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- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Female Scrap Collectors in Qumbu, Eastern Cape, South Africa Through the Lens of Resilience Theory
Background/Objectives: Women working in the informal sector are frequently exposed to multiple layers of vulnerability and trauma, yet their mental health experiences remain insufficiently explored. Methods: This qualitative study examined the mental health implications of trauma...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Forest fires are a major environmental concern in Northern Thailand, contributing to ecosystem degradation, biodiversity loss, and seasonal air pollution. This study identified the environmental factors influencing forest fire occurrence and developed a forest fire susceptibility...
- BiologyOpen access
The context is that rain-fed smallholder agriculture is highly vulnerable to climate change in Agro-Ecological Region I (AER I) of Zambia, which is dominated by the low-lying semi-arid valley of Chirundu District in Zambia, part of the most vulnerable districts in the country. Cl...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Reliable visibility forecasting is important for transportation safety and sustainable urban environmental management, particularly in the Sichuan Basin, where poor visibility remains a persistent concern. This study developed a comparative diagnostic framework for one-day-ahead...
- Materials & Energy
The design of polymer composites from recycled materials requires careful control over structure at different length scales. In this work, post-consumer polyvinyl chloride (PVC) was transformed into a textile-supported electrospun nanofibrous composite reinforced with calcium car...
- Health & Medicine
Background Caring for individuals with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) is increasingly recognized as a significant clinical challenge. However, the latent burden, driven by perceived stigma and gender-specific vulnerabilities, remains poorly characterized during these early stage...
- Engineering & Technology
Abstract Wear and rolling contact fatigue (RCF) are regarded as two prominent factors that deteriorate the long-term service performances and aggravate the maintenance costs of metro rails on the small-radius curves, therefore an effective countermeasure against which is needed....
- Engineering & Technology
Abstract Biomass combustion in boilers originally designed for coal presents substantial technical challenges, notably the lower ash fusion temperature (AFT) of agricultural crops, which causes increased ash deposition since biomass ash becomes sticky at lower temperatures than c...
- Materials & Energy
ABSTRACT Polybenzoxazine (PBz) aerogels fabricated via a water–ethanol mixed green system are attractive for thermal insulation but are limited by inherent brittleness and the environmental burden of their conventional fabrication. To address this, we developed a high‐strength hy...
- Society & Economics
Purpose Sustainability and resilience have become critical requirements for maintaining competitiveness in international markets. Yet export-oriented firms still struggle to meet these requirements effectively. While digitally enabled supply chains can potentially help firms in t...
- Materials & Energy
Living systems sustain nonequilibrium supramolecular assemblies through continuous energy input and concomitant dissipation, with adenosine triphosphate (ATP) serving as a universal chemical fuel that regulates dynamic processes by coupling hydrolysis to downstream chemical or co...
- BiologyOpen access
The treatment of soybean seeds with copper (Cu) can induce toxicity in seedlings depending on the applied dose and seed storage time after treatment. Silicon (Si) has the potential to mitigate Cu toxicity; however, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. This study pr...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Mono-energetic fusion neutrons produced by the primary deuterium–tritium fuel reactions in tokamaks play a critical role in the performance and safety of the first wall and the blanket system. Through energy deposition and the generation of secondary particles and photons, these...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
A simple device for balancing for a continuous covariate in clinical trials is to stratify by whether the covariate is above or below some target value, typically the predicted median. The object is to improve balance of the covariate and hence efficiency of the treatment estimat...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Objective: To compare the performance of a novel piezoelectric tip with that of a conventional tip for dorsal hump resection in primary open septorhinoplasty, with the hypothesis that the new design would shorten resection time without increasing postoperative edema, ecchymosis,...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Right Ingredients, Wrong Recipe: What It Takes to Really Get Children Learning
Shifting away from rote learning requires more than the right inputs. Meaningful learning can only take place when school systems put the right political, cultural, and behavioral conditions in place.
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Hypoglycemia is a common complication in people with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) treated with basal insulin, yet its true prevalence in real-world primary care remains underexplored. This study used blinded continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to assess glycemic patterns in pa...
- BiologyOpen access
Abstract The study of consciousness remains fragmented across philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, biology, cybernetics, artificial intelligence, and related disciplines. These fields frequently investigate different manifestations, correlates, mechanisms, or concepts under the...
- Biology
Gender inequality in household property ownership remains a critical issue worldwide, with women facing significant barriers to accessing and controlling assets. This study examines community perceptions of gender disparities in property ownership and access in the Manyara Region...
- BiologyOpen access
Humans are the only species with the ability to systematically combine words to convey an unbounded number of complex meanings. This process is guided by combinatorial processes whose underlying neural mechanisms remain obscured by inherent limitations of noninvasive brain measur...