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- BiologyOpen access
Although subsurface drip irrigation (SDI) is widely used for shallow-rooted crops in arid regions, it still suffers from exogenous clogging, and effective, systematic physical protection measures are lacking. Therefore, a 3 × 4 two-factor factorial field experiment was conducted...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Grid-following photovoltaic (PV) inverters inject fault currents whose magnitude and phase are set by the control mode active during the disturbance, so directional overcurrent relay (DOCR) settings coordinated for one inverter response can miscoordinate after a mode change. This...
- Biology
Purpose This study aims to evaluate the effect of germinated Bambara groundnut seed flour (GBGF) and crayfish flour (CF) on the proximate composition, energy value, minerals, amino acid profile, antinutritional factors and sensory properties of okpa. Design/methodology/approach B...
- Materials & Energy
ABSTRACT The plastic pollution crisis highlights the urgent demand for bio‐based biodegradable polymers. Polyamide 4 (PA4) is a promising candidate, yet its application is severely limited by an extremely narrow thermal processing window (≈2°C). This work broadens this window thr...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Maritime communities and political allegiance in Dorset's ports before the English Civil War
This article examines how maritime economic pressures shaped political allegiance in the Dorset port towns of Poole, Weymouth and Lyme Regis during the early seventeenth century. Drawing on borough records, maritime petitions, port books and parish material, it explores the inter...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Objectives: Chronic anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) deficiency changes knee biomechanics and may negatively impact patellofemoral alignment, leading to early degenerative changes. We evaluated radiological alterations in patellofemoral alignment between knees with chronic unilat...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Abstract Clay minerals are key constituents of subsurface caprocks and play a critical role in the long-term containment performance of underground energy storage systems. However, their cyclic mechanical response remains insufficiently understood, despite repeated pressure fluct...
- Society & Economics
Purpose: Yips is a psycho-neuromuscular impediment disrupting the execution of sports skills. It remains unclear how the modulation of descending motor pathway activity differs between conditions with and without yips symptoms. This is attributable to (1) the difficulty in elicit...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Determinants of Vietnamese SMEs’ decision to start exporting
Purpose Understanding the determinants of international market entry is critical for the growth and survival of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in emerging economies. This research examines the key internal and external factors driving the export entry decisions of Viet...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Vascular device practices in extremely preterm infants: an international cross-sectional survey
Abstract Objective To explore global practices in vascular device selection, securement, and monitoring for extremely preterm infants, and to assess regional variation. Study design A web-based cross-sectional survey was completed by one respondent per neonatal unit. Result We re...
- Engineering & Technology
Abstract Low-abundance biomarkers in whole blood hold immense clinical value for disease diagnosis. However, their detection remains constrained by the difficulty of conventional assays in simultaneously achieving high sensitivity, rapid turnaround, and operational simplicity. He...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Objective To examine the association between dental caries experience, measured using the decayed, missing, and filled deciduous teeth index (dmft), and parent-reported oral health-related quality of life (OHRQoL) among preschool children in Changde, northwestern Hunan,...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
DC microgrids (MGs) are considered an efficient solution for integrating distributed energy sources. In these networks during dynamic power imbalances, the stored energy in the capacitor of DC bus provides the natural tendency to resist voltage changes, equivalent to the physical...
- AI & Computing
Hypothesis-level reference argumentation network for case-based clinical reasoning in medical AI
Deep learning systems have achieved remarkable success in medical image analysis; however, most explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) methods remain descriptive, providing post-hoc explanations without actively validating diagnostic decisions. While concept-based and retrieva...
- Society & Economics
Purpose This paper aims to explain why digitally supported continuous improvement can remain visibly active while becoming learning-weak in enacted practice under trace visibility. Design/methodology/approach Using a qualitative, mechanism-oriented cross-case analysis of eight ex...
- Materials & Energy
ABSTRACT Photocatalytic methanol dehydrogenation requires not only charge separation but, more critically, synchronized and rapid consumption of photogenerated electrons and holes—an unmet challenge in conventional Pt‐based photocatalysts. Here we report a photocatalytic platform...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
In this study, The K-Mn-Al and K-Al catalysts were prepared by a coprecipitation method and applied to the catalytic oxidation of chlorobenzene (CB). The results showed that K-Mn-Al exhibited better catalytic performance, higher CO 2 selectivity, excellent cyclic stability, and s...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Statistical commutators with applications to estimation, inference, and regularization tuning
Abstract We develop a classical operator framework, the statistical commutator , to study estimation and regularization through the non-commutativity of statistical operators. For a dominated parametric model, the score-transport operator $$\Lambda _\theta g:= \partial _\theta g...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Neuroinflammation drives secondary brain injury after acute ischemic stroke. Minocycline, a tetracycline antibiotic with anti-inflammatory properties, has shown promise in preclinical and early-phase trials. The recent EMPHASIS trial necessitates an updated evidence synthesis. We...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
A ZnS–carbon heterostructured electrode was synthesized using different initial carbon loadings and systematically investigated for pseudocapacitive energy storage. The study focuses on elucidating how carbon loading influences the structural, interfacial, and electrochemical cha...