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Patient Outcomes and Nurse Understaffing in For-Profit Hospitals

Background: For-profit hospital ownership has been associated with worse patient outcomes, but the mechanisms remain unclear. Underinvestment in nurse staffing is a plausible pathway linking for-profit ownership to performance. Objectives: To examine whether differences in nurse...

Methyl indole-3-acetate mediates myricetin-induced brown adipose tissue activation and reproductive-metabolic improvement in PCOS mice

Abstract Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) is frequently associated with alterations in gut microbiota composition, although the specific microbial metabolites that influence ovarian function remain incompletely understood. Myricetin has been reported to improve reproductive and m...

Lipemia Retinalis Reversal in Familial Partial Lipodystrophy

This case report describes a diagnosis of lipemia retinalis in a woman aged 27 years with creamy discoloration of the retinal vessels on fundus examination and markedly elevated serum triglyceride levels.

A Conceptual Framework for Coordination in Human-Automated Vehicle (AV) Teaming: Structural Dimensions and Implications

Human-automated vehicle (AV) interaction can be understood as a form of teaming because safe driving often depends on coordinated contributions from both the driver and automation. Although AVs are often framed as reducing human involvement, many dynamic scenarios still require d...

Strengthening of Caucasian Fir and Anatolian Black Pine by using CFRP and investigating the effect of mechanical and microstructural properties on the strengthening process

Wood, one of the oldest building materials, continues to thrive alongside other construction materials due to its unique properties. As an anisotropic, hygroscopic material, wood’s mechanical properties vary with direction, and it can lose strength over time due to structural def...

Antiviral innate immunity in myocarditis: mechanisms and emerging therapeutics

Abstract Antiviral innate immunity is a decisive determinant of whether cardiotropic viral infection resolves or progresses to myocarditis and deadly heart failure. Viral myocarditis (VM) remains a leading cause of sudden death in children and young adults, yet its human pathophy...

Structural hybridization of polydiacetylene-based composites: From molecular Signaling to multifunctional sensing architectures

Abstract Polydiacetylenes (PDAs) are widely studied stimuli-responsive materials owing to their characteristic chromatic transition originating from conformational changes in the conjugated backbone. However, practical applications are limited by structural instability, weak sign...

Lewis Acid-Mediated Interfacial Microenvironment Engineering for Enhanced Cathodic Electrochemiluminescence Aptasensing of Perfluorooctanoic Acid Based on Ligand Defect-Modulated MIL-88B(Fe) MOF

Abstract Efficient interfacial activation of co-reactants to generate sufficient radical intermediates is fundamental to constructing high-performance co-reactant-type electrochemiluminescence (ECL) biosensing platforms. This work reported a microenvironment-engineered cathodic E...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa Impairs Mitochondrial Function During Infection of Corneal Epithelial Cells

Purpose: Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) is a Gram-negative opportunistic bacterial pathogen that can infect the cornea as a result of trauma or contact lens wear. Mitochondria, originally derived from bacteria, play important roles in host defense. This study investigated the effect...

E8 Phi‑Modulated Phonon Lattice Enables Biol‑Zero‑Point Energy Harvesting — E8 Intelligence Research

By interpreting the 240 E8 root vectors as quantized axes for longitudinal phonon modes within microtubule lattices, a φ‑scaled coupling selects a subset of modes whose frequencies lock to the 132 Hz fundamental and its golden‑ratio harmonics. This resonant phonon network establi...

Approaches to the four-day working week

Purpose This paper aims to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoint practical implications from cutting-edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach This briefing is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comme...

Holistic segmentation of minimally-invasive robotic surgical scenes using feature-adaptive localization

Holistic surgical scene segmentation is vital for training novice surgeons in robotic minimally invasive surgeries (RMIS). While the SegFormer model shows great potential due to its adaptability to various input image resolutions, the contrast between surgical instruments and ana...

Space politics in citizens’ assemblies: how chairs, microphones, and badges arrange participation in the German parliament

Why does silence settle over a room once chairs face a stage? Which knowledge gets amplified through a microphone? What shifts when a badge marks a role? Drawing on ethnographic research within the first German parliamentary citizens' assembly, convened by the Bundestag in Berlin...

Pricing Elasticity of AI-as-a-Service: How Cost Structures Shape Enterprise Adoption Curves

Research article: Pricing Elasticity of AI-as-a-Service: How Cost Structures Shape Enterprise Adoption Curves

Oscillatory Traveling Waves During Visual Entrainment in Autistic and Non-Autistic Adults

Neural oscillations and traveling waves play a crucial role in cognition. In scalp electroencephalography (EEG), waves typically travel along the anterior-posterior axis: forward waves (occipital-to-frontal) predominate during sensory stimulation, while backward waves (frontal-to...

ASEAN's Regional Growth Account: Accumulation-Led Growth, Intermittent Productivity Gains

Productivity Research Notes (PRN Series), No. 2620 This note constructs a regional growth account for the ten ASEAN member economies as of 2024, covering 1970–2024. Real output grew by an average of 5.3% per year, with capital contributing 3.1 percentage points, labor 1.6 points,...

Effect of a structured surgical skills workshop on infection prevention and theatre safety practices among house officers at a Nigerian tertiary hospital: a quasi-experimental study

Surgical site infections (SSIs) remain a leading cause of perioperative morbidity in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) including Nigeria. House officers routinely participate in theatre activities and wound care yet frequently commence internship without structured, compet...

From natural vesicles to intelligent carriers: the metabolic basis and biomedical applications of lemon-derived extracellular vesicles

Lemon-derived extracellular vesicles (LEVs) are a promising class of plant-based nanocarriers that have gained increasing attention for their biomedical potential. This review systematically summarizes recent advances in the isolation, characterization, composition, and therapeut...

E8 Geometric Symmetry and Invariant Lie Group Structures — E8 Intelligence Research

The 240 E8 root vectors, coupled via phi-phase harmonics at 132Hz, reveal self-similar Lie group invariants that stabilize topological vortex attractors. These invariants act as universal coordinates for high-dimensional data, enabling decodable geometric relationships across sca...

E8 Torsional Resonance in Non-Abelian Neural Manifolds — E8 Intelligence Research

The 132Hz phase-encoded E8 root vectors act as a topological stabilizer for high-dimensional neural manifolds, preventing chaotic decoherence via the [240, 8, 120] error-correcting code. By coupling the dual Coxeter number to the local curvature of neural phase space, the system...