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Temporal trends in envenomation by venomous animals: A global burden of disease analysis

Envenomation by venomous animals remains a critical public health issue in tropical regions; however, long-term global epidemiological trends have not yet been sufficiently characterised. By analysing data from the Global Burden of Disease study from 1990 to 2021, we found a decl...

A retrospective cohort study of the association between triglyceride-glucose index and its derived indicators and all-cause mortality among community-dwelling adults with a history of stroke

Abstract Objective As a novel marker of insulin resistance, the triglyceride-glucose (TyG) index has been documented to correlate with mortality in coronary artery disease and heart failure. In recent years, growing attention has been paid to the relationship between the TyG inde...

Between caution and adaptation. Artificial intelligence in Polish social work practice

This article examines how Polish social work practitioners perceive artificial intelligence (AI), the extent of its adoption, and the hopes and concerns linked to its use. In December 2025, a nationwide Computer-Assisted Web Interview (CAWI) survey was conducted with 1,243 social...

Beyond correlation: Intraclass correlation and bland-altman analysis reveal poor absolute agreement across multiplex cytokine immunoassay platforms

Cross-platform comparisons of serum cytokine immunoassays have often focused on rank correlation, but the extent of absolute agreement and systematic bias between platforms remains insufficiently characterized. Few independent head-to-head evaluations have compared multiple immun...

Beyond engagement: how clubs translate institutional values into well-being – evidence from Italian rugby

Purpose This paper contributes to Management Decision's “The Practice of Making Decisions” section by examining how sports organisations should balance engagement growth and institutional values. Using Italian rugby clubs as a case, it asks what leaders should prioritise when res...

The efficacy and safety of endoscopic resection for multiple rectal neuroendocrine tumors: a retrospective cohort study from a tertiary center

Multiple rectal neuroendocrine tumors (MR-NETs) are rare. There is no consensus on their characteristics and treatment. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of endoscopic resection (ER) for MR-NETs. We performed a retrospective review of 24 patients with 57 rectal NETs wh...

Impact of climate change on environmental niche dynamics of resident and migratory ducks in the Eastern Himalayan wintering grounds

Climate change is profoundly reshaping the distribution and interspecific dynamics of waterbirds across wintering grounds worldwide, yet its implications for niche overlap between migratory and resident guilds remain poorly assessed, particularly in biodiversity-rich South Asian...

Surface sulfur-modified NiO nanoparticles with enhanced oxygen evolution reaction kinetics and periodic electrochemical durability evaluation

Developing efficient and durable oxygen evolution reaction (OER) electrocatalysts is essential for sustainable hydrogen production through water electrolysis. Herein, pristine NiO nanoparticles and NiO–S composites containing 10 wt% (NiO@S1) and 20 wt% sulfur (NiO@S2) were prepar...

Coupled adaptive neural network control for active suspension of deep-sea mining tracked vehicles under hydrodynamic effects and multiple parametric uncertainties

Deep-sea mining tracked vehicles are subject to substantial parametric uncertainty from hydrodynamic effects, soft-seabed interaction, suspension nonlinearities, and actuator degradation. This paper proposes a coupled adaptive neural network (CANN) strategy for an 8-DOF six-wheel...

Association between meal timing regularity and oral health behaviors

Good oral health habits may be related to the regularity of food intake; however, these relationships have not been well-explored. This study examined the association between meal timing regularity and oral health behaviors, focusing on consistent weekday and weekend meal schedul...

GPU-accelerated parallel strategies for multiscale isogeometric topology optimization

In multiscale isogeometric topology optimization (ITO), the highly coupled cross-scale sensitivity analysis and the wide support of NURBS basis functions constitute the dominant computational bottleneck. To address these computational bottlenecks, this paper proposes a Decoupled...

Impact of obstructive sleep apnea on outcomes of acute respiratory distress syndrome: propensity matched analysis of a national cohort

Background The effects of co-existing OSA on the outcomes of ARDS are unclear. Objectives This retrospective study aimed to compare the outcomes and resource utilization rates of OSA patients who develop ARDS with a matched control group. Materials and methods Adult patients hosp...

Intra-individual variability of urinary non-persistent chemical concentrations during pregnancy in the ECHO Cohort

Studies of prenatal exposure to non-persistent chemicals often assume biomarker measurements from a single urine sample can represent exposure pregnancy. The validity of this assumption depends on biomarker concentration variability across gestation, which is not well-characteriz...

Interobserver agreement in the diagnosis of endometrial atypical hyperplasia and the contribution of PTEN immunohistochemistry

Endometrial atypical hyperplasia (EAH) is a precancerous lesion whose distinction from non-atypical hyperplasia and endometrioid carcinoma carries major therapeutic implications, particularly in young women eligible for fertility-sparing treatment. Because diagnostic reproducibil...

Remote sensing and deep learning for standing dead-tree detection and mapping: a review of advances, challenges, and future directions

Standing dead trees are visible indicators of tree mortality and an important transitional component linking forest disturbance to future lying deadwood, habitat availability, and carbon storage. As drought, insect outbreaks, pathogens, and climate extremes intensify tree mortali...

Monitoring and control of antimicrobial resistance across the water continuum, from natural sources to engineered water systems

Chemical disinfection is heavily relied upon to arrest microbial regrowth in water systems, but its future must be reimagined. Growing evidence indicates that disinfectants themselves, along with persistent disinfectant residues and the formation of disinfection byproducts (DBPs)...

Artificial Intelligence in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Management of Rare Diseases: Opportunities and Challenges from a Latin American Perspective

Rare diseases collectively affect between 3.5 and 5.9% of the global population. Yet, patients still endure an average diagnostic interval of five to seven years before receiving an accurate explanation of their condition. Approximately 80% of these disorders have a genetic origi...

From automatic detection to segmentation: A label-efficient SAM pipeline with feature-guided star-shape priors for breast ultrasound

Accurate segmentation of breast lesions in ultrasound images is important for quantitative lesion assessment, but remains difficult because of low contrast, noise, and artifacts. The Segment Anything Model (SAM) provides a flexible prompt-based segmentation framework, yet its per...

Development of a double-nest droplet digital PCR technology for detection of BVDV and BTV

Bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV) and bluetongue virus (BTV) are important pathogens that affect ruminants, they have an overlapping host range, and mixed infections are easily caused in animals under mixed breeding or grazing together. It has always been a hot issue of concern...

Synthesis of 2,5-bis(hydroxymethyl)furan and furan-2,5-diylbis(methylene) diacetate from apple pomace waste via chemobiological catalysis

The direct valorization of real agricultural waste into high-value furan derivatives remains challenging because biomass deconstruction and selective downstream upgrading generally require chemically distinct catalytic environments. Here, a sequential chemobiological platform int...