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Flow-Augmentation STA-MCA bypass for Acute Ischemic Stroke with Diffusion-Perfusion Mismatch: Clinical and Radiological Outcomes

Objective: While mechanical thrombectomy (EVT) is the established standard for acute ischemic stroke (AIS), a significant unmet clinical need remains for patients in whom EVT is unsuccessful, technically infeasible, or contraindicated. This study aimed to evaluate the safety and...

Improving soil thermal conductivity measurements with a heat-pulse probe: Thermal efficiency and energy demand across tillage systems

Soil thermal conductivity (λ) is a key parameter influencing seed germination, root growth, and soil-atmosphere energy exchange. Accurate and energy-efficient in-situ measurement of λ is essential for optimising tillage practices and improving soil management. This study evaluate...

Single-suture parachute technique for hepaticojejunostomy in laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy: a multicenter, large-scale study

The optimal technique for hepaticojejunostomy (HJ) during laparoscopic pancreatoduodenectomy (LPD) remains debated. This multicenter, single‑arm study aimed to evaluate the safety, feasibility, and reproducibility of the single‑suture parachute technique for HJ (SSPT‑HJ) in LPD....

Soil chemical properties of smallholder avocado intercropping systems in northern Tanzania

Avocado production is expanding in northern Tanzania; however, information on the spatial variability of soil fertility across major production areas remains limited. This study assessed soil chemical properties in smallholder avocado agroforestry systems across six districts in...

The relationship of chronotype and behavioral factors with picky eating and body appreciation in young adults: a cross-sectional study

Chronotype reflects individuals’ circadian preferences and is linked to daily routines, including dietary patterns and general lifestyle. While picky eating is shaped by behavioral tendencies, perceptions of one’s body may also play a role in eating-related attitudes. Considering...

Projected Spatial Asymmetry of Daytime and Nighttime Temperature Extremes in the Middle East under CMIP6 Warming

The Middle East is one of the world’s most prominent climate-change hotspots, where future warming is expected to intensify both daytime and nighttime temperature extremes in spatially heterogeneous patterns. This study investigates projected asymmetry between daytime and nightti...

National Essential Diagnostics List development as an opportunity to expand frontline diagnostic testing at barangay health stations in the Philippines

The Philippines’ Universal Health Care Act places primary care at its center, yet the barangay health station (BHS), the facility closest to most community members, generally lacks diagnostic capacity. As the Philippines develops a National Essential Diagnostics List, this presen...

Effects of freezing history on post-thaw quality deterioration of Atlantic salmon under temperature abuse conditions

Frozen storage is widely used to preserve seafood quality. However, prior frozen storage and inadequate post-thaw temperature management can increase the susceptibility of seafood products to physicochemical deterioration. This study evaluated the combined effects of freezing his...

Telomere variant sequences encode the genetic blueprint for allele-specific telomere length

The ends of human chromosomes are capped by specialized nucleoprotein structures, termed telomeres, which are essential for genome stability. Recent advances in long-read sequencing have enabled allele-specific telomere length measurements at nucleotide resolution, uncovering ext...

AIS-defined insomnia symptoms and left atrial diameter index in patients with nonvalvular atrial fibrillation: a multicenter cross-sectional study

Insomnia symptoms may contribute to atrial remodeling, but their association with left atrial structure in established nonvalvular atrial fibrillation remains unclear. We examined whether Athens Insomnia Scale-defined sleep status was associated with body surface area-indexed lef...

Preoperative CT-measured lateral widening is an independent associated factor with CT-detected cruciate ligament avulsion in tibial plateau fractures

To identify radiographic and computed tomography (CT) parameters predictive of cruciate ligament avulsion fractures in patients with tibial plateau fractures (TPFs). We retrospectively analyzed 127 patients with TPFs, categorized by the presence ( n = 39) or absence ( n = 88) of...

Unmasking the dark side: how does fossil fuel financing hurt the carbon neutrality targets?

The significance of carbon neutrality objectives in global climate mitigation efforts cannot be underestimated. Fossil fuels are widely believed to be a major culprit behind global climate change, and top polluting economies are still heavily investing in fossil fuels. Thus, the...

A hidden coronary cause of cardiogenic shock after exercise in a child: a case report

Malignant left main coronary artery (LMCA) anomalies are rare but potentially fatal congenital defects that may cause myocardial ischemia or sudden cardiac death during exertion, even in otherwise healthy children. Early recognition and timely intervention are crucial to prevent...

Axiomatic Exhaustiveness: Laplace's Demon and the Metaphysics of Law in Quantum-Geometry Dynamics

Laplace's demon articulates causal determinism as the joint sufficiency of a complete particle state and the governing physical laws for fixing the entire future (and past) of a system. This picture treats state and law as two independent ontological ingredients: the demon must p...

Why the observer is immaterial

This paper examines the ontological nature of the observer in Special Relativity. In the visual field of a stationary observer, light overtakes an external moving material object at an effective separation speed of c − v. However, relative to the observer's own frame of observati...

Hectoquads: A new class of square dissections, with a smallest identified

Medical and demographic data arrive as whole percentage points, so carry that constraint into geometry: squared squares and rectangles whose element sides all lie between 1 and 100 and hold both extremes. The perfect members are finite — order at most 100, side at most 581 — so t...

A first stab at investigating the Estonian fauna of gall midges (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae: Cecidomyiinae)

Plant-feeding gall midges are reported from Estonia for the first time. A week-long field trip in August 2025 resulted in records of 45 species as new to the country. Adding reliable records of additional species from citizen science portals resulted in a first preliminary checkl...

Exponential growth and stabilization of Ebola cases in the DRC in 2026

Abstract WHO has declared the Ebola outbreak in 2026 an extraordinary event, which requires a coordinated international response. This epidemic has become the second-largest one after the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2013-2016. As of August 16, 2026, the accumulated number of...

Economic decision-making in collectivist contexts: A qualitative extension of institutionally embedded preference theory among university support staff

While behavioral economics increasingly recognizes social preferences, the mechanisms through which informal institutions and cultural norms shape economic choices in South Asian collectivist contexts are undertheorized. This paper offers a qualitative comparative extension of th...

WHM-3D: A Three-Dimensional Test of Spatially Structured Wave-History Time-Rate Modulation in the Enchan Field

Version 1.2 corrections: This version adds the missing LICENSE to the reproducibility ZIP, clarifies that existing WHM results are not calculation inputs while the upstream formation CSV is read for verification, fixes overlapping path labels and the slice colorbar, excludes Pyth...