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Neurobehavioral Effects of Repeated Low-Dose Dimethyl Sulfoxide Administration in Mice

The aim of study was the neurobehavioral effects of repeated low-dose dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) administration in mice. Male Swiss albino mice were randomly divided into four groups: control, DMSO 0.1 mg/kg, DMSO 0.2 mg/kg, and DMSO 0.4 mg/kg (n=6). DMSO was administered intraper...

Design and development of AbortionCareTXT, a text message programme for individuals undergoing medication abortion

Abstract Background In Canada, medication abortion accounts for approximately 30% of the 100 000 annual abortions. Despite the advantages of privacy and autonomy, many individuals report feeling unprepared and uninformed about the medication abortion process. Mobile health (mHeal...

Multi-scale Coarse-to-fine Alignment Network for weakly aligned Red–Green–Blue and Thermal salient object detection

Red–Green–Blue and Thermal (RGBT) salient object detection (SOD) aims to detect common conspicuous regions from the visible light and thermal infrared image pair. Due to the different imaging mechanisms of visible light and thermal images, they are usually weakly aligned. Most ex...

Changes in arbovirus risks and responses from 2020 to 2026

Abstract Since 2020, viruses spread by mosquitoes and biting midges have become a larger and less predictable public health challenge. Dengue continues to cause the greatest burden, but chikungunya, Oropouche, and other viruses are re-emerging or spreading into new areas. In this...

Wind-Load Analysis of a Floating Structure with Different Levels of Geometric Resolution Using OpenFOAM

Wind loads acting on an offshore floating structure are important for the global performance analysis and mooring design. In early design stages, detailed topside geometry may not be fully available; therefore, a wind-load analysis should be performed using simplified geometries....

Experimental investigation of wake and load modifications of a submerged horizontal cylinder by a wrap-around flexible appendage under wave–current conditions

The hydrodynamic effects of a wrap-around flexible appendage attached to a submerged horizontal cylinder were experimentally investigated under current, wave, and wave-current conditions using synchronized force measurements, particle image velocimetry, and image-based motion tra...

Cross-Lingual Real-Time Speech Interaction for Embodied Intelligence: Architecture, Challenges, and Prospects

Embodied intelligence is rapidly evolving toward natural human–machine interaction, where real-time cross-lingual speech processing is essential for robots to understand and execute commands across languages. This study reviews research progress from January 2010 to November 1, 2...

In silico experiments uncover a novel mechanism underlying mutation rate evolution in sexually reproducing populations

Abstract Natural selection is believed to universally work to lower mutation rates (MR) due to the negative impact of mutations on individual fitness. Mutator alleles can be co-selected by genetic linkage with adaptive alleles in asexual organisms. However, sexual reproduction di...

Alcohol-Related Emergency Department Visits of Young Adults in a University City in the Netherlands

Objectives This study aimed to examine the incidence and characteristics of alcohol-related emergency department (ED) visits in young adults compared with older age groups. Methods A retrospective electronic health record study of patients aged ≥18 years with an alcohol-related E...

Incidence of caregiver-reported diarrhea and associated risk factors among under-five children in Hosanna Town, central Ethiopia: a prospective cohort study

Diarrhea remains a leading cause of illnesses and death among children under five in developing countries, including Ethiopia. However, longitudinal studies on the incidence and risk factors of childhood diarrhea are limited, particularly in Ethiopia. Therefore, this study aimed...

Ambient particulate matter exposure and children's blood pressure in rural California, 2019-2022

Elevated blood pressure (BP) in children is a risk factor for adult hypertension and is increasing globally. Ambient particulate matter (PM) is associated with increased BP in children in urban areas, but data from rural regions are sparse. The Children's AIRE study enrolled chil...

A modified Kirschner wire fixation technique in the treatment of supracondylar humerus fractures in children under 8 years of age

Supracondylar humerus fractures (SCHF) are the most common elbow fractures in children. Closed reduction and percutaneous pinning (CRPP) is the standard surgical treatment, but complications such as Kirschner wires (K-wires) migration and fixation failure remain challenging. A mo...

Parental and Adolescent Internalizing Problems: The Role of Inappropriate Parenting Practices

ABSTRACT Introduction Adolescence is a developmental period marked by increased vulnerability to internalizing problems. Parental internalizing symptoms represent a key risk factor, yet mechanisms of transmission and differential maternal and paternal contributions remain insuffi...

Interfacially Assembled Hollow AuAg Nanostars on Flexible PDMS for Sensitive SERS Detection

Optimizing the morphology and structure of noble metal nanomaterials is critical for the design of high-performance surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates for trace analyte detection. A plasmon-tunable SERS platform consisting of AuAg alloy nanostars anchored on a hy...

Effect of iTBS and rTMS Combined with Robotic Rehabilitation on Ambulation and Lower Extremity Motor Function in Chronic SCI Patients

Objective: To investigate the effectiveness of intermittent theta-burst stimulation (iTBS) and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) combined with robotic rehabilitation on ambulation and lower-extremity motor function in patients with spinal cord injury (SCI). Desi...

Safety-critical trajectory segment generation for autonomous driving testing in vehicle-to-two-wheeler blind-spot emergence scenarios

Objective Safety validation of autonomous driving systems (ADS) is constrained by the rarity of safety-critical interactions in naturalistic driving and the difficulty of generating realistic multi-agent trajectories from reconstructed crash data. This study focuses on a common u...

Static-dynamic triggering mechanisms of rockburst in straight-walled arch roadways under different principal stress orientations and impact disturbances

This study investigates how principal-stress orientation affects impact disturbance triggered rockburst around straight-walled arch roadways. Coupled static-dynamic loading tests were conducted on specimens containing a straight-walled arch opening with orientation angles of 0°,...

Does Complexation of Plasma Membrane Cholesterol with Phospholipids Determine its Transbilayer Distribution?

The transbilayer distribution of cholesterol in the plasma membrane is unresolved in that diverse analyses have yielded contradictory results. We now propose a model based on a novel mechanism. It assumes that (a) sterols associate stoichiometrically with phospholipids and (b) th...

Soil-plant-animal properties and microbial reassembly distinguish cattle oral disease prevalence across converted Amazon pasture systems

Forest-to-pasture conversion can alter soil properties, forage composition, and microbial communities, but whether these changes are associated with bovine periodontitis remains unclear. We compared eight pasture systems in the Western Brazilian Amazon classified by high or low h...

A microfluidic vacuum-pressure-driven device for liquid viscosity measurement

Abstract A vacuum-driven microfluidic viscometer is proposed for measuring dynamic viscosity using only 6 µL of sample. The device consists of a polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) microchannel with a rectangular cross-section of 200 μm × 450 μm and a total length of 26 cm, connected...