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Mowing meadows without conditioner and the availability of bee-friendly habitats synergistically benefit wild bees in agricultural landscapes

Healthy populations of wild bees are essential for the pollination of wild plants and many crops. However, wild bees are under pressure, in particular due to the intensification of agriculture. To counteract negative effects, mitigation measures are being implemented via agri-env...

Occult Optic Disc Pit Maculopathy Masquerading as Exudative Age-Related Macular Degeneration in an Elderly Patient: A Case Report

Introduction: Occult optic disc pit maculopathy (ODPM) is a rare cause of macular retinoschisis in which no pit is visible on funduscopic examination. Optic disc pits are congenital cavitary anomalies thought to arise from incomplete closure of the embryonic fissure during ocular...

A Systematic Review of Lithium-Ion Battery Equivalent Electrical Circuit Models for EV Battery Management Systems

Lithium-ion battery management systems (BMSs) for electric vehicles (EVs) require equivalent circuit models (ECMs) that balance prediction accuracy with identifiability, validation robustness, sensing requirements, and embedded computational cost. This PRISMA 2020-oriented system...

Burden of Edentulism and Severe Tooth Loss in Ageing East Asia, 1990–2050

Introduction and aims Edentulism and severe tooth loss are important non-fatal oral conditions in ageing societies. This study aimed to quantify temporal trends in disease burden, older-age concentration, sex-specific patterns, and exploratory extrapolations for edentulism and se...

Beyond reasonable doubt: antidepressants and the limits of scientific critique

Public doubt about the usefulness of antidepressants appears to have grown, even as scientific agreement about their efficacy has become more settled. This paper examines the role that figures associated with critical psychiatry have had in promoting this doubt. It traces the lon...

Consensus Statement on Traumatic Brain Injury in First Responders: The 1st International Conference on TBI in First Responders

Objective: To develop the first interdisciplinary consensus recommendations for the recognition, diagnosis, and management of traumatic brain injury (TBI) in first responders (ie, law enforcement/corrections officers, firefighters, emergency medical services [EMS] personnel). Set...

Exercise and Thoracic Aortic Aneurysms: A Paradigm Shift Toward Informed, Personalized Activity Guidelines

Exercise is widely recognized for its cardiovascular benefits; however, its safety and role in patients with thoracic aortic aneurysms (TAAs) remains complex due to its distinctive biomechanical vulnerabilities. Fundamentally different from abdominal aortic aneurysms, TAAs develo...

IgG4 ‐Related Disease Presenting as Inflammatory Midline Pseudotumor of the Face and Neck

A 78-year-old Chinese woman presented with a one-year history of a progressively enlarging purpuric rash over the central face and nasal dorsum, with subsequent development of a firm midline neck mass. Histopathology revealed dense lymphoplasmacytic infiltrate with fibrosis and o...

Negotiation Strategies for a Japan–Germany Joint Venture

A joint venture between a Japanese and a German firm brings two highly developed but fundamentally opposed negotiation systems into direct contact. German negotiators operate in a low-context, task-oriented framework, resolving issues sequentially and relying on explicit contract...

Tuning Third-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties in Heterocycle-Dependent Hydrazono-1,3-Diketone Chromophores

Abstract Organic π-conjugated chromophores with tunable electronic structures are promising candidates for nonlinear optical (NLO) and optical limiting (OL) applications. Herein, we report a series of arylhydrazono-1,3-diketones incorporating pyrrole, N-methylpyrrole, thiophene,...

Maintaining Access to Essential Health Technologies in Conflict-Affected Settings: Calibrating Security-Sensitive Transfer Controls

This study examines how armed conflict disrupts the conditions needed to implement security-sensitive transfer controls on essential health technologies. It maps selected technologies against Australia Group control lists, EU Regulation 2021/821 and IAEA guidance on the import an...

Multistep synthesis of novel indole–benzimidazole hydrazone hybrids as xanthine oxidase inhibitors: In-Vitro evaluation, molecular docking, MD simulations and DFT studies

This work reports the synthesis of a focused library of indole-benzimidazole hydrazone hybrids ( 17 - 35 ) via a multistep procedure involving thiolation, hydrazination, and Schiff base condensation. The final structures were confirmed using 1 H-NMR, 13 C-NMR, and FT-IR spectrosc...

Which direction does the scatter point? A direction-lock census of published ferroelectric domain-wall tension and width records

Published tensions σ and widths ξ of ferroelectric domain walls span more than an order of magnitude for nominally identical walls, usually reported by different methods under different model assumptions. We re-examine the record through a direction-lock statistic: within Ginzbur...

Global Trends in Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli Research: A Bibliometric Analysis (2000 to 2025)

Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC), a subgroup of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC), causes infections in poultry and may pose a public health risk. Although previous reviews have examined the epidemiology, genotypes, pathogenicity, antimicrobial resistance, and zo...

Lp(a)-Reducing Agent Pelacarsen Misses the Mark in Phase 3—Now What?

This Medical News article discusses the top-line results from the Lp(a)HORIZON trial, which investigated lipoprotein(a) lowering to reduce major adverse cardiovascular events.

High mobility narrowband-emissive organic semiconductors

This work proposes a synergistic control strategy of molecular packing and transition dipole moment orientation for achieving high mobility narrowband-emissive organic semiconductors.

Chimeric Antigen Receptor T‐Cell Therapy in T Cell/Histiocyte‐Rich Large B‐Cell Lymphoma: A Systematic Review and Meta‐Analysis

T-cell/histiocyte-rich large B-cell lymphoma (THRLBCL) is a rare subtype of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma with an aggressive clinical course and poor prognosis in the case of relapsed or refractory (r/r) disease. Recently, anti-CD19 chimeric antigen-receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy ha...

From Chronic Infection to Microbial Imbalance: Rethinking Chronic Rhinosinusitis

Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) has traditionally been viewed as a chronic inflammatory disease in which microbial factors are implicated. However, increasing evidence suggests that CRS may be better understood as a disruption of sinonasal microbial homeostasis rather than as a chro...

The Epistemic Substitution Error: Why Accurate Algorithmic Decisions Can Still Be Illegitimate

Institutions increasingly rely on algorithmic systems to assess people, allocate opportunities, and justify consequential decisions. Existing debates often ask whether these systems are accurate, fair, transparent, or explainable. This article identifies a distinct philosophical...

Relocation, laser dusting and suction (RELOADUS): An international collaborative observational study for laser management to prevent strictures of symptomatic impacted upper ureteric stones

Background Ureteric stricture formation following ureteroscopy and laser management of stones is known. Objective To evaluate the feasibility, safety, stone clearance outcomes and rate of upper ureteric stricture formation after implementation of the Relocation, laser dusting and...