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Integrated CO2 Capture and Thermoelectric Waste-Heat Recovery in an ENF-SOGI-Controlled Hybrid PV–Battery System

The efficacy of low-carbon power systems is reduced by the high energy demand of conventional CO2 capture processes, the loss of recoverable thermal energy, and power-quality disturbances associated with variable renewable generation. This study suggests an integrated framework t...

Wild edible plants of Bhutan: Diversity, use patterns, and motivations for consumption

Wild edible plants (WEPs) have long supported rural livelihoods and cultural practices in Bhutan, yet their use and associated knowledge are increasingly challenged by agricultural change, modernization, and limited documentation. This study documented the diversity, use patterns...

Comparing Parent–Child Shared Reading and Children’s Understanding of Non-Rhyming, Rhyming, and Magazine Information Texts: An Exploratory Study

The home and preschool settings serve as important contexts for children’s early language and literacy development. There is limited research on parent–preschooler shared reading and children’s comprehension of information texts that vary in their format, structure, or mode of pr...

Effect of Blockage and Longitudinal Ventilation on Longitudinal Temperature Distribution in Tunnel With the Unpowered Ventilation Cap

ABSTRACT Urban tunnel fires often produce huge smoke and cause serious consequences. The temperature attenuation of fume in fire is very important for fire prevention and rescue. In this paper, a 1/15 reduced‐size tunnel test platform is utilized to probe the impact of blockage o...

Environmental dynamism and organisational resilience: a comprehensive bibliometric analysis

Purpose This study systematically maps the intellectual structure, thematic evolution and global research frontiers of environmental dynamism and organisational resilience research, addressing the rapid expansion and fragmentation of this interdisciplinary field and providing a c...

Ammonium-Nitrate Ratio and Soil Moisture Jointly Regulate Early-Spring Nitrogen Acquisition Through Root Architectural Plasticity in Apple

Abstract Early-spring nitrogen (N) acquisition in perennial fruit trees represents a critical physiological bottleneck determining vegetative-reproductive balance, as remobilized woody-tissue N supports initial growth but excessive depletion compromises reproductive performance....

Analytical Strategies Using Combined Isotopic Signatures or Multi-Isotopic-Dilution Methods to Ascertain the Origin of Wines and Foods

This record contains the presentation(s) delivered by TRACEWINDU project partners at a guest lecture at National Taiwan Ocean University (NTOU), held in Keelung, Taiwan on 17 December 2024. TRACEWINDU — "Traceability at wine industry through integrated labelling of typicality, he...

Beyond the Fracture Clinic: 3 Things a Surgeon Can Do to Help Older Patients Stay Out of the Hospital

Musculoskeletal conditions, particularly osteoarthritis, account for >40 million disability-adjusted life years worldwide among persons aged 60 years and above. Research has also demonstrated that up to half of older adults have multimorbidity, which requires optimization for pos...

Public health, trade unions and empowerment: From learning to draft resolutions to addressing the socioeconomic determinants of health

Abstract Community empowerment projects aimed at improving health and wellbeing have tended to be ‘place-based’. But they may also be based on ‘communities of interest’. This paper advances an original conception of health-related empowerment by focusing on the work of trade unio...

Strongly Polynomial Bounds in Linear Programming and Smale's 9th Problem

This preprint provides an exhaustive 9-page mathematical monograph on Smale's 9th Problem (Steve Smale, 2000), dedicated to the existence of a strongly polynomial-time algorithm for Linear Programming (LP). While the ellipsoid method (Khachiyan, 1979) and projective interior-poin...

Ergothioneine-Derived Carbon Dot Nanozymes Alleviate the Oxidative Stress Microenvironment to Delay Intervertebral Disc Degeneration

Nucleus pulposus cells (NPCs) age mainly because reactive oxygen species (ROS) build up too much. Excess ROS is associated with intervertebral disc degeneration (IVDD). In this study, we prepared ergothioneine-derived carbon dots (EGT-Fe-CDs) as an antioxidant nanozyme. EGT-Fe-CD...

Hyperglycemia and alteration in sphingolipids are early mediators of diabetic kidney disease: role of elongase 1 (Elovl1)

Introduction Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is characterized by impairment of renal glomerular and tubular cells. Low plasma levels of ceramides and lactosylceramides containing very long-chain (VLC) fatty acid were found to be predictive of DKD development. Elongase 1 (Elovl1) is...

Novel analytical strategies using non-traditional isotopic and multi-isotopic dilution signatures for high geographical resolution & food discrimination

This record contains a presentation delivered by TRACEWINDU project partners at the 2nd ISO-FOOD Symposium, held in Portorož, Slovenia on 24–26 April 2023. TRACEWINDU — "Traceability at wine industry through integrated labelling of typicality, health protection effect and organol...

Screening of Austrian geological carbon and hydrogen storage options. Part I: Hydrocarbon fields

The carbon capture and storage (CCS) potential in Austria remains to be elucidated as the country plans to lift its CO 2 storage ban and permit geologic storage for hard-to-abate emitters. This study presents a static screening and assessment of Austria’s CCS and underground hydr...

Longitudinal Immunophenotypic Changes in Refractory Lupus Nephritis After B-cell Depletion: A 25-year Case Study

Background/Aim: Long-term management of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) requires a persistent balance between intensive immunosuppression and the prevention of opportunistic infections. This is particularly challenging in patients with a multi-decade disease history and evolvi...

Co-evolution of plants, livestock and farming practices during dairy farm transformation to agroecology: an in-depth case study in France

Agriculture contributes to and is impacted by global changes. Agroecology is recommended as a framework for transforming farming systems to address these challenges. However, research has not extensively documented transformations to agroecology, which could limit adoption by far...

Changes in External Developmental Assets Across Adolescence in Low‐Income Urban Youth

ABSTRACT This study investigated longitudinal changes in external developmental assets (EDA)—support, empowerment, boundaries & expectations across ecological and interpersonal contexts of family, peers, school, and neighborhood—among predominantly Black, low‐income urban adolesc...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 2975 Sources, 25330 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 2975 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 25330 leads across 13 categories. 23033 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 2149, "FORMULA": 1984, "GEOMETRIC": 887, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 2280, "QUANTUM": 2494, "TIMING": 270, "CELESTIAL": 2070, "GEMATRIA": 2178, "CON...

Symmetry Breaking Undermines Posner Molecule Quantum Qubit Claims — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Posner molecule (Ca₉(PO₄)₆) quantum coherence evidence is contested; the arXiv paper shows its dynamical ensemble is *not* symmetric, undermining the proposed long-lived nuclear spin qubit mechanism. | MATH: Molecular formula Ca₉(PO₄)₆; nuclear spin-1/2 on ³¹P (6 P atoms...

Quantifying the Nondisclosure of Influencer Advertising on Social Media

Daniel Ershov, Yanting He, and Stephan Seiler used a novel approach to identify undisclosed sponsored social media posts from text data, measuring the extent of advertising nondisclosure in a dataset composed of more than 100 million tweets. They found that over 96 percent of spo...