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Standards-Attributed Reuse–Retrofit–Replacement Method to Assess Offshore Platform Electrical Power Systems for Repurposing to LNG Regasification or CO2 Injection

Repurposing aging offshore platforms into liquefied natural gas (LNG) regasification or CO2 injection facilities has been gaining attention as a viable alternative in the energy transition. However, a single systematic criterion for determining which equipment of the existing pow...

Association between AI-based automated segmentation-derived 3D volumetric imaging features and outcomes after cryoablation for renal cell carcinoma

Abstract Purpose To evaluate the feasibility of artificial intelligence (AI)-based automated segmentation of renal structures for extracting 3D volumetric imaging features and to evaluate their association with outcomes after cryoablation for renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Methods T...

The effect of a telephonic reminder on fasting duration in children undergoing computed tomography scan under sedation in a resource-limited setting – A randomized controlled trial

Abstract Background and Aims: Prolonged preprocedural fasting remains common among children undergoing diagnostic imaging, particularly in low- and middle-income country (LMIC) settings where communication challenges and high patient turnover can limit effective counseling. It ca...

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor is a potential therapeutic target for cisplatin induced peripheral neuropathy in breast cancer

Abstract Background Cisplatin (CP) is a potent chemotherapy drug used for the management of several cancers. However, the use of CP is associated with painful peripheral neuropathy. Effective therapies are currently unavailable for cisplatin-induced peripheral neuropathy (CisIPN)...

Examination of the Risk Spillover Among the European Tourism and Hospitality Sectors: How COVID-19 Exerted Its Influence in Its Era?

This paper explores the effects of COVID-19 pandemic-related uncertainty on the European tourism subsectors, including airlines, hotels, and restaurants. Daily returns connectedness quantifies risk-sharing patterns in the tourism and hospitality industry and links them to measure...

Beyond Platform Work: Algorithmic Management in Platform Labor and Traditional Organizations—The Hungarian Experience

Algorithmic management (AM) is spreading rapidly in platform work and traditional employment, yet empirical research remains platform-centric and skewed towards Western Europe, North America and China, leaving Central and Eastern Europe, especially Hungary, largely absent. This p...

Do Self-Reported Years of Formal Education Reflect a Trade-off with Embodied Medicinal Plant Knowledge?

Abstract Under life history theory, energy invested in formal education cannot be simultaneously allocated to subsistence activities. Schooling may therefore reduce opportunities to acquire embodied medicinal plant knowledge. We hypothesized that formal education reduces medicina...

Polytetrafluoroethylene–nanocellulose composites with negative in-plane thermal expansion and low relative permittivity

Abstract Low-dielectric materials for advancing telecommunication technologies must exhibit a low coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE), low relative permittivity ( ε ), and low dielectric loss tangent (tan δ ) at frequencies > 10 GHz. However, these properties are difficult to...

Sentinel-2 Forel–Ule Index as a Proxy for Ecological Status in Reservoirs: A Case Study in Southern Portugal

Water color is an important optical proxy for trophic status and water quality, but its integration into regulatory assessment frameworks is still limited. This study assesses the potential of the Forel–Ule Index (FUI) derived from Sentinel-2 as a proxy indicator to support the a...

A Two-Stage Many-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm with Survival-Ratio-Based Switching

Many-objective optimization problems (MaOPs) suffer from weakened selection pressure as the number of objectives increases, making it difficult to balance convergence and diversity. Existing two-stage and multi-stage many-objective evolutionary algorithms (MaOEAs) often determine...

Comparative adjuvant therapy to reduce vancomycin-associated nephrotoxicity in an animal model

Vancomycin is a mainstay antibiotic for serious gram-positive infections, but nephrotoxicity remains a major barrier to its optimal use. In this study, we compared the effectiveness of montelukast and zileuton as adjuvant strategies to reduce vancomycin-associated nephrotoxicity....

Blue-sky thinking about pronunciation research and teaching

Abstract In the fall of 2024, Ron Thomson and Tracey Derwing invited 15 pronunciation scholars representing several subspecialties to participate in a full-day symposium to discuss directions for pronunciation research. To prepare for the symposium, held in conjunction with the P...

Synergistic Surface/Bulk Charge Modulation Enables Record-Level Photocurrent in Hematite Photoanodes without Co-Catalysts for Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting

Abstract Hematite (α-Fe2O3) photoanodes are limited by poor bulk conductivity and severe surface recombination, which hinder their photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting activity. We demonstrate that a simple, rapid microwave-sintering (RMS) route simultaneously incorporates...

Baire Category Theorem: Dense Intersections and Meager-Comeager Dichotomy — E8 Intelligence Research

FINDING: Baire Category Theorem establishes that in complete metric spaces (and compact Hausdorff spaces), the intersection of countably many dense open sets remains dense — a structural dichotomy between "meager" (first category) and "comeager" (residual) sets, with profound imp...

Survivable Swarm Coordination After Ground-Radio Collapse

The question is how a nano-UAV swarm keeps coordination when land-mobile radio, FirstNet, cellular, and 10-gigabit access have shared the disaster: fire, flood, hurricane, or other ground-plant failure. GAO-23-106930 names that case. Computing and communication still have to adva...

Attainment of a Scale-Critical Vortex-Stretching Functional in Three Dimensions

This preprint studies a scale-critical variational functional associated with the nonlinear production of vortex stretching in three-dimensional incompressible Navier–Stokes flow. For divergence-free vorticity fields ω ∈ H1(ℝ3; ℝ3), the functional is defined by F(ω) = N(ω) / (ℰ(ω...

Safety compliance and construction waste reduction in Ghana with implications for sub-Saharan Africa: the role of deep and surface practices

Purpose Despite growing recognition that worker behaviour drives construction waste generation, no study has empirically tested whether disaggregated safety compliance dimensions directly predict waste reduction outcomes, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa, with evidence from the...

Assessment of emphysema with simulated low-dose dark-field radiography

Abstract Objective Dark-field radiography allows the visualization of lung tissue changes associated with pulmonary emphysema. Simulations were used to investigate the impact of radiation dose reduction on the diagnostic accuracy of emphysema detection. Materials and methods Dark...

LEPROSY NEUROPATHY MIMICKING CHRONIC INFLAMMATORY DEMYELINATING POLYRADICULONEUROPATHY: A DIAGNOSTIC DILEMMA

Background: Chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy (CIDP) is an immune-mediated peripheral neuropathy in which the clinical phenotype should be supported by objective evidence of demyelination. Motor-predominant presentations and severe axonal loss may create s...

Motion-Preserving Salvage for Failed Total Ankle Arthroplasty or Talar AVN: Outcomes of Combined Total Ankle Arthroplasty with Custom 3D-Printed Total Talus Replacement

BACKGROUND: Talar component collapse following total ankle arthroplasty (TAA) and talar avascular necrosis (AVN) with concurrent ankle arthritis represent challenging clinical scenarios. Traditional salvage with tibiotalocalcaneal arthrodesis sacrifices motion and has nonunion ra...