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Draft genome sequence of Staphylococcus epidermidis strain UMP2601 isolated from environmental water

ABSTRACT We report the draft genome sequence of Staphylococcus epidermidis strain UMP2601 (2,469,061 bp, GC content of 32.03%) isolated from an environmental water sample. The organism was cultured on nutrient agar under aerobic conditions.

Numerical Investigation of Stepped Ram-Air Inlets for Air Capture and Thermal Management in a UAV Power Cabin

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) used in low-altitude mobility and electric aviation are increasingly required to carry higher payloads, operate for longer durations and maintain reliable performance under constrained installation conditions. In compact power cabins, batteries, co...

Leber’s hereditary optic nerve atrophy

This review is devoted to Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON), a rare maternally inherited ophthalmic disorder presenting as optic nerve atrophy and associated with an unfavorable prognosis. LHON is the most common primary mitochondrial DNA disorder, and most patients (mor...

Scaling Regenerative Supply Chains in Agriculture: An Integrated Framework of Digital MRV, Transition Finance and Socioecological Resilience

ABSTRACT Regenerative agricultural supply chains (RSCs) generate substantial ecological value through improved soil health, biodiversity and climate resilience, yet this value remains largely excluded from financial valuation. This structural disconnect, termed the bankability ga...

Building Antimicrobial Reasoning Before Prescribing: Reframing the Role of Preclinical Microbiology Education

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is usually addressed through surveillance, prescribing policy, stewardship programs, infection prevention, and drug development. Less attention is given to an earlier educational question: how future doctors first learn to connect microorganisms, an...

Animalizing the political other: Qian Binghe’s caricatures of Yuan Shikai and revolutionary propaganda in early Republican China

This article examines Chinese political caricature in the early 1910s, focusing on Qian Binghe (1879–1944) and his caricatured depictions of Yuan Shikai (1859–1916), the first president of the Republic of China. A staunch revolutionary aligned with Sun Yat-sen, Qian opposed both...

Omni-Resonance Engine (ORE): Phase-Locking Kuramoto Dynamics in Sub-Billion Parameter Models for High-Fidelity COGNITIVE Reasoning

The prevailing paradigm in natural language processing relies heavily on aggressively scaling parameter counts in Transformer architectures to achieve emergent reasoning capabilities. This brute-force scaling inherently limits the deployment of advanced AI in privacy-critical, re...

Effects of Different Farming Models on Muscle Nutrients, Muscle Transcriptome and Intestinal Microbiota in Pelodiscus sinensis

Farming models profoundly influence the biological traits of aquatic organisms. This study compared muscle nutrients, muscle transcriptome, and gut microbiota of Pelodiscus sinensis reared under rice-field and pond conditions. Compared with the pond group (Group P), the rice-fiel...

Storytelling, technology, and justice: the National Film Board of Canada’s role in human rights education

This article explores the National Film Board of Canada (NFB) as a site of human rights education (HRE). It applies a critical global citizenship education lens to consider how four NFB works—Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Bear 71, The Orchid and the Bee, and Biidaaban: Fi...

Cost-Effectiveness of an Artificial Intelligence as a Medical Device (AIaMD) for Triaging Patients Presenting to Primary Care with Concerns that They Have a Skin Cancer: A Modelling Study

Health services are struggling to cope with the growing numbers of people coming with skin lesions they are worried could be cancer. Using artificial intelligence (AI) to assist in the triage process is one potential approach. Deep Ensemble for the Recognition of Melanoma (DERM)...

The Personal Is Professional: Judith Fetterley’s Amazing Grace

I have titled this brief commentary on celebrating Provisions and Judith Fetterley’s impact on literary studies “The Personal is Professional: Judith Fetterley’s Amazing Grace.” The first part of t...

Crystallization‐Driven Helical Conjugated Polymer Nanowires for Circularly Polarized Light‐Addressable Ferroelectric Physical Unclonable Functions

Supramolecular helices of conjugated polymers (CPs) offer versatile chiroptical selectivity, yet their responses are often limited to passive optical readouts and lack stability as nonvolatile electrical states. Here, we report crystallization-driven helical CP nanowires (NWs) th...

Comparative cytoarchitectural and proteomic analysis of the primary motor cortex in pigs and wild boars reveals domestication associated changes

Background Domestication appears to modify the morphology and physiology of the central nervous system. Owing to the limited availability of proteomic and cytoarchitectural data for comparisons between wild and domesticated species, we conducted a comparative analysis of the cyto...

Who owns your voice?

Your voice is yours, but using it to build language technology requires a balance between personal rights and collective benefit. Understanding that balance is becoming increasingly important in the age of AI.

Evaluation of MTego and BG-Sentinel traps for malaria and arbovirus vector surveillance in Cabo Verde

Arboviral outbreaks are rising across Africa, a region that continues to face a substantial malaria burden. Cabo Verde remains vulnerable to the emergence and re-emergence of mosquito-borne diseases, including dengue, Zika, and malaria. In January 2024, the World Health Organizat...

Original and Modified Sauvé–Kapandji Procedures: A Two-Axis Framework for Surgical Decision-Making—A Narrative Review

The Sauvé–Kapandji (SK) procedure is a salvage operation that fuses the distal radioulnar joint (DRUJ) and creates an intentional pseudarthrosis in the proximal ulna, thereby relieving pain while preserving forearm rotation and ulnar-sided bony support. This narrative review (1)...

SYSTEMIC CORRUPTION. From Institutional Consequences to Systemic Transformation

This article is the second contribution to the Corruption Series, which develops a new paradigm (analytical framework) for the study of corruption based on the analysis and integration of documentation produced by intergovernmental organisations. The first article addressed macro...

Parents’ knowledge, attitude, and practice toward mouth breathing in children: a mediation analysis

This study aims to assess parents’ knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) regarding mouth breathing in children. This multicenter cross-sectional study was conducted from July to October 2024 among parents. A total of 1,966 valid responses were analyzed. Among the children, 1,07...

Effect of Moringa oleifera Seeds Rennet on the Quality of Mozzarella Cheese and Proteomic Identification and Molecular Docking Analysis of Fermentation-Derived Peptides

Abstract This study aimed to characterize bioactive water-soluble peptides (WSPs) in Moringa oleifera seeds rennet-derived cheese (MSRC) and compare them with those in calf (CRC), papain (PRC), and microbial rennet cheese (MRC). Proteolysis of MSRC was enhanced, as indicated by i...

The Structural Control Architecture: Three Channels and a Governed Seam

The first paper of this series proved that telemetry does not determine structural state — exactly not in the blind set, and within the noise floor below resolution — and the second measured where telemetry-side governance actually ends: a fixed-gate estimator earning its envelop...