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Evaluation of the anatomical properties of Cordia africana as alternative species for pulp and paper making in Ethiopia

The aim of this research was determining the anatomical properties of Cordia africana and analysing how these properties relate to the wood's performance for pulp and paper making. Sample discs were collected from the six trees, from the bottom (10%), middle (50%), and top (90%)...

Plant species richness is key for restoring grassland butterfly assemblages

Abstract Palaearctic grasslands are heavily threatened by land‐use changes that lead to degradation and habitat loss. Thus, successful grassland restoration for vegetation and wildlife is urgently needed. Butterflies, as sensitive indicators, could provide a holistic view of rest...

Patient Perspectives on the Environmental Impact of their Advanced Therapy Injection Device

Objectives Data demonstrates there is a significant environmental impact using medications requiring injection, including the injecting device and needle. Rheumatology patient perspectives on this impact have not been previously explored. As part of a larger study, we aim to repo...

Novel Indicators for Monitoring Rheumatoid Arthritis Care Quality: A Delphi Consensus Process to Determine Rheumatoid Arthritis-Specific Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions

Objectives Ambulatory care sensitive conditions (ACSCs) constitute a set of medical conditions where access to high quality outpatient healthcare services prevents or reduces costly acute care interactions for exacerbations of these diseases. Hospitalizations for ACSCs serve as i...

Modeling public engagement in political discourse on Facebook in times of political crisis: the case of the four-cycle election loop

Purpose This study investigates how public engagement in political discourse on Facebook evolves during periods of continuous political instability. While prior research has examined engagement drivers during routine and election periods, this study focuses on how political commu...

Centennial Celebration of the Fluids Engineering Division (FED)

Abstract Technology development accelerates economic growth and advances human life. As the Fluids Engineering Division (FED) of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) marks its 100th anniversary, we review here the Division's achievements over the years and discuss...

8.8 Mercury Perihelion Precession

This paper derives the Mercury perihelion precession from the electron ground-state vacuum perspective. The relative gradient is defined as the intrinsic driving force of geometric gravity, and is a purely geometric constant. The precession coefficient is an algebraic identity —...

Deploying a Fully On-Premises Retrieval-Augmented Assistant over Proprietary Equipment Documentation in a Manufacturing SME

Small and medium-sized manufacturers hold much of their operational knowledge in proprietary equipment documentation — service manuals, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and maintenance bulletins — that original equipment manufacturers distribute under terms that discourage o...

Thrombophilia-related gene variants may be linked to polycystic ovary syndrome susceptibility and its related traits

Background Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is a prevalent endocrinopathy in reproductive-aged women having both gynecological and metabolic comorbidities. PCOS increases the risk of cardiovascular and thromboembolic diseases due to heightened prothrombotic states, suggesting sha...

Genetic diversity, haplotype structure, and population dynamics of Echinococcus granulosus isolates from human cystic echinococcosis in Tibet, China

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a globally important zoonotic disease caused by the larval (metacestode) stage of Echinococcus granulosus (sensu lato), a parasite complex characterized by marked genetic heterogeneity across geographical regions. The Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) of...

Probiotic-hydrogel systems for microbiome-associated diseases: design principles, preclinical evidence, and translational challenges

The human microbiome provides a robust ecosystem for mucosal barrier function, immune regulation, metabolism, and resistance to pathogen infection. Dysbiosis causes inflammatory bowel disease, oral inflammation, wound damage, skin disease, and cancer-related immune dysregulation....

CRYPTO EVOLVER APPLIED — 2026-07-23 10:24 UTC — 0 avoided / 0 focused — E8 Intelligence Research

The MEMECOIN crypto team analysed live GTX crypto outcomes and APPLIED these filters to strategy_filters.json (enforced by gtx_autonomous and the meme tracker): Rule: avoid <= 20% WR, focus >= 55% WR, min 15 resolved setups. Author: Andrew Stewart Caldin, Independent Researcher,...

“You have to sell them as much as they’re trying to sell you”: U.S. Local Television News Directors’ Perspectives on the Struggle to Hire Reporters and Producers

This qualitative study examines hiring difficulties in local television (TV) news in small and medium TV markets (DMA #30+). The results of in-depth interviews showed that most interviewed news directors experienced talent shortages in their markets and had fewer and less prepare...

Distinction, Execution, and Adjudication

This paper introduces DEA (Distinction, Execution, and Adjudication), a governance architecture for LLM-assisted scientific workflows. DEA separates the authority to define a scientific transition, the capability to execute it, and the authority to adjudicate its result. The fram...

An identification of three constructions of one lattice, with the closed transverse trace as its lock (Geometry of the vacuum, floor −1)

A cell of d+1 unit directions with pairwise Gram -1/d arises by a representation-theoretic route (irreducibility of the standard representation of the symmetric group on d+1 letters, then Schur), with no energy, no Hamiltonian and no minimization anywhere in the chain; the single...

Cervicovaginal zinc and copper profiles across vaginitis phenotypes and hydrogel assignment: an exploratory pilot study

Abstract Zinc (Zn) and copper (Cu) support epithelial integrity, nutritional immunity, and host–microbiome interactions, yet cervicovaginal trace-metal dynamics across vaginitis phenotypes remain poorly defined. We prospectively quantified cervicovaginal lavage (CVL) Zn and Cu by...

DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF MUCOADHESIVE BUCCAL TABLETS OF ONDANSETRON FOR BUCCAL DRUG DELIVERY

Ondansetron is a widely used antiemetic drug for the prevention and treatment of chemotherapy-induced, radiotherapy-induced, and postoperative nausea and vomiting. However, its oral administration is associated with limitations such as first-pass hepatic metabolism, gastrointesti...

A fragment-based model and annotation environment for discontinuous and overlapping terms

Abstract Terminology and entity annotation tasks in digital-library and corpus-oriented workflows often involve expressions that are discontinuous, overlapping, or partially shared. While several existing annotation environments support span-based and relation-based annotation, d...

SUSTAINABLE ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE IN THE LIGHT OF ISLAMIC LAW AND MODERN POLICY PRACTICES: A NIGERIAN CONTEXT

The rising ecological crises in Nigeria – ranging from deforestation, water pollution, and desertification to oil spills and unregulated waste disposal – present significant governance challenges that require multidimensional approaches. While modern environmental policy framewor...

8.13 Fractal Hierarchical Universe

This paper extrapolates the structural constants at the atomic scale to statistically correlated hierarchies at the cosmological scale. Based on the ℳ𝒞ℐ three-sector structure and the seven-level recurrence, we derive: the fractal dimension holds universally for any scale factor;...