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This study presents a season-specific non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) framework for investigating the long-term spatiotemporal variability of global aerosol optical depth (AOD) at 550 nm using monthly MODIS Collection 6.1 observations (MOD08_...

Background/Objectives: Chest wall perforator flaps (CWPF) have emerged as versatile muscle-sparing volume replacement techniques in oncoplastic breast surgery (OBS), facilitating breast conservation in selected patients with favorable tumor-to-breast...

Background/Objectives: Carboxylesterase 1 (CES1) is a key enzyme involved in the bioactivation of ester prodrugs. This study aimed to construct a mechanistic, whole-body, physiologically based pharmacokinetic (PBPK) model to simultaneously predict th...

Food-led regeneration has emerged as a strategy for revitalizing declining urban neighborhoods. Such spatial regeneration is associated with variations in local food access, which further correlates with residents’ diets. This study employs str...

Microplastics (MPs) and heavy metals are widespread co-occurring contaminants in aquatic environments. Their interactions can alter metal mobility and bioavailability and may influence contaminant transfer and toxicity across aquatic food webs. This...

Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have emerged as an important class of cancer immunotherapies, yet clinical outcomes do not always align with findings from preclinical studies. This review examines preclinical–clinical discrepancies in ICI e...

Refractive index fluctuations in turbulent media severely degrade optical imaging quality. Airborne electro-optic systems often involve optical propagation through both atmospheric turbulence (AT) and compressible turbulence (CT), which forms a joint...

Aromatic-herb processing generates large volumes of residues that remain rich in bioactive compounds yet are seldom valorised. This study compared the recovery of phenolic compounds and antioxidant capacity from parsley and coriander processing by-pr...

Background: Thymoma (THYM) is a rare epithelial tumor originating in the anterior mediastinum. Due to the lack of specific clinical manifestations and reliable molecular biomarkers, its diagnosis and treatment are often delayed until advanced stages....

Recommender systems are widely used in e-commerce to alleviate information overload, yet the nonlinear decision mechanisms of neural recommenders make it difficult to verify whether an identified feature is genuinely responsible for a recommendation....

Background: Multidrug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (MDR-KP) is a global health threat with limited treatment options. Comparative in vitro data for imipenem-relebactam (I/R) and ceftolozane-tazobactam (C/T) across diverse MDR-KP clinical populatio...

Background/Objectives: Establishing drowning as the cause of death remains one of the most challenging tasks in forensic pathology, particularly when classical autopsy findings are absent, nonspecific, or compromised by decomposition. Molecular bioma...

Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L., syn. Salvia rosmarinus Spenn., Lamiaceae) is a Mediterranean perennial herb with high tolerance to environmental stress, but its long-term response to combined drought and salinity and the potential of biostimulan...

Scleranthus perennis L. is an Eurasian species from Caryophyllaceae family, Sclerantheae tribe. The work aimed at investigating the profiling of secondary metabolites in S. perennis aerial parts by means of ultra-high-performance liquid chromatograph...

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) combines spatial and spectral information and has been widely investigated for nondestructive sensing in agriculture and food. This review examines HSI applications in crop growth monitoring, abiotic and biotic stress dete...

Background/Objectives: Ethanol-induced gastric injury is a widely used experimental model for evaluating gastroprotective interventions because it reproduces key features of gastric mucosal damage, including oxidative stress, lipid peroxidation, infl...

To tackle frequent voltage violations in distribution networks with high photovoltaic penetration ratios, voltage regulation methods that dispatch the active and reactive powers of PV panels are widely studied. Because of the costly global communicat...

Accurate and forward-looking skill demand prediction is critical for workforce planning, curriculum development, and talent cultivation in the rapidly evolving new energy manufacturing sector. Existing approaches often rely on static occupational cat...

Adjuvant treatments for IDH-wild-type adult high-grade gliomas (HGGs) are being explored to improve therapeutic efficacy. Tumor hypoxia poses a major therapeutic challenge. In this narrative review, we discuss the potential of hyperbaric oxygen to co...

Sodium chloride (NaCl) is a multifunctional component of cheese manufacture that contributes to flavor, microbial control, moisture regulation, texture formation, product safety, and shelf stability. However, the association between excessive dietary...

Non-contact behavioral monitoring is important for low-disturbance husbandry of captive forest musk deer, but variable illumination, shadows, partial occlusion, and low target-background contrast can reduce recognition reliability. This study develop...

The paper presents the results of monoaural and binaural acoustic measurements and speech-intelligibility tests conducted in two classrooms representative of typical school buildings in Italy. The sample of two classrooms was selected based on a stat...

Background/Objectives: Translating medical nutrition therapy guidance into practical meal plans requires consistent application of clinical and dietetic rules while accommodating different therapeutic regimens. This study developed and computationall...

Background and Objectives: This study is a secondary analysis of a Lithuanian version of the original Oral Health Impact Profile-14 (OHIP-14) in a sample of older adults in Lithuania and, through factor analysis, it derives one or two practical and e...

Background: Anticoagulation therapy confers increased risk of potentially life-threatening bleeding events. Limited options exist for anticoagulation reversal in patients treated with direct oral factor Xa (FXa) anticoagulants (aka FXa inhibitors). C...

Polymer components fabricated via fused filament fabrication (FFF) are frequently exposed to friction and wear under diverse environmental conditions in various engineering applications. The tribological performance of these components is influenced...

Reliable individual tracking supports animal behavior monitoring in precision livestock farming. However, tracking cattle using a single camera in high-density barns is challenging because of frequent occlusion, scale variation, and irregular movemen...

Antimicrobial resistance, a major health problem for the world’s population, is caused by pathogenic bacteria capable of forming biofilms, claiming 4.95 million lives each year, according to WHO (World Health Organization) data, and could escal...

Satellite ground segments run conventional, patchable software, but disruptive maintenance must be coordinated with recurring orbital visibility. We formulate vulnerability remediation as a constrained action-and-timing problem in which SGP4-propagat...

Public spaces are encountered through changing spatial configurations, yet evidence linking measurable route conditions to in situ emotional valence remains limited. This multi-site observational study examined associations between route-section imag...

CO₂-enhanced oil recovery (CO₂-EOR) leads to a progressive increase in the CO₂ content of produced fluid, exposing pipelines to a harsh acidic corrosive environment. In the present study, the typical CO₂-EOR process flow was classified, and the corro...

Chaotic waveforms provide a deterministic and noise-like means of masking information in wireless communication systems. This work presents an FPGA-based implementation and experimental validation of a frequency-modulated amplitude-shift keying (FM-A...

This study proposes a sustainable biorefinery strategy to develop alternative packaging films by integrating three microbial-derived materials produced from agro-industrial residues. Cheese whey and citrus waste were used as renewable substrates for...

Background/Objectives: Vernakalant is an atrial-selective antiarrhythmic used for rapid pharmacological cardioversion of recent-onset atrial fibrillation. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the efficacy and safety of vernakalant compa...

Identifying plant diseases presents challenges like small sample sizes, imbalanced classes, and intricate background noise, which constrain the generalizability and resilience of conventional deep learning methods that rely on single-modal images. To...

Nitrate accumulation is a critical quality and safety parameter in leafy vegetables produced under intensive hydroponic conditions. Passive resonant-circuit devices that generate calibrated radio-frequency fields without external power input represen...

Advancing sustained green innovation (SGI) is essential to the green transformation of manufacturing enterprises and sustainable development. Technology convergence between digital and real economy industries (TCDR) reshapes firms’ innovation a...

This work addresses the challenge of performing distributed online convex optimization in resource-constrained systems, including IoT networks and wireless sensor networks, where communication resources are limited. We develop an edge-based event-tri...

This paper presents the results of lithium extraction from a lithium-containing precipitate obtained by the sulfation roasting of rare-metal production tailings, leaching of the sulfate roast product, and subsequent precipitation. Unlike the conventi...

(1) Background: Chilling is a major environmental constraint on tomato growth and development, yet the temporal coordination of physiological, transcriptional, and metabolic responses remains insufficiently characterized. (2) Methods: Tomato seedling...

This study systematically investigated how cassava starch modification chemistry and hydroxypropyl substitution level influence the structure and functional performance of extrusion-plasticized edible materials containing maltol or ethyl maltol. Nati...

Road surface icing is a major cause of skid-related winter accidents, making preemptive maintenance essential. Current decisions rely mainly on regional weather information, which cannot capture how road surface temperature (RST) varies between secti...

Public health research predominantly works in the present tense. It documents the disparities that structural racism and gendered racism produce and projects them forward, modeling futures as extrapolations of present harm. For Black women, positione...

Waterborne protozoan pathogens, particularly Cryptosporidium and Giardia, remain significant public health concerns in South Africa, disproportionately affecting children, immunocompromised individuals, and rural populations. This review synthesises...

The economic benefits of pet insurance are generally examined through survey-based empirical studies, while a game-theoretic explanation of how insurance changes treatment decisions remains limited. This study models the clinical decision process bet...

Remote sensing (RS) images transmitted through distributed satellite, UAV, and sensor networks are vulnerable to interception and misuse, while conventional encryption may reduce the effectiveness of downstream image classification. This paper propos...

The primary motor cortex (M1) controls voluntary movements through coordinated interactions between excitatory pyramidal neurons and inhibitory parvalbumin-expressing interneurons (PV-INs). Although PV-INs are critical to regulating motor output and...

Background: Circulating peripheral blood mononuclear cell (PBMC) mitochondrial respiration is impaired in heart failure and transplanted patients. Severe aortic stenosis (AS), characterized by pressure overload leading to cardiac mitochondrial dysfun...

Purpose: To examine the associations of individual-level factors (eHealth literacy, chronic disease management self-efficacy, and coping style) and social-level factors (social support) with technology anxiety among older adults with chronic diseases...

Background: Aging involves progressive functional decline driven by oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction, and dietary flavonoids are promising aging interventions due to their multi-target regulatory pathways. Methods: This study systematic...