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Artificial Versus Magneto-Aerotactic Bacterial Robots for Cancer Therapy

The use of magnetotactic bacteria (MTB), proposed by the author about 25 years ago, allowed the implementation of embedded capabilities allowing the execution of specific complex tasks such as the target delivery of therapeutics in tumoral hypoxic zones that could not be implemen...

Effects of Gluten-Free Diet on Nutritional Status and Some Inflammation Parameters in Adult Celiac Disease Patients

Objectives: Celiac disease is a lifelong autoimmune disorder in which strict adherence to a gluten-free diet is the cornerstone of treatment. However, many patients follow the gluten-free diet incorrectly due to limited nutrition education, which may affect nutritional adequacy,...

Beyond Attractions: Understanding Tourist Satisfaction in Sustainable Creative Tourism

ABSTRACT Understanding tourists' evaluations of creative tourism destinations remains important for sustainable destination development. This study examined tourists' expectations and satisfaction regarding sustainable creative tourism products in Sathing Phra District, Songkhla...

Modern approaches to the treatment of NCMT sexually transmitted infections (N. gonorrhoeae, C. trachomatis, M. genitalium, T. vaginalis). Part II. M. Genitalium

An analysis of literature data on modern approaches to the treatment of infection caused by M. Genitalium is presented. As for now, it is not included in the list of reportable infections both in most countries of the world and in the Russian Federation, but, according to various...

Effects of straw ash–calcium carbide slag curing agent and recycled aggregate on the mechanical properties of sludge soil and their grey correlation analysis

Abstract High-water-content sludge soil (SS) requires stabilization before reuse as a pavement fill. This study evaluates a multi-waste system comprising a straw ash–calcium carbide slag binder (SCS; straw ash:calcium carbide slag = 6:4 by mass) fixed at 10% of dry SS and recycle...

Fast All‐Sky Hyperspectral Infrared Radiative Transfer With Physically Recursive Cloud Treatment

Abstract Clouds strongly modify thermal infrared radiances through absorption, emission, and multiple scattering, yet rigorous line‐by‐line (LBL) gas absorption coupled with multi‐stream scattering remains too expensive for large ensembles of all‐sky hyperspectral simulations. We...

A suite of eight Toxoplasma gondii effectors cooperates to activate the non-canonical NF-κB pathway

ABSTRACT As a master of host-cell reprogramming, Toxoplasma gondii ( T. gondii ) tachyzoites manipulate diverse signaling networks to establish a niche permissive for long-term infection. While the parasite’s subversion of canonical NF-κB signaling (p65/p50) is well established,...

Influence of Water-to-Powder Ratio on the Frost Resistance of Tuff Powder-Modified Self-Compacting Concrete

Self-compacting concrete (SCC) shows considerable potential for infrastructure applications on the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau, which is characterized by a hypoxic environment. However, the quantitative effects of the volumetric water-to-powder ratio (VW/VP) on the freeze–thaw durabili...

A YOLO-Based Local-Safety Branch Framework for Battery Detection in X-ray Images of Small WEEE Devices

Preprint. This manuscript has been submitted to the Journal of Cleaner Production and is currently under peer review.Hidden batteries in small waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) are a safety risk because RGB images can identify the device type but cannot confirm whe...

Neighborhood effects on Black adolescents’ obesity risk: The mediating role of family experiences

We examined longitudinal associations between neighborhood environments (walkability, area deprivation, and traffic volume) and obesity risk, tested sex differences, and evaluated family experiences as mediators. Participants were 1325 Black youth (52% male; M age = 9.5) and care...

Kraft–McMillan Equality: Conservation Law for Complete Prefix-Free Codes — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: The Kraft–McMillan inequality is the exact boundary condition for uniquely decodable codes, and its equality case corresponds to complete (maximally compact) prefix-free codes — a discrete analogue of a conservation law. | MATH: For a D-ary code with codeword lengths \(l...

Interface Assumptions Are Not Mathematical Assumptions: An Axiom Census of Five Libraries Across Four Proof Systems

A formal library's axiom count is routinely reported as a single number. This paper argues that the number conflates two populations which behave differently and answer different questions, and that the conflation is only visible from outside a single library. Five libraries are...

Céline Sciamma’s writing through desire: A new approach to writing women’s stories

The hero’s journey and the conflict model of storytelling have had a strong hold on western screenwriting since the mid-twentieth century. Increasingly, this is being questioned, especially by feminist scholars and storytellers, who find the hero’s journey exclusive of women’s st...

How Does Brief Mindfulness Training Influence Neurophysiology During Working Memory in Musicians With Music Performance Anxiety?

Musicians rely on working memory to perform but this can be impacted by performance anxiety. This exploratory study examined whether a mindfulness training program would show beneficial effects on working memory in musicians with music performance anxiety (MPA). Twenty musicians...

Are we looking for finite answers in an infinite universe?

I'm a mechanical engineering student, starting in September the first year and I'm a curious mind; during an autonomous research about QGP, I have encountered the Navier-Stokes and Riemann problems, topics that immediately sparked a deep interest in me, and I asked myself, "Why o...

The Challenge to Find Ideal Representation in Urban Living Labs: Lessons from the Maastricht case

Urban Living Labs (ULLs) are spaces in which ‘in situ’ experiments test the (dis)advantages and transformative potency of physical and social innovations. Unlike traditional labs, ULLs provide citizens and other stakeholders an opportunity to cocreate, try out and ‘try on’ potent...

Meteoroid: A Deterministic Topological Multi-Agent Orchestration Framework for Autonomous Backend Generation and Synthesis

Meteoroid is a deterministic topological multi-agent orchestration framework for autonomous backend generation and synthesis. The system models backend development as a dependency-aware directed acyclic graph (DAG), enabling specialized agents to execute according to explicit dep...

Architecture Is Capital Allocation

Living Cipher Analysis 004 examines how semiconductor architecture decisions become capital commitments before formal investment approval. It introduces an architecture-to-capital operating representation for tracing material technical and implementation premises into the specifi...

Real-Time Task Offloading with Replication Under Node Churn in Volunteer Edge Computing

Energy efficiency is a primary design objective for battery-powered IoT devices. While offloading computation-intensive tasks to edge servers has been extensively studied to mitigate power drains, relatively little attention has been paid to the long-term financial cost of commer...

The Hidden Odd Invariant in the IMO Windmill Problem — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: The 2011 IMO windmill problem (Q2) is a deceptively simple combinatorial geometry problem whose solution reveals a hidden invariant — the number of "windmill" states is always odd, forcing a fixed point. | MATH: The problem reduces to: given n points in general position,...