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A novel rigid–flexible coupling rolling mechanism is proposed, which is composed of three planar 3R branched chains, two triangular flexible joints and three flexible cables. The degrees of freedom and kinematics of the rigid–flexible cou...

Agrivoltaics (AVs), the co-location of photovoltaic panels and agricultural production, is increasingly promoted as a strategy to enhance land-use efficiency and support renewable energy transitions. While numerous studies emphasize potential synergi...

Agile and flexible resource modelling is essential for informed decision-making in early-stage mineral project assessment, and in more advanced stages, particularly when compared with conventional deterministic geological modelling and single-estimat...

Background and Objectives: The NOD-like receptor family pyrin domain-containing 3 (NLRP3) inflammasome is a key innate immune complex, and its aberrant activation contributes to metabolic and neurodegenerative diseases. Brain-derived neurotrophic fac...

It is widely accepted that preserving biodiversity requires transformative change and, perhaps foremost, demands a paradigm shift in economic scholarship. The prevailing neoclassical growth-based status quo is too often detached from nature and, as a...

Painful diabetic neuropathy (PDN) is a prevalent and debilitating complication of diabetes, characterized by persistent neuropathic pain that severely impairs quality of life. Current management strategies predominantly target peripheral nerve dysfun...

Backgrounds: Roegneria ciliaris is a perennial tetraploid wild relative of wheat that is widely distributed in China. It can be used both as a forage crop and ecological grass (the grasses specifically bred for ecological restoration) due to its stro...

We considerthe single-machine group scheduling problem with controllable processing times (i.e., resource allocation) under a common due-window ($condw$) assignment. The objective is to minimize a total cost composed of earliness, tardiness, due-window...

This paper advances a Lie-group approach to measurement by identifying symmetry conditions that determine when effect sizes from different instruments can be meaningfully compared. Measurement transformations are modeled as elements of a two-paramete...

The rapid urban expansion (UE) in the Yangtze River Economic Belt (YREB) in China has profoundly reshaped landscape patterns and ecosystem functions. Understanding the impact of UE on ecosystem health (EH) across different urban agglomerations is cru...

To address the issues of traditional grid-based Ant Colony Optimization path planning in discretized continuous space—including limited direction freedom, lack of global topological guidance, and difficulty in balancing path smoothness and safe...

This paper proposes a Bayesian estimation method for spatial lagged panel quantile models. The proposed model simultaneously considers spatial lag effects of the dependent variable and the quantile regression framework, enabling effective capture of...

Imidazopyridines are a versatile class of nitrogen-fused heterocycles bridging medicinal chemistry and materials science. Their π-conjugated framework allows broad structural tuning, yielding diverse biological and photophysical properties. The be...

Social networks are now integral to corporate strategy and daily social life. They enable the rapid and extensive dissemination of information, proving highly effective for promoting hotel marketing content. Consequently, they facilitate interaction...

Island coastline segmentation plays a crucial role in remote sensing image processing, especially when the island environment is complex and the scale is small, making segmentation challenging. The complex morphology of the islands and the small isla...

Pancreatic surgery is a technically demanding field associated with frequent morbidity, with pancreatic fistula representing the dominant driver of major complications in pancreaticoduodenectomy (PD). Although refinements in operative technique, peri...

Cherry laurel is becoming increasingly popular due to its unique flavor, attractive appearance, and nutritional benefits. However, the morphological, pomological, and biochemical characteristics of the existing population in the Kaynaşlı di...

Building resilience is largely affected by the socioeconomic characteristics of the community as well as the physical and environmental local characteristics. The effectiveness of the adopted policies for resilience building partly relies on consider...

Background: Surface chemistry and cleanliness are widely regarded as important factors influencing the host response to titanium dental implants. Despite advances in manufacturing and sterilization, trace residues may persist at the nanoscale even in...

Static honeypot deployment and one-shot attack-path analysis often become ineffective against adaptive adversaries because fixed decoy layouts are easy to fingerprint and risk estimates quickly go stale. This paper presents a unified, mathematically...

Implementing effective geospatial data discovery mechanisms in geoportals is crucial for facilitating easy access to geospatial data and services. Despite existing efforts to formulate geoportal design requirements, understanding end-user issues beyo...

Marine fish communities in the Yangtze River Estuary and Adjacent East China Sea (YRE-ECS) are subject to complex environmental gradients; however, their multidimensional assembly mechanisms remain insufficiently resolved. Here, we integrated environ...

In digital systems, finite state machines (FSMs) play a crucial role as controllers, control units, and independent sequential circuits. To efficiently implement these FSMs on advanced hardware platforms such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)...

Continuous-wave mud pulsers enable real-time downhole communication during drilling; however, high actuation torque markedly increases energy consumption and limits deployment depth. In this study, we investigate valve plate geometry optimization for...

Understanding how herbivores adjust their foraging strategies to cope with seasonal resource fluctuations has been central to the nutritional ecology. Optimal Foraging Theory (OFT) predicts that generalists should broaden their dietary niche when hig...

Producing high-quality analytical reports for the environmental domain is typically time-consuming and requires significant human expertise. This paper describes MeteoChat, a semi-automatic framework for efficiently generating specialized environment...

Background: The valorization of sustainable feed ingredients such fermented de-oiled rice bran meal (FDRBM) is crucial; however, the molecular mechanisms driving its benefits remain unclear. This study addresses this gap by investigating FDRBM as a d...

Wheat stripe rust, caused by Puccinia striiformis f. sp. tritici (Pst), is an important disease in wheat production. Breeding disease-resistant breeds is the most effective measure for preventing and controlling this disease. In this study, hybrid co...

Aquaculture output, sustainability, and profitability can be enhanced by using functional feed additives. The effect of supplementation with two different dietary levels of propylene glycol (PG) and essential oils (EOs) was evaluated in Nile tilapia....

High-water-content dredged slurry from port dredging requires geotechnical improvement via drainage and consolidation. The small-strain dynamic properties (shear stiffness, damping characteristics) of reconstituted and consolidated clays are critical...

Background: Respiratory diseases remain a major contributor to mortality in Europe, yet national long-term analyses rarely explore sex- and age-specific temporal patterns in detail. Large international datasets provide aggregated estimates but may ob...

Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding has become a powerful, non-invasive method for detecting aquatic organisms. However, optimal sampling strategies for benthic taxa in lentic ecosystems remain unclear. This study evaluated the effectiveness of eD...

RNA editing is a way to diversify, regulate expression, and expand the cell transcriptome. The most common RNA editing is the reversible conversion of adenosine (A) to inosine (I) driven by double-stranded RNA-binding adenosine deaminases (ADARs). As...

In a strategy-proof mechanism, implementation theory mostly assumes that each agent is rational in the sense that the agent reveals its true preference to induce its most preferred outcome. This assumption is sufficient to guarantee that the agent se...

Background/Objectives: Dupilumab is a human monoclonal antibody that targets both IL-4 and IL-13 signaling. Eosinophilia has been reported as a potential adverse event in treated patients in randomized controlled trials and 12-month real-life studies...

Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) provides a natural model for studying nuclear–cytoplasmic interactions, although the details of nuclear–cytoplasmic communication remain poorly understood. In this study, transcriptomic and metabolomic dat...

Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) is widely used to evaluate the environmental impact of power generation systems and inform energy and climate policy decisions. In recent years, numerous LCA studies have examined the life-cycle implications of power plant...

We present a supervised learning method to estimate two local descriptors of time-series dynamics, the mean-reversion rate $\theta$ and a heavy-tail estimate $\alpha$, from short windows of data. These parameters summarize recovery behavior and tail he...

The ongoing climate crisis has highlighted the need for sustainability and resilience in the development and maintenance of urban areas regarding climate comfort. Weather simulation tools can aid researchers in understanding the effects that weather...

We present a stereoscopic analysis of coronal streamer deflection induced by a CME-driven shock, utilizing multi-viewpoint coronagraph observations from STEREO-Ahead, STEREO-Behind, and SOHO. Driven by the continuous impact of the shock, the streamer...

Near-infrared (NIR) imaging, including NIR-I (800–1000 nm) and NIR-II (1000–1700 nm), has been primarily evaluated using separate cameras with different detectors, limiting comparison. We investigated whether using a single-camera system...

As a perfluorinated compound with a high global warming potential, octafluoropropane (C₃F₈) needs to be efficiently separated from industrial waste gas, but separating it from nitrogen at low concentrations is highly challenging. To address the commo...

This study employs the Atangana–Baleanu–Caputo fractional derivative within the Moore–Gibson–Thompson heat conduction model to analytically investigate the thermoelastic vibrations in solid medium-containing voids. The ABC&nda...

Multiple myeloma (MM) is an oncohematological neoplasm characterized by the abnormal proliferation of neoplastic plasma cells in the bone marrow and the excessive secretion of monoclonal antibodies into the bloodstream. Approximately 3 to 5% of patie...

Expanded polystyrene (EPS) concrete, with excellent properties such as light weight, thermal insulation, and soundproofing, is widely applied in construction engineering. However, its complex heterogeneous internal structure makes it difficult to qui...

Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) is a major pathogen responsible for severe diarrhea, dehydration, and high mortality in neonatal piglets, continually threatening global swine production. Rapid differentiation of its major genotypes (classical...

Background: Sarcopenia is a progressive muscle disorder associated with metabolic syndrome (MS), in which early impairments in muscle strength and quality precede muscle mass loss. Simple, non-invasive measures such as handgrip strength, estimated ap...

AISI 904L stainless steel (904L SS) is a promising material for nuclear power plant primary circuits due to its superior corrosion resistance, but its corrosion behavior under simulated high-temperature and high-pressure water environments with diffe...

To mitigate the entanglement, agglomeration, and unstable conveying of high-moisture rice residues during stubble crushing for field incorporation, a discrete element method (DEM)-based modeling and optimization framework was developed to enhance the...

In Taiwan, with the increase in the elderly population and the emergence of a super-aging society, the Ministry of Health and Welfare (MOHW) has developed various long-term care (LTC) centers, offering different types of services to effectively impro...