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Mechanical responses, failure behaviours and stability of soft–hard interbedded antidip slopes under various degrees of anisotropy

Purpose This study was aimed at investigating the mechanical responses and failure characteristics of soft–hard interbedded rock samples under uniaxial compression and Brazilian splitting tests with varying strength ratios between the hard and soft layers (i.e. anisotropy degrees...

Bridging the Biotic–Abiotic Divide: Design Principles of Hydrogel Interfaces for Next‐Generation Brain‐Machine Implants

ABSTRACT Brain–machine interfaces (BMIs), recognized as transformative technologies for restoring neural function and decoding intricate brain activity, have started to come to the fore. Despite these advancements, a significant disparity persists between traditional machines—con...

Seismic behaviour of aggregated reinforced masonry dwellings considering the combined influence of diaphragm stiffness and height irregularity

Abstract Aggregate dwellings are a common construction configuration in urban environments in the Americas, where space constraints favour terraced construction. However, seismic interaction between adjacent dwellings can significantly alter their structural response, especially...

Angular-optimized volumetric modulated arc therapy improves cardiac sparing and efficiency in early left-breast radiotherapy

This dosimetric study evaluated angular-optimized volumetric modulated arc therapy (AO-VMAT) with non-opposed tangential beams and dynamic jaw tracking in 15 retrospective left-sided breast cancer patients. AO-VMAT comprised two non-opposed 180° arcs: start angles were set at 300...

Perfect-Power Quadratic-Trace Lucas Towers

Let $r,s\in\Z$ be coprime, with $r$ odd and $s\ne0$, and put $z=r+s\sqrt{-2},\qquad D=r^2-2s^2,\qquad Q=r^2+2s^2,$ $B_n=\frac{z^{2n}+\bar z^{2n}}2.$ Assume that, for an odd integer $f\ge3$, one has a perfect-power endpoint $B_f=\sigma A^f$ with $\sigma\in\{\pm1\}$ and $A>0$. For...

Innate immune recognition of Debaryomyces hansenii requires Dectin-1-Card9 signaling

ABSTRACT Innate immune signaling plays a key role in host response to infection, yet the pattern recognition receptors that detect non-model gut-associated yeasts remain poorly defined. Here, we investigated macrophage sensing of Debaryomyces hansenii , a food-derived yeast that...

Accuracy of Artificial Intelligence based chatbots in reporting jaw lesions from multimodal radiographic images: A cross-sectional study

OBJECTIVES: The current study aimed to quantify the diagnostic accuracy of commonly utilized chatbots including Gemini, Copilot, Claude, and specialized architectures like Manus in the detection and differential diagnosis of various jaw lesions, while concurrently evaluating the...

Achieving selective photochemistry on a metal surface by tuning the aromatic core

On-surface photochemistry provides a non-thermal strategy that can circumvent the side reactions and structural defects associated with thermal activation, enabling enhanced control over surface reactions. Among these, Ullmann coupling serves as a representative on-surface reacti...

Environmental enrichment modulates parvalbumin interneuron deficits and plasticity-related signaling after early postnatal NMDA receptor hypofunction in male rat visual cortex

Abstract Sensory processing deficits in schizophrenia have been linked to dysfunction of cortical inhibitory interneurons, particularly parvalbumin-expressing (PV+) populations. NMDA receptor hypofunction during development is known to disrupt interneuron maturation, but its long...

pH-Regulated Acidogenic Fermentation of Chicken Manure Promotes Lactic Acid and Acetic Acid Production While Limiting Nitrogen Release

Acidogenic fermentation offers a promising approach to convert chicken manure into carbon-rich liquid products for various practical applications. However, the high nitrogen content in chicken manure hinders acidogenesis and limits product utilization due to ammonium accumulation...

E8 Hyperbolic Braid Graph Quantum Memory Encoding — E8 Intelligence Research

By extending the Möbius hypergraph topology to hyperbolic braid geometries, the 240 E8 root vectors can now encode qubit states within their braiding phase matrices, achieving fault-tolerant quantum memory. This leverages the phi-temporal self-correction mechanism's time-reversal...

CA-SBA-3195: Archaeological site record for CA-SBA-3195

This document is the archaeological site record for CA-SBA-3195 consisting of two recordation events in 1995 and 2026.

Trends in foodborne outbreaks and outbreak-associated illnesses using a Bayesian trend model – United States, 1998–2018

Evaluating temporal trends in foodborne outbreak and illness attribution to specific food types is important for understanding which foods may be emerging as sources of illness and whether prevention strategies are working to prevent these illnesses. Evaluating these trends can b...

A Dual-Cuboid Constraint Method with Marching Cubes-Based Contour Extraction for Verticality Inspection of Square Tower Structures

Verticality inspection of square tower structures is of great significance for ensuring structural operational safety, extending service life, and optimizing maintenance strategies. However, conventional verticality inspection methods still exhibit deficiencies in point cloud noi...

Exploring the Social, Emotional, and Physical Consequences of Hidradenitis Suppurativa in Pediatric Patients: A Scoping Review

There remains a widespread lack of knowledge regarding hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) among physicians in the United States, impeding timely diagnosis and implementation of comprehensive treatment interventions. Despite the presence of supporting communities for affected adolescen...

Effective Reductionof Anti-PEG Antibody Recognitionvia PEG Copolymers with Ethyl Glycidyl Ether and Isopropyl GlycidylEther

Abstract Anti-PEG antibodies (APAs) lead to accelerated blood clearance of PEGylated drugs and nanocarriers. Randomized PEG (rPEG) reduces APA recognition by randomly incorporating glycidyl methyl ether in PEG. Extending this concept, statistical copolymerization of ethylene oxid...

Spectral Branch-Cut Signatures in Low-Energy Nuclear Scattering: An Energy-Dependent Phase-Shift Test of History-Dependent Gravity (Paper LXII)

This paper represents the first controlled, observable-level test of temporal nonlocality in nucleon-nucleon scattering within the History-Dependent Gravity (HDG) framework. Key contributions: Observable-level framework: We construct the spectral curvature observable C(k)C(k) and...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 1331 Sources, 8822 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 1331 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 8822 leads across 13 categories. 6934 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 712, "FORMULA": 567, "GEOMETRIC": 671, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 742, "QUANTUM": 955, "TIMING": 174, "CELESTIAL": 653, "GEMATRIA": 699, "CONSTANT":...

Some Flexible Probability Models with Biomedical Applications

Abstract. This paper introduces a novel generalization of selected probability distributionsusing the weighted distribution approach. The fundamental statistical properties of theproposed model are derived and investigated in detail. Its practical applicability isdemonstrated thr...

Easy-Negative Inflation in Wildfire-Risk Modeling: Honest Evaluation, Seasonal Recalibration, and a Public Prospective Benchmark from an Operational System

We report on the evaluation and operation of Tutela Ignis, a publicly deployed machine-learning wildfire-risk system for mainland Portugal that issues daily ignition-risk scores on a 1 km grid (88,527 continental cells) from a gradient-boosted ensemble over 63 tabular features dr...