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Prenatal exposure to metal mixtures and newborn birth size in an industrial city: Evidence from cord blood metabolomics

Background Prenatal exposure to metal mixtures may influence newborn birth size, but the underlying metabolic mechanisms remain unclear. This study aimed to evaluate the associations of 19 individual maternal metals and metal mixtures during pregnancy with birth size indicators,...

Green synthesis of TiO₂, Fe₂O₃, CuO, and ZnO nanoparticles using Lepidagathis ushae leaf extract for photocatalytic dye degradation

Green synthesis of metal oxide nanoparticles has gained significant attention as a sustainable alternative to conventional chemical methods for environmental remediation. In the present work CuO, TiO₂, Fe₂O₃ and ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) were successfully synthesized using Lepidaga...

Concurrent infection with Clostridium chauvoei, Clostridium septicum and Clostridium perfringens type A in cattle: a case report

Blackleg, caused by Clostridium chauvoei , is an acute, fatal infectious disease characterized by necrotizing myositis and toxemia primarily affecting cattle and sheep. Gas gangrene (malignant edema), a similar necrotizing myositis, is caused by multiple anaerobes including C. ch...

Hippopotamus optimization based control approach for performance enhancement of photovoltaic systems

Photovoltaic (PV) systems are widely integrated into the conventional power grid. It becomes a fundamental way for the energy landscape. One of the major challenges in deploying these technological resources is the grid’s instability. Therefore, enhancing the control strategy is...

Combination of antibody-based screening methods for the identification and quantification of Legionella pneumophila in process water

Legionnaires’ disease is a severe and often fatal pneumonia primarily caused by the inhalation of aerosols contaminated with the waterborne pathogen Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1. While conventional culture-based detection is often standard for monitoring evaporative cooling...

Assessment of end-tidal CO₂ levels in the diagnosis and management of patients with pulmonary embolism

Pulmonary embolism (PE) is a life-threatening emergency associated with acute cardiopulmonary deterioration. This study evaluated the clinical utility of end-tidal carbon dioxide (EtCO₂) for assessing disease severity and monitoring treatment response in high- and intermediate–hi...

Construction of a NAFLD identification model in Xizang population and exploration of risk factors related to liver fibrosis

The global prevalence of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) exceeds 32%, but current diagnostic methods based on imaging or histology are complex and costly. Most existing NAFLD models are primarily derived from low-altitude populations, while the high-altitude populations...

Experimental investigation on the shear strength, consolidation and permeability characteristics of cross-linked biopolymer-stabilized soils

This study investigates the influence of guar gum (G), xanthan gum (X), and their cross-linked blend on the shear strength and consolidation characteristics of soils with contrasting plasticity and mineralogical characteristics. Direct shear, one-dimensional consolidation, consta...

Influence mechanism of differences in hydrocarbon generation intensity of deep coalbed methane: a case study of the Daning-Jixian block

The deeply buried Upper Paleozoic coal seams in the Ordos Basin are regarded as the principal source rocks for natural gas accumulation. Accurately quantifying their hydrocarbon generation capacity and exploring the influencing mechanism of the difference in hydrocarbon generatio...

Long-term body roundness index profiles and incident diabetes in middle-aged and older Chinese adults: a longitudinal analysis of CHARLS 2011–2020

Higher body roundness index (BRI) is associated with diabetes, but trajectory classes derived from a small number of repeated measurements may primarily reflect average BRI level. We examined whether sustained BRI profiles were associated with incident diabetes and, secondarily,...

Mechanism of lateral resistance in obliquely inclined bedding rockslides: a case study of the Shanyang rockslide

Obliquely inclined bedding rockslides are prone to severe casualties and great economic loss for its less visible apparent dip slide. The lateral resistance is key to understanding the failure mechanism of obliquely inclined bedding rockslides. Nevertheless, few studies have cond...

Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric assessment of the Chinese version of the University of Wisconsin Running Injury and Recovery Index in runners

The University of Wisconsin Running Injury and Recovery Index (UWRI) is a nine-item patient-reported outcome measure assessing self-perceived running ability following running-related injury (RRI). This study aimed to translate and cross-culturally adapt the UWRI into Chinese and...

Functional legal literacy and the visibility paradox: A capability-based theory of crime disclosure

Some higher-literacy jurisdictions report comparatively higher levels of recorded juvenile victimisation despite stronger educational and social indicators, giving rise to a visibility paradox that existing criminological theories only partially explain. While established perspec...

Organising cross-border care after arrival: receiving-system challenges in a China–Vietnam border region

Cross-border healthcare is increasingly visible in border regions where patient mobility develops faster than the institutional arrangements needed to support care. Existing research has often examined why patients seek care abroad, while less is known about how receiving health...

Prevalence and prognostic implications of systemic autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases in myelodysplastic neoplasms: a retrospective Belgian cohort study

Myelodysplastic neoplasms (MDS) are clonal hematopoietic disorders marked by ineffective hematopoiesis and an increased risk of progression to acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Growing evidence highlights the role of inflammation in MDS pathogenesis, and systemic autoinflammatory and...

Exploring vertical genomic heterogeneity and chemotherapy response using targeted genomic sequencing in muscle-invasive bladder cancer

We performed a targeted genomic sequence of muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) tissues to investigate vertical intratumoral heterogeneity, invasion processes, and potential biomarkers of platinum-based neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) efficacy in MIBC. Mutations in key genes tho...

Patient-level topology-aware graph transformer for breast histopathology classification

Progress in computational pathology is limited not only by model architecture, but also by evaluation design. In breast histopathology benchmarks such as BreaKHis, multiple correlated image tiles often originate from the same patient; consequently, image-wise splits can inflate p...

Pangenome analyses reveal divergence and extensive introgression in two global corn pests

Introgression between closely related species can profoundly influence evolutionary trajectories, yet how genomic divergence interacts with introgression, especially in invasive hybridization, remains insufficiently understood. Structural variants (SVs), particularly chromosomal...

The complete reproductive cycle of the mudskipper Periophthalmus novemradiatus with reference to previously documented cycle stages of other species within the genus

This study provides the first comprehensive analysis of the entire reproductive cycle of the mudskipper Periophthalmus novemradiatus , monitoring 15 complete and three incomplete cycles filmed continuously day and night over 18 months under simulated tidal conditions. Combining b...

Lithium-ion battery SOH estimation based on degradation physics constraints and cross-attention Transformer-GRU

Accurate estimation of lithium-ion battery state of health (SOH) is essential for battery management systems in safety warning, lifetime management, and energy scheduling. To address the difficulty of simultaneously capturing global feature coupling and local degradation memory w...