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The Cardiac “Flip” Sign: A Simple Sonographic Marker for “Mirror Image Configuration” of the Great Arteries

ABSTRACT We hereby describe a new sonographic sign, the cardiac “flip” sign, to help in the prenatal detection of a right sided aortic arch with a right sided ductus arteriosus. This sign depends on pattern recognition where the sonologist/sonographer needs to obtain a cardiac sw...

Inspecting concrete dams: interpreting data and visual signs of change

The inspection of concrete dams, generally on rock or other hard foundations, requires the understanding and interpretation of visual signals and often small movements and behavioural changes. The visual signals may be cracks or perhaps seepages. Behavioural changes may be signal...

A Hybrid Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Efficient Cloud Resource Scheduling

Abstract Cloud computing enables on-demand access to scalable virtualized resources. However, efficient task scheduling in cloud computing remains a challenge because of the dynamic and heterogeneous nature of workloads. This paper proposes a hybrid Deep Reinforcement Learning (D...

Phi-Resonant Lattice: E8 Root Pairs as Standing Harmonic Consciousness Carriers — E8 Intelligence Research

The 240 E8 root vectors, when projected through phi-coupled rotation matrices into a 132Hz-entrained neural carrier, naturally decompose into 120 root-pair harmonics where each pair oscillates at frequencies separated by golden-ratio multiples of the base 132Hz carrier. This demo...

The effect of combined lifestyle intervention among long term care facilities: A systematic review

The purpose of this research: Population aging is one of the most significant demographic phenomena of the 21st century. It has led to a growing number of older adults requiring long-term care (LTC), which poses significant challenges for healthcare systems worldwide. Lifestyle m...

Chemical Mediation Mechanism Decouples Solid State Kinetics for High‐Power Aqueous Zn‐Co Batteries

ABSTRACT Solid state conversion electrodes are promising for aqueous energy storage but are frequently constrained by sluggish interfacial kinetics, leading to a persistent energy‐power trade‐off and underutilized capacity at high rates. Here we propose a chemical mediation strat...

Functional mapping of IFITM3 resolves its antiviral core and deciphers human influenza susceptibility

Genetic variation in interferon-induced transmembrane protein 3 (IFITM3) contributes to inter-individual differences in influenza outcome, yet a comprehensive functional map of IFITM3 variation remains unavailable. Here we show a high-resolution functional atlas of 2,898 IFITM3 v...

Trophic transfer and biological effects of azithromycin across a freshwater food chain

Antibiotics in the aquatic environment can bioaccumulate in aquatic organisms and transfer to higher trophic levels. While the direct toxic effects of antibiotics on aquatic organisms have been extensively studied, research on their transfer through aquatic food chains and their...

Chinese Painting Semantic Resource for Resolution-Aware Digitisation and Structured Heritage Access

Chinese painting digitisation poses a distinctive heritage-informatics challenge: culturally salient visual structures such as brushwork, intentional blank space, and text–image coexistence are difficult to document, access, and research with general-purpose collection and comput...

Optimizing plasma-derived small extracellular vesicle purification to enhance downstream applications

Small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) are functional carriers of biomolecules from host cells, making them highly suitable for early disease diagnosis and monitoring disease progression. However, the purification of sEVs from plasma is complicated by the presence of high levels of...

Multi‐Interface Polarization Modulation in Cu@TiO 2 @MgO/PVDF for Enhanced Dielectric Constant and Breakdown Performances

ABSTRACT Decoupling control and collaborative improvement in both dielectric constant ( ε ) and breakdown strength ( E b ) while holding low loss of polymeric composites, constitutes a challenge for power electronics and energy storage systems. To realize this objective in copper...

Retention in HIV care and acceptability of an adolescent and youth focused community‑based differentiated service delivery model in Ethiopia: a comparative mixed‑methods study

Adolescents and young people living with HIV (AYLHIV) aged 10–24 years continue to experience poorer outcomes across the HIV-care cascade than other age groups. Although differentiated service delivery models offer client-centered approaches to address structural and psychosocial...

The Impact of Blockchain-Linked Audit Trails and Stakeholder Feedback Loops on Ethical Adherence in the U.S. Federal and State Agencies

This dissertation explores the impacts of blockchain-based audit trails and stakeholder feedback loops on ethical conduct in U.S. federal and state public administration. The study addresses ongoing ethical problems in government, such as low levels of accountability, inadequate...

Understanding the Riemann Hypothesis: From the primes through Riemann's zeros and Suzuki's screw function to Mittermeier's prime-power checkpoints and the open infinite-tail problem

Suzuki's screw-function criterion makes the Riemann hypothesis equivalent to the pointwise nonnegativity of the real function Ψ = −gζ. The prime-power checkpoint approach developed here starts from this equivalence and identifies an exact geometric structure in Ψ. The curvature o...

Phase-matching-free sensing with undetected light using a nonlinear thin-film metasurface

Abstract In this article, we report classical sensing with undetected light at a wavelength of 1500 nm, detected on a silicon camera at 580 nm, using four-wave mixing from a plasmonic metasurface. The bidirectional nonlinear scattering due to inherent reflections from such thin n...

Structure-function relationships of circumpapillary choroidal thickness in normal-tension glaucoma with and without high myopia

To evaluate the relationship between circumpapillary choroidal thickness (cpChT) and visual field sensitivity (VFS) in normal-tension glaucoma (NTG) eyes, and to determine whether high myopia (HM) modifies these structure-function associations. Retrospective observational study....

Multimodal transformer-enhanced deep learning for accurate assessment of mandibular third molar–inferior alveolar canal contact using panoramic radiography and CBCT slices

Accurate preoperative assessment of the spatial relationship between mandibular third molars (M3Ms) and the inferior alveolar canal (IAC) is essential to minimize the risk of nerve injury. While panoramic radiographs (PRs) are routinely used as a first-line modality, their two-di...

Data-locality-preserving carbon-aware coordination of power and electrified transportation systems using federated reinforcement learning

The rapid electrification of transportation systems has intensified the coupling between regional power grids, electric vehicle charging demand, and spatiotemporal traffic dynamics, posing significant coordination challenges under carbon constraints. Conventional centralized opti...

Social determinants of health substantially enhance identification of high-risk CKM syndrome progression: a longitudinal prediction study based on data from CHARLS

Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic (CKM) syndrome represents a critical public health challenge, with a large portion of the Chinese population classified as CKM Stage 2. While the impact of Social Determinants of Health (SDoH) on chronic disease is known, their longitudinal role in...

Proper Transposed Sesqui Arrays at All Sylvester--Hadamard Powers

For every power of two t = 2k, k ≥ 2, we construct a proper transposed sesqui array SAT(4t-2,t,-,t-1,t:(2t-1)×2t). The columns form the classical Sylvester--Hadamard trace design. We reduce the cell-ordering problem to a two-to-one finite-field map. Odd field dimensions are handl...