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- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Bamboo has received increasing attention as a sustainable structural material; however, its tensile strength perpendicular to the grain remains elusive in governing splitting failure, particularly in joint and connection design. This study experimentally investigates the tensile...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Introduction Doping prevention increasingly emphasizes early intervention with education directed toward youth, parents, and coaches. Although adolescent athletes are a central focus of prevention efforts, little is known about how they learn about performance-enhancing drugs (PE...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of immersive virtual reality (VR)-based preoperative education compared with attention-matched routine in-person education in reducing preoperative anxiety and physiological stress responses among adult patients undergoing electiv...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Background Gypsum (calcium sulphate dihydrate; POP) is a resorbable synthetic bone substitute with favourable biocompatibility; however, its rapid degradation limits clinical effectiveness. A modified composite incorporating calcium carbonate and gelatine hydrogel (POPHD) was dev...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Traumatic dental injuries (TDIs) are common dental emergencies that may affect both hard and soft tissues. Immediate and accurate management along with adequate knowledge of International Association of Dental Traumatology (IADT) guidelines is essential to minimize long-term comp...
- BiologyOpen access
Breast cancer lung metastasis remains a major cause of mortality, largely because effective treatment options are limited. In this study, we identify gamma-glutamyltransferase 1 (GGT1) as a factor associated with breast cancer lung metastatic progression. Analyses of clinical dat...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) impose a disproportionate burden on informal sector workers who lack occupational health protection. To identify and characterize ergonomic interventions applied to informal sector workers, to analyze their effectiveness in reducing...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
The underwater bonebed of GNL Quintero 1 (GNLQ1) site located nearshore at Quintero Bay on the central coast of Chile (32° S), offers an unparalleled view of submerged Late Pleistocene environments in the South American Pacific continental shelf. By updating the site taphonomic h...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Spatial closed-loop and multi-loop mechanisms are common in kinematic analysis and mechanism design. However, tracing their multi-degree-of-freedom kinematic paths under intricate geometric constraints remains challenging. Traditional branch-and-prune methods suffer from exponent...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
This paper proposes a coordinated dispatch framework for distribution systems with virtual power plants (VPPs) that addresses both substation ramping constraints and load-ramping uncertainty. A data-driven quantile-regression temporal convolutional network (QR-TCN) is developed t...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Motor imagery (MI), the mental simulation of movement without execution, provides a behavioural tool to evaluate sensorimotor representations. However, its characterisation in young children remains debated. This study investigated age-related differences in MI across early prima...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Burden of sickle cell anemia among hospitalized children in Angola: a retrospective study
Chronic pediatric diseases are a growing challenge because of their impact on morbidity and healthcare resource utilization. In Angola, evidence on the hospital burden of chronic diseases, particularly sickle cell anemia (SCA), remains limited. This study compared the clinical ch...
- BiologyOpen access
Are QM/MM models systematically improvable? A case study on carbonic anhydrase binding affinities
Hybrid quantum mechanics/molecular mechanics (QM/MM) is the method of choice for modelling large biochemical systems, but their performance depends critically on how they are implemented. This paper examines the sensitivity of QM/MM enzyme-ligand binding energy predictions to key...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Mitigating climate change impacts and enhancing the resilience capacity of military infrastructure is essential for the Armed Forces, first, to ensure a high level of both readiness and sustainability transitions and, second, to contribute to each European Union Member-State’s (E...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Artificial light-harvesting systems based on the Förster resonance energy transfer mechanism
One of the major global challenges lies in the efficient utilization of solar energy. Natural organisms primarily rely on photosynthesis to capture solar energy and store it as chemical energy, with light harvesting as a primary step. In natural light-harvesting systems, pigments...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
The six-minute walk test (6MWT) and stair-climbing test (SCT) are simple and practical measures of functional exercise capacity. Interpretation of performance requires appropriate population-specific reference values and prediction equations. However, reference data for apparentl...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Thoracic disc herniation and vascular vulnerability in a watershed zone
Anterior spinal artery (ASA) syndrome is a rare cause of spinal cord infarction and is most commonly associated with aortic pathology or systemic hypoperfusion. Disc herniation as a precipitating factor is exceptional, particularly in young, healthy individuals. We report the cas...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
The production of analog rice has emerged as a potential approach for food fortification and diversification, particularly for populations that depend on rice as a staple food. Although the production of analog rice through extrusion has been widely practiced, detailed scientific...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Immigrant communities in southeast Minnesota, particularly Somali women, have significantly lower rates of cervical cancer screening uptake compared to the general population. We sought to learn more about this disparity by: (1) gaining a better understanding of the barriers and...
- BiologyOpen access
The high cost and limited availability of conventional protein feed ingredients have increased the need for alternative protein sources in poultry diets. Therefore, this study evaluated the effect of replacing groundnut seed cake with a brewer’s yeast–noug seed cake (BYNSC) mixtu...