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Examining factors associated with catheter-defined unplanned dialysis initiation: a UK renal registry analysis

Abstract Background In the UK, nearly half of patients with end stage kidney disease (ESKD) who initiate dialysis do so in an unplanned manner. A reduced quality of life, increased number of hospitalisations and higher rates of mortality are just a few of the consequences of unpl...

Camera-based respiratory rate monitoring in unmodified neonatal intensive care – a cross-sectional study in a UK hospital

Background Camera-based methods have shown potential for respiratory rate measurement in neonatal intensive care. However existing work is tested on short recordings, which do not represent the range of environments present in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) or assess cha...

Curcumin-Loaded Poly(xylitol sebacate) Nanoparticles Reduce Viability and Alter Morphology in Colorectal Cancer Cell Lines

Background/Objectives: Poly(xylitol sebacate) (PXS) is a biodegradable, biocompatible hyperbranched polyester capable of self-assembling into nanoparticles for hydrophobic drug delivery. Building on our prior physicochemical characterization of PXS nanoparticles, this study evalu...

Endogenous Corporate Risk Tolerance: Financial Capacity, Planning and Entropic Valuation

This working monograph develops a framework in which a firm's effective risk tolerance is not a primitive preference parameter but an endogenous output of its financial architecture. Building on the entropic (exponential) valuation functional, it formalises how instruments of res...

Control, Communication and the Emotional Construction of Home: The Role of Home Improvements in Supporting Ageing-in-Place

Ageing populations are reshaping housing policy globally, with growing attention on supporting ‘ageing-in-place’. Alongside potential savings, there is recognition that people want to live independently in their own home as they age. This often requires housing adaptations for ac...

Visual motion does not bias gravity-referenced vestibular coding in the primate cerebellar nodulus and uvula

Visual motion is known to influence perceptions of tilt, verticality, and translation, suggesting that optic flow is combined with vestibular cues to estimate orientation relative to gravity. The cerebellar nodulus and ventral uvula (NU) are a prime candidate to perform this comp...

High-Performance NH3 Sensing via Humidity-Mediated Proton Conduction in Electrospun Amorphous Sn/Ce-Containing Polymer Membranes

Precise monitoring of ammonia (NH3) in humid agricultural environments is essential for livestock management and environmental protection. However, conventional metal oxide semiconductor sensors often suffer from signal attenuation and baseline instability because of competitive...

Re-electing the party leader: The 2024 PASOK contest

This article examines leadership contests in European mainstream parties confronting electoral decline and attempting to restore competitiveness. Focusing on this broader phenomenon, it analyses incumbent leaders seeking renewed mandates through open primary elections in such con...

Hybridisation as an Ecological Process: Admixed Individuals Contribute Substantially to Canopy Biomass in an Intertidal Macroalgal Hybrid Zone

ABSTRACT Beyond its relevance for evolutionary biology and genetics, hybridisation is increasingly recognised as an ecological process that can modify community structure, yet the demographic contribution of admixed individuals in natural primary‐producer systems remains poorly r...

Prevalence and associated factors of adolescent tobacco use in three Sub-Saharan African countries: A comparative analysis of national cross-sectional surveys

Tobacco use often begins during adolescence, increasing the risk of lifelong nicotine dependence and future non-communicable diseases. In sub-Saharan Africa, concerns are rising due to aggressive tobacco industry marketing and expanding nicotine product markets, yet nationally re...

Kidney transplantation in older people (KTOP): a longitudinal, qualitative study of kidney transplant experiences in older, frail adults

Abstract Background Transplantation rates are increasing in those who are older and frail, driven by an aging dialysis population. This longitudinal, qualitative study explores how older adults navigate the journey from dialysis to transplantation and how frailty is experienced a...

System Dynamics & Control Theory: Dynamic Systems Formulation of Persistence Science

This paper develops a dynamic systems formulation of Persistence Science. Building upon The Odero Axiom, the Information Index, and the Persistence Index, the framework transforms the persistence condition into a continuous temporal state-space model governed by Persistence Capac...

Influence of occlusal reduction on postoperative pain following single-visit root canal treatment in mandibular molars: a randomized controlled trial

Objectives: Postoperative pain is a frequent complication following root canal treatment, and occlusal reduction (OR) has been suggested as a means to minimize such discomfort. However, existing evidence regarding its effectiveness remains inconclusive. This study aimed to evalua...

Effect of silane treatment and resin cement type on bond strength to three-dimensional printed restorative resin: an in vitro experimental study

Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the shear bond strength (SBS) of different resin cements to three-dimensional (3D)-printed restorative resins and to investigate the effects of silane treatment and substrate type on bonding performance. Methods: Four resin cements-three s...

Leveraging human reading behavior for keyphrase extraction: a webcam-based eye-tracking corpus

Purpose Keyphrases are not only statistically or semantically important textual units but also words or phrases that are more likely to attract readers' attention during comprehension. However, existing keyphrase extraction (KPE) studies have mainly focused on improving models' r...

Agricultural Production Services Expand Major-Grain Output Through the Sown-Area Margin: Evidence from China

Against the background of severe farmland fragmentation and continuous rural labor outflow in developing countries, land consolidation through land transfer has long been regarded as the primary path to realize large-scale agricultural production. However, land transfer faces ins...

Frugal AI: Sustainable Deep Learning Compression via Pruning and Mixed-Precision QAT

Deep learning models frequently require substantial computational resources, leading to high operational carbon emissions. This paper applies the principles of sobriété numérique (digital sobriety) to optimize a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) trained on the CIFAR-10 dataset....

Beyond Detection Limits: Integrated Biosensors for Molecular Diagnostics, Longitudinal Monitoring, and Clinical Translation

Biosensors are evolving from isolated analytical detectors into integrated systems for molecular diagnosis, longitudinal monitoring, dynamic tissue assessment, and clinical or preclinical decision support. This critical narrative review synthesizes literature from 2018 through Ju...

Path-Dependent Landslide Initiation Through Response-Generated Memory Under Mainshock–Aftershock Loading

Earthquake sequences can affect slope stability before recovery from an earlier event is complete, yet reduced-order models commonly treat successive earthquakes as independent inputs or prescribe cumulative damage through event-based increments. We introduce a bounded, response-...

Bringing Reinforcement Learning to Multi-Period Financial Planning: A Bridge Between Learning-Enabled and Stochastic Optimization

Abstract Financial planning is rarely a one-shot decision: today’s saving, spending, and investment choices shape tomorrow’s wealth, liabilities, and goal attainment. This survey traces the mathematical evolution of multi-period financial planning over the past several decades, f...