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Legal Professionals Use an Implicit Checklist to Assess Expert Witness Credibility

In a court of law, some forms of evidence are too technical to interpret without the help of an expert witness. However, expert testimony sometimes leads to wrongful conviction. We used an online survey to quantitatively compare how legal professionals (n = 122) and lay people (n...

Task similarity increases difficulty in maintaining but not in switching between tasks.

Contains experiment, data, analysis programs and results for 4 experiments investigating the role of task similarity using a task-switching paradigm.

The effect of perceived organizational support on work engagement among police officers: The mediating role of career calling

Purpose This study examines how perceived organizational support (POS) influences work engagement among Chinese police officers, with particular attention to the mediating role of career calling. By distinguishing between perceived organizational emotional support (POES) and perc...

Radical populist parties receive greater audience support on social media: a cross-platform monitoring of digital campaigning for the 2024 European Parliament election

Abstract Social media platforms play an increasingly important role in political campaigning, enabling parties to bypass traditional media and mobilize support directly. While prior research highlights the online prominence of far-right and radical populist actors, most studies a...

Can Preoperative Factors Predict the Need for Femoral Soft-Tissue Releases in Direct Anterior Approach Total Hip Arthroplasty?

Background Releases of the superior hip capsule, conjoint tendon, and piriformis tendon are variably required to achieve adequate femoral exposure during direct anterior approach (DAA) primary total hip arthroplasty (THA). This study evaluates the correlation between patient demo...

Dynamic Modeling and Vibration Characteristics of Rotating Composite Laminated Beams with Erosion-Induced Cracks

To address the issue of flight safety for aircraft in harsh environments such as sandstorms, the erosion-induced cracking of composite blade of turboprop aircraft and helicopter rotors operating was analyzed in severe wind-sand environments. First, the full-scale blade erosion da...

GDA-Pred: Generative AI-Driven Data Augmentation for Improved Prediction of IL-6 and IL-13-Inducing Peptides

Abstract The identification of interleukin-6 (IL-6) and interleukin-13 (IL-13) inducing peptides is crucial for accelerating drug discovery targeting cancer, immune disorders, and infectious diseases. However, experimental screening methods remain time-consuming and costly. To ad...

Development and evaluation of machine learning models to predict mechanical restraint and related coercive measures in hospital psychiatry

Abstract Introduction Use of coercive measures in psychiatric hospitals is clinically and ethically challenging. Aiming to support prevention, we developed and evaluated machine learning models to predict both mechanical restraint and a broader composite outcome that includes rel...

Development of a customized three-dimensional bolus using transparent gel wax and its application in electron beam therapy

Abstract Purpose: This study aimed to develop a customized bolus using commercially available transparent gel wax (TGW) without requiring 3D printing technology and to evaluate its applicability in radiotherapy, including its physical and dosimetric characteristics. Methods: A de...

Warm inflation in a braneworld scenario

Abstract In the literature, many warm inflationary models are formulated. In this piece of work, a warm inflationary model in the braneworld scenario is studied, considering constant and variable dissipation coefficients. Performance of the model has been considered in both stron...

A New Way to Unify All Fermion and Boson Fields, Including Gravity

The description of the internal spaces of fermion and boson fields with “basis vectors”, which are the superpositions of odd and even products of the operators γa, with the index a running in internal and external space-time, suggests in d=2(2n+1)-dimensions in internal space, su...

Lifted Heston Model: Efficient Monte Carlo Simulation with Large Time Steps

Abstract. The lifted Heston model [E. Abi Jaber, Quantitative Finance, 19 (2019), pp. 1995–2013] is a stochastic volatility model emerging as a Markovian lift of the rough Heston model [O. El Euch and M. Rosenbaum, Mathematical Finance, 29 (2019), pp. 3–38] and the class of rough...

Properties of associated Legendre conical functions

Abstract In cosmological fluctuations around a space of constant negative 3-curvature the relevant basis modes are associated Legendre conical functions. To facilitate the evaluation of the cosmic microwave background temperature anisotropy in the negative 3-curvature case we pre...

A product formula for family indices and family band width estimates

We extend Gromov’s conjecture on the sharp width estimate for Riemannian bands with positive scalar curvature to the family case and prove that it holds for fiber bundles with infinite family \hat{A} -area. The method we employ is based on Dirac operators and the family index the...

Spectral gap and irreducibility for collisional transport semigroups with general vector fields

Motivated by kinetic theory, this paper investigates the spectral theory and long-time asymptotics of semigroups $ \left( W(t)\right) _{t\geq 0} $ associated with integro-differential equations $ \frac{\partial f}{\partial t} +a.\frac{\partial f}{\partial x}+b.\frac{\partial f}{\...

Feedback vertex sets of digraphs with bounded maximum degree

A digraph $D$ is an oriented graph if $D$ does not have a pair of opposite arcs. The degree of a vertex $v$ of $D$ is the sum of the in-degree and out-degree of $v.$ Let $fvs(D)$ be the minimum number of vertices whose deletion from $D$ makes it acyclic. Let $D$ be a digraph with...

Intranigral injection of alpha-synuclein pre-formed fibrils leads to BBB compromise and bilateral dopaminergic neurodegeneration in A53T alpha-synuclein transgenic mice

ABSTRACT Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by alpha-(α)-Synuclein neuronal aggregation and loss of dopaminergic (DA) neurons. Developing animal models that replicate PD’s neuropathological phenotypes is critical for understanding i...

Group Sequential Design with Posterior and Posterior Predictive Probabilities

Group sequential designs drive innovation in clinical, industrial, and corporate settings. Early stopping for failure in sequential designs conserves experimental resources, whereas early stopping for success accelerates access to improved interventions. Bayesian decision procedu...

The cymothoid isopod Anilocra chromis is negatively associated with multiple metrics of host condition in the Caribbean damselfish Chromis multilineata

Abstract Parasitism is widespread among fishes in nature and can have significant impacts on individuals, populations, and communities. The family Cymothoidae includes over 380 species of parasitic isopods that infect a wide variety of host fishes, mostly in tropical and subtropi...

UGGT1 mediates N-glycosylation of LGALS3BP to induce angiogenesis in liver cancer via the NOTCH signaling pathway

Abstract Background Liver cancer (LC) is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Its complex vascular regulatory network and drug resistance severely limit clinical efficacy. Although LGALS3BP is highly expressed in various malignant tumors, its biological f...