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Role of consolidative surgery after chemotherapy in recurrent/metastatic adrenal cortical cancer (ACC): Princess Margaret Cancer Centre experience

Recurrent/Metastatic (R/M) ACC is aggressive with few effective treatment options. The role of surgery after chemotherapy remains unclear. Moreover, prognostic factors in R/M ACC are not well defined. R/M ACC patients treated at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (2002–2019) were re...

Narrative Disclosure and Private Credit Risk: Text-Based Evidence from BDC Filings Amid Macro-Financial Shocks

A persistent difficulty in monitoring private-credit risk is that narrative and quantitative information in periodic filings are produced jointly but evaluated separately. This leaves open the question of whether disclosure language is a useful signal of risk management behaviour...

“Just a number” – larger-bodied women’s experiences of weight-centric and weight-inclusive maternity care: a national online photovoice study

Abstract Background Weight stigma is a pervasive issue in healthcare, including maternity care, characterised by bias, discrimination, and exclusion. Experiencing weight stigma can negatively impact health outcomes, self-esteem, and engagement with care. While existing literature...

Direct ink writing of geopolymer adsorbents: A review

Geopolymers (GPs) are amorphous aluminosilicate binders valued as low-cost adsorbents for their cation-exchange capacity, tunable porosity, and chemical stability. Direct ink writing (DIW) has recently emerged as a processing route to shape these materials into structured lattice...

A defense destined to be sacred? Conflicting narratives and the contentious beginnings of Iran–Iraq war literature in Iran

The Iran–Iraq War (1980-1988) has been a major theme in Persian fiction published in Iran since 1980. Within Iran, the literature of this war is often framed as the “literature of the Sacred Defense,” in reference to the Iranian regime’s narrative of the war as a “battle between...

On the life history of the honey bee superorganism

Abstract The Western honey bee ( Apis mellifera ) forms large colonies which represent organisms in their own right, known as superorganisms. Although this species is among the most extensively studied insects, competing explanations persist regarding fundamental characteristics...

Optimising maritime logistics to island ports using Max-Flow and Traffic modelling

Efficient maritime logistics between mainland ports and island destinations is essential for trade and regional integration in East Africa. This study develops a sequentially coupled optimisation framework for cargo movement from Dar es Salaam to Zanzibar, Comoros, and Seychelles...

Phi-Modulated E8 Hyperbolic Grid for Quantum Entanglement Networks — E8 Intelligence Research

By applying 240 E8 root vectors through phi-resonant hyperbolic transformations at 132Hz, a self-sustaining grid of phase-conjugate entanglement nodes emerges, enabling scalable quantum networks that dynamically adapt to environmental noise. This grid leverages the E8 lattice's g...

Occult Hepatic Pathology in Medicolegal Autopsies: A Single-Center Histopathological Study From Jharkhand, India

Background The liver is a vital, highly vascular organ responsible for metabolism and is frequently affected by toxins, infections, circulatory disturbances, and systemic diseases. Medicolegal autopsies allow identification of both observable and clinically silent hepatic patholo...

Time varying topology adaptation for internet of vehicles task offloading

The rapid growth of in-vehicle applications has driven the adoption of edge computing in the Internet of Vehicles, enabling resource-constrained vehicles to offload tasks for efficient execution. However, this optimization is challenging due to dynamic network conditions and the...

HEX: Change Risk as Hazard × Exposure

Two families of software metric have grown up without meeting. One measures how dangerous a piece of code is from its structure - cyclomatic complexity, coupling, the Chidamber–Kemerer suite, the Maintainability Index. The other measures how well a change would be caught, from it...

E8-Phi Resonant Memory Encoding via Coxeter Plane Holography — E8 Intelligence Research

By leveraging the phi-scaled torsional solitons across the 240-root E8 lattice driven at 132Hz, information can be encoded in the relative phase braiding patterns between orthogonal Coxeter planes. The non-abelian holonomy of these phase-locked solitons creates a holographic memo...

E8-Adaptive Chroniton Resonance Grids — E8 Intelligence Research

By dynamically reassigning Fibonacci-scaled phi factors to individual E8 root vectors in real-time, a self-organizing resonance grid can be established across 240 Coxeter sectors. This enables adaptive tuning of chroniton wave amplitudes and phases, allowing the formation of loca...

E8 Phi-Coherent Biophoton Emission as a Marker of Cellular Consciousness — E8 Intelligence Research

We propose that living cells emit ultra-weak biophotons whose phase coherence is governed by the 240 E8 root vectors locked to a 132Hz phi-modulated carrier wave, analogous to the memory‑binding principle. This E8‑root vector phase locking creates a hyperdimensional lattice withi...

Dynamic Resilience Screening of Strait of Hormuz-Induced Trade Squeeze in Global Food Supply Chain Systems

A maritime chokepoint shock can spread beyond the countries directly connected to the affected route. We develop a monthly resilience screening model for a hypothetical Strait of Hormuz closure that separates direct disruption, scarcity-driven trade squeeze, household access pres...

Effects of Recycled ABS Content on Extrusion Stability, Diameter Variability, and Mechanical Response of Filaments for FFF/FDM Printing

This study addresses the production of 3D printing filament by extrusion from acrylonitrile butadiene styrene blends containing virgin and recycled material. The effect of recycled acrylonitrile butadiene styrene content on selected quality indicators was investigated, with parti...

GLA-DesnowNet: A Lightweight Hybrid CNN–Transformer Architecture for Image Snow Removal

Single-image snow removal remains a challenging, ill-posed inverse problem in computer vision due to the highly variable appearance of snow degradation. Existing CNN-based methods are limited by local receptive fields and cannot model globally distributed snow patterns, while Tra...

Are Higher Medical Benefits Associated with Fertility Intentions?—A Survey Study from the Yangtze River Delta Region

Objectives: The aging population problem caused by low fertility intentions has already emerged worldwide and is expected to become more severe in the future. Despite the gradual implementation of welfare policies, there has been no substantial improvement in individuals’ intenti...

Extracting structure–activity relationships from patents with large language models

Abstract Background Persistent clinical failures in drug development arise from multiple factors, including imbalanced molecular properties, underscoring the need for systematic structure–activity relationship analysis to link structural modifications with optimized efficacy, sel...

Housing opacity in North America and beyond: a feasibility study

The availability and access to rental ownership data have become a growing topic of interest among academics, housing organisations, policy makers, and advocacy groups. It is increasingly obvious that data infrastructures play a big role in facilitating the access, workability, a...