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- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a flexible means of collecting data from spatially distributed sensor networks in intelligent transportation systems. This study investigates a UAV-assisted data collection problem that jointly optimizes collection point (CP) selection, UAV...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Sepsis-associated liver injury (SALI) is an independent predictor of mortality in adult sepsis, but its association with outcomes in children has not been systematically synthesized. We pooled SALI-associated mortality and SALI proportions and summarized candidate biomarker perfo...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) can substantially impact quality of life, and repetitive mTBIs (rmTBIs) can amplify injury effects compared to a single injury. However, effective clinical treatments remain elusive, largely due to an incomplete understanding of the underlying...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
This study reports on a late medieval collection of faunal remains from a pit in the historical centre of Oudenaarde (Belgium), which was characterized by a peculiar predominance of cattle mandibles. To investigate the human activities leading to the accumulation of this assembla...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Public awareness of alpha-gal syndrome and tick bite prevention practices, United States, Fall 2023
Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is a unique non-infectious tickborne disease that can develop after a tick bite. AGS can cause severe allergic symptoms (when patients are exposed to alpha-gal) and be challenging for patients to manage because alpha-gal is found in mammalian meat, dairy,...
- BiologyOpen access
The T-cell factor/lymphoid enhancer-binding factor (TCF/LEF) family, comprising TCF1, LEF1, TCF7L1, and TCF7L2, serves as nuclear effectors of the canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway and plays pivotal roles in neurodevelopment, synaptic plasticity, neuroinflammation, and ce...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Ethiopia has considerable solar power potential, with daily solar irradiance ranging from 5.0 to 6.5 kWh/m 2 (average 5.7 kWh/m 2 ) for the Gondar region, where the present study was conducted. The factories that manufacture beverages in Ethiopia use electricity or petroleum to g...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Bamboo has received increasing attention as a sustainable structural material; however, its tensile strength perpendicular to the grain remains elusive in governing splitting failure, particularly in joint and connection design. This study experimentally investigates the tensile...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Introduction Doping prevention increasingly emphasizes early intervention with education directed toward youth, parents, and coaches. Although adolescent athletes are a central focus of prevention efforts, little is known about how they learn about performance-enhancing drugs (PE...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of immersive virtual reality (VR)-based preoperative education compared with attention-matched routine in-person education in reducing preoperative anxiety and physiological stress responses among adult patients undergoing electiv...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Background Gypsum (calcium sulphate dihydrate; POP) is a resorbable synthetic bone substitute with favourable biocompatibility; however, its rapid degradation limits clinical effectiveness. A modified composite incorporating calcium carbonate and gelatine hydrogel (POPHD) was dev...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Traumatic dental injuries (TDIs) are common dental emergencies that may affect both hard and soft tissues. Immediate and accurate management along with adequate knowledge of International Association of Dental Traumatology (IADT) guidelines is essential to minimize long-term comp...
- BiologyOpen access
Breast cancer lung metastasis remains a major cause of mortality, largely because effective treatment options are limited. In this study, we identify gamma-glutamyltransferase 1 (GGT1) as a factor associated with breast cancer lung metastatic progression. Analyses of clinical dat...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) impose a disproportionate burden on informal sector workers who lack occupational health protection. To identify and characterize ergonomic interventions applied to informal sector workers, to analyze their effectiveness in reducing...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
The underwater bonebed of GNL Quintero 1 (GNLQ1) site located nearshore at Quintero Bay on the central coast of Chile (32° S), offers an unparalleled view of submerged Late Pleistocene environments in the South American Pacific continental shelf. By updating the site taphonomic h...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Spatial closed-loop and multi-loop mechanisms are common in kinematic analysis and mechanism design. However, tracing their multi-degree-of-freedom kinematic paths under intricate geometric constraints remains challenging. Traditional branch-and-prune methods suffer from exponent...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
This paper proposes a coordinated dispatch framework for distribution systems with virtual power plants (VPPs) that addresses both substation ramping constraints and load-ramping uncertainty. A data-driven quantile-regression temporal convolutional network (QR-TCN) is developed t...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Motor imagery (MI), the mental simulation of movement without execution, provides a behavioural tool to evaluate sensorimotor representations. However, its characterisation in young children remains debated. This study investigated age-related differences in MI across early prima...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Burden of sickle cell anemia among hospitalized children in Angola: a retrospective study
Chronic pediatric diseases are a growing challenge because of their impact on morbidity and healthcare resource utilization. In Angola, evidence on the hospital burden of chronic diseases, particularly sickle cell anemia (SCA), remains limited. This study compared the clinical ch...
- BiologyOpen access
Are QM/MM models systematically improvable? A case study on carbonic anhydrase binding affinities
Hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) is the method of choice for modelling large biochemical systems, but their performance depends critically on how they are implemented. This paper examines the sensitivity of QM/MM enzyme-ligand binding energy predictions to key...