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134751 work(s)
- Health & MedicineOpen access
To compare the 12-month clinical outcomes of laparoscopic RFA alone with those of laparoscopic RFA combined with LNG-IUS in patients with symptomatic adenomyosis. This single-center retrospective cohort study included 70 patients with adenomyosis who had complete 12-month follow-...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Engineering high-performance magnetic biochar for efficient tetracycline capture
Upcycling Chinese herbal medicine residues (CHMRs) into functional biochar adsorbents for treating antibiotic-contaminated wastewater aligns with the development philosophy of “using waste to reduce waste.” To address the challenges of easy agglomeration and limited pore developm...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Excessive features and/or inconsistent samples in practical complex system modeling often misguide decision-makers’ attention. To address this challenge, a novel attention-guided efficient structure reassembly approach is proposed through reverse contribution-driven feature disti...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Thermally induced protrusion of Cu pads embedded in SiO 2 vias is important for fine-pitch Cu/SiO 2 hybrid bonding, but its dependence on via geometry remains incompletely quantified. In this work, in situ heating atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurements at 25 and 200 °C are co...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
VLM-Mapper: Multimodal vision-language models for prior guided lane-level HD map construction
The automated construction of High-Definition (HD) maps from remote sensing data is essential for modern intelligent transportation systems and spatial data infrastructure. While imagery provides a scalable solution for lane-level HD map construction, traditional discriminative m...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
A high incidence of cervical cancer is evident in several low-income countries, particularly in the urban slums that harbor densely populated poor communities. Even though Human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination is a key strategy for cervical cancer, the uptake remains low in thes...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
X-linked agammaglobulinemia (XLA) is a rare primary immunodeficiency caused by Bruton’s tyrosine kinase ( BTK ) mutations that lead to defective B-cell development and severe antibody deficiency. This study aimed to describe a novel de novo BTK mutation in a Chinese child and sum...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Molecular-dynamics simulations of void formation in Si wafer during stealth dicing processes
Stealth dicing is a process used in semiconductor manufacturing to cut wafers into individual chips. It involves focusing a laser beam inside a silicon wafer to produce a modified layer, which is then subjected to an external force. The modified layer consists of regions with hig...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Cohort classification is fundamental to interpreting tree growth responses to silvicultural interventions, yet whether the choice of classification method shapes these interpretations remains untested in structurally complex natural forests. We compared five cohort classification...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Spatiotemporal Observer (ST-Observer) is a recently proposed spatiotemporal prediction framework grounded in dynamical system theory, which outperforms many spatiotemporal prediction models on three publicly available datasets. However, through careful analysis, we found that its...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
FramePoison: attacks on medical RAG that target framing, not just facts
Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is increasingly used in high-stakes domains like medicine, where answers are grounded in retrieved literature and can shape clinical understanding. This opens a new attack surface: an adversary can shape model outputs by injecting a few docume...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Redefining fuel poverty: Introducing the temporal equity framework (TEF)
The definition and quantification of fuel (or energy) poverty remain contentious, particularly within the English policy landscape. The current official definition—Low Income Low Energy Efficiency (LILEE)—systematically underestimates the condition in low- and middle-income house...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
No-tillage (NT) has frequently been reported to increase the risk of soil compaction while enhancing soil water content. In cold regions, freeze-thaw cycles (FTC) strongly influence soil structure and hydrothermal regimes. However, it remains unclear whether FTC can effectively i...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) provide a flexible means of collecting data from spatially distributed sensor networks in intelligent transportation systems. This study investigates a UAV-assisted data collection problem that jointly optimizes collection point (CP) selection, UAV...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Sepsis-associated liver injury (SALI) is an independent predictor of mortality in adult sepsis, but its association with outcomes in children has not been systematically synthesized. We pooled SALI-associated mortality and SALI proportions and summarized candidate biomarker perfo...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Mild traumatic brain injuries (mTBI) can substantially impact quality of life, and repetitive mTBIs (rmTBIs) can amplify injury effects compared to a single injury. However, effective clinical treatments remain elusive, largely due to an incomplete understanding of the underlying...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
This study reports on a late medieval collection of faunal remains from a pit in the historical centre of Oudenaarde (Belgium), which was characterized by a peculiar predominance of cattle mandibles. To investigate the human activities leading to the accumulation of this assembla...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Public awareness of alpha-gal syndrome and tick bite prevention practices, United States, Fall 2023
Alpha-gal syndrome (AGS) is a unique non-infectious tickborne disease that can develop after a tick bite. AGS can cause severe allergic symptoms (when patients are exposed to alpha-gal) and be challenging for patients to manage because alpha-gal is found in mammalian meat, dairy,...
- BiologyOpen access
The T-cell factor/lymphoid enhancer-binding factor (TCF/LEF) family, comprising TCF1, LEF1, TCF7L1, and TCF7L2, serves as nuclear effectors of the canonical Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway and plays pivotal roles in neurodevelopment, synaptic plasticity, neuroinflammation, and ce...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Ethiopia has considerable solar power potential, with daily solar irradiance ranging from 5.0 to 6.5 kWh/m 2 (average 5.7 kWh/m 2 ) for the Gondar region, where the present study was conducted. The factories that manufacture beverages in Ethiopia use electricity or petroleum to g...