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How Do Voters Reason about Intraparty Democracy? Constraints Rather than Influence

Widespread intraparty reforms empower party members and create coprincipalship with party voters. This alters the structure of democratic delegation and may lead to policy drift and ineffective accountability. Existing research is vague on how voters see this arrangement, and we...

Seroprevalence and Clinical Characteristics of Hepatitis D Virus Infection in Korean Patients with Chronic Hepatitis B, Liver Cirrhosis, and Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Background/Aims: Hepatitis delta virus (HDV) coinfection exacerbates clinical outcomes in chronic hepatitis B (CHB) patients.With emerging HDV-targeted therapeutics, accurate prevalence and clinical impact data are essential.In this study, the seroprevalence, clinical significanc...

Hukou system reform, agricultural production transformation and China’s food security

This paper explores how accelerated agricultural labour migration affects China’s grain output and how its underlying channels differ in the short and long run. Launched in 2011, the hukou system reform eased restrictions on rural labourers settling in urban areas. Using provinci...

Medical tourism as a tool of preventive medicine

Objective. To substantiate the role of medical tourism for preventive medicine system considering morbidity patterns in the Stavropol Krai and the Russian Federation. Material and methods. Regulatory framework, data from the Federal State Statistics Service (2020—2024) and practi...

NASUP past president letter to membership

Purpose The article highlights the experience of the former president of the National Association for School-University Partnerships (NASUP). Design/methodology/approach The article is written in an epistolary, narrative style. Findings Due to the nature of the piece, there are n...

Boosting AI-based speech performance assessment through pairwise comparative scoring of crowd data

Open-ended performance assessments can capture intellectual status that is difficult to measure using highly constrained response formats. However, their practical use is limited by the difficulty of obtaining reliable, scalable, and interpretable scores. Recent advances in large...

Order reduction of continuous-time interval systems using Padé-derived compact search bounds and mountain gazelle optimization

Model order reduction of interval systems is crucial for simplifying comprehension and designing reliable controllers while retaining uncertainty bounds. This study introduces a hybrid order-reduction framework that combines split-merge reformulation, Padé approximation, and the...

A combined experimental and numerical study of heat losses in upward-facing helical cavity receivers

Cavity receivers improve the thermal efficiency of concentrated solar systems because the small aperture traps reflected sunlight and limits re-radiation and convective losses from the absorber. This study examines a small upward-facing helical cavity receiver, with an aperture d...

Untimely follow-up after cervical cancer screening: A qualitative study among healthcare providers in Flanders (Belgium)

Background Cervical cancer remains a global health burden despite being largely preventable through vaccination, screening, and timely treatment. Delays in follow-up after abnormal screening undermine the effectiveness of organized cervical cancer screening programmes. In Flander...

BBR-RHE Co-Loaded Nanoemulsion Potentiates Anti-PD-L1 Efficacy via Lipid Metabolic Reprogramming in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer

Abstract Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) therapy is limited by the poor efficacy of anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (aPD-L1) monotherapy, with dysregulated lipid metabolism in the tumor microenvironment (TME) driving immunosuppression. Herein, a nanoemulsion co-loaded with be...

A split attractor design for rapidly writing a navigational goal

Recurrent attractor networks are widely thought to form the basis of working memory1–3, but how they can be rapidly switched on and off is unclear4–7. Here we investigate stability and switching in a recurrent circuit of the fly navigation centre8. h∆K and PFG neurons are recurre...

ASIC1 Emerges as an ATC-Associated Candidate from an Integrative Dual miRNA-mRNA Analysis

Background/Objectives: Anaplastic thyroid carcinoma (ATC) is a highly aggressive malignancy in which coordinated loss of tumor-suppressive miRNAs may contribute to reciprocal upregulation of shared target genes. We aimed to identify common miRNA targets associated with ATC and to...

The effect of air pollution exposure on mortality: a time series study in Sivas, Türkiye

Using a generalized linear model (GLM), the relationships between daily changes in air pollutants and mortality rates in Sivas Central District (Türkiye) were examined over five years (2017–2021), controlling for long–term time trends, seasonal effects, and meteorological factors...

Detection and Targeted Pesticide Application for Tea Diseases Based on YOLOv12 and 3D Vision

As a globally significant economic crop, tea yield and quality are strongly affected by disease control. Traditional manual inspection is inefficient and subjective, while non-targeted chemical application may increase pesticide use and environmental burden. To support lesion-lev...

The Unique Role of Mental Health Nurse Practitioners to Improve Healthcare Access: A Qualitative Study

The prevalence of mental health and substance use disorders is growing in Aotearoa New Zealand, with rising unmet need and health services under immense pressure. Nurse practitioners (NPs) have the potential to transform healthcare delivery and improve healthcare access and healt...

Career Pathway Interview: Dr. Eimear Egan, Associate Director at AtkinsRéalis —From Aquatic Ecological Science to Influencing How Major Infrastructure Is Planned and Delivered in Ireland

AS declares he is an Associate Editor of Limnology and Oceanography Bulletin and an employee of AtkinsRéalis Ireland.

Jetted helical anchor installation as a torque reducing technique

Helical piles and anchors are being increasingly considered for offshore renewable energy applications. However, the very high installation torque required at the scales relevant to offshore use remains a significant barrier to their deployment. This paper investigates a torque-r...

Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Reveal CHCHD3 as a Therapeutic Target to Activate cGAS-STING and Overcome Immunosuppression in Lung Adenocarcinoma

Abstract A substantial proportion of treatment-naive lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) patients exhibit intrinsic resistance to neoadjuvant chemoimmunotherapy, highlighting the need for mechanism-driven therapeutic strategies. Here, we performed integrated single-cell RNA sequencing (sc...

Early life stress caused glucose homeostasis impairment and anxiety-like behavior along with oxidative stress in adolescent male rat offspring: Protective effect of saffron extract

Early life stress (ELS) significantly contributes to metabolic and psychological disorders by triggering oxidative stress and disrupting the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal (HPA) axis. This research examined ELS effects on redox status, along with anxiety-like behavior, in adolesc...

Macroscopic and mesoscopic mechanical behavior of the interface between piles and unsaturated sand under vertical cyclic loading

Understanding the degradation of pile bearing capacity under vertical cyclic loading requires an in-depth investigation of the pile–unsaturated sand interface. This study employs a multi-scale approach—combining visualized cyclic loading tests, particle image velocimetry (PIV), a...