Research works

Effect of Long-Term Outdoor Storage on the Multi-Scale Structural and Mechanical Properties of Oriental Beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky) and European Hornbeam (Carpinus betulus L.) Wood

This study examines the effects of nearly six years of outdoor storage on the chemical, thermal, structural, micromorphological, and mechanical properties of European hornbeam (Carpinus betulus L.) and Oriental beech (Fagus orientalis Lipsky) wood. Differences between fresh (cont...

Harnessing Metasurfaces for Advanced Optical Metrology

ABSTRACT Optical metrology has played a crucial role in the advancement of science and technology. In optical metrology, the fundamental properties of light are skillfully employed as information carriers, enabling accurate measurement of numerous physical quantities. However, co...

Urine-Derived Stem Cells: Challenges in Isolation, Biological Identity, and Therapeutic Potential in CKD-Associated Fibrosis

Urine-derived stem cells (UDSCs) have emerged as a promising cell source for regenerative medicine due to their non-invasive procurement, high proliferative capacity, and potential relevance to kidney-specific repair. Unlike conventional mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) obtained fro...

Intravenous Administration of Stromal Vascular Fraction Attenuates Early Busulfan-Induced Testicular Injury in Rats: An Alternative Cell-Based Approach for Spermatogenic Impairment

Stromal vascular fraction (SVF), an uncultured adipose-derived cell population, exerts regenerative effects primarily through paracrine mechanisms. While local intratesticular injection of SVF alleviates busulfan-induced testicular injury, the intravenous route remains unexplored...

Full-portfolio Monte Carlo validation

This archive contains the supplementary Monte Carlo materials accompanying the article. The files reproduce the full-portfolio numerical validation reported in Section 6.The simulation generates paths of the common Cox–Ingersoll–Ross mortality intensity and, conditional on each p...

Heterogeneity of effects of a mobile health disease management programme on glycaemic control

Background Whether mobile health (mHealth) interventions positively influence glycaemic control remains unclear. This study aimed to identify heterogeneity in the effects of mHealth-based disease management programmes on glycaemic control over a 1-year follow-up period within a t...

Standardized Observability Taxonomies for Multi-Agent AI Systems in Decentralized Networks

Research article: Standardized Observability Taxonomies for Multi-Agent AI Systems in Decentralized Networks

Climate Change and Disease Risk in Bangladesh: A Century-Scale Warming Trend, Day-by-Day Patterns, a Six-Disease Seasonal Synthesis, and the Albedo-Driven Glacier-Melt-to-Flood Pathway

A century-scale climate trend analysis for Bangladesh (CRU TS4.07, 1901-2022), district-level (n=64) mapping of recent climate extremes (2017-2025), a seven-disease seasonal risk synthesis drawing on this author's six prior Bangladesh One Health papers (HPAI, rabies, Nipah virus,...

Erdős–Straus Project Archive: Residual Divisor Shells, Quotient Surpluses, and Finite Verification

This record gathers the Erdős–Straus project under its existing concept DOI. The principal paper develops the residual divisor-shell equivalence and its origin counts, proves the Star–Kneser quotient-surplus theorem, and records the exact certificate at p = 12289 with R = 11, m =...

Pharmacopuncture for Post-Arthroscopic Peripheral Neuropathy: A Case Report

Introduction: Peripheral neuropathy may occur after arthroscopic surgery as a result of mechanical nerve injury during the procedure. Such injuries—including compression, traction, or blunt trauma—can lead to neuropathic pain, numbness, sensory disturbances, and, in severe cases,...

Beating the Odds: Survival After Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation Decannulation Due to Poor Prognosis in Children—An Extracorporeal Life Support Organization Registry Study

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is a life-saving intervention for critically ill children. However, decisions regarding discontinuation due to poor prognosis remain ethically complex. While outcomes after successful weaning are well described, survival following decann...

A genomic resource for a hidden endemic: the complete chloroplast genome of Allium aktauense from Uzbekistan

<ns5:p> <ns5:italic>Allium aktauense</ns5:italic> is a narrow endemic species from the Aktau Range in the Nurotau Mountains, Western Pamir-Alay, where it grows in rocky limestone crevices. Genomic resources for this species have not previously been available, limiting molecular u...

Deformable Sparse-Gradient Regularization for Extreme Image Denoising

Extreme noise severely degrades image quality in photon-limited imaging systems and challenges existing denoising methods. Classical total variation (TV) models rely on fixed local gradients and often introduce cross-edge smoothing, while deep learning methods may become unstable...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 1357 Sources, 9067 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 1357 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 9067 leads across 13 categories. 7167 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 735, "FORMULA": 587, "GEOMETRIC": 677, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 765, "QUANTUM": 979, "TIMING": 178, "CELESTIAL": 673, "GEMATRIA": 720, "CONSTANT":...

A two-stage deep learning framework for oil palm fresh fruit bunch ripeness classification toward predictive harvesting in precision agriculture

Efficient harvest timing and accurate maturity assessment of oil palm fresh fruit bunches (FFBs) are critical for optimizing oil extraction rates, plantation yield, and operational efficiency. Conventional manual inspection is subjective, labour-intensive, and unsuitable for larg...

Tracing feline herpesvirus-1 exposure in domestic cats from Namibia: associations with neutralising antibodies, vaccination, clinical signs, and retroviral status

Abstract Feline herpesvirus type 1 (FHV-1) is a major cause of upper respiratory and ocular disease in domestic cats and remains widely distributed worldwide. However, information on FHV-1 exposure and neutralising antibody responses in cats from Namibia is limited. This study as...

Algorithmic Sacredness and Algorithmic Pluralism: Content Moderation and the Symbolic Dispossession of Contemporary European Paganism

This paper examines mainstream platform moderation as it encounters contemporary pagan religious practice in Europe and reads what it finds as a symptom of a wider condition: the algorithm functions less as a neutral tool than as a productive instrument of an extractive political...

From Perceptrons to Convolutional Neural Networks: A Practical Tutorial on Spatial Deep Learning

This tutorial takes the reader on a historical and technical journey from the simple Perceptron (1958) to modern Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) that dominate spatial data processing (images and video). We start with the Perceptron’s linear classifier, then expose its inabil...

Prefix-sum encoding for quantum annealing with application to haplotype inference

Quantum annealing promises advantages for combinatorial optimization, but current hardware remains limited by sparse qubit connectivity. Encoding constrained problems onto these devices typically requires auxiliary variables that introduce dense couplings, degrading performance....

Through the colonial lens: the Italian populist radical right and foreign policy relations with Italy’s former colonies

This paper draws attention to the role of colonial memory in the Italian populist radical right’s views on Italy’s foreign policy with its former colonies across the Mediterranean (i.e. Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia). While recent academic scholarship has studied the influ...