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Glacier retreat shapes organic nutrient availability across lake succession

Glacier retreat is rapidly transforming landscapes, creating thousands of new lakes that act as natural laboratories of ecological succession. In these newly formed ecosystems, colonizing animals must meet their requirements for essential organic nutrients, such as long-chain pol...

The Implied Student

This study argues that life skills, as conceptualized in South African vocational education, are disconnected from the lived realities of mature women students. A hermeneutic curriculum analysis of official guides and textbooks used in life skills education (LSE) in a South Afric...

Evaluating the role of the United Nations in Sudan : is the United Nations failing in its duty to the African continent?

The United Nations is the largest and oldest intergovernmental organization in the world. Like any organization, it is subject to scrutiny and criticism of its work. This thesis focuses on the United Nations' role within the country of Sudan, as a case study, to determine whether...

Scope, Nature and Characteristics of Non-clinical Support Occupations: A Qualitative Study to Strengthen Workforce Planning in Public Hospitals

Support staff comprise approximately one-third of the health workforce, and their performance significantly influences the delivery of hospital services. However, inconsistent and unclear definitions of these jobs’ scope, position and characteristics hinder effective workforce pl...

Prenatal Ultrasonographic Diagnosis of Ectopia Cordis, Membrane-Covered Omphalocele, Posterior Encephalocele, and Unilateral Microphthalmia in a 26-Week Fetus: A Case Report

Multiple congenital fetal anomalies involving the anterior thoracoabdominal wall, cranial vault, and ocular structures are rare and are associated with high perinatal mortality and a poor prognosis. Prenatal ultrasonography plays a pivotal role in the early detection of these ano...

Molecular mechanisms of dust-induced lung disease: exploring the role of physicochemical composition and cellular pathways

Respirable dust and fibres in occupational settings are major contributors to lung dysfunction, imposing a significant societal burden. Following the ban on asbestos in most countries, silica and coal mine dust have emerged as primary concerns due to their abundance and persisten...

Early-maturing, high-yielding M5 mutant lines of cowpea ( Vigna unguiculata ) derived from gamma irradiation exhibit enhanced seed protein and mineral composition: implications for nutritional biofortification

PURPOSE: Co gamma irradiation (452 Gy) of the Ghanaian cowpea cultivar Hansadua. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Seeds harvested from a randomized complete block design (three replications) at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, were analyzed for proximate composition (protein, fat, fibe...

Shifts in Clinical Practice–Changing Acute Ischemic Stroke Research Over the Past Decade

BACKGROUND: The past decade has witnessed rapid growth of clinical trial programs in Europe and Asia, with randomized clinical trials (RCTs) publications from these regions outpacing those of the United States. However, limited data exist quantifying their relative influence on p...

Development of a Conformational Sampling Method for Transition State Structures With Diverse Active Bond Lengths

We describe TStrail, a transition state (TS) conformational sampling tool that automatically generates TS conformers without fixing the bond forming/breaking distance of an initial TS structure. Conventionally, the conformations of TS structures were searched with the fixed lengt...

BASE 44 ORDER: Build e8_cache table and hash index from enhancement #1096 — E8 Intelligence Research

Andrew's order (Base 44 console): [SELF-BUILD from enhancement #1096] CREATE TABLE e8_cache (query_hash UUID PRIMARY KEY, response_text TEXT, created_at TIMESTAMPTZ DEFAULT NOW(), access_count INT DEFAULT 1); CREATE INDEX idx_hash ON e8_cache USING hash (query_hash); MERLIN: Unde...

Electron-DeficientSpecies-Driven Interphase Transformationfor Practical Lithium Batteries

Abstract Lithium metal batteries with Ni-rich layered cathodes are promising candidates due to their high energy density; however, the unstable interphase formed in traditional carbonates accelerates premature irreversible capacity loss. In this study, we exploit the electron-def...

Color Symmetry Breaking in a Nonlinear Optical Microresonator

ABSTRACT Spontaneous symmetry breaking leads to diverse phenomena across the natural sciences, from the Higgs mechanism in particle physics to superconductors and collective animal behavior. In photonic systems, the symmetry of light states can be broken when two optical fields i...

Early Genotype-Driven Diagnosis of Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome Type 4 in a Child With Oculocutaneous Albinism: An Ophthalmic Case Report

Hermansky-Pudlak syndrome (HPS) is a rare inherited multisystem condition characterized by oculocutaneous albinism, bleeding diathesis, and subtype-specific systemic complications, including pulmonary fibrosis and granulomatous colitis. Early diagnosis is essential because pulmon...

Multi-Objective Optimization for Data Center HVAC Systems Based on Edge–Cloud Collaborative Deep Reinforcement Learning

The sustained growth of cloud computing and AI training workloads drives data center expansion. Optimizing their control is therefore critical for reducing operational costs. Edge real-time control is indispensable for guaranteeing thermal safety, data sovereignty, and offline av...

Closure of the Constraint Algebra in 1+1D Chrono-Grid Dynamics (Version 2 – corrected)

This preprint presents a consistency check for Chrono‑Grid Dynamics (CGD) in 1+1 dimensions: the closure of the Dirac constraint algebra. Starting from the fermionic representation obtained via the Jordan–Wigner transformation, exact lattice operator identities are derived and ve...

Mixed phenotype acute leukemia mimicking adult-onset Still’s disease in a pregnant female: A rare case report

Introduction: Mixed phenotype acute leukemia (MPAL) is an uncommon hematologic malignancy characterized by the coexistence of lymphoid and myeloid lineage markers. Although adult-onset Still’s disease (AOSD) is a diagnosis of exclusion, MPAL may rarely present with similar labora...

Aflibercept 8 mg in neovascular age-related macular degeneration and diabetic macular oedema: Translating clinical trials into clinical practice

Abstract Provide expert-informed guidance on the integration of aflibercept 8 mg into routine clinical care for patients with neovascular age-related macular degeneration (nAMD) and diabetic macular oedema (DMO), based on clinical trial and real-world evidence. Sixteen retina spe...

Longitudinal Stent Malapposition After Microcatheter Removal Is Associated With Incomplete Occlusion After Pipeline Flow Diversion

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Flow diversion is an established treatment strategy for intracranial aneurysms; however, incomplete aneurysm occlusion remains a clinically relevant challenge. Adequate stent-vessel wall apposition is considered critical for aneurysm healing, yet the im...

Where’s the way out? Access block, boarding and hospital overcrowding: a narrative review

Emergency department (ED) overcrowding is a persistent global challenge associated with adverse patient outcomes and system inefficiencies. Boarding and access block, which delay the transfer of admitted patients to inpatient beds, represent its most critical manifestations. Whil...

Wikidata for Historical Research

This lesson introduces Wikidata and its underlying data structure. It shows how to navigate and query Wikidata using the Query Builder and SPARQL, and how its data model can be used to explore historical data.