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Glycolytic reprogramming and the EMT drive cervical cancer progression via the NQO1/HIF1α-SIX1 axis

Cervical cancer aggressiveness and therapeutic resistance are driven by metabolic reprogramming and redox imbalance. Within this context, NAD(P)H: quinone oxidoreductase 1 (NQO1), a critical regulator of cellular redox homeostasis and energy metabolism, is highly expressed in sev...

Prevalence, resistance profile of ESKAPEE pathogens, and molecular detection of PMQR-associated genes among Levofloxacin-resistant gram-negative ESKAPEE isolates from critically-ill patients

ESKAPEE pathogens are characterized with rapid emergence of antibiotic resistance. To detect the prevalence, resistance profile of ESKAPEE pathogens, and to analyze the Plasmid-Mediated Quinolone Resistance (PMQR)-associated genes among Levofloxacin-resistant gram-negative ESKAPE...

Colonisation and temperature-driven variation in life-history traits of the West Nile virus vector Culex pipiens at its Northern European limit

Abstract Background Mosquito-borne diseases (MBDs) are increasing worldwide driven by factors such as travel, land-use change, global trade, and climate warming. In Europe, Culex pipiens sensu lato (s.l.)—the primary vector of West Nile and Usutu viruses—is widespread and an incr...

Factors affecting the performance of standard precautions focusing on the health belief model in South Korea: a cross-sectional study

PURPOSE: This study aimed to examine the factors affecting the performance of standard precautions among third- and fourth-year nursing students. Focusing on the health belief model, it included individual factors such as knowledge of standard precautions, health beliefs, and sel...

Association between vitamin D deficiency and psychological distress in Korean adults: a population-based cross-sectional study

Purpose: Vitamin D deficiency is prevalent in Korea, but evidence on its association with psychological distress remains limited. This study examined the association between vitamin D levels and psychological distress, depression, and anxiety, among Korean adults.Methods: This cr...

Nitrogen-water management regimes modulate fatty acid profile, antioxidant defense system, and oxidative status in sorghum (Sorghum bicolor L.) silage

Abstract Optimizing nitrogen and water management in sustainable silage production is critical for both improving biochemical quality and maintaining plant oxidative balance. This study examined the effects of different nitrogen doses and irrigation levels on the oil content and...

Bridging theory and practice: systematic review into power transformer winding failures in South Africa

Abstract Due to the ongoing load shedding in South Africa, the incidence of power transformer failures has increased significantly, making the enhancement of grid-connected transformer design a critical concern. Historically, the South African utility grid has relied on conventio...

Reply-Induced Deletion Geometry in Shogi : Incidence Structures, Fragility Spectra, and Co-Deletion Graphs

We introduce a finite combinatorial structure for measuring how a legal Shogi move's immediate board-influence relation is destroyed by the opponent's legal one-ply replies. For a position $P$ and a legal candidate move $m$, rows index all legal replies and columns index the move...

Uncovering LINC02982: a T-ALL-specific lncrna linking epigenetic regulation and metabolic pathways

T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) is an aggressive pediatric malignancy with limited molecular biomarkers to guide diagnosis and personalized therapy. Given the critical role of long non-coding RNAs in gene regulation and chromatin dynamics, we investigated whether nove...

Assessment of Trophoblast cell surface antigen 2 (Trop-2) expression and its clinical significance in breast cancer: a multi-level analysis of protein and gene expression

Abstract Background Trophoblast cell surface antigen 2 (Trop-2) is a targetable transmembrane glycoprotein commonly overexpressed in breast cancer (BC). This study combines a systematic review and meta-analysis with a retrospective analysis of an independent early BC patient coho...

The genetic code as a broken spinor: binary structure, Watson-Crick charge conjugation, Walsh spectrum and SU(5) decomposition

We show that the standard genetic code is a precise algebraic object, not a contingent table. The 64 codons are the weights of the spinor of so(13); Watson-Crick complementation is the antipode w→-w; the SO(10)→SU(5) step splits the spinor 16 into 10 (matter, hydrophilic) + 5̄ (a...

Effective Archimedean Stark Theorems over Real Quadratic Fields: Quadratic Support, Shintani Transfer, and CM Descent

Version 1.5 integrates the certified RQ-000013 addendum into the main paper and removes the standalone addendum PDF from the top-level release inventory. The main upload is named effective-stark-results-00-main-paper.pdf so lexical file ordering places the paper before the compan...

Association between dysphagia diet intake at acute-care discharge and activities of daily living at discharge from a convalescent rehabilitation ward: a single-center retrospective cohort study in Japan

Purpose: This study examined whether intake of a dysphagia diet at acute-care discharge was associated with activities of daily living (ADL) at discharge from a convalescent rehabilitation ward among older orthopedic patients.Methods: This retrospective study included patients ag...

Impact of bismuth concentration on radiation shielding and physical properties of quaternary cerium-doped borotellurite glasses: a comprehensive simulation study using Phy-X, XCom, and NgCal

Abstract The present study investigates the effect of bismuth oxide (Bi 2 O 3 ) concentration on the physical and radiation shielding properties of cerium-doped borotellurite glasses. X-ray diffraction confirms the amorphous nature of all prepared samples. FTIR analysis reveals c...

Factors associated with the health-related quality of life of adolescents with atopic dermatitis in South Korea: a cross-sectional study

PURPOSE: Atopic dermatitis (AD) in adolescents has received less attention than AD in infants and children. However, AD can persist or worsen after school age and affect health-related quality of life (HRQoL) beyond adolescence. This study aimed to examine HRQoL and its associate...

Acoustic iso-propagation vortices for robust underwater communications

Underwater acoustic communications are limited by low information capacity and data rate. While orbital-angular-momentum (OAM) multiplexing can address these issues, conventional OAM beams scale poorly in realistic ocean environments over long distances because their beam diamete...

Effects of hydraulic retention time and indigenous substrates on the treatment performance of constructed wetlands planted with Cyperus alternifolius for healthcare wastewater remediation

Due to persistent contaminants in healthcare wastewater (HWW), conventional treatment technologies are ineffective. Yet few studies utilize local materials, and none have compared pumice versus ignimbrite substrates with Cyperus alternifolius in horizontal subsurface flow constru...

The current state of Spanish language resources for patients in Alabama with rare genetic disease: qualitative expert stakeholder interviews

BACKGROUND: Patients with a rare genetic disease face unmet needs deepened by the traditional American healthcare system. Social, educational, and financial support resources help address some of these challenges; however, for patients who are Spanish speaking, the language barri...

Review: Art As Sanctuary: Conjuring an Africana Aesthetic

Book review of Art As Sanctuary: Conjuring an Africana Aesthetic by Michael D. Harris. Religious Cultures of African and African Diaspora People Series. Duke University Press, February 2026. 262 p. ill. ISBN 978-1-4780-1769-1 (pbk.), $37.00. https://bookshop.org/a/107144/97814780...

No alternative stable state at beep scale in one long ESM affect series: a frozen drift-field transition-type assignment, its measured power, and a retracted positive finding

A pre-registered quantitative test for alternative stable states in experience-sampling (ESM) mood series, and what came back. Result: no second attractor at beep scale. In the one series long enough for nonparametric drift estimation (1,476 observations, one participant, ten ite...