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Combined Post- and Precapillary Pulmonary Hypertension in Patients With Advanced Heart Failure

Pulmonary hypertension associated with left heart disease, or group 2 pulmonary hypertension, is common in patients with advanced heart failure. In at least a third of these patients, the pulmonary pressures are disproportionately elevated relative to left heart filling pressures...

Time-Varying Electromagnetic Systems - Challenges and Methodologies

Time-varying (TV) electromagnetic (EM) systems and devices introduce a fundamentally new framework in EM theory by extending classical concepts beyond traditional time-invariant formulations. In conventional EM systems, temporal invariance combined with the steady-state assumptio...

Kichwa joke-telling in global tourism

Abstract This study examines how Otavalan Kichwa vendors, cultural experts, and migrants deploy joking as a multisensory form of intimacy that reshapes cross‑cultural learning of “heritage” within global tourism economies. Jokes, I argue, can be used instructionally and tacticall...

A Checklist to Aid Clinicians in Excluding Specific Learning Disorder in Adolescents with Academic Difficulties: Delphi Validation

Background: Among treatment-seeking adolescents, academic difficulties that are secondary to factors such as emotional disturbances may respond to relatively simple educational or behavioral interventions. In contrast, those with specific learning disorder (SLD) typically require...

pH-Responsive Probe for β-Lactamase-based Protein Tag in Fluorescence Imaging of Receptor Endocytosis

Abstract Fluorescence imaging of the local pH environment surrounding proteins offers an understanding of cellular processes, including receptor endocytosis. We herein develop a pH-responsive fluorescent β-lactamase inhibitor for protein labeling via a genetically encodable β-lac...

Sharp Asymptotics for Abelian Covers of Groups with Bounded Noncommutativity

We determine the sharp exponential growth rate of the minimum number of abelian subgroups required to cover a group with bounded pairwise noncommutativity. Let omega(G) denote the largest size of a pairwise noncommuting subset of a group G, let a(G) be the least size of an abelia...

CGRD: An Exemplar-Free Extension of Knowledge Distillation for Class-Incremental 3D Point Cloud Semantic Segmentation

Class-incremental three-dimensional point cloud semantic segmentation requires models to learn newly introduced categories while preserving previously acquired knowledge without storing historical point clouds. This setting is challenged by representation drift during incremental...

Estimation of Gross Primary Production and Net Primary Production of Vegetation Cover for Low Mountain Sub-Mediterranean Landscapes Using Remote Sensing and Geoinformation Modeling

Terrestrial vegetation cover is a critical component of the global carbon cycle, annually assimilating a substantial fraction of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. However, regional estimates of gross primary production (GPP) and net primary production (NPP) remain insufficiently studi...

Financial Performance Evaluation in Indian Banking Sector During Post-Merger: A Study on SBI Merger Using Key Financial Metrics and Market Positioning

This study evaluates the financial performance of the State Bank of India (SBI) following significant mergers in the Indian banking sector, focusing on key financial metrics and market positioning. Given the increasing trend of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) in the banking indus...

Beyond Burnout: Determinants and Consequences of Sustainable Nonprofit Leadership

Much of the scholarship on leadership wellbeing and effectiveness has focused on ways to avoid burnout, rather than explaining how leaders actively sustain wellbeing and effectiveness over time. This paper integrates multiple theoretical frames using an exploratory, sequential mi...

A Mode-Aware Hybrid Machine-Learning Framework for Full-Field Warpage Prediction of Fan-Out Panel-Level Packaging After Debonding

Fan-Out Panel-Level Packaging (FO-PLP) enables high area utilization and manufacturing efficiency, but process-induced warpage caused by the coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) mismatch and polymer shrinkage remains a major challenge. This study presents a classifier-gated hyb...

Exploring the Columbian Exchange: plant introductions to Taiwan in the 17th century

The Columbian Exchange is a well-known process of massive intercontinental translocation of animal and plant species triggered by European colonialism starting in the 16th and 17th centuries. Detailed studies of local processes of introduction of plant species are not abundant in...

Experimental investigation of magnesium phosphate cement mortar for the repair of long-term marine-exposed concrete

Chloride ions tend to ingress rapidly in damaged areas of marine concrete structures, such as cracks and spalling zones. Without timely intervention, embedded steel reinforcement in these regions undergoes accelerated corrosion, ultimately compromising structural integrity. To re...

Zidesamtinib (Jideytro®): a new selective, brain-penetrant ROS1 inhibitor approved for the treatment of ROS1-positive non-small cell lung cancer

ROS1-targeted therapies have improved outcomes in ROS1-positive non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), but acquired resistance, CNS progression, and off-target toxicities remain important limitations. Zidesamtinib (Jideytro ® , NVL-520) is a next-generation, brain-penetrant, tropomy...

Rate of nicotine metabolism on risk of myocardial infarction among people with HIV who smoke cigarettes

Background The prevalence of cigarette use in people with HIV (PWH) is 2–3 times higher than the general population. Cigarette use increases risk of myocardial infarction (MI). Faster nicotine metabolism, quantified by the nicotine metabolite ratio (NMR) is associated with greate...

A Fail-Safe Topology Optimization Method for Fiber-Reinforced Composite Structures Under Dynamic Loads

A fail-safe topology optimization method for fiber-reinforced composite structures under dynamic loads is proposed to achieve the concurrent optimization of structural topology and fiber orientations, as well as enhance the structural redundancy subject to damage cracks of fiber-...

Climatic and Socioeconomic Determinants of Consumer Food Price Index Dynamics: Empirical Evidence from 47 Advanced and Emerging Economies (2001–2022)

This study investigates the empirical links between climatic/socio-economic factors and Consumer Price Food Indices (CPFIs) across 47 advanced and emerging economies from 2001 to 2022. Utilizing a balanced panel dataset compiled from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators,...

Tetrazole-Derived Bis(1,3,4-oxadiazole)Scaffolds:A Heterocyclic Connectivity with Enhanced Stability and Reduced Sensitivity

Abstract Resolving the inherent trade-off between high energy and thermal stability/sensitivity in energetic materials remains a long-standing challenge. In this work, a series of energetic compounds and their corresponding salts were synthesized by employing a bis(1,3,4-oxadiazo...

An Orientation-Locking Kernel in the Continuum–Crystalline Correspondence: Unoriented bordism versus admissible spatial backgrounds in (2 + 1) dimensions

We examine the compatibility between the unoriented-bordism formulation of the continuum–crystalline correspondence and the background fields admitted by its spatial-symmetry definition. For a finite point group G ≤ O(2), an admissible spatial background identifies the orientatio...

Perioperative Cognitive Decline in Verbal Associative Memory Following Carotid Revascularization and Subsequent Risk of Adverse Events: Clinical Significance of the Standard Verbal Paired Associate Learning Test (S-PA)

Background/Objectives: This study aimed to explore whether perioperative changes in cognitive function following carotid artery revascularization, including carotid endarterectomy (CEA) and carotid artery stenting (CAS), are associated with subsequent clinical outcomes, focusing...