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78103 work(s)
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Background: Medical adhesives are widely used, and have an invaluable role in securing medical devices and management of wounds. However, medical adhesive-related skin injuries (MARSI) are a common occurrence and adversely affect patient and provider outcomes. Methods: A systemis...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Governance Quality and Technology Innovation in Selected North American Countries
This study examines the effect of governance quality on technological innovation, focusing on annual patent applications in North America (the United States, Canada, and Mexico). The governance quality was patterned after the World Bank World Governance Indicators (WGI), comprisi...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Altered tonsillar microbiome in children with Down syndrome and obstructive sleep apnea
Abstract Background and Objectives Children with Down syndrome (DS) have a high prevalence of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) due to anatomic, neuromuscular, immunological and metabolic factors, yet the contribution of the tonsillar microbiome to airway obstruction in this populati...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Abstract. Interpreting thermochronological data of a partially reset detrital sample is challenging because its age distribution reflects a mixture of each grain’s individual pre-depositional and the shared post-depositional thermal history. A promising approach to meet this chal...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
A Hypothesis & Theory synthesis on one-carbon metabolism, the MTHFR C677T polymorphism, and depression, and on targeted (high-risk) prevention and screening. It builds on the established gene–cofactor and screening literature (Bjelland et al. 2003; Gilbody et al. 2007; Tiemeier e...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
A Hypothesis & Theory research programme proposing five clinical trial-design templates for compound, multi-mechanism disease. It draws on established adaptive-platform, sequential multiple-assignment (SMART), N-of-1, and biomarker-enrichment methodology, and its distinct proposa...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
A Hypothesis & Theory synthesis and research programme on multi-scale, multi-mechanism ("compound") disease. It builds explicitly on established work — metabolic control analysis and polypharmacology (Moreno-Sánchez et al. 2010), network medicine (Barabási, Gulbahce & Loscalzo 20...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Purpose To evaluate retinal microvascular changes in pediatric patients with systemic hypertension compared with healthy controls using optical coherence tomography (OCT) and optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA). Methods This prospective cross-sectional study...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Pressure, Hysteresis, and Experience: A Friction-Theoretic Framework for Clinical Intervention
Psychiatry has effective interventions and no agreed principled rule for matching them to patients. This paper offers a candidate organizing account. Clinical phenomena are specified as outcomes of a competition between routes whose repeated resolution deposits trace, so that a s...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
This paper presents a structural health monitoring (SHM)–oriented framework for the nonlinear identification of friction pendulum isolators in a real base isolated school building. Based on a parametric investigation carried out for this study, which identifies the high-speed fri...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Professional social networking has received considerably less research attention than private social media, particularly with regard to passive use and social media fatigue. The present study examined the association between passive LinkedIn use and social media fatigue and inves...
- BiologyOpen access
Sex differences in neural activity across amygdalo-striatal network during social behaviour
Abstract Background Social behaviour is essential for the survival of most mammalian species and is shaped by sex-dependent genetic and endocrine factors. However, how sex influences brain-wide neural dynamics during social interactions remains poorly understood. Methods Here, we...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
This study parametrically investigates the effects of corrugation configuration, corrugation inclination to the axis, and wave number on the motion of a rotary inner wavy cylindrical surface in a small-scalerotating detonation engine at the early starting stage. A quasi-two-dimen...
- Physics & SpaceOpen access
The Geometric Necessity of the Fine-Structure Constant
The fine-structure constant α ≈ 1/137.036 is one of the most precisely measured yet least mechanically understood numbers in physics. This paper presents a self-contained geometric account of α⁻¹ ≈ 137.036 within the Push-Theory framework, which models the vacuum as a discrete He...
- BiologyOpen access
Theta oscillations tag episodic memories for sleep-dependent consolidation
How does the brain select which experiences to consolidate into long-term memory? Numerous neurobiological frameworks suggest that certain memories are “tagged” at learning for consolidation during later sleep. However, experimental evidence of such a tagging mechanism in the hum...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Same Content, Wider Track: Empirical Calibration of Friction Theory on LLM Substrate
The same 25 facts, fine-tuned with four paraphrase templates instead of one, jump from 38% to 94% paraphrase-robust recall (same substrate, same optimizer, same number of facts, same epochs). Varied friction widens the encoding track. Paper 4 is the empirical-calibration companio...
- BiologyOpen access
Nine independently-developed traditions in learning theory and belief-revision — Yerkes–Dodson arousal, Vygotsky’s zone of proximal development, Kalyuga’s expertise-reversal, Bjork’s desirable difficulties, the spacing and testing effects among them — have each characterised an i...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
The water resources carrying capacity (WRCC) lays a foundational basis for long-term coordinated water resource governance. Based on the Driving–Pressure–State–Impact–Response (DPSIR) framework, this study constructed a WRCC evaluation system containing 21 indicators and adopted...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Abstract Digitization supports the preservation and collaborative study of Jiandu, but dispersed ownership, frequent scholarly revisions, and sensitive data complicate secure sharing and accountable governance. We propose J-Trust, a blockchain-based governance framework that sepa...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Abstract Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) drive genome plasticity, horizontal gene transfer, and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) dissemination in Streptococcus , yet genus-wide comparisons across major MGE classes remain limited. Here, we analyzed 1,961 complete genomes from 60 Stre...