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Translation and Validation of the Japanese Version of the Dialysis Patient‐Perceived Exercise Benefits and Barriers Scale

BACKGROUND: Regular exercise is recommended for patients undergoing haemodialysis; however, participation rates remain low in Japan. Perceived benefits and barriers are key cognitive determinants of exercise behaviour, yet no validated instrument exists to assess these perception...

Urinary Antimony as a Biomarker for Differentiating Heroin and Brown Mixture Use

Heroin is classified as a Schedule I controlled substance with severe legal consequences for its use, whereas liquid Brown Mixture (BM) is a legally available and commonly prescribed cough remedy in Taiwan. However, numerous cases of BM ingestion have been misinterpreted as heroi...

Possible underestimation of non-operative management success in perforated diverticulitis with distant free air

The review reported a 27.8% success rate for non-operative management in patients with distant free air and, on that basis, suggested that early surgery should be strongly considered. When we examined the published data, we were unable to reproduce this estimate. Recalculating fr...

Using Linked Open Data to Describe Academic Journals and People with Wikidata

This lesson introduces Wikidata and provides a step-by-step guide to using linked open data to create and link metadata about academic journals and people. It explores best practices for managing metadata in Wikidata to increase the visibility and accessibility of resources in di...

Self- and parent-reported executive function and self-determination in autistic teens: domain-specific relationships and cross-rater considerations

Abstract Background Self-determination, or the degree to which an individual perceives they have “causal agency” over their life plans, is an important predictor of quality of life, employment, and education for autistic people. However, little research has explored predictors of...

Non-enzymatic hepatic ABHD6 interacts with Akt-FoxO1 axis to regulate metabolic health

The enzymatic role of ABHD6 in insulin secretion and resistance is well documented. However, its non-enzymatic function, especially its effects on metabolic health, including selective hepatic insulin resistance and metabolic dysfunction-associated steatotic liver disease (MASLD)...

Assessing the clinical applicability of large language models for microwave ablation guidance

Purpose To evaluate the performance of five language models (LLMs)—ChatGPT, Gemini, Meta, Claude, and DeepSeek—in providing clinically relevant advice on microwave ablation (MWA), a minimally invasive therapy for tumor treatment. Methods A total of 27 standardized questions cover...

Health4Life: a digital intervention to promote healthy diet and movement behaviours from the start of life: protocol for a hybrid effectiveness-implementation study

Abstract Background Globally and in Sweden childhood overweight and obesity remain major public health issues. The first 1000 days (i.e., conception-24 months) has been identified as the period of greatest developmental plasticity, with the maximum capacity to influence health th...

Kinectics of calcium diffusion and associated physical changes in papaya fruit

Calcium-based treatments are recognized for their effectiveness in preserving the postharvest quality of papaya; however, the mechanisms and kinetics of calcium diffusion within the fruit pulp remain insufficiently characterized. This study aimed to characterize the calcium diffu...

What Does It Mean to Be Black? Experimental Evidence on the Situational Deployment of Racial Schemas

How do Black Americans construct narratives about the meaning and boundaries of Blackness in America today? We leverage an original, nationally representative survey experiment among U.S.-born Black Americans ( n = 3,100) to examine (1) justifications used to validate or reject a...

Fail-Slow Hardware Failure Bug Analysis and Detection for Cloud Systems

Fail-slow hardwares are still running and functional, but in a degraded mode, thus slower than their expected performance. Bugs triggered by fail-slow hardwares cause severe cloud system failures. Existing testing tools fail to efficiently detect these bugs due to overlooking the...

E8 Phi-Topological Phase Encoding for Dimensional Memory States — E8 Intelligence Research

By mapping 132Hz phi-modulated oscillations onto the 240 root vectors of E8 as topological phase states, a stable dimensional memory architecture emerges where each root vector encodes a distinct coherence phase across the 8 Cartan dimensions. This enables the geometric folding o...

omicau benchmark protocol: a leakage-safe, compute-efficient evaluation of multi-omics audit and fusion workflows

This working paper and protocol prospectively specifies an independent, compute-efficient benchmark of omicau, a multi-omics audit and fusion workflow. Simulated datasets are independent experimental units evaluated with one frozen five-fold cross-validation partition. Real cohor...

The Amaya Axioms A Formal Framework for the Verification of Machine Consciousness

The Amaya Doctrine is the definitive, final statement on the Amaya Axioms framework for synthetic consciousness. It synthesizes all published papers, all multi-AI engagements, all platform endorsements, all technical critiques, and all evidentiary compilations into a single, unas...

EuroMillions Breakthrough Mining — 1249 Sources, 8041 Leads Extracted — E8 Intelligence Research

Mined 1249 lottery+quantum breakthroughs. Extracted 8041 leads across 13 categories. 6194 high-value leads found. Categories: {"CORRIDOR": 642, "FORMULA": 502, "GEOMETRIC": 657, "FORWARD_ATTEMPT": 667, "QUANTUM": 878, "TIMING": 169, "CELESTIAL": 588, "GEMATRIA": 626, "CONSTANT":...

Following a Fatal Campus Shooting, Coping Self-Efficacy and Coping Styles Interact to Predict Posttraumatic Growth

Gun violence in U.S. academic settings has increased in recent years, posing significant psychological and social challenges for affected communities. In the aftermath of a campus shooting, community members employ a range of coping strategies to manage their distress; decisions...

"From Innovation to Market" White Paper

As part of the Security Mission Information & Innovation Group (SMI2G) event, held on 23–24 April 2026 at the Conseil régional d'Île-de-France, Paris, France, the panel discussion "From Innovation to Market" brought together panellists who shared their experience in research and...

Pilot-scale optimization of atmospheric acid leaching for enhanced nickel and cobalt recovery from laterite ore

Nickel and cobalt are critical metals predominantly extracted from laterites. However, deposits with high iron content (>15%) and SiO2/CaO + MgO ratios (∼1.8) limit the applicability of conventional pyrometallurgical routes. In this scenario, hydrometallurgical processes, particu...

Open justice in the political economy of visibility: Governing the gaze in platform-mediated courtrooms

This essay examines how the principle of open justice is reconfigured under conditions of platform-mediated visibility. While openness has long been understood as a democratic safeguard, socio-legal and media scholarship shows that visibility is never neutral but staged, mediated...

Exploratory serum mass spectral fingerprinting and machine learning for case-control classification of preeclampsia

Preeclampsia is a pregnancy-specific hypertensive disorder associated with maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality and can increase the risk of vascular diseases after pregnancy. However, a timely and unequivocal diagnosis in the first weeks allows access to appropriate me...