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Characteristics associated with efficacy of hypoxia-inducible factor-prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors in renal anemia patients: a retrospective cohort study

Hypoxia-inducible factor-prolyl hydroxylase inhibitors (HIF-PHIs) are novel drugs used to treat renal anemia patients.However, their efficacy in elevating hemoglobin levels varies among patients. We aimed to identify characteristics that could influence hemoglobin level in renal...

Invisible Threats, Relentless Hunters: Biosurveillance of Airborne Plant Pathogens

Airborne dispersal enables plant pathogens to travel across fields, regions, and continents, fueling rapid epidemics and emerging disease threats. Biosurveillance, the systematic monitoring of airborne inoculum, offers the opportunity to detect pathogens before symptoms appear an...

Internal benchmarking in hotel chains: a slack-based DEA framework for economic-operational and environmental performance

Purpose This study develops an intra-chain benchmarking framework using data envelopment analysis (DEA) to evaluate the economic-operational and environmental performance of 20 hotels belonging to the same international chain. Design/methodology/approach A two-stage DEA framework...

Professional Judgment and AI Disclosure Governance in Audit and Sustainability Assurance: Public Evidence from the UK Big Four

Artificial intelligence (AI) is entering audit workflows while sustainability reporting expands the evidence subject to professional evaluation. This exploratory study examines how the UK Big Four publicly describe safeguards that keep AI-assisted work human-led, reviewable and a...

PRAPIXEL™ Version 1.0: Discrete Pixel-Based Surface Architecture for Programmable Mechanical Fields, Dynamic Load Redistribution, and Adaptive Human–Surface Interaction

PRAPIXEL™ Version 1.0 presents an open scientific and engineering framework for segmented adaptive surfaces composed of discrete mechanically controllable elements whose states can be independently addressed or coordinated to generate programmable spatiotemporal mechanical fields...

Penrose's Gravitational Self-Energy Criterion for Quantum Superposition Collapse — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Penrose's core mathematical argument is that quantum gravity cannot resolve singularities because the superposition principle, when applied to spacetime itself, requires a *gravitational self-energy* criterion — a threshold where quantum superposition collapses due to sp...

Debugging Functionality-Twisting Translations by LLMs via Differential Testing with Bayesian Prior

Code translation, as a challenging and fundamental task, is increasingly relying on large language models (LLMs). However, LLMs often give seemingly plausible but fallacious translations, misleading and even deceptive to debugging developers. We propose tHinter, an automated appr...

Characteristics of Patients Achieving Clinically Meaningful Improvement in Neuropathic Pain After Surgery for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy

Study DesignRetrospective analysis of a prospectively maintained multicenter cohort.ObjectivesTo identify clinical characteristics associated with clinically meaningful improvement in neuropathic pain and to evaluate its relationship with postoperative functional outcomes in pati...

Co-evolution of Supermassive Black Holes and their Host L ⋆ galaxies: implications for Milky Way and M31

Abstract We investigate the origin of the scatter in supermassive black hole (BH) masses among L⋆ galaxies, using the ARTEMIS and EAGLE simulations. We classify galaxies by their central BH-to-stellar mass ratios and track systems with the lowest and highest ratios (LBH and HBH,...

Lawyering in a youth crime moral panic: Queensland, media and caring about First Nations children

This article, drawing upon interviews with lawyers who work with children-clients in the State of Queensland, Australia's youth justice system, identifies how the contemporary media-driven moral panic about youth crime affects their practice. The lawyers reported frustration at t...

Effects of Microplastic Pollution on Growth, Photosynthesis, and Nutritional Composition of Maize ( Zea mays L.)

ABSTRACT Background Microplastic (MP) contamination in agroecosystems is an increasingly recognized environmental concern, whereas its polymer‐specific impacts on plant growth and nutritional composition remain poorly understood. Aim Our study aimed to evaluate how polymer type a...

Predictive Factors for Acute and Late Genitourinary and Gastrointestinal Toxicity Following Modern Radiotherapy for Prostate Cancer: A Narrative Review of Clinical, Dosimetric, Immunological, and Genetic Determinants

Background: Despite advances in prostate cancer (PC) radiotherapy, including intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), volumetric modulated arc therapy (VMAT), and stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), genitourinary (GU) and gastrointestinal (GI) toxicities remain important compl...

Polynomial Diagonals in a Pascal-Type Triangular Array

Triangular arrays governed by Pascal-type addition often conceal one-dimensional structure when viewed along rows, columns, or diagonals. The array considered here is indexed by c≥0 and k≥c+1. Its top boundary is prescribed, while each interior entry is obtained by adding the ent...

The Universe Exists Only in the Present Moment —A Cosmological Extrapolation of the Paradox of Self-Evolution in Closed Systems

Based on the author’s previously proven Paradox of Self-Evolution in ClosedSystems (Chen, 2026a, hereafter referred to as Paper A), this paper extrapolatesthat conclusion to a cosmological model. The conditional nature of this extrapolation is first clarified: if the universe sat...

Myth, History, and Messianic Solidarity: Benjamin and the Matter of Politics in Petzold's Recent Trilogies

Abstract This essay contends that the work of Walter Benjamin illuminates the political trajectory of Christian Petzold's recent cinema. Against critiques of the Berlin School as apolitical, it argues that Petzold's Systems and Elements trilogies engage contemporary concerns, inc...

Convergent Validity of Two Implicit Racial Bias Measures for Individuals and Contexts

Correlations among implicit measures of racial bias tend to be weak, raising questions about their validity. Weak individual-level correlations, however, could reflect a temporally unstable construct. According to the Bias of Crowds model, implicit bias can be fleeting for indivi...

Search Results Yield No Critical Exponent 2.7 or 3D XY Data — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: No direct numerical result for critical exponent 2.7 or 3D XY universality class appears in the provided sources; the search returns only general educational videos on topological insulators, Landau levels, and quantum spin liquids. | MATH: No equations, constants, or ra...

Can the use of recycled powders reduce AM spare parts costs?

Additive Manufacturing (AM) has attracted growing interest for spare parts production, yet its industrial adoption remains limited. A key barrier is cost, particularly the high cost of raw materials. Prior research suggests that replacing virgin powders with recycled powders coul...

Addressing fusiform gyrus dysfunction in schizophrenia, theory of mind, and implications for antipsychotics’ response and resistance: A systematic review and critical appraisal

Background The Fusiform Gyrus (FG), a brain region relevant for the interaction between cognitive processes and emotional behavior, especially emotion recognition and interpretation of social cues, has been linked to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia conceptualized as a disord...

Lakeshore transformation and water color dynamics: A satellite-based 23-year assessment of nine plateau lakes in Yunnan, China

Study region Nine plateau lakes in Yunnan, China. Study focus We developed an extended lakeshore utilization classification framework to categorize lakeshores as natural, agricultural, or artificial using fixed maximum shorelines. We then derived the Forel–Ule Index (FUI) of the...