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Sequential Meridian Based Acupuncture Combined With Standard Rehabilitation After Surgery for Severe Cubital Tunnel Syndrome

Objective: To evaluate the efficacy of sequential meridian-based acupuncture combined with standard rehabilitation in patients after surgery for severe cubital tunnel syndrome (CuTS). Methods: In this prospective randomized controlled trial, 40 patients with severe CuTS who under...

RCTE: A multi-class object detection framework for dental panoramic radiographs

Background Dental panoramic radiographs play an important role in oral disease screening, computer-aided diagnosis, and clinical treatment planning. However, accurate multi-class detection remains challenging due to small lesion sizes, ambiguous anatomical boundaries, insufficien...

Mechanism and parameter optimization method for ordered vibration conveying of maize ears

Ordered conveying of maize ears is critical for non-destructive handling of seed samples in plant breeding. However, the traditional response surface methodology (RSM) struggles to fit the strongly nonlinear characteristics of this process, and the underlying mechanism of ordered...

Exogenous glycine betaine enhances drought tolerance and medicinal quality in Glycyrrhiza uralensis seedlings

Abstract Background Drought stress constrains the growth and medicinal quality of Glycyrrhiza uralensis , but the concentration-dependent physiological basis of exogenous glycine betaine (GB)-mediated stress alleviation remains incompletely understood. Methods Seedlings were grow...

Fluoride Removal from Water by a La/Al Bimetallic Coordination Composite: Insights into Efficiency and Mechanisms

Elevated fluoride levels in aquatic systems have emerged as a critical public health concern, with chronic exposure linked to dental fluorosis, skeletal deformities, and compromised neurological function. This study introduces a La/Al bimetallic coordination composite adsorbent,...

Study on the Constitutive Model of Desert Sand–Fly Ash Cenosphere Lightweight Aggregate Concrete Under Steel Tube Confinement

The compressive behavior of desert sand–fly ash cenosphere lightweight aggregate concrete (DFCC) under steel tube confinement differs from that of conventional lightweight aggregate concrete, and existing constitutive models may not adequately characterize its stress–strain respo...

One Stone for Three Birds: Synergistic Preparation of Nitrogen-Enriched Biochar, High-Quality Bio-Oil, and Syngas via Pyrolysis of Waste Chinese Medicine Residues

Abstract This study addresses the resource waste and environmental pollution resulting from the conventional disposal of waste Chinese medicine residues (WCMRs) and examines the feasibility of high-value resource recovery using pyrolysis technology. Products obtained through oxyg...

Classification-aware conditional diffusion-augmented criss-cross graph transformer for EEG-based emotion recognition

Reliable electroencephalogram (EEG)-based emotion recognition remains challenging because labeled recordings are limited, noisy, non-stationary, and strongly subject dependent. This paper proposes a classification-aware conditional diffusion-augmented criss-cross graph transforme...

Scaled experimental investigation of air curtain smoke confinement against stack effect in entrance/exit passageways

Fire-induced smoke movement in underground transportation facilities poses serious threats to occupant safety and ventilation efficiency. Entrance/exit passageways in metro stations, composed of alternating horizontal and inclined segments, exhibit complex buoyancy-driven flow be...

An expert-level generalist AI for abdominal CT diagnosis

Artificial intelligence (AI) in radiology aspires to deliver expert-level diagnosis across diverse clinical tasks, yet existing supervised strategies remain limited in scope. We developed RADAR, a generalist vision-language model trained on more than 400,000 contrast-enhanced abd...

Melatonin modulates antioxidant-hormonal pathways to improve drought tolerance in cotton

Drought stress limits cotton growth and yield. Although exogenous melatonin (MT) can improve drought tolerance, the underlying mechanisms are still unclear. Optimal MT concentrations (100 µM for seed germination and 200 µM for seedlings) were identified in the cotton cultivar Zho...

Establishment Reference Intervals Using the Kosmic Algorithm for Hemoglobin Levels and Platelet, Red Blood Cell, and White Blood Cell Counts

INTRODUCTION: Reference intervals (RIs) for complete blood count (CBC) are crucial for assessment of overall health status and effective diagnosis of diseases. However, the RI data for CBC currently used in clinical practice in China are mainly derived from the Han Chinese popula...

Association between the ratio of serum uric acid to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol in early pregnancy and the incidence of gestational diabetes mellitus: a prospective cohort study

To investigate the ratio of uric acid (UA) to high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C) (UHR) in early pregnancy and the risk of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), and to evaluate its potential predictive value as a risk indicator for early identification of GDM among pregna...

Genomic insights into Bacillus velezensis FB-4 as a multifaceted biocontrol agent against Valsa canker caused by Valsa pyri on Korla fragrant pear

Pear Valsa canker, caused by Valsa pyri , poses a severe threat to the sustainable cultivation of Korla fragrant pear. The environmental concerns associated with chemical fungicides have driven the search for biological control alternatives. Endophytic bacteria represent a promis...

Rotational canal scheduling in two oasis irrigation districts using a weighted composite objective and a sigmoid-adaptive genetic algorithm

Rotational canal scheduling in arid irrigation districts must satisfy coupled water-volume, timing, and hydraulic constraints while balancing modeled seepage loss and the dispersion of trunk-canal discharge levels. A constrained model with a weighted composite objective was solve...

Coupling effects of biostimulant application and planting density for synergistic enhancement of sorghum and amelioration of saline-alkali soil

A randomized block experiment was conducted to investigate combined effects of planting density and biostimulants on sorghum performance and saline-alkali soil properties. Treatments included two densities (S, C) and three biostimulant applications: CK (control), sole γ-aminobuty...

Methionine addiction in oral squamous cell carcinoma: a metabolic vulnerability targeted by engineered bacteria

Metabolic reprogramming is a defining hallmark of malignant transformation, and tumor-specific amino acid addiction has emerged as a promising therapeutic axis for precision oncology. Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC) is an aggressive head and neck malignancy marked by limited...