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Leapfrogging sustainability in the wine industry: advancing reuse initiatives through producers’ attitudes

The glass bottle is the primary contributor to the carbon footprint of wine. Despite the environmental potential of glass bottle reuse systems, their adoption in the wine industry remains low. Little is known about how structural characteristics such as business type and producti...

Endpoint-specific associations of the cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein, and glucose (CHG) index and its adiposity- and inflammation-related derivatives with incident cardiovascular disease and mortality: evidence from CHARLS and NHANES

The cholesterol-high-density lipoprotein–glucose (CHG) index combines lipid and glycemic measures, but whether its adiposity- and inflammation-related derivatives add information beyond their components and established risk factors is uncertain. We compared nine CHG-related indic...

A Preliminary Food–AI Readiness Framework for AI-Enabled Hyperspectral Systems in Fungal and Mycotoxin Risk Management: A Critical Narrative Review

Fungal contamination and mycotoxins remain important hazards in cereal, nut, oilseed, and processed-food chains. For grain handlers, processors, storage facilities, quality-assurance laboratories, and technology developers, the practical challenge is not only detection but determ...

Agricultural Sector Growth and Economic Growth Nexus in Nigeria (1984–2024)

This study investigates the agriculture–economic growth nexus in Nigeria using annual time-series data from 1984 to 2024 and a parsimonious ARDL (2,2,1,2,1,2) model. The ARDL bounds test provides no evidence of a confirmed long-run cointegrating relationship. In the short run, ex...

Information-Flow Waste in Organizations: Conceptual Development and Empirical Validation of a Measurement Scale

Information-flow waste refers to activities within organizational information flows that consume resources without creating value, yet standardized instruments for systematically measuring this construct remain lacking. This study aims to clarify the construct structure of inform...

Graphene‐Engineered Rear Interfaces Enable Efficient Flexible CZTSSe Solar Cells on Metal Foils

ABSTRACT Flexible kesterite (S,Se) (CZTSSe) solar cells on metal foils are attractive for lightweight and conformable photovoltaic applications, yet their efficiencies remain significantly lower than those of rigid devices due to severe foil‐induced rear‐interface losses during h...

“We Are a Family Out Here”: Team Belongingness as a Resource for the Wellbeing of Fly-In-Fly-Out Workers on a Remote Construction Site in Australia

Abstract The mining and construction industries are vital to Australia’s economy, but are also characterized by demanding fly-in-fly-out (FIFO) arrangements that present unique psychosocial hazards. Drawing on the job demands-resources framework and conservation of resources theo...

Sulfur Dioxide Disproportionation by Magnesium Sulfite as Intermediate

Solar-assisted thermochemical cycles can convert intermittent solar energy into storable chemical fuels. Within the European SULPHURREAL project, elemental sulfur is investigated as a long-term energy-storage medium in a cycle based on H2SO4, S, and SO2. This work investigates an...

A new pathway to explore visitors' experiential states in immersive digital exhibitions

Purpose The use of advanced digital technologies has become a prominent trend in the immersive digital exhibition sector. This study empirically tests a theoretical framework, explaining how visitor experiential states activate cognitive processing and influence positive attitude...

The support program Parenting Young Children for parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities: parents’ experiences of the program’s impact on their parenting

Parenting Young Children is a home-based parenting support program for parents with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The program focuses on parents’ ability to care for and interact with their children and is adjusted to each parent’s needs through individualised goal...

Treatment of Severe Obstructive Sleep Apnea With a Domestic Implantable Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulator: A Case Report

ABSTRACT Background Implantable hypoglossal nerve stimulation (HNS) is an established neuromodulatory therapy for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in patients intolerant to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). However, no domestically developed HNS system has been clinically...

The INTREPID program: Linking illicit fentanyl‐containing tablets and powders seized at US borders to a common origin by combining physical/chemical identifiers and machine learning

Abstract Three US government agencies, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA), established a collaborative program to leverage each agency's expertise and capabilities to characterize illicit fentanyl...

Nanoparticle ConversionChemistry: A Synthetic Frameworkfor Multielemental Nanostructures

Abstract The synthesis of multielemental nanoparticles with size- and shape-control has been studied over the last several decades due to their diverse applications in catalysis, plasmonics, solar cells, electronics, and even as theranostics. While solution-phase methods afford r...

Isostructural Analysis in Proposed Crystallization Mechanisms at the Molecular Level of Methyl 4‐bromobenzoate and Methyl 4‐iodobenzoate

ABSTRACT In this work, we propose molecular‐level crystallization mechanisms, based on non‐classical nucleation theory, using theoretical supramolecular energetic and topological data. The interactions calculated by computational tools were verified and energetically classified b...

Controllable Growthof GaSb Nanowires Catalyzed byBi Films for Flexible Near-Infrared Photodetectors

Abstract With a direct narrow band gap and high hole mobility, the III–V group semiconductors of GaSb nanowire (NW) are considered as promising channel materials for next-generation high-performance nanoelectronics and infrared photodetectors. In this study, the complementary met...

Identification of Kaempferol for Skeletal Muscle Wasting in Cancer Cachexia Through Bibliometric Analysis and Network Pharmacology: Metabolomic and Experimental Evaluation

Cancer cachexia (CC) is a multifactorial syndrome characterized by progressive skeletal muscle wasting, systemic inflammation, and metabolic dysregulation. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) contains numerous bioactive compounds with potential multitarget effects, but systematic...

Establishment of Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE) Values for Urban Intersections Using Drones

Passenger Car Equivalent (PCE) factors are widely used to convert heterogeneous traffic streams into equivalent homogeneous flow rates for the design and analysis of roads and intersections. In developing countries, mixed traffic conditions differ substantially from those in deve...

Ghostly Variations

The philosophical ideas of hauntology that grew from the seeds sown in Specters of Marx have often focused upon a deep sense of loss, or a profound nostalgia for societal futures that—with the seeming defeat of Marxist ideologies at the tail-end of the 1980s and early 1990s—would...

Mitochondrial dynamics in Huntington's disease

Emerging evidence suggests a central and early role of mitochondrial dysfunction, including altered mitochondrial dynamics, in Huntington's disease (HD) pathogenesis. Processes such as mitochondrial fission, fusion, transport and mitophagy are vital for proper mitochondrial funct...

Programmable Electrochemical Cefapirin AntibioticAptasensor Powered by Highly Conductive Bimetallic NiCu(HITP) MOFand Dendritic DNA Amplifications

Abstract Residues of veterinary antibiotics in animal-derived foods motivate the development of analytical methods that combine high sensitivity with straightforward operation. Cefapirin, a β-lactam used extensively for the treatment of bovine mastitis, may persist in milk and ot...