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A Scalable Open Source Workflow for Riverbed Substrate Classification Using UAV Imagery

Accurate characterization of riverbed substrate from remote sensing imagery is essential for applications in fluvial geomorphology, habitat modeling, and river management. While recent advances in computer vision, particularly deep learning, have improved sediment mapping capabil...

Urbanicity and County-Level Variation in Transitional Housing Placements for Transition-Age Youth in California Foster Care

The decentralized U.S. child welfare system has resulted in significant variation in practices and outcomes across states and counties. Despite growing attention to varying child welfare experiences based on urbanicity, particularly rural child welfare practice concerning younger...

An interpretable remote sensing–machine learning framework for wildfire soil burn severity prediction in the northwestern United States

Background Although soil burn severity (SBS) is traditionally mapped post-fire, pre-fire predictive approaches remain limited despite their potential to identify areas at risk of soil degradation, runoff and erosion. Aim To develop a large-scale model for predicting post-fire SBS...

Mechanical Profiling by AFM Enables Real-Time Readoutof Endothelial Cell State

Abstract Atomic force microscopy (AFM) provides quantitative capabilities for mapping the mechanical properties of living cells with nanometer resolution, yet its potential for monitoring a range of cell mechanical states remains largely underexplored. Here, we employed AFM to ma...

The Past, Present, and Future of Online Biodiversity Knowledge Systems

In recent decades, the availability and accessibility of biodiversity data and the profusion of portals, tools, and platforms through which to utilize them have increased rapidly. This reflects the extensive variety of challenges biodiversity data are being used to address and th...

Plant-mediated synthesis of silver nanoparticles via Dolichandrone falcata extract with their antimicrobial and anticancer efficacy

This research explores the green synthesis of Ag NPs using the Dolichandrone falcata leaf extract and evaluates their antifungal, antibacterial, and anticancer efficacy. SEM and TEM characterization showed spherical particles with a mean diameter of 71.3 ± 10 nm. The biosynthesiz...

What a Panel Can Measure: Windows, Clocks, and the Identication of Strategic Inattention

A research programme on strategic inattention in internal control has established, theoretically, that recurring IT-related control failures can arise as the fold dynamics of a no-collusion equilibrium observed through a one-sided visibility filter: the fall into the inattention...

Structural insights into xyloglucan recognition by an ABC transporter from a Gram‐positive, thermophilic bacterium

Xyloglucan (an α‐1,6‐xylosyl–substituted β‐1,4‐glucan) is a major hemicellulose of the primary cell wall of many plants and an important growth substrate for biomass‐degrading bacteria in diverse ecological niches, including the gut microbiome and hot springs. In Gram‐positive ba...

Comparing Pregnancy Outcomes in Fetal Growth Restriction and Overgrowth in Women with Type 1 Diabetes: A Narrative Review

Background: Several scenarios of abnormal fetal growth develop during pregnancy in women with pregestational diabetes. A trend towards a higher incidence of large-for-gestational-age (LGA) births among women with type 1 diabetes (T1D) is observed worldwide despite novel approache...

Synergistic Considerations of Deposition‐Stripping Mechanisms for Designing Highly Reversible Zinc Metal Anodes

ABSTRACT The complex deposition‐stripping behavior of zinc anodes is often accompanied by dendrite growth, hydrogen evolution, and corrosion, which severely compromise aqueous zinc‐ion batteries (AZIBs) reversibility and cycling stability. Although considerable efforts have focus...

M-quad: an anomalous force-routing mechanical metamaterial

Most mechanical metamaterials (MMs) are optimized to absorb or sustain loads along a single path, limiting force-trajectory control. Herein, we introduce a novel multimaterial MM (M-quad) that actively routes a compressive force into the lateral and return pathways. Each unit cel...

Astrobios Hypothesis – Paper II: The Emergence of Time from Information and Synchronization: A Pre-Quantum Framework for Temporal Order

The fundamental nature of time remains one of the central unresolved problems in modern theoretical physics. Although time serves as a basic parameter in classical mechanics, relativity, and quantum theory, its ontological status continues to be debated. General Relativity incorp...

Development and Characterization of Functionally Graded Sisal/Glass Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

Structural applications require materials that provide an optimal balance of strength, durability, and sustainability. This study develops functionally graded sisal/glass fiber-reinforced polymer composites and evaluates their tensile, compressive, and flexural properties, as wel...

A Governed NL-to-SQL Architecture for Reliable Clinical Data Querying and Outpatient Schedule Monitoring

The deployment of natural-language-to-SQL (NL-to-SQL) systems in primary healthcare requires more than accurate query generation: it also requires governed data access, robustness to local terminology, and reliable handling of ambiguous user requests. This study evaluated a pilot...

Epidemiology of Pacific peoples in Canterbury primary care: a cross-sectional study of five priority ethnicity subgroups

INTRODUCTION: Pacific peoples experience significant health inequities. National health data often aggregate diverse Pacific communities into a single category, potentially masking important differences in social-context health needs between subgroups. AIM: This study aimed to de...

Tropical-Forest Degradation–Restoration Interface: A Comprehensive Review

Tropical forests sustain exceptional biodiversity and regulate global carbon and water cycles, yet degradation and incomplete recovery increasingly compromise these functions. We integrated bibliometric mapping with structured systematic synthesis to characterize research at the...

A Novel Titanium End-Disc-Assisted Allograft Preparation System for Anterior Cervical Corpectomy and Fusion: Development and Preliminary Biomechanical Evaluation

Background: Allograft bone remains an attractive option for anterior cervical corpectomy and fusion (ACCF), but its use can be limited by variable graft geometry, insufficient endplate contact, and operator-dependent trimming. This study aimed to develop a titanium end-disc-assis...

Adaptive Cloud Resource Allocation using Deep Reinforcement Learning

Allocating cloud resources — deciding which physical machine should host each arriving task, virtual machine, or container — is a combinatorial, online, multi-resource problem that classical bin-packing heuristics (first-fit, best-fit) solve only crudely: they ignore workload str...

Metabolomic Profiling of Agathosma betulina Leaves, Under Wild, Field, and Glasshouse Conditions Using UPLC-QTOF-MS and Multivariate Analysis

Agathosma betulina (P.J. Bergius) Pillans is an aromatic medicinal shrub endemic to South Africa’s Cape Floristic Region, widely used in traditional medicine to treat urinary tract infections, gastrointestinal disorders, colds, and wounds. Despite its commercial importance, limit...

Status distance and employee innovation: the roles of knowledge sharing and psychological safety in South Korean high-tech firms

This study examines how status distance affects employees’ innovation through knowledge sharing and investigates psychological safety as a boundary condition. Using data from South Korean high-tech firms, we find that greater status distance reduces knowledge sharing, which in tu...