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Follow the e-riders: Travel behaviour change processes among e-bike adopters using a mixed-methods approach

Electric-assisted bicycles (e-bikes) represent a key example of how emerging technologies can influence travel patterns and broader sustainability transitions. While existing studies have examined motivations, substitution patterns, and behavioural impacts of e-bike adoption, lim...

Neonatal overfeeding accelerates age-related sarcopenia and metabolic disorders through lifelong gut mucosa and microbiota programming in mice

Early-life nutrition shapes lifelong health, yet the long-term consequences of childhood overnutrition, particularly on musculoskeletal aging, remain unclear. Here, we show that neonatal overfeeding acts as a developmental insult that accelerates age-related sarcopenia in both se...

Retracing Nanjing in the Tang dynasty through A GIS-based study of toponyms in contemporary poems

Previous scholars, drawing mainly on official historical sources, have argued that Nanjing (formerly Jiankang, the capital of the Six Dynasties) was completely destroyed with the defeat of the Chen Dynasty by the Sui Dynasty in 589 and remained desolate throughout the succeeding...

Dynamic impact performance of axially and eccentrically loaded reinforced concrete columns

The impact resistance of reinforced concrete (RC) columns is strongly affected by axial loading conditions, yet the combined influence of axial-load eccentricity and lateral impact remains insufficiently understood. This study numerically investigates the dynamic response and fai...

Single-vacancy engineering of blue phosphorene for suppressing the shuttle effect and enhancing conversion kinetics in Na-Se batteries: A computational investigation

The development of high-performance sodium-selenium (Na-Se) batteries is critically hindered by the dissolution and migration of intermediate polyselenide species, which induce severe shuttle effects and degrade cycling stability. In this work, first-principles density functional...

Anatomical and histological changes associated with hibernation in the stomachs of Anatolian ground squirrels

This study investigated the anatomical and histological characteristics of the stomach in Anatolian ground squirrels ( Spermophilus xanthoprymnus ) during hibernation (H) and non-hibernation (NH) periods. Stomach tissues from hibernating and non-hibernating animals were examined...

Role of digitalization and environmental policy stringency in the relationship between financial development and environmental sustainability

Financial development is often viewed as a cornerstone of economic progress, yet its expansion may come with an environmental cost. This raises a critical question of whether digitalization and environmental policy stringency can weaken the link between financial development and...

A review on the recent trends in solar-biomass hybrid drying of agro and marine products in the context of sustainable development goals

Post-harvest losses remain a critical challenge in global food systems, pressing the need for efficient and sustainable drying technologies to ensure food preservation and food loss reduction. The primary objective of this review is to study solar hybrid drying (SHD) systems with...

Optimized Efficiency to Minimize Transmission Losses and Reduce Overall System Operating Costs of 1100 kV Converter Transformers for Power Transmission System

Abstract Converter transformers are the largest single source of controllable loss in a line-commutated ultra-high-voltage direct-current (UHVDC) converter station, yet they are usually specified with loss-capitalization rules developed for sinusoidally loaded power transformers....

Enhanced antimicrobial activities of nicotine-enriched hydrothermal liquids from tobacco wastes

Hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) offers a promising pathway to convert alkaloid-rich tobacco wastes into functional carbon materials and bioactive liquids. However, the release behavior of nicotine during HTC and the relationship between nicotine occurrence and the antimicrobial...

The role of parkland agroforestry tree species for soil physicochemical properties and crop productivity in Hirna and Kersa, Eastern Ethiopia

Scattered parkland agroforestry trees play an important role in sustaining soil fertility and crop productivity in smallholder farming systems, yet quantitative evidence from eastern Ethiopia remains limited. This study evaluated the effects of Acacia albida, Cordia africana, and...

Effects of laparoscopic radiofrequency ablation combined with a levonorgestrel-releasing intrauterine system in patients with adenomyosis

To compare the 12-month clinical outcomes of laparoscopic RFA alone with those of laparoscopic RFA combined with LNG-IUS in patients with symptomatic adenomyosis. This single-center retrospective cohort study included 70 patients with adenomyosis who had complete 12-month follow-...

Engineering high-performance magnetic biochar for efficient tetracycline capture

Upcycling Chinese herbal medicine residues (CHMRs) into functional biochar adsorbents for treating antibiotic-contaminated wastewater aligns with the development philosophy of “using waste to reduce waste.” To address the challenges of easy agglomeration and limited pore developm...

Attention-Guided Efficient Structure Reassembly Through Reverse Contribution-Driven Feature Distillation and Inconsistency-Resilient Sample Filtering

Excessive features and/or inconsistent samples in practical complex system modeling often misguide decision-makers’ attention. To address this challenge, a novel attention-guided efficient structure reassembly approach is proposed through reverse contribution-driven feature disti...

Semi-analytical modeling and experimental measurement of elastic thermal expansion and aspect-ratio effects in Cu/SiO2 vias for 3D IC integration

Thermally induced protrusion of Cu pads embedded in SiO 2 vias is important for fine-pitch Cu/SiO 2 hybrid bonding, but its dependence on via geometry remains incompletely quantified. In this work, in situ heating atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurements at 25 and 200 °C are co...

VLM-Mapper: Multimodal vision-language models for prior guided lane-level HD map construction

The automated construction of High-Definition (HD) maps from remote sensing data is essential for modern intelligent transportation systems and spatial data infrastructure. While imagery provides a scalable solution for lane-level HD map construction, traditional discriminative m...

HPV vaccine uptake and barriers among adolescent girls and young women living in the urban slums of Kampala, Uganda

A high incidence of cervical cancer is evident in several low-income countries, particularly in the urban slums that harbor densely populated poor communities. Even though Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is a key strategy for cervical cancer, the uptake remains low in thes...

X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia with De novo BTK Mutations in Chinese Children: A Case Report and Literature Review

X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) is a rare primary immunodeficiency caused by Bruton’s tyrosine kinase ( BTK ) mutations that lead to defective B-cell development and severe antibody deficiency. This study aimed to describe a novel de novo BTK mutation in a Chinese child and sum...

Molecular-dynamics simulations of void formation in Si wafer during stealth dicing processes

Stealth dicing is a process used in semiconductor manufacturing to cut wafers into individual chips. It involves focusing a laser beam inside a silicon wafer to produce a modified layer, which is then subjected to an external force. The modified layer consists of regions with hig...

Cohort classification methods shape the interpretation of tree growth responses to harvesting: evidence from a natural mixed forest

Cohort classification is fundamental to interpreting tree growth responses to silvicultural interventions, yet whether the choice of classification method shapes these interpretations remains untested in structurally complex natural forests. We compared five cohort classification...