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Urban water system resilience and risk assessment in a typical arid industrial city: a case study of Karamay

This study develops a multi-dimensional framework to assess urban water resource resilience and risk in Karamay, a typical resource-based industrial city in arid northwest China. By integrating long-term data on water supply and demand, meteorological and hydrological conditions,...

IMPLEMENTATION OF CITIZEN PARTICIPATION AND PUBLIC POLICY IN AREA COUNCILS OF THE FEDERAL CAPITAL TERRITORY, ABUJA

This study examined the state of citizen participation and public policy implementation in the six area councils of Abuja’s Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Although the Area Councils constitute the tier of government most proximate to residents, the recurrent failure of their po...

MXenes Contacts for p ‐type 2D Electronics

ABSTRACT MXenes, a family of two‐dimensional (2D) transition‐metal carbides and nitrides, offer a compelling combination of metallic conductivity and tunable surface chemistry. However, their potential as electrical contacts for p ‐type 2D semiconductors remains largely untapped....

Annotation by Arithmetic: Exact Mark Placement on Construction Drawings by Separating Perception from Measurement

Automated construction estimation requires more than correct quantities: an estimator must be able to see, on the drawing itself, exactly which drawn element each line item refers to. Vision-language models identify millwork items on architectural sheets reliably, but the boundin...

Possibility Landscapes of Chemistry

Possibility Landscapes of Chemistry is a public research series examining chemical systems in which composition alone does not determine a unique structure or state. The series develops domain-specific, set-valued frameworks for classifying chemically and structurally admissible...

A Heterogeneous Codonopsis pilosula Polysaccharide Preparation Attenuates Doxorubicin-Induced Cardiotoxicity in Mice: Associations with Oxidative Stress, Mitochondrial Function, and Gut Microbiota

Doxorubicin-induced cardiotoxicity remains a major limitation of anthracycline chemotherapy and is closely associated with oxidative stress and mitochondrial dysfunction. Here, we investigated whether a commercial Codonopsis pilosula polysaccharide preparation (CPP) could attenua...

Associated Factors and Latent Patterns of Work-Related Musculoskeletal Disorders Among Digestive Endoscopy Nurses: A Multicenter Cross-Sectional Study

Background: Work-related musculoskeletal disorders (WMSDs) have been reported to be very common among hospital workers and particularly nurses. They are assumed or found to be a result of physical workload or poor posture at work and only secondarily a consequence of (general) st...

Cold Atmospheric Plasma Disrupts Microbial Wound Bioburden: In Vitro, Porcine MRSA Biofilm, and Clinical Fluorescence Evidence from Bench to Bedside

Background: Biofilm-associated microbial burden is a major barrier to wound healing and is increasingly difficult to control in the era of antimicrobial resistance. This translational study evaluated the antimicrobial performance and tissue compatibility of a commercially availab...

Partial Reproducibility and Pleiotropic Epigenetic QTLs in Arabidopsis Recombinant Inbred Lines

Unlike conventional genetic polymorphisms, many induced epigenetic polymorphisms can be reset across generations, raising uncertainty about how consistently the same epigenetic loci and associated phenotypic effects can be recovered among independent studies. To address this prob...

Mitochondria-Targeted Lonidamine Hydrogels for Postsurgical Elimination of Glioblastoma

The high recurrence rate of glioblastoma after surgical resection and conventional chemotherapy remains a major obstacle to effective treatment. Mitochondria-targeted long-acting local chemotherapy represents a promising therapeutic strategy to tackle this dilemma. In this study,...

Sleep and obesity—known interactions and open questions

Abstract Sleep and obesity are tightly interconnected, with bidirectional relationships that influence cardiometabolic health and the development and progression of sleep disorders. In this review, we synthesize current evidence linking insufficient sleep, insomnia, obstructive s...

Standard Antiplatelet Therapy Versus Thrombolysis in Acute Spontaneous Spinal Cord Infarction: A Propensity Score–Matched Analysis

BACKGROUND: Spinal cord infarction (SCI) is a rare stroke subtype with no established acute treatment guidelines. Thrombolytic therapy has been used empirically based on extrapolation from cerebral stroke protocols, but comparative effectiveness data are lacking. We compared outc...

Are exercise benefits in older adults clinically meaningful?: An ancillary and follow-up analysis of a multicenter randomized controlled trial

Physical exercise is beneficial for older adults, but little is known about inter-individual response variability or whether its effects reach clinical significance. We analyzed individual clinically meaningful responses to exercise in older adults. This is an ancillary analysis...

Hydrogen Sulfide-Regulated NF-κB Signaling via Persulfidation: A Review

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is an important endogenous gaseous signaling molecule that regulates diverse physiological and pathological processes through protein persulfidation. As a central regulator of inflammation and immune responses, NF-κB signaling is precisely controlled by pos...

The hyphenated link between discretionary spendings and product market competitive threats

Purpose This study studies the connection between product market competitive threats with R&D and advertising spending, which is still a hotly contested and inconclusive research topic. We try to fill this research gap by empirically examining this relationship. We also docum...

Evaluating Biostimulant Products for Wheat Production in Weathered Soils and Dry Environments

ABSTRACT The need to reduce reliance on synthetic fertilisers has intensified interest in biostimulants and organic amendments as sustainable alternatives in cereal production. This study assessed the performance of three commercially available biostimulants in wheat ( Triticum a...

What can comprehensive mapping of alternative food networks reveal about their sustainability claims?

Alternative Food Networks (AFNs) are widely understood as responses to the sustainability crises of the conventional food systems. AFNs in Scotland also build upon long-standing local food traditions that predate these crises, yet little attention has been given to understanding...

Improving Function-Hiding Functional Commitments

Function-hiding functional commitment schemes allow one party to commit to a private function f and later prove f(x)=y for public x and y without revealing additional information about the function. We construct efficient function-hiding functional commitment schemes for arithmet...

Exploring the Impact of Extraction Methods on the Nutritional and Sensory Profiles of Argan Oil from Mostaganem Kernels

Argan oil (Argania spinosa L.) is a culturally and economically significant product in North Africa, yet little is known about how extraction practices shape its nutritional and sensory qualities. The present study compares mechanical cold pressing with solvent extraction (diethy...

Inter‐Seasonal In Situ Datasets of Important Physicochemical Parameters Adjacent to the Newly Declared Naf MPA of Bangladesh

ABSTRACT Physicochemical data acquisition was carried out within the northeastern Bay of Bengal (BoB), adjacent to the newly declared Naf Marine Protected Area (Naf MPA) of Bangladesh. A total of 21 sampling locations were covered over shallow coastal water for the study during t...