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Ocular complications following facial dermal filler injections: a systematic review and proportion meta-analysis of visual and neurologic outcomes

Background Facial dermal fillers are widely used for aesthetic procedures but can rarely cause severe ocular and cerebral vascular complications. This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the spectrum of ocular complications and quantified permanent vision loss and brain...

Self-perceptions of aging and advance care planning: Longitudinal evidence from the Health and Retirement Study

Abstract Objectives Advance care planning (ACP) is increasingly conceptualized as a proactive, communication-centered process that supports person-centered care in later life. Although prior research has focused on demographic and clinical predictors, less is known about the psyc...

Causal Pathways of Agricultural Drought Development in Semi-Arid Regions using NDVI-based Vegetation Stress Proxies

Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of extreme events, including droughts, floods, and compound events. Agricultural drought remains difficult because it is shaped by multivariate interactions among climatic, hydrological, and vegetation-related variables. Al...

Applied performance analysts in association football: A scoping review of roles, challenges, and opportunities (2010–2025)

Performance Analysis (PA) has become integral to modern football, yet Applied Performance Analysts (APA) currently find themselves at a crossroads, with technological advancements and adaptive responsibilities shaping their landscape of practice. This scoping review aimed to map...

PREDICTING HEART DISEASE RISK FROM CLINICAL VARIABLES: A GENDER-SPECIFIC MACHINE LEARNING ANALYSIS AMONG HIGH-CHOLESTEROL PATIENTS

Cardiovascular disease remains a major cause of mortality and economic burden in the United States. This study developed and evaluated supervised machine learning models to predict heart disease risk from routine clinical variables and tested whether male patients with high chole...

First baseline malacological inventory in the Serra d'Irta Natural Park (Castellón, Spain)

The first comprehensive inventory study of molluscan diversity inhabiting Valencia’s Serra d’Irta Natural Park was conducted to fill a long-standing research gap. Two approaches were used: surveys of living molluscs on ten rocky-shore sampling sites and thanatocoenosis analysis o...

Comparative Evaluation of Traditional and Emerging Glycemic Biomarkers in Diabetes

Diabetes mellitus is a worldwide metabolic disorder that can be debilitating to many if uncontrolled. Biomarkers, such as hemoglobin A1C and glycated albumin, are central to the effort to control diabetes. These each have their own advantages and disadvantages, and there is much...

Uneven urban resilience across economic sectors revealed by satellite nighttime lights

Abstract Urban resilience is critical in the context of global disruptions such as the COVID-19 pandemic, yet recovery processes are rarely uniform across urban economies. How resilience varies across economic sectors and geographical contexts, and the extent to which it is struc...

Social Media Savvy? The Use and Effectiveness of Political Parties’ Issue Strategies Across Platforms in the German Federal Election Campaign 2025

How does the ever-growing relevance of social media shape political campaigning? A vibrant public and academic debate addresses the role of social media in elections and democratic processes. Yet, despite a surge in research, we still know little about the extent to which politic...

OTSOW: Positive-energy control of finite-time traversability in phantom-supported wormholes in four-dimensional general relativity

The article, “Positive-energy control of finite-time traversability in phantom-supported wormholes in four-dimensional general relativity” investigates whether a traversable wormhole can be controlled for a finite period within standard four-dimensional Einstein gravity when the...

Analytical Constraint Reconstruction for Sundman-Regularized Explicit Integration of the Kepler Problem

We introduce Analytical Constraint Reconstruction (ACR), a closed-form, non-iterative constraint-reconstruction procedure for explicit numerical integration of the Kepler problem. The method exploits the polar decomposition of velocity into radial and tangential components. Given...

Understanding moral trade-offs in pandemic response: A discrete choice experiment on avian influenza policies

Abstract Pandemic preparedness requires navigating trade-offs between health, economic, and social impacts; choices that often involve moral tensions. This study investigates how the Dutch public evaluates such trade-offs in the context of a potential outbreak of highly pathogeni...

Ultraviolet Radiation in the Remediation of Cr(VI)-Contaminated Soil by Corn Stover

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation was firstly selected to evaluate its assistant remediation effects on Cr-contaminated soil. Various remediation materials, including corn stover (CS), corn stover biochar (CSB), polypyrrole-modified corn stover (PPy-CS), and polypyrrole-modified corn st...

Tri-Modal Calibration for Road Network Conflation: Four-State Labelling, Dirichlet Multi-Class Probabilities, and Conformal Coverage Guarantees

Extended version. This is the full-length (13-page) version of a poster paper accepted to the 34th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Conference on Advances in Geographic Information Systems (SIGSPATIAL '26), Riverside, CA, USA, 3–6 November 2026. A 4-page version appears in the SIGSPA...

Recent globally synchronous seasonal warm events unprecedented since 850 CE

Spatially synchronous extreme warm events can amplify environmental and societal impacts by affecting multiple regions simultaneously. However, previous studies have largely focused on June–August (JJA) events during the instrumental period, limiting understanding of their season...

Nature and the mind: Towards nature-based mental health care and prevention

The United Kingdom (UK) Government’s recent 10 Year Health Plan for England aims to fix a “broken” and increasingly unaffordable health system through a shift from sickness to prevention, hospital to community, and analogue to digital, with a focus on mental as well as physical h...

Plasma proteomes of obesity and allometric body shapes in the EPIC cohort

Abstract General obesity (high body mass index, BMI) affects circulating proteins. Obesity-related outcomes, however, differ by body shape but waist and hip circumferences cannot distinguish abdominal from general obesity. We therefore used the allometric body shape index (ABSI),...

Differential Diagnosis of Anemia Using the Erythrocyte Filterability Method

Hereditary hemolytic anemias (HHAs) have quite similar clinical manifestations, complicating differential diagnosis and determining treatment, such as splenectomy. For the differential diagnosis of hereditary spherocytosis (HS), pyruvate kinase deficiency (PKD), and hereditary st...

Putting the I in AML: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) produces more molecular, imaging, and clinical data per patient than any hematologist can hold in mind at once, and each revision of the WHO, ICC, and European LeukemiaNet (ELN) frameworks adds to the load. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine lea...

Longitudinal Day-to-Day Variability of the Rate of Change of the TEC Index (ROTI) over the African Equatorial Ionization Anomaly Region

The rate of change of the total electron content index (ROTI) is a widely used proxy for phase fluctuations associated with ionospheric irregularities derived from GNSS total electron content measurements. This study investigates the longitudinal day-to-day variability of ionosph...