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Performance enhancement of recycled coarse aggregates with dual treatment in concrete

This study addresses the growing demand for concrete and dwindling natural resources by presenting a dual-treatment method to enhance recycled coarse aggregates (RCA) for sustainable concrete. RCA was treated with 0.8 M hydrochloric acid for 24 h followed by mechanical abrasion i...

Soundscape as a proxy for seagrass meadow condition and anthropogenic activity

Soundscape analysis has emerged as a relevant tool in functional marine ecology. However, how habitat-specific variables, environmental and biological components, and external pressures influence acoustic metrics requires further validation. This study investigates how soundscape...

Antecedents and consequences of change in career satisfaction over time: a latent growth mixture model approach

Purpose Career satisfaction is a key component of subjective career success, yet it may fluctuate across career paths. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, this study aims to examine the antecedents and outcomes of individual change profiles in career satisfaction over ti...

PDE10A Inhibition in Schizophrenia: A Randomised, Placebo-Controlled Phase 2 Study of Alofropodect (CPL’36) in Patients Experiencing Acute Schizophrenia

BACKGROUND: Drugs that inhibit phosphodiesterase 10A (PDE10A) activity have shown efficacy in animal models. However, clinical trials of PDE10A inhibitors in patients with schizophrenia have failed to provide clinically significant results up to this point. Our study investigated...

Two decades of cultural ecosystem services research (2005–2024): A global bibliometric and thematic mapping

Cultural Ecosystem Services (CES) refer to the intangible, non-material benefits that ecosystems provide to human life. In recent years, CES research has garnered increasing scholarly attention due to its vital role in enhancing human well-being, cultural identity, and social coh...

A machine learning framework for predicting and modulating condition-dependent protein phase separation

Protein phase separation is a fundamental process in organizing membraneless organelles and is implicated in pathological conditions. Importantly, this process is dynamic and depends on conditions such as concentration, temperature, and solvent composition. However, current machi...

Mitochondrial genome assembly of 27 Brassica species

Assembled the mitochondrial genomes of 27 Brassica species

Automation of Reporting Tasks and Its Impact on Bandwidth for Customer Experience Managers

Organizations increasingly automate reporting to reduce the manual effort of collecting, verifying, and circulating operational data, a burden that falls heavily on Customer Experience (CX) managers in Software-as-a-Service firms. This study examines whether employee perceptions...

Pathological, microbiological, and molecular characterization of uterine samples in culled sows from farms with a history of reproductive failure in Brazil

Reproductive failure in swine herds is an important cause of production losses and increased sow culling. While many diagnostic efforts focus on abortion-derived samples, the evaluation of reproductive tracts from culled sows may provide additional insights. This study aimed to c...

Influence of automated façades on the soundscape outside of buildings

As automation is progressively more present in buildings, it is important to understand its impact on people’s experience of urban environments. This case study investigated how one automated shading system with motorized venetian blinds affects sound perception of the acoustic e...

Effect of resistance, balance, and aerobic training on strength, mobility, balance, and quality of life in older adults with sarcopenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Sarcopenia is an age-related condition characterized by gradual loss of muscle mass and strength, leading to reduced physical function, often observed among older adults. This review aimed to evaluate the effects of resistance, aerobic, and balance exercises on muscle strength, f...

Counting 3-Term Arithmetic Progressions in Integer Hypercubes

In this research note, we generalize the combinatorial problem of counting 3-term arithmetic progressions in the $n\times n$ grid to the integer hypercube of arbitrary dimension $d\ge1$ denoted $[1,n]^{d}$. Counting exclusively strictly increasing progressions using a bijection b...

Staphylococcus aureus–associated pyomyositis complicated by deep vein thrombosis and septic pulmonary embolism in a malnourished child: a case report

Septic pulmonary embolism (SPE) is a rare, life-threatening complication of venous thromboembolism in children, occurring when an infected thrombus from an extrapulmonary focus embolizes to the pulmonary circulation. The co-occurrence of acute musculoskeletal infection, deep veno...

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...

Query-Relative Soundness of Legal-Reply Compression in Shogi : Quotient Criteria, Canonical Repair, and Action-Edge Counterexamples

Compressing a finite set of legal Shogi replies into coarse classes can reduce the amount of downstream checking, but such compression is meaningful only relative to what is being asked about those replies. We formalize this point as a query-relative quotient condition. For a pos...

The cost-effectiveness of biosimilar denosumab in postmenopausal osteoporosis: implications of baseline fracture risk and drug price

Biosimilar denosumab is a dominant treatment strategy (i.e., more effective and less costly) across varying levels of baseline fracture risk with sufficient price reductions. Given its superior efficacy and safety, it may be considered a first-line therapy for the treatment of wo...

A Finite Obstruction to Heisenberg Carrier Selection from Admissibility Constraints

We test whether the admissibility axioms of the Cosmochrony framework, together with Born–Infeld parity, select a finite Heisenberg group and its irreducible carrier. The load-bearing algebraic implication is that a finite faithful irreducible unitary carrier, equipped with a min...

Developmental dynamics of ovine lung in health and cystic fibrosis at single-cell resolution

Abstract The sheep lung has long been used to model aspects of the human lung, both its normal development and pathological changes that occur in ovine models of lung disease. The similarities between the two species provide an opportunity to investigate phases of lung developmen...

An Infinite Family of Thue Equations With at Most Two Solutions

For an odd positive integer , defineWe prove that, for ≥ 5, the Thue equation ( , ) = 1 has exactly two solutions in integers and , namely (1, 0) and (-1, 0), and that the Thue equation ( , ) = -1 has no solutions.Our result is a consequence of the famous theorem of Bilu, Hanrot...

Signals from the noise: Decoding global AI discourse in central bank communications

This study examines how artificial intelligence (AI) has entered and evolved within the official communication of central banks. Using an archive of central bankers’ speeches covering 1996–2024, we develop a multi-stage NLP framework that combines an AI–finance lexicon validated...