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- BiologyOpen access
Artemin, a member of the glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor family, plays important roles in neuronal processes through GDNF family receptor alpha 3 (GFRα3)-mediated signaling. However, the expression patterns of Artemin and GFRα3 during normal postnatal brain developmen...
- Climate & Environment
Rapid urbanisation is transforming natural vegetation on the fringes of medium sized Nigerian cities, yet the flora of these zones is rarely documented. This study assessed plant community structure in relation to land use in the peri-urban fringe of Lokoja, Kogi State, by combin...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Small business formalization is commonly addressed through business registration reforms, preferential taxation, and strengthened regulatory enforcement. However, international empirical evidence suggests that the effectiveness of these policy instruments varies considerably acro...
- Materials & Energy
Abstract Hybrid energy storage systems have gained significant attention for addressing rising global energy demands by combining the complementary strengths of batteries and supercapacitors. Their practical implementation, however, requires simultaneous achievement of high energ...
- Biology
Catchment to coast: fishes of the Keurbooms–Bitou system, Western Cape Province, South Africa
The Keurbooms–Bitou is a fynbos and forested catchment that has no major impoundments and provides a perennial high-quality water supply to the downstream estuary. This review collates the fish species occurrence results from a single comprehensive survey of the Keurbooms–Bitou c...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
South African adolescent girls face a triple burden of malnutrition, undernutrition alongside overweight/obesity, and micronutrient deficiencies, heightened risk factors for Non-Communicable Diseases (NCDs). The Ntshembo trial is a South African Randomised Controlled Trial (RCT)...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Background. Cyber risk is still largely framed around the technical perimeter an organisation administers itself. Recent institutional reports and several major incidents show, however, that exposure also stems from resources the organisation does not control: software suppliers,...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Abstract Background and Objective The COVID-19 pandemic presented substantial psychological challenges for healthcare workers worldwide, particularly in conflict-affected and resource-limited settings where existing stressors may have increased vulnerability. This review aimed to...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Passive drain use after mastectomy may not cause seroma, and the use of active drains is associated with prolonged effluent drainage due to the persistent opening of axillary lymphatics from vacuum pressure. We compared passive and active drains in terms of seroma, flap...
- Society & Economics
Filling or leaving Lenin’s void? Regime type and monument politics in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan
The collapse of the Soviet Union left a symbolic void across post-Soviet public spaces, most visibly in the removal of Lenin statues. This article examines why Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan managed this void so differently. Kazakhstan, a personalist authoritarian regime, pursued a gr...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the influence of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) scan protocols on quantitative measurements of diabetic retinopathy (DR) biomarkers and their diagnostic performance for DR staging. Methods: In this cross-sectiona...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Push and pull factors of relocation in the coastal zone: what matters most?
Abstract Permanent relocation is increasingly proposed as an effective long-term strategy for coastal areas affected by recurrent flooding. While the literature on coastal relocation has been steadily growing—particularly on policy processes, financial mechanisms, and lived exper...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Ecological drivers of Clostridioides difficile disease severity
ABSTRACT Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is a common cause of antibiotic-associated diarrhea and arises from disruption of the resident microbiota in the gastrointestinal tract. Despite being a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, CDI presents as a wide spec...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract Agricultural and urban land uses are widely recognized as major drivers of global surface water quality. However, it remains unclear whether the magnitude of the impacts scales universally and consistently across contrasting climatic and geographical settings based on th...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Perceptions, experiences, and mental health outcomes of surgical posting among medical students
Objectives: Surgical rotations play a vital role in undergraduate medical training by exposing students to practical patient care and operative practice. Although these experiences strengthen clinical competence, the demanding nature of surgical training may negatively influence...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
Network science has become a central methodological framework for the study of complex systems, with applications across social, biological, and technological domains. Its strength lies in formalizing such systems as collections of interacting units, whose collective behavior dep...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Due to the complex practical working conditions, fault diagnosis is very challenging in rotary machinery. Rotary machinery is often used in places with a high temperature, strong corrosion, or where acceleration sensors are hard to install. Thus, acoustical signal processing beco...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
On October 12, 2026, Anthropic's Frontier Red Team issued an urgent warning that compact artificial intelligence models (<= 30B parameters) are within months of achieving autonomous self-replication across commercial Internet-of-Things (IoT) appliances—such as smart ovens, off-br...
- Materials & Energy
Layer-polarized PN and point junctions in double bilayer graphene
We fabricate twisted double bilayer graphene devices with zero twist angle and a set of local top and bottom gates aligned perpendicularly to each other. A 1D PN junction can be electrostatically defined when the gate voltages applied to the top gates are the same but different o...
- Health & Medicine
Introduction Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease traditionally viewed as a motor neuron disorder in which muscle atrophy occurs secondary to neuronal loss. However, recent clinical proteomic advances have highlighted carbonic anhydrase 3 (CA3)...