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Health Literacy, Psychological Distress and Fertility Attitudes Among Postpartum Women: A Mediation Analysis

Background/Objectives: Declining fertility rates pose a major demographic and public health challenge across Europe, including Croatia. Although health literacy and psychological well-being may influence reproductive decision-making, their relationships with fertility attitudes r...

Energy drink consumption among undergraduate students: Prevalence, regional variations, associated factors, and adverse effects – A systematic review and meta-analysis

Background Energy drink (ED) consumption is common among undergraduate students and has been linked with adverse health outcomes, including sleep disturbances, cardiovascular effects, and risk-related behaviours. Aim This study aimed to estimate the prevalence of ED consumption a...

Topological Plasma Physics: A Three-Axiom Framework for Kinetic Theory, Collective Dynamics, Transport, Magnetohydrodynamics, Fusion, and Plasma Diagnostics

We develop a unified framework for modern plasma physics from three physical axioms: microscopic ontic definiteness and finite localization, the physical reality of the spacetime-vacuum substrate, and persistent causal source–response coupling. Charged particles are represented a...

Optimizing a long‐term monitoring strategy to track emerging cyanobacterial blooms in a Great Lakes estuary

Cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (cHABs) are increasingly frequent and severe globally. Recently, the St. Louis River Estuary (SLRE) has experienced numerous cHABs, but the locations, timing, and environmental conditions associated with them are unknown. We first investigated...

Relearning the Political Alphabet: Levertov’s Language Ethics from Vietnam to the Present

This article argues that Denise Levertov’s Vietnam-era poetry develops a poetics of language ethics: a formal practice through which words are tested against bodies, suffering, agency, and moral judgment. Focusing on “During the Eichmann Trial,” “Life at War,” and “Prologue: An I...

The Textile Plaiters of Puzriš-Dagān: A First Approach

Abstract This article presents the publication of 20 administrative texts from the Third Dynasty of Ur (2112–2004 BCE) currently preserved in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad. The texts are part of an archive that collects receipts from the plaiters of Puzriš-Dagān. The edition is accomp...

Identical Few-Particle Gauge Hamiltonians, Programmable Collective Charge Response

Preprint and reproducibility archive; not peer reviewed. What this record contains. The full text of the manuscript "Identical Few-Particle Gauge Hamiltonians, Programmable Collective Charge Response" (M. J. Baek), its Supplementary Information with complete proofs, and the archi...

One Operator, Four Faculties: Value, Time, Self and Contradiction as the Hodge Components of an Agent's Flow, with Belnap's Four Values as Its Regimes

Claim. We propose a topological account of an embodied AI agent’s memory, in which four faculties, the value of a goal, time,the self as efference, and contradiction, are the component types of a single combinatorial Hodge decomposition of the agent’sempirical flows, read with no...

Oropharyngeal Lateral Wall Collapse as a Predictor of Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation Response: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Purpose Oropharyngeal lateral wall collapse (OPLW) on drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) may influence outcomes after hypoglossal nerve stimulation (HNS) for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluates whether DISE-defined OPLW collapse is a...

Beyond the Clinic: Artificial Intelligence Transforming STI Self-Assessment, Early Detection, and Personalized Decision Support

Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) remain a major global public health challenge, while stigma, privacy concerns, and barriers to healthcare access continue to delay diagnosis and treatment. This narrative review summarizes the current evidence on the use of artificial intell...

Violating the rules: grammatical deviations as a strategy for musicality in modern English songs

This study examines grammatical deviation in contemporary English song lyrics from both U.S. and U.K. It focuses on pop, hip-hop, and R&B songs that are released between 2000 and 2025. Drawing on a corpus of thirty widely consumed songs, this research integrates Systemic Function...

Impacts of Future Oil Palm Expansion on Carbon and Hydrological Fluxes Across the Tropics

Abstract Future oil palm expansion could substantially alter tropical carbon and water cycles, but its regional impacts remain unclear. Using CLM5‐palm, we simulate large‐scale oil palm expansion from 2023 to 2100 in Southeast Asia, Africa and the Amazon. Expansion increases tota...

Billion-Scale Quantum Darwinism: Matrix-Free von Neumann Entropy Estimation via FP8 Ozaki Scheme on NVIDIA Blackwell

We present the first integration of the Ozaki error-free transformation with FP8 Tensor Core acceleration for matrix-free von Neumann entropy estimation in a quantum many-body simulation. Our application is Quantum Darwinism on a scrambled Spin-Star model: a one-qubit system enta...

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The annual conference of NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals, will be held August 29‐31 in Kansas City. For more information, go to https://www.naadac.org/annualconference

Fibroblast-like Synoviocytes as Therapeutic Targets in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Current Evidence on DMARD-Mediated Modulation

Background/Objectives: Fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) are key contributors to rheumatoid arthritis (RA) pathogenesis, driving synovial inflammation, cartilage degradation, bone erosion and disease persistence. Recent advances have revealed substantial FLS heterogeneity, with...

Prediction of platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy response in muscle-invasive bladder cancer using a multifaceted approach

Abstract Radical cystectomy (RC), preceded by platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), is recommended for eligible patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC). Although NAC improves survival, many patients do not respond; in non-responders, it may delay surgery and...

Utilizing Vegetation Indices Derived from VNIR-SWIR Hyperspectral Data to Characterize Growth, Maturation, and Senescence in Wheat and Barley

Cereal crops, including wheat and barley, are essential for global food security, but their productivity is strongly affected by nitrogen availability and water limitation. This study investigated the phenotypic responses of two commercially significant spring wheat cultivars, Vi...

Cost-effectiveness of pembrolizumab as neoadjuvant therapy and in combination with standard of care (SOC) as adjuvant therapy for stage III-IVA resectable locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (LA HNSCC) in Switzerland

AIMS: KEYNOTE-689 trial results demonstrated that neoadjuvant pembrolizumab followed by adjuvant pembrolizumab plus standard of care (NP/AP + SOC) significantly improved event-free survival (EFS) versus SOC alone in patients with locoregionally advanced head and neck squamous cel...

Quantum Gravity Tests: Theoretical Proposals, No Experimental Confirmation — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Quantum gravity tests remain theoretical; no experimental confirmation of gravity as quantum force exists. Key proposals involve Penrose's gravitization of quantum mechanics and Folman's T-cubed experiment. | MATH: No new equations or constants extracted from summaries....

Establishing a Semen Cryobank for Yan Goose: Optimized Collection and Cryopreservation

Yan goose, a representative Chinese local breed, requires genetic resource conservation. To address this, we optimized a semen cryopreservation protocol for Yan geese and validated its feasibility in large-scale cryobank production. Using motility of frozen-thawed sperm (MFS) as...