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To address the challenge of effectively extracting early-stage failure features in rolling bearings, this paper proposes a two-stage harmonic optimization-gram method based on spectral amplitude modulation (SAM-TSHOgram). The method first employs amp...

Microplastics (MPs) have been attracting considerable interest in recent years due to their ubiquitous existence and accumulation within different systems and ecosystems. Moreover, their presence in electroplating baths involves a more serious challe...

Infectious diseases caused by bacterial and viral pathogens remain a major global threat, particularly in areas with limited diagnostic resources. Conventional optical techniques are time-consuming, prone to operator errors, and require sophisticated...

Background/Objectives: Gambling disorder (GD) is characterized by a high prevalence of co-occurring psychiatric disorders, including personality disorders (PDs), which may negatively influence clinical presentation, treatment outcomes, and relapse ra...

A wound has been defined as a disruption of tissue integrity. Pain, bleeding, and the risk of infection are inherent features of wounds, while chronic wounds are often accompanied by serous exudate. Pain associated with chronic wounds is usually unde...

Accurate quantification of iron is essential in biological, chemical, and nanomaterial research, yet commonly used ferrozine-based assays suffer from safety hazards, inconsistent reduction efficiency, and unstable absorbance readings. To address thes...

Fermentation is a complex biochemical process that transforms brewer’s wort into beer. Beer fermentation is driven by yeast and is influenced by process parameters such as the content of fermentable sugars in wort, temperature, and pH. Traditio...

Non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), as a key technology in smart-grid advanced metering infrastructure, aims to disaggregate mains power from smart meters into individual load-level power consumption. Traditional NILM methods require centralizing s...

Edge detection is a key building block in real-time image-processing applications such as drone-based infrastructure inspection, autonomous navigation, and remote sensing. However, its computational cost remains a challenge for resource-constrained e...

While electroencephalography (EEG) is effective for assessing stress and mental workload, its widespread adoption is currently hindered by the complex setup of most existing EEG systems. This article presents a new in-ear EEG system and investigates...

Accurate global mapping of lunar iron oxide (FeO) abundance is essential for understanding the Moon’s geological evolution and for supporting future in situ resource utilization (ISRU). While hyperspectral data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (...

This study examines the effects of kraft lignin, milled hemp stalks, and dicumyl peroxide (DCP) crosslinking on polybutylene succinate (PBS) composites, focusing on rheological, mechanical, and thermal properties as well as accelerated weathering and...

The journal retracts the article entitled “Determinants of Disease Progression in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease“ [...]

Muscle regeneration following injury reveals a striking paradox: the same phenomenon, fiber branching, can serve as both a beneficial adaptation in healthy muscle and a pathological hallmark in disease. In healthy muscle, branched fibers emerge as an...

Spina bifida (SB) is a congenital malformation of the central nervous system (CNS), resulting from incomplete closure of the neural tube (NT) during early embryogenesis. Myelomeningocele (MMC), the most severe form of SB, leads to progressive neurolo...

Digital cultural-heritage (DCH) platforms are integral to achieving UN SDG Target 11.4, yet their long-term sustainability is compromised by a systemic vulnerability: the rapid decay of user engagement once the initial “novelty effect” fa...

Against the dual demands of green transformation and digital integration in the manufacturing industry, green value co-creation has become a core pathway for enterprises to achieve sustainable development. However, the role of artificial intelligence...

The strength of cement paste backfill (CPB) is crucial for ensuring the safe and efficient operation of the horizontal layered approach backfill mining method. To effectively improve CPB strength, a series of experiments were carried out to systemati...

Global water environment monitoring urgently requires remote sensing data with high temporal resolution and wide spatial coverage. However, current space-borne ocean color spectrometers still face a significant trade-off among spatial resolution, swa...

Currently, renewable energy projects are growing, and one of the critical unforeseen consequences that has emerged is curtailment. This study focuses on characterizing a full dataset of real operational curtailed electricity from wind energy projects...

This paper explores recent advancements in end-of-life (EOL) care in Canada, focusing on palliative care (PC) in oncology, advance care planning (ACP), and medical assistance in dying (MAiD). Despite improvements in cancer treatment, cancer remains a...

Environmental element monitoring is essential for assessing environmental quality, identifying pollution sources, evaluating ecological risks, and understanding long-term contamination trends. Modern monitoring campaigns routinely generate large volu...

Social media serves as a vital channel for emotional expression, yet mandatory IP location disclosure raises concerns about how reducing anonymity affects users’ shared emotions, particularly in privacy-sensitive contexts such as mental health...

Background/Objectives: The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of selected predictive parameters obtainable from cardiac multidetector computed tomography for assessing the severity of aortic valve stenosis in patients scheduled for tran...

This meta-review systematically examines 88 review papers from the scientific literature, focusing on the diverse ways scholars define and conceptualise the resilience of complex sociotechnical systems (STS). Among the 484 different conceptualisation...

Since the number of existing steel-reinforced concrete buildings affected by carbonation-induced corrosion is steadily increasing, there is a high demand for durable repair methods. Chemical re-alkalization (CRA) represents one such approach, relying...

This study examines the behavioral intention of Muslims in Bosnia and Herzegovina to adopt blockchain-based zakat systems. It offers novel insights from a European Islamic context. Prior studies have primarily focused on Southeast Asia and the Middle...

This study examines how farm workers working with cattle talk to and interact with these non-human animals. This study presents linguistic animal studies and multi-species pragmatics, and it is based on fieldwork, interviews, and video recordings fro...

Background: Uncontrolled diabetes is characterised by a loss of blood glucose control and increased oxidation of fatty acids to produce ATP. Use of metabolic inhibitors to blunt fatty acid oxidation and restore glucose metabolism is a poorly studied...

On 2021, in the intensive care unit of a County Emergency Hospital where oxygen therapy treatment was applied to COVID patients, located in the municipality of Ploiesti, Prahova County, a fire occurred that resulted in the destruction by burning of t...

Background and Objectives: Klotho (KL) is a multifunctional protein involved in reproductive physiology; however, its precise role in ovarian reserve and in vitro fertilization (IVF) outcomes remains unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the relation...

Ciphertext-Policy Attribute-Based Encryption (CP-ABE) technology provides fine-grained access control capabilities for P2P networks. However, its long-term development has been constrained by three major challenges: the trade-off between computationa...

In this article, we derive some optimal inequalities for slant submanifolds on trans-Sasakian manifolds coupled with quarter-symmetric non-metric connection (qsnmc), utilizing generalized normalized δ-Casorati curvatures. Additionally, we descr...

Background: Integrating palliative care (PC) into primary health care (PHC) is essential for achieving Universal Health Coverage and reducing avoidable suffering. Despite global progress in PC development, the extent to which PC is effectively embedd...

Photocatalysis driven by the visible light of solar energy has received considerable attention in the field of environmental remediation and clean energy production. In this work, monomeric sulfonated palladium phthalocyanine (PdPcS) was encapsulated...

In this paper, we establish new hypergeometric representations for two classical integer sequences, namely the Pell and Jacobsthal sequences. Motivated by Dilcher’s hypergeometric formulations of the Fibonacci sequence, we extend this framework...

Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7 (SCA7) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by cerebellar ataxia and retinal degeneration, caused by an abnormal expansion of CAG repeats at the ATXN7 gene. Disease onset and progression vary among patients, unde...

Deep neural networks are vulnerable and susceptible to adversarial examples, which can induce erroneous predictions by injecting imperceptible perturbations. Transferability is a crucial property of adversarial examples, enabling effective attacks un...

Microbial polysaccharides are promising components for wound-care products. This study reports the development of wound-healing antimicrobial hydrogels, based on pullulan from Aureobasidium pullulans, combined with mesenchymal cell-derived conditione...

In deep-sea mining operations, the seabed sediments (mud and sand) are very soft and slippery. This often causes tracked vehicles to slip and veer off course when they are driving on the seafloor. To solve the path-tracking problem for deep-sea minin...

Under the background of “Emerging Engineering Education”, promoting reform in the practical teaching of Agricultural Hydraulic Engineering is a crucial task for cultivating water conservancy professionals with sustainability competencies...

Accurate forecasting of solar energy production plays a crucial role in optimizing power system reliability, scheduling, and integration of renewable energy sources into the grid. From a sustainability perspective, improved forecasting accuracy suppo...

Background: Alternative pre-mRNA splicing is a combinatorial process involving serine/arginine-rich (SR) and heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein (hnRNP) splicing factors. These proteins can silence or enhance splicing based on their expression le...

A precise characterization of molecular vibrations and thermodynamic properties is essential for applications in spectroscopy, computational modeling, and chemical process design. In this study, the q-deformed Tietz (qDT) oscillator is applied to exa...

To enhance the sustainable power regulation capability of hydroelectric unit regulation systems (HURS) under modern power system requirements, this paper proposes an optimal linear quadratic regulator (LQR)-based power control strategy optimized usin...

An alkali-activated slag binder based on biochar was developed in this research. The biochar was produced from waste wood and is referred to as biochar waste (BW). In the alkali-activated slag system, a small amount of biochar (up to 0.5%) was used a...

While drug-eluting cardiovascular devices, including drug-eluting stents and drug-coated balloons, have significantly reduced restenosis rates, they remain limited by delayed vascular healing, chronic inflammation, and late adverse events. These limi...

With the increasing frequency of maritime activities, large-scale man overboard incidents raise higher demands on maritime search and rescue (SAR) decision-making. Most existing drift models are designed for single-person-overboard situations and hav...

Murundus fields (wetland earth-mounds) represent a relatively understudied physiognomy in the Cerrado biome. This study aimed to evaluate the composition, life history, phytosociology, endemism, and conservation status of woody plant species in murun...

5G deployment in Malaysia is increasing the need for safe and efficient radio-frequency (RF) scanning at telecommunication towers, but service providers lack a clear, structured way to choose among available methods. This study develops a decision fr...