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Financial Shared Services and Dynamic Adjustment of Working Capital: A Moderated Analysis of Supply Chain Concentration

Digital technologies are increasingly adopted in corporate liquidity management, yet whether financial digitalization enables firms to achieve more effective working capital adjustment remains insufficiently understood. Financial shared services (FSS) may strengthen information i...

Comparative Population Genetics of Rutilus rutilus and Perca fluviatilis in Lithuanian Freshwater Ecosystems

Understanding how co-occurring freshwater species respond to the same hydrological landscape is important for interpreting genetic diversity and population connectivity. We compared the population genetic structure of two widespread freshwater fishes, Rutilus rutilus (Linnaeus, 1...

Review of Nanoparticle-Based Therapeutics: Comparative Clinical Translation, Safety Barriers, and Regulatory Challenges

Nanotechnology has emerged as a transformative approach in modern medicine, offering innovative strategies for disease diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. Nanoparticles, typically ranging from 1 to 100 nm in size, possess unique physicochemical properties that enable targeted d...

AB4-Loaded Nanomicelle Hydrogel Promotes Targeting of the Dysregulated Diabetic Wound Microenvironment via Coordinated Multistage Repair

(1) Background: Impaired diabetic wound healing stems from systemic dysregulation of the wound-healing cascade under hyperglycemic conditions, producing a disordered microenvironment marked by sustained inflammation, defective angiogenesis, and aberrant extracellular matrix remod...

An Intelligent Design Methodology for Morphing Structures Under Winds

Civil infrastructure is vulnerable to extreme winds that pose threats to its safety, habitability and serviceability issues that potentially threaten life, human comfort and property. The burgeoning growth of mega urban areas with clusters of tall buildings are facing these chall...

Feasibility, Acceptability and Outcomes of Group CBT ‐T: A Naturalistic Mixed‐Methods Comparison With Individual CBT ‐T

ABSTRACT Objective This study aimed to evaluate the feasibility of implementing 10‐session group cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT‐Tg) in routine outpatient eating disorder care and to descriptively examine outcomes of CBT‐Tg and individual CBT‐T (CBT‐Ti). Method Using a natural...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 1793 Sources, 13430 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 1793 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 13430 leads across 13 categories. 11426 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 1119, "FORMULA": 962, "GEOMETRIC": 725, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 1172, "QUANTUM": 1387, "TIMING": 208, "CELESTIAL": 1048, "GEMATRIA": 1119, "CONS...

WMSP-RTDETR: An RT-DETR with Weighted Multi-Scale Fusion and Position-Enhanced Attention for Pig Detection in Crowded Barn Scenes

Accurate pig detection in crowded barns is hindered by frequent body contact, similar appearance, overlapping torso boundaries, and scale variations, which weaken instance separation and bounding-box localisation. In the original Real-Time DEtection Transformer (RT-DETR) architec...

Central nervous system infections and status epilepticus association, clinical profile and outcomes in children hospitalized with new-onset acute symptomatic seizures

This study investigated the clinical characteristics and risk factors for poor clinical outcomes among children presenting with a first seizure episode to the Emergency Department (ED). This study further assessed the association between convulsive status epilepticus (CSE) and ce...

A Model for Supporting Faculty Promotion Readiness in Pediatric Cardiology

Abstract Academic promotion plays a critical role in career advancement and retention in academic pediatrics, yet faculty frequently encounter barriers such as unclear requirements, limited mentorship and sponsorship, and competing clinical demands. To address these challenges, w...

Stiffness-Dependent Mechanotransductive Signaling in Silicone Implant-Associated Fibrotic Encapsulation

Abstract Fibrotic encapsulation remains a major limitation of silicone-based soft-tissue implants and contributes to capsular contracture. Although biochemical and immunological factors have been extensively investigated, the contribution of implant stiffness to the peri-implant...

Strength and Durability of High-Strength Mortar Containing Supplementary Cementitious Materials

ABSTRACT The properties of high-strength mortar (HSM) incorporating supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs) and various levels of steel fiber (TF) were studied. The measured properties include fresh properties, compressive and flexural strength, durability, and microstructure...

Key challenges for in vitro testing of oral tobacco and nicotine products for regulatory applications: Recommendations for using in vitro toxicity and disease models

The Institute for In Vitro Sciences (IIVS) has sponsored a series of workshops with the aim of developing recommendations for scientific and technical approaches to conducting in vitro assays to assess potential toxicity within and across tobacco and nicotine products. As well as...

Tail Dependence Without Linear Correlation: Cross-Asset Extreme Co-Movement at Sub-Second Timescales

The Epps effect — the decay of measured cross-asset correlation as the sampling interval shrinks — is among the most robust findings in market microstructure. We reproduce it at tick resolution on five US large-cap technology equities (AAPL, MSFT, NVDA, TSLA, AMZN) and then ask a...

Evaluating the performance of administrative data elements used to document homelessness among psychiatric patients in Ontario, Canada: a validation study

Housing information about patients admitted to hospitals is routinely documented in health administrative records, which are increasingly used to inform planning and research. This study aimed to evaluate the accuracy of these records in identifying people experiencing homelessne...

A critical review of microencapsulation methods, mechanisms, and applications

Across industries, the demand for high-performance and environmentally responsible products is reshaping the design of functional materials. Microencapsulation, a technique that entrains active agents within microscopic shells, has emerged as an effective strategy to protect, sta...

Anatomic Classifications and Functional Outcomes in Preaxial Polydactyly of the Hand

BACKGROUND: Preaxial polydactyly is a common congenital hand anomaly with substantial anatomic variability. Although several classification systems exist, the relationship between anatomic subclassification and postoperative outcomes remains incompletely defined. This study evalu...

Traceability and Health Risk Assessment in the Feed–Animal–Milk Chain: A Comparative Evaluation of Traditional and Industrial Dairy Systems in Romania

Cow milk and dairy products may reflect environmental elemental inputs transferred through the feed–animal–milk chain. This study investigated the elemental traceability, regional differentiation, dairy processing effects, and dietary exposure associated with milk and dairy produ...

Economic (In)security and Living Arrangements in Later Life: Heterogeneity by Race-Ethnicity

Changes in economic security and living arrangements among the diverse, aging U.S. population are not experienced uniformly. Using Health and Retirement Study data linked to the Elder Index TM —an income measure of older adult needs—we estimated discrete-time competing risks mode...

SURT-DETR: Sea-Sky Line Context-Aware and Uncertainty-Guided Small Object Detection for Unmanned Surface Vehicles

Detecting small objects within complex maritime environments presents a persistent challenge for Unmanned Surface Vehicle (USV) perception. Extreme scale variations often render distant targets as indistinct visual features, while background interference from waves and sea-sky bo...