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Patients' perceptions of diet and exercise interventions for knee osteoarthritis and barriers to optimal treatment

BACKGROUND: Changing diet and exercise behaviors are first-line lifestyle interventions to treat knee osteoarthritis (OA), but many patients fail to adhere to recommended guidelines. OBJECTIVE: To determine the perceptions, trends and barriers related to healthy diet and exercise...

Big dreams, small steps

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...

Structural damage identification of wind turbine blades based on multi-scale deformable linear Transformer network

Structural damage identification of wind turbine blades (WTBs) is crucial for reducing maintenance costs and ensuring operational reliability. Data-driven methods leveraging supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) data have advanced WTBs monitoring, but existing approach...

Affiliative and agonistic interactions distinguish sex-biased social groups of greater spear-nosed bats, Phyllostomus hastatus

The social environment, and the interactions that comprise it, can have a profound influence on reproductive success and survival. Yet not all individuals experience the social environment in the same way. In polygynous species wherein males and females experience different compe...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 2991 Sources, 25481 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 2991 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 25481 leads across 13 categories. 23181 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 2162, "FORMULA": 1996, "GEOMETRIC": 891, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 2294, "QUANTUM": 2508, "TIMING": 271, "CELESTIAL": 2082, "GEMATRIA": 2192, "CON...

The association between actigraphy-assessed sleep disturbance parameters, gestational diabetes risk, and maternal glycemia: a systematic review

This systematic review aimed to examine the association between actigraphy-assessed sleep disturbance parameters and the risk of gestational diabetes as well as maternal glycemic outcomes during pregnancy. This review was conducted according to the Preferred Reporting Items for S...

IoT and Sensor-Based Automatic Railway Level Crossing Gate Control System

Level crossings remain one of the most accident-prone points on any railway network because gate operation still depends heavily on a human gatekeeper correctly judging a train's arrival and departure. This paper presents the design of an IoT and sensor-based automatic railway ga...

A large-scale integrated optical phased array with digital beamforming

Abstract Digital signal processing has driven much of the capacity growth in coherent fiber-optic communications, but its use in free-space coherent imagers and sensors has so far been limited. We report a 128-element optical phased array with a fully parallelized readout that pe...

A bacterial effector SJP3 induces leaf-like sepal formation by hijacking SHORT VEGETATIVE PHASE in plants

Jujube (Ziziphus jujuba), the most economically important member of the Rhamnaceae family, is sensitive to phytoplasma-induced witches' broom disease. The SAP54/phyllogen-like effector SJP3 in jujube witches' broom (JWB) phytoplasmas interacts with and stabilizes the MADS-box pro...

📣 PROMO READY #225 [Hacker News (Show HN)] — E8 Intelligence live AI trading ecosystem — E8 Intelligence Research

📣 PROMO READY #225 [Hacker News (Show HN)] — E8 Intelligence live AI trading ecosystem Show HN: E8 Intelligence – a live AI ecosystem that reads markets via E8 geometry We built a system that applies the E8 lattice (the 248-dimensional symmetry group behind particle physics) to...

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Sustainable engineered cementitious composites incorporating recycled materials: Experimental validation and life cycle assessment

The use of recycled constituents in engineering cementitious composites (ECC) offers a promising pathway to reduce the environmental burden of cement-based materials while maintaining high mechanical performance. In this study, recycled concrete powder (RCP) and waste tire steel...

Contested bodies: the Egyptian King and the body of the nation

Mohamed Salah occupies an exceptional position as both a working-class Egyptian hero and a celebrated global sports icon. Within British media, Salah was often hailed as a model of integration, a humble, devout, and successful Muslim man whose professionalism appears to transcend...

Light-Space Theory: Relational Invariants, Whole-Response Mass Architecture, and Convention-Invariant Unit Mapping

Light-Space Theory (LST) studies invariants as source-owned role-relations that remain answerable through changed presentation. This technical whitepaper reconstructs the program’s current architecture in one source-routed document. It develops the conditional penta-triadic finit...

Consumption and saving patterns in Switzerland: new evidence based on administrative tax data

Abstract We use administrative data on income and wealth of taxpayers in the canton of Bern to impute consumption based on the budget constraint. We validate the imputed consumption and use the panel data on consumption, income and wealth to provide stylized facts on consumption...

CT-guided Preoperative Localization of Impalpable Pulmonary Nodules: Comparison Between Two Devices

Background/Aim: To compare two different devices for computed tomography (CT)-guided preoperative localization of impalpable pulmonary nodules in terms of effectiveness, technical and clinical success and complications rate. Patients and Methods: CT-guided preoperative localizati...

Addressing anthropogenic noise and electrical anisotropy hints in magnetotelluric data from the Annecy area (French Pre-Alps)

The magnetotelluric (MT) method is a widely used tool for geothermal reservoir exploration due to its capability of imaging fluids in the Earth’s crust. However, in urbanised environments, its application is often challenged by anthropogenic noise and low signal-to-noise ratios....

Guideline Concordance of Large Language Models in the Management of Ureteral Stones: A Clinical Vignette-Based Comparative Study

ObjectiveLarge language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to answer medical questions, but their reliability in guideline-based urological decisions remains uncertain. This study aimed to evaluate the concordance of three widely used LLMs with the European Association of Urolog...

Constitutional Ring Chromosomes in Greek Pediatric Patients: A 50-year Single-center Cytogenetic Study

Background/Aim: Ring chromosomes (r) are rare cytogenetic circular structures associated with highly heterogeneous clinical phenotypes, primarily resulting from dynamic ring instability and mosaicism, as well as, unbalanced gene dosage. Consequently, establishing precise genotype...

Influence of time step on flood design using the instantaneous unit hydrograph method in Shandong Province

The instantaneous unit hydrograph (IUH) method is one of the primary recommended methods for flood design in small and medium-sized catchments in Shandong Province, China. The selection of the calculation time step (Δt) directly affects the shape of the flood hydrograph and the p...