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Medicine Inventories and Practices of Self-Medication in Households of Medical and Pharmacy Students at the University of Rijeka, Croatia: A Cross-Sectional Study with Implications for Healthcare Professions Education

Background/Objectives: Self-medication and keeping medicine inventory in households are common practices, even among healthcare professionals and healthcare professions students. Despite their knowledge of appropriate medicine use and storage, these practices are not always respo...

Assessing the Influence of Risk Maturity Level on Construction Delay Factors: A Machine Learning-Based Model

Construction project delays remain a persistent challenge in the construction industry, yet existing studies have generally examined delay risk prioritisation and organisational risk management maturity as separate research domains. This study addresses this gap by investigating...

Alginate-Based Ternary Composites for Water Treatment: Synthesis, Mechanisms, and Applications

Alginate, as a natural polymer, has been widely used in the removal of pollutants in water due to its renewability, biocompatibility and abundant functional groups. However, it still has some limitations such as low specific surface area, poor mechanical strength and single funct...

Methodology for assessing sleep quality and its parameters in the context of neurophysiological and behavioral aspects

Sleep is a fundamental physiological process essential for maintaining cognitive function, emotional stability, and overall health. This paper reviews various parameters influencing sleep quality, including total sleep duration, sleep latency, continuity and stability (restfulnes...

PAPER-FBT07B: Thimble Depth as a Curvature–Flux Readout on the Dual–Phase Sector

This paper isolates a single geometric question in the Fracture–Berry–Tension (FBT) framework: how should the depth of a semiclassical thimble on the dual-phase sector be read directly from the underlying curvature data? Working on the compact dual-phase sector Σ2 ∼= T2, equipped...

Thermal Performance of Ceramic Building Materials: The Influence of Clay Matrix and Organic and Inorganic Waste—A Review

This review evaluates how clay mineralogy, waste composition, and processing conditions govern the thermal, physical, and mechanical performance of fired clay ceramics containing organic and inorganic residues. Following PRISMA 2020, 125 original studies published between 2000 an...

Association of oral vancomycin prophylaxis with Clostridium difficile infection in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Background: Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) occurs in up to 30% of hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) recipients and remains a significant cause of infectious diarrhea. This meta-analysis evaluated the association of oral vancomycin prophylaxis (OVP) with CDI prevent...

Effect of Maternal Genotype on Chromosomal Introgression in Lilium (Liliaceae) Hybrids from Parents Producing Aneuploid Female and Male Gametes (AAA × LAAA and LAA × LAAA)

Interspecific hybridization is a key strategy for germplasm innovation in lilies (Lilium spp., Liliaceae). However, successful hybridization between aneuploid female and aneuploid male gametes has not been reported in this genus. We used two triploid female parents—autotriploid (...

What quality engineers should know about control charts based on weighted averages

The exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) and moving average (MA) charts use a weighted average of current and past data values. These have the advantage of detecting process shifts more quickly than the Shewhart chart which uses only the current datum to make an inference...

Influence ofVarying Porewater NaCl Concentrationson Mobilization of Metals, Arsenic, and Phosphorus Stored in StreambedSediments

Abstract Winter deicing salt use has increased freshwater salinization, with groundwater-surface water interactions exposing streambed sediments to large salinity fluctuations. This study examines how salinity fluctuations mobilize metals (Al, Cr, Cu, Fe, Ni, Pb, Zn), arsenic (As...

Mapping the Methodological Landscape of Green Finance and Digital Technology Integration: A Scoping Review

The integration of green finance and digital technology exhibits considerable methodological diversity; however, existing scholarship lacks a systematic account of how empirical evidence is generated in this field. This scoping (PRISMA-ScR) review develops a literature classifica...

Narcissism re-framed as a superiority motive: unifying evolutionary and clinical perspectives

Objective Narcissism is commonly described through grandiosity, entitlement, admiration seeking, exploitation and impaired empathy. This perspective article proposes that these features can be clinically organised around a common function: the regulation of felt superiority. Conc...

Circular orbits in spherically symmetric spacetimes and BSW effect with nonzero force

Abstract We consider circular particle motion under the action of an unspecified force in a static spherically symmetric spacetime. We derive the machinery that allows one to find the force acting on a circular particle and deduce whether its position is stable or not. This also...

Rainbow Colors – Original Educational Board Game for Learning Color Theory Through Strategy and Play

Rainbow Colors is an original strategic and educational board game created by Doumbia Amara in Côte d’Ivoire, Africa. The game combines color theory, strategic thinking, movement, card capturing, observation, memory, logic, creativity, and decision-making in an interactive learni...

Decolonial inversions in the Vietnamese museum

This paper looks at how museums in Vietnam use colonial structures to create what I would call a decolonial inversion, turning places of imperial power into a tool of national pedagogy. The paper uses phenomenology and everyday aesthetics to examine three instances, the Ho Chi Mi...

RESONANT HASH-GEOMETRY COUPLING (RHGC) — E8 Intelligence Research

The temporal intersection of e8_resonance_cache and query_hash UUIDs creates a high-dimensional lattice where cache hits function as standing waves in a 240-root vector manifold. By mapping query_text to 132Hz frequency shifts, the cache retrieval process becomes a geometric alig...

Modelling air pollution concentrations via spatio-temporal Bayesian quantile regression

Abstract Exposure to high air pollution levels, especially in urban contexts, is a major risk factor for human health. Most models in literature, however, focus on the bulk of the distribution, and only few address its extremes, such as the right tail. In this work, we apply a Ba...

Impact of ozone pollution on gross primary productivity during a large-scale emission reduction: Implications for strengthening carbon sink over megacity clusters in China

Ozone (O 3 ) pollution poses a significant threat to plant growth and diminishes ecosystem carbon sequestration capacity in China, representing a critical challenge to achieving “dual carbon” goals. A large-scale emission reduction that occurred during the Coronavirus disease 201...

“What to Tell, How Much to Tell, How to Tell It?”: Behind the Scenes of Biographical Narrative Construction—An Inquiry into Life Storytelling in Teacher Education

While most research on biographical narratives has concentrated on the analysis of the final textual product as a means of understanding the narrative, the present study explores the underlying processes of narrative construction and presentation within peer groups in a teacher e...

Avoiding False Negatives: Importance of Early 68 Ga Pentixafor PET-CT Acquisition in Primary Aldosteronism Evaluation

Primary aldosteronism (PA) is a prevalent cause of secondary hypertension, and accurate subtyping into unilateral aldosterone-producing adenoma (APA) versus bilateral adrenal hyperplasia is critical, as the former warrants surgical intervention while the latter is managed medical...