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- BiologyOpen access
The integration of plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) into sustainable agricultural practices represents a promising strategy for improving crop productivity and stress resilience. We characterized two newly isolated steppe-derived, glyphosate-tolerant bacteria, Pseudomonas s...
- BiologyOpen access
Stress and Brain Plasticity: The Value and Limits of an Explicit Dynamical Framework
Academic review: ''A system dynamics model of brain plasticity under the influence of stress'', by Requena Rodríguez andRequena Candela.
- Materials & Energy
Abstract Elucidating highly reactive intermediates in catalytic reactions relies heavily on cryogenic trapping techniques, where intermediates observed in solution are generally assumed to remain unchanged upon flash-freezing at 77 K. Herein, we demonstrate a striking exception t...
- Engineering & Technology
ABSTRACT The interfacial chemistry of high‐energy‐density lithium metal batteries (LMBs) is strongly governed by electronic coupling between electrolyte components and cathode surfaces. However, current strategies generally regulate coupling as an overall interaction‐strength iss...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Abstract In the current work, a poly (phenylalanine) modified carbon composite paste electrode (PPCNTPE) allowed for the simple electrochemical measurement of Titan yellow (TY) utilizing differential pulse voltammetry (DPV) and cyclic voltammetry (CV). PPCNTPE was synthesized usi...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Prevalence and correlates of suicidal behavior among adults with chronic health conditions in Malawi
Over 70% of completed suicides occur in low- and middle-income countries. However, limited information is available on suicidal behavior encompassing ideation, plans, and attempts among high-risk populations in these settings. We investigated the prevalence and correlates of suic...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Gastric serum biomarkers are established for gastric cancer risk assessment, but their utility for extra-gastric malignancies and long-term risk stratification remains unexplored. We prospectively evaluated serum pepsinogens (PGI, PGII), gastrin-17 (G-17) and anti- H. pylori IgG...
- Climate & Environment
Abstract The effect of prenatal organophosphate esters (OPEs) exposure on offspring reproductive development and the potential role of the placenta remain unclear. We investigated the associations of prenatal OPE exposure with the second-to-fourth digit ratio (2D:4D) and the medi...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Background Upper-limb impairment after stroke can restrict hand use, activities of daily living, and functional independence. Mirror therapy (MT) and soft robotic glove (SRG)-based rehabilitation represent technology-enabled approaches to upper-limb rehabilitation. The e...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Predicting insulin resistance in non-diabetics
This cross-sectional study aimed to compare obesity indicators for predicting insulin resistance using machine learning. Data were obtained from NHANES 2015 to 2018, focusing on a nondiabetic adult population. Insulin resistance was defined as HOMA-IR ≥ 75th percentile of the tra...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Oral submucous fibrosis (OSF) is a chronic, progressive, and potentially malignant disorder characterized by severe oral cavity remodeling. The condition is driven by a painful burning sensation and a pathognomonic restriction of mouth opening (trismus), severely diminishing pati...
- Society & Economics
Graduate unemployment, financial strain, and social marginalization in Pakistan: a qualitative study
Purpose This study explores how unemployment shapes the lived experiences of university graduates in the province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan, with particular attention to its effects on social status, decision-making agency, life-course transitions, and family dynamics....
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Time-series forecasting is a foundational task in data science, yet reported improvements over naive baselines are frequently small, dataset-dependent, and rarely subjected to formal significance testing. We present a reproducible benchmark comparing three families of forecasting...
- Health & Medicine
BACKGROUND: Leadless cardiac resynchronization combining WiSE system ultrasound-mediated left ventricular pacing with leadless right ventricular pacing has been reported. However, atrioventricular-sequential left ventricular pacing triggered by atrial leadless pacing impulse with...
- Materials & Energy
ABSTRACT Concrete, inherently porous and prone to microcracking, is susceptible to the ingress and diffusion of aggressive external agents. Traditional protective coatings are often constrained by inadequate interfacial adhesion and suboptimal barrier performance, rendering them...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Four pre-registered attempts to learn second-order modulation in a minimal plasticity testbed found nothing, and the learners failed their own positive controls. Before improving the learners further, this note measures whether anything was there to find, by comparing hand-built...
- BiologyOpen access
AmpliconSuite: an end-to-end workflow for analyzing focal amplifications in cancer genomes
Abstract Here we present AmpliconSuite, a toolkit for focal amplification analysis from cancer whole-genome sequencing that identifies extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA), breakage–fusion–bridges and other amplification modes. Its ecContext module categorizes ecDNA structures to underst...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
We extend the E8 harmonic lattice framework by decomposing the 240 root vectors into two orthogonal subspaces of dimensions 128 and 112, corresponding to the 2^7-torsion and (2,2,2,2)-isogeny subdomains respectively. This decomposition generates a natural projection onto elliptic...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Abstract Linguistic racism, understood as a form of “new racism”, continues to marginalise TESOL teachers’. While its traumatic effects are acknowledged, little is known about how teachers experience and heal from such trauma. This study seeks to understand how three linguistical...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
This study aimed to evaluate the impact of ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) on the chemical composition and biological activities of gabiroba waste oil (GWO), compared to conventional Soxhlet extraction (SE). GWO was characterized for carotenoid content and analyzed by GC-MS...