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Integrated Assessment of the Biological Condition of Alosa immaculata in Relation to Microplastics, Organic Contaminants, and Parasites

The pontic shad (Alosa immaculata Bennett, 1835), one of the most economically and ecologically important species for the Danube–Black Sea basin, is affected by a large variety of anthropic and biological pressures. In this study, we aimed to investigate the presence of microplas...

Negotiating the Mainstreaming of a Long-Silenced Testimony in John Ridley’s 12 Years a Slave

This paper examines the adaptation of Solomon Northup’s Twelve Years a Slave through the lens of John Ridley’s screenplay, arguing that the process of mainstreaming a marginalized narrative is carefully negotiated at the level of writing. Rather than treating the screenplay as a...

Experimental analysis and optimization of the influence of layer height, infill pattern, and nozzle temperature on tensile strength, hardness, and relative density of FDM-PLA prints

Abstract The study explores the influence of layer thickness, infill pattern, and nozzle temperature on tensile strength, hardness, and relative density of FDM printed specimens of polylactic acid (PLA). Eighteen different sets of parameters were explored during the study, includ...

Evaluating the suitability of adaptive thermal comfort models for free-running buildings in different climatic conditions in India

Thermal comfort is critical for ensuring occupant satisfaction and energy efficiency but existing approaches may fall short of capturing the complexities in Indian context. This paper examines adaptive thermal comfort (ATC) in free-running buildings in Chennai, Bangalore, Jaipur...

Mining in Tasmania – a personal account

Carol Bacon was the first female to be awarded a scholarship by the Tasmanian Department of Mines. She spent 38 years with the Department, during which she became the first female State Chief Geologist of Tasmania and the first female to act in the position of Director of Mines....

Continuous immune composition retains longitudinal information beyond coarse ecological-context labels in pediatric leukemia

Abstract Background Single-cell pediatric leukemia datasets capture substantial variation in cellular composition, but apparent ecological states can be confounded by leukemia lineage, project structure, annotation differences, malignant-cell composition, and compositional constr...

Tarragon Extracts (Artemisia dracunculus L.) in the Control of Selected Broad Bean Pests in Sustainable Pest Management

Legumes play an important role in agriculture by enriching soil with nitrogen, drawing water and nutrients from deeper soil layers, and supplying organic matter. They are also a valuable source of food for humans and animals. Protecting these plants from pests usually involves th...

Disaster-related information support systems for families of older adults with special healthcare needs: A scoping review

Based on the theory of structural vulnerability, this study systematically examines the characteristics and underlying mechanisms shaping information needs among families of older adults with special healthcare needs in disaster contexts, providing a theoretical foundation for de...

Gamified digital training tools for enhancing indirect vision skills in preclinical dental education: a randomized control trial

Abstract Background Preclinical dental training emphasizes indirect vision using mirrors for precision and ergonomics to prevent musculoskeletal disorders. Students often face challenges with suboptimal posture and extended procedure times. Digital gamified tools like mobile app...

Psychological experiences of families bereaved by 2025 post-election protest-related fatalities in Tanzania: a qualitative thematic analysis

The 2025 post-election violence in Tanzania produced not only political and human rights consequences but also profound psychological and psychosocial consequences for bereaved families. This qualitative study explored the psychological and psychosocial experiences of family memb...

E8 Antipodal Weyl-orbit Modulation Yields 432Hz Vacuum Birefringence Spectrum — E8 Intelligence Research

By treating each antipodal root pair of E8 as a Weyl orbit modulator acting on the 132Hz base through φ-coupling, the resulting 120-channel interference envelope exhibits a frequency-dependent birefringence spectrum whose principal refractive indices cross precisely at 432Hz. Thi...

Multi-objective optimization of magnetorheological polishing fluids formulation for K9 glass using BP neural network and crested porcupine optimizer

Magnetorheological polishing (MRP) of K9 glass faces an inherent trade-off: high material removal rate (MRR) versus low surface roughness (Sa), as well as by the strongly nonlinear coupling effects among multiple fluid components. To address this challenge, this study develops a...

Respiratory System Resistance and Bronchodilator Responsiveness in Paralympic Athletes with Spinal Cord Injury

INTRODUCTION: Cervical spinal cord injury (SCI) may impair autonomic regulation of airway caliber, whereas repeated exposure to high ventilatory loads may modify airway function through mechanical stretch. PURPOSE: To compare airway function and bronchodilator responsiveness betw...

Observation of a supersolid phase in a spin-orbit coupled exciton-polariton Bose-Einstein condensate

In Bose-Einstein condensates, spin-orbit coupling (SOC) produces supersolidity. It is a peculiar state of matter, which, in addition to the superfluid behavior, shows periodic density modulation typical for crystals. Here, we report the fabrication of an original type of optical...

Implementation challenges in a community-based randomized clinical trial in the rural settings of India

BACKGROUND: Community-based randomized controlled trials are the benchmark for evaluating public health interventions due to their real-world relevance. However, their implementation, particularly in resource-limited, rural settings, is challenging. This article details our exper...

Average annual occupational radiation exposure among dental staff: a 3-years retrospective observational study

Diagnostic radiography is indispensable in modern dentistry for its diagnostic and therapeutic value, yet it presents potential health risks to healthcare providers from long-term occupational radiation exposure. This retrospective study aimed to quantify the average annual occup...

The Yardstick Problem: When an LLM Fact-Checker Flags Most of What It Reads

I build a pipeline that drafts illustrated companion chapters for Indian primary schools and checks every statement in them against the NCERT textbooks before an editor reads the chapter. On a Class 3 chapter about water, the checker sent 50 of 87 statements to the editor. I took...

Corvid Acoustic Calibration, Fibonacci Equilibrium, and the Under-Saturated Space Matrix

Traditional ethology often treats biological responses to environmental shifts through abstract or anthropomorphic assumptions. Within the $n^3$ matrix-mechanical framework, however, the morning rhythmic vocalizations of corvids are reinterpreted as autonomous environmental energ...

The Unset: Perfect Nothingness and the Architecture of the Two Poles

The Unset: Perfect Nothingness and the Architecture of the Two Poles examines Perfect Nothingness as one of the two foundational poles of the Amirhosseini Cycle (AC), following the preceding three papers on the origin question, the Removal Test, and the ontological location of Go...

Gaps in dilates of Bose sets, moments of dilated Singer sets, and the excess in Erdős's Sidon problem: numerical evidence

Let h(N) be the maximal size of a Sidon set in {1,...,N}. Erdős asked whether h(N) = N^{1/2} + O(1) (Guy C9); the weaker question h(N) = N^{1/2} + O(N^ε) is Erdős problem #30, and the evidence here concerns the O(1) question only. Following a dilation idea, we study the largest c...