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The Shift from Cost Cutting to Value Creation: A Paradigm for Integrating Procurement Strategy in Dufil Company, Port Harcourt

Abstract The study examines the shift from cost cutting to value creation through an integrated procurement strategy framework, using Dufil Industries, Port Harcourt as a case context. Procurement strategy was conceptualised through three dimensions, namely strategic sourcing, su...

Short-Term Exposure to Ambient Air Pollution and Hospital Admission for Stroke: A Multi-Center Hospital-Based Case-Crossover Study

Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Exposure to ambient air pollutants and the risk of stroke have been reported in many studies, but the results vary greatly among different regions. This study aims to investigate the association between short-term expos...

Screening White-Rot Fungi and Characterizing Lignocellulose Degradation by Ganoderma sp. from Chinese Distillers’ Grains

Chinese distillers’ grains (CDGs) are a lignocellulose-rich agricultural byproduct with considerable bioconversion potential; however, their recalcitrant structure imposes a major bottleneck for efficient valorization. In this study, six white-rot fungal strains and two Trichoder...

Interrogating Australia-Africa academic partnerships: does marginality create space to rethink and innovate practice?

This article interrogates contexts for and practices of academic partnership between Australia and Africa. This relationship sits at the margins of scholarship on global North–South dynamics, reflecting relatively limited empirical engagement as well as the ambiguous geopolitical...

Perceptual and Acoustic Correlates of Vocal Register Transitions in Female Carnatic Singers

Carnatic music is a highly structured yet improvisatory vocal tradition characterized by precise pitch control. Pitch organization is conceptualized through sthayis, which function as pitch zones across octaves. Although traditionally explained in musical terms, transitions acros...

Swarm Intelligence-Guided Hybrid Transfer Learning for Gastrointestinal Polyp Classification

Colorectal cancer remains a leading cause of cancer-related mortality worldwide, with automated polyp classification from endoscopic images offering a promising avenue for improving early detection. Existing approaches rely on single convolutional neural network (CNN) backbones w...

A multi-technique analytical strategy for the standardization of Boswellia serrata : RP-HPLC quantification employing relative response factors, HPTLC fingerprinting, LC-MS/MS characterization

Boswellia serrata is a widely recognized medicinal plant whose therapeutic properties are primarily attributed to boswellic acids, making their reliable characterization and quantification essential for its quality assessment. This study established an integrated analytical strat...

Physically Constrained Dual-Branch Front-End Optimization for DDH-Oriented Surgical Robot Navigation

Surgical robot navigation in a restricted pelvic workspace requires accurate target localization, directional consistency and robot-feasible execution. This study proposes a physically constrained dual-branch front-end network (PCD-Net) for DDH-oriented navigation using public CT...

Adjunctive antipsychotics for MDD differ in efficacy and acceptability

A systematic review and network meta‐analysis has found considerable differences in efficacy and acceptability among atypical antipsychotics used as adjunctive treatment for major depressive disorder (MDD). Lumateperone had the greatest effect size for efficacy, and aripiprazole...

Losing All Faith in Women’s Healthcare: Experiences of Living with Chronic Pelvic Pain After Pelvic Congestion Syndrome Treatment

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to describe the experiences of women with pelvic congestion syndrome (PCS). We aimed to (1) explore the experiences before receiving a PCS diagnosis, (2) describe the experience of being diagnosed and living with PCS, and (3) identify cha...

Blurring Clinical and Best Interests Decisions: Townsend v Epsom and St Helier University Hospitals NHS Trust

Healthcare decision‐making under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 (MCA 2005) has long been understood as comprising two distinct, sequential decisions. First, a clinical decision about what treatment options are available. Second, a best interests decision about which (if any) of the...

Accuracy and Defense Motives: Exploring Types of Information Insufficiency in the Risk Information Seeking and Processing (RISP) Model

This study reconceptualizes information insufficiency as a goal-contingent construct within the Risk Information Seeking and Processing model. In multifaceted risk contexts, individuals confront health threats alongside challenges to deep-seated values and beliefs, producing diff...

The Clarity-Relationship Framework: a conceptual model of how relationship quality and clarity jointly shape team goal definition and achievement

Effective teamwork is critical for organizational success in complex, change-oriented environments (Kim et al., 2020). This paper introduces the Clarity-Relationship Framework (CRF), a conceptual model for diagnosing and improving team effectiveness. The CRF posits two dimensions...

Secure Set-based State Estimation for Safety-Critical Applications under Adversarial Attacks on Sensors

Set-based state estimation provides guaranteed state inclusion certificates that are crucial for the safety verification of dynamical systems. However, when system sensors are subject to cyberattacks, maintaining both safety and security guarantees becomes a fundamental challenge...

Balancing cancer innovation with sustainable care

<i>Investment in innovative drugs must not come at the expense of wider cancer services</i>

Racial Differences in the Association Between School Quality and Adult Health: A Nationally Representative Longitudinal Study

Abstract Although school quality is associated with greater educational attainment and better health in population-wide studies, it remains unclear whether these effects are experienced similarly across racial and ethnic groups in the USA. To explore this question, we used the na...

Game-based coverage path planning for multiple Dubins robots in agricultural fields

Abstract Multi-robot coverage path planning (MCPP) is a key technology in the field of precision agriculture, providing fundamental support for autonomous agricultural vehicles and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to perform tasks such as crop monitoring, pesticide spraying, and s...

Autoencoder Neural Networks for Representations of Periodic Orbit Families

Traditional methods for parameterizing and storing periodic orbit families use discretized representations of the family. In this work, continuous parameterizations of periodic orbit families in the Earth/Moon system are developed using techniques from machine learning. Autoencod...

Phi-Harmonic Braid Group Governance of Inter-Family Quantum Information Transfer — E8 Intelligence Research

The 8 Weyl-invariant phase families of phi-modulated E8 root vectors exhibit non-Abelian exchange statistics under 132Hz-scaled frequency braiding, forming a closed phi-harmonic braid group B₈(φ) where each braid generator corresponds to a topological phase shift of 2π/φⁿ between...

Interpretation of Light in QTIP Cosmology

Light is one of the most fundamental elements in both relativity and quantum mechanics in modern physics. This paper aims to demonstrate what essential nature light possesses from the perspective of QTIP Cosmology.