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Pomegranate peel-derived Cu/hydrochar nanocomposites: a sustainable catalyst for biodiesel production via oleic acid esterification

Abstract Transforming pomegranate peel waste into a biodiesel catalyst advances waste-to-resource circularity. A facile hydrothermal carbothermal reduction method was used to synthesize copper-decorated hydrochar nanocomposites derived from peel bio-waste and CuSO 4 , with Cu(II)...

Ascophyllum nodosum Extract Promotes Vegetative Growth and Sugar Yield in Ratoon Sugarcane

Maintaining the productivity and technological quality of sugarcane during ratoon cycles represents a constant challenge for the sugarcane-energy sector, driving the adoption of biostimulants. This study aimed to evaluate and compare the effects of different biostimulants on the...

Unraveling the Dynamics and Driving Forces of Desert and Riparian Vegetation in the Lower Reaches of a Typical Inland River Basin, Northwestern China

The lower reaches of inland river basins in northwestern China are highly vulnerable to water scarcity, ecological degradation, and climate change, yet vegetation responses and their environmental controls remain poorly understood. Using the terminal delta of the Heihe River basi...

Amour de soi and the leadership of stewardship: reclaiming Enlightenment for educational leadership

This paper intervenes in philosophical debates on educational subjectivity and leadership by reframing the Enlightenment concept of amour de soi; self-love as an ethical orientation for educational leadership. Drawing on Rousseau and Goethe, we critique the neoliberal valorizatio...

Atrazine dissipation and soybean phytotoxicity following burndown applications of atrazine + mesotrione + triclopyr for Conyza spp. management

This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of (atrazine + mesotrione) + triclopyr on Conyza spp. at different intervals between application and soybean sowing, as well as the phytotoxic effects of residual atrazine on soybeans. The field experiment, conducted in a randomized...

Survival and factors associated with mortality among children with congenital heart defects at the Uganda Heart Institute, Mulago National Referral Hospital

Congenital heart defects (CHDs) contribute to approximately 220,000 childhood deaths globally each year, with most occurring in low- and middle-income countries. Despite advances in diagnosis and management, survival remains poor in sub-Saharan Africa due to delayed diagnosis and...

Hepatic lipid peroxidation, protein carbonylation, and membrane fluidity across an acute maximal treadmill-running test and three treadmill-training periods

Aerobic exercise induces systemic physiological responses that extend beyond contractile tissues, yet hepatic oxidative and membrane-related profiles after acute and repeated running exercise remain incompletely characterized. This study examined hepatic lipid peroxidation, prote...

Natural pigment-based semiconductor isomers as interfacial layers in organic photovoltaic devices

Purpose This study aims to develop bio-based interfacial materials for organic photovoltaic applications by engineering carotenoid-derived molecular frameworks with favorable energy level alignment and enhanced light-harvesting capability. Design/methodology/approach Three diphen...

From black box warning to wake-up call: menopausal hormone therapy prescribing patterns at a large academic medical center

Objective: To characterize menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) prescribing patterns over 18 years in a large academic medical center and evaluate demographic and clinical factors associated with MHT prescriptions. Methods: We conducted a retrospective observational study using elect...

Daily Workload and Evening Detachment: Impact of Supervisor Support for Recovery

Our study examines the role of leaders in employee recovery. We hypothesize that supervisor support for recovery (between-person) will buffer the impact of daily workload (within-person) on evening psychological detachment (within-person). We tested this hypothesis with a 7-day e...

Grandiose and vulnerable narcissism as predictors of manipulation tactics

Narcissism is associated with the manipulation of interpersonal encounters to fulfil specific interpersonal needs. Grandiose and vulnerable narcissism are driven by different interpersonal needs, yet it is unclear whether these differences appear in their manipulation tactics. Th...

Early structured rehabilitation following open retromuscular incisional hernia repair: a prospective randomized controlled trial

Incisional hernias remain a common postoperative problem for general surgeons. In recent years, early postoperative rehabilitation has gained increasing attention as a potential strategy to enhance recovery following abdominal wall reconstruction. This study aimed to evaluate whe...

Tetranuclear Copper Cluster of N2O Reductase: A Distinctive Copper–Sulfur Metallocluster

Abstract Copper is an essential element involved in several cofactors and organometallic compounds used as catalysts. Although most biological copper centers contain one to three copper ions, nature has evolved a unique tetranuclear copper–sulfur cluster that has attracted the at...

Time series modeling and anomaly removal for Wikipedia web traffic prediction

Abstract Accurate forecasting of web traffic is essential for a web service provider who wants to manage infrastructure resources and decision-making processes. Internet users rely heavily on Wikipedia articles for information, and over the past few years, the usage of Wikipedia...

Fungal Phosphatase-Dependent Induction of Host Cell Pyroptosis by Candidalysin

Abstract Fungal infections pose a major public health threat and can cause host cell damage through diverse forms of regulated cell death. However, our understanding of how fungal pathogens interact with host to elicit pyroptosis remains in its infancy. Here, we show that candida...

Thinking like Luhmann: problem construction and theory-building

Purpose This essay examines how Niklas Luhmann built theories by reconstructing his work as a mode of problem construction. It argues that Luhmann's originality lay less in providing new answers than in transforming what counted as a problem in the first place. Design/methodology...

Maximal permanents, the singular locus of the permanent, and its strength

We prove that for every k ≥ 1 the k+1 maximal permanents of a generic k×(k+1) matrix generate a radical complete intersection of codimension k+1. This establishes, in a stronger form, a conjecture of Boralevi, Carlini, Michałek and Ventura. It also shows that the ideal of maximal...

A 1-Byte Deterministic Acoustic Interface for Ultra-Low-Latency Edge Computing: Hardware-Native Phonetic Encoding via 2KB On-Chip L1 SRAM

Contemporary deep neural speech architectures rely heavily on extensive subword tokenizers (e.g., Byte-Pair Encoding) and multi-byte Unicode International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) representations. These conventional pipelines impose substantial DRAM bus contention, multi-megabyte...

Drivers governing the seasonality of new particle formation in the Arctic

New particle formation (NPF) is the phenomenon wherein gaseous precursors form critical clusters of barely a few nanometres in diameter, after which, under favourable conditions, these particles can grow to climate-relevant sizes. Here we present measurements from 2022 to 2024 of...

Real-world event-free survival with neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy and adjuvant pembrolizumab in early-stage triple-negative and estrogen receptor-low, HER2-negative breast cancer

Neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy and adjuvant pembrolizumab has become a standard treatment for patients with early-stage triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) based on the KEYNOTE-522 trial; however, real-world data on event-free survival (EFS) remain limited. We aimed...