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- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Radium - from discovery to the present day – narrative review
Following its discovery, radium was initially promoted as a therapeutic agent for a wide range of conditions, including skin disorders, allergies, visual problems, joint pain, and as a general health-enhancing remedy. However, subsequent research demonstrated its significant radi...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Legal artificial intelligence is commonly evaluated at the level of the answer, but consequential legal systems require a different object of governance: the continuing warrant for institutional reliance. A legal conclusion may have been well grounded when produced and yet become...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Ovarian ectopic pregnancy is a rare form of extrauterine gestation, accounting for less than 3% of all ectopic pregnancies. Its occurrence in the context of a unicornuate uterus and absent fallopian tube is exceedingly uncommon and presents a diagnostic challenge. We describe a c...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
DRAM capacitor dielectrics face a hard leakage×EOT scaling constraint below the 1z-nm node (IMW 2020); for 30 years industry has responded by doping-pinning the tetragonal phase of high-k dielectrics (ZrO₂/HfO₂-based) to stabilize it—yet this long-standing practice lacks a unifie...
- BiologyOpen access
Myocardial ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury remains a leading cause of cardiac dysfunction and mortality worldwide. Serine/arginine-Rich Protein Kinase 3 (SRPK3) is highly expressed in cardiac muscle, yet its specific pathological role in I/R injury has not been fully characteri...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Temporomandibular joint disorder syndrome (TMD) is a prevalent oral-maxillofacial condition. The Diagnostic Criteria serve as a widely used diagnostic framework for TMD with high specificity, yet its sensitivity requires further optimization. In contrast, magnetic resonance imagi...
- BiologyOpen access
The Maillard reaction is ubiquitous in food processing, imparting desirable color and flavor. However, excessive protein glycation leads to the formation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and protein cross‑linking, causing nutritional loss and potential hazards. This stud...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Media use has previously been bidirectionally associated with attentional problems in children. Evidence regarding short-form video, a relatively new type of media accessible through personal devices such as smartphones and tablets, remains limited, particularly in preschool popu...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
Prevalence and severity of nomophobia among university students in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq
Nomophobia—short for “no mobile phone phobia”—is an emerging psychological phenomenon characterized by fear or anxiety associated with being without access to a mobile phone. Evidence regarding nomophobia among university students in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq remains limited....
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Stimulation for lithium-induced dystoniaLong-term exposure to psychotropic agents, including lithium and dopamine D2/D3 partial agonists such as brexpiprazole, has been associated with delayed and sometimes persistent
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Research engagement profiles among Chinese undergraduate and postgraduate students
Research engagement is increasingly recognized as an important component of student development in higher education, particularly in medical and health sciences disciplines, but it is often measured through isolated activities or publication status alone. This study examined rese...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Restorative proctocolectomy with a hand-sewn ileal pouch-anal anastomosis (IPAA) is a standard treatment for ulcerative colitis and familial adenomatous polyposis. However, achieving sufficient mesenteric length remains a significant challenge. This study aimed to validate the po...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death and imposes a substantial burden on women’s health. Early onset of menopause, as a unique trait of reproductive aging, has been associated with a higher risk of adverse cardiovascular events in traditional observational s...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Drinking Water Treatment Plants (DWTPs) increasingly face operational challenges associated with the temporal variability of surface-water quality, particularly in Mediterranean regions affected by seasonal and climatic fluctuations. In ozone-based pre-oxidation systems, dosage a...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
What my mother’s APOE result taught me about dementia risk
As genetic and biomarker-based dementia risk assessments become more widely used, the challenge is not only estimating risk, but returning it responsibly. Discussing my mother’s APOE genotype with her showed me how differently dementia risk can appear in a dataset, a family conve...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Thermal ablation is a cervical heat treatment that destroys a defined area of the cervix. We evaluated whether thermal ablation facilitates HPV clearance in women with persistent high-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) infection, using HPV status and FAM19A4/miR124-2 DNA methylat...
- Society & EconomicsOpen access
This study conducted a secondary psychometric analysis of survey data originally collected for a master's dissertation examining marital well-being among Indian women in arranged marriages (N = 55). A five-item Marital Satisfaction Index (MSI) was developed and validated (Cronbac...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Complete tooth loss is a severe oral health condition in middle-aged and older adults and is associated with impaired mastication, nutritional problems, reduced quality of life, and adverse ageing-related outcomes. Psychological frailty reflects multidimensional psychological vul...
- Climate & EnvironmentOpen access
Microplastics in pediatric asthma: Clinical associations with disease severity
Background Respiratory exposure to microplastics (MPs) is increasingly recognized as a potential contributor to chronic airway disease, but the MPs burden in children with asthma and its relationship to disease remain poorly defined. Methods In this cross-sectional study, sputum...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
In urban areas, abundant medical resources improve outcomes for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA). However, metropolitan environments present unique pre-hospital transportation challenges rarely observed in rural areas, such as complex transportation networks an...