Producing high-density rice straw bales requires a model that captures the anisotropic deformation and breakage of fresh straw during compression. We therefore developed and calibrated a spherocylinder-based discrete element model for rice straw bali...
Microalgal fucoxanthin is a marine xanthophyll relevant to environmental medicine because it links sustainable resource recovery with prevention-oriented research on environmentally driven metabolic disorders. Methods: This critical narrative review...
This study evaluated the distribution and potential ecological risk of mercury in sediments from the Recuerdo Marsh, located in the Atrato River basin (Chocó, Colombia), and explored the potential of sawdust biochar for mercury removal from wa...
Background/Objectives: This study characterized an ethanol-eluted, semi-purified fraction (F4) from Myrtus communis L. leaves and compared its anti-inflammatory activity in free and nanoemulsified forms. Methods: F4 was obtained by C8 fractionation,...
Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors are widely used to measure pressure and temperature. However, when both are subjected to a coupled environment, the Bragg wavelengths influence each other, causing biased measurements if not properly calibrated. Most...
Walnut protein is a promising candidate for the development of functional health supplements. In this study, peptides were prepared via the limited trypsin hydrolysis of walnut protein, and their immunomodulatory effects on macrophages were evaluated...
Birdsong can alter the perception of an urban soundscape; however, its acoustic effects are not fully described by conventional sound level measures. The presence of singing birds introduces additional acoustic components that can influence the overa...
Viral nervous necrosis (VNN), caused by nervous necrosis virus (NNV), is a devastating viral disease affecting marine fish aquaculture worldwide, particularly during larval and juvenile stages. Although NNV has a broad and expanding host range, the s...
Cervical cancer (CC) remains a prominent global malignancy that severely threatens women’s health. Despite the limitations of conventional therapies, Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) offers distinct therapeutic advantages via multi-targeted b...
Background/Objectives: Terminal ileal nodular lymphoid hyperplasia (NLH) can mimic Crohn’s disease endoscopically, and data integrating its clinical, laboratory, endoscopic, and histopathological features in adults are limited. We aimed to desc...
Persistent petroleum-based packaging pollutes marine ecosystems, emits greenhouse gases and threatens human health, whereas starch-based alternatives compete with food crops. In this study, polysaccharides green-extracted from three seaweeds, Ulva fa...
Remaining useful life (RUL) prediction is central to prognostics and health management of turbomachinery, but deep models are often large and opaque. We re-evaluate a compact quantum-classical hybrid (a 1D convolutional encoder, a four-qubit variatio...
Corneal stromal fibrosis is characterized by the transition of quiescent keratocytes into α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA)-positive myofibroblasts and excessive extracellular matrix deposition, processes largely driven by transforming growth...
Innovation quality is difficult to evaluate and study externally, yet it is critically important for economic actors to achieve sustainable development. Based on the market microstructure of industrial production networks, this paper characterizes an...
Quasilinear hyperbolic conservation law equations are of great significance in mathematical physics. Characterizing their meromorphic solutions provides valuable insight into the qualitative behaviors of these equations. In this paper, we investigate...
Background and Objectives: Exchange transfusion (ET) remains a critical intervention for severe neonatal hyperbilirubinaemia, yet laboratory associations with ET receipt require careful interpretation. We examined characteristics associated with ET a...
Background/Objectives: Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a rapidly growing cause of neurological disability, yet diagnosis is often delayed in settings with limited access to movement-disorder specialists, including Kazakhstan and other Central Asian...
This paper investigates the patterns and trends in higher education in Britain over the last five decades (1972–2025). Drawing on most authoritative national representative data, we examine class, gender and ethnic differences in educational at...
Background: Community-based volunteer emergency teams increasingly serve as frontline responders in disaster-prone and conflict-affected regions, yet little is known about the psychosocial resources sustaining their functioning under prolonged armed...
Background: Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream infection (KP-BSI) represents a global clinical threat, while local prognostic data are scarce in Hebei Province, China. This study aimed to identify risk factors for carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneum...
This article quantifies how maintenance policy and an AI-based predictive layer affect the availability, cost and emissions of a hypothetical offshore wind farm whose reliability derives from field data. Subsystem failure rates from 97 onshore turbin...
Low nephron endowment is associated with hypertension and chronic kidney disease. We compared recovered glomerular counts and kidney mass across four mouse strains at 8 weeks of age and examined age-associated phenotypes and developmental kidney tran...
Coordinated control of fuel economy, state-of-charge (SOC), thermal state, and engine operation is central to hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) energy management. In existing discrete-action deep reinforcement learning (DRL) methods, action selection u...
Supercritical CO2 (sCO2) is a promising working fluid for compact thermal systems owing to its high heat transfer capability and advantageous thermophysical properties close to the pseudocritical region. However, strong property gradients in this reg...
Bud-bearing stem segments of citral-rich Camphora officinarum were used to optimize in vitro shoot proliferation and adventitious root induction by screening basal media and plant growth regulator types and concentrations. Physiological and endogenou...
The RNA-induced silencing complex (RISC), built around the Argonaute proteins, executes microRNA-mediated gene silencing. AGO2, the only catalytically active human paralogue, stabilises mature microRNAs in neurons and controls local translation in de...
Solution-processed amorphous InGaZnO (IGZO) thin-film transistors (TFTs) were investigated across a higher-Ga composition regime to examine the relationship between annealing-induced structural changes, film properties, and TFT performance. IGZO prec...
Background: Left ventricular remodeling after myocardial infarction is heterogeneous, and conventional baseline measures of systolic function only partly anticipate its course. Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) and myocardial work reflect dif...
Background/Objectives: Anxiety and depression are leading causes of disability worldwide. Although current pharmaceuticals are effective, adverse effects reduce adherence, driving the search for alternatives in traditional plant-based medicine. This...
Camera-free indoor security requires privacy-preserving sensing robust to disturbances and compatible with edge deployment. This study presents a limited-data radar–audio framework for room-level intrusion-related alarm detection. Data were col...
Drilling of carbon fiber-reinforced polymers is often accompanied by high cutting forces and heat accumulation, which negatively affect the quality of the final product. The thermo-mechanical correlation between cutting force and machining temperatur...
Post-weaning diarrhoea remains a major health and production challenge in pig farming, and effective alternatives to pharmacological zinc oxide are needed. This study evaluated bivalent VHH constructs as a potential dietary alternative to pharmacolog...
Defensive behavior among honeybees at the hive entrance, such as colony defense against intruders, appears as a group-level pattern rather than in individual bees. This study investigates its automatic recognition from single frames as a single-class...
Tanacetum coccineum is an ornamental plant capable of producing pyrethrins, natural insecticidal metabolites. Salinity restricts plant growth, but its effects on stress responses and pyrethrin-related metabolism remain poorly understood in this speci...
Forest types vary in root exudation, litter quality, microclimate, and soil properties, but their impact on microbial community assembly, especially when mixed with elevation, is unclear. Using high-throughput sequencing, phylogenetic null-model anal...
Burrs formed during the machining of fibre-reinforced polymer composites reduce safety and product quality and are usually inspected off-process. This study assessed whether as-milled edge segments with burrs can be distinguished from burr-free chamf...
This article explores prison health, healthcare, and harm. The provision of healthcare in prisons is convoluted, as it combines practice and problems across a prison’s approach to care, custody, commissioning, purchasing, regime, and staffing,...
A sustainable biostimulant has been gaining more attention, as it provides eco-friendly agriculture practices and helps achieve sustainable results. This study investigated the effects of microalgae-based biostimulants on tomato seedling vigor, plant...
Background/Objectives: Cardiovascular–kidney–metabolic (CKM) syndrome is a recently defined systemic disorder linking metabolic dysfunction with cardiovascular and renal disease. Clinical evidence suggests that pro-inflammatory dietary pa...
Background/Objectives: Hemorrhagic shock leads to critical malperfusion of organs including the kidneys. Current hemodynamic approaches focus on macrocirculatory targets such as mean arterial pressure (MAP), which may not reliably reflect organ-level...
Small-vehicle detection in aerial imagery requires fine spatial detail within limited computational budgets. We propose YOLOv11n-Ghost-P2, which combines Ghost-based feature compression with a high-resolution P2 fusion branch. Relative to standard YO...
Augmented reality (AR) is increasingly used in museums to extend interpretation beyond static displays, yet controlled evidence from Saudi cultural heritage settings remains limited. Guided by the cognitive theory of multimedia learning and the Conte...
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) worker physiology depends on the balance between nectar-derived carbohydrates and pollen-derived nutrients, yet the molecular consequences of nutritional imbalance at the body-compartment level remain incompletely character...
Urbanization and increasing cognitive demands have heightened interest in identifying environmental features that support attentional restoration. Based on Attention Restoration Theory, this study investigated whether different environmental categori...
Background: Deep vein thrombosis (DVT), chronic venous insufficiency (CVI), and atherosclerosis have traditionally been regarded as distinct conditions, although they may share mechanisms involving inflammation and endothelial dysfunction. Objective:...
Han pictorial stones constitute an important component of China’s ancient cultural heritage, and their depictions of chariots, horses, and human figures provide valuable visual evidence for investigating travel activities in the Han dynasty. Th...
This study compared the effects of a 5-week standing single-leg trunk-stability programme, a conventional floor-based trunk-stability programme, and active general conditioning on landing and cutting movement quality in early-adolescent male football...
Cardiovascular disease is a major cause of morbidity and mortality in patients with cancer and in cancer survivors. Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a largely genetically determined causal risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and calcific...
Objectives: Lupus nephritis (LN) is a severe complication of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and remains a critical challenge in clinical treatment. This study aimed to investigate the early-intervention effects and underlying mechanisms of Panax ...
Fixed-grid topology optimization is widely used for auxetic metamaterial design, but its discretization-dependent boundaries may require substantial refinement or post-processing, potentially altering slender ligaments and the resulting deformation m...
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