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Compressive payoff-to-signal transduction can separate the start and sustain thresholds of cooperation

Cooperation is often difficult to start but easier to sustain once established. We ask whether this asymmetry can arise from payoff-to-signal transduction before objective payoffs enter action comparison. In a minimal contribution-sharing game, at a given return factor, cooperati...

Service-continuity-oriented assessment and closed-loop governance of compound flood-season risk at a piedmont hospital in Beijing

Abstract Healthcare facilities in piedmont transition zones can be exposed simultaneously to slope instability, hillslope runoff, local waterlogging, access disruption, and lifeline failures during extreme rainfall. This study examines a specialized kidney hospital in Beijing and...

PrimerDesigner: Designing Efficient Primers for Synthesizing Large Protein Libraries Without Cross-Hybridization

Efficient synthesis of large protein libraries is key to making high-throughput biochemistry scalable. Advances in DNA microarray technology now allow more than 170,000 designed oligonucleotides to be synthesized in a single array, dramatically reducing cost and enabling pooled a...

A Highly Sensitive SERS Platform Based on Silver Nanocubes for the Detection of Ethylparaben in Aquatic Environments

Abstract Ethylparaben (EP), a widely used preservative, is ubiquitous in aquatic environments and poses potential ecological risks. To address this issue, there is an urgent need to develop portable, rapid, and sensitive detection technologies. Hence, this study constructed a sur...

Insecticidal Activity of Essential Oils from Syzygium aromaticum and Foeniculum vulgare Var. dulce and Their Major Compounds Against Spodoptera frugiperda and Physiological Selectivity for Trichogramma pretiosum

Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) causes significant losses in major crops and is mainly controlled with chemical insecticides and genetically modified plants; however, improper use of these strategies has led to the development of resistant populations. We evaluated...

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...

Impacts of COVID-19 on well-being during deployment and the role of leadership

Introduction: The COVID-19 pandemic created new challenges, adding or compounding the effects of many existing stressors that military personnel face during deployment. While these stressors can negatively impact individual and organizational outcomes by worsening well-being and...

Effect of the Number of Free Faces on Excavated Volume, Advance, and Specific Charge in Model-Scale Single-Hole Blasting: Experiments and Numerical Simulations

Abstract A free face is an exposed, unconfined rock surface that allows blasted rock to move or expand freely upon detonation. The number of free faces fundamentally governs blasting performance in both surface and underground excavation, yet its effects have not been sufficientl...

Infant Attention to Eyes Versus Mouth Varies With Mouth Movement Speed, Family History of Autism and Language Development

Abstract Purpose Patterns of visual attention to faces are mixed in infants with a family history of autism relative to controls. Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) often co-occurs with autism and could represent one source of variance in findings. Heterogeneity in l...

Systemic anticancer therapy for refractory malignant bowel obstruction in advanced cancer patients: a retrospective cohort study

Objectives Malignant bowel obstruction (MBO) is a common but severe complication of advanced cancer. The role of systemic anticancer therapy in patients with inoperable MBO remains poorly defined. This study aimed to assess the efficacy of systemic anticancer therapy in this sett...

The Mythical Performativity Of Anti-Politics: Fashion And Mimesis On The Brazilian Far Right

This essay examines how the Brazilian far right has used the discourse of anti-politics to construct a model of mythical performativity and promote conservative ideology by mobilising the dimension of the sensible. Intuitively, it uses uchronia, a central element of fashion as a...

Watching to learn: video engagement and item-level exam performance in a flipped classroom

To assess the association between each student’s engagement with the video-based lectures (VBLs) of a flipped classroom environment and their accuracy on the corresponding final-exam items. Retrospective analysis of two consecutive cohorts (2021/22, 2022/23) of an undergraduate N...

Carbonic Acid (H2CO3) Decomposes to Its Monohydrate (H2CO3·H2O) and CO2 on Decompression

Abstract The presence of H2O and CO2 on the icy moons in our solar system and in potentially habitable water worlds makes the understanding of phase stabilities and structure–property relations of phases in the H2O–CO2 system highly relevant for astrophysical research. Here we sh...

Integrated experimental and network pharmacology evaluation of a defined phytochemical combination in diabetes-related models

Aim This study evaluated a predefined combination of curcumin, quercetin, forskolin, and gymnemic acid using both experimental and computational approaches. Methods The phytochemical combination of curcumin, quercetin, forskolin, gymnemic acid was assessed through diabetes-relate...

Ag Reinforcement in Pd–Ag/MnO2 Nanoensembles Boosts the Electrocatalytic Performance in Low-Temperature Direct Ethanol Fuel Cells: Studies on Ethanol Oxidation and Oxygen Reduction Reaction

Abstract The present investigation involves the validation of Pd–Ag catalyst nanoparticles (NPs) supported on MnO2 nanostructures at both ends of a direct ethanol fuel cell (DEFC) operating in an alkaline environment at low temperatures. The studies are based on evaluating electr...

Evaluation of dental implant stability in the posterior mandible via resonance frequency analysis in patients treated with vitamin D3 (25-hydroxycholecalciferol) and vitamin K2 (menaquinone) for vitamin D deficiency

Abstract Objectives The aim of this prospective clinical comparative study is to comparatively evaluate the effect of Vitamin D3 with and without Vitamin K2 supplementation on dental implant stability in the posterior mandible during the osseointegration process in patients with...

Structural basis for regulating lipopolysaccharide transmembrane transport

Gram-negative bacteria are surrounded by a multilayered cell envelope with a mostly impermeable outer membrane that provides intrinsic resistance to many antibiotics1–5. The outer membrane is an asymmetrical bilayer with phospholipids in the inner leaflet and lipopolysaccharide (...

Intelligent Control of an Autonomous Octorotor Flight Drone Using Image-Based Visual Servoing (IBVS) Under Wind Disturbances

This paper presents a fuzzy-adaptive image-based visual servoing (FAIBVS) command and control system for an octorotor UAV that operates in both wind-disturbed (WD) and nominal circumstances. By combining image-based visual servoing (IBVS) with a fuzzy logic supervisor (FLS), the...

Adjustment Disorder Symptoms Among Parents of Soldiers in Mandatory Service During Wartime

ABSTRACT Background Parents of soldiers remain relatively understudied in wartime mental health research, and adjustment disorder in this population has yet to be examined. Objective Grounded in the transactional stress model, the study explored adjustment disorder symptoms and t...

Intercultural creativity as criticality; exploring ways of knowing through translanguaging, poetry and dúchas in a borderlands space

Abstract In this article, I draw on translanguaging, poetry as knowing and critical pedagogy alongside Anzaldúan informed decolonial feminist thinking and the precolonial Irish Gaelic concept of dúchas, to inform a transdisciplinary intercultural creativity praxis-paradigm. Accor...