Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu

Exploring Romanian Misinformation with GraphRAG: Community-Level Narratives of COVID-19

Predefined thematic taxonomies can obscure how misinformation narratives emerge, overlap, and change over time. One way to address this limitation is by developing bottom-up data-driven approaches that identify narratives directly from data. We present a pipeline that extracts en...

Measuring research-related academic performance in a comprehensive university: individual heterogeneity, institutional context, and multidimensional output profiles

Abstract Assessing research-related academic performance remains a central challenge in scientometrics because scholarly output is multidimensional, unevenly distributed across individuals, and embedded in disciplinary and institutional contexts. This study examines the relative...

The adaptive coordination and administrative resilience: lessons from European Union (EU) migration governance

Purpose This article examines how repeated coordination practices contribute to administrative resilience in multilevel systems undergoing formal institutional change. Focusing on European Union (EU) migration governance, it asks how coordinated action continues when responsibili...

Nail-Patella Syndrome in a 76-Year-Old Woman: Multisystem Phenotype, Diagnostic Delay, and Clinical Implications

Nail-patella syndrome (NPS) is a rare autosomal dominant multisystem disorder characterized by a variable combination of nail abnormalities, patellar hypoplasia or dysplasia, elbow involvement, and iliac horns, with possible renal, ophthalmological, neurological, and skeletal man...

A Threat Modeling Prioritization and Automation Framework for Composable Architectures

Organizations face escalating cyber risk, expanding attack surfaces, increasingly automated adversaries, and constrained security resources. Organizations are looking for practical mechanisms to improve security resilience by transforming threat modeling from a periodic design ac...

The Apian Universe in Eastern Christian Hymnography

Despite the considerable scholarly attention devoted to Byzantine hymnography in recent decades, its content remains insufficiently explored. While most research has focused primarily on its historical development and liturgical function, the present study examines one of the man...

De-Escalation of Broad-Spectrum and Last-Resort Antibiotics in Critically Ill Adults with Gram-Negative Infections: A Scoping Review and Evidence-Informed Framework for Tertiary-Care ICUs

Background: Early broad-spectrum empirical therapy is life-saving in critical illness, but its unnecessary continuation drives resistance, toxicity, and cost; antibiotic de-escalation is the principal stewardship strategy for resolving this tension, yet its evidence base is fragm...

Occupational Exposure Complexity Characterization to Support Chemical Exposure Assessment Strategy Selection

Contemporary occupational environments are characterized by complex exposure scenarios involving multiple contaminants, exposure pathways, and variable working conditions. Occupational exposure assessment approaches provide complementary information but offer limited guidance for...

Voice-Based Screening of Depression and Anxiety Using Machine Learning and Deep Learning: A Scoping Review of Methods and Clinical Readiness

Despite the high global prevalence of depressive and anxiety disorders, access to early clinical assessment remains limited for many. Although this field has grown rapidly, existing reviews have focused primarily on technical performance, with limited systematic attention to whet...

Perioperative Care of Cancer Patients Treated with Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: Current Evidence and Clinical Considerations—A Scoping Review

Background: Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have moved from the metastatic setting into neoadjuvant, adjuvant, and fully perioperative strategies across several solid tumors. This shift has created a new clinical interface between medical oncology, surgery, anesthesia, pathol...

Association of Serum 25-Hydroxyvitamin D, Inflammatory, and Metabolic Biomarkers with Non-Proliferative Diabetic Retinopathy in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Cross-Sectional Study

Background: Non-proliferative diabetic retinopathy (NPDR) is a common microvascular complication of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) associated with chronic inflammation, metabolic dysregulation, and multiple interacting systemic factors. This study evaluated the associations of i...