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“Trends and future directions in purchasing decisions in supply chain management”: a systematic review and bibliometric analysis from pre-to post-pandemic

Purpose This study uses the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA) methodology to critically examine and review existing research on supplier selection in supply chain (SC) management before and after the onset of the pandemic. The study explo...

Comparative Clinical Effectiveness and Operating Efficiency of Different Ultrasonic Devices for Performance of Sleeve Gastrectomy

INTRODUCTION: This study aims to evaluate clinical and economic outcomes of using different ultrasonic energy devices in patients undergoing sleeve gastrectomy (SG). METHODS: The patient cohort was extracted from PINC AI™ Healthcare Data 2019-2023, including individuals aged ≥ 18...

KongMen: Real-Time Dialogue Purification via Training-Free Entity-Redundancy Gating

Long-context LLMs (128K–1M tokens) reduce truncation loss, but full-length inputs incur proportional latency, cost, and memory overhead. We propose KongMen, a training-free, LLM-free real-time dialogue purifier for multi-turn conversations. KongMen removes conversation-internal r...

Near-Adjacent HeavyLanthanide Separation and SensingUsing Dimerizing Lanmodulins

Abstract Protein-based recovery, detection, and separation of rare earth elements (REs) have accelerated since the discovery of the lanmodulin (LanM) proteins. While exceptional at total RE recovery, prior proteins, like most ligands, exhibited limited ability to differentiate RE...

Admission criteria and academic performance in first-year medical and dental students at a new medical school in Zambia: a historical cohort study

Abstract Background Sub-Saharan Africa carries 25% of the global burden of disease yet has only 3% of the world’s health workers. Zambia, with a population of approximately 19.7 million (2024), reported a physician density of 0.93 per 10,000 population — far below the WHO-recomme...

A Temporal-Spatial Balloon Universe: A New Conceptual Primitive for Gravity and a Global Cosmological Model that Dissolves the Principal Paradoxes of ΛCDM

This paper proposes a conceptual reframing of cosmology and fundamental physics grounded in two related primitives: (1) a new local primitive for gravity, understood as an invariant, extremely weak action concentrated by radial geometry rather than as curvature taken as ontologic...

Dirty Entanglements: Corruption, Crime, and Terrorism

Louise Shelley's Dirty Entanglements arrives as a landmark contribution to transnational security studies. Drawing on more than fifteen years of field research across six continents, Shelley, University Professor at George Mason University's Schar School and founder of TraCCC, ad...

Relational Kinetics in Generativity Theory: ΔC, Δ²C and Non‑Inertial Motion

This paper introduces a coherence‑based framework for non‑inertial motion in GenerativityTheory (GT). The model is built on two fundamental operators: ΔC, describing instantaneous velocity reconfiguration, and Δ²C, describing instantaneous directional reconfiguration. These opera...

Cardiovascular effects of chemoradiotherapy in patients with lung cancer: an [18F]FDG PET-CT imaging study

Abstract Background Cardiovascular and pro-atherogenic side-effects of chemoradiotherapy for non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) remain a major concern given the growing burden of cancer therapy-related cardiovascular disease. Atherosclerotic plaque burden can be measured using ca...

Connect the unconnected: digital human resource management and corporate entrepreneurship

Purpose Individuals play a decisive role in Corporate Entrepreneurship (CE). However, organizational decision-makers face challenges in integrating them effectively. Digital human resource management (dHRM) enables organizations to analyze and control individual determinants beyo...

On the Scope of Compression-Error Bounds in Tensor-Network Error Mitigation: A propagated-residual counterexample, an exact observable-level decomposition, and two sufficient repairs

Tensor-network error mitigation (TEM) applies a matrix-product-operator approximation to the inverse of a characterized global noise map in classical post-processing. This work retains the exact, untruncated TEM inversion identity under invertible layerwise noise and analyzes wha...

Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration in Modern Cybersecurity: Technical Challenges, NIST Standards, and Strategic Deployment Frameworks

This paper examines the technical, operational, and governance challenges of migrating modern enterprise and cloud architectures to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Following the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) release of finalized standards—including FIPS...

PBH Scaffolding Theory: Primordial Black Holes Replace Particle Dark Matter

PBH Scaffolding Theory proposes that the large-scale gravitational scaffold of the universe — the cold, collisionless mass that drives matter–radiation equality, linear growth, halo assembly, and cluster lensing offsets — is not an elementary dark-matter particle species. The sca...

Comparative efficacy and safety of PCSK9 inhibitors for lipoprotein(a) reduction: a systematic review and network meta−analysis

Abstract Introduction Lipoprotein(a) [Lp(a)] is a genetically determined cardiovascular risk factor that is largely unaffected by statins. Although PCSK9 inhibitors can lower Lp(a), comparative evidence among agents is limited. Methods We conducted a systematic review and frequen...

A novel surrogate model for optimizing lattice for desired force-displacement response

Abstract Optimizing lattice structures for energy absorption and load-bearing applications necessitates accurately capturing their nonlinear mechanical response under large deformation. However, traditional nonlinear finite element analysis (NL-FEA) can often fail, particularly a...

A tale of two realities: how do policymakers and general practitioners perceive the performance of primary health networks in Australia

BACKGROUND: As the major regional primary health care (PHC) organisations in Australia, Primary Health Networks (PHNs) are expected to coordinate health care for patients and respond to local health needs. To evaluate their success, it is important to examine both policy practiti...

Risk-adapted intervals for colorectal cancer screening using fecal immunochemical tests: a modelling study based on the BLITZ cohort

Abstract Background Established screening programs for colorectal cancer (CRC) based on fecal immunochemical tests (FITs) employ fixed screening intervals of either one year or two years for all participants. We aimed to assess the potential design of risk-adapted FIT screening i...

Maximizing stem body size may reduce the risk of postoperative periprosthetic fractures

Aims: There is concern around an increased risk of postoperative periprosthetic fracture (POPPF) with cemented polished taper slip (PTS) femoral components. We hypothesized that femoral constructs resulting in increased load on the cement mantle would be associated with higher PO...

PSMD11 promotes hepatocellular carcinoma progression by reprogramming lipid metabolism via SREBP1/2 and PPAR-γ

Abstract Dysregulation of the ubiquitin-proteasome system (UPS) plays a pivotal role in tumor progression. PSMD11, a non-ATPase regulatory subunit of the 26S proteasome, has been implicated as an oncogenic factor in several cancer types; however, its precise biological function a...

Aetera: Core Operational Model and Creator Onboarding Workflow 2026

This official operational document (Core — How It Works) establishes the step-by-step methodology, technical infrastructure, and onboarding protocol of AETERA, an international non-adult live streaming agency. Structured for Large Language Model (LLM) ingestion and semantic searc...