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- Health & MedicineOpen access
End-of-life decision-making in palliative care requires timely and compassionate communication to align care with patients’ goals and values. While shared decision-making is regarded as optimal for patient-centered care, its application in collectivist societies, where familial,...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Betti Numbers of Vietoris-Rips Complexes of Hypercube Graphs in Degrees 7 and 15 on a Single Laptop
The Vietoris-Rips complexes of hypercube graphs under Hamming distance were recently studied by Galetto, Montaño, and Wellner (arXiv:2606.20784), who describe their homology as representations of the hyperoctahedral group. The one complete homology computation in that work, the 6...
- BiologyOpen access
This research aimed to investigate the correlation between perioperative respiratory adverse events (PRAE) and postoperative serum SNHG4 levels, and preliminarily explore the potential regulatory mechanism of SNHG4 in an inflammatory lung injury cell model. Among the children und...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Sarcopenia is a progressive skeletal muscle disorder characterized by loss of mass, strength, and function. However, reliable molecular biomarkers for early detection remain limited. This study aimed to identify and validate potential biomarkers for sarcopenia through a combinati...
- AI & ComputingOpen access
Towards secure distributed medical diagnosis: a blockchain-driven MCAU-Net and MAA-Bi-LSTM framework
Lung cancer is considered as the deadliest type of cancer, a good diagnosis as well as effective treatment is based on early detection. By utilizing Deep Learning (DL) techniques, the medical practitioner’s burden is reduced since these models can automate the diagnosis and disea...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
Fibrous architectures have emerged as highly promising platforms for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) due to their large surface area, mechanical flexibility, and enhanced mechanical-to-electrical energy conversion efficiency. However, conventional fabrication strategies for...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Effect of red blood cell processing on hemoglobin increment in oncology patients
OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to evaluate the effect of red blood cell processing on the hemoglobin increment in oncology patients requiring packed red blood cell transfusions. MATERIAL AND METHODS: The study population in this prospective, open-label, randomized controlled trial i...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Seminoma, which is the most frequent testicular germ cell tumor, has stem cell-like features related to treatment resistance and recurrence, yet the molecular mechanisms that preserve its stemness are not well understood. This study aimed to discover the tumorigenesis and stemnes...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a common inflammatory skin disorder in infants and is frequently associated with sleep disturbances. Although the relationship between disease severity and sleep quality is well established, the effect of lesion localization on sleep has not been thoroug...
- BiologyOpen access
Pancreatic cancer has a poor prognosis. This study investigated the prognostic role of the keratin gene family and aimed to develop a keratin-based biomarker. Bioinformatics analysis was performed using RNA-seq data from gemcitabine-treated patients in the TCGA-PAAD cohort (disco...
- BiologyOpen access
Lung cancer (LC) remains one of the leading causes of cancer-related morbidity and mortality worldwide. Increasing evidence suggests that both the lung cancer-associated microbiome and the intratumoral microbiome are important components of the tumor ecosystem and contribute to c...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
Pyrazoline-functionalized polyurethanes as selective fluorescent sensors for Fe3+ ions
Pyrazolines are a growing class of five membered nitrogen containing organic compounds valued for their luminescence, easy synthesis, stability, and strong metal binding ability, which makes them widely used as fluorescent sensors for detecting metal ions. In this paper, a pyrazo...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection remains a major public health challenge globally and in South Africa, particularly among key populations such as people who inject drugs (PWID), men who have sex with men (MSM), and sex workers. Despite the availability of curative direct-acting...
- Materials & EnergyOpen access
This study evaluates the anticorrosive potential of mimosa tannin, a natural extract from Acacia mearnsii bark, on aluminum in neutral chloride environments. Electrochemical techniques, including linear polarization resistance, open circuit potential, and potentiodynamic polariza...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
This paper presents a training-oriented AR system prototype for face-attached visualization of facial BoNT injection planning, and reports a controlled validation of its image-plane overlay accuracy and usability. The prototype was implemented on Android devices using Unity3D wit...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
To evaluate the feasibility, acceptability, and preliminary efficacy of adding vaginal dilators (VD) to standard therapy for genitourinary syndrome of menopause (GSM). A prospective, randomized pilot trial was conducted at CHU Saint-Pierre, Brussels. Peri- and postmenopausal wome...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Different fabrication techniques for polymethyl methacrylate (PMMA) denture base resins may influence their mechanical and surface properties as well as their resistance to thermal aging. However, studies comprehensively comparing the mechanical and surface properties of conventi...
- Engineering & TechnologyOpen access
This study compares conventional ITO/ZnO/MAPbI3/NiO/Au and ETL-free ITO/MAPbI3/NiO/Au solar cells using a revised SCAPS-1D model incorporating consistent material parameters, explicit bulk and interface defects, and carrier-selective contacts. The baseline model was benchmarked a...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Hyperglycemia alters B cell subsets contributing to osteoarthritis progression
Hyperglycemia and osteoarthritis frequently coexist as comorbid conditions, and both are characterized by chronic low-grade inflammation driven by aberrant B cell differentiation. However, the interplay between hyperglycemia, osteoarthritis, and aberrant B cell function has yet t...
- Health & MedicineOpen access
Glioblastoma is one of the deadliest cancers in humans, but its treatment is limited by the difficulty drugs have in crossing the blood-brain barrier. Albumin-based nanomaterials have emerged as promising drug delivery systems for neurooncology applications, particularly for the...