Research works

Optimization of Geometric Parameters in Moon Texturing to Enhance the Tribological Performance of AISI 5115 Steel

Abstract Surface texturing can significantly enhance the tribological performance of materials. In this study, a novel moon-shaped surface texture was designed and optimized via computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations. The optimal geometric parameters were identified as R...

A Wastewater-basedModeling Framework for InferringNorovirus Transmission Dynamics

Abstract Norovirus is a leading cause of gastroenteritis globally, yet its true infection burden in the community remains poorly understood because of widespread asymptomatic transmission and underreporting. Wastewater-based surveillance is a promising approach for tracking infec...

Perimenstrual repetitive greater occipital nerve blockade for menstrual migraine: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial

Abstract Background The main purpose of this study is to demonstrate the decrease in headache severity, pain duration and the number of painful days in a month after repetitive GON blockade applied with local anesthetic in menstrual migraine patients compared to the placebo group...

GPR132 antagonists alleviate atherosclerosis by suppressing M1 polarization and subsequent VSMCs proliferation and migration as revealed by transcriptomic profiling

BACKGROUND: Atherosclerosis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory disorder with substantial global prevalence, wherein macrophage polarization and vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) phenotypic switching are critical pathogenic events. Although G protein-coupled receptor 132 (GPR132) i...

Self-Adaptive Thermoregulating Coating for All-Weather Thermal Management

Practical thermal management of functional interfaces usually requires coordinated solar absorption and radiative heat dissipation under variable environmental conditions. Yet, conventional photothermal systems maintain static spectral responses and fail to adapt to dynamic therm...

Diagnostic accuracy of single-, tri-, and four-phasic CT urography and radiation dose assessment: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Abstract Background Computed tomography urography (CTU) is widely used for evaluating urinary tract disorders, but the optimal number of acquisition phases remains uncertain because additional phases increase radiation exposure. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accurac...

Effects of small-scale forest treatments on reducing wildfire burn severity

Background Intensive fire suppression and climate change have escalated wildfire intensity in fire-adapted forests. Although the consequences of fire suppression policies are well documented, fuel reduction treatment effectiveness – particularly across varying treatment sizes – r...

Transcriptomic Alterations and RNA-Seq Computational Workflows in Space Biology: A Review of NASA Open Science Frameworks

Biological systems exposed to spaceflight environments encounter unique physical stressors, primarily microgravity and ionizing cosmic radiation. Understanding how these factors influence cellular function at the molecular level requires high-throughput sequencing technologies. T...

Verification-Conditioned Abstention: Withholding Unverifiable Claims in Labor-Market Decision Support

Selective prediction, learning to defer, and conformal methods all condition the decision to abstain on the model’s estimate of its own correctness. We define and deploy an alternative. In verification-conditioned abstention the selection function is a decidable predicate over an...

Scaled-Time Classification of Born-State Convergence in the Two-State Flea Model

Cicchella et al. study a two-state approximation to the perturbed double-well “flea” model and prove that an ensemble-averaged state converges to the Born-rule mixture under the successive limits of long time followed by the semiclassical limit. We keep the same finite-dimensiona...

Harnessing macrophage signaling pathways and scalable engineering for next-generation immunotherapies

Macrophages have emerged as promising candidates for cell-based immunotherapies due to their intrinsic plasticity, tissue-infiltrating capabilities, and central roles in orchestrating immune responses. Their phenotypic and functional diversity within tissues and the tumor microen...

On the Scope of Compression-Error Bounds in Tensor-Network Error Mitigation: A propagated-residual counterexample, an exact observable-level decomposition, and two sufficient repairs

Tensor-network error mitigation (TEM) applies a matrix-product-operator approximation to the inverse of a characterized global noise map in classical post-processing. This work retains the exact, untruncated TEM inversion identity under invertible layerwise noise and analyzes wha...

Two thirds of the zeros of Dirichlet L-functions at polylogarithmic height are simple and on the critical line, on average

Preprint (Version 2.3-draft, 18 August 2026). We outline a proof that for every sufficiently large prime q, at least 2/3 − O(1/log log q) of the zeros of the Dirichlet L-functions L(s, χ) in windows (T, 2T] at polylogarithmic height, averaged over the q−2 non-principal characters...

Human-in-the-loop Evaluation of medical large language models: A bilingual framework for clinical accuracy,saftey, hallucination detection , ARABIC-ENGLISH medical AI

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being applied to healthcare-related tasks, including medical question answering, clinical documentation, medical translation, patient education, information retrieval, and healthcare workflow support. Despite their impressive linguist...

The genus Aclophoropsis (Gastropoda: Triphoridae) in southern Australia, including four previously unknown populations

A report is made on members of Aclophoropsis in temperate and subtropical Australian waters, including four previously undocumented populations (from Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia). Notes are made on the external anatomy, radula, jaws and habitat of Aclophorops...

Fire-Smoke InducedProtein Alterations in Firefighters'Body Fluids Identify Prognostic Pan-cancer Biomarkers

Abstract Firefighters are routinely exposed to complex mixtures of toxicants during fire suppression, and growing evidence links these exposures to elevated cancer risk. Proteomic profiling provides a sensitive means to detect early molecular alterations associated with such occu...

Outcomes after discharge from acute hospital to residential aged care among long-stay inpatients: a retrospective cohort study using a health service long-stay dashboard

OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to describe pathway timing and 90-day outcomes for long-stay inpatients discharged to residential aged care homes (RACHs), predominantly new entrants, and to explore potentially modifiable factors associated with delays and the composite unsuccessful p...

Piecewise Constraintsfor Exact End Point Samplingwith λ-Dynamics

Abstract λ-Dynamics simulations are used to explore differences between distinct chemical states through interpolation with a λ parameter. Existing algorithms for λ-dynamics treat the thermodynamic coupling parameter λ as an additional degree of freedom and integrate its motion a...

Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration in Modern Cybersecurity: Technical Challenges, NIST Standards, and Strategic Deployment Frameworks

This paper examines the technical, operational, and governance challenges of migrating modern enterprise and cloud architectures to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). Following the National Institute of Standards and Technology's (NIST) release of finalized standards—including FIPS...

First report of a species of Senga (Cestoda: Bothriocephalidae) in commercial Betta splendens (Actinopterygii: Osphronemidae) in Brazil

Abstract Species of the genus Senga comprise a group of bothriocephalidean cestodes that predominantly parasitize freshwater teleost fishes, causing severe histopathological alterations due to scolex attachment to the digestive tract or obstruction of the intestinal lumen. The Si...