. It turns out that G decomposes into a tree and a matching.
This study proposed a Kriging surrogate model incorporating active learning to overcome the high computational costs associated with conducting reliability and sensitivity analyses of industrial liquid storage tank structures. In the proposed method,...
Gray mold disease severely impacts the yield and quality of Panax notoginseng (Burkill) F. H. Chen ex C. Chow & W.G. Huang. In this study, a strain of Botrytis fabiopsis J. Zhang, G.N. Wu & G.Q. Li labeled as 3-3 was isolated from the leaves...
To clarify the age-related differences in growth performance, meat quality, and the underlying molecular mechanisms of Shanbei white cashmere (SWC) goats, the slaughter performance and meat quality of 6-month-old (S group) and 12-month-old (T group)...
To meet the integrated design requirements of the belly-mounted air-breathing vehicle forebody and inward-turning inlet, an integrated design method for the dual-stage compression inward-turning inlet (DCII) based on a conical forebody is developed,...
The torsional characteristics of human tendons are recognized to have functional and clinical relevance, but are underexplored due to the limited in vivo assessment methods available to measure the dynamic torsion characteristics of a tendon during m...
A novel engineering approach for assessing the robustness of fuzzy logic control (FLC) systems with modified parallel distributed compensation (MPDC) is presented. It addresses the problem of successful implementation and operation in industrial envi...
Chloroplast development plays a crucial role in plant de-etiolation, a process in which plants switch from growth in darkness to light-driven development, known as photomorphogenesis. This study provides evidence that CIA2 (Chloroplast Import Apparat...
Flexible dielectric composite materials capable of converting power frequency electric fields into measurable electrical signals are of great significance in the field of non-contact electric field sensing in power systems. In this paper, graphene/ni...
Hydroxyl-terminated polybutadiene (HTPB) propellants are widely used in aerospace applications owing to their excellent mechanical performance and storage stability, which are primarily governed by the crosslinked network formed during curing. Unders...
The integration of Federated Learning (FL) and Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) has emerged as a promising paradigm for distributed intelligence in Internet of Things (IoT) environments. However, challenges related to trust, device heterogeneity, and ene...
11 February 2026
In this paper, we obtain the analytical solution to a novel partial differential equation of the optimal investment–consumption combination problem under the condition that the random fluctuation of stock return is completely correlated with th...
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