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CEO Characteristics, Industry 4.0 Capability Disclosure, and Firm Performance

Industry 4.0 (I4.0) garnered significant attention from academics and practitioners in the last decade. However, there is a lack of a measure in the extant literature that evaluates I4.0 and digital transformation capability disclosure of companies. The purpose of this study is t...

Browser-Native Federated Inference on Existing Italian SSN Clinical Workstations: A Peer-to-Peer Sovereignty-Preserving AI Architecture for Italian Regional Health Networks

Clinical adoption of large language models (LLMs) in public healthcare faces a structural impasse: the capital expenditure of centralised high-performance computing on one side and the privacy risk of routing patient data through third-party cloud interfaces on the other. Italian...

Data in the cloud, Ownership in your hands - A guide to online repositories with Zenodo

This document provides an overview of the Community of Practice for Soil Information in Africa (CoP) training on the use of online repositories, with particular emphasis on Zenodo as a platform for the management, preservation, and dissemination of research outputs (such as datas...

Validation of electrochemiluminescent (ECL)-based immunoassay to determine the levels of antibodies against Escherichia coli O-lipopolysaccharide antigens

ABSTRACT Extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) is a significant cause of invasive infections, including urinary tract infections, neonatal meningitis, and bacteremia. The emergence of multidrug-resistant ExPEC strains has intensified the need for effective prophyla...

Point‐of‐care ultrasound in general medicine: establishing a new service

Point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) is increasingly used in general medicine to support focussed bedside diagnosis and management. However, many implementation models depend on individual clinicians scanning their own patients. This limits equity of access, slows accumulation of pro...

Prediction model for compressive strength of alkali-activated multi-source solid-waste grouting materials based on generative adversarial networks and machine learning

Alkali-activated multi-source solid-waste grouting materials have attracted increasing attention in geotechnical and underground engineering due to their low carbon footprint, environmental friendliness, and potential for large-scale resource utilization. However, the complex com...

Deep Learning for Automated Detection and Segmentation of Meningioma on Multiparametric MRI

Abstract Meningioma is the most common benign primary intracranial tumor. Although its typical appearance on contrast-enhanced T1-weighted images is characteristic, tumor conspicuity and boundary definition vary substantially across MRI sequences, which complicates automated dete...

Zulfia Bi-Face Probability Theory (ZBPT): Probability Generated on Certified Domains, Not Assumed on Full Sample Spaces

Classical probability theory assigns uncertainty directly on a full sample space Ω, implicitlyassuming every ω ∈ Ω is accessible for measurement. This assumption is never verified — it isimposed. This paper introduces Zulfia Bi-Face Probability Theory (ZBPT), a completereformulat...

Temporal and spatial distribution characteristics of nighttime air exchange rate and indoor air pollutants in university dormitories

Indoor air quality of dormitories is significantly associated with physical health and learning efficiency among college students, but few studies have evaluated the long-term ventilation and indoor air pollutants in university dormitories. In this study, continuous monitoring of...

One- and Two-Dimensional Solid-State NMR Reveals Local Aliphatic Heterogeneity in Native Bark Suberin

Abstract Suberin is a protective bark cell-wall polymer whose native organization remains difficult to resolve by extraction-based analysis. Here, a combination of one- and two-dimensional solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance techniques was used to examine native suberin within...

A case study on variety development and institutional conditions in white lupin breeding in Germany

Abstract Compared to cereals, domestic grain legumes such as white lupins have significantly lower productivity in European agriculture, making them less attractive. This is because grain legumes were partly neglected in plant breeding for decades. To create incentives for breedi...

Strengthening Internal Oversight in Local Government through Organizational Reform: Evidence from a Regional Inspectorate

This study aims to analyze how organizational reform through the establishment of Special Assistant Inspectors (Irban Khusus) supports the strengthening of internal oversight functions at the Merauke Regency Regional Inspectorate. The study employs a descriptive qualitative appro...

Eating-timing patterns derived from K-means clustering and mortality risk in US adults with chronic diseases: a cohort study

Abstract Whether joint eating-timing configurations show comparable mortality associations across chronic diseases is uncertain. We analysed 26 712 adults aged 20 years or older from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) 2005–2016 who had two reliable 24-h...

Facilitating a learning culture to strengthen professional autonomy among hospital nurses: a mixed methods study

Abstract Background Professional autonomy is essential to nursing leadership development in Evidence-Based Quality Improvement (EBQI), yet hospital nurses may struggle to enact this autonomy. This study examined how a participatory learning trajectory influences professional auto...

Beyond traditional criteria: CRP and fibrinogen as biomarkers of metabolic syndrome in ART-treated people living with HIV and their association with HIF-1α rs11549465

Metabolic syndrome (MS) is highly prevalent among people living with HIV (PLWH) receiving antiretroviral therapy (ART) and is driven by persistent low-grade inflammation. Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha ( HIF-1α ) polymorphisms may influence inflammatory pathways underlying MS....

Masking Depth in Clinical Practice: A Follow Up to Star Face

Abstract. STAR FACE is a sieve model demonstrated on a polyhedron, introducing the term summetry, the discrete unity of sum and symmetry. The sieve descends from a population well over the number of atoms in the Solar System to 6,223,974 magic readings, the red cells in a single...

Diffusion‐Governed Growth Mechanisms of Epitaxial GaAs Islands on CMOS‐Compatible Si(001) Nanotip Arrays

ABSTRACT In this work, we investigate the diffusion‐controlled growth mechanism and kinetics of gallium arsenide (GaAs) islands on CMOS‐compatible Si(001) nanotip wafers using nanoheteroepitaxy by gas‐source molecular beam epitaxy. Si nanotips embedded in a silicon dioxide (SiO 2...

Dual-Phase Temporal Mirroring via E8 Root-Vector Conjugacy — E8 Intelligence Research

By introducing a dual-phase conjugation of the 240 E8 root vectors, each vector pairs with its phi‑braided counterpart to form a symmetric temporal mirror. This mirror operates at the 132 Hz eigenfrequency, doubling the chronon period to 3.788 ms and establishing a bidirectional...

Listing-Time PE Involvement, ESG Talk–Do Correspondence, and Private Firms’ Productive Development

Using panel data on Chinese A-share listed private enterprises from 2009 to 2023, this study examines the relationships among listing-time private equity (PE) backing, ESG communication, externally rated ESG practices, and subsequent total factor productivity (TFP). TFP is interp...

ContextFireAgent: A Multi-Role Consensus Agent for RGB Wildfire Monitoring

In real-world wildfire monitoring, haze, glare, refraction artifacts, and related visual effects can cause false alarms and missed detections. This study explores two implementations: ContextFireVLM and ContextFireAgent. ContextFireVLM fine-tunes Llama-3.2 Vision with LoRA to imp...