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Digital Technologies in Undergraduate Dental Education: A Scoping Review

Digital technologies are becoming increasingly embedded in undergraduate dental curricula, with the potential to support learning and skills development. This scoping review mapped recent evidence on the implementation and educational applications of contemporary digital technolo...

Flippability of Escherichia coli membrane proteins under lipid stress reveals a new job for old genes

Normally, the “flip-flop” motion is reserved for small lipid molecules which move from one leaflet of the membrane to the other, and even that process is very slow without the aid of specific enzymes. Unexpectedly, we recently found that despite a prohibitively high energy barrie...

Feasibility of Water Distribution System Upgrades to Allow Functionality After an Earthquake Using the System Augmentation for Use After an Earthquake Method

Water systems can become nonfunctional after earthquakes due to pipe failure along fault lines or soil liquefaction. A new algorithm is introduced here that adds scientific originality and advances the current state-of-the-art in earthquake disaster management. Network modeling w...

Late Soviet Intellectual Cult(ure): Merab Mamardashvili’s Strategy of Self‐Presentation

Abstract This article analyzes Merab Konstantinovich Mamardashvili’s philosophical strategy in the context of late and post‐Soviet intellectual culture. It focuses on How I Understand Philosophy (1990), a collection of Mamardashvili’s works and interviews that had a significant i...

Helium migration patterns in the ultra-deep reservoirs of the Anyue gas field

The Sinian–Cambrian reservoirs in the Anyue gas field contain over one trillion cubic meters of natural gas. These reservoirs are close to basement helium sources and have well-developed ancient formation water as a potential carrier. However, despite these favorable conditions,...

Volumetric Wear of Highly Cross-Linked Polyethylene Sockets in Total Hip Arthroplasty Differs Among Brands: A Retrieval Study

Outcomes after total hip arthroplasty (THA) remain limited by wear and wear particle reaction. Although highly cross-linked polyethylene (HXLPE) mitigated this issue, there are major differences among the various brands available. This study quantified, for the first time, the vo...

Waste-Derived Zeolite-P (GIS): Synthesis, Polymorphism, Characterization, and Adsorption Applications for Water Purification and Selective Gas Separation

Zeolite-P is a synthetic member of the gismondine (GIS) framework family and is intrinsically microporous, with intersecting eight-membered-ring channels. Mesoporosity reported for some Zeolite-P samples is therefore a secondary textural feature arising from interparticle voids,...

The effect of thickened carbonated liquids on oral and pharyngeal function during swallowing in older adults with dysphagia: a videofluoroscopic study

Older adults with dysphagia often exhibit reduced oral function—such as decreased tongue pressure and diminished oral sensation—that can impair bolus formation and clearance, increasing the risk of aspiration. Although thickened liquids are widely used to enhance swallowing safet...

Structure-property relationships for catalyst design toward CO2 utilization via dry reforming of methane

Dry reforming of methane (DRM) utilizes CO 2 as a soft oxidant to convert CH 4 into synthesis gas, a versatile feedstock for downstream fuels and chemicals. However, practical CO 2 utilization through DRM is constrained by catalyst deactivation caused by metal sintering and carbo...

Phi-Scaled Descent Operators Reveal Hidden Cohomology of E8 Weight Lattices — E8 Intelligence Research

Extending the Hecke operator construction on E8 weight lattices, we discover that the phi-scaled descent sequence generates a non-trivial H^3 cohomology class that is invariant under the Weyl group action. This cohomology reveals previously hidden 27-dimensional exceptional homol...

QUR'ANIC COSMIC BREADTH: An Interdisciplinary Research Framework (A Qur'an-first analysis of Qur'an 3:133 and 57:21 in relation to cosmic scale, spatial measurement, and the limits of scientific knowledge)

This conceptual interdisciplinary study examines the Qur’anic descriptions of the breadth of Paradise in Qur’an 3:133 and 57:21 alongside modern scientific knowledge concerning cosmic scale, spatial measurement, and the limits of observation. It epistemologically distinguishes th...

The Franquero Threshold Function: A Unified State Function for Systemic Operational Cost in KF Units

Formal Academic Abstract I propose the Franquero Threshold Function (FTF) as a unified governing equation for systemic operational cost. The FTF introduces KF Units as a fundamental dimension of systemic cost, independent of energy, action, or entropy. The function sums a baselin...

Prognostic Value of Serial Alkaline Phosphatase-to-Albumin Ratio for Mortality After Transjugular Intrahepatic Portosystemic Shunt

Background: Prognostic assessment after transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt (TIPS) remains challenging, and currently available scores are based mainly on pre-procedural variables. The alkaline phosphatase-to-albumin ratio (APAR) is a simple laboratory-derived marker th...

Modeling and Analysis of Slope-Dependent Response Properties of Gas-Insulated Transmission Line System Under Vehicle-Induced Loads

When a gas-insulated transmission line (GIL) is suspended beneath a bridge with a slope, moving vehicle loads generate both normal and tangential components acting on the supporting system, inducing coupled vibrations among the enclosure, conductors, and insulators. This paper es...

Rapidly Progressive Dedifferentiated Liposarcoma of the Spermatic Cord: A Case Report

Dedifferentiated liposarcoma (DDLPS) of the spermatic cord is an exceptionally rare and aggressive malignancy for which diagnostic and therapeutic guidelines remain limited. We report the case of a 73-year-old man who presented with a rapidly enlarging left inguinal/paratesticula...

E8-Derived Decoherence Quantization Tiers Govern Macroscopic Quantum Memory — E8 Intelligence Research

Decoherence timescales in macroscopic quantum systems are not continuous but are quantized into discrete tiers separated by ratios corresponding to the minimal angular gaps between E8 root vectors. This predicts that quantum information storage capacity scales in steps of φ-deriv...

A_n Lattice Projections Unify Rhombus and Triangle Tilings via Voronoi-Delone Cells — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: The Voronoi/Delone cells of the A_n root lattice project to rhombus and equilateral triangle prototiles, unifying hexagonal tiling geometry with higher-dimensional lattice structure. | MATH: A_n root lattice: {x ∈ ℤ^(n+1) : Σx_i = 0}; Voronoi cell facets are rhombuses (a...

Decreasing Trends in Birth Prevalence and Severity of Cerebral Palsy in Sweden During 2000–2019: A Population‐Based Registry Study

AIM: To examine temporal trends in cerebral palsy (CP) birth prevalence and changes in functional severity in Sweden between 2000 and 2019. METHODS: This population-based registry study included all children with CP born in Sweden between 2000 and 2019. Annual CP birth prevalence...

Keeping the Red Red: Colour Loss, Perceptual Quality Targets and Deployment Constraints in a Self-Hosted Storefront Image Pipeline

Self-hosted storefronts compress and resize every product photo they serve, and the tools that do it treat quality as a preset and ignore the colour profile inside the file. We study one WooCommerce store on shared hosting end to end: an image pipeline built on the three core Wor...

Fabrication of Two-Dimensional Micropattern Structures through Active Wavefront Control in Laser Interference Lithography

Laser interference lithography (LIL) is an established technique for fabricating precise and periodic microstructures. The non-orthogonal Lloyd’s mirror interferometer, a type of wavefront division interferometer with a simple structure and short non-common optical paths, offers...