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A Hierarchical Framework for Quantifying Seasonal and Daily Wildland Fire Risk in Great Plains Grasslands

Accurate quantification of wildfire risk is essential for balancing wildfire mitigation and prescribed fire management in grassland ecosystems, yet existing fire danger indices do not explicitly distinguish seasonal fuel dynamics from daily weather variability. This study present...

A Place-Based Methodological Approach to Measure Urban Memory in a Post-Urbicide Context: The Case of Sarajevo

This research examines the impact of urbicide on urban memory, using the city of Sarajevo as a case study. Urbicide is defined as the deliberate destruction of the built environment, including both its tangible and intangible aspects. This study proposes a place-based, multilayer...

Toward Sustainable Management of Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae): A Review on the Role of Endophytic Fungi in Crop Protection

The fall armyworm (FAW), Spodoptera frugiperda, is a highly polyphagous pest that has rapidly expanded across Africa, Asia, and Oceania, threatening food security and agricultural productivity. Reliance on synthetic insecticides for FAW management is increasingly challenged by in...

γδ T Cells at the Crossroads of Tuberculosis and COPD: From Early Immunity to Tissue Remodeling

Tuberculosis (TB) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) remain global public health challenges, yet the mechanisms underlying their comorbidity remain poorly understood. COPD is associated with an increased risk of active TB, but the cellular and molecular basis of thi...

RNF213 in Panvascular Disease: A Molecular Hub Linking Genetic Susceptibility to Systemic Vasculopathy

Panvascular diseases, characterized by systemic vascular dysfunction across multiple organ systems, represent a complex interplay of genetic susceptibility and environmental triggers. Ring Finger Protein 213 (RNF213), initially identified as the principal susceptibility gene for...

Rebuilding green trust in the electric vehicle sector: a resilience theory perspective on post-greenwashing recovery strategies

Purpose The electric vehicle (EV) industry plays a pivotal role in global sustainability goals; however, its credibility has been undermined by greenwashing, misleading environmental claims that erode consumer trust. This study aims to examine how EV brands can restore trust afte...

Teachers’ reported experiences with the Food Education and Sustainability Training (FEAST) program: a process evaluation of FEAST

Healthy and sustainable food education initiatives in primary schools are gaining momentum in research and practice. OzHarvest’s Food Education and Sustainability Training (FEAST) is one such program which aims to increase children’s fruit and vegetable intake and reduce their fo...

Koopman-based reduced-order modelling of discrete dislocation dynamics simulations

Abstract The plastic behaviour of single crystals emerges from the motion and interaction of crystal dislocations, which may nowadays be simulated with so-called discrete dislocation dynamics (DDD) simulations. Data-driven methods offer the prospect that results from DDD simulati...

Performance Optimization of Novel Laser Hybrid Ultrasonic Vibration Assisted Micro Milling for Inconel 718

Miniaturization drives advanced manufacturing essential for next-generation systems using superalloys in aerospace, biomedical and microelectronics. Hybrid machining combines distinct processes to harness their individual strengths and overcome limitations. This experimental rese...

Al-Saaidi data and materials

This repository contains the datasets and supporting materials associated with the manuscript entitled "Nano-Encapsulated Curcumin Improves Ovarian and Uterine Recovery from Cadmium Toxicity in Rats."

Sustainability Certifications in Building Projects: Adoption Insights from the Greek Construction Sector in the European Context

Sustainability certification schemes (SCSs) such as LEED, BREEAM, etc., are widely accepted as an effective tool for the promotion of sustainable design principles and lifecycle carbon reduction in building projects. Greece, despite having a relatively small real estate market, p...

Nonlinear Modeling and Low-Frequency Isolation Characteristics of a Crab-Inspired Quasi-Zero-Stiffness Isolator with Compliant Compensation

Conventional linear isolators struggle to combine high static load-bearing capacity with effective low-frequency vibration isolation. To address this limitation, this study proposes an inclined rhombic crab-inspired quasi-zero-stiffness (I-QZS) isolator. A generalized static mode...

Mycotoxin Occurrence and Microbiological Quality of Maize Silage Supplemented with Insect Meals for Potential Use in Waterfowl Nutrition

Whole crop maize silage may represent a complementary feed material in waterfowl nutrition, but its hygienic quality and mycotoxin profile remain important safety considerations. This study evaluated the microbiological quality, occurrence, and concentrations of selected mycotoxi...

Counterfactual load forecasting with LLM-structured events and representation learning

News-reported social, environmental, and grid events can substantially reshape electricity demand, yet quantifying how such events perturb forecasted load trajectories remains largely unaddressed. Existing news-augmented forecasting studies use news as auxiliary features to reduc...

Developing a multimodal library intelligent Q&A chatbot using retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) technology

Purpose This study aims to enhance the user experience for patrons and improve library operation efficiency through implementation of an artificial intelligence (AI)-driven Q&A chatbot. Design/methodology/approach Using RAG technology, this study developed Nana, a multimodal...

Ambulans Super Mare: On the Theandric Act, and Why Peter Sank

This essay examines the Christological question raised by the Gospel accounts of Jesus walking upon the sea: when a single concrete act belongs to one divine Person possessing two complete natures, how should that act be understood? Rather than treating the miracle as either a pu...

Bone Accrual During Puberty Suppression and Gender-Affirming Therapy in Transgender Adolescents

Importance Puberty is a critical window for bone mass acquisition, determining lifelong fracture risk. Gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRHa)–based pubertal suppression followed by gender-affirming hormone therapy (GAHT) is increasingly used in transgender and gender-dive...

Tensor Invariants and Integral Theorems — Made Understandable (lecture notes)

Short introductory notes for university students on the unified system of tensor invariants. The many formulas of a vector analysis course – grad, div, rot, the Gauss and Stokes theorems, the Laplacian, the Green identities, Maxwell's equations – are in fact different faces of a...

Transcendental Relationalism: Framework-Indexed Determinacy, Relative Truth, and Invariant Objectivity

Transcendental Relationalism develops a framework-indexed account of determinacy, truth, and objectivity. Its central claim is that an object, identity, property, or truth-value becomes determinate only under conditions specifying a domain, language, criteria of identity, admissi...

Word-Order Information, Page-Anchored Repetition, and a Data-Estimated Generative Model for the Voynich Manuscript

The Voynich Manuscript (Beinecke MS 408) combines word-level statistics that are ordinary for a natural language with character-level statistics that are not. We report a layered measurement battery applied to the Zandbergen-Landini ZL3b transliteration (34,103 running-text token...