University of Thessaly

EgoDatasets: A Dataset-Centric Survey and Taxonomy for Egocentric Vision and Action Anticipation

Egocentric vision has become a central paradigm for studying human behaviour, interaction, and intent from a first-person perspective, supporting tasks that range from action recognition and temporal segmentation to future-action anticipation. Progress in this area depends strong...

Liquid Biopsy-Guided Surgical Decision-Making in Oligometastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer: Toward Dynamic Risk Stratification in the Multidisciplinary Era

Oligometastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is defined anatomically by a threshold of five or fewer metastatic lesions across three or fewer organs. That definition is a proxy for a biological question it cannot answer: whether the metastatic process has been arrested at a...

Assessing Behavioral and Environmental Facets of Obesity Unobtrusively Utilizing Digital Tools: Introducing the BETTER4U Indicators

ABSTRACT Understanding obesity involves evaluating numerous contributing factors. Collecting the necessary data for this can impose a significant burden on both research participants during clinical studies and real‐life deployments of digital tools aiding obesity management. The...

Exploring transcriptomic and genomic latent variable correction approaches in differential expression analysis

Abstract Background Differential expression analysis is a central tool for studying the biological processes altered in human diseases via transcriptomic signatures. However, transcriptomic datasets are systematically confounded by latent variables from two distinct sources: unme...

Spatial Overlap Between Wind Power Licensing Areas and Potential Grazing Lands in Greece: A National Screening Assessment

Wind energy expansion constitutes a central component of Greece’s energy transition. However, the spatial allocation of Wind Power Production Plants (WPPs) may coincide with potential grazing lands and Natura 2000 protected areas, creating potential land-use and conservation inte...

Regulated Cell Death in Reproductive Biology: Mechanisms and Therapeutic Opportunities

Regulated cell death (RCD) has emerged as a fundamental determinant of cellular homeostasis and tissue remodeling, extending far beyond the classical concept of apoptosis. The identification of emerging RCD pathways, including ferroptosis, pyroptosis, necroptosis, cuproptosis, PA...

Prognostic Utility and Clinical Impact of Soluble Urokinase Plasminogen Activator Receptor in Adult Emergency and Acute-Care Patients: A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis

Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) reflects systemic immune activation and biological vulnerability and has been proposed as a cross-diagnostic prognostic biomarker in emergency care. We systematically reviewed full-text English-language reports published fr...

Growth, Heavy Metal Accumulation, and Translocation in Chamomile (Matricaria recutita L.) and Safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.) Under Severe Cd and Pb Contamination in an Alkaline Soil

Severe cadmium (Cd) and lead (Pb) contamination can compromise the productive and safe use of agricultural and degraded soils, yet plant tolerance, metal partitioning, and removal efficiency under alkaline soil conditions remain insufficiently resolved. This study aimed to evalua...

Differential Pathways to Depressive Symptoms in Students With and Without Special Educational Needs: The Role of Emotional Reactivity and Parent–Teacher Relationships

Social and emotional competence (SEC) is a core target of school-based social and emotional learning (SEL), yet learner variability may alter how relational experiences and emotion-regulation difficulties are associated with mental-health outcomes. Depressive symptoms were treate...

Screening Two-Dimensional Materials for Topological Candidates with Interpretable Machine Learning

The development of quantum computers is based on discovering materials capable of protecting qubits from environmental noise and preserving quantum coherence. Topological materials have emerged as highly promising candidates for hosting fault-tolerant topological qubits. In this...

Extreme low and high temperature treatments as a non-chemical control strategy for the almond moth, Ephestia cautella in dried figs

Mortality responses of different developmental stages of the almond moth, Ephestia cautella (Walker) (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), to extreme low and high temperatures were evaluated under laboratory and field-scale conditions to assess the feasibility of temperature-based control st...

Distinct Evolutionary Trajectories of Major Intracellular Proteolytic Systems in Gilthead Seabream and European Seabass

Intracellular proteolysis is essential for protein turnover, cellular homeostasis, stress responses, immune function, development and tissue remodeling. In teleost fishes, ancient vertebrate and teleost-specific whole-genome duplication events (1R, 2R, Ts3R) increased gene copy n...

Cellular, Acellular, and Matrix‐Like Placental Products for Diabetic Foot Ulcers: A 12‐Week Randomised‐Trial Meta‐Analysis

ABSTRACT Placental‐derived cellular, acellular, and matrix‐like products (CAMPs) are widely used as adjuncts to standard care for diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs), but trials differ in product class, comparator, and healing window. We estimated the effect of adjunctive placental‐deriv...

Small Ruminant Farms as Managed Ecosystems: A Conceptual Framework for Components and Interactions, and the Role of Health Management

Livestock farms are a distinctive type of agricultural ecosystem wherein farmed animals interact continuously with other living organisms and with the physical environment of the farm under the influence of human management. The objectives of this paper are the proposal of a fram...

Diagnostic Performance of the Lymphocyte Transformation Test and Patch Testing in Delayed Hypersensitivity Drug Reactions

Background: Cutaneous adverse drug reactions (CADRs) occur in 2–5% of inpatients, primarily due to delayed (T-cell-mediated) reactions, such as maculopapular exanthemas (MPEs). The lymphocyte transformation test (LTT) detects drug-specific T-cell responses with varied sensitivity...

Recovery and characterization of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) from Phalaris aquatica L. energy crop: towards the Mediterranean biorefinery sustainability and biodiversity valorisation

Phalaris aquatica L., a perennial Mediterranean species with potential as a sustainable energy crop, represents an underexplored lignocellulosic resource for advanced bio-based material production. This study investigated the feasibility of converting P. aquatica biomass into cel...

Mapping the Intellectual and Conceptual Structure of Early Childhood Science Education: Epistemic Continuity, Thematic Evolution, and Emerging Research Fronts

This study maps the development, intellectual roots, and conceptual transformation of early childhood science education between 1990 and July of 2026 through performance analysis and science mapping of 1147 English-language research articles indexed in the Scopus Social Sciences...

ESG Performance and Corporate Bankruptcy Risk: A Pan‐European Analysis

ABSTRACT This study analyzes how Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance affects bankruptcy risk, using data from publicly listed firms across 17 European countries over a 21‐year period. We find that higher ESG scores are significantly associated with lower bankr...

Early Clinical Mediation in End-of-Life Disputes: A Procedural Justice Analysis

Abstract Conflicts arise when surrogates request life-sustaining treatments that clinicians consider medically futile. This article proposes that early presumptive medical mediation with opt-out provisions should become the default initial offer for resolving such disputes. Groun...

Biologic Therapy in Pregnant Women with Plaque Psoriasis: A Narrative Review of Maternal and Fetal Safety Considerations

Background: Psoriasis in pregnancy is a highly prevalent inflammatory condition worldwide, with patients asking how the disease itself, as well as the medications that they take, would affect the general health of the fetus and the course of pregnancy. Objectives: This narrative...