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Measuring the longitudinal HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis and condom usage pattern in men who have sex with men: short-call diary versus monthly survey

Abstract Background While a diary is ideal for recording daily sexual activity and drug taking, summarised survey is commonly used in real-world settings. This study aims to compare the robustness of short-recall diary with monthly survey on PrEP and condom use in men who have se...

HPV DNA testing and treatment strategies for cervical pre-cancer among women living with HIV in Papua New Guinea: a prospective clinical cohort study

Abstract Background The World Health Organization recommends human papillomavirus (HPV) testing and same-day treatment for cervical screening among women in the general population in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). Among women living with HIV, additional triage is recomm...

Toward Autonomous Ecological Monitoring with Betaflight FPV Drones: Test-Stand Validation of a Lightweight Visual Servoing Pipeline

Small first-person-view (FPV) drones provide a flexible platform for ecological and environmental monitoring tasks, including the localization of pollution sources, inspection of contaminated areas, and low-disturbance observation of wildlife. However, Betaflight, one of the most...

Soil CH4 and CO2 emissions mediated by water and afforestation in Horqin Sandy Land

Ecological restoration in arid and semi-arid regions plays a vital role in maintaining regional carbon balance under global change. Although water management and vegetation composition regulate soil carbon cycling, their combined effects on greenhouse gas source/sink dynamics in...

The long non-coding RNA FOXD2-AS1 promotes oral squamous cell carcinoma metastasis by recruiting the ADAR1-HuR complex to stabilize MYC mRNA

Abstract Metastasis remains a primary driver of poor outcomes in oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), yet the underlying molecular mechanisms are incompletely understood. Here, we identify the long non-coding RNA FOXD2-AS1 as a critical regulator of OSCC metastasis through compre...

Coordinated sizing and operation of wind-solar-hydrogen system: Coupling stack-level dispatch and state machine with IMOPSO

This study develops a coordinated sizing-operation framework integrating proton exchange membrane stack-level dispatch, a dwell-time state machine, and improved multi-objective particle swarm optimization (IMOPSO). Embedding stack-level logic into candidate evaluation links equip...

Physical origins of speed control in swimming fishes

The linear relationship between tail-beat frequency and swimming speed in fish, first described by Bainbridge in 1958, has since been confirmed in species as disparate as eels and tuna. Dimensional scaling has explained why linearity should emerge at high Reynolds numbers, but th...

Impurities and defects in Czochralski silicon: mechanisms of their effects on carrier lifetime, power conversion efficiency, and resistivity uniformity

Monocrystalline silicon grown by the Czochralski (CZ) method is the dominant material for crystalline silicon solar cells; in this material, impurities and defects directly determine wafer quality and device performance by governing three core metrics: minority carrier lifetime,...

The Chebyshev–Monomial Oscillation Gap: Contact Geometry, Level Sets, and Gaussian Crossovers

We study the uniform norm of a prescribed Chebyshev polynomial against a monomial, \(\|T_m-x^d\|_{\infty,[-1,1]}\), for integers \(d\ge m\ge3\) of matching parity. The continuous contact surface \(\mathcal{C}(p,q)=\max_{0\le\theta\le\pi/2} |\cos^p\theta-\cos(q\theta)|\) separates...

Big Five Personality Traits and Subjective Perceptions of Adulthood

Abstract Adulthood is often inferred from age and milestones such as marriage, parenthood, and career. This study tested whether perceptions of adulthood – subjective adult status and perceived importance of markers of adulthood – are associated with personality traits in a UK sa...

TeSSHub4EOSC: FAIR training catalogue infrastructure (EOSC Symposium 2026)

Lightning talk presentation at EOSC Symposium 2026. The PPTX file here labelled "embed screen" contains a screencast video in one slide; the other PPTX file also contains audio and video for the entire presentaiton. The PDF file contains no video or audio. Video is also available...

An Integrated Climate and Water Stress Index for Index-Based Insurance of Irrigated Agriculture: Development and Validation in the Shu-Talas Water Management Basin, Kazakhstan

In the context of increasing climate variability, the assessment of risks to irrigated agriculture requires a combined consideration of climatic and water management factors. The aim of this study is to develop an Integrated Climate and Water Stress Index (ICWSI) and to assess it...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 10424 Sources, 101571 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 10424 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 101571 leads across 13 categories. 97886 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 8883, "FORMULA": 8626, "GEOMETRIC": 1718, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 9337, "QUANTUM": 9588, "TIMING": 657, "CELESTIAL": 8691, "GEMATRIA": 9112, "...

Keeping a Bit Alive: Maintenance Thermodynamics of Classical Memory

Writing a bit costs at least \(kT\ln 2\), and retaining one passively for a time \(\tau\) requires a barrier \(kT\ln(\tau/\tau_0)\). We derive the third accounting: the power a protocol must draw, in steady state, to keep a physical bit of barrier \(\Delta E\) readable at error r...

Kummer congruences for the values b^r E_r(a/b) of the Euler polynomials at rational points, and

Let E_r(x) be the Euler polynomials and let p be an odd prime. We prove that for every rational a/b with p not dividing b the numbers f_r = b^r E_r(a/b) are p-integral and satisfy f_r == f_r' (mod p^k) whenever r == r' (mod (p-1) p^(k-1)) and r, r' >= k; this is the only hypothes...

In situ antibacterial thermosensitive hydrogel as a versatile platform for diabetic wound therapy and molecular monitoring

Chronic diabetic wounds are difficult to manage because of persistent inflammation, impaired tissue regeneration, and high infection risk under hyperglycemic conditions. Microbial colonization further aggravates inflammatory responses and disrupts the normal progression of wound...

Acetate modulates host physiology and bacterial energetics to improve antibiotic efficacy during obesity-associated infection

ABSTRACT Antibiotic efficacy is conventionally attributed to the susceptibility of the infecting pathogen. However, obese patients experience disproportionately poor infection outcomes despite receiving antibiotics to which pathogens remain genetically susceptible. These observat...

Effect of lumbar strengthening exercises on kinesiophobia in people with chronic low back pain: a systematic review

Kinesiophobia is a key psychological factor in CLBP and represents a significant barrier to functional recovery. Strength exercises are commonly recommended for CLBP, yet their specific impact on kinesiophobia remains unknown. A systematic review was conducted to evaluate the eff...

Lambda-deformed pascal matrices: Operator deformation, conditioning stabilization, and structural properties

We introduce a one-parameter deformation of the classical Pascal matrix based on a rationally modified lowering operator acting on the λ -rising-factorial basis. The resulting matrices preserve a Pascal-type lower-triangular structure while exhibiting substantially improved condi...

A Systematic Single-Parameter Study for the Melt Electrospinning of Poly(lactic acid)

Melt electrospinning (MES) is a fiber manufacturing technique in which a molten polymer is stretched into ultrafine fibers by an electric field. MES combines the ability to produce very fine fibers with the advantages of solvent-free manufacturing. Its controlled variant, melt el...