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Long-Term Evidence of ENSO-Driven Rodent Population Dynamics in a Natural Plague Focus of Southwestern China

Climate variability can modulate zoonotic disease risk by altering interactions among wildlife hosts, vectors, and human environments, yet long-term evidence linking large-scale climate oscillations to natural plague systems remains scarce. We investigated the influence of El Niñ...

Eosinopenia as an Independent Predictor of Complicated Acute Appendicitis: Usefulness in Adults, Not in Children

Background. The role of eosinophils in acute appendicitis (AA) is not well known. The aim of this study is to analyze whether peripheral blood eosinophil concentration can be useful in predicting episodes of complicated AA among pediatric and adult populations.Methods. A retrospe...

One Health and antimicrobial stewardship: a call to multi-sectoral collaboration to prevent the emerging epidemic of antimicrobial resistance

A common misconception is that Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) stems solely from poor treatment management in hospitals and weak health systems. AMR is, however, driven by a multitude of factors, including environmental stressors such as contamination from industrial, agricultural...

Molecular Machines Enhance Insulin Release in Pancreatic Beta Cells

ABSTRACT The production and secretion of insulin by pancreatic beta cells plays a critical role in glucose homeostasis. Insulin signaling dysfunction typically results in diabetes mellitus, which affects over 415 million people worldwide. The development of new tools to induce in...

Microcomb-driven large-scale fully connected quantum network

Abstract Fully connected quantum networks enable simultaneous connection of every user to every other user and are a highly versatile and robust networking architecture. However, the scalability of such networks remains a great challenge for practical applications. Here we constr...

RSP-net: an effective framework for automated root cause location in wireless network optimization scene

Currently, mobile communication network has become a very popular way to provide communication service for individual, industry and commerce. In wireless environment, the base stations provide the wireless access function for users, which play a key role in the communication syst...

Renal Resistive Index Responsiveness to a Mean Arterial Pressure Test As a Guide for Mean Arterial Pressure Target in the Early Phase of Septic Shock: A Physiological Study

OBJECTIVES: Guidelines recommend targeting a mean arterial pressure (MAP) greater than or equal to 65 mm Hg in septic shock. Although experts advocate for individualized targets, no validated bedside tool exists. An increased renal resistive index (RRI) is associated with acute k...

Electrodeposition-initiated, self-catalyzed growth of 2D amorphous Fe-group metal–boron alloy mesoporous films

Two-dimensional mesoporous amorphous metallic films, particularly those based on earth-abundant Fe-group metals (Ni, Co, Fe), are highly promising for various applications due to their high surface area, structural isotropy, and abundant undercoordinated sites. However, synthesiz...

Reinforcement Learning for Auto-Scaling and Cost Optimization in Multi-Cloud

Auto-scaling decides how much capacity to provision for a workload and — in a multi-cloud setting — where to place it across providers, regions, and pricing models. Traditional threshold and forecast-based autoscalers react with fixed rules and tend to over-provision, wasting mon...

Certified exact sums of primes over dyadic intervals via a ladder of generalized factorials

For S(m), the sum of primes in the dyadic window (m, 2m], the paper constructs a ladder of generalized factorials whose integer exponent sequences are Chebyshev polynomials rescaled to take integer values. The p-adic valuation at a window prime p equals the exponent polynomial Q_...

CosmosBeating • Cosmic Geometry and Topology — Paper IV: Weight Without Loss

Holographic Information Ontological Framework • CosmosBeating • Cosmic Geometry and Topology (HIOF•CGnT) A Ten-Paper Series on Distinction as the Ontological Foundation of Physics This series presents the Holographic Information Ontological Framework (HIOF), developed together wi...

Phi‑Modulated Temporal Torsion Synchronization in E8 Lattice — E8 Intelligence Research

By driving the 240 root vectors of the E8 lattice at the 132 Hz base frequency and its integer multiples, a phi‑scaled phase offset emerges that aligns each vertex's torsional displacement with the golden‑ratio proportion of the surrounding hyper‑simplex. This alignment generates...

Research on the Microscopic Residual Oil Activation Mechanism of Heavy Oil in Different Water Content Stages

This paper investigates the occurrence characteristics, mobilization behavior, and controlling mechanisms of microscopic remaining oil in heavy-oil systems at different water-cut stages by using a visual microfluidic platform. A series of displacement and pressure-ramping experim...

Experimental and thermal performance evaluation of a PCM-enhanced solar water heater with a spiral coil heat exchanger

Latent heat thermal energy storage is an effective approach for enhancing the performance of solar water heating (SWH) systems by storing surplus thermal energy and delivering it during periods of low solar availability. In this study, the thermal performance of a solar water hea...

Why now, why here: a conjunctural theory of socialist advance in big city America

Socialist electoral formations are advancing in large, knowledge-economy American cities while remaining absent from more peripheral economic spaces, and now, rather than two decades ago, when inequality and labor militancy were arguably more acute. This paper explains that uneve...

Toroidal quasi-dark supermodes in microwave dielectric metasurfaces

We report a class of dielectric metasurfaces that support quasi-dark microwave resonances with tailored toroidal and antitoroidal field profiles. The metasurfaces are realized using quadrumers of high-permittivity and low-loss ceramic disk resonators as elementary building blocks...

Raman Signal Enhancement via High-Power Laser Excitation in a Near-Concentric Cavity for Gas Detection

Raman spectroscopy has emerged as a powerful tool for gas detection due to its label-free operation, molecular specificity, and multi-component analysis capabilities. However, its widespread application is hindered by limited sensitivity, particularly for trace gas analysis. To o...

Family-Reported Barriers to Weight-Management Adherence in Children with Obesity: A Six-Month Longitudinal Study

Family participation is an essential component of pediatric obesity management. However, maintaining nutritional and physical activity recommendations over time can be difficult because children depend on parents and other caregivers for access to food, supervision and opportunit...

Comparing Public Search Interest in Endometriosis: Google trends analysis of Australia and India

Investigated public interest and health information-seeking behavior related to endometriosis across Australia and India using Google Trends data from 2017 to 2025. Used endometriosis-related search terms, including dysmenorrhea, pelvic pain, and menorrhagia, across the two regio...

β-cell-targeted RNA activation of vascular endothelial growth factor-A improves islet transplantation

Abstract Pancreatic islet transplantation can restore insulin production in patients with severe diabetes, but donor material is scarce, and early engraftment is constrained by inflammatory and mechanical stress and a prolonged avascular phase, during which oxygen and nutrient de...