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Scooter-Driving Humanoid Robot: Sim-to-Real Transfer Through Deep Reinforcement Learning

This paper presents a simulation-to-reality (sim-to-real) transfer process, allowing a full-sized humanoid robot to autonomously balance a two-wheeled scooter and track operator-supplied heading commands through a deep reinforcement learning (DRL) policy, including while carrying...

Routine Serologic Duffy Testing in Pediatric Oncology: Clinical Utility and Feasibility in a Single‐Center Cohort

ABSTRACT Background Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) guides chemotherapy dosing, treatment timing, and clinical trial eligibility throughout pediatric oncology. Duffy‐null‐associated neutrophil count (DANC) is a physiologic variant characterized by lower ANC that may be misinterpr...

Prognostic Value of Berden Histopathological Classification in Anca-Associated Vasculitis with Renal Involvement: A Single-Center Retrospective Cohort Study

The kidneys are frequently affected by anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitides, and this renal involvement is a significant determinant of the disease's prognosis. Certain demographic, laboratory, and histopathological findings are effective in predict...

Cooperative Shunt Photocatalysis of Pt Single Atoms and Nanoparticles for Efficient Methanol Conversion to Hydrogen and Formaldehyde

ABSTRACT Photocatalytic methanol dehydrogenation requires not only charge separation but, more critically, synchronized and rapid consumption of photogenerated electrons and holes—an unmet challenge in conventional Pt‐based photocatalysts. Here we report a photocatalytic platform...

Propagation-physics-guided channel augmentation and temporal–spectral fusion for domain-robust underwater acoustic target recognition

Underwater acoustic target recognition (UATR) is essential for ocean-intelligence sensing, but deep learning-based models often suffer from performance degradation under ocean acoustic domain shift. This problem arises because ship-radiated noise recorded under different propagat...

Multi-dimensional roles of CAZymes in functional and fermented foods

Carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes) are a diverse group of enzymes produced by microbes, plants, and animals that play a central role in carbohydrate metabolism. Families of CAZymes, including GHs (Glycoside Hydrolases), GTs (Glycosyltransferases), PLs (Polysaccharide Lyases),...

Food well-being matters: measurement, drivers, and inequality in sustainable food choices

Purpose To better understand the conception of food well-being (FWB) conception from a consumer perspective by providing a new measurement instrument and exploring its antecedents in Canada. Design/methodology/approach To validate the FWB measure and test the structural model of...

Structural and Rheological Signatures of the Salt-in-Solvent to Solvent-in-Salt Transition in a Fluorinated Ester Electrolyte

Abstract Experimental measurements and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations study the structural and rheological properties of a model fluorinated ester electrolyte, methyl 3,3,3-trifluoropropionate (MTFP) with LiFSI, over a wide concentration range (0.1–2.3 mol/kg). MD simulation...

Innovation sustainability nexus in the European circular and green transition

Europe’s transition toward a circular and climate-neutral economy increasingly depends on interactions between innovation effort, resource efficiency, energy systems, and environmental pressures. This study examines how national research and development intensity is associated wi...

Multi-Sensor Monitoring of Underground Heritage Sites: A Case Study of the Dragon’s Den Cave and St. Kinga’s Chapel in Poland

Long-term structural health monitoring of underground heritage sites is challenging because of high humidity, limited accessibility, complex geological conditions, and aggressive saline environments. This study presents the implementation and long-term assessment of an integrated...

Detectable, Task-Relevant, or Harmful? Construct-Valid Evaluation of Unlabeled Distribution-Shift Monitoring in Chest Radiography

Distribution-shift alarms do not establish classifier harm. We evaluated the detectability, frozen-head relevance, and performance deterioration of two public DenseNet-121 chest-radiography classifiers under 30 controlled image conditions. Signals covered pixels, 64-component PCA...

Cross-Channel effects of online reputation and offline event participation in B2B Platforms: Synergy or Attenuation?

This study examines how online reputation and offline event participation jointly relate to seller performance on B2B platforms. Although omnichannel research often predicts online–offline synergy, the interaction between these channels remains underexplored in B2B platform setti...

Medicaid utilization in children: Condition‐specific incidence and spending

Abstract Medicaid insures over half of US children, yet gaps remain in understanding how funds are allocated across the care of nonchronic conditions, the care of chronic conditions, and preventative services. We conducted a retrospective analysis of 7.2 million Medicaid‐enrolled...

Association of professional ethics adherence and moral comfort among intensive care unit nurses

Moral comfort is essential for intensive care nurses facing ethical situations and complex clinical decisions. Adhering to professional ethical standards in nursing care may contribute to the development of moral comfort. This study was conducted to investigate the relationship b...

Pneumococcal‐Driven Genetic Competence: A Key Driver of Pathobiont Adaptation and Disease Potential

ABSTRACT High genetic variability in streptococci is driven by natural competence, specifically in Streptococcus pneumoniae and its close commensal species ( Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae , Streptococcus oralis , and Streptococcus mitis ), which drives rapid Streptococcal evolut...

Schizophrenia and psychotic disorders in precision medicine and body-brain axis

The concept of precision medicine has emerged over the past decade: it emphasizes the utilization of human genomic data, demonstrating that molecular variations could predict therapeutic responses and clinical outcomes. This approach has been highly successful in oncology and oth...

Prison as social sink in the treadmill of production

Prisons have been understudied as sites of environmental inquiry. This article draws on cases of toxic prisons and the literature on critical environmental justice and carceral studies to propose a new theoretical concept linking the carceral state and environmental degradation:...

NHANES-based, Sex-Specific Reference Values for Systolic Blood Pressure during Moderate-to-Vigorous-Intensity Treadmill Exercise

Purpose: The systolic blood pressure (SBP) response to moderate-to-vigorous intensity exercise (xSBP) is associated with cardiovascular health and future disease. We investigated the relationship between exercise intensity and xSBP and generated reference values for xSBP for heal...

Confined Mg2+-Directed Interfacial Evolution of Primary Structural Units of Mg-MOF-74 on Platelet Clinoptilolite for CO2/CH4, CH4/N2, and CO2/N2 Separations

Controlling MOF nucleation on zeolite surfaces remains challenging when metal ions are freely supplied in solution, often resulting in poorly regulated interfaces. Herein, Mg2+-exchanged platelet clinoptilolite (Mg-PCP) was used as a confined metal source to direct the in situ gr...

Post‐Oxidation Integrating Assembly‐Confined Pyrolysis to Boost POD‐Like Activity of Non‐Metal Nanozyme and Engineer Colorimetric Hydrogel for On‐Site Detection of PFAS

Abstract Nanozymes have become attractive candidates for advanced sensors, yet enhancing peroxidase (POD)‐like activity of non‐metal nanozymes with minimized oxidase activity interference and broad‐spectrum recognition capability for per‐ and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) re...