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2-Ethylhexyl Diphenyl Phosphate (EHDPP) Induces Hepatic Expression of Cytochrome P450s, Liver Damage, and Genotoxicity in Mice

As a commonly present organophosphorus flame retardant and persistent organic pollutant, 2-ethylhexyl diphenyl phosphate (EHDPP) has been observed to be genotoxic in cultured human hepatoma (HepG2) cells which depends on CYP activities. Yet, its impacts on hepatic Cyp expression,...

Two Cases of Steroid Cell Tumour, Not Otherwise Specified, of the Ovary with Distinct Exon 3 CTNNB1 Hotspot Mutations (p.D32V and p.S45P): Further Evidence of Wnt/β-Catenin-Pathway Involvement

Background and Clinical Significance: Steroid cell tumours of the ovary, not otherwise specified (SCT-NOSs), are rare sex cord–stromal neoplasms with a poorly characterised molecular landscape, in which only exceptional CTNNB1 mutations have so far been reported and no recurrent...

Early versus late JAK-STAT–IFN signaling distinguishes no rejection from subclinical to clinical TCMR after liver transplantation

Subclinical rejection after liver transplantation precludes immunosuppression withdrawal despite normal clinical function. To better understand the immunobiology of early subclinical rejection, we performed longitudinal, multimodal immune profiling and single-cell RNA sequencing...

Is cohabitation in vertically segregated apartment buildings in Athens harmonious or conflictual?

This article examines cohabitation in socially and ethnically mixed apartment buildings in the center of Athens that were built with the “land for flat” system, where vertical social segregation is particularly pronounced. Unlike horizontal segregation, vertical segregation leads...

Can Neural Networks Think Like Geomorphologists?

Abstract Understanding the connection between topography and the processes and properties that shape landscapes both helps us better understand landscape evolution, and use topography to infer information relevant for a wide range of human activities. Deep learning methods, like...

Effects of maternal and paternal smoking on offspring cardiometabolic risk factors in adulthood: a multi-method intergenerational Mendelian randomization study

Abstract Background Parental smoking has been linked to several adverse offspring cardiometabolic outcomes; however, evidence is conflicting regarding the causal and long-term nature of these associations. Methods We investigated the effects of maternal and paternal smoking, capt...

Antioxidant Benzophenones and Biphenyls from an Endophytic Fungus Penicillium sp. QM-4

The endophytic fungi from plants are recognized as a valuable source of structurally diverse secondary metabolites with intriguing bioactivities. Three previously undescribed compounds, including two benzophenones, 2-(2,6-dihydroxy-4-methylbenzoyl)benzoic acid (1) and 2-(2,6-dihy...

Diversity and Classification of the Actinopeptins: A New Family of Lanthipeptides Within the Genomes from the Phylum Actinomycetota

Background/Objectives: Lanthipeptides are post-translationally modified compounds and have broad industrial potential. Six distinct classes of lanthipeptides are defined by the biosynthetic enzymes that install lanthionine and β-methyl-lanthionine. Notably, class II lanthipeptide...

Deep learning framework for predicting measurement error drift in smart meter sensors under harsh coastal environments

Smart meter sensors in coastal environments suffer severe accuracy degradation due to salt fog corrosion, high humidity, and temperature cycling affecting current transformers, voltage dividers, and measurement circuits. This study proposes a reliability prediction framework addr...

Beyond the Western paradigm: re-evaluating the 15-minute city through the lens of Japanese transit-oriented urbanism

The 15-minute city, formalised by Carlos Moreno in 2016, has become a dominant framework for sustainability discourse. Yet its diffusion from Paris to Melbourne and Portland has proceeded without interrogating whether a home-centred proximity model is universally applicable. This...

Ergonomics-Aware Task Allocation for Human-Centric Collaborative Assembly: A Systematic Review

Human-centric manufacturing is reshaping collaborative production systems by repositioning human capabilities, safety, experience, and well-being as central concerns in the design and operation of intelligent manufacturing. As manufacturing moves toward Industry 5.0, task allocat...

Modified Yoong Ultrasound‐Guided Rotator Interval Injection for Adhesive Capsulitis: A 2‐Year Follow‐Up

OBJECTIVE: Adhesive capsulitis (AC) is characterized by progressive fibrosis of the glenohumeral capsule, with the rotator interval (RI) as a key pathological site. Ultrasound-guided hydrodilation of the RI (Yoong technique) is an established intervention, but traversal of a thic...

Common pathways and outliers in glucose catabolism across Trypanosomatidae

Glucose catabolism in trypanosomatids differs significantly from that in most other eukaryotes. Here, the first few enzymes of the pathway are all located inside glycosomes, that is, the peroxisome‐like microbodies uniquely present in the Kinetoplastida and Diplonemida of the Eug...

A computational framework for Kármán gaiting in robotic fish: spatio-temporal perception and CPG-based reinforcement learning

Navigating in unsteady wake flows, such as Kármán vortex streets, presents a formidable challenge for biomimetic autonomous underwater vehicles. Biological fish achieve this by utilizing their lateral line sensory systems to perceive local flow gradients and adopting an energy-ef...

Capacitance-Based Characterization of Air-Void Distribution in Asphalt Mixtures Using a Saturated Reference Field

Air-void distribution is an important internal characteristic of asphalt mixtures, as it affects compaction quality, moisture susceptibility, permeability, and long-term pavement durability. Conventional air-void testing methods generally provide only an average volumetric parame...

SPFMamba: A Mamba-Based Network with Semantic Prompt and Frequency-Adaptive Fusion for Remote Sensing Image Semantic Segmentation

Modern remote sensing images (RSIs) provide increasingly fine spatial detail, making pronounced scale variations and complex spatial distributions of land-cover classes more apparent and thereby increasing the difficulty of semantic segmentation. Recent remote sensing semantic se...

Primitive Accumulation as a Perspective on Nature, Race and Gender

This text systematizes Marx’s approach of primitive accumulation and Luxemburg’s theory of imperialism as tools to re-understand the relation between nature, race and gender as a constitutive relation between capital, the state and its boundaries. It first analyzes how the capita...

Virtual Reality for the Assessment of Visual Capacities: A Systematic Review

Objectives: Virtual reality (VR) enables controlled, interactive, and ecologically valid visual tasks, offering potential advantages over static clinical tests. This systematic review synthesized current evidence on the use of VR technologies for assessing visual capacities acros...

Factors associated with early hematoma expansion in intracerebral hemorrhage and the value of non-contrast computed tomography imaging features combined with clinical data for early identification

PURPOSE: Early hematoma expansion (HE) after intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) critically affects patient outcomes. Identifying HE risk using emergency non-contrast computed tomography (NCCT) features and clinical data is important for early risk stratification and evaluation. This...

Robust Cross-Spectral Periocular Biometric Recognition using LoRA-Adapted DINOv2 and Quality-Aware Fusion

Robust periocular recognition in contactless settings remains challenging due to cross-sensor and cross-spectral appearance variations, as well as unconstrained factors such as pose, blur, and occlusion. This paper proposes a parameter-efficient periocular recognition framework ba...