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Collective Effect of Color-Centers on Chiroptical Response of Carbon Nanotubes

Abstract The incorporation of color centers into carbon nanotubes (CNTs) offers a promising strategy to modulate their optical activity, particularly by tuning emission energies and enhancing photoluminescence efficiency. Here, our computational study aims to investigate the effe...

Diverse coupling between climate change, socio-economic factors and climate potential productivity in Africa

Africa’s accelerating climate warming has rendered its climate potential productivity (CPP) increasingly vulnerable, raising global concerns over biodiversity, water resources, and food security. Understanding the long‑term evolution of CPP and its driving mechanisms has therefor...

Effect of Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy in Reducing Intestinal Edema After Traumatic Liver Injury with Abdominal Packing: An Experimental Animal Study

Background: Traumatic liver injury in severe trauma and temporary abdominal closure can lead to postoperative intestinal edema and inflammation. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT) may mitigate these effects by modulating inflammatory pathways. This study investigated the effects of...

Numerical investigation of hybrid taper–grating coupling for broadband fiber-to-chip interfaces in silicon photonics

Abstract One of the most critical bottlenecks in photonic integrated circuit packaging in today’s scenario is efficient optical coupling between single-mode fibers (SMFs) and silicon-on-insulator (SOI) photonic chips. This is due to the severe mode-field diameter mismatch, which...

Glocally situated advocacy for transformative language education

Abstract Language ideologies have been widely examined in applied linguistics, yet less attention has been paid to how ideological awareness informs advocacy and transformative action in language education. This introductory article frames the contributions to this special issue...

The Transcription Factor PRDM15 Activates the PPP2R5C / PI3K ‐Akt Pathway to Promote Steroid Hormone Secretion in Goat Granulosa Cells

ABSTRACT The proliferation and steroid hormone production capacity of granulosa cells (GCs) are critical factors in determining follicular maturation and female reproductive success. This study aims to investigate the role of PPP2R5C in regulating GC function and to reveal its up...

Predicting Defaulter in Loan Approval using Machine Learning

In wide range of improving banking sector in recent times and the increasing trend of taking loans is one of a large population applies for bank loans. But the major problem all banking sectors face in this ever-changing economy is the increasing rate of loan defaults, and the ba...

Group-Aware Spectral Perturbation Consistency Network for Cross-Domain Few-Shot Hyperspectral Image Classification

Cross-domain few-shot hyperspectral image classification is challenged by scarce target-domain annotations, sensor-induced domain shifts, and spectral abnormalities, including band loss, noise, and spectral misalignment. To address these issues, we propose a Group-aware Spectral...

Influence of Polymer Hydrophilicity on Solvent-Driven Rare-Earth Element Binding Thermodynamics and Heat Capacity Changes

Abstract Rare-earth elements (REEs: La–Lu, Y, Sc) are critical to modern technology; however, their acquisition, purification, and separation from each other can be challenging, and current methods are often environmentally damaging. Metal-binding polymers are a promising materia...

Indispensable Interphase Passivation in Solvation‐Regulated Propylene Carbonate Electrolytes for Ah‐Level Lithium‐Ion Batteries at −50–120°C

ABSTRACT Propylene carbonate (PC) is a high‐permittivity, wide‐temperature solvent, but the Li + ‐PC co‐intercalation issue in graphite (Gr) anode curtailed its application in lithium‐ion batteries. Although solvation engineering suppresses co‐intercalation, long‐term cycling is...

Application of necessary condition analysis in tourism research: A review of trends and future prospects

This paper aims to discuss the increasing application of Necessary Condition Analysis (NCA) in the context of tourism studies. Although NCA has gained increasing attention among tourism scholars, a comprehensive understanding of how NCA has evolved within the field is still limit...

Policing at a Distance: Explaining Suburban Support for Urban Policing

Why would suburban residents use their own tax dollars to fund policing in jurisdictions where they do not live? Two traditions in policing studies generate divergent answers: one treats it as a spatially bounded public good whose support tracks direct benefit, the other as an in...

Foliar Chitosan, Paraburkholderia tropica and Bacillus infantis Alter Chitinase and β-1,3-Glucanase Activity Independently of Meloidogyne spp. Infection and Reduce Nematode Reproduction in Tomato

Root-knot nematodes (Meloidogyne spp.) are the most economically important group of plant-parasitic nematodes worldwide. We tested whether foliar elicitors induce defense enzymes in leaves and reduce nematode reproduction in the roots of the same plants. Tomato cv. Santa Clara, w...

Genomic global epidemiology and evolution of Escherichia coli ST131 clade A

During the 2010s, Escherichia coli ST131 clade A tested sensitive to most antibiotics. In the 2020s, Europe experienced outbreaks of fluoroquinolone-resistant ST131-A that contained CTX-M β-lactamases and OXA-48-like carbapenemases. We investigated the acquisition of different an...

Dynamic self-polarization of the nuclear spins in a GaAs quantum well

We demonstrate the self-polarization regime of nuclear spins, originally predicted in 1972 by Dyakonov and Perel and achieved here by lattice temperature reduction into the millikelvin range. We first identify a gallium arsenide-based quantum well structure as highly suited by de...

Use of split intein and myotropic AAV vectors enables effective preclinical gene therapy for dysferlinopathy

Limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type R2 (LGMDR2) is a genetic disorder characterized by progressive skeletal muscle weakness and degeneration. It is caused by mutations in the DYSF gene, which prevent dysferlin expression. Dysferlin protein is essential for muscle cell membrane re...

DisMed-LLM: De-Identifying Spanish Medical Text with Large Language Models

Abstract Patient privacy and compliance with regulations such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) necessitate the robust de-identification of clinical texts. This study investigates the feasibility, computational cost, and limitations of de-identifying Spanish medica...

Convolutional neural network for red blood cell transfusion prediction: A machine learning based study

Abstract Background Subjective, inconsistent clinician judgement on red blood cell (RBC) transfusion demand causes unnecessary blood wastage, increased perioperative safety risks, and poorly balanced hospital blood inventory. To tackle these persistent clinical limitations, we de...

Green Versus Sustainable Loans: The Impact on Firms' ESG Performance

ABSTRACT This paper studies the development of a firm's Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) performance following the issuance of “green loans” earmarked for green projects versus “sustainable loans” benchmarked by ESG criteria. Firms issuing green loans improve environme...

Sri Lankan ethnic cuisine on YouTube: a computational netnographic study of food-neophobic and food-neophilic audience reactions and the digital transmission of culinary heritage

Abstract Sri Lankan cuisine is a layered ethnic food heritage shaped by tropical agriculture and by centuries of Arab, Portuguese, Dutch, and British contact atop a South Indian rice-and-curry foundation, and it is increasingly encountered by global audiences not at the destinati...