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Pressured by the Comments? Chinese Journalists in the Face of Online Violence

In the increasingly digital context of China’s public sphere, journalists frequently encounter online violence that threatens their professional autonomy, emotional wellbeing, and freedom of expression. Drawing on 20 semi-structured interviews with journalists representing a cros...

Nexus between firm performance and cash holding adjustment – an insightful analysis using dynamic panel data regression

Purpose This paper aims to attempt to investigate whether firms have a target corporate cash holding (CCH) as well as determining firms speed of adjustment towards targeted corporate cash holding (SOA-CCH) and finally analysing firms performance impact on SOA-CCH. Design/methodol...

Standardizing Nursing Professional Development Roles Using the 2016 NPD Practice Model

In 2017, expansion across a large Midwestern health system prompted a review of Nursing Professional Development Practitioner (NPDP) roles. A system-wide analysis revealed inconsistent role expectations, responsibilities, and alignment with professional standards. The organizatio...

SGLT2 inhibitor ameliorates hypertension by regulating the CYP4A/20-HETE pathway in the kidney

Sodium-Glucose Transport Protein 2 inhibitors (SGLT2i), initially developed as antidiabetic agents and now established as foundational therapies for heart failure, have also shown antihypertensive effects in clinical trials involving patients with diabetes and heart failure. Howe...

Informing Data-Based Suicide Prevention – Evaluation of the Real-Time Suicide Observatory in Cork and Kerry

The Suicide Observatory in Cork and Kerry was established to address the urgent need for real-time suicide data in Ireland to enable timely suicide prevention. This study aimed to assess the performance and efficiency of the Suicide Observatory to inform decisions about its upsca...

Digital 3D-Printed Surgical Guide for Removal of a Separated Instrument at the Maxillary Sinus Floor and Apical Microsurgery

This case report describes a maxillary first molar with chronic apical periodontitis (CAP) and a separated endodontic instrument migrated to the maxillary sinus floor, which was successfully managed with digital guide-assisted endodontic microsurgery. A 20-year-old female patient...

Elucidating the Effect of Ferroelectricity in Bismuth Ferrite Solar Cells

ABSTRACT To investigate the photoresponse of metal‐ferroelectric‐metal (MFM) devices, we sandwich polycrystalline bismuth ferrite between two electrodes of similar work function. We use calcium‐substitution on the A‐site to tailor the properties of bismuth ferrite Bi 1‐x Ca x FeO...

The Proteinase Activated Receptor-2 mediates Protective Immunity in Early Experimental Leishmaniasis

Resistance to Leishmania (L.) major depends on the development of a L. major-specific Th1 response, while Th2 differentiation results in susceptibility. We previously showed that the early microenvironment of infected skin delivers important signals for T cell differentiation. We...

Natural Compounds of Plant Origin–Promising Agents in the Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), or antibiotic resistance of microorganisms, is becoming a global threat to healthcare, and strains with multidrug resistance (MDR) pose significant challenges for drug development programs. New mechanisms of antimicrobial traits render existing dru...

Barriers and drivers of industry 4.0 adoption: insights from a bibliometric analysis

Purpose This study aims to map the intellectual landscape of research on the barriers and drivers influencing Industry 4.0 (I4.0) adoption. By combining bibliometric and systematic review methods, it identifies the main contributors, research clusters and thematic trends shaping...

How core self-evaluation shapes meaningful work: a conceptual framework

Purpose This conceptual paper aims to address the underexplored role of core self-evaluations (CSE) – a higher-order personality construct integrating self-esteem, self-efficacy, locus of control, and emotional stability – in shaping perceptions of meaningful work (MW), a key voc...

Templated growth of phase-pure two-dimensional perovskite for durable solar cells

Abstract The impure phase in typical solution-processed two-dimensional/three-dimensional (2D/3D) perovskite heterostructures limit the performance and stability of perovskite solar cells. We overcome this limitation through a templated growth strategy utilizing excess lead iodid...

It Ran Is Not It Was Right: A Policy-Conditioned Benchmark of Ten Text-to-SQL Architectures on an Enterprise Database

Enterprise text-to-SQL assistants are usually judged by whether the SQL runs. On a realistic company database that is misleading: a query can run and still be wrong, return rows the asker may not see, ignore a rule in a policy document, or answer a question that should be refused...

Exploration of the relevancy of nutritional knowledge and self‐perceived nutrition competency of the UK Optometric Workforce

Abstract Purpose This study investigated the self‐perceived competence, knowledge, confidence and attitudes of the UK optometric workforce with regard to nutritional advice for patients. Methods A validated questionnaire (NUTrition COMPetence) was used to survey the optometric wo...

HRCred: Revocation-Consistent Hardware-Rooted Credentials for Cross-Domain Industrial Cyber–Physical Systems

Mobile industrial devices increasingly cross administrative domains. A maintenance terminal certified in one factory can be dispatched to another, while autonomous vehicles cross fog domains while reaching cloud digital twins. Existing solutions force a trade-off. Long-lived cert...

About love and algorithms: Navigating the logics of contemporary dating

Digital dating platforms have become the primary architects of modern intimacy, deploying algorithmic infrastructures that actively colonize the emotional landscape. While scholarship often interrogates dominant dating logics, it frequently neglects the fraught tension that users...

Comparable outcomes with reoperative versus primary total arch replacement

Abstract Purpose Resternotomy during total arch replacement surgery is associated with adverse outcomes. We aimed to determine the accuracy of this statement. Methods From January 2008 to February 2021, 384 consecutive total arch replacement surgeries were performed at our instit...

HIOF•The Field — Part B: Non-Computational Causation and the Two Readings of One Wall

Holographic Informational Ontology Framework - The Field (HIOF•tF) A short, non-technical companion to the four-part HIOF-tF series. Written for readers with a background in physics, information theory, or philosophy of science - not readers already familiar with the author's wid...

Novel Fluorinated Derivatives of 2-Phenyl-1H-Indole

The indole core is a structural component of a huge number of biologically active natural and synthesized compounds and pharmaceuticals, and their efficient synthesis is an important challenge. Fluorinated indoles have attracted considerable attention, since it was established th...

Valorization of Beach-Cast Biomass from the Invasive Seaweed Rugulopteryx okamurae on the Moroccan Coast: A Comparative Assessment of Extraction Conditions for Sodium Alginate Recovery

Rugulopteryx okamurae is an aggressively invasive seaweed whose proliferation along the Moroccan coastline represents both an ecological problem and an underexploited source of biomass. This work highlights the isolation of sodium alginate from R. okamurae under four combinations...