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Carboplatin, Etoposide, and Durvalumab for Extensive-Stage Small Cell Lung Cancer in a Patient Undergoing Maintenance Hemodialysis: A Case Report

Introduction: Patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis exhibit a unique immunological state characterized by chronic inflammation and T-cell dysfunction. Evidence regarding the efficacy and safety of combination chemoimmunotherapy in dialysis patients remains extremely limite...

Correlates and Patterns of Adolescents' First Romantic Relationships in Three Low‐ and Middle‐Income Countries

ABSTRACT Objective This study characterizes adolescent romantic relationships in three low‐ and middle‐income countries (LMICs) with varied and evolving family systems. Background Adolescent relationships matter for young people's future outcomes and development. These relationsh...

Optimization of ultrasound-assisted extraction time and solvent to improve phenolic recovery and antioxidant yield from Nigella sativa oil-extraction waste

This study evaluated the phenolic composition and antioxidant activity of raw Nigella sativa crude seeds (NSC) and their post-oil extraction solid byproducts, including defatted seeds (NSD) and extraction residues (NSR), which are typically considered agro-industrial waste. Ultra...

From Sentencing Hearings to Sentencing Conferences

Abstract This article presents a theoretical case for partial deformalisation of sentencing hearings, whereby the offender and the victim would be invited to add their particularistic perspectives on crime and punishment in unmediated nonhierarchical settings. It is argued that p...

Restorative Practices in Racialized Student–Teacher Conflict: The Role of School Counselors

ABSTRACT Student–teacher conflict is a common feature of K‐12 schooling, frequently addressed through exclusionary disciplinary practices that prioritize compliance over relational repair and disproportionately affect Black students. Restorative practices offer an alternative fra...

Institutional Support Environments in Higher Education: Rethinking the Role of Military-Affiliated Student Centers

Military-affiliated student centers have become common features of higher education institutions serving veterans, active-duty service members, and military-connected students. Despite their growing presence, these centers are often institutionally positioned and evaluated primar...

Attitudes to sex education among undergraduates without medical background in China

This study, guided by the Knowledge-Attitude-Practice (KAP) theory, aimed to investigate the knowledge, attitudes, and needs regarding sex education among undergraduates without medical background at Huazhong University of Science and Technology in Wuhan, China. This cross-sectio...

Nutritional Strategies for Recovery–Adaptation Coupling After Exercise: From Muscle Damage to Performance Remodeling

Background/Objectives: Recovery nutrition must restore near-term readiness without indiscriminately suppressing biological signals that contribute to repair and training adaptation. This review evaluates recovery–adaptation coupling (RAC) as a research framework and clarifies its...

STARSFLUX: an all-sky catalogue of absolute spectro-photometric calibrators from 0.3 to 30 μ m

Abstract Obtaining accurate fluxes of faint sources from the ground in near- and mid-infrared wavelengths is challenging because of the rapidly changing atmospheric absorption. A common limitation is the lack of a nearby spectro-photometric calibrator. We present the STellar Abso...

Cognitive Biology: Differentiation Clocks, Organ Formation and the MLP

Using the NCA+LLM formalism, this paper constructs a generalised vertebrate body with limbs, faithfully following the Vm calculated from the genome, including organs and cell differentiation cascades. The Hox colinear clock is shown to be applicable. The equivalence of Turing's r...

Lineage-Driven Understanding of Human Pericyte Heterogeneity in Vascular Modeling and Regeneration

Pericytes are mural cells embedded within the microvascular wall that regulate endothelial stabilization, angiogenesis, and vascular permeability. Once regarded as a relatively uniform vascular support population, pericytes are now recognized as quantitatively and functionally he...

Phi-Resonant E8 Edge Conduction for Lossless Quantum Transport — E8 Intelligence Research

By exploiting constructive interference among a subset of the 240 E8 root vectors at the 132 Hz phi‑coupled base frequency, a topologically protected edge channel emerges that conducts quantum information without back‑scattering. The phi‑modulated helical lattice creates a dynami...

From stigma to substitution: a qualitative study on consumer reevaluation of the “Made in China” label in a disrupted automobile market

Purpose This study aims to explore how consumers reevaluate deeply integrated country-of-origin (COO) stigmas in the context of market disruption. The authors aim to examine consumers’ perceptions of “Made in China” and highlight the legitimation mechanisms they use to navigate t...

The relationship between hemoglobin concentration in the third-trimester and gestational age, birth weight of newborns: stratified analysis based on maternal age

This study retrospectively analyzed the association between hemoglobin concentration in the third trimester of pregnancy and neonatal gestational age and birth weight, and further explored whether there were differential effects between advanced maternal age and women of reproduc...

A new behavioral evaluation framework for early-stage spatial optimization in high-mobility transit architecture design by applying virtual reality

Efficient wayfinding and spatial comfort are critical performance dimensions for high-mobility transit architecture, yet user-centered evaluation is rarely integrated into early-stage design workflows. This study proposes a virtual reality (VR)-driven behavioral evaluation framew...

Analysis of drug development risks for metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease from a sustainable accounting perspective

Abstract Background Metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD) is among the most common chronic liver diseases worldwide [1], and its targeted therapy and new drug development have drawn extensive global attention. Prior relevant studies mainly focus on the...

Improving stock price forecasting accuracy on the Shanghai Stock Exchange utilising hybrid LSTM and BRO algorithm

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Immune profiling of chronic recurrent non-specific parotitis using CyTOF: a preliminary exploratory study

Chronic recurrent non-specific parotitis (CRNP) is characterized by recurrent parotid swelling and pain without identifiable obstructive lesions or systemic autoimmune diseases. The immunological features underlying CRNP remain poorly defined. Peripheral blood mononuclear cells (...

Bioinformatics and experimental studies of atherosclerosis-related endothelial dysfunction genes in renal calculi and exploration of their molecular mechanisms

Patients with kidney stones (KS) often have an increased risk of atherosclerosis (AS). Because endothelial dysfunction (ED) is closely associated with AS, its role in KS remains unclear. This study aimed to examine the roles and mechanisms of AS-related ED genes in KS. Three data...

A Novel α-Globin Gene Variant: Hb Romagna [α61(E10)Lys>Gln; HBA1:c.184A>C] Co-Inherited with Hb A2-Lampang [δ47(CD6)Asp>Asn; HBD:c.142G>A] in an Italian Diabetic Woman

Background: Screening for hemoglobinopathies, particularly in Mediterranean countries, is primarily aimed at preventing beta-thalassemia. However, during such screening, numerous other Hb defects can be diagnosed, each with different clinical significance, including qualitative a...